Marion-Warren County GaArchives Biographies.....Burkhalter, David Newsome September 17, 1803 - April 5, 1876 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 October 20, 2005, 2:27 pm Author: Rena Cobb The following information was taken from the book entitled, A History of Marion County, Georgia, Motherland of Many by Rena S. Cobb Reprinted with permission of Rena Cobb Family Histories Pages 221-222 John Burkhalter John b. ca. 1763 and Sara Hardin Burkhalter b. ca. 1763, were the parents of David Newsome Burkhalter, b. in Warren County, Georgia 17 Sept. 1803 – d. 5 Apr. 1876, who was living in Marion County, Ga. before 1831. David N. Burkhalter married Ann Eliza Short, b. abt. 1808 – d. 26 Apr. 1882, daughter of Thomas Short, Jr., b. abt. 1763, and Martha Jones Short, b. abt. 1768. Their children were: I. John Thomas Burkhalter, b. 23 Mar. 1818 – d. 6 Aug. 1910 in Trinidad, Colorado, buried in Thomaston, Ga., m. Frances Weaver 16 Mar. 1864. II. Sarah Martha Burkhalter, b. 1830 – d. ?, m. Dr. Steven W. Woodruff on 16. Mar. 1853. III. Ann Eliza Burkhalter, b. 22 Aug. 1832 – d. between 1871-1880, m. Thomas Jefferson Colquitt on 14 Apr. 1853. IV. Harriett Burkhalter, b. 1834 – d. 10 Jun. 1868 in Columbus, Ga., m. John Wesley Brown on 11 Dec. 1855. V. Mary Fletcher Burkhalter, b. 1837 – d. 1905, m. James Wiggins on 10 Jul. 1860. VI. David G. Burkhalter, b. 1841 – d. 8 Jul. 1910 in Americus, Ga., m. 1st Berta Brown 6 Feb. 1868, 2nd Lula Hooks on 10 May 1881. VII. Dorothy Jones Burkhalter, b. abt. 1844 – d. abt. Nov. 1890, m. Thomas Benjamin Lumpkin, 8 Oct. 1866. VIII. Savannah Virginia Burkhalter, b. 17 Jan. 1848 – d. 24 Dec. 1928, m. John Lawson Burkhalter, 24 Nov. 1868. David Burkhalter was a Methodist minister,a merchant/manufacturer, and politician in Marion County. (See deed copied from county records confirming his selling the land upon which Buena Vista is built in Historical Gems.) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/marion/bios/burkhalt327bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb