Branch County MI Archives Biographies.....Burch, Admiral 
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Author: 1888 Portrait & Bio Album

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON ADMIRAL BURCH

The neat farm of 130 acres which occupies a part of section 15 in Batavia
Township, is noticeable for the manner in which the soil has been cultivated,
the substantial buildings.....  In this township our subject has lived since the
time of his birth, which occured Feb. 13, 1844.  His father, Addison Burch,
having been one of the early settlers of this region.

Addison Burch was born in N.Y. State, where he was reared and married Miss Mary
Brown, a native of the same locality, and of English ancestry.  After marriage
they set out for Michigan, locating first in Madison County among its earliest
pioneers.  The father was very active and energetic man, kept tavern and
operated a sawmill .... Late in the thirties the family changed their residence
from Lenawee to Branch County.  The mother spent her last days at the home of
her son Admiral, where her death took place in 1860, at the age of 47.  The
father died two years later, while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Lucinda
Hall, in Hastings, in 1862, when he was 58 years old.

Our subject was the youngest member of his father's family.  He remained with
his parents until the outbreak of the late was, and in 1861 enlisted in the 1st
Michigan Artillery, which was subsequently known as the Loomis Battery.  ....
participated in Bowling Green, Ky., and Chickamauga ... Mission Ridge.  At
Chicakamauga young Burch was one of the ten members of the Loomis Battery who
became the spoil of the enemy and were sent to the Belle Isle Prison, where they
were kept for 13 weeks.  He later made his escape ..

Upon his return home after the was he resumed farming, and on the 5th of March,
1865, he was united in marriage with Miss Clemantine Millard, the wedding taking
place at the home of the bride in Matteson.  Mrs. Burch was born in Coldwater,
June 13, 1845, and is the daughter of Lewis and Rachel (Gardiner) Millard, who
were both natives of N.Y. State, whence they came with their parents to
Michigan, and were married in 1841.  In 1878 they removed to Oceana County, this
State, where the mother died in 1880, at the age of 59 years.  The father later
returned to Coldwater and married his second wife, Mrs. Minerva Wilcox, and they
are now living in a comfortable home in Coldwater Township.

The wife of our subject was reared and educated in Coldwater.  Their two
children, Guleika P. and Lewis W., are living with their parents.


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