BURKE COUNTY, NC - MISC - Some Early Sheriffs, 1777-1942
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SOME EARLY SHERIFFS OF BURKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA


1777-1779	Captain Daniel McKISSICK
1779-1780	Captain John BOWMAN  (killed in action at Battle of 
		Ramsour's Mill in 1780)
1786-1788	James DAVIDSON
1792-1795	Thomas McENTIRE
1798-1801	Thomas McENTIRE
1802-1805	Robert ALEXANDER
1808-1811	Hodge RAYBURN
1815-1824	Mark BRITTAIN
1830-1832	William C. BUTLER  (1st sheriff elected by popular vote)
1832-1837	Colonel John BOONE  (died in office of natural causes)
1838-1846	John Henry PEARSON
1870-1871	Robert Caldwell PERKINS
1871-1874	Eli Peyton MOORE
1898-1906	Charles Manly McDOWELL
1930-1937	Fred W. ROSS	 (died in office of natural causes)
1937-1938	Nina Corpening ROSS (wife of Fred) completed his term
1938-1942	Paul M. DALE (1st to serve a 4-year term)