Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Augusta Burden
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   BURDEN
   WELEETKA - Augusta BURDEN was born September 20, 1900, in Weleetka.
   She died December 24, 1996. Funeral services were held November 28 at
   First Free Will Baptist Church. Interment was in Weleetka Hillcrest
   Cemetery.
   She was raised in the Weleetka area and attended Mission Bottom Indian
   Boarding School. She was a longtime member of Hvtcecvpv Baptist Church
   and helped raise several children in addition to her own.
   She was preceded in death by her parents A.P. and Polly Ben
   STEPHENSON; and her husband, A.J. BURDEN, whom she married in 1918.
   She was survived by her son, Bill BURDEN; her daughter, Geneva HUNT;
   daughter-in-law, Dorothy BURDEN; and a sister, Lucille NUSSBAUM, all
   of Weleetka; five grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and many other
   relatives and friends.