Bios:  Oklahoma & Greene CO. IN - James Burcham

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Submitted by:  Diane Drogich  ddrogich@viaduct.custom.net
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Surnames:  Coppin, Carroll, Bucker, Roach, Dobbins,
Hanna, Ockerman

Locations:  Ohio; North Carolina; East Tennessee;
Evansville, IN; Kelso, Washington; Butler Co., Arkansas;
Kelso, Oklahoma

        James Burcham

James Burcham, of Taylor township, was born March 31, 1845,
in the same county where he now resides and where he received
only a limited schooling, remaining at home until he enlisted,
November 15, 1864, in the Sixth Indiana Cavalry, later changed
to Company F. He served mostly in Tennessee, and was in the
battle of Nashville and did scout duty and looked after 
government property. He was discharged September 15, 1865. He
has long been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
has always voted the Republican ticket.

After the war he lived in his old community for several years
and then moved to Taylor township, where he has since resided
on a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres, over eighty
acres of which are in cultivation. He carries on general 
farming and stock raising, always keeping a number of horses,
cattle and hogs.

He was married to Isabelle Coppin, a native of Indiana, and a
daughter of Joseph and Sarah Coppin, natives of Ohio, who came
to Greene county in 1861 and located in Richland township on
a farm where they both died. The subject has five children
living and two dead. They were: Lolo and Georgie, both deceased;
Rollin, who married Alma Carroll on September 22, 1894. They
live in Taylor township and have the following children: Mary,
Brantley, Goldie, James, Minnie and Bales. He is a farmer and
works the old homestead for his father. Frank, the fourth son,
lives at home; Joseph also lives at home; Almina is the wife of
Harley Bucker, of Taylor township; Viola is a teacher, living
at home.

The subject is the son of Robert and Sarah (Roach) Burcham, the
former of North Carolina and the latter of East Tennessee. Robert
came west with his father, James Burcham, in 1818, when the former
was only six years old. They secured one hundred and sixty acres
of government land in Greene county, Indiana, where James lived 
until his death.

The father of the subject first married Miss Dobbins. They had four
children, namely: John died in infancy; Almins, deceased, who married
Levi Hanna; Joseph, who was in Company H, Forty-third Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, serving as second lieutenant. He died at Evansville, Indiana;
William J. was in the same company with his brother. He was in prison
for nearly a year in Tyler, Texas. He returned home and died there.
The following are the names of the children by Solomon Burcham's second
wife: John died in infancy; James, subject of this sketch; Andrew, 
contractor and builder at Kelso, Washington; Frances, who married 
Robert Coppin, of Richland township; Rollin, a farmer, living in 
Butler county, Arkansas; Henry, a farmer, living near the old homestead;
Emily Jane, who is living near her brother Henry; Josephine, who married
David Ockerman, of Richland township; Morton, a real estate dealer
in Kelso, Oklahoma.



Source:  "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. 
with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co.,
Indianapolis, IN, 1908.