Marion County TN Archives Military Records.....Burke, Elisha 
Revwar - Pension 
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EXISHA [sic] BURKE (OR BERKE)

   Elisha Burke or Berke applied for revolutionary pension while living in

Marion County, Tennessee, in 1825. Ht was born in 1755. He enlisted while living

in Mechlenburg County, North Carolina, under Colonel Little and Captain Moort.

In 1825 he had two children, Alfred Cameron Burke, aged sixteen years and Keziah

Burke aged fourteen years.



   Note: In 1835 when he was eighty years of agt he married a second wife. She

killed him and was arrested, tried, convicted and sent to the penitentiary.



Additional Comments:
From:



SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. IV



by Zella Armstrong



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