Jefferson County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Burkart, Capt. A. Casimear October 5, 1917
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source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, October 13, 1917, Image 2

CAPT. C. BURKART.

Died on Friday, October 5th, 1917, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. 
Mamie B. Sterling, at Nederland, Texas, Capt. C. Burkart, for many years a 
resident of this city. In a letter to the Iberian, Mrs. Sterling, who was 
formerly a member of the Iberian force, mentioned the death of her father. 
His funeral took place from her home on Saturday, Rev. Youngblood, of the 
Baptist church of the place, officiating. He is survived by his widow, who 
was Miss Frances Austin; by his son, Henry, and his five daughters, Sophie, 
Annie, Barbara, Dillie and Mamie, children of his first marriage; and by 
fifteen grandchildre.

The following sketch is republished from our own columns of November 16th, 
1895:

Capt. C. Burkhart was born in the city of Baden, on the river Rhine, one, if 
not the most beautiful rivers in all Europe, in the year 1841. At the age of 
four years he was brought over from Europe by his parents and landed in New 
Orleans, on December 21st, 1845. School facilities were few in those days 
and he had to push his own way in the world, so that his education was not 
what he would like to have had it.

In 1860, when but twenty years old, he married Miss Annie Moritz. During the 
war, which began shortly after his marriage, he was engaged in getting 
cotton, sugar, etc., through Bayou Des Allemands, Lake Salvador, and the 
Company Canal, to the Mississippi River.

In 1863 he became a butcher in New Orleans and has continued in that 
business ever since. Capt. Burkart took an active part in the Reconstruction 
movement in 1874 and was in the 14th of September fight at New Orleans. He 
was also in the line of CitizenReserves at the first insuguration of 
Governor Francis T. Nicholls.

In 1883 he moved to New Iberia. He was always at the front during the Gates-
Fontelieu troubles and was made Orderly Sergeant of the Iberia Guards and a 
few years later was elected Captain of the Company.

In 1894, at the urgent request of many of our citizens, Capt. Burkart was 
appointed Post Master of New Iberia. At his own expense he fitted up that 
office with new boxes and furniture, and made of it the handsomest 
postoffice ever in New Iberia. As a Post Master, Capt. Burkhart was careful, 
painstaking, and courteous, and is making an efficient officer. His 
assistants are Mr. Viel Darby, Mrs. A. G. Barnard, and his son, Henry 
Burhhart (sic).

Capt. Burkart's family comprise himself, his wife, and seven children.




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