Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burke, Peter December 13, 1902
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Norfolk Landmark December 14, 1902
Peter Burke Has Passed Away.
In Elmwood cemetery, Norfolk, beautiful resting place for the dead, this morning 
repose the remains of Peter Burke, a man who has acquired more fame by his 
habits than any other resident of this city. During his life Burke had but one 
habit—he drank—and this proved his ruin and sealed his doom, for he passed away 
at the City Almshouse and his body was buried by the authorities, there being no 
one to claim his remains. In faraway Ireland, the dead man has friends, perhaps 
a mother, but she does not know of his death, for during the time he has resided 
in this city, Burke had never spoken of his relatives, neither has he referred 
to his friends in faraway Britain, if he has any.


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