Burke Cemetery

                                  

Located at Charles Fork, Smithfield District, Roane County, West
Virginia

Submitted by Larry R. Hall .... ldhall@cetlink.net .... a
great-great grandson of Robert Peter Burke + Sarah Florence
Amiss(Amos).



In center of cemetery one tall stone with inscriptions:

R. P. Burke 		2-20-1827 / 2-16-1901 	Age 74 (Top of stone)   

Sarah F. 		12-12-1827 / 3-27-1869  Age 42 (Bottom of stone)   

Roberta Burke Hershman  1863 -1929 		(To right of center stone)   

Elton Amos Burke  	B. 1837 - D. 1908 	Age 71 (To left of center stone) 

Other grave markers:

H. C. Burke  		1887 - 1905 		Age 18

Luly Burke  		1859 - 1915 		Wife of Wm. Kincaid 

Ethel Burke 		1892 - 1903 		 Age 11

Ulva Burke  		1899 - 1903  		Age 4

J. B. Burke  		1864 - 1905  		Age 41

America B. Walker Burke 1867 - 1931

(James B. and his three children died in the typhoid epidemic.)