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Burks Joseph Andrew [Male] b. 28 MAR 1839 - d. 18 FEB 1934 Pearl River County

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Title: Pearl River County Historical Society Vicky Lang Cemetery Listings
Publication: List of Graveyards in Pearl County

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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW

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Title: WarrenBurge.FTW

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Title: Pearl River County Historical Society Vicky Lang Cemetery Listings
Publication: List of Graveyards in Pearl County

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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW

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BURKS,Joseph [28 MAR 1839] [18 FEB 1934] H/O Elizabeth CO C 38 Ms. CSA
HENLEYFIELD FIRST BAPTIST Church CEMETERY
Pearl River County, Miss.

(from Free Press, February 1934) Confederate Veteran Answers Last Call
Final rites for Joseph Burks, aged Confederate Veteran, were conduct
Henleyfield Baptist Church Tuesday with Rev. Jim Stewart from Louisiana
officiating. He was assisted by Rev. W. I. Williams, Picayune. Rev. J C.
Richardson, Poplarville, Miss. and Rev. 0. P. Ester of Bogalusa, La.
Reb. Burkes who would have been 95 years of age March 28, died at 1:30 A.M.
February 19, at home of his daughter, Mrs. E. J. Woodward, in Henleyfie
Community. Mr. Burks had been an invalid since Sept. 6, 1932 when he fell from
the porch of his home near Poplarville and was the last surviving child of
Daniel Burks and Jane Smith, pioneer settlers of this section of the State.
Mr. Daniel Burks having come from Kentucky to this section with Andrew Jackson's
Army during war of 1812, remained in this section and became a Citiz
Henleyfield vicinity.
"Uncle" Joe Burks, as he was affectionately called by all who knew him, was a
Confederate Veteran, having received all during the Civil War in Company C-G,
38th Mississippi Regiment. He was married on Jan 7, 1859 to Elizabeth Jane Wheat
and had been married seventy-one years when she died, Sept. 26, 1929. He was an
esteemed farm and stock man in the community in which he lived, and at the time
that section was known as Pearl County. He served as a member of Boa
Supervisors before it was thrown back into Marion County. Later becoming a part
of the present Pearl River County. The deceased was a great influence and was a
Charter member of Henleyfield Church. The surviving are: Mrs. J. A. Burks, W. H.
Burks and Mrs. J A. Magehee, Mrs. E. J. Woodward, Mrs. W. P. Stockstill.
Augustus M. Beal, born in Winston County Miss., Feb. 14, 1845. When a child he
moved with his family to the vicinity in which he died, now Pearl River County,
where he lived his entire life with the exception of four years of eventful life
spent in the army of the Confederacy as a brave and gallant soldier, a member of
the 3rd (afterwards 23rd) Miss. Reg., participating in many battles - t
Vicksburg Seige. Dalton to Atlanta, under Gen. J. s. Johnson and Tennessee
Campaign under Gen. Hood. Having been wounded just before the bitter end, he was
not paroled, returning home at the surrender. He married Miss Harriet A. Brill.
His record as a soldier was that of a brave and gallant Mississippian. He was
Charter Comrade of Pearl River Camp U C. U. No. 540.
Source: Free Press, Friday, Sept. 12, 1919.

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Wheat Elizabeth Jane [Female] b. 9 DEC 1841 - d. 26 SEP 1929 Pearl River County

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Title: WarrenBurge.FTW

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Title: Pearl River County Historical Society Vicky Lang Cemetery Listings
Publication: List of Graveyards in Pearl County

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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW

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Title: WarrenBurge.FTW

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Title: Pearl River County Historical Society Vicky Lang Cemetery Listings
Publication: List of Graveyards in Pearl County

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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW

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HENLEYFIELD FIRST BAPTIST Church CEMETERY
Pearl River County, Miss.
BURKS,Elizabeth J [09 DEC 1841] [26 SEP 1929] W/O Joseph

Middle name also listed as June.

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Smith Joseph Ann [Male] b. 1836

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Author: John H. "Buster" Strahan
Title: A Strahan Story

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Strahan Lawerence [Male] b. 20 NOV 1856 - d. 21 JUN 1927

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Title: Genforum Billy Strahan 4-24-1999

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Title: Genforum Billy Strahan 4-24-1999

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Title: Michele and Kyle McNew-Hezikeah Howard born 1800

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Strahan Janet Ann [Female] b. 26 MAR 1942

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Residence: 1994

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