When Phoebe Burket was born on 31 July 1876, in Hopewell Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jacob Burket, was 40 and her mother, Phoebe Brallier, was 41. She married Lewis Elmer Whetstone on 12 August 1896, in Bedford Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in West Providence Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Licking Creek Township, Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. She died on 28 February 1963, at the age of 86, and was buried in Tatesville, Hopewell Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: variant of Burkett . This surname is now rare in Britain.
German: variant of Burkhart .
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