When John F. Burks was born on 8 December 1771, in Amherst, Virginia, United States, his father, David Burks, was 29 and his mother, Obedience Phoebe Parks, was 29. He married Polly Mary Taylor Gilliam in 1807, in Amherst, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 29 November 1854, in Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, United States, at the age of 82.
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English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): habitational name from Birks in Cumberworth (Yorkshire) or from a minor place of this name in another county, named from Middle English birkes, berkes ‘the birches’. If from Staffordshire, the name may be a variant of Birch .
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