When Martha Burks was born in 1838, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Willis Burks, was 38 and her mother, Lucinda Blakely, was 22. She married James F Burch on 1 February 1855, in Greene, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Cherokee, Cherokee, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Center Township, Greene, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 27 May 1873, at the age of 35, and was buried in Hash Cemetery, Tulip, Highland Township, Greene, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Information 1841: Greene, Indiana, United States
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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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