Brief Life History of James Franklin
When James Franklin Burkhalter was born on 14 September 1876, in Texas, United States, his father, Rev James Albert Burkhalter, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Lettitia Ford, was 21. He married Fannie Jean McCall on 24 October 1900, in San Augustine Land District, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in Comanche, Comanche, Texas, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 1, Nacogdoches, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 25 February 1959, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.
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- James Burkhalter in household of Al Burkhalter, "United States Census, 1880"
- J F Burkhalter, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- James F Burkhalter, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1894
Earliest recorded burial date, 1894.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Swiss German: from Middle High German elements burc ‘castle’ (originally also ‘protection’) + halter from halde ‘slope’, hence a topographic name for someone living by a castle or fortified town. Compare Borkholder , Burckhalter , and Burkholder .
History: This is the name of a Swiss Mennonite and Amish family, originating from the canton of Bern, Switzerland, which in the 17th century, because of religious persecution, spread to the Palatinate, Germany, where it was altered to Burkholder and Borkholder . To North America it was brought, mostly in the form Burkholder, in the 18th and 19th centuries by several Mennonite immigrants from the Palatinate and Switzerland. One of the earliest immigrants was Hans Burkhalter or Burkholder, from Bern canton, Switzerland, who settled in Lancaster County, PA, in 1717.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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