James Franklin Burkhalter

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 Franklin Burkhalter
1876–1959
Fannie Jean McCall
1878–1915
Marriage: 24 October 1900
Evelyn Burkhalter
1902–1978
Suda Estel Burkhalter
1905–1906
Thelma Gertrude Burkhalter
1906–1977
Lila Inez Donaldson Burkhalter
1909–1961
Ila May Burkhalter
1911–1966

Sources (12)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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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