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BURKE, LEMUEL, farmer and stock shipper; Sec. 34; P. O. Keokuk Junction; was born in this township, Nov. 19, 1833; has 543 acres of land, valued at $20,000; married Ann Robbins, daughter of Captain Robbins. She was born in North Carolina, 1833. They have six living children: Addie B., Edmund L., CoraAnn, Lydia D., Sarah E. (died in 1874), Flora and Charles L. His father was born in Russell county, Va., Nov. 20, 1809, and married Sarah Horney Dec. 27, 1832. She was born Feb. 1, 1812. She was mother of eight children: Lemuel, Sarah E., Wm. H., Lydia D., Louisa V., Rebecca T., Mary E., Robert L. His father emigrated from Virginia to Schuyler county, when he was two years old, and in the spring after the “big snow,” 1830, located his land and improved some of it, and brought his family here in the spring of 1832, and moved into a log shanty 16x16, covered with split clapboards; cut poles in the woods for bedsteads, and for a table used a board across a sugar barrel. The subject of this sketch enlisted in the 119th Regt. Ill. Inf., as 1st Sergt.; was in the battle at Rutherford Station, where he was captured by Gen. Forest; paroled and sent to Benton barracks, St. Louis, afterward exchanged; was in the Red River Expedition, also in the battle of Tupelo, where they whipped Forest; was at Nashville, and fought Hood; was in the engagement at Fort Blakely, the last battle participated in; mustered out at Mobile Ala.