Husband: Joseph BURKE
Birthdate: 24 Mar 1874
Birthplace: Jay Township, Elk, Pennsylvania
Death date: 17 Jul 1959
Place of death: Jay Twp, Weedville, Elk Co., Pennsylvania
Burial: MT Zion Cemetery, Weedville, PA
Father: Robert Edward Burk (1844-1924)
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Levan (1847-1887)

Marriage date: 8 Jul 1896 Place: Brockport, Elk Co, PA
Marriage place: 8 Jul 1896 Place: Brockport, Elk Co, PA

Wife: Nora Lynden Stephens OVELL
Birthdate: 17 Feb 1881
Birthplace: Chrenshaw, Elk Co, PA
Death date: 5 Jul 1952
Place of death: Burke Farm, Jay Twp, , Elk Co., Pennsylvania
Burial: MT Zion Cemetery , Weedville , PA
Father: Michael Ambrose Ovell (1862-1950)
Mother: Lovern Margaret Stephens (1862-1937)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Gladys Myrtle Burke
Sex: F
Birthdate: 25 Apr 1898, Spring Run, Elk Co., Pennsylvania
Death date: 19 Jul 1975, Santa Barbara, California
Burial: Graceland Mem Cemetary, New Castle, PA
Marriage date: 7 Jun 1916, Ridgeway, Elk Co., PA
Spouses' names: William Alonzo Winslow (1887-1959)

Child No. 2: Carolyn Gertrude Burke
Sex: F
Birthdate: 15 Apr 1906, Elk Co, PA
Death date: 6 May 1961, Polk, PA
Burial: MT Zion Church Weedville PA
Marriage date:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 3: Joseph Jonathan Burke
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1 May 1912, Garner Hills, Weedville, Elk Co, PA
Death date: 3 Apr 2000, St Marys, Elk, PA
Burial: Dubois, PA
Marriage date: 21 Jul 1937, Port Allegany, PA
Spouses' names: Helen Michaels (1917-2007)

Child No. 4: Perle Levan Burke
Sex: M
Birthdate: 26 Feb 1903, Weedville, Elk Co, PA
Death date: 11 Feb 1980, Kane, Mckean, PA
Burial:
Marriage date: 10 May 1924, Brookville, Jefferson, PA
Spouses' names: Lena Marie Singer (1900-1984)

Child No. 5: Rodney Burke
Sex: M
Birthdate: 12 Feb 1915, Elk, PA
Death date: 14 Feb 1915, Elk, PA
Burial:
Marriage date:
Spouses' names:
 
 
Documentation:
* Joseph Burke owned (bought from the Ovellsand one other family) a farm in Weedville, PA. He built the Burke house in 1902. His early work life was as a woodsman in the lumbering business. He was the horse teamster- working with a team of horses as they moved logs down the river. A freak accident where trees fell on him broke his hip and caused him to walk with a limp the rest of his life. He turned to other occupations such as a blacksmith shoeing mules in the Shawmut coal mine(1902-1926), a Raleigh Salesman ( household goods and ointments) . Herode around in a yellow Raleigh buggy with one-two horses, then eventually going to a truck( 1926-1944). Retired in 1944 at 70 years.
* Birth place was initially thought to be Reading Pa based on Brumbach genealogy information and J Burke's eath certificate. But it makes more sense that it was Spring Run based on when Robert Burke moved to Jay, Elk County and Robert and family in 1870 Jay census.
* I (B Nay) remember great Grandpa Burke fairly well - which many do not get to know a great grandparent too often. I enjoyed listening to his stories and walking around the farm with him.