. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. d, both of them born and raised there. Theyhad nine children, besides Stephen daughtersand three sons—John, Nancy, Elisha, Mary, Sarah(died in infancy), Elizabeth, Rachel, Susan, andUlick. John, Stephen, and Elisha, the three old-est children, and Mary,now Mrs. George Swales,a widow, residing four tofive miles southwest ofHarrison, in Indiana,and Rachel (Mrs. JoshuaLemon, widow of afarmer now deceased, ofFayette county, Indi-ana), are still parents removed in1809 from Maryland tothe tract about on
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. d, both of them born and raised there. Theyhad nine children, besides Stephen daughtersand three sons—John, Nancy, Elisha, Mary, Sarah(died in infancy), Elizabeth, Rachel, Susan, andUlick. John, Stephen, and Elisha, the three old-est children, and Mary,now Mrs. George Swales,a widow, residing four tofive miles southwest ofHarrison, in Indiana,and Rachel (Mrs. JoshuaLemon, widow of afarmer now deceased, ofFayette county, Indi-ana), are still parents removed in1809 from Maryland tothe tract about one milesouth of Harrison, onthe State line, now own-ed by their son Stephen,where Mrs. Burks fatherhad already they lived the restof their lives, and bothof them died here in agood old age—the father in his eighty-fifth year,January 16, 1864; and the mother in her eighty-third or eighty-fourth year, dying February 22,1866. Stephen Burk was two years old when his par-ents came to the Miami country, having been bornSeptember 24, 1807, at the old home in Baltimore. county, Maryland. He is somewhat remotely ofIrish stock, on the fathers side. He was educatedto the limited extent attainable in the schools ofthat day and neighborhood, and has acquittedhimself through a long life as a man of intelligenceand character. He remained a bachelor at the oldhome south of Harrison, devoting himself to thecare of his parents andthe labors of the farmexcept one year, whenhe took a partnershipin a country store atAlquina, Fayette coun-ty, Indiana—until bothhis father and motherhad gone to their longhome. He staid someyears longer upon thepaternal estate, duringwhich he was married,June 16, 1875, to MissMartha Eliza Pruden,of Harrison village. Inthe February followinghe removed to thepleasant, elegant resi-dence now occupied byhim on the Cincinnatiturnpike, one mile southeast of Harrison, where heis spending a tranquil old age, in quite tolerablehealth for his years, and with th
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