BURCH, JOHN
, was born about 1770, in Georgia. He was married in 1800, in Gallatin county, Ky., to Elizabeth Hampton, who was born in 1780, in Loudon county, Va. They had six children in Kentucky, and Mr. Burch came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1828, with his son-in-law, James McKee. He went back to Kentucky for his family, and died there May 10, 1829. In the fall of that year his family moved to Sangamon county, and settled near Mechanicsburg. Of their six children--SARAH, born about 1801, in Kentucky, married there to William Jack, and moved to Sangamon county. See his name.
BENJAMIN, born Aug. 1, 1803, in Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sangamon to Mary Smith. He died in McLean county in 1863. His widow married James Waite, and lives in Bloomington.
JANE, born in 1805, in Gallatin county, Ky., married there Jan. 9, 1828, to James McKee, and came to Illinois in the fall of that year, and settled near Mechanicsburg.
PRESTON H., born in 1807, in Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sangamon county in 1831, to Elizabeth Suter. They had five children in Sangamon county. SARAH E. married William H. Green, and lives at Dubuque, Iowa, with her only child, LULU. LEVARIAN, born Dec. 25, 1837, in Sangamon county, enlisted at Newport Barracks, April, 1861, in Battery G, 2nd Reg. U. S. Art. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant, was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, and died of his wounds, late in 1863, at Washington City. JAMES M., born Feb. 18, 1839, in Sangamon county. He graduated at St. Louis Medical College in 1859, and enlisted as a private, June 20, 1861, in Co. C, 8th Mo. Inf.; was promoted in July, '61, to Asst. Surg., which he resigned in Aug., 1862, and was commissioned Captain of Co. K, 94th Ill. Inf. He resigned that office in Sept., 1863, and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th U. S. Colored Troops, at New Orleans, which he resigned at Brazos, Texas. in Sept., 1864. Dr. J. M. Burch was married Oct. 8, 1860, at Bloomington, to Jennie L. McClunn, a native of that city. After the close of the rebellion he practiced medicine at Illiopolis, and died there July 26, 1874, leaving a widow and four children, FRANK P., ED. R., LEVARIAN and CORA. Mrs. Jennie L. Burch and children reside at Bloomington. JOHN S., born July 1840, in Sangamon county, went to California in 1861, and was drowned March 3, 1865, at San Juan, Nicaragua, while on his way home. ELIZA J., born March, 1842, in Sangamon county, is a teacher at Mt. Sterling. Preston H. Burch enlisted in 1862, at Peoria, in Co. --, 108th Ill. Inf., and died of disease at Young's Point, near Vicksburg, Miss., Feb. 18, 1863. His widow died at Mt. Sterling, Brown county, Ill., Dec., 1865.
ELIZA, born in 1810, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James Smith. They had one child, MARY, born in Sangamon county, married Oct. 8, 1860, to Dr. Edward Stevens, and reside in Bloomington. James Smith died Sept., 1845, in Springfield, and his widow married Josiah Green. She died Feb., 1852, and he died July, 1855, both in Mechanicsburg.
WADE S., born Oct. 14, 1815, in Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sangamon county Jan. 8, 1845, to Mary E. Young. They had ten children, seven of whom died under seven years. SUSAN B., born July 26, 1850, married Jan. 8, 1868, to James Newton Moreland, who was born Dec. 17, 1840, in Bath county, Ky., served nearly four years--from Aug. 1, 1862--in Co. B, 10th Ky. Cav. (Union), and was honorably discharged in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Moreland live in Illiopolis township. WERTER P., born March 11, 1861, and HARRY, born Feb. 10, 1864, live with their parents--W.S. Burch and wife, reside two miles south of Lanesville.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burch died Sept. 20, 1865, in Curran township.