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Submitted: 6/1/04 • Approved: 2/25/16 • Last Updated: 3/24/18 • R6787-G0-S3
b. March 21, 1859, Milwaukee, Wisc.
d. Nov. 3, 1918, Prescott, Ariz.
COD: Tuberculosis
h/o Jennie (Murphy) Burke
s/o Patick & Mary Ann (Lawless) Burke
Occ: Hotel keeper, Burke Hotel, Prescott; Accountant; Chief Clerk of the Quartermaster at Fort Whipple, Ariz. /Arizona Legislator
Owner of the Burke Hotel on Whisky Row, in Prescott which is now the St. Michsel's Hotel.
Resided in Ariz. 35 years
Co B 12th US Inf. - Indian Wars.
Site # A/03/08
Ruffner Funeral Home, Prescott, Az.
Burial: Nov. 6, 1918
Citizens Cemetery records & plot map /Az. death records /Obituary: Arizona Journal Miner, Nov. 5, 1918
Note: Existing headstone set in 2003.
Contributed on 6/1/04 by jlbranson78
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