| Show mke mae 0 df 10 M I 1 JA 3 0 j at t eden egden valley mailey IN EB burhit UR U R ka in his yeary year teary J s fill fils I 1 the tho 10 1 ow 1 16 F ac account cadun edun t of Is lne lue iffe ine was w alan rian at f eis his jiw liw alwn I 1 was born lct yet let jin ls 1783 1788 in bedford jb bedford edford co pennsylvania united states my father george burket and my raath mother eni eri catharine emigrated from ger many fo to the united states during the davd war of 1776 pd and settled in iu brenn sylvania I 1 was married to sarah smith avan in 1810 and nd had by her six children three of f who whom n joined coined the church chuich in inah indiana gna ana ang and three in jackson county missouri my wife andI andl and I 1 joined the church in 1831 issi ily liy irn iri randolph county indiana on the of may 1 I 1 started at dording according to the com 1 county mo was then ordained an elder under wider the han ban hands gas 0 of zebedee coltreri Coltri ri and levi W hancock and was appointed fo to take charge of a company who with myself arrived in jackson poun ty in august of the same year I 1 then tamea tamed out all my property to bishop cartridge who assigned me my inherit inheritance ince axi ali and ana requested me to take charge of my property till the tep difficulties then ihen surrounding I 1 11 the saints sainta should pass p ass over iwas I 1 was drivell driven out ou of jackson county in in kox Kov 1833 and in clay county in III june jine 1834 zions cam came camp came to my house and there dispersed s ahe the same night night tho the camp arrived arlve sev seventeen of the li brethren were seized with cholera ardd arid five died oled that night and next morning who were buried in an adjoining niela field iwas awaa all ail the tro troubles libles i in jackson fackson clay davis da vis and far west co counties p n i ties where I 1 stood trite true to my brethren arid arnd the work the morning unter after leaving nauvoo I 1 was wab married 1 to ellzabeth elizabeth evans bvans widow of thomas evans my first gife wit having died in augusta iowa a few feve months previous with whom I have lived happily aria arid who hasteen has been heen a great grea t comfort com eom fort and lind heip help hai hal 0 to o me andja andLa faithful member in the thel churl Church I 1 did not pot arrive at council bluffs till the we S spring ring ning of IM I 1 tarried there by i counsel 0 of president young to get an ah outfit and in june 1852 1 I started west for great gibat bait salt lake city arrived in id september and lo 10 bated on vest jordan ana and presided over oven a branch of the saints then moved to td bing hams Fort eort in weber county inthe in the fall of 1855 andio ogden valley vailey in 1862 21 when thep ha the prophet joseph and hij bisi breth r rez ren were reu rek in ln liberty jail jall clay cly county he wrote wrate 4 a letter to td me esting that 1 should bring a m man 1 acwith with bifid me and ana sign r ign a writ vi 04 habeas corpus MA that their thein ilves lives might behaved be sayed saved fon for lle lie said sard their lives hyps we were re in danger I 1 complied his bis re quest nest andente and entered into bonds to release idney rigdon ironi j au mid arid would woula cheerfully have laid db down jn rny y lif ilfe life 1 to 6 save their lives I 1 in I 1 I 1 was was called by joseph in connection with others ahel ahei ail all preached the gospel baptizing a goodly number ana and regulating til ill the 0 affairs az al fahe church in that state cont confined ind d ah my y journey to kart kirtland and missouri in february 1 I was driven missouri Missour ij and the state of illi jlii nois when nauvoo was founded limme moved there andaas and was at the first general conference aved lived there till 1846 1946 and was ordained alil a high priest by geo ai A smith and Bishop miller was in the battie battle of nauvoo in im bop Bep september and left next morning forsbe for fon ibe the new dew home of the saints in the west WW elder burkett durkett died in full suli falth faith and fellowship in the Church churchon of jesus christ of latter day saints and highly respected by his numerous friends and ac acquaintances q uain |
