Person:Samuel Burcham (1)

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His tombstone reads: Amiable and beloved husband, farewell. Thy years were few, they virtues many, They are not only recorded on the pershing stone, But in the Book of Life and hearts of thy affected friends. Farewell Parents: Burden BURCHAM and Ellender\Eleanor EDWARDS. The family moved from Virginia to Iowa. Samuel Burcham's first trip he first made was to drive one of the teams that brought the belongings and Wagons of William Adams and his family to Bangor, Marshall County, Iowa. He Samuel Burcham made his return trip to Virginia on horseback and walking part of the way when he got tired of riding. This trip he made alone in four weeks but Mr. Burcham did not get discouraged for he returned in the fall to Henry County in Iowa with his wife and three children and they staid there eighteen months when they came to Marshall County Iowa landing one mile east of Bangor at the William Adams farm on the sixteenth of April 1860. In a short while he bought them a home place near the Iowa River and two miles west of Siscomb. Mr. Burcham purchased part of his farm of the Government and part he traded for a neighbor then he had to improvements and build improvements and before much improvements had been done He was called to try the realities of that unchangeable home. The Widow lived there with the two smallest children until called by death away on the 13th of July 1912 and at this writing, the two children are making their home there. She was in her eighty eight year. Children were: (Unknown) BURCHAM, Vienna BURCHAM, Marietta BURCHAM, Heath J. BURCHAM, Hance K. BURCHAM, Gilmore BURCHAM, Albert BURCHAM, Charlotte S. BURCHAM. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~alanwood/dbase/b24.htm#P1866