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Subject: BURKET - HOUTS
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:16:36 EST

LEVI BURKET was born in Perry County, Ohio, November 17, 1830, and is one of
nine children born to Henry and Catharine (Houts) Burket - Rebecca, Levi,
Mary, George, Daniel (deceased), Susan, Ephraim, William and Lucinda. The
father was born in Pennsylvania about the year 1805, has always been a farmer,
and now lives in Marshall County, Ind. When Levi was young, his father moved
to Sandusky County, Ohio, and there our subject was reared. In 1858, Levi came
to this township, and has lived here ever since. He was married, August 17,
1850, to Agnes Overmyer, who has given birth to twelve children - George,
Catharine, Philip, Amanda, Jane, Franklin, Austin (deceased), Lucas, Grant,
Lucy, Marion and Ida (the last named also deceased). Mr. Burket has a fine
farm of 160 acres four and a half miles southwest of Monterey, and has 100
acres of this land cleared up and under cultivation.

From: Counties of White and Pulaski Counties, Indiana - Tippecanoe Township,
by F.A. Battey & Co., published in 1883

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