William Burke

Source: Early Times in Middle Tennessee
by John Carr, 1857

In 1795, William Burke, accompanied by a young man named Peter Guthrie, came among us; and during that year he saved the Church from the ruin threatened by the course of James Haw. In the beginning of 1796, he married Rachel Cooper, and immediately they removed from the country. I knew her well, as she and myself belonged to the same society in Cage's Bend, in Sumner county. She was a superior young woman. If my memory does not fail me, he returned and was with us again in 1798, and for the last time. His character is too well known and admired to justify me in attempting a description. I am told he is still living in Ohio.

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