BURKE - Tampico Author: Les Niemi Date: 17 Jul 1999 12:00 PM GMT

Surnames: BURKE
Classification: Query
In Reply to: William and Amanda Burke, Walnut, IL. by: Marita Leert

I found the following BURKE references in the Tampico Tornado newspaper:

 April 9, 1887 - Peter BURKE has laid away his store clothes and shut up his city residence and has gone to the rural district where he will engage in farming this season.

January 10, 1891 - Jos. BURKE, of Sterling, Friday received the following telegram from the Pabst Brewing Co., of Milwaukee, Wis., for which he is the local agent: "Wish you a happy and prosperous New Year. Our sales for the past year were over 700,000 barrels, an increase of 115,000. Help us to make sales 850,000 the coming year.

January 10, 1903 - Tampico's large delegation of college students returned to their respective colleges Monday and Tuesday. Leroy McMILLEN to Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, Carl RICHARDSON and Alfred THOMAS to state university; Misses Mary RICHARDSON , Darlene WEST, and Dollie TEACH, Northwestern university; Tracy WYLIE, Northwestern Pharmacy school; Roy McKENZIE, Brown's Business College, Galesburg; Nina RUCK, William and Nellie GRAHAM, Dixon college; Kathryn BURKE, Mary CURRAN and Julia HEINRICKEN, college at Lyons, Iowa; Leroy SHERE, Geneseo Collegiate Institute, Geneseo.

April 25, 1903 - Katherine BURKE returned to Fulton Saturday, where she attends college, after a visit with her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. P.E. BURKE.

June 20, 1903 - Mrs. Mary FITZGERALD and son Roy returned to their house in Ottumwa, Iowa, Monday after a visit here with Mrs. FITZGERALD's cousins, Peter BURKE and Kate McCABE.

September 26, 1903 - Edmund BURKE, a brother of Mrs. P.W. MAXFIELD of this place and of John BURKE who lives north of here, died at his home in Sterling Saturday of lung trouble.

October 7, 1904 - Peter E. BURKE was called to Chicago Wednesday by a telegram stating that his wife was in a serious condition at the hospital there where she had an operation performed.

December 2, 1904 - DEATH OF A GOOD WOMAN Mrs. Peter BURKE Called to Her Reward Tuesday Afternoon Funeral Thursday. Mrs. Peter E. BURKE, the wife of Peter BURKE, a prominent farmer and stock raiser and one of the old inhabitants of Tampico, died at the family home three miles southeast of town Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock of heart disease. She was taken to Chicago last September where she was given expert treatment in a hospital for two months and when brought home seemed to be getting much better even up to the end which was quite sudden. The funeral services were held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Mary's church. Rev. F. DuFOUR officiating and internment was in St. Mary's cemetery. A large number of the sorrowing friends attended the services. Elizabeth Cullen GRAHAM was born March 21, 1853 at Ithica, N.Y. and came to Illinois with her parents when she was five years old. She spent her girlhood days on the homestead south east of Tampico. She was married to Peter E. BURKE April 4, 1872 and lived with him in Tampico for fifteen years while Mr. BURKE was in business here. Afterwards they moved to the farm three miles south east where she died. The husband and five children survive. The are Sterling, xxx, xxx, xxter, Mrs. CALxxxx, a brother N.J. GRAHAM and her aged father James GRAHAM with many friends also survive to mourn a kind and loving wife and mother, daughter, and sister, a true friend and Christian woman.

December 9, 1904 - Fred BURKE of Walnut has accepted a position in H.C. PITNEY's store. Mr. BURKE has been head clerk in FABER's big store for six years and is a good clerk who will be an excellent addition to the force in Mr. PITNEY's store. I hope this helps, Les