Benefits of using Google with Ancestry.com

During class we learned about the importance of how we word our Google searches.

While searching for a Charles Burkett through Google and I was able to find a website that had the names of people who were given power of attorney in Wayne County, Tennessee.  In this record Charles Burkett and his son Aaron B. Burkett each had their own documents in which they were placing Charles M Burkett in charge of monies owed to them by John Churchwell.

Not knowing who the Churchwell’s were I went to the 1850 census just to see if there were any Churchwells living in Barry County, Missouri.  In the 1850 census right after the Burkett family is the Calvin Churchwell.

The Burkett family is in household 285 and the Churchwell family is in household 286.

Stay tuned for an update of what the entire power of attorney says.

Charles Burkett Life Sketch

Charles Burkett was born around the year of 1819.  He was born in the state of Tennessee.  I do not know a lot about his early life.  He married his first wife, Elizabeth, in Tennessee.  Between the years of 1847 and 1851 Charles and Elizabeth moved to Barry County, Missouri.   Charles owned a plot of land Barry County.  The United States Census gives the family's place of residence as Shoal Creek.

Charles and Elizabeth had 8 children before her death in September 1860.  Elizabeth died due to problems following childbirth.  The son born that was born also died.

Charles married his second wife, Margaret Rice, December 13, 1860. Charles and Margaret  had 8 children as well.

Charles' death date is unknown.  I assume, due to census records, that Charles died between 1880-1900.  Margaret appears in the 1900 census as a widow.