This last week I did an interview with my Grandpa, Brantley Baird. He is the Great-Grandson of Charles Burkett and the grandson of Columbus Otis Burkett, youngest son of Charles. While interviewing my grandpa, my grandma found a document in which McDonald County, Missouri had interviewed Columbus. This was done in order to honor Columbus and his family for everything they had done for the county.
In the interview, Columbus talked about his father and mother. He explained how Charles had married twice and had nine kids with each wife. According to Columbus, Charles and Margaret were married in a Methodist church. It was interesting because I had been told growing up that the family was Missouri Southern Baptists.
For anyone who has information about the Methodist church, do they keep any kind of records that I can search? It would be very helpful for trying to find information on the rest of the family.
What a blessing to have your grandfather alive to conduct an interview. Take advantage of this opportunity. The podcast is great! Personal insight is far better than the sterile census records.
ReplyDeleteBrandon,
ReplyDeleteI could not contact you through the email address you gave me. Kept getting error messages, so you will have to contact me--cabruegel@aol.com. My grandmother Ida/Iota said on her marriage license that her family--either the Burketts or the McGlothlins--were Baptists. So maybe they switched churches. I know that this often happened when, for example, the church got a new preacher and the family didn't like the new guy for some reason.
Colette Bruegel