1. Frank¹ Burkett birth date unknown.

He married Anne ?.

Frank Burkett and Anne ? had the following children:

2 i. Edith² Burkett was born after 1900. Edith died after 1980 in Kinmundy,IL.. She married Orin Butts in IL, before 1927. Orin was born in Illinois 1896. He was the son of Ellis Pat Butts and Elizabeth Littrell or Luttrell. Orin died before 1980 in Meacham Twp.,Marion Co.,IL. Orin drowned by falling in his well. (See Orin Butts for the continuation of this line.)

3 ii. Orville Melvin Burkett⁽²⁾ was born in Marion Co.,IL April 13, 1903. Orville died August 7, 1943 in Marmarth, N.D., at 40 years of age. From the Kinmundy Express (Aug.12,1943): - The body of Orville BURKETT, 40, arrived here Tuesday and was taken to the Linton Funeral Home where it lay in state until Tuesday evening when it was taken to the home in Meacham twp. Services were held Wednesday from the Booker Church with interment in Phillips Cemetery. Orville had been employed since early March with a railroad ditching gang in North Dakota. The gang was working at Marmarth, and on Sat. morning, as he was leaving his camp car, he stepped in the path of a switch engine and was killed instantly. Orville Melvin, eldest son of Frank and Annie BURKETT, was born in Meacham twp. on April 13, 1903, and died at Marmarth, N.D. on Aug. 7, 1943. He grew to manhood in Meacham twp. and attended the public school and Sunday School and Church at Booker. He leaves his mother and father; 4 sisters; Mrs. Edith BUTTS, Kinmundy; Mrs. Ruth SHIKLES of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Opal NEIDO of Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Thelma LAMBIRD of Madison, Ill.; a brother, Vergil G. of the U.S. Navy and who is on convoy duty in the Atlantic; 3 nieces and 2 nephews.

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