26 April 1890
CAN COUNT 180 DESCENDANTS
The Marietta (O.) Register tells of a somewhat remarkable family in that vicinity. Joseph Burke, a freeman from Prince William county, Va., came with his family in 1851 to Newport, where he died three weeks afterward, leaving a wife and twelve children. The widow still survives, and most of her children. A recent census of the family, including children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren, gives an aggregate of 180 souls. Mrs. Hannah Burke, now aged 87, is probably the most motherly woman in Ohio.
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