Elijah (Burchfiel) Burchfield (1792 - 1872)

Born 1792 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States

Husband of Dorothy (Blacksby) Burchfiel — married 25 Feb 1847 (to 1872) in Shelby County, AL

Died 13 May 1872 at about age 80 in Shelby, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Elijah was born about 1792 ^[1].

He married Mary George in 1815 in Lincoln County, Tennessee ^[2].

He died in 1883^[2].

He is buried in Harpersville Garden of Memories Cemetery , Harpersville, Shelby County, Alabama ^[3].

Research notes

More sources are needed; is there any marriage record, especially for Rebecca and Dorothy? It seems there may be more than one Elijah mixed into this profile. Mary George is listed in the pension application entry, with a death date of Elijah lilsted as 1883.

Sources

1. ↑ United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: Shelby, Alabama; Roll: 14; Page: 216a, household of Elijah and Dorothea Burchfield; also "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH54-2L6 : 12 April 2016), Elijah Birchfield, Shelby county, Shelby, Alabama, United States; citing family 597, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} U.S., War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815, Ancestry.com, Mary George m.1815 in Tennessee, widow entry in Elijah Burchfield of Harpersville, Alabama, date of death of soldier: Sep 1883
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/115173865/elijah-burchfield: accessed 13 November 2022), memorial page for Pvt Elijah Burchfield (1792–Sep 1883), Find A Grave: Memorial #115173865, citing Harpersville Garden of Memories Cemetery, Harpersville, Shelby County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Scrappy (contributor 46570007) .

• Planter War of 1812 number 18056, Census 1820 Lincoln, TM 100010-10100