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Note: Burkham family in Miller County Arkansas in 1825. Texas Confederate Pension Application A-09709 Hopkins County, Texas
Among list of Texas Confederate indigent families, Hopkins County, Texas. 1863-1865.
Both April Makerney and Georgia Schoenecker on their rootsweb trees show Elliot being buried in Conner Cemetery.
The Burkham family's history intertwined with that of the Leamons family:
BURKHAM, JAMES (1805-1880)
James Burkham, pioneer settler, was born Clay County, Kentucky, in the late summer of 1805,
the son of Charles and Nancy Ann (Abbet) Burkham. In 1816 the family moved to the Red River
Valley in Arkansas Territory. Around 1820 the Burkhams and several other families crossed
the river into Texas and settled on the mouth of Mill Creek, at what became known as Burkham
Settlement. During the Texas Revolution Burkham joined Capt. William Becknell's company,
which set out to join Sam Houston's main army but arrived the day after the battle of San
Jacinto. Burkham served again briefly in the militia in 1841 and in recognition of his service
was awarded a first-class land grant in Red River County near Avery, a bounty warrant of 320
acres in Lamar County, and a plot of land now in Hopkins County. After his mother died in 1845,
he moved to Hopkins County and settled near Sulphur Bluff. Burkham was a Mason; in Hopkins
County he became a member of the newly organized Old Tarrant Lodge No. 91. Around 1853 he is
said to have sold his slaves to James L. Latimer. Burkham and his wife, Mathilda, whom he
married in 1830, had five children. He died at the family homestead near Sulphur Bluff on June
4, 1880. (Hopkins County TXGenWeb, bios)
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