Lancaster County
NEGenWeb Project
Brown Cemetery [Private]

Located in S. W. 1/2. 30-10-5, Middle Creek Precinct, Lancaster Co., NE, on the south bank of Middle Creek. On private property within this land is a cemetery with several tombstones. Some appear to be carved from sandstone that is now unreadable. Burd appears in the middle name of a child. These graves appear to be from the 1860's. Recorded and submitted by Donna "Rosie" Brandt

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Lancaster Co. NEGenWeb Project

BROWN, Edmund Perry
son of J. D. & M. A. Brown
age 3 mo. & 13 days
Aug. 29, 1870.

BROWN, James Burd
son of J. D. & M. A. Brown
Nov. 1864 - Nov. 21, 1864

BROWN, Rosa Kezia
dau. of J. D. & M. A. Brown
aged 9 yrs. & 21 days
Jan. 20, 1875

History of the Burd Family 
Peter Burd
parents unknown. 
Year of birth bet 1785-90. 
Resided in Union County PA.
Married to 
Isabella Judge  
20 Nov. 1810.

Children:

Mary Burd
b. 13 Aug 1811 
d 14 Jan 1874 
Married 

Jodon Lamira Burd
b. 18 July 1813 
d. 30 Sep 1829 
(fall from a chestnut tree)

Margaret Burd
b. 27 Aug 1815 
d 24 Mar 1873
Married to Samuel Shirk

John F. Burd
b. 29 May 1818 
d. 13 Apr 1873
(will in Seward County NE)

Isaac P Burd
b. 17 Sep 1820 d. 20 Mar 1900

John F. Burd married 
Margaret Schamp  
9 June 1839 (her father Nicholas Shamp)

children:

Mary Jane Burd
b. PA ca. 1840

Isabel Charity Burd
b. PA ca. 1841

Alexander Burd
b PA 26 Sept 1843 
d. 13 Aug 1894

Caroline Burd
b. 1844

Elizabeth Ann Burd
b. PA ca. 1846

   John Robert Burd
b. PA 18 July 1848 
d. 1 Jan 1926
(buried Hiawatha KS
married to Amelia Newton) 

Children: 
Gertrude
Blanche Eva
Wallace
Nathan
Jessie
Charles C.
Mabel
Bertha
Pearl A
b. 23 May 1892 
d. 14 Apr 1978
(in 1967 awarded Pioneer Family Certificate)
Married to Joseph Ray Allen  
in Lincoln NE on 23 May 1916

children: 
Alice Allen Lindner
Korleen Louisa Allen Brandt
Rachel LaRue Allen Kilzer
Ruth Loyette Allen Patak
Gerald Raymond Allen
Glenn Avery Allen

* Alexander Nicholas Burd
born in Union Co. PA 
26 Sept 1843
died in NE 13 Aug 1894.
Occupation Farmer.

Enlisted at Davenport, IA to serve in Civil War, Co. F, 2d Regiment Iowa Vol Cavalry.
His rank Private.

Moved to Lancaster Co. NE. Donated land to School District 38 for a school later known as the Burd School. Five generations of Burd's attended the school prior to its destruction by fire 6 Dec. 1891