WILLIAM MARION BURCH (BIRCH)

William Marion Burch, son of James Phillip Burch and Mary Sparger, was born Sept. 28, 1833 in Bloomfield, Greene Co., Indiana and died Sept. 9, 1907 in Gravity, Taylor Co., Iowa. He married Nancy Elizabeth Woody Feb. 5, 1856 in Greene Co., Indiana. Source of death date: Iowa, Deaths and Burials and obituary printed in Bedford Free Press. Although the last name is spelled Birch on the headstone the family name is spelled Burch in his obituary and death certificates of his wife and several children.
Submitted by volunteer Julia Johnson
Photographed Oct. 2012