-----Original Message----- From: Edward Boggs [SMTP:scotlandforever@webtv.net] Sent: Sunday, February 28, 1999 2:08 PM To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Good Guys/Bad Guys Any family stories from these areas in regards to family heroes/villans you would like to share with the list? (or just a colorful character ?) ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== #1 When you have a new email address please UNSUBSCRIBE from the old BEFORE you lose it; and SUBCRIBE from the NEW address as soon as you get access to it. If you fail to do this please send the old and new address to: ehoward@conknet.com and the Mailing List name -sysop [Pam Moehling] Hi, I just heard from a fellow BURKE researcher about 3 weeks ago..He asked me if I knew WHY our BURKE family moved out of Guilford County, NC...I said no, I hadn't heard... well he said that my gr-gr-grandfather, John Washington BURKE's, daughter murdered a colored person and so they all up and left Guilford County real quick...he's trying to find further information about this murder or killing and the details... John Washington's son Charles Henry BURKE was right there when Stonewall Jackson was shot...saw it happen... Another son who was a Doctor had been treating his sister...and happened to be out of town on business..while he was gone the sister became very ill and she died..when he returned after being gone several days the family was in mourning and told him of the terrible news...He went bezerky..ran to the gravesite..had the body dug up and sure enough..there was the proof..His sister wasn't dead (when buried) she was in a diabetic coma..and she evidently came out of it after being buried..of course it was much too late by then..they said he never forgave himself until he died for not sharing her condition with at least someone in the family...