John Charles Burkett

A 19 year old farm worker in Fair Play, Pickens District, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 1 July 1862.

He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Richmond in September 1864 with no further military record.

In 1870 he was farmer in Fork Township, Anderson County, SC. By 1880 he was in Grayson County, TX. He farmed there near the town of Tom Bean to at least 1900.

His service from Swain,1 as John C. Burket. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860 to 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Carrie E Bruce (1847-1920) and they had 2 children.

02/1843; Pickens District, SC

08/26/1925; Tom Bean, Grayson County, TX; burial in White Mound Cemetery, Tom Bean, TX