Ira Burdsall and Rebecca Bate

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Husband Ira Burdsall ¹

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           Born: 14 Nov 1804 1
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         Father: Wills Burdsall (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Dorothy Crispin (1774-      ) 2

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   Other Spouse: Rebecca Sariah (      -      ) 1

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Wife Rebecca Bate ³

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Children

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1 F Mary Burdsall ³

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         Spouse: Jacob Hinchman (      -      ) 3

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2 M Frank H. Burdsall ³

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         Spouse: Hallie Barber (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Ira Burdsall

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He was appointed United States Mail Agent between New York and San Francisco, by President Franklin Pierce, a very important position in those days, when the mail had to go by sea around Cape Horn. He died in this service, at sea, of cholera, which broke out on board a vessel on which he was making the voyage. He helped the captain nurse the stricken ones, contracted the disease himself, died of it, and was buried at sea off Havana, Cuba.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 390.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 388.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 391.