Individual Details

This is believed to be the father of Henry Burger [surname mispelled in census] Mary would be Henry's stepmother.
1850; KY; Pulaski Co; Division 2, p.114b, Household 576
Peter Burket, age 49, Farmer, Value of Real Estate $900, b. VA
Mary A. Burket, age 49, b. KY
Henry Burket, age 13, attends school
Hiatt Burket, age 4, a male child
Anna VanHook age 16, attends school
William VanHook, age 12, attends school
Rhoda Vanhook, age 10, attends school

Peter Burger married (1) Catherine Hines on 22 Apr 1824 in Pulaski Co KY. She was the dau of William Hines & Barbara Baugh, born about 1808 in Virginia and died about 1840. Peter was said to have married the widow Mary Ann (Harris) VanHook on 3 Sep 1841. Catherine would have been the mother of Henry.
Other children of Peter & Catherine Burger are said to be:
Jackson Burger, b. 1827 and married Mary Ann Compton in 1850 in Pulaski Co KY [They are also in the 1850 census in Pulaski Co KY, his name spelled Burger]
Harrison Burger, b. 1829 and died 1898 in Wapella, Dewitt Co, Illinois. He has 4 marriages and some 22 children; not all are known by name.
Harriette Burger, b. 1835 and married Thomas Baugh 1859 in Pulaski Co KY - I can't explain why Hariette was not with her father in 1850 since she was only 15 and not yet married.

Henry served in the Civil War - Company H, 1st Arkansas Cavalry, Union Army
Filed for his invalid pension, 24 Mar 1869.
Dorothy A. Burger file as his widow, 24 May 1901, from Missouri
From Wikipedia:
The First Arkansas Union Cavalry played a unique role in Civil War history. The troops, especially the enlisted men, were not Yankees but Southern Unionists. They were primarily from Northwest Arkansas, and were assigned to occupy their home town and county for two and a half years. It was a very bitter war among neighbors fighting each other as Confederate guerrillas and as Union cavalrymen. After the war the First Arkansas commander, Colonel Marcus LaRue Harrison, stayed on in Fayetteville and became its post-war mayor for a time.[

This might be Jackson in 1870 in Gentry Co MO:
1870: MO, Gentry Co; Cooper Twp, p.562, Household 261:
Burger, Jackson, age 44 Farmhard, b. in KY
Mary age 36, b. KY [She should be older if she's the same Mary]
Sarah E., 19, KY
Frances, 17, KY, attends school
?Erasmus age 16, b. KY, works on farm [name hard to read]
John F. 14, school, first of the children born in MO
?Peys/Treyr W. 12, school, b. MO [Name impossible to decipher]
Henry, age 9 b. MO
William, age 8, b. MO
Martha age 6, b. MO
Ada E. age 2 months, b. MO
This listing of birth places for Jackson's children seems to indicate the Burgers came to Missouri about 1855.


1880 Barry Co MO Census. Shoal Creek Twp.
Henry Burger, Age 38, born in KY; parents born in VA.
Dorothy A., 35, wife, b. MO, parents b. KY
Robert H., 10, son
Joel E., 3, son
James A., 19 days old - born in May 1880, son

1900 McDonald Co, Richwood Twp Census. ED 100, Sheet 7; Family 117. Married 31 years. She had 9 children, 4 now living. Henry was born in KY, his father born VA, his mother born in Germany. Dorothy is employed as a Weaver. George L. and Jackson still living at home.
Henry Burger, b. Jan 1836, age 64, married 31 years, b. KY, father b. VA, mother b. Germany
Dorothy A., wife, b. Mar 1845, age 55, 9 Children, 4 are living
George L., son, b. Jun 1883, age 16
Jackson, son, b. Mar 1885, age 15

Bible record states that Henry Burger was the son of Peter Burger and Catherine his wife.

Birth	8 Jan 1836	Kentucky
Marriage	Abt 1869	Dorothy A. Jones
Death	21 Mar 1901

Spouse	Dorothy A. Jones (1845 - 1908)
Child	Robert Harrison Burger (1869 - 1899)
Child	Richard Elmer Burger (1872 - 1874)
Child	Albert Right Burger (1875 - 1875)
Child	Joel Edward Burger (1876 - 1968)
Child	James Alfred Burger (1880 - 1965)
Child	George Lafayette Burger (1883 - 1955)
Child	Jackson Poindexter Burger (1885 - 1952)