Mary L. Sheton was born on 29 June 1858 at
Virginia.
2,3 She married
Anthony Alexander Burkey, son of
Andrew Burkey and
Sarah A. Smith, on 13 October 1886 at
Audrain County, Missouri.
4 The twelfth United States census was taken in 1900. Mary was enumerated in the household of
Anthony Alexander Burkey as his wife, "Mary Burkey", at Saling Township, at Audrain County, Missouri. Her given age was 38, and she was said to have been born in Virginia in June 1861. She had been married for 14 years and was the mother of two children, both of whom were living.
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