George Burck's obituary, Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan

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Monroe Democrat - February 16, 1899

Died

GEORGE ADAM BURCK

Death has again claimed another of our sturdy German
pioneers.  After an illness of bur thirteen days George Adam
Burck passed to the great unknown at his home on Third street
Monday evening at 8:50.  The deceased was born at Walkersdorf
in the district of Schnaback, Bavaria,  January 18th,
1917(sic).  In his sixrteenth year he left his home and was
employed at various places for about three years and a half,
and then for the next ten years was employed as a mail carrier
in the city of Fuerth.  In 1846 he emigrated to America and
after a short stay in New York city came to Monroe in the
spring of 1847 where he has since resided.  Shortly after his
arrival in Monroe he joined the Trinity Lutheran church and
helped to finish the same and continued as an active member of
the church organization for nearly half a century, he being
one of the last seven surviving members of the old
congregation of 1849.  He was married shortly after his
arrival in New York to Miss Mary B. Taubenreuther and from
this union there were four children of whom C.J. G., John A.
and Miss Minnie F., together with his wife who has been an
invalid for 10 years, survives him.  Mr. Burck was never sick
but once in his life and that was during the fever epidemic in
1854.  His death was not due to any particular disease but
simply to the running down of the clock of life.  Mr. Burck
was a thrifty German and his services were in great demand at
certain seasons of the year, and he was an expert in his
line.  Funeral Thursday afternoon from his late residence at 3
o'clock, Rev H. Frincke officiating.