1900 KS CENSUS - Muriel Porter (b Sept 1889, Missouri) enumerated with parents Charles (b Aug 1858, Kentucky, married 12y, occupation zinc smelter) and Mary A. (b Oct 1862, Indiana, mother of 2 children, both living) and sister Hazel D. (b Nov 1894, Kansas)

1910 MO CENSUS - Muriel Porter (20y, b Missouri) enumerated with parents Charles F. (50y, b Kentucky married 21y, second marriage, occupation farmer) and Mary C. (48y, b Indiana, married 21y, first marriage, mother of 3 hildren, all living) and 2 sisters, Hazel (15y, b Missouri) and Blanche (8y, b Kansas)

MARRIAGE - James A. Burkhart & Muriel Porter md 24 Nov 1910, Osceola, St Clair Co, Missouri

1920 MO CENSUS - Muriel Burkhard, age 30, d. Missouri, is enumerated with husband James A., age 32, occupation rural mail carrier, b. Missouri, along with James C., age 5, b. Missouri.

1930 MO CENSUS - Muriel Burkhart (40y, b Missouri, married at age 20y) enumerated with husband James A. Burkhart (42y, b Missouri, married at age 22y, occupation rural mail carrier)

1940 MO CENSUS - Muriel Burkhart (51y, b Missouri) enumerated with husband James A. (52y, b Missouri, occupation mail carrier); family was living in same place in 1935

NOTE - James A. Burkhart died 26 Apr 1972 and was buried in Pleasant Springs Cemetery at Oyer, St Clair Co, Missouri

OSBH DC (Polk County 1979) #79-20779

Private family services were conducted today in Virgil T. Golden mortuary for Salem resident Muriel Burkhart, 90. She died Sunday in a Dallas nursing home. She had lived in Missouri before coming to Salem in 1972. Survivors include her son, James C., Salem; sister, Blanche Dorrel, Hamilton, Mo; and one grandson and two great-grandsons.

Capital Journal, Tuesday, December 11, 1979, page 26

Mother
Muriel Burkhart
Sept. 5, 1889 - Dec. 9, 1979

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI

1900 KS CENSUS (Crawford Co, Girard, ED 77, sheet 10B)

1910 MO CENSUS (St Clair Co, Roscoe, ED 138, sheet 3A)

Missouri County Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)
1920 MO CENSUS (St. Clair Co., Roscoe, ED 148, sheet 6A)

1930 MO CENSUS (St Clair Co, Roscoe, ED 19, sheet 2A)

1940 MO CENSUS (Cedar Co, Eldorado Springs, ED 20-4, sheet 12A)

CJ, 11 Dec 1979, page 26