Rilda Thomas Burke 1907 - 1995

Rilda (Thomas) Burke was born on April 16, 1907 at at home in Oneida, Scott County, Tennessee United States to Menda Foster Thomas, and had siblings Cordelia Thomas Cecil, James Thomas, Calvin Thomas, Issac Thomas, Sylvester Thomas, Charlie Thomas, Willie Thomas, Elizabeth Thomas Davidson, and Glitha Thomas Cecil. She married Will Haden Burke, and had children Lewis Burke, Connie Burke Terry, T. L. Burke, Elizabeth Boyatt, Menda Williams, Howard Burke, J. D. Burke, Jessie Burke, Creston Burke, and James Lester Burke. Rilda Burke died at age 88 years old on September 14, 1995 in Oneida, and was buried in September 1995 at West Cemetery Station Camp Road, in Oneida.