Category: Burchard Family

Lost Family, Lost History: The Burchard Legacy

March 16, 2024

Burchard Family, Family Stories

Antietam, Burchard, Civil War, Connecticut, Ireland, New Berne, Schilcher, Underground Railroad, Wilton

This story is for my father and all of his siblings and cousins, who never knew their maternal grandparents. Now they can. Eli Sanford BIRCHARD/BURCHARD (1830-1862) Eli Sanford BIRCHARD was born in August of 1830 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was the second son of Uriah and Julia (HYATT) BIRCHARD.[1] Altogether, the BIRCHARDs had 10
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