Bodie THEN-1945- Bodie NOW- Mary Burkham

VIEW of Bodie and Standard Mill from BURKHAM family plot- BODIE CEMETERY.

Bodie THEN-1945 …. Bodie NOW- 2025 … 80 Years later!!

Bodie, California U. S. Census- 90 Citizens.

MARY L. BURKHAM- died 17 January 1945, Aged 85 years. Buried WARDS CEMETERY.

Mrs. Mary L. O’Donnell Burkham, born ( 14 February 1860) in New York, came to Nevada at an early age.

Solomon and Mary Burkham had four children.

Cecil Burkham, born 22 September 1878. (died 22 September 1972) married Miss Josephine Seiller from Bodie.

Harlan Burkham, born July 1883 in Lundy, California (died in 1914 in Jerome, Arizona) married Miss Maude Metzer, also of Bodie, in 1904 the Bodie Methodist Church. (They divorced in 1909)

ELeanor “Nellie” Burkham, born in Bodie July 1888, died October 17, 1926 (in Los Angeles. Married Grant Holcomb.

“Kate or Miss Kathryn Burkham, born December 1892 in Bodie, died in 1912- Age 20 years. (unmarried)

The Before 1945- the Burkham graves tell “a Bodie story” of family and children. Two of the sons marrying “Bodie girls.”

The Metzer, Seiler and Burkham families- contributing to the vast History, have a “silent legacy”

Today- 80 years later-their efforts and contributions have stood the “Test of Time”….in a town “abandoned but not forgotten.”