Mary Burkham (d. 17 January 1945) Burkham family plot- Bodie Cemetery.

Solomon and Mary Burkham Family Plot- Bodie Cemetery- one of the most noticeable Graves - can be seen from the town.

MARY BURKHAM (b. 14 February 1860- d. 17 January 1945)

Solomon and Mary Burkham (buried in the Ward section of the Bodie Cemetery) had four children. Cecil Burkham , Harlan Burkham, Eleanor Burkham and Kathryn Burkham.

Cecil Burkham (born- September 22, 1878 in Bakersfield, CA died-January 7, 1972 in Reno NV.)

Cecil Burkham married  Miss Josephine Seiler, from Bodie, CA. and had two sons- Frank and Cecil II.  Cecil II Burkham was called “Bert” his whole life. Bertran was his middle name.

Harlan Burkham (born- July 1883 in Lundy, CA died in 1914 in Jerome, Arizona.)

Harlan Burkham had married Maude Metzer, also from Bodie  in 1904 in the Bodie Methodist Church. (They divorced in 1909.) Harlan Burkham  died in 1914- five years after his divorce, and is interred in the Bodie Cemetery, Ward Section- Solomon Burkham Family Plot.

Eleanor  “Nellie” Burkham, (born- in Bodie July 1888 and died October 17, 1926 in Los Angeles) married Grant Holcomb. Together they had four children- Grant Jr. Holcomb, William Holcomb, Theodore Holcomb and Kathryn Holcomb.

“Kate” or  Miss Kathryn Burkham was born in December 1892 in Bodie, CA and died in 1912, age 20 years old.  (Kathryn Burkham is interred in the Solomon Burkham Family Plot, Wards Section of the Bodie Cemetery.)