The Burch Family distillery
Wed, 03/11/2020 - 5:00am
In 1858, at age 26, My Maternal Great Grandfather, Thomas Martin Burch, who went by the name “Martin” and his wife Mary Jane Lay Burch and Martin’s younger brother Samuel Huston Burch and his wife Phoebe Simmons Burch went by covered wagon from Bradley County, Tenn.to Pope County, Arkansas. The two families settled on the North Fork of the Illinois Bayou, in what is now part of the Ozark National Forest.
