Military

Revolutionary War

John Dollarhide - although not technically a Burke resident since he lived until after 1850 on land southeast of present Diboll now in the Dollarhide Hunting Club, he was an ancestor of the Forsythes and Murrahs of Pine Valley and Burke. A participant in the battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens, he is the only known Revolutionary War veteran buried in Angelina County.

Mexican War

Samuel Christopher Johnson, Sr. - Hays Texas Ranger Regiment. Buried at Ryan Chapel.

Civil War

Residents at the time of the Civil War who served from the area.

Eli Ashworth - Cavalry, Texas. Served in place of George Gilley.
John J. Fairchild - Cavalry, Texas
Patrick Johnson - Infantry, Texas

Later residents who served in other areas.

Arthur Arrington - Infantry, Mississippi
Jehiel B. Arrington - Infantry, Mississippi
Sterling J. Arrington - Infantry, Mississippi
James D. Burke - Cavalry, Missouri
Francis Asbury Crager - Infantry, Louisiana
Martin Vanburen Crager - Cavalry, Louisiana
William M. Johnson - Infantry, Mississippi. Wounded at Second Bull Run.
Samuel B. Knight - Militia, Virginia
Joshua Lott - Infantry, Mississippi
Thomas D. McCall - State Troops, Mississippi
Andrew Jackson McNeely - Infantry, Louisiana
James J. Sanders - Cavalry, Texas
Wiley Felix Weeks - Engineers, Louisiana
John M. Weisinger - Cavalry, Texas

World War I

>Admiral Dewey Goins
Clarence Ervin Murrah - died of influenza while in service

World War II

Hugh Bryant Albritton, Navy, 1941
Dalton Albritton, Navy, 1942
James L. Anderson, Army, 1943
J. L. Bell, Army Air Force, 1945
Charlie H. Breazeale, Army, 1942
C. B. Crager, Army Air Corps, 1942
Aubrey D. Crawford, Navy, 1943
L. J. Conner
Aubrye L. Fuller, Army Air Force, 1943
Richard H. Goins, Army, 1943
Grady M. Grimes, Army, 1943
Eulan B. Havard, Army, 1943
Kelly K. Havard, Navy, 1943
Kirby Havard, Navy, 1942
James D. Havard, Army, 1942
Curtis Eugene Havard, Navy, 1943
Leon Hollingsworth, Army, 1941
Robert Hudson, Navy, 1945
Gene Huffine, Army, 1943 - husband of Louise Murrah
Vernon Ivey, Army Air Corps, 1943
Luther L. Jennings, Army Air Corps, 1942
John Marcos Johnson, Navy, 1942
Ellis J. Kessinger, Army, 1943
Robert Jeff Lee, Navy, 1942
Farris (Bud) Massey, Jr., Army, 1943 - Killed in action in Normandy landing, June 6, 1944
J T McDonald, Army, 1945
LeRoy McDonald, Army - wounded in Germany
Tom B. McKinney - Army Air Corps, 1941 - Europe
Chester Lee Murrah, Army, 1940 - Europe, captured in Battle of the Bulge, prisoner of war
Earvin Elroy Murrah, Army, 1945 - Japan occupation forces
Hubert Lawrence Murrah, Army, 1943 - Italy, Okinawa
Ruben Myres, Army, 1941
J. T. Parker, Jr., Navy, 1943
Robert E. Pate, Army, 1941
Louis F. Read, Navy, 1943
Thomas F. Redd, Army, 1944
William H. Redd, Army, 1943
Rabon L. Ricks, Army 1943
Allen L. Rush, Army, 1945
Zusle Rush, Jr., Army, 1943
O. P. Rushing, Army, 1941 - Killed in action in the Phillipines, May, 1945. Awarded Purple Heart.
Cecil Charles Ryan, Army, 1942 - South Pacific
Joe Allen Ryan, Army, 1944
Robert H. Samford, Navy, 1945
Emmett O. Samford, Army, 1942

Vietnam War

Eugene Hodges - killed in action

Burke Women at War

There were no known Burke women who served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots (WASPs). However, some worked as "Rosie the Riveter" in war industraily plants. Gertrude Johnson Murrah, the author's mother, worked for Tod Shipyards in Tacoma Washington and the Ordnance Depot at Tooele, Utah, while she followed her husband Elroy to various military training installations. At Tooele she worked with Italian prisoners of war.