James Burt
James Burt was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1832. He is a son of Brewer and Rachel Rockwell Burt. When three years of age he was brought by his parents to Shelby County. They settled in Clinton Township, where they remained three years, then removed to Lockington in 1838. Here young Burt grew up to manhood. At the age of nineteen years he went to learn the carpenter trade, and has followed it to the present time. The past sixteen years he has been working for the State of Ohio on the Miami and Erie Canal, repairing locks and bridges. In 1861 he was married to Margaret Snavely, with whom he lived till 1864, when she died. At the close of the same year he married Nancy A. Livingston, with whom he has raised a family of six children, viz., John F., Mary A., Anna, Lillie, Florence, and Edwin Mr. Burt is now the oldest resident of Lockington, having lived here since 1838.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883