and Alice Fountain Tuttle
Married Carolyn Moore
Retired from Pure Oil Co
(a petroleum business)
NC death certificate # 0005403
The Burges were tobacco farmers, so Gilmer Wade Burge grew up on a farm. The farm was on the Walnut Cove-Germanton Road overlooking the upland and bottomland of Town Fork Creek between Rosebud Christian Church and what is now the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brookcove Plant.
Around 1918, Stokes County built an improved sand clay road from Walnut Cove to Germanton and the county started charging a bridge tax. Being upset over this, Gilmer's father purchased, in 1919, a 250-acre farm in Randolph County three miles below Archdale on the High Point-Archdale Road (at 10106 South Main Street in Archdale, North Carolina, where Lowe's Food Store is located (2017)) and moved his family there.
In 1926, Gilmer's dad developed a small part of the farm and sold building lots for more than he had paid for the farm. He was "manager" of a baseball team, made up of his sons, which played local teams around town and teams in surrounding towns.
(Bio shared by Dr. Warren Burge, Esq.; edited)
(Many thanks, Dr. Burge, Esq.)
and Alice Fountain Tuttle
Married Carolyn Moore
Retired from Pure Oil Co
(a petroleum business)
NC death certificate # 0005403
The Burges were tobacco farmers, so Gilmer Wade Burge grew up on a farm. The farm was on the Walnut Cove-Germanton Road overlooking the upland and bottomland of Town Fork Creek between Rosebud Christian Church and what is now the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brookcove Plant.
Around 1918, Stokes County built an improved sand clay road from Walnut Cove to Germanton and the county started charging a bridge tax. Being upset over this, Gilmer's father purchased, in 1919, a 250-acre farm in Randolph County three miles below Archdale on the High Point-Archdale Road (at 10106 South Main Street in Archdale, North Carolina, where Lowe's Food Store is located (2017)) and moved his family there.
In 1926, Gilmer's dad developed a small part of the farm and sold building lots for more than he had paid for the farm. He was "manager" of a baseball team, made up of his sons, which played local teams around town and teams in surrounding towns.
(Bio shared by Dr. Warren Burge, Esq.; edited)
(Many thanks, Dr. Burge, Esq.)
Family Members
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Mary Magdalene Burge Long
1893–1931
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James H Burge
1894–1922
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Robert Jefferson Burge
1896–1975
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Charlie Clottis Burge
1897–1964
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Roy Oliver Burge
1899–1977
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Etta Burge Taylor
1902–1962
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William Preston Burge
1906–1977
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Macy Lewall "Maggie" Burge
1908–1928
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Carson A. Burge
1910–1932
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Gorrell A. Burge
1912–1935
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Kermon Lester "Les" Burge
1915–1996
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