BURNETT, JOHN A. (ALEX) AND PEARL A. (HICKS)

by Altha Burnett Jackson

Entry F59 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

John A. Burnett was born April 25, 1885 in
Ohio and passed away October 25, 1967 in
Denver, Colorado. Intered in Mullen, Neb-
raska.

Peal A. (Hicks) Burnett was born Decem-
ber 30, 1883 in Independence, Virginia. her
death was August 24, 1974 in Georgetown,
Colorado. She was buried beside her husband
in the Cedeview Cementery at Mullen,
Nebraska.

Alex and Pearl were married in Hyannis,
Nebraska July 10, 1912. To this union three
daughters: Margaret L. (Burnett) Ayers, she
has two sons, James and Jerry. Altha V.
(Burnett) Jackson, one son, Robert. Yvonne
Mae (Burnett) Mackey, one son, John.

Pearl moved to Mullen, Nebraska when she
was 16 years old with there parents, Charlie
and Maggie Hicks and her two sisters, Lillie
(Hicks) Glass and Dalla (Hicks) McIntyre.
Their first employment was on the `101'
ranch, later moving into town and running
a family-style restaurant.

Alex came to Mullen from Chicago for
health reasons and was employed by Henry
Lowe's Hardware Company. His two sisters,
Eunice and and Leslie, followed him in a short
time and promptly homesteaded on land
south of Mullen. Alex's parents, John and
Louise Burnett, also came from Chicago to
Mullen and lived with Alex and Pearl after
their marriage in 1912, on a homestead one-
half mile from Alex's two sisters. Alex
continued to work for Lowe's Hardware
through three generations of Loews, Henry,
J.E., Louis and Kenneth.

After retirement, Alex and Pearl left
Mullen to live with their daughter, Yvonne
Mae, in Colorado, until their deaths.

Pearl and Alex loved Nebraska and all
their friends. They experienced the hard-
ships of prairie fires, dust storms, blizzards
and droughts with the same spirit of hearti-
ness and faith of all their friends and
relatives.

The early settlers of Nebraska, giving of
their strength and determination, left a great
heritage for all those who followed.