The Kirkman Family Over 600 Years of History ....The Facts & Legends
  • Welcome
  • Whats in a Name?
  • The 1700's - Denmark
    • 1707 - 1758 Niels Knudsen Kirkman
    • 1739-1801 Knud Nielsen Kirkman
    • 1769 - 1837 Leopold Christopher Knudsen Kirkman
    • 1795 - 1851 Niels Albrecht Kirkman
  • The 1800's - Denmark to America
    • 1828 - 1900 Christian Wilhelm Kirkemann (The Captain) >
      • The Captains Ladies >
        • The Captains 2nd & 3rd Child
    • 1853 - 1924 Nelson Kirkman (The Captains First Son) >
      • Nelsons Children
    • 1880-1937 Christian William Kirkman II (The Captains Grandson)
    • 1882 - 1950 Christian William Kirkman III (The Captains Son) >
      • Chris III's Daughter Elinor >
        • Elinor's Daughter (Terrific Toni)
  • The 1900's - United States
    • 1906 - 1946 Christian William Kirkman IV (Baseballer) >
      • 1935 - 1993 Don's Sister Edith Kirkman Bielski
    • 1914 - 1977 Ellen Bonn Burleson Guild (Gene Burleson's Mother)
    • 1927 - William "Bill" Kirkman
    • 1929 - 2001 Donald C. Kirkman >
      • 1933-2008 Natalie Ann De Blasio Kirkman >
        • 1960 - Kathryn Ann Mostrom Kirkman
    • 1931 - Gene Edward Burleson
    • 1933 Engineer & Artist George R. Kirkman
    • 1958 - Christian William Kirkman V
  • WWII Kirkmans
  • Notable Kirkmans
  • The British Kirkmans
  • Kirkman Generals
  • The Early American Kirkmans
  • Revolutionary War Kirkmans
  • Other Early Arriving Kirkmans to America
  • Migration to North Carolina
  • The Civil War Kirkmans
  • Col. H. Neil Kirkman
  • Other Tarheel Decendants
  • Kirkman Soap Company
  • Kirkman Piano's
  • Behind Every Good Man
  • Commentary by Don Kirkman
  • Chart of the Kirkman Family
  • The Detectives

_BEAUTIFUL ELLEN

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_The family’s third American generation was graced by Ellen Bonn Burleson Guild, daughter of Nell Kirkman Bonn and George J. Bonn of Palisades Park, NJ.EBBG, as Ellen III called herself in her extensive family records, was a lovely woman: tall, dark-haired, curvaceous and leggy. She was beautiful. inside and out.

Born in midtown Manhattan on Feb. 24, 1914, Ellen III had a part-tragic, part-fulfilling life. She married twice, at 17 and in her early forties, but both ended in divorce. Her worst tragedy

occurred on the night of Feb.18, 1942 when she lost the man she truly loved, Edward Nack, a crewman on the U.S.S. Pollux, a Navy supply ship that was one of two vessels wrecked by a storm on the southern coast of Newfoundland.Harried by a powerful Atlantic gale, the Pollux and destroyer Truxton tried to claw their way into the strait that leads to the naval base at Argentia Bay, Newfoundland. Instead, the ships were driven onto the rocky coast near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland .Both crews bandoned ship and desperately tried to swim ashore through enormous waves. The gallant people of St. Lawrence climbed down huge, rocky cliffs to rescue 168 floundering sailors, but 200 were lost, including Edward Nack. Ellen was devastated.

In grateful recognition of the heroism of the people of St. Lawrence, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a hospital built for the village.



Ellen spent much of her life as a telegrapher and radio operator for Western Union and the Press Wire Service in Manhattan's Times Square and the United Nations’ headquarters in Lake Success, Long Island and Manhattan.

Ellen’s greatest success was her lifelong relationship with her only child, Gene Edward Burleson. They were unusually devoted, and Gene ended his 22-year Air Force career to provide a home for his ailing mother during the last years of her life.

EBBG also will always be remembered for compiling her enormous dossier on the Kirkman, Lee and Burleson families. Ellen III died in Oklahoma City after a stroke on Dec. 26, 1977 age 63). She’s buried in Oklahoma City Memorial Park. near her son's home.


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