George Harvey Burghardt, the second eldest son of Jacob and Mary, was born in the old Great Barrington homestead in 1832. He married Lucy Ann Dewey in 1857 thereby uniting two important families of early New England. Then George, along with wife Lucy, was the first of the Burghardt line to leave Great Barrington when they moved westward to settle in Fulton, Whiteside County Illinois where he was a railroad station master.

George Harvey Burghardt died in Chicago, Illinois in 1905 and his widow, Lucy Ann, lived the latter part of her life in Redwood City, California with her daughter, Lulu Stanton. Lucy died on May 8, 1921 and was buried (cremation) in the Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, California on May 10th. On July 27, 1921 she later was moved to the I.O.O.F cemetery in Portola, California, reason unknown. George and Lucy had four children, two sons and two daughters. Children were Harry Dewey, Georgia, Edward Lyle and Lulu B.