William Burns

            WILLIAM BURNS, a son of Joseph and Susanna (Barnes) Burns, was born in Champaign County, Ohio, March 25, 1813, and came with his parents at an early day to White County, Ind., where he married Susanna Barnes, a native of Virginia, born March 13, 1812. In 1828, they came to this county (Jasper) and entered 160 acres in section 34, Barkley Township, near which they resided until death; Mr. Burns died December 11, 1862 –one of the first settlers, a man of the strictest integrity and adherence to principle, and one of the most generally esteemed residents of the county. It is believed that Uncle William did not have an enemy; his family consisted of the following children: James Irvin, born December 16, 1840; Francis Marion, born May 11, 1842, a member of the Eighty-seventh Indiana Infantry, died of pneumonia at Nashville, January 4, 1863; John Milton, born March 11, 1845; Vilena, born January 1, 1847; Mary Ann, born July 31, 1849; Joseph Martin, born March 17, 1853; Margaret Matilda, born January 20, 1855; Myra Jane, born July 20, 1858, and William Wallace, born April 27, 1861; there is also an adopted daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Ann, born September 21, 1838. The mortal remains of these old and honored pioneers now repose on the land once owned and so hardly won by them during this life. It was by their special requests that they were so buried.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana by F.A. Battey & Co., 1883. Page 567.