I have started this story many time with no results. Just can't get all my facts together. I have been fascinated with this subject since I found it on the internet about 1998. "The Hanging of John Yates Beall." First of all, let us find out about the name Beall. It is based on the ancient Celtic god "Bel" who was by some accounts similar in nature and function to the Greek god "Apollo." The best known patriarch, Ninian Beall, came to this country as a slave more or less. He was an indentured servant and as he worked, he accumulated land in the Maryland area. He originally spelled his name "Bell" but he was commanded to change it to the older spelling, Beall, when he was sent to the New World in 1653. This was to politically disassociate the members of the clan who supported the Stuarts from the parts of the clan that remained loyal to the Crown.
Variations on the spelling include Bell, Beal, Belle, Bel, and of course Beall-but these are all related families. In fact there can be various spellings of the name in the same family. Much research has been done to prove that all the Bealls and different spellings are one and the same.
My tale begins with John Yates Beall, a distant relative of mine. He was born at Walnut Grove, Jefferson County, Virginia on January 1, 1834. His parents were George Brooke Beall and Janet Yates. He was studying for the law at the time of his father's death in 1855. So he came home and farmed for the family until the outbreak of the Civil war when he volunteered for the "Botts Greys" and mustered into Company G, 2nd Virginia infantry. After being incapacitated by a wound, he went west and then moved into Canada. While in the latter country, he contrived a plan to liberate the Confederate prisoners at Johnson's Island prison. With this plan in mind, he returned South and solicited the approval of the Confederate authorities. He was commissioned as acting master in the Confederate navy, but was not assigned to command. On his own initiative, he began a series of exciting privateering enterprises along the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, but he was captured in November, 1863, and confined in irons at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. until he was exchanged on May 5, 1864. Unable to secure the approval of the government, he went to Canada without orders to carry out his favorite plan of liberating the prisoners on Johnson's Island. On Sept. 18, 1864, with a small band of picked men, he captured the "Philo Parsons" and "The Island Queen" and would probably have reached Johnson's Island, but for a mutiny in his crew and the miscarriage of other plans. He was forced to abandon his project and was captured in citizens clothing at Niagara, NY on Dec. 16, 1864. He was hurried to New York. General John Adams Dix ordered a military commission for Beall's trial, which began on January 17, 1865. He was represented by James T. Brady. The arrest of Beall had not been published in the newspapers and Confederate authorities were unaware of his status. On February 8, the commission found him guilty on all charges and sentenced him to death.
The story of Beall's arrest and trial then appeared in the newspapers, and efforts were made to save him. Appeals were made by many prominent people, including six Senators and ninety one members of Congress, but President Lincoln refused to intervene and Beall was executed on February 24, 1865.
There is a legend discussed by Lloyd Lewis that Lincoln was approached by John Wilkes Booth who was a friend of Beall's to save his life, and that the President agreed to do so. But Lincoln changed his mind (the legend goes) when he was approached by his friend and Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, who insisted that Beall's activities had been dangerous to the citizen's of New York State (Seward's state). Supposedly a furious Booth determined to kill Lincoln and Seward for this betrayal after Beall was executed.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
PELLAGRA
While I have been working on my family tree, I came across something that puzzled me. A disease called Pellagra. My grandmother on the Beall side died from this in 1924. As I ran across this on some other death certificates, I decided to find out what were the causes. Definition:
"Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease most commonly caused by a chronic lack of niacin (vitamin B3) in the diet." I found this disease mostly occurred in women from about 1910 thru 1930. In the early 1900's, pellagra reached epidemic proportions in the American South. There were 1,306 reported pellagra deaths in South Carolina during the first ten months of 1915. At first, the scientific community held that pellagra was probably caused by a germ or some unknown toxin in corn. Primary research was set up to study this disease in prisoners and they determined a certain diet could cause the condition. By 1926, Dr. Goldberger established that a balanced diet or a small amount of brewer's yeast prevented pellagra. It was also determined that women died more often than men due to the fact that men were the breadwinners of the family and were given preference and consideration at the dinner table. They also had pocket money to buy food outside the household. Women often gave protein foods to their children first. The women would eat what was left, and I had a first hand view of this when I first married as my mother-in-law would always cook for her husband and son the choice foods. Even at breakfast, eggs were given to the men first and if any were left, then the children were feed. Women would eat gravy and biscuits with maybe a piece of fatback. And at other meals, meat parts and choice vegetables were given to the men first, and then the children. Often many families lived in one house and ate together, so the men and older boys ate and the children were feed in the kitchen. The women were always left behind.
Pellagra no longer stalks the nation as it once did. But during the early part of the 20th-century, pellagra, a disease that results from niacin deficiency killed many poor Southerners. Dr Joseph Goldberger discovered the cause of pellagra and stepped on a number of medical toes when his research experiments showed that diet and not germs caused the disease. He also stepped on Southern pride when he linked the poverty of Southern sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and mill workers to the deficient diet that caused pellagra.
I wish this research had taken place sooner that that era. Then I could have known my grandmother. My dad had to grow up without his mother. How many other children in the South were in this same situation. My dad always told me that his mom died from pellagra, an iodine deficiency, but this was not the case. Since he was from a family of 7 children, then this mother was often last at the table and would probably eat any leftovers. This is hard to fathom in this day and age but we don't know what took place in that era. It was hard for farmers to make a living unless they had children to work the acres. And after this, the depression of the 30's. We are fortunate to have food today, with access to a store to buy the things we need. We don't have to grow anything except for pleasure. Plus, we have plenty of vitamins and minerals that sold over the counter. Thank goodness for the doctors who took the time to discover and find cures for these diseases.
"Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease most commonly caused by a chronic lack of niacin (vitamin B3) in the diet." I found this disease mostly occurred in women from about 1910 thru 1930. In the early 1900's, pellagra reached epidemic proportions in the American South. There were 1,306 reported pellagra deaths in South Carolina during the first ten months of 1915. At first, the scientific community held that pellagra was probably caused by a germ or some unknown toxin in corn. Primary research was set up to study this disease in prisoners and they determined a certain diet could cause the condition. By 1926, Dr. Goldberger established that a balanced diet or a small amount of brewer's yeast prevented pellagra. It was also determined that women died more often than men due to the fact that men were the breadwinners of the family and were given preference and consideration at the dinner table. They also had pocket money to buy food outside the household. Women often gave protein foods to their children first. The women would eat what was left, and I had a first hand view of this when I first married as my mother-in-law would always cook for her husband and son the choice foods. Even at breakfast, eggs were given to the men first and if any were left, then the children were feed. Women would eat gravy and biscuits with maybe a piece of fatback. And at other meals, meat parts and choice vegetables were given to the men first, and then the children. Often many families lived in one house and ate together, so the men and older boys ate and the children were feed in the kitchen. The women were always left behind.
Pellagra no longer stalks the nation as it once did. But during the early part of the 20th-century, pellagra, a disease that results from niacin deficiency killed many poor Southerners. Dr Joseph Goldberger discovered the cause of pellagra and stepped on a number of medical toes when his research experiments showed that diet and not germs caused the disease. He also stepped on Southern pride when he linked the poverty of Southern sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and mill workers to the deficient diet that caused pellagra.
I wish this research had taken place sooner that that era. Then I could have known my grandmother. My dad had to grow up without his mother. How many other children in the South were in this same situation. My dad always told me that his mom died from pellagra, an iodine deficiency, but this was not the case. Since he was from a family of 7 children, then this mother was often last at the table and would probably eat any leftovers. This is hard to fathom in this day and age but we don't know what took place in that era. It was hard for farmers to make a living unless they had children to work the acres. And after this, the depression of the 30's. We are fortunate to have food today, with access to a store to buy the things we need. We don't have to grow anything except for pleasure. Plus, we have plenty of vitamins and minerals that sold over the counter. Thank goodness for the doctors who took the time to discover and find cures for these diseases.
Friday, March 23, 2012
MARY "MOLLIE" O'CONNER FOX
This is a story about my 5th great grandmother, Mary "Mollie" O'Conner.
She live in a coastal town in Ireland with her parents. A large ship was anchored on the coast and the men on the ship put up a big swing and invited the girls to come aboard to swing. The next thing the girls knew, the ship with them on board was way out on the ocean. They were to far to swim back to shore. All these boys and girls were to be sold as indentured servants in America.
While they were on the ship, Mollie got awfully sick and they thought at one time that she was dead. She was tied on a plank and they were fixing to throw her overboard but there was a man on the ship who had known her father in Ireland and he would not let them because he did not think she was dead. She really did revive in time to keep from being buried alive at sea.
This man who saved her life got her a job at a hotel as a chamber maid after they landed in America. The port where they landed was possibly Charleston where Charles Fox's father, Henry Fox III had a law office.. Mollie wrote back to her mother and told her where she was and asked for a passport so she could return home. Her mother was afraid that she might really die if she tried to cross the ocean again so she wrote Mollie that she had rather know that she was alive and be where she could write to her than to risk crossing the ocean again. Mollie is said to have come from a very good family and she was educated. They have proof of this as she could sign her name instead of making an "X" on legal documents in 1785. South Carolina census records suggest that Mollie was most likely born in 1740 to 1750 time period.
One night John Charles Fox spent the night at the hotel where Mollie O'Conner worked. He left his pocketbook at the hotel and Mollie found it the next morning and gave it to him when he came back. Their courtship began then and there. They were married and had three daughters named Nellie, Betsy and Katy and a son named Matthew was born in about 1766 in Abbeville, South Carolina. Their father fought in the Indian War and was captured by the Indians. The family learned afterwards that he was brought to Alabama and tortured to death. They supposed that it was at the Flat Rock in Clay County, Alabama.
Their daughter, Betsy, never married and after her parents death, she went to live with a nephew. One day she was left at this home with a little boy while they went to town. While they were gone the boy went to a neighbor's house crying and saying his Aunt Betsy was asleep and would not wake up. When they got there, they found that she had dropped dead.
In the days of Mollie and Charles Fox, the white people were divided into Whigs and Tories. The Whigs were the better class. The Tories were friendly with the Indians and they went about raiding the cribs and smokehouses of the Whigs. One day they went to the Fox home while Charles was about a mile away from home. They ordered Grandma Fox to fry all the ham and then they started throwing out the corn to the horses. Betsy and Katy would throw it right back into the crib and fought the men until the Indian Chief made the men leave the corn alone, saying the little girls were very brave, and that they needed their corn for bread. One of the Indians picked up little Agnes Ables, who was the daughter of Nellie Fox Ables and marked around her hair with his knife as if to scalp her. Betsy ran for her father and he followed them and killed fourteen Indians. Later, as was told before, the Indians caught him and tortured him to death. The torture was done with pine splinters under his fingernails and setting them on fire.
This original story was by Kaye Stoneking and revised by Frances Parris.
Parts of this story is from Bertie Maude Hayes, the great, great, great, granddaughter of Mary "Mollie" O'Conner and was handed down through the family.
She live in a coastal town in Ireland with her parents. A large ship was anchored on the coast and the men on the ship put up a big swing and invited the girls to come aboard to swing. The next thing the girls knew, the ship with them on board was way out on the ocean. They were to far to swim back to shore. All these boys and girls were to be sold as indentured servants in America.
While they were on the ship, Mollie got awfully sick and they thought at one time that she was dead. She was tied on a plank and they were fixing to throw her overboard but there was a man on the ship who had known her father in Ireland and he would not let them because he did not think she was dead. She really did revive in time to keep from being buried alive at sea.
This man who saved her life got her a job at a hotel as a chamber maid after they landed in America. The port where they landed was possibly Charleston where Charles Fox's father, Henry Fox III had a law office.. Mollie wrote back to her mother and told her where she was and asked for a passport so she could return home. Her mother was afraid that she might really die if she tried to cross the ocean again so she wrote Mollie that she had rather know that she was alive and be where she could write to her than to risk crossing the ocean again. Mollie is said to have come from a very good family and she was educated. They have proof of this as she could sign her name instead of making an "X" on legal documents in 1785. South Carolina census records suggest that Mollie was most likely born in 1740 to 1750 time period.
One night John Charles Fox spent the night at the hotel where Mollie O'Conner worked. He left his pocketbook at the hotel and Mollie found it the next morning and gave it to him when he came back. Their courtship began then and there. They were married and had three daughters named Nellie, Betsy and Katy and a son named Matthew was born in about 1766 in Abbeville, South Carolina. Their father fought in the Indian War and was captured by the Indians. The family learned afterwards that he was brought to Alabama and tortured to death. They supposed that it was at the Flat Rock in Clay County, Alabama.
Their daughter, Betsy, never married and after her parents death, she went to live with a nephew. One day she was left at this home with a little boy while they went to town. While they were gone the boy went to a neighbor's house crying and saying his Aunt Betsy was asleep and would not wake up. When they got there, they found that she had dropped dead.
In the days of Mollie and Charles Fox, the white people were divided into Whigs and Tories. The Whigs were the better class. The Tories were friendly with the Indians and they went about raiding the cribs and smokehouses of the Whigs. One day they went to the Fox home while Charles was about a mile away from home. They ordered Grandma Fox to fry all the ham and then they started throwing out the corn to the horses. Betsy and Katy would throw it right back into the crib and fought the men until the Indian Chief made the men leave the corn alone, saying the little girls were very brave, and that they needed their corn for bread. One of the Indians picked up little Agnes Ables, who was the daughter of Nellie Fox Ables and marked around her hair with his knife as if to scalp her. Betsy ran for her father and he followed them and killed fourteen Indians. Later, as was told before, the Indians caught him and tortured him to death. The torture was done with pine splinters under his fingernails and setting them on fire.
This original story was by Kaye Stoneking and revised by Frances Parris.
Parts of this story is from Bertie Maude Hayes, the great, great, great, granddaughter of Mary "Mollie" O'Conner and was handed down through the family.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
GRANDMA'S APRON
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few and it was easier to wash aprons than dresses cause aprons required less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. And when the weather was cold, Grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees along with peaches. I was ready to help gather nuts for candy. Ma Jones made the best hickory nut candy ever. And pecan pies, can't match that taste to anything today. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.
REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
And in this day and age, they would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. But I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron-but LOVE...... and I miss all those hugs and teacakes that grandma made and all the tea parties.
My grandmother who I called Ma Jones had 2 dresses, 1 for Sunday and 1 for everyday. But she had quite a few aprons that I dearly loved and she made them out of flour sacks. The first project that I learned to sew in Home Economics was an apron and I never forgot how proud I was when it was finished. My grandma was not around to see it and neither was my mom so I had to show it off to my Aunt Josie and she loved it and gave me some material to make her one. She knew how to sew, but she just wanted to help me learn different ways. I miss her.
Friday, February 17, 2012
JONATHAN AND LOUSINDA BARRETT HOOPER
Jonathan Hooper, son of Andrew and Dicea Hooper, was born about 1820 in Bascombe County, NC. As a boy he moved to old Union County, GA with his parents and settled on Fodder Creek. On Feb. 9, 1854 he married Lousinda Barrett (1837-1911) Family tradition holds that Lousinda was part Cherokee Indian belonging to the Swetland Roll. They lived on Fodder Creek for a while but moved to the Alf Cove (now called the Green Cove) near Young Harris in the latter part of the nineteenth century. They made their living by farming. It is handed down that Jonathan Hooper was small in stature and was crippled. The date of his death is not known, however, he enumerated in the 1880 Census. The legend is told that Lousinda wanted to move west and they started on the journey. Along the way, a wagon wheel broke and Lousinda got someone to fix it as Jonathan was not able to make repairs. Before reaching Catoosa County, Jonathan became sick and died. He was buried along the side of the road in an unmarked grave. None of the family could remember the location.
After the death of Jonathan, Lousinda married a Ridley. They lived on the head of Byers Creek and they made a living saw milling and farming. Then Mr. Ridley died and was sent out west for burial. "Granny Ridley" was well known for her stubborn independence and refused to live with her children, but she did live near a son on Byers Creek. A story is told (strange but true) of "Granny" killing a bear with an axe that dogs had buried in a gully near her log home. She is buried near a daughter (Mary Ollie) in the Wood Station Cemetery near Ringgold, Georgia.
The children of Jonathan and Lousinda Hooper are: 1. Milly Ann (1855) who married Alfred Land, 2. WA (1856) who probably died in infancy, 3. Robert Richard (1858-1926) who married first Lou Gene Hunter and 2nd Alice Bryson, Jonathan "Pink"(1861) who married Lou Ivey, Dicea (1863) married James Carroll and moved out west, Green Berry (1865) who probably died in infancy, Mary Ollie (1866) who married William Burns and is buried in Wood Station Cemetery, UA (Gus) (1868) who married Hannah Lou Thomas and is buried in Ringgold, GA, Ulysses Allen (1878) who married Elizabeth Baily and moved to AL.
Relationship to Marvin Lee Burns:
Jonathan and Lousinda Barrett Hooper
Millie Ann Hooper and Alfred Land
Cintha Angeline Land and James Edd Burns
James Jefferson Burns and Ruby Lee Franks
Marvin Lee Burns
Sunday, February 5, 2012
CHARLES SAMUEL DENEEN 1863-1940
He was born May 4, 1863, in Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois with his parents being Samuel Hedding Deneen and Mary Frances Ashley. Samuel H Deneen's mother was Verlinda Beall Moore. She was named for her grandmother. He was the 23rd governor of Illinois and the first one to serve 2 terms. While in office, from 1905 to 1913, he was a Progressive reformer who headed the respectable faction among Chicago Republicans. Charles S. Deneen's father was a Latin professor at McKendree College; he was the grandson of a Methodist minister and the great grandson of a territorial legislature who opposed slavery. His father was an Adjutant in the Civil War. The young Deneen graduated from McKendree College and taught in downstate and Chicago schools before getting a degree from Union College of Law.
In 1891 Deneed married Bina Day Maloney of Mount Carroll. They had 4 children, one of which was born in the Executive Mansion.
Deneen was a short, stocky man with a look of determination on his face. Author Robert Howard states Deneen's standards of integrity and competence were "quite superior" to those of competing politicians. He was a straight-laced Methodist who served nothing stronger than lemonade in the Executive Mansion and invited the evangelist Billy Sunday to hold a prayer meeting there.
Deneen was a hard-nosed administrator and his administration made major changes in state government. Some of the many changes included the state highway commission, started during his administration and the building of 120 miles of experimental highways. Motorists were required to register their cars and pay two dollars for identification plates, with the money going into a road fund. State school appropriations were doubled and more money was provided for the University of Illinois.
Charles Samuel Deneen played an indispensable role in shaping the future of the entire Illinois state park system. He was dedicated to protecting the state's threatened natural resources. He was instrumental in the state's purchase of Starved Rock, located near Ottawa that stands as one of the preeminent archaeological, historic and scenic landmarks in Illinois. Starved Rock was purchased during Governor Deneen's second term. During this time, a State Park Commission was established and Starved Rock was the first state park.
Among the changes made during the Deneen administration was the nation's "mother's aid" law that provided funds for dependent and neglected children. Workman's Compensation and Occupational Disease Laws were enacted; women were limited to a 10-hour workday and mining laws were modernized. The above are but a few of the industrial safety laws his administration promoted.
Robert Howard, author of "Mostly Good and Competent Men, Illinois Governors, 1818-1988", views Deneen as effective, unpopular, and durable. His honesty was never questioned. The people of Illinois benefited from Deneen's considerable accomplishments during his two terms as governor. Unfortunately biographers have overlooked him.
In 1924, the former governor was elected United States Senator. In the Senate, he supported Coolidge on the World Court and other issues. In 1930, he was defeated for renomination in a three-man field.
Deneen also served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1892. He had also been the lead prosecutor in Chicago's infamous Adolph Luetgert murder trial.
Family Tree:
Charles Samuel Deneen IL 1863-1940 m Bina Day Maloney
Samuel H. Deneen 1835-1895 IL m Mary Frances Ashley 1836-1914
William Lyon Deneen 1798-1869 m Verlinda Beall Moore 1802-1855 d IL
Hinton Moore 1760-1828 m Annie Dent 1767-1845 b MY d Illinois
William Camel Dent 1730-1805 m Verlinda Beall 1736-1815 (Maryland)
Colonel Samuel Beall (Maryland) 1713-1777 m Eleanor Brooke 1717-1800Charles S. Deneen died at age 77 on February 5, 1940, in Chicago where he was practicing law. He is buried at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago with his wife beside him.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
MYSTERY OF TWO MARY ANNS
I have repeatedly tried to find out about Mary Ann Johnson, second wife of Thomas Jefferson Burns, to no avail. I know she didn't come from outer space as she would have had to have parents. Was she born in North Carolina or Georgia as this family lived close to the state line. At one time on the census records, Tom is shown living in one county and the next census record another county. He never moved, the county line changed during a 10 year span. I just read a short story about her that I had never seen before when I googled her name. A daughter of Tom's had asked Mary Ann to marry her dad. Mary Ann was so shocked that she fainted, but she did eventually marry Tom and had 8 children. I never knew about his 2 wives until about 5 years ago when my sister-in-law told me the story. According to Tammy Burns who is the daughter of James J. Burns, her uncle Johnny had told her that his grandmother was Mary Ann Johnson, but Nick's mother was Mary Ann Hullender. Now Nick is the brother of James Edward Burns who was the father of James and Johnny. Four children were born to Tom and Mary Ann Hullender Burns before 1871. A daughter named Sarah Elizabeth came in the year 1871 about November. I don't know this for sure but I think her mother died in childbirth as after this event, Tom married Mary Ann Johnson. So the 1880 census record shows that he is still married to Mary Ann but her age is 25 with children, Abraham, James and Louise and no one was the wiser until a granddaughter by the name of Mary Lou Martin Kile (daughter of Radie Lou Burns Martin) started a family tree and in her research uncovered this fact. After this, it is just speculation as no one knows about Mary Ann Johnson. On the 1900 census record, she says that she is the mother of 8 children of which 7 were still living. This 8 includes John Abraham Burns, 1873; James Edward Burns,1876; Louise A. Burns, 1878; Candius Burns, 1884; Mendie Burns, 1885; Rose Burns, 1888; Jefferson Brisco Burns, 1892; David Sylvester Burns, 1894.Then I find no more record of her, even her death. When Tom died in 1927, he is listed as a widower. 22 years have passed with no record of her that I can find on the internet other than an affidavit for Tom's pension from the Civil War dated September 5, 1905. He is stated as living with his wife and 4 children and is unable to work. He also states that his wife has been sick for over 2 years. I can not find any record of her death or her burial location.
Then we come back to Mary Ann Hullender. Tom and Mary Ann had 5 children and there are records for all of them. I even found her parents but no burial location. Tom was buried in Zebulon Cemetery close to his son, Nick. Why wasn't Tom buried close to one of his wives. What was the reason for this? This remains a mystery to me as I wanted to save this story for my children. As time goes on, it will be harder to find anything on the family. My children are all Burns' and are a direct line from Thomas Jefferson Burns. Still am not sure if this name contains an "e". Some of the children add it to their names and some don't use it. Children of Tom and Mary Ann Hullender Burns are listed as William Jesse Burns born in 1863; Martha Jane Burns born in 1866; Joseph C. Burns born in 1868; Nicholas Elisha Burnes born in 1869 and Sarah Elizabeth Burns, born in 1871. Nick continued to use an "e" in his name until his death.
On the 1870 census record, he(Tom) is listed as married to Mary Ann Hullender. She is the daughter of Nicholas Hullender and Elmira Elizabeth Hambright. She was born in 1843 as she is listed on the 1850 and 1860 census record with her parents. On the 1870 census record, she is listed with Tom Burns and they are both stated as 28 years old.
Then we come back to Mary Ann Hullender. Tom and Mary Ann had 5 children and there are records for all of them. I even found her parents but no burial location. Tom was buried in Zebulon Cemetery close to his son, Nick. Why wasn't Tom buried close to one of his wives. What was the reason for this? This remains a mystery to me as I wanted to save this story for my children. As time goes on, it will be harder to find anything on the family. My children are all Burns' and are a direct line from Thomas Jefferson Burns. Still am not sure if this name contains an "e". Some of the children add it to their names and some don't use it. Children of Tom and Mary Ann Hullender Burns are listed as William Jesse Burns born in 1863; Martha Jane Burns born in 1866; Joseph C. Burns born in 1868; Nicholas Elisha Burnes born in 1869 and Sarah Elizabeth Burns, born in 1871. Nick continued to use an "e" in his name until his death.
On the 1870 census record, he(Tom) is listed as married to Mary Ann Hullender. She is the daughter of Nicholas Hullender and Elmira Elizabeth Hambright. She was born in 1843 as she is listed on the 1850 and 1860 census record with her parents. On the 1870 census record, she is listed with Tom Burns and they are both stated as 28 years old.
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