Brief Life History of John Franklin
When John Franklin Burns was born on 15 January 1869, in Pickton, Hopkins, Texas, United States, his father, John William Burns, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Amanda Baker, was 26. He married Ida Lee Hortman on 22 November 1891, in Webster, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Police Jury Ward 4, Webster, Louisiana, United States for about 10 years and Police Jury Ward 3, Webster, Louisiana, United States in 1940. He died on 3 September 1943, in Webster, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in United States.
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- J F Burns in household of J W Burns, "United States Census, 1880"
- John Franklin Burns, "Louisiana, Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956"
- J F Burns in entry for Mattie Helen Pearce, "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960"
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World Events (8)
1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union
Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Scottish (central Scotland and northern England): habitational name from any of various places called formerly Burnis, Burnes, or Burnhouse (named with burn- ‘stream’), especially those in Kincardineshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and possibly Argyll.
English and Scottish: variant either of Burn , with post-medieval excrescent -s, or of Barnes .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne ), with excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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