Susan Ann Burns

Female6 April 1834–12 November 1885

Brief Life History of Susan Ann

When Susan Ann Burns was born on 6 April 1834, her father, William James Burns, was 42 and her mother, Rhoda Jones, was 38. She lived in Madison, Tennessee, United States in 1850. She died on 12 November 1885, in Chester, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Old Montezuma Cemetery, Montezuma, Chester, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

William James Burns
1791–1859
Rhoda Jones
1795–1871
Martha Burns
1818–1867
Ellen Bailey Burns
1820–1914
Joseph A Burns
1822–1902
William Ming Burns
1825–1826
John Bankhead Burns
1827–1873
Elizabeth Minerva Burns
1829–1912
Julia Jane Burns
1832–1859
Susan Ann Burns
1834–1885
Mary James Burns
1840–1918

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  • Susan A Barnes in household of William J Barnes, "United States Census, 1850"

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World Events (6)

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

Age 1

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Age 2

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

Age 28

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

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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