Tillmon Burns

Male1890–1910

Brief Life History of Tillmon

When Tillmon Burns was born in 1890, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Burns, was 64 and his mother, Martha J. Hammond, was 35. He died in 1910, in Hamer, Dillon, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 20, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Hamer, Dillon, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Jefferson Burns
1826–1900
Martha J. Hammond
1855–1938
Benjamin Burns
1875–
Mary Levenia Burns
1876–1949
Laura Jane Burns
1878–1906
Thomas Jefferson Burns Sr
1882–1962
Charles Burns
1884–1915
Willie Ira Burns
1885–1972
Tillmon Burns
1890–1910
Burns
1895–1895
Bertha Alvenia Burns
1895–1970

Sources (3)

  • Tilman Burns, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ancestry.com Profile
  • Death Record

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World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 0

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.

1890 · Woman's Suffrage

Age 0

An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

Age 6

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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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