Private Samuel Burns served in the United States Civil War. Enlisted: November 14 1861 Mustered out: December 31 1861 Side: CSA Regiment(s): 2nd Mississippi and Alabama Calvary Company G
1850 - living with his parents and siblings in Fayette County, Alabama. Age 17; farmer.[1]
1862 - enlisted in Co. G, 2nd Mississippi and Alabama Calvary in October, at Columbus, Mississippi. Discharged at Columbus in August, 1863.[2]
1867 - married Harriet L.Holladay on December 9 in Jones County.[3]
1870 - living in Sanford County, Alabama with Harriet and three children. Age 36; farmer; born in Alabama.[4]
1880 - living in Lamar County, Alabama, with his (second?) wife Hattie, and five children. Age 46; farmer; both parents born in South Carolina.[5]
1900 - living in Lamar County, as a lodger in the household of John & Toby Blalock. Widower, farm laborer. Birthdate given as February 1836.[6]
1911 - Samuel died on April 11, and is buried in Wofford Cemetery, Lamar County, Alabama.[7]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHP1-K91 : 9 November 2014), Lemuel Burns in household of George L Burns, Fayette county, Fayette, Alabama, United States; citing family 733, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
↑ Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
↑ Ancestry.com. Alabama, Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014. Original data: Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4JG-5RX : 13 August 2019), Samuel Burns, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 130, sheet 585D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0017; FHL microfilm 1,254,017.
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9DS-NDN : accessed 28 December 2020), Samuel W Burns in household of John R Blalock, Precinct 9, Moscow Sulligent, Lamar, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 16B, family 264, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,023.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/216399807/samuel-william-burns : accessed 27 January 2022), memorial page for Samuel William Burns (unknown–1 Apr 1911), Find a Grave Memorial ID 216399807, citing Wofford Cemetery, Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by JbrdHolldy (contributor 47229111) .
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