William was a doctor.
William was reportedly half Cherokee Indian but my DNA has proven that to not be true. It's just one of those stories that gets passed down through the family that is just a tale. Williams' mother was Charlotte Cruesa Holcomb-Burns. She was the second wife of Williams' father, Kennedy Burns. Charlotte was born around 1785 in New York and died on 05 October 1866 in Missouri.
William married Lavina Wilkinson in Polk County, Marion Township, Missouri, on June 10, 1838. Certificate of marriage filed 22 August 1838.
William and Lavina had nine children. Their names are: Israel Whittington Burns, Proctor Mandeville Burns, Richard R. Burns, Eberle C. Burns, Lavina Burns-Epley, William P. Burns, John Burns, Florence B. Burns-McCullough and Anne Burns-? (married last name unknown).
WILLIAM'S OBITUARY IN THE BOLIVAR WEEKLY DATED JANUARY 16, 1858:
"DIED,
In Hermitage, Hickory County, Mo., of pneumonia, on the evening of the 8th of January, Dr. Wm. H. Burns, in the 46th year of his age.
The deceased was born in The City of Philadelphia and emigrated when young, with his parents, to this State, and passed his boyhood in the City of St. Louis and St. Charles County, where he was principally educated.
Upon the threshold of manhood, he removed to Southwest Missouri and engaged in the practice of Medicine, to which profession he devoted the remainder of his life, and in which he had attained a high degree of distinction.
Dr. Burns was not without his faults and frailties, but when we placed them in the balance with his many virtues, they became scarcely perceptible.
Nature had withheld from him the combative, grasping, selfish qualities, so essential to worldly, pecuniary success, but had endowed him with a noble, generous spirit and superabundance of the milk of human kindness.
He ever labored to alleviate the suffering, aid the depressed and distressed, and to promote the happiness, welfare and prosperity of all around him. He was a firm, true friend, a kind husband and an affectionate and indulgent father – a complete, but unfortunate gentleman."
William was reportedly half Cherokee Indian but my DNA has proven that to not be true. It's just one of those stories that gets passed down through the family that is just a tale. Williams' mother was Charlotte Cruesa Holcomb-Burns. She was the second wife of Williams' father, Kennedy Burns. Charlotte was born around 1785 in New York and died on 05 October 1866 in Missouri.
William married Lavina Wilkinson in Polk County, Marion Township, Missouri, on June 10, 1838. Certificate of marriage filed 22 August 1838.
William and Lavina had nine children. Their names are: Israel Whittington Burns, Proctor Mandeville Burns, Richard R. Burns, Eberle C. Burns, Lavina Burns-Epley, William P. Burns, John Burns, Florence B. Burns-McCullough and Anne Burns-? (married last name unknown).
WILLIAM'S OBITUARY IN THE BOLIVAR WEEKLY DATED JANUARY 16, 1858:
"DIED,
In Hermitage, Hickory County, Mo., of pneumonia, on the evening of the 8th of January, Dr. Wm. H. Burns, in the 46th year of his age.
The deceased was born in The City of Philadelphia and emigrated when young, with his parents, to this State, and passed his boyhood in the City of St. Louis and St. Charles County, where he was principally educated.
Upon the threshold of manhood, he removed to Southwest Missouri and engaged in the practice of Medicine, to which profession he devoted the remainder of his life, and in which he had attained a high degree of distinction.
Dr. Burns was not without his faults and frailties, but when we placed them in the balance with his many virtues, they became scarcely perceptible.
Nature had withheld from him the combative, grasping, selfish qualities, so essential to worldly, pecuniary success, but had endowed him with a noble, generous spirit and superabundance of the milk of human kindness.
He ever labored to alleviate the suffering, aid the depressed and distressed, and to promote the happiness, welfare and prosperity of all around him. He was a firm, true friend, a kind husband and an affectionate and indulgent father – a complete, but unfortunate gentleman."
William was a doctor.
William was reportedly half Cherokee Indian but my DNA has proven that to not be true. It's just one of those stories that gets passed down through the family that is just a tale. Williams' mother was Charlotte Cruesa Holcomb-Burns. She was the second wife of Williams' father, Kennedy Burns. Charlotte was born around 1785 in New York and died on 05 October 1866 in Missouri.
William married Lavina Wilkinson in Polk County, Marion Township, Missouri, on June 10, 1838. Certificate of marriage filed 22 August 1838.
William and Lavina had nine children. Their names are: Israel Whittington Burns, Proctor Mandeville Burns, Richard R. Burns, Eberle C. Burns, Lavina Burns-Epley, William P. Burns, John Burns, Florence B. Burns-McCullough and Anne Burns-? (married last name unknown).
WILLIAM'S OBITUARY IN THE BOLIVAR WEEKLY DATED JANUARY 16, 1858:
"DIED,
In Hermitage, Hickory County, Mo., of pneumonia, on the evening of the 8th of January, Dr. Wm. H. Burns, in the 46th year of his age.
The deceased was born in The City of Philadelphia and emigrated when young, with his parents, to this State, and passed his boyhood in the City of St. Louis and St. Charles County, where he was principally educated.
Upon the threshold of manhood, he removed to Southwest Missouri and engaged in the practice of Medicine, to which profession he devoted the remainder of his life, and in which he had attained a high degree of distinction.
Dr. Burns was not without his faults and frailties, but when we placed them in the balance with his many virtues, they became scarcely perceptible.
Nature had withheld from him the combative, grasping, selfish qualities, so essential to worldly, pecuniary success, but had endowed him with a noble, generous spirit and superabundance of the milk of human kindness.
He ever labored to alleviate the suffering, aid the depressed and distressed, and to promote the happiness, welfare and prosperity of all around him. He was a firm, true friend, a kind husband and an affectionate and indulgent father – a complete, but unfortunate gentleman."
William was reportedly half Cherokee Indian but my DNA has proven that to not be true. It's just one of those stories that gets passed down through the family that is just a tale. Williams' mother was Charlotte Cruesa Holcomb-Burns. She was the second wife of Williams' father, Kennedy Burns. Charlotte was born around 1785 in New York and died on 05 October 1866 in Missouri.
William married Lavina Wilkinson in Polk County, Marion Township, Missouri, on June 10, 1838. Certificate of marriage filed 22 August 1838.
William and Lavina had nine children. Their names are: Israel Whittington Burns, Proctor Mandeville Burns, Richard R. Burns, Eberle C. Burns, Lavina Burns-Epley, William P. Burns, John Burns, Florence B. Burns-McCullough and Anne Burns-? (married last name unknown).
WILLIAM'S OBITUARY IN THE BOLIVAR WEEKLY DATED JANUARY 16, 1858:
"DIED,
In Hermitage, Hickory County, Mo., of pneumonia, on the evening of the 8th of January, Dr. Wm. H. Burns, in the 46th year of his age.
The deceased was born in The City of Philadelphia and emigrated when young, with his parents, to this State, and passed his boyhood in the City of St. Louis and St. Charles County, where he was principally educated.
Upon the threshold of manhood, he removed to Southwest Missouri and engaged in the practice of Medicine, to which profession he devoted the remainder of his life, and in which he had attained a high degree of distinction.
Dr. Burns was not without his faults and frailties, but when we placed them in the balance with his many virtues, they became scarcely perceptible.
Nature had withheld from him the combative, grasping, selfish qualities, so essential to worldly, pecuniary success, but had endowed him with a noble, generous spirit and superabundance of the milk of human kindness.
He ever labored to alleviate the suffering, aid the depressed and distressed, and to promote the happiness, welfare and prosperity of all around him. He was a firm, true friend, a kind husband and an affectionate and indulgent father – a complete, but unfortunate gentleman."
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