Ancestors

Harvey Burns

1823-1913 · Arbuckle District, Mason County, West Virginia
Born 1823, Point Pleasant, Mason County, Virginia
Died 1913
Children include Daniel

Harvey Burns died at Point Pleasant on 8 May 1913, of paralysis, aged eighty nine years five months and twenty three days, which puts his birth in about November 1823. The register enters him twice on the same line block, once as Burns Harry, labourer, and once as Burns Harvey, retired, both married, both the same day and the same cause. One man, two clerks.

He is the father on the Mason County birth line of Daniel W. Burns, born 25 September 1873 in Arbuckle District, where the register gives his trade as Labor and records that the information was furnished by the father, which is to say by him. The 1890 census of Union veterans finds him in Arbuckle District, so he had served. In 1900 he was in Cooper District on the south side, twenty seven years married to Elizabeth J., with three daughters at home.

He was about fifty when he married a woman of nineteen, so 1873 was probably not his first marriage. Who a first wife was, and who his parents were, is not known: he died four years before West Virginia put the parents column back on the death form.

Sources

West Virginia Vital Research Records, Mason County General Index and Register of Births, page 221, Burns, Daniel W., 25 September 1873, film 567386 image 162. West Virginia certificate of death 12983, serial 1164, Daniel W. Burns, 30 October 1954, Cabell County, film 1984372 image 1001. United States Census, 1900, Arbuckle District, Mason County, West Virginia.
West Virginia Vital Research Records, Mason County register of deaths 1913, film 567384, image 670, lines 14 and 15.
West Virginia Vital Research Records, Mason County marriages, film 567389, image 571.
United States Census, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930, parents' nativity columns, eighty six sheets, read on the FamilySearch record pages.
West Virginia Vital Research Records, Mason County register of deaths 1924, film 567385, image 12, line 25.

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