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i AN ANCESTORAL GENEALOGY OF THE I BURNS and BURKE FAMILIES with Personal Sketches \ Assembled and Published by Don E. Haasch Marie Haasch ’./hitesel 1931 ■ 2 UM r TOWARD This book may be comprised mostly of names, dates, places and sketches, but to the observing reader, a whole world of information is now available# A birth represents joy and delight; marriage indicates romance and embarking on a new life or venture; deaths often mean sorrow; and when locations or places are changed within one lifetime, certainly a trip, a new life, a new home is represented. If one uses a little imagination, one can accompany an uncle to sea, cross a prairie, start a new business, start a new life, locate a gold mine or follow a railroad west. All of this can be done by observing the dates and places mentioned connected with a person, a spouse and their children. A book of this kind is not the work of any one person. Many people have contributed to it. Special thanks goes to LaVeme Pfost Craig, Dorothy Burns Fernandez and many others. All have contributed data which was unavailable to me. This compilation is the result of a good many individual1 s effort and untold hours of time. We join with the reader to thank each person who has contributed data and information that would have been unavailable to me. A word of caution, The data entered in this volume are only as accurate as its source. Some are correct, some arc not. I have made no attempt to verify them, but have taken information from any and all sources. If data has been estimated, usually a (?) accompanies the entry. The advanced genealogist may not approve, but it will provide the researcher a first place to investigate to obtain tne verification. May you enjoy this book to the fullest! Don S. Kaasch 3 YOUR ANCESTRAL KEPTTAGE ^"^ilizat/ion had its beginning around an open fire. Her at its warmth gathered the family group to find safety, comfort, and companionship. In tracing the word "Fireplace" one finds it defini- tely related to the Latin word "Focus". There is the explanation of what home has always meant; for home is the center of life, -no mere residence of the body but the axis of the heart; the place where af ections develop themselves, children love and learn, where two toil together to imke life a blessing. One.- ancesters are the flagstones that h^vo led U, home you now have, God asked no man if he would accept life. The choice was not, his to make. As each babe begins a new life from the warmth of a mothers lullaby to the adventures of adulthood, the days slip away as each flagstone is set in place; some carefully, some hast- ily__but all record the path of achievement of that person. As one looks backward along the path, it seems to fade and become obscured in the distance. It is hard to visualize tiie battles fought, • ae seas spanned, the wilderness braved, deserts walked, fields cleared * houses built, homes made and families loved and raised—each event the other side of the rolling hills. a stone in the path unseen on with their brothers and sisters is This book of past parents those ancesters and appreciate just an attempt to help you picture Of time they labored on the path that leads to yon. the span -Don E. Haasch 4 LO< m nijii llipiiiiiliiffi iiSlfilHII <; ■ •Ofl- iBurns 5 Copied from BURNS FAiilLY RECORDS -y J. Montgomery Seaver American Historical-Genealogical Society 200 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pa. After 1927 The Bums Family is among the forty-nine ”3est Families” selected by the American Historical-Genealofical Society for whom the Society has published family histories during the past few years. The Bums Family has been pro- minent in the British Empire and in the United States, its members having played important roles in war and in peace. Family pride is a commendable trait and should be cultivated. All kirns have just cause to be proud of their family history and traditions. The Scottish surname of Bums is said by some etymologists to be founed from the compound word fbum-house1, signifying a dwelling or croft resting upon the margin of a rivulet or small stream, Farm homesteads and private dwellings styled Bumhouse are common in all lowland countries, expecially in the counties of Fife and Kincardine, while the family name of Burns or Bumes is common in every district. ”By other etymologists the name, is thought to mean simply ’at the bum*. It is sometime equivalent to Bourne, and in the North a, small stream is still called a ’bum’. In the time of Edward the Confessor, Godric de Bumes was a great landholder in Kent, and his posterity continued in that county for several centuries. "In Scotland, the name appears in very early records in an unusual number of fonns. However, it is within recent vgenerations that the kinsmen of Robert Bums have varied that neme to Bumes and Bumess. "In the parish and other registers of Kincardineshire, the surname is variously spelled Bumes, Bumas, Bumase, Bumace and Bumess, and members of the Kincardineshire stock seem to have derived from a common ancestor at or about the farm of Bumhouse, now called Kair, in the parish of Arbuthnot. "Variations of the name are: Old Norse, Bjorn; Danish, Bom: Swedsh, Bern; Flemish, Bumy. In Domesday Book it is spelled Bom, Beom, Bum and Bern. The Bums Coat of Arms A Coat of Arms is an emblem or a device which is displayed by titled persons, persons of royal blood, and their descendants. Coats of Ams were originally used for purposes of identification and recognition on the field of battle as well as in civil life. There are records of Coats of Arms, in one crude form or another, at different periods of ancient history. Heraldry, however, as we know it to-day, did not become of much importance until soon after the invasion of England by William the Conqueror, A. D.1066. Heraldry became of general interest at about the time of the Crusades. 6 The Bums Coat of Aims shown is the Arms of the Bums of Scotland, from whom nearly all other Bums Families are descended* Almost all Bums families in Great Britain have some variation of it. The motto, Ob patriam vulnera passi, means having suffered wounds for our country. Arms: (Herald Language) Or, a fesse be Ween three mullets of six points pierced in chief and a hunting horn, strung, in base, all sable. (in English) A golden shield divided into two parts by a black hand; in the upper part, three black mullets cut away in the center to show the golden field; in the lower part, a black, beribboned hunting horn. Crest: (Heraldic) Out of clouds to sexter and sinister, two hand proper, clasped together and clasping three twigs of olive. (English) Issuing from clouds to the right and left, Wo hands in natural color, clasped together and clasping three Wigs of olive. Motto: (Latin) Ob patriam vulnera passi * (Eng.) Having suffered v;ounds for our country. RELIGIONS OF THE BURNS For several centuries the Bums lived in Scotland. Most of the Scotch and, likewise, the Bums were and are of the Presbyterian faith. There are a few Bums of the Catholic faith in the British Isles, but it is estimated that their number does not exceed fifteen per cent of the entire Bums population. The Bums who came from the British Isles to America, continued in the faith of their fathers, for the most part, though their descendants in this country today will be found in the memberships of practically all the various churches. It is estimated that of all the Bums in America who are church J members, at least eighty percent am of the Protestant faith. BURNS FAMILY RECORDS J. Montgomery Seaver C110 William Bums: Removed from Pennsylvania to Georgia, where he married Martha James. They had Fhebe, Betsy, Martha, John, William and, cm Emmons Bums: County surveyor at Joplin, Mo.; served as Captain in the Southern Array during Civil War and was captured and held prisoner at Camp Norton for three years; married henrietta beaman; (2) Eliza Kennedy. Ten Children including John, Milton, Frank Emmons, Lee, and C112 Samuel Martin Bums; Bom March 2, 1852. He left Missouri in 1876 with a wagon train, travelled to Utah, and finally settled on a ranch in Idaho; married Mary Elizabeth Pfost. Issue: Elsie, Almia, Apal, Waldo, James Grover James Grover: b. Jan 21,1386; Grad.. Illinois College of Photography and Photo Engraving in 1906; m. Ethel June Hedges. Practices photography at his studio in 3oise, Idaho (A) Fern Lucille: b. Dec. 24, 1912 (B) Stanley Martin: b. March 13, 1925 Bums Towns Bums: Colo. Kan. Miss. Ore. Term. Wyom. Mont. H.Y. Bums City: 111 Burnsville: Minn. Mss. N.C. Ya. W.Ya., Ala, Bums Flat: Okla. 7 USE OF THE INDEX SYSTEM The relationship of two persons is not hard to determine within •'•he immediate family, but when one attempts to determine second or third, cousins and once or more removed, the relationship is less than clear. Also, when speaking of a person on the family tree that has the same name as two or more other persons, which is not at all unusual, one needs another device to indicate exactly which person is referred to. An index. has been devised to help solve the problem. It is not perfect and is not always consistant but accomplishes the intended purpose.