My Genealogy Hound

GEORGE BURNS, farmer, post office Clinton, was born on his present farm, in Findlay township, April 11, 1822, a son of John Burns, who was born in Findlay township, Oct. 30, 1774, and was by trade a cooper and farmer; an elder in Hopewell Presbyterian Church a number of years. John Burns married, March 15, 1798, Jane Crooks, also a Presbyterian, and they had ten children: George, Nancy (widow of Samuel Nichol), Alexander, Jane (married Robert Eaton), Henry, John, Polly (married to John White), William, Peggy (widow of James Hood), and Andrew, of whom Nancy, Polly, Peggy, Andrew and George are living. George has been twice married; first, Aug. 24, 1843, to Jane Burns, who died Sept. 30, 1853, the mother of one son, Alfred M., born March 28, 1846, and married to Mary Jane Forsythe, and residing in Findlay township. George Burns married, July 4, 1854, Nancy, a sister of his first wife, and a daughter of Robert and Jane Burns. Mr. and Mrs. George Burns are members of the Valley Presbyterian Church. He owns 223 acres of land, a part of the old Hopewell tract, purchased and patented by his grandfather, John Burns, April 28, 1785. The latter, who was a relative of the poet Burns, came here prior to the Revolution, and was the pioneer of the Burns family in Findlay township. He purchased a large body of land near Imperial. John, the father of the subject of this memoir, was his eldest son.