John M. Burns

BURNS, HAGGARD

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/15/2004 at 22:35:01

J. Burns, Lincoln twp.; farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Winterset; owns 80 acres of land; born in England in 1835; came to the United States in 1843, and settled in Hancock county, Illinois; removed to this State and county in 1872; he married Miss Mary E. Haggard in 1856; she was born in Illinois; has five children: Wm. O., Mira L., John E., Mary E. and Frank M.; lost one son: George F.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 616, 617