This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/yAH.2ACIB/218.1 Message Board Post: No, I don't know anything about this murder. I am looking for information on a John Burney, who was supposed to have been murdered as he ate dinner, by his slave in Louisiana. This information comes from a letter written in the 1860's. This John Burney was the son of a William Burney, who migrated to the Ouachita area of Louisiana, maybe in 1797 from North Carolia, via Kentucky. I'm wondering if somehow this story got twisted around, and we are referencing the same person and murder. I don't know when this murder in Louisiana happened. But I believe it would have had to happen between 1795 and 1815.