-----Original Message----- From: Burnz, Robert Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 19:09 To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [BURNS] Burns/Burnz connection I wasn't aware that rich text formatting would not come through. Some corrections (in parentheses) to my previously posted information. Fonetta had married a HOUSE and was living in (Tracy City, TN) at the time of her mother's death, 1903. Fannie (Jones) (moved to Texas sometime between 1855 and 1860 to live with her uncle George Boardman). -----Original Message----- From: Burnz, Robert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 14:39 To: [email protected] Subject: [BURNS] Burns/Burnz connection Aloha from Hawaii This is my first posting. I have an autobiography in book form written by my g g grandmother Eliza Victoria Boardman Burnz, "The Mother of the Young Woman Shorthander". She was born in Rayne, Essex, England on 31 Oct 1823. She left home in Aug 1837 and, via Philadelphia, arrived in Pulaski, Tennessee two months later. She attended and then taught school and in Dec 1844 married Allan Jones of Hardeman Co., TN. They had a daughter, Fannie, on 5 Nov 1845 and Allan died on 7 Dec 1845. She expressed an interest in the invention of Phonography or phonic shorthand and began teaching phonic spelling to her students. In Jan 1847 she married Rev. John B. BURNS at Bolivar, TN. They moved to Cincinnati, OH in Jan 1848 where Mr. Burns studied medicine and learned daguerreotyping. After the (civil) war he was one of the first to reproduce pictures by the actinic or gelatine process. Shortly after the spring of 1850 a daughter, Fonetta, was born. In 1853 Mr. Burns received his M.D. and they moved to Camden, MS. While there two sons were born; Ellis in Sep 1853 and Channing on 15 May 1855. Soon after they moved to Sumter Co., AL then back to western Tennessee in 1860. During the war Dr. Burns served as Surgeon with the 3rd Kentucky Union Volunteers. He mustered out at Louisville, KY and when the hospital he worked at closed they returned to Cincinnati where Dr. Burns gave up the practice of medicine and worked full time at picture producing. Mrs. Burns went to Nashville, TN to teach and while there, in 1867, lost her son, Ellis, to dysentery just before the cholera epidemic. She returned to Cincinnati in 1868. In Jan 1869 Dr. Burns moved to New York, NY and she followed that June. He worked in photography and she in teaching phonography and stenography to women as well as men. In Jan 1875 Dr. Burns died and in 1876 she and her son, Channing changed the "s" to "z" in their names and formed a partnership for publishing named "Burnz & Co." She continued to teach and to pioneer spelling reform. On 5 Mar 1896 she was taken ill with vertigo. Twelve days later, while attempting to walk, she fell on her left side suffering an impacted fracture of the head of the femur. Unable to continue on her own she moved, in May 1897, to Dr. Robert Walter's institution at Walter's Park, PA. She remained there until she died of neuralgia on 19 Jun 1903. She was cremated and a service was held at Fresh Pond, Long Island, NY. Channing appears to have stayed with her until she died. Fonetta had married a HOUSE and was living in Texas at the time. I have no knowledge of whatever became of Fannie Smith or if she changed her name to Burns when her mother remarried. I descend from Channing Burnz through his son Rev. Edgar Channing Burnz and his son, my father, Robert Hadden Burnz who was born in New York, NY in 1919 and who now lives in Hawaii as do all his children, grandchildren and his great grandson. I'll post more on Channing's line later. Robert J. Burnz ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2