My direct line goes: William Burns -b. Ayrshire Scotland d circa 1801, m Miss A. Eliot, bur. Blodgett Cemetary, Hudson NH Served in the Army of New Hampshire, fought @ Bennington and Bunker Hill David Burns b. circa 1787 m. Eliza Childs Daniel Merrill Burns b Hudson NH, 1821, m Emily Louise Clements 1857, d St Paul MN 1906 Arthur Lee Burns b NH 1863, m Frankie Welsh 1895, d 1937 Kansas City KS Ella Leah Burns Patrick My grandmother b 1897, Kansas City KS m 1922 Joseph Cecil Patrick, d Dec 21, 1935 Have also heard the story that this family is kin to the poet Robert Burns - but this may only be because our earliest known ancestor came from the same part of Scotland. Pamela Patrick >From: "Robert Jackson" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [BURNS-L] Robert Burns/Ben Emery Burns > >Also, I'm looking for the descendants of BEN EMERY BURNS of the Boston >and Nashua, NH region, brother of my grt grandfather. Ben Emery had a >son, Arthur Burns, and a dau. Ruth Herrick Burns.