Lorene Burns Noennig: You mention a John Burns and Isabella of Maury Co TN. What records put this John Burns in Maury Co? My gggg-grandfather John Burns and wife Isabella Nelson moved to Bedford Co, TN from Rockingham Co, NC in 1807. We have many land transactions of his in Bedford Co, including one to another family member 6 weeks before he died. He bought and sold a lot of property located in what is present day Bedford Co over the years. My John Burns died in 1837. There was another John Burns in Maury Co or Marshall Co who died in the early 1840s, but that was not my John Burns. Bill Burns