This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burns, Hamilton, Pullum Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xFh.2ACEB/3244 Message Board Post: James Charles (Charlie) Burns (born on 17 Feb 1825; died on 16 Feb 1901) was a descendant of Anthony Burns, John Burns, and Bartholomew John Burns, and I believe, of a Bartholomew Burns who came to the USA from Scotland. Charlie Burns was born in Washington County, FL, but later moved to area in-between Malvern and Slocomb in what is now eastern Geneva County, AL. He was my paternal great-grandfather. Charlie Burns married Rebecca Ann Hamilton (06 Sep 1833 - 22 Sep 1917), and they had eleven children together. One of those, Eliza Jane (sometimes spelled Elisa, and often without the Jane) Burns (28 JUL 1855 - 02 JUN 1933), married my grandfather, John Drayton Pullum (1853-1936), and they had ten children together. I know nothing of Rebecca's ancestry, and very little, as you can see, of Charlie's. Hence this posting, and several others. I know that Charlie Burns served in the War Between the States (nothing "Civil" about that War, boy!), and a family legend says he fought at Gettysburg. After the War ended and he was released (was he a POW of the Yankees -- ???), he walked home from somewhere in Maryland or Virginia or some such place to the southeastern corner of Alabama, thereby ruining his feet for the rest of his life. For their descendants seeking their burial place, let me advise that Charlie and Rebecca and several generations of their descendants are buried in the Burns' Assembly of God Church cemetery, which used to be the Panther Creek Methodist Church prior to a Holy Spirit revival breaking out in the 19-teens and causing the Methodists to close the church. The spirit-filled members later bought the property from the Alabama Annual Conference of the ME Church, South, and reopened the church as an Assembly. The church's address is as follows: Burns' Assembly of God 1736 CR 30 Slocomb, AL 36375. Its' telephone number is (334) 886-2110. Anyone connected to the ancestors or descendants of Charlie Burns and/or of Rebecca Ann Hamilton, or having info on his military service record should contact me directly. Thank you! My name is Rev. Larry F. Pullum, and my address is as follows: 3638 CR 203 Rehobeth, AL 36301-7725. My telphone number is (334) 677-3800. And, my e-mail address is Larfpul@Hotmail.com.