This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burns Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/2090 Message Board Post: I have been trying to find information on the father of Torrens Burns who appears on the Elkhart County, Indiana CRIMP Project Index Elkhart Probate Records B255 Burns, Torrens 11 M-48 E.R. Biggs - Admr. His father as far as I have found in a bio of Torrens son Dr. George Burns of Lafayette Indiana, stated that his grandfather was Harvey Burns who came from Ireland of Scottish parents to Penn. then to Ky. Harvey was in the war of 1812 and died in Ky. at the age of 115, in 1863. I can find nothing to prove or support any of this. My search is if he is mentioned in an obit or other Torrens Burns papers. I have beaten the census records, obits, pension request, etc. of Ky. Till they are mush and cannot find a Harvey Burns who fits. My info shows him dying in Ky. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Rob Burns