This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.msn.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5541/EgC.2ACE/6895.3.1 Message Board Post: Hi Linda, I was looking through the Ancestry message boards tonight and saw that you were inquiring about Charles Burns. I have not found much about him and think the only possible way to find more is to go to Virginia and spend a lot of time just going through tons of files and data. So much of what is posted on the Internet is pure speculation, not fact, so I don't pay much attention to it. I have a copy of Charles' will, dated 3 April, 1789, in which he spells out what is to be given to each of his children and to his wife, Ann Burns. Apparently Charles was married twice. First to Mary Ann (Morris) Webb, and then to Ann Rea. Ann appears on the 1830 Haywood County, North Carolina census as head of household, living with a freed slave or a free person of color. You and I are closely related. William Burns is my g-g-g-g-grandfather. Andrew Burns is my g-g-g grandfather, and Hugh or Hue Burns, is a brother to my g-g-grandfather, Perry B. Burns. I have the Revolutionary War record of William Burns of you're interested. Also the Revolutionary War records of William's brothers, Samuel and Andrew, and am waiting for the records of the remaining brothers. Alexander, John Arthur, and Charles, Jr, although Jr. may have been too young to have served. These records came from the National Archives in Washington DC, so I'm positive that they're factual. Hugh Burns served in the Civil War, as did my g-g grandfather, Perry B. Burns. I have Perry's War record and am waiting for the record of your g-g-grandfather, and also the records of Andrew J Burns and Alexander Burns, also our relatives. I have a list of 55 men with the last name of Burns from Kentucky that served during the Civil War. I'm sure that I'll find more of them that are our relatives as I get further into it. I'm hoping to get down to Clay County before the end of June to do some research and to visit as many cemeteries as I can. Do you happen to know where Andrew is buried ? Also where Hugh is buried ? I know where Perry B is buried. Another of our relatives was just in Clay County two weeks ago and e-mailed me a picture of Perry's headstone, lying on the ground in three pieces. I want to see if I can have it fixed or have a marker made and placed at the grave beside the headstone. Hope to hear from you ! Tom Burns