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/6895.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi, I see that your last name is Rushing, so I have the feeling that you are related to William M. Rushing who was married to Harriet Burns, daughter of Cyrus Iddo Burns and Elizabeth Inloe, of Johnson County, Illinois. Cyrus is the son of Samuel Burns who is buried at the Beersheba Presbyterian Churchyard in Clover, South Carolina. Samuel is the brother of my g-g-g-grandfather, William Burns, of Clay County, Kentucky. Very little information is presently available about Charles Burns. I have a copy of his will, dated 3 April 1789, which was signed shortly before his death. Apparently, Charles was married twice. First to Mary Ann (Morris) Webb, and then to Ann Rea. Ann Burns appears on the 1830 census of Haywood County, North Carolina as head of household, living with a freed slave or a free person of color. I have seen information posted on the Internet which indicates that Charles died in 1789, which I believe is correct, and is buried in Henry County, Virginia at a place called Bone Marrow Creek. So much of what you find on the Internet is pure speculation and conjecture, so I don't put much credence in it. I have not yet been to Virginia to do any research, but hope to get there before the end of the year.