John Sylvester Burns and Anna Margaret Guy

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Husband John Sylvester Burns ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 22 Feb 1847 3 4
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         Father: John Burns (      -Abt 1854) 5 6
         Mother: Margaret Stewart (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: 23 Feb 1869 3 4

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Wife Anna Margaret Guy ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 10 Sep 1845 - Moon Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: William H. Guy (1823-1908) 7 8
         Mother: Mary Jane Duncan (1826-1908) 9 10

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Children

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1 F Anna Margaret Burns ¹¹

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           Born: 27 Dec 1869 11
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           Died: 27 Dec 1869 11
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Maude Luella Burns ^{2 4 11}

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           Born: 14 Jan 1872 4 11
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         Spouse: Harry Moody (1866-      ) 2 11
           Marr: 1 Sep 1892 11

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3 M John Sylvester Burns ¹¹

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           Born: 12 Apr 1885 11
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           Died: 12 Apr 1885 11
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - John Sylvester Burns

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Findlay Twp, Allegheny Co, PA

He received his education in the township schools and at Linnaean Academy, Clinton, Pennsylvania. He was possessed of considerable literary ability, and received valuable prizes for his contributions written in competition with others for the National Stockman and Farmer. Among the prizes received by him were a Shorthorn bull, a Poland-China pig and a gold-mounted ivory buggy-whip. He owned a good farm of 120 acres, and raised grain and fine stock.

When seven years of age his father died and from that time until he was 21 years of age he worked as a laborer on the farm where he was born. In the spring of 1872 he purchased this same farm. It was a part of a large tract originally called "Laencio" by patent of the Commonwealth. Through the recommendation of several influential men of the county he was made a member of the State Board of Agriculture in 1883, which position he filled for fifteen years. Soon after becoming a member of this Board he was placed on the list of lecturers for Farmers' Institutes, and for a number of years spent the winter months in this service, and lectured in every county of the State, also some in Ohio and West Virginia. On account of a serious and permanent ailment he later abandoned this work as well as active farm labor.
He filled the office of justice of the peace.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 433, 574.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 554.

3 J. S. Burns, Biographical and Chronological History of the Stewart Family of Western Pennsylvania 1754-1912 (No publication data available), Pg 31.

4 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 574.

5 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 292, 574.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1414.

7 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 432.

8 J. S. Burns, Biographical and Chronological History of the Stewart Family of Western Pennsylvania 1754-1912 (No publication data available), Pg 26.

9 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 433.

10 J. S. Burns, Biographical and Chronological History of the Stewart Family of Western Pennsylvania 1754-1912 (No publication data available), Pg 30.

11 J. S. Burns, Biographical and Chronological History of the Stewart Family of Western Pennsylvania 1754-1912 (No publication data available), Pg 32.