Edmund Burnett (1874 - 1949)

Born 29 Nov 1874 in Henry County, Alabama, USA

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Died 10 Jan 1949 at age 74 in Washington District of Columbia, USA

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Biography

Edmund Cody Burnett was born on November 29, 1874 on the Pleasant Ridge Plantation in Henry County, Alabama, USA, the son of Jesse Montreville Lafayette Burnett and Henrietta Sarah (Cody) Burnett. He was the half-brother of Charles Thomas Burnett (1856 - 1926) and the brother of Sarah Frances Burnett Swann (1862 - 1952), Jesse McGarrity Burnett (1870 - 1947), Elizabeth Laird Burnett Gass (1872 - 1938), William Montgomery Burnett (1875 - 1935), and Benjamin Boyce Burnett (1880 - 1946).

Edmund married Susan Elizabeth Susong on October 06, 1914 in Seclusion Bend in Bridgeport, Tennessee. They had at least the following children:

1. Edmund Cody Burnett (1915 - 1990)
2. Thomas Jesse McCormick Burnett (1923 - 2007)

Edmund led a distinguished life as an academician and historian. He died January 10, 1949 Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was buried at Union Cemetery Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA^[1]

TIMELINE Date Event 1864, Nov. 29 Born, Henry County, Ala. 1888 A.B., Carson (now Carson-Newman) College, Jefferson City, Tenn. 1890 A.B., Brown University, Providence, R.I. 1890-1894 Taught mathematics, Greek, and modern languages, Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn. 1894-1899 Instructor, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 1895 A.M., Brown University, Providence, R.I. 1897 Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, R.I. 1899-1900 Taught English, Bethel College, Russellville, Ky. 1900-1905 Professor of history, Mercer University, Macon, Ga. 1905-1907 Assistant treasurer, Swann-Day Lumber Co., Clay City, Ky. 1907-1936 Historian, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C. 1914 Married Susan Elizabeth Susong 1921-1936 Edited Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, 8 vols. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921-1936 1938 Awarded Litt. D., Brown University, Providence, R.I. 1943 Awarded Loubat Prize for The Continental Congress. New York: Macmillan Co., 1941 1949, Jan. 10 Died, Washington, D.C.

Edmund Cody Burnett, editor and researcher of the 2 articles below, was a well-known historian, who resided in Washington D.C. during the time these letters were published in The Georgia Historical Quarterly. His father was the Rev. J. M. L. Burnett (Sept. 14, 1829 - Aug. 1, 1883) and his mother was Henrietta Sarah Cody (Feb. 29, 1843 - Dec. 26, 1927). Henrietta Sarah Cody was first cousin to the 3 Lightfoot brothers and her father, the Rev. Edmund Cody (who was the brother of the Lightfoot children's mother Catherine Donelson Cody Lightfoot), adopted the Lightfoot children after both of their parents died. So the Lightfoot children and the Cody children grew up together in the same household for the 10 years prior to 1861. Another daughter of the Rev. Edmund Cody was Fransinia Catherine Cody who married Dr. Abner Embry McGarity. The Cody, Lightfoot, McGarity, and Burnett families were very close and related by blood and marriage. Much more detail concerning all these families can be found in the introductions of both these publications and within the letters and the editor's footnotes for the letters.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave

• Geneology: Edmund Burnett
• Letters of members of the Continental Congress by Edmund Cody Burnett