Joseph Burns served in the United States Civil War. Enlisted: May 2, 1864 Mustered out: Sep 23, 1864 Side: USA Regiment(s): 145th Illinois Infantry (100 days, 1864)
1860 - living with his father, step-mother and siblings in Johnson County. Age 18. Farmer.[1]
1867 - married Narcissa Sanders in Carter County, on July 21.[2]
1864 - joined the U.S. Army for a period of 100 days on May 2 in Vienna. Mustered in on June 9 at Camp Butler. Mustered out on September 23 at Camp Butler.
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1870 - living with Narcissa and their two children in Carter County. Age 28. Farmer. Born Tennessee. Surname spelled Burnes.[4]
1880 - living with Narcissa and their children in Carter County. Age 38. Works in sawmill.[5]
1890 - July 18, filed for invalid pension for Civil War service. Application #851052, certificate #652261.
1900 - living with second wife Viola and two youngest children in Piney, Oregon County. Age 59. Farmer. Born April 1841. Married 5 years. [6]
1905 - died on February 4. Buried in Cave Spring Cemetery.[7]
Sources
↑ Year: 1860; Census Place: Township 11 S Range 3 E, Johnson, Illinois; Roll: M653_190; Page: 46; Image: 46; Family History Library Film: 803190.
↑ Year: 1870; Census Place: Carter, Carter, Missouri; Roll: M593_766; Page: 462A; Image: 465; Family History Library Film: 552265.
↑ Year: 1880; Census Place: Jackson, Carter, Missouri; Roll: 679; Family History Film: 1254679; Page: 591B; Enumeration District: 038; Image: 0425.
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M389-CD9 : accessed 4 August 2015), Joseph N Burns, Goebel & Piney Townships Alton village, Oregon, Missouri, United States; citing sheet 5B, family 149, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,879.
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