Grant (Harmon) Burns (1864 - 1937)

Born 2 Feb 1864 in Sterling, Whiteside, Illinois, United States

Died 27 May 1937 at age 73 in Berwyn, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

The identity of "Unknown Son" Harmon has been a mystery. A recent search of Ancestry.com family trees for his mother, Frances B Miller, wife of William James Burns, indicated that her eldest child was a "Grant Burns." Subsequent vital records for him variously show his father as being named "Daniel" (no surname) "Daniel Sterling" and "Daniel B. Harmon." I presume at this point that Grant Burns is indeed Grant Harmon.

Unproven speculation exists that the child was born "Ulysses Grant Harmon."

Sources

• Family Story as related by Edward H. Schick.

• Ancestry Family Trees. Nienabor. Fannie B Miller <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/13361219/person/110194060043/facts> as viewed 03 October 2019. Family Tree showing Ulysses Grant Burns as eldest child for Fannie Miller Burns.

• Ancestry. Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920. Grant V Burns and Susan McCabe <https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2556&h=163111&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTq2921&_phstart=successSource> as viewed 03 October 2019.

• Ancestry. Michigan Marriage Records, 1867-1952. Grant Burns and Frida Hafner <https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/9093/41326_342283-00073?pid=524991&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D9093%26h%3D524991%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DuTq2922%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTq2922&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true> as viewed 03 October 2019.

• Ancestry. Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947. Grant Burns <https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2542&h=2575830&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uTq2920&_phstart=successSource> as viewed 03 October 2019.

• Family Search. Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947. Grant Burns <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQDD-4XB> as viewed 27 May 2020.

• Find A Grave, Grant Burns <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136111526/grant-burns> as viewed 03 October 2019.