Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Jackson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   EDWARD BURNS is a native of County Down, Ireland, and was born
August 12, 1828.  His parents were Edward and Isabel (Anderson) Burns,
both natives of Ireland, of whose family he is the fifth.  The former
was born in 1783, the latter in 1795.  They were married in County
Down, and in 1838 emigrated to New York.  Shortly afterward moved to
Connecticut, and six years later to Newton County, Indiana, and 
settled in this township, where they both died, he in 1858, and she
in 1877.  Their children were five, and named, Alice, Mary, Catherine,
John and Edward.
   Our subject, Edward, was married in this county November 14, 1870,
to Rhoda, daughter of Madison and Mary Collins, and a native of 
Warren County, Indiana, born October 10, 1839.  After marriage Mr.
Burns settled on the farm on which he now lives, and on which he has
since remained, where he has a comfortable home.  His family comprises
four children--Wallace, Mary I., James and Ella M.



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