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From: Ralph Burns
Barsheba died in 1849, buried in Talladega, Alabama and her daughter and son-in-law, Ethelbert and Sarah Burns Williamson were there on the census in 1850 census.
Barsheba`s son John Day Burnes married a Frenchwoman in Terrebonne Parish, LA and after her death, and the Civil War, he emigrated to Brazil. They had at least four children and I think they went too.
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From: Ralph Burns
South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina, Records of the Equity Court, Bills
Microfilm: Order #838, Reel D1278, Box 4, Document Number 1834--231
Petition 21383426 Details
State: South Carolina
Location: Union
Location Type: District
Salutation: In the court of Equity Union District (, )
Filing Date: 1834-February-14
Ending Date: 1834-June-1
Abstract: Barsheba and John Burns ask the court to invalidate a deed and award them their shares of Thomas Burns' estate. Barsheba was Burns' second wife, and John is their son. Before Thomas Burns died in 1833, he deeded all of his property, including land and thirteen slaves, to three children from his first marriage. The petitioners contend that Thomas' mental state disqualified him from disposing of his property. Thomas was more than ninety years old, "and like most other persons who have arrived at that advanced stage of life had become jealous childish, suspecting and easily practiced on." In the last eight months of his life, he said that "he had never been married to" Barsheba and treated her cruelly, finally driving her from their home. At this time, Thomas' older children used "fraudulent and unjustifiable reasons & pretences" to persuade him to give them his property. This action left "an aged and infirm widow who had been his constant and undeviating friend" without any means of support. The petitioners ask the court to nullify the deed of gift, to order the defendants to account for Burns' property and their use of it, and to divide the property among all the rightful heirs, giving Mrs. Burns her dower.
Result: partially granted pro confesso
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From: Ralph Burns
South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina, Records of the Equity Court, Bills
Microfilm: Order #837, Reel D1278, Box 4, Document Number 1833--226
Petition 21383336 Details
State: South Carolina
Location: Union
Location Type: District
Salutation: To the chancellors of the said State (, )
Filing Date: 1833-July-16
Ending Date: 1833-July-18
Abstract: After nearly forty years of marriage, Barsheba Burns seeks the court's permission "to live separate & apart" from her husband, Thomas Burns Sr., and asks for "such reasonable support maintenance & allowance" out of his estate "as the circumstances of the case may require." She informs the court that Thomas has "thrown her from his bosom ... and treated her worse than an abject slave." He has recently begun sleeping with "a large knife under his head at nights for the purpose of alarming her;" she now spends "whole nights, watching him, for fear of being murdered in her sleep." Barsheba claims that she was "driven from" Thomas's roof and has found shelter with a son-in-law, John D. Word. In order to deprive his wife of support, Thomas has transferred his property to his children, Jemima Fant, Elizabeth Owens, and Alvah Burns. She asks the court to help her secure "some competent provision" that will enable her to live separate from Thomas. A related petition reveals that Thomas Burns Sr. owned at least thirteen slaves.
Result: partially granted
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1770 - 1849 (79 years)