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- 1810 United States Federal Census
Name Lard Burns []
Residence Date 6 Aug 1810
Residence Place Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10 2
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15 1
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25 1
Number of Enslaved Persons 2
Number of Household Members Under 16 5
Number of Household Members Over 25 1
Number of Household Members 9
1820 United States Federal Census
Name Lard Burnes []
Enumeration Date 7 Aug 1820
Home in 1820 (City, County, State) Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10 3
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15 2
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44 1
Slaves - Males - 14 thru 25 1
Slaves - Females - Under 14 1
Slaves - Females - 14 thru 25 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture 1
Free White Persons - Under 16 6
Free White Persons - Over 25 2
Total Free White Persons 10
Total Slaves 3
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other 13
1850 United States Federal Census
Name Lard Burns [] [] []
Gender Male
Race White
Age 66
Birth Year abt 1784
Birthplace South Carolina
Home in 1850 Titus, Texas, USA
Occupation C.p. Clergyman
Industry Welfare and Religious Services
Real Estate 300
Line Number 10
Dwelling Number 477
Family Number 477
Lard Burns 66
Mary Burns 58
George Burns 19
Francis Burns 15
Lard Lindsey Burns
Birth 1784
Chester County, South Carolina, USA
Death 28 Jan 1858 (aged 73–74)
Mount Zion, Hopkins County, Texas, USA
Burial Mount Zion Cemetery
Mount Zion, Hopkins County, Texas, USA
Plot SW Section Row 4 Space 11
Memorial ID 54019765
son of James Burns & Jane Walker
Lard Burns Cumberland Presbyterian minister
Laird Burns was one of the early settlers in the New Lebanon, MO area having entered land there (some 3'/2 miles southeast of New Lebanon, MO) in the early 1820s. His wife was Mary Wear (a daughter of Hugh Wear) who was born about 1798 in North Carolina.
Laird Burns became a candidate for the ministry Sept. 12, 1820; was licensed Sept. 12, 1821; and ordained Apr. 5, 1833. He left the area of the New Lebanon Presbytery Oct. 9, 1848. Judge Ewing reminisces: "Laird Burns was also one of the early ministers of the neighborhood. He was a man of respectable abilities … He was very amiable in his intercourse with men, and upright in his Christian character. " Laird was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister in Cooper Co.
He married Mary WEAR, dau. of Hugh and Margaret WEAR. Lard (as he signed his will) had a large holding of land in Missouri and Texas. Lard and Mary had four sons in the Confederate Army (denoted with *); they had 8 children:
James M. Burns married Margaret Forsythe
*Hugh B. W. Burns married Martha Ann Warren
John Perry W. B. Burns married Lucenda Jane Burke
*Finis Ewing Burns married Julia Brown
Margaret "Mattie" Burns married William Stewart
*Samuel Jackson Burns married Elizabeth Burke
*George B. Burns
Mary Francis Burns married James W. Clark
Lard's great grandfather was
John B. Burns
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1784 - 1858 (74 years)
