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Hello, Debbie and Stacy--and any other Burneys of this line. One of the daughters of the couple you are posting about was Susan/Susanna Burney, who married Winford Harris, probably in December 1865. She was my great-grandmother. Do either of you have any photographs of any Burney ancestor taken just after 1900? Susan Harris had a photo album, without names on the pictures, which has come down to me. There are some interesting photos, and I'd love to be able to identify the people. Susan Burney has an interesting story. Her parents, William Burney and Susanna Holland, died before 1850. The 1850 census shows her living with her sister Elizabeth Coates. Another sister, Sarah, lives with a Sprouse family, whose son Joel she married that same year. Both these sisters, or at least their husbands, converted to the Mormon church and they took her with them to Utah. I have found documentation that Sarah and Joel Sprouse traveled to Iowa in 1852 and joined a wagon train headed to Utah. Joel died of cholera early in the trip. The Coates and Joel's parents' families were not in the same group, but the 1856 Utah Territorial census shows they both traveled there with some other group. The oral history is that both sisters died, and indeed, neither are in that census, but neither is Susan. At some point, she learned that her brother-in-law was planning to make her marry him (it was common for Mormon men to marry relatives of their wives). Susan found a way to escape back to Texas with another family; she hid in the large quilt box until it was safe for her to come out. Susan had several brothers in Texas. I have not found her in the 1960 census either in Utah or in Texas, but I have several letters written to her, starting in January 1865 by her new husband, who was enlisted in the Confederate Army in Louisiana. The letters were addressed to Willow Hole, in Madison County. From which of the Burneys are you descended?
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