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Benjamin Burns. Was born seven miles south of Lexington, Kentucky, November 10, 1809. When he was but four years
of age his parents moved to Washington county, Tennessee, where he resided till 1817. He then, with his parents,
moved to Howard county, Missouri, where he lived till 1824. The family next moved to Jackson county, that State,
where the subject of this sketch followed farming till 1830. He then moved to Clay county, Missouri, where he was
united in marriage with Miss Ann Baxter, January 8, 1832. She was a native of Kentucky, born November 11, 1812,
and died March 3, 1851. Soon after their marriage he moved to Gentry county, Missouri, where he engaged in agricultural
pursuits, which he followed till 1854. May 11, 1851, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Eliza Steel Uhl, relict
of Jesse Uhl. She was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1814. In 1854 they crossed the plains to
California and settled in Shasta county, where he mined till the spring of 1857, when he located at Sebastopol,
Sonoma county, and remained there till 1859. He then moved to Mendocino county and settled on his present place
of five hundred and fifty five acres. He has eight children as the fruits of his first, marriage, as follows: James
G., born November 1, 1832; Elizabeth H., born March 22, 1835; Horatio, born June 25, 1837; Mary F., born July 3,
1839; Sarah E. born November 22, 1842; William B., born November 23, 1844; Amanda Jane, born February 20,1848;
and Martha S., born March 10, 1850.
From:
History of Mendocino County, California
Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1880
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