Buitekant & Scheffer Family Tree » Melinda Burns (1837-1887)

Personal data Melinda Burns 

  • She was born in the year 1837 in Missouri.
  • She died in the year 1887 in Miller Grove, Hopkins Co., Texas, she was 50 years old.
  • A child of James M. Burns and Margaret Forsythe

Household of Melinda Burns

(1) She had a relationship with John McCORKLE.


Child(ren):



(2) She is married to Thomas Jackson Jones.

They got married on January 8, 1874, she was 37 years old.


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Melinda Burns

Lard Burns
1784-1858
Mary Polly Weir
± 1794-1860

Melinda Burns
1837-1887

(1) 

John McCORKLE
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Bill McCORKLE
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(2) 1874

Thomas Jackson Jones
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Clement "Clem" Jones
1875-????

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    Historical events

    Day of marriage January 8, 1874

    • The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
    • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
    • In the year 1874: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • May 16 » A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
      • May 27 » The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
      • June 29 » Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
      • July 31 » Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
      • October 9 » The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
      • November 7 » A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

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