Ancestry of
Ken Burns

Documentary Filmmaker

Sarah E. "Sallie" White

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• • Great-grandmother of Ken Burns — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • Oct 1868 
  • Birth Location:
  • Highland County, Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1952 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Location:
  • McNeel Cemetery, Hillsboro, Pocahontas, West Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William McLauren Burns
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Apr 1893 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pocahontas County, West Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  Robert Kyle Burns (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  William Loris Burns

• Sources for Sarah E. "Sallie" White

  • ¹ Federal Census, VA, Culpeper County, 1910, Catalpa, E.D. 15, Sheet 14A, Image 27 of 36.
  • ² Federal Census, WV, Pocahontas County, 1900, Levels, Sheet 2B, Image 4 of 25.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/15/2014).
  • ⁴ Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976, Death certificate for son William Loris Burns.
  • ⁵ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for son Robert Kyle Burns.
  • ⁶ West Virginia, Marriages, 1780-1970, Marriage record for Wm M Burns and Sallie E White.

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