Burns, Moses “Mose”
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Moses Burns was born around 1840 and he died on November 2, 1926 in Kamloops, BC. He was a US Civil War veteran. He was known locally as a “celebrated” hard rock miner. He was mentioned in the Similkameen Star in Princeton at least once a year from 1914-1921, again in 1923 (when he was in Princeton Hospital) and again in 1924 when he had returned from working in a mine in Idaho. He was again admitted to hospital in Princeton in late 1924.
Mose Burns traveled to Greenwood, Phoenix, Slocan, Boundary, etc. on a regular basis. In 1921, he accepted a position at the Coalmont Collieries Co. In 1924, he was living in Blakeburn.
Donated $1.00 to the hospital maintenance fund in 1921.
“Mose Burns had the misfortune this week to lose his pension papers and $15. Mose was with the 16th New Jersey, and states that his regiment walked over 46,000 dead men at Gettysburg” (Similkameen Star, July 10, 1914, page 1).
Death registration (BC Archives); Similkameen Star, July 10, 1914, page 1; April 9, 1915, page 5; August 30, 1918, page 4; January 21, 1921, page 1; February 18, 1921, page 6; February 29, 1924, page 3;
December 11, page 1