Marty and Karla Grant
The Genealogy of Marty Grant and wife Karla Mangus Grant.
Samuel Burns
1770 - Aft 1840 (> 71 years) Has no ancestors but 16 descendants in this family tree.-
Name Samuel Burns Birth 1760/1770 Gender Male _UID D2C8888DD2DAD4118AC4444553540000BE6D Death Aft 1840 Johnson Co, TN 
Person ID I2979 Marty and Karla Grant Last Modified 19 Mar 2025
Family 
Cora Ann Dugger, b. 12 Apr 1773, Surry Co, NC d. Aft 1840, Johnson Co, TN (Age > 68 years)Marriage 12 Feb 1791 Wilkes Co, NC _UID C538DC3D509ED549BFAEA3804EA961B4BEDB Children 1. William Burns, b. 17 Apr 1791, Wilkes Co, NC (now Watauga Co, NC) d. 6 Mar 1869, McMinn Co, TN (Age 77 years)2. Frances Burns, b. 1792/1793, Wilkes Co, NC (now Watauga Co, NC) d. Aft 1860, Johnson Co, TN (Age > 68 years)3. Leah Burns 4. Elizabeth Burns, b. 1796/1797, Wilkes Co, NC (now Watauga Co, NC) d. Aft 1860, Johnson Co, TN (Age > 64 years)5. Sarah Burns, b. 1799/1800, Ashe Co, NC (now Watauga Co, NC) d. Aft 1870, Watauga Co, NC (Age > 71 years)6. Artimissia Burns, b. 1801/1802, Ashe Co, NC (now Watauga Co, NC) d. Aft 1860, Johnson Co, TN (Age > 59 years)7. Malvina Burns, b. 1805/1806, Carter Co, TN (now Johnson Co, TN) d. Aft 1850, McMinn Co, TN (Age > 45 years)8. Loretta Burns, b. 1805/1806, Carter Co, TN (now Johnson Co, TN) d. Aft 1870, McMinn Co, TN (Age > 65 years)9. Susannah Burns, b. 1810/1811, Carter Co, TN (now Johnson Co, TN) d. 1889, Johnson Co, TN (Age 78 years)Family ID F2086 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Aug 2026
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Notes - !REFERENCE:"A History of Watauga County, North Carolina" John Preston Arthur. 1915. Ibid. Page 303 "Dugger Family. --- In 1793 or 1794 Benjamin DUGGER came to Watauga County from Yadkin Elk, where a creek and mountain still bear his name. He entered land on Brushy Fork, near the present HOLTSCLAW settlement. His children were Selah, who married Lawson GOODIN; Daniel DUGGER; Cora Ann, who married Samuel BURNS; Susannah, who married John WHITTINGTON; Mary, who married John CALIHAN; David and William DUGGER. David DUGGER bought out the other heirs. The deed is dated November 1, 1815 and calls for two tracts on Brushy Fork. There were three DUGGER brothers who came from Scotland to Yadkin Elk, having settled for a time near Petersburg, Va., Benjamin, Daniel and Julius. Ben stopped on Brushy Fork, Daniel went west to Kentucky and Julius settled in what was then Carter County, Tennessee, near Fish Springs, where some of his descendants still live. It was from the Julius DUGGER family that the Dugger Forge and the beginnings of Cranberry forge started. David married Margaret ERNEST and their children are: Henry, who married a GREEN; Polly, who married David HOWELL; Elizabeth, who married Jehiel SMITH, and William, who married Unice MUNDAY. William's children were: Henry, who never married; Franklin, who married Martha PRESNELL; David, who married Mary MUNDAY; Elizabeth, who never married;
John, killed in Civil War; William Eben, married Nannie WILKERSON; Margaret and Mary Jane, not married";
!NOTES:Online trees (sans documentation) give Samuel's parents as Charles Burns and Mary Ann Webb. Is there any proof for this?;
!CENSUS:1790 Wilkes Co., NC p. 163 12th Company
Saml Burns age 16+ (bef 1774)
1-0-1-0-0
* Next to Benjamin Dugger;
!MARRIAGE BOND:12 Feb 1791 Wilkes Co., NC
Samuel Burns & Ann Dugger
Benjamin Dugger, bm;
!CENSUS:1800 Ashe Co., NC p. 74
Samuel Barns (sic) age 26-44 (1755/1774)
30010-30100-0-0;
!CENSUS:1810 x
* Lost for TN;
!TAXLIST:1815 Ashe Co, NC;
!CENSUS:1820 x
* Lost for Eastern TN;
!CENSUS:1830 Carter Co., TN p. 27
Samuel Burns age 60-69 (1760/1770)
000010001-00114301
* two houses from Thomas Dugger (1797) (Cora's 1st cousin) and William Dugger (1750), Cora's uncle;
!CENSUS:1840 Johnson Co., TN p. 279
Samuel Burns age 70-79 (1760/1770)
0010000001-0000112001;
!CENSUS:1850;
- !REFERENCE:"A History of Watauga County, North Carolina" John Preston Arthur. 1915. Ibid. Page 303 "Dugger Family. --- In 1793 or 1794 Benjamin DUGGER came to Watauga County from Yadkin Elk, where a creek and mountain still bear his name. He entered land on Brushy Fork, near the present HOLTSCLAW settlement. His children were Selah, who married Lawson GOODIN; Daniel DUGGER; Cora Ann, who married Samuel BURNS; Susannah, who married John WHITTINGTON; Mary, who married John CALIHAN; David and William DUGGER. David DUGGER bought out the other heirs. The deed is dated November 1, 1815 and calls for two tracts on Brushy Fork. There were three DUGGER brothers who came from Scotland to Yadkin Elk, having settled for a time near Petersburg, Va., Benjamin, Daniel and Julius. Ben stopped on Brushy Fork, Daniel went west to Kentucky and Julius settled in what was then Carter County, Tennessee, near Fish Springs, where some of his descendants still live. It was from the Julius DUGGER family that the Dugger Forge and the beginnings of Cranberry forge started. David married Margaret ERNEST and their children are: Henry, who married a GREEN; Polly, who married David HOWELL; Elizabeth, who married Jehiel SMITH, and William, who married Unice MUNDAY. William's children were: Henry, who never married; Franklin, who married Martha PRESNELL; David, who married Mary MUNDAY; Elizabeth, who never married;