From the Marysville Tribune January 16, 1938
JOHN BURNS WAS CALLED
WELL-KNOWN BUSINESSMAN AND RETIRED FARMER DIED SATURDAY MORNING
John B. Burns, aged 81, well-known retired business man and farmer, died at 4 a. m. Saturday at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Knotts on the Marion Road. He died of complications after an illness of several years. He was bedfast only one day.
Mr. Burns resided in Chestnut Street until the death of his wife, the former Lena Scheiderer Burns, about a year ago. Then he went to live with Mr. Knotts. Mr. Burns was a native of Union County and spent his entire life in the county. He was born June 18, 1857 to Emanuel and Anna Bishop Burns, natives of Pennsylvania and of Germany, respectively. He united in marriage with Lena Scheiderer on April 15, 1882. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Mr. Burns operated a brickyard for a number of years and also farmed before moving to this city.
Surviving children are Mrs. Arthur Knotts, of the Marion Road and Mrs. Esther Chumbley of Toledo. Also surviving are nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild, a brother, Gottlieb Burns of Milford Center, and three sisters, Mrs. Richard Dasher, Mrs. Ed Weidman and Mrs. John Auer all of Marysville.
Funeral services on Tuesday afterernoon at 2 o'clock at the Knotts residence on the Marion Road and at Trinity Lutheran Church at 2:30 o'clock with Rev. E. J. Koedeking officiating. Interment in Oakdale Cemetery in charge of Funeral Director L. H. Miller.
