Confederate States Army, Colonel, Company A, 11th Regiment, Missouri Infantry. Simon P. Burns, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865. Col. Simon Pierce Burns, Sr., birth date 1/1/1834 in Logan, Ohio; death date 4/8/1898 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas. Donna Jayne Burns Family Tree.
Ancestry.com .
Colonel Simon Pierce Burns, "Historical Scrapbook: Simon P. Burns, Military Leader, Politician," 6/30/2021. Taken from A Few Good Horses by Simon Pierce Burns, a great grandson of Colonel Burns.
Brownwood Bulletin .
Col. S.P. Burns, birth date 1/1/1834, death date 4/8/1898, burial in Heflin Cemetery, Owens, Brown County.
Find a Grave .
"Hon. S.P. Burns Dead," The Houston Daily Post, 4/16/1898, p. 5. "Colonel Burns served two terms as a member of the Texas house of representatives from the Brownwood district . . . ," Confederate veteran.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Simon Peter Burns, birth date 1/1/1834, death date 4/8/1898.
Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.