River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-04-25
Death of Major Burnett.

I FROM the santa Rosa tldi.l lftlflOctdt.
Major Ellsworth Burnett, aged IS,
died on Easter Sunday evening at 8
| O'Clock p. NJ. at his residence on
Cherry street in this city.
Major Burnett was born in St.
Lawrence county, New York. At
| about the age of u he left his native
| place TO seek a home in the then
wilderness OF Northwestern Wisconsin.
He located at River Falls, Pierce
county, Wis, within thirty miles of
the city of st. Paul, where he engag-
/ ed in the business of lumb ering and
| farming until the breaking out of the
! War of the Rebellion, when he en-
! listed in Company A of the 30th Wis.
Regiment of Infantry. He partici-
| pated in the fortunes of the regiment
| for nearly two years, being promoted
| TO sergeant, their service being
mostly within their own State of
| Wisconsin.
Feeling a strong desire TO see more
of the war, he sought for aud obtained
a recruiting commission returned
| home and raised full company OF
men, was placed in command as
| captain and assigned 10 the 9th
| Regiment Wis. Volunteer Infantry,
| and Immediately sent forward to join
4 EtNaI al VI btS
where the regiment arrived almost
without discipline just before the
| battle before Petersburg. At the
| blowing up of the mine at Petersburg
| his regiment was ordered into the
| breach formed by the explosion and
/ exposed TO a terrible entilading fire
| from the enemy which nearly ami
| Inflated the regiment. For the last
| year and a half of the war until the
| surrender at Appomattox he was in
| the front of that army in many hard
| fought battles, YET escaped without
loss of life or limb, while but few of
his company ever lived to come home.
After the war lie resumed his
business of numbering and farming in
Wisconsin, when by his indomitable
energy, sterling integrity and frugal
| habits he secured for himself a COM
| Portable living, as well as large
/ place in the hearts and affections of
! his friends and neighbors.
He took an active part in public af-
| fairs, in the development of his
| county and State, and served his
| people assheritf and also as representa-
| tive i'm the Legislature. His advice
| was sought in all matters of public
| economy, and valued highly by many
| in private affairs. He married, Nov
| %. 1873, Miss Amelia +. Cox, daughter
of the late Judge G. b. Cox and
| Margaret Cox of Santa Rosa. His
| wife survives him.
In 1888, being somewhat broken in
health, he and his wife removed to
California, hoping TO find relaxation
and length of days in the milder
climate of this country, but his
| weakness was of such nature that
neither climate nor medicine could
| cure, and his hope in this direction
| was not realized.
| His attachments were strong and
| hearty and there seemed to be no
| limit to what he would do for those
whom he wed and valued as friends.
| He knew no rank or sect or class, but
| like Abou Ben Adam, 'He loved his
/ fellow men,"
| Funeral will be from the residence
| at o'clock p. NJ. to-day, following the
| arrival of the train from the north
bearing his brother, Rev. E. L.
| Burnett of Mendocino City.
| Service at the house will be con-
| Quoted by Rev. Ben +. Sargent, and
at the grave by the Grand Army OF
the Republic