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he died, according to the statement of his daughter Ethel, 
who says that he trembled and shook like Belle and Wilbur, 
besides imagining that people were chasing him and that bugs 
were crawling over his body. 
Annie, the oldest child of Harmon Burns, was mentioned 
in connection with her husband, Samuel Morris. She was 
licentious, and in later life was afflicted with chorea. Old 
neighbors say that she was even worse than her daughter, 
Ellen Bruce, who is a bad case of Huntington’s chorea in 
the Southeastern Hospital. Her 4 children, Wilbur, Belle, 
Gerald, and Robert, were discussed along with the other chil- 
dren of Samuel Morris. It is interesting to note that 3 of 
the 4 were afflicted with Huntington’s chorea. 
Ethel, second child of Harmon, is feeble-minded and almost 
blind. She can now barely distinguish between night and 
day with her left eye, and is entirely blind in the other one. 
She says that she lost the sight of her right eye 29 years ago 
as the result of an acute attack of neuralgia. At 18 years of 
age she married Mose Morris, who was the son of her paternal 
half-aunt and the step-son of her sister Annie. By him she 
has 5 children, who were mentioned along with their father 
Mose. Ethel can neither read nor write; she says that she 
did not have to go to school when she was a girl. She says 
that she could not make change before she lost her sight, 
and that her husband always has to have one of his neigh- 
bors count his money. She took quite a liking to the field 
worker, whom she informed that her boy who was not mar- 
ried was very pretty and that she would like him. She insisted 
that the worker stay until he returned to the house, and went 
on to say that if she would marry him it would be such a 
help to the family as she was probably making as much as 
$10 per month and the family could almost live on that sum. 
It did not seem to occur to her that the girl might not care 
to marry her son. 
Rose, the third child of Harmon Burns, married Rex 
Booth. The number of their children is unknown. Two of 
them were named Horace and Arthur. Arthur married a 
Buskirk and lives in Stonetown. He has 8 children, 1 of 
whom is Mary, a school child with an I.Q. of 66. She is 
characterized by the person testing her as being discouraged 
by the least failure, not interested in the test, very emotional. 
