HISTORY OF UNION COUNTY, OHIO (Chicago, W. H. Beers & Co., 1883), 2:667
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NATHAN BURNSIDE. farmer, P. O. Byhalia. The subject of this sketch was born in
Logan County, Ohio, December 4, 1817. His parents were Alexander and Elizabeth
Burnside, who came from Virginia, and settled in Logan County at an early day.
He has seen and endured much of pioneer life. On April 2, 1840, in Logan County,
he married Miss Sarah McGee, daughter of William and Jane McGee (now deceased),
of Logan County. To them have been born eight children, six of whom are still
living, viz.: Alexander W., William M., Samuel G., Lewis C., Mary J. and Eliza-
beth E. In 1843, he came to Union County, and for eighteen months located in
Washington Township, on a tract of land where he now resides. He subsequently
spent a short time in Iowa, Indiana and Logan County, Ohio, but in 1847 or 1848
returned to Washington Township. He has served as School Director, and is a mem-
ber of the Baptist Church. As an agriculturist, he has met with good success,
being a man of industrious and economical habits. He is the owner of 143 acres
of land.