Background
He was born in Hanover, New Jersey, the 7th (of 12) child of Justus Burnett (b 1760) and Lois Crane (1767–1831).
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Career
Stephen was a veteran of the War of 1812, an "artillerist." He enlisted June 23, 1814, in Captain Green"s Company of Artillery, transferred to Captain James R. Hanham"s Company Corps of Artillery on July 6, 1814. Transferred to Captain Richard L. Howell"s Company May 1, 1815. In his army discharge paper, dated May 12, 1815, he was described as "about 21 years of age, five feet 8 inches high, ruddy complexion, blue eyes, dark hair."
Stephen"s wife Hanna Creal was one of eleven children of Anthony Creal, Senior (b December 13, 1770 in Ballstown New York, m October 10, 1793, d March 17, 1817 in Ellery New York, killed by a falling tree) and Hannah Seymour (b April 8, 1770, Ballstown New York, d November 9, 1850, Centerville Pennsylvania).
On May 2, 1821, with their then three-year-old son Linus Anthony Burnett (who later became the postmaster of Terre Haute, Indiana), and others including Hanna"s brother Anthony Creal, Junior, started for Indiana.
They went down the Thames River (Ontario) across Lake Saint Clair, up the Maumee River, over the mountains and down a tributary to the Wabash River to Terre Haute, Indiana - all on a pirogue - a type of raft made by themselves from a large pine tree, hollowed out, with a cabin at one education This was their only conveyance to Terre Haute.
Stephen and a small party had made a trip as far south as Saint Louis about two years earlier, in 1819, where they were attacked by Indians on the return trip and lost all their possessions. Stephen then married Kate (Catherine) Adams, a widow with three children.
Stephen, Catherine and William are listed in the 1850 Census for Nevins Township, Vigo County, Indiana.
The Adams family is the immediately adjacent census listing. Hanna"s brother Anthony Creal, Junior, and his family are listed in the neighboring Otter Creek Township, where Anthony built a tannery and a mill. Stephen died in Terre Haute in 1861 - his obituary is at.
