Stephen Grover Burnett

Who was Stephen Grover Burnett?

Stephen Grover Burnett was an early settler in Indiana. He was born in Hanover, New Jersey, the 7th child of Justus Burnett and Lois Crane.

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 and Hannah Seymour.

After Stephen and Hanna married, they moved to London, Ontario. On May 2, 1821, with their then three-year-old son Linus Anthony Burnett, and others including Hanna's brother Anthony Creal, Junior, started for Indiana. They went down the Thames River across Lake St. 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 end.