JAMES CHRISTOPHER BURNS
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Officer Rank: Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 41-E: 2
Department: Sanpete County, Utah, S.D.
End of Watch: September 26, 1894
Cause: SHOT
Age: 45
Years of Service: 20
Description: Sheriff Burns was killed in a gun fight with sheep rustlers. His son James M. Burns was also killed in the line of duty on June 16, 1925.
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