Nellie Marie Burns (ca. 1850 – June 16, 1897) was a 19th-century American actor and poet.

Biography

Ellen Marie Sherman was born and educated in

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, about 1850. She was a daughter of Dr. Newell Sherman, of Waltham, a descendant of Rev. John Sherman and Mary Launce, a granddaughter of Thomas Darcy, the Earl Rivers. Rev. Sherman had been a Fellow of Harvard. From him were also descended General

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and Hon.

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. The family came to the United States from

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, England, in 1642. Her mother's maiden name was Kimball, and she came from the English Brights and Bonds, of

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. By her first marriage, she was the mother of George C. Cooper, editor of the

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, ''Union''. For some years, Nellie was on the stage. It was there that she met the actor and comedian, Thomas N. Burns, whom she married in 1878. At the suggestion of her husband, she left the stage a few years after her marriage. Burns had been an actress, and she left the stage after marriage, at the suggestion of her husband. They made their summer home in

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. She wrote much from 1886 and prepared her manuscript for publication in book form. She was a contributor to ''

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'', the

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''Times'', the Waltham ''

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'',

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'', and other journals. She died June 16, 1897 (aged 49–50) at Kittery Point, and was buried at

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in Waltham.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Nellie Marie 1850s births 1897 deaths 19th-century American poets 19th-century American actresses American stage actresses 19th-century American women writers American women poets People from Waltham, Massachusetts