Robert’s Treasure Chest

Today we drove to Livermore, Kentucky to visit Great Uncle Richard Edds. He had something in his shop that we wanted to see. There we found an old tool chest that had belonged to our Great, Great Grandfather; Robert Henry Burnett. Born in 1864 near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Robert was a carpenter who primarily built barns, but he had been known to build a few homes as well. In fact, after his daughter Kitty married Bertie Edds and moved to Kentucky, Robert Burnett and his wife Maggie visited McLean County in the early 1920’s, and he built a couple of homes for family members during that time. Uncle Richard believes most of these tools date from the very early 20th Century, and some could be older. One interesting find was a few Civil War bullets lying in the bottom of the box. Grandpa speculated that Robert must have picked them up on job sites.