A copy of this clipping from an unknown source was found in the Local History Files at Lowell Public Library (LH--Vital Statistics, vol. 4, page 23):
The paper stated that just eight years to the day on the death of Mrs. Burnham, her son, David, was killed in his tent at Atlanta while writing a letter home. Burnham Post G.A.R., of Lowell, was named after him.