Augusta was the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Lewis Degerlia. She was the wife of David Burns and the mother of 11 children.

Augusta A. Degerlia, eldest daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Degerlia, was born in Gilead, Ill. May 12, 1852, and departed this life at her home in Hamburg, Ill. June 15, 1918, at 11:45 A.M. having reached the age of 66 years, 1 month, and 3 days.
She was united in marriage to David Burns, August 9, 1874. To this union were born eleven children, four having preceded the mother to the beyond. The husband and seven children remain to mourn their loss. The children are, Benjamin of Alton, Mrs. J. L. Clark of St. Louis, Howard of Batchtown, Mrs. J. L. Phillips of St. Louis, Mrs. Ross Ruyle of Hamburg, Bert and Freda remain at home.
Three sisters and three brothers besides numerous relatives and friends mourn her departure.
She spent her entire life in Calhoun County.
She united with the Methodist church at Belleview in the year 1909, under the pastorate of Rev. C. W. Moorman, and since have been a constant believer in the faith of her heavenly Father.
Altho never really well for the last three years, she bore her suffering with patience.
A shadow fell upon our lives when death the reaper came and took our mother dear away from earthly care and pain;
The Lord said, 'You have finished. Come up higher Mother dear, you have won a home in Heaven for the pain you suffered here'
We saw her sufferings, heard her sighs, with aching hearts and weeping eyes, we saw her sinking hour by hour, yet could not stay death's awful power. In silence she suffered, with patience she bore, Till God called her home to suffer no more.
Funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church in Belleview, Monday afternoon, June 17, 1918, by her pastor, Rev. Earl Barrett, of Hamburg, after which interment took place in the Long cemetery.