In Alfred Centre, N. Y., May 15th, 1880, Amos Burdick, aged 85 years, 7 months, and 8 days. Early in the month of November, in alighting from a wagon he fell and broke his hip, which resulted in his death. He was born in Westerly, R. I., in 1794. In 1802 he moved to Brookfield, N. Y., and in 1816 he came on foot to Alfred. In 1818 he was married to Anstis Clark of Brookfield, and returned to Alfred, and for twenty years lived on the farm where he first settled, and then he moved to Alfred Centre, where he remained until his death. He was a man of excellent judgment and of industrious and economical habits. As a citizen, he was highly respected and useful. He, at an early day, engaged heartily in the temperance reform and in the anti slavery movement, and we might say he was found on the right side of every good cause. Early in life, his heart was won by the love of Christ to the service of God, and through all the years of his pilgrimage he was true to his profession. On coming here he united with the First Seventh-day Baptist Church of Alfred, of which he remained a faithful member until his death.
