Isaphena Burdick West was born in Allegany county, New York, June 27, 1828, and died at Milton Junction, Wisconsin, June 5, 1906, in the seventy-eighth year of her age. She was the daughter of Ethan and Amy Allen Burdick who were originally from Rhode Island.
In 1841 she came with her parents to Wisconsin, and in the year following they settled upon a farm in the town of Lima. In 1851 she was baptized by Elder Stillman Coon and joined the Milton [SDB] church. While attending Milton Academy she became acquainted with William B. West, to whom she was married September 23, 1852, by Rev. Varnum Hull. After living in Milton nearly two years she, with her husband and infant son removed to Christiana, Dane county, Wisconsin, and settled upon a farm. September, 1855, she joined by letter, the Christiana, which was later the Utica church, of which she remained a faithful member until the dissolution of the church in 1901. She then joined the church at Milton Junction to which place she and her husband had removed in 1891. She was an earnest worker in the church and Sabbath school, in which she was an efficient teacher.
In her home life she was a faithful wife and devoted mother, unsparing of herself in her labors for her family. To her and her husband were born four children: William Leman, who died in 1891; Allen B. of Lake Mills; Amy S., Now Mrs. W. H. Allen; and Nettie I., now Mrs. W. D. Burdick of Farina, Ill.
