Adelaide Burdick Sheldon was born Dec. 11, 1886 to Oliver Daniel Burdick and Susan A. Davis Burdick in the town of Alfred, NY, and died March 27, at Wellsville, NY. Joining the Alfred Station Seventh Day Baptist Church in her youth, she transferred membership to the Alfred SDB Church after moving to that village from East Valley. Always remaining youthful in spirit she loyally supported her church until health failed a few months before her death.
She married William W. Sheldon, Alfred livery and bus operator of legendary community service for years. He died in 1955. Two daughters, Virginia (Mrs. Roelofs), Rosemary (Mrs. Chapman), and a son, Max, survive. A daughter, Carole, preceded her mother in death. Also surviving are eleven grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Mrs. Sheldon was a graduate of the Alfred University Teacher Training course in 1906 and taught school for two years in Alfred Township. She later served Alfred University and the Glidden Potteries.
Honoring her sixty-nine years of faithful membership in the Order of the Eastern Star, a large delegation of that Order attended her memorial service. The memorial service was held in her church at Alfred on April 4, 1981 with burial in the Alfred Rural Cemetery beside her husband. Former pastors Albert N. Rogers and David S. Clarke conducted the service.
D.S.C.
