At the Soldiers' Home, Hampton, Va., Aug. 29, 1904, Chas. H. Burdick, aged sixty-one years.
He was born in West Edmeston, N. Y., July 27, 1843, and was the son of Geo. H. and Cyrena Coon Burdick. They went to Walworth, Wis.., where his early life was spent until he entered the army, in 1861. After his discharge in December, 1865, they resided in Leonardsville, N. Y., where Mrs. Burdick died the following March. In Nov. 1868 he married Dell S. Burdick of Brookfield, N. Y., who survives him. He began the sale of musical instruments in 1876, in different states. In 1895, he came to Westerly, R. I., but for a few years he has been at his work in the west, the family remaining at Westerly. He had been in poor health, and December last returned to Westerly. About the 1st of August he entered the Soldiers' Home at Hampton, Va., where he died suddenly. He was for many years a member of the Brookfield church. He leaves besides his wife, one son, I. E. Burdick, and one daughter, Mrs. Selden M. Young, all of Westerly, R. I.
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