Mrs. Hattie Eloise Burdick, wife of Rev. C. A. Burdick, died at her home in Westerly, R. I., May 11th, after a long illness with consumption. It was five years ago the coming summer, with Mr. Burdick, she was attending the General Conference in the Seventh-day Baptist church in Shiloh, N. J., that she contracted a severe cold, which soon developed into tuberculosis. Since then everything possible had been done in assisting her in battling with the disease, but the case was a marked one from the first and its steps had always been in the direction of ultimate termination. For the last few weeks, Mrs. Burdick had not seemed quite so well, but it was only during two or three days that she had lost the strength rapidly. Her death came at the last like a slipping away, it was so quiet.
Mrs. Burdick was the daughter of Charles W. and Frances Denison Crandall, and was born in Walworth, Wis., Feb. 2, 1862. She was married Oct. 1, 1881, and went to Ashaway, R. I., to live in July 1899. There she remained until February, 1903, when Mr. Burdick became pastor at the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Westerly. A husband and four daughters remain, and they have the sympathy of their many friends. Her funeral was held at her late home, Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, and the burial was in River Bend cemetery. - Alfred Sun.
