Lydia Burdick, daughter of Isaac and Polly Burdick, and wife of Seeley Monroe, was born in Brookfield, Madison county, N. Y., March 22d, 1800, and died in Milton, Rock county, Wis., June 15th, 1879, aged 79 years, 2 months, and 23 days. She embraced religion at about eighteen years of age and united with the First Seventh-day Baptist Church of Alfred, Allegany county, N. Y., of which she remained a consistent and worthy member until death released her from the church militant to join the church triumphant. She was married to Seeley Monroe, March 6th, 1819, with whom she lived a little over sixty years. She, with her husband, moved from New York to Wisconsin, in the year 1854, since which time this State has been their home. She was the mother of five children, all of whom are now living. Two of her daughters [Louisa, Olive] still live in their native town in Allegany county, N. Y.; one son [George] lives at Davis Junction, Ill.; and one son [William] and one daughter [Emily] live in the town of Fulton, in this county. About four and a half years since, she had a stroke of paralysis, since which time she has been able to walk or help herself but very little. As old age came on, she gradually failed, with occasionally a sinking spell, but otherwise remaining the same until a few days before her death. She gradually sank to rest in death without apparent consciousness of its near approach. L. T. R.
