At Rulo, Neb., Jan. 24, 1890, Mrs. Martha Burdick Perry, aged 78 years.
She was born April 14, 1812, at Truxton, now Cuyler Hill, experienced religion under the preaching of Eld. Wm. B. Maxson, was baptized by him and united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church in that place, at the age of nine years. She was married at 19 to James H. Perry, and soon after moved west. Her husband and two of their six children survive her, and of her father's family of thirteen children, only one, Mrs. Luanna Burdick, is now left. She bore her last sickness with Christian patience and died in the peaceful hope of a blessed immortality.