In Milton, Wis., Dec. 7th, of consumption, Phebe Celestia, wife of Edwin S. Burdick, and daughter of Abel G. and Nancy Burdick, in the 33d year of her age. Sister Burdick professed religion about the age of 13, and united with the 2d Seventh-day Baptist Church of Verona, N.Y.; and after her removal to Wisconsin in 1858, she with her husband united with the Milton Church, of which she continued a faithful member until called to "be with Christ."
In the death of Sister Burdick, the church has not only lost one of its faithful members, but the Recorder also one of the poetical contributors to its columns - Celestia. In her uninterrupted patience, as expressive of her perfect victory over the "terrors of death," she selected for her text, to be used on her funeral occasion, Ps. cxviii. 5: "I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place."
