Sarah Burdick, daughter of Samuel P. and Polly Stillman Burdick, and widow of Daniel R. Burdick, was born in Brookfield, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1820, and died in Albion, Wis., Feb. 5, 1903.
At the age of sixteen, she, with her father's family moved to DeRuyter, N. Y., where, for a time, she attended DeRuyter Institute, and where on the 8th of Aug., 1839, she was married to Daniel R. Burdick. Sometime in the year 1843 they came to Wisconsin, and in the following year settled on the farm in Albion where Mr. Burdick died Nov. 14, 1867, and where Mrs. Burdick spent the remainder of her days. To them were born six children, one son and five daughters, all of whom except the third and youngest died when quite young. Those two, Mrs. J. S. Green, of Fordland, Mo., and Mrs. B. I. Jeffrey, who with her husband have lived with her and tenderly cared for her during the last years of her life, and two brothers, Rowland S. of Janesville, Wis., in his 88th year, and Ethan L., of Farina, Ill., in his 75th year, still survive her.
Rev. M. G. Stillman, pastor of the Walworth Seventh-day Baptist church and well known to the readers of the Sabbath Recorder, came to live in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Burdick when but a child and by them was reared to manhood, and from them received his early home training.
Jan. 19, 1850, Mrs. Burdick, with her husband, united with the Albion Seventh-day Baptist church, of which she remained an acceptable member until her death. She was always deeply interested in the work of the church, and was an active member in the Women's Missionary and Benevolent Society until old age rendered her unable to attend the meetings.
Funeral Sabbath P. M., Feb. 7. Sermon by pastor from John 14: 2, last clause. S. H. B.
