"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 79, No 15, p 479, Oct. 11, 1915.
In Ward, Allegany Co., N. Y., September 11, 1915, Mrs. Abby Jane Burdick, in the ninetieth year of her age.
Mrs. Burdick was the daughter of James and Martha Miner Allen, and the granddaughter of John Allen, who came to Alfred, N. Y., in 1817. John Allen was also the grandfather of the late President Jonathan Allen, of Alfred University. Soon after the coming of the Allen family to Alfred, James, her father, settled two miles west of Alfred, and here Mrs. Burdick was born. At the time of her marriage she and her husband commenced housekeeping on the farm joining on the east side the one where she was born and had grown to womanhood, and these two homesteads, now joined into one, had been her home the fourscore and ten years of her life.
She improved the opportunities afforded by the school at Alfred, two miles away, graduating therefrom in 1847. After graduation she taught school for a number of years and in 1857 was married to Alexander B. Burdick, who died nineteen years ago next December. To them were born six children: George A,, Mary Jane, and Phoebe Content, who have ministered to their mother in her declining years: Mrs. F. S. Place and Mrs. J. Elbert Allen, of Alfred, and one son who died in infancy.
When about nineteen years of age, she made a public profession of faith in Christ, was baptized by Elder James R. Irish, and joined the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred; of this church she has since remained a most worthy member, a period of seventy years. She was faithful in helping to bear the burdens of the church and in attending its appointments. For a number of years she was superintendent of the Sabbath school at Five Corners and was conscientious in the instructing of her own family in the ways of righteousness.
Hers was the day before trained nurses, and forth she went to care for the sick and comfort the sorrowing. She belonged to a company of noble pioneers who endured the dangers and hardships of a new country, subdued its wildness, established churches and schools, and maintained personal and community righteousness.
Funeral services, conducted by Pastor William L. Burdick, were held at the home September 13th, and burial took place in Alfred Rural Cemetery.
W. L. B.
In Ward, Allegany Co., N. Y., September 11, 1915, Mrs. Abby Jane Burdick, in the ninetieth year of her age.
Mrs. Burdick was the daughter of James and Martha Miner Allen, and the granddaughter of John Allen, who came to Alfred, N. Y., in 1817. John Allen was also the grandfather of the late President Jonathan Allen, of Alfred University. Soon after the coming of the Allen family to Alfred, James, her father, settled two miles west of Alfred, and here Mrs. Burdick was born. At the time of her marriage she and her husband commenced housekeeping on the farm joining on the east side the one where she was born and had grown to womanhood, and these two homesteads, now joined into one, had been her home the fourscore and ten years of her life.
She improved the opportunities afforded by the school at Alfred, two miles away, graduating therefrom in 1847. After graduation she taught school for a number of years and in 1857 was married to Alexander B. Burdick, who died nineteen years ago next December. To them were born six children: George A,, Mary Jane, and Phoebe Content, who have ministered to their mother in her declining years: Mrs. F. S. Place and Mrs. J. Elbert Allen, of Alfred, and one son who died in infancy.
When about nineteen years of age, she made a public profession of faith in Christ, was baptized by Elder James R. Irish, and joined the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred; of this church she has since remained a most worthy member, a period of seventy years. She was faithful in helping to bear the burdens of the church and in attending its appointments. For a number of years she was superintendent of the Sabbath school at Five Corners and was conscientious in the instructing of her own family in the ways of righteousness.
Hers was the day before trained nurses, and forth she went to care for the sick and comfort the sorrowing. She belonged to a company of noble pioneers who endured the dangers and hardships of a new country, subdued its wildness, established churches and schools, and maintained personal and community righteousness.
Funeral services, conducted by Pastor William L. Burdick, were held at the home September 13th, and burial took place in Alfred Rural Cemetery.
W. L. B.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 79, No 15, p 479, Oct. 11, 1915.
In Ward, Allegany Co., N. Y., September 11, 1915, Mrs. Abby Jane Burdick, in the ninetieth year of her age.
Mrs. Burdick was the daughter of James and Martha Miner Allen, and the granddaughter of John Allen, who came to Alfred, N. Y., in 1817. John Allen was also the grandfather of the late President Jonathan Allen, of Alfred University. Soon after the coming of the Allen family to Alfred, James, her father, settled two miles west of Alfred, and here Mrs. Burdick was born. At the time of her marriage she and her husband commenced housekeeping on the farm joining on the east side the one where she was born and had grown to womanhood, and these two homesteads, now joined into one, had been her home the fourscore and ten years of her life.
She improved the opportunities afforded by the school at Alfred, two miles away, graduating therefrom in 1847. After graduation she taught school for a number of years and in 1857 was married to Alexander B. Burdick, who died nineteen years ago next December. To them were born six children: George A,, Mary Jane, and Phoebe Content, who have ministered to their mother in her declining years: Mrs. F. S. Place and Mrs. J. Elbert Allen, of Alfred, and one son who died in infancy.
When about nineteen years of age, she made a public profession of faith in Christ, was baptized by Elder James R. Irish, and joined the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred; of this church she has since remained a most worthy member, a period of seventy years. She was faithful in helping to bear the burdens of the church and in attending its appointments. For a number of years she was superintendent of the Sabbath school at Five Corners and was conscientious in the instructing of her own family in the ways of righteousness.
Hers was the day before trained nurses, and forth she went to care for the sick and comfort the sorrowing. She belonged to a company of noble pioneers who endured the dangers and hardships of a new country, subdued its wildness, established churches and schools, and maintained personal and community righteousness.
Funeral services, conducted by Pastor William L. Burdick, were held at the home September 13th, and burial took place in Alfred Rural Cemetery.
W. L. B.
In Ward, Allegany Co., N. Y., September 11, 1915, Mrs. Abby Jane Burdick, in the ninetieth year of her age.
Mrs. Burdick was the daughter of James and Martha Miner Allen, and the granddaughter of John Allen, who came to Alfred, N. Y., in 1817. John Allen was also the grandfather of the late President Jonathan Allen, of Alfred University. Soon after the coming of the Allen family to Alfred, James, her father, settled two miles west of Alfred, and here Mrs. Burdick was born. At the time of her marriage she and her husband commenced housekeeping on the farm joining on the east side the one where she was born and had grown to womanhood, and these two homesteads, now joined into one, had been her home the fourscore and ten years of her life.
She improved the opportunities afforded by the school at Alfred, two miles away, graduating therefrom in 1847. After graduation she taught school for a number of years and in 1857 was married to Alexander B. Burdick, who died nineteen years ago next December. To them were born six children: George A,, Mary Jane, and Phoebe Content, who have ministered to their mother in her declining years: Mrs. F. S. Place and Mrs. J. Elbert Allen, of Alfred, and one son who died in infancy.
When about nineteen years of age, she made a public profession of faith in Christ, was baptized by Elder James R. Irish, and joined the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred; of this church she has since remained a most worthy member, a period of seventy years. She was faithful in helping to bear the burdens of the church and in attending its appointments. For a number of years she was superintendent of the Sabbath school at Five Corners and was conscientious in the instructing of her own family in the ways of righteousness.
Hers was the day before trained nurses, and forth she went to care for the sick and comfort the sorrowing. She belonged to a company of noble pioneers who endured the dangers and hardships of a new country, subdued its wildness, established churches and schools, and maintained personal and community righteousness.
Funeral services, conducted by Pastor William L. Burdick, were held at the home September 13th, and burial took place in Alfred Rural Cemetery.
W. L. B.
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