Elisha BURDICK

Elisha married Lydia STILLMAN on 12 Mar 1778. Lydia was born on 6 May 1760; died on 23 Sep 1839 in Brookfield, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin, August 30, 1864, of chronic inflammation of the stomach, Adin Burdick, Esq., aged 76 years. Brother Burdick professed religion in early life, and united with the First Seventh-day Baptist Church in Brookfield, New York, then under the pastoral care of Elder Harry Clarke. He was one of the members constituting the Third Seventh-day Baptist of Brookfield, for several years from its organization under the pastoral care of Elder Daniel Coon. He was also among the first who moved to Southern Wisconsin, and settled in Albion. Being one of the first settlers, and the tide of emigration running strong westward, his house became the travelers' home, and many remember the enjoyment and its welcome hospitalities. As a citizen, he was highly esteemed, and served his town in its most important official and useful positions. Brother Burdick was one of the number who formed the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Albion, of which he remained a useful member until removed by death. He leaves a deeply bereft widow, who has been blind for several years, and several children, all of whom are well settled in life, together with a large circle of relatives and friends, to mourn their loss, but with the infinite consolation, that for him to die was gain; for he rests from his labors, and his works do follow him. Source: "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 20, No 40, p 159, Oct. 6, 1864.

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Edgerton -- In 1842 Mr. Aden BURDICK came from New York state and bought a large tract of government land on which he made his home with his wife and grown children. In 1851 his youngest son, Austin, left the home farm and came with his bride and made a home in a log house on the site that J. B. TOINTON's house is now on. This log cabin home was warmed in winter from logs burning in an open fireplace in front of which the meals were cooked until 1852, the advent of a new method of cooking, when Austin BURDICK purchased an iron cook stove in Beloit. For meat they caught fish in the streams or killed game, and Christmas, 1851, Mr. BURDICK killed three deer on the slope of the hill behind the house Lew TOWNE lives in. He killed one by the Catholic Church later. We are proud to speak of Mr. and Mrs. BURDICK as the representative pioneer family, having lived longer in close touch with the life and activities of Edgerton than any couple the writer has knowledge of. The influence of pioneer life was felt in their home. The cordial greeting, the true hospitality shown to acquaintances as well as to friends, and I feel certain that many strangers were made welcome to a 'dish of tea.' To such pioneers much credit is due for all that has been best in the social and business life of our city. Mr. and Mrs. BURDICK have ever discouraged all that was low and degrading, while they assisted and supported that which had a tendency to uplift and ennoble character. Mrs. BURDICK was one of our Monday Club's charter members. To Mr. BURDICK I am indebted for information regarding pioneer life. I will tell you a little story he told me in regard to a little girl who came to his well for water when he lived where Mr. William CLARKE does. They drew water with a pail hooked on to the end of a pole. As the girl lowered her pail Mr. BURDICK was frightened to see her disappear head foremost into the well. He called to some one passing to assist him in getting her out, but what was his astonishment, when he looked into the well to see the girl, her pail full of sand, climbing out by placing her hands in the crevices in the sides. She got her pail of water and, without a word, walked away with it to her home, a block and a half distant. Such was the pluck of a fifteen-year-old pioneer maiden. Source: 'Rock County, Wisconsin', 1908, p 652.

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Adin married Martha CHESEBROUGH on 13 Feb 1814 in Stonington New London Co., Connecticut. Martha (daughter of Perez CHESEBROUGH and Priscilla THOMPSON) was born on 3 Jun 1790 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Oct 1865 in Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Albion, Dane Co., Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]