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- Emily Louisa BURDICK was born in Brookfield, Madison
County, New York, June
- 14, 1844. Her mother dying in the daughter's childhood, she
was taken into the family of her maternal grandmother, the second
wife of Daniel COON of the village of West Edmeston, New
York.
- After the death of this grandmother she found another home
in the family of a sister of
- her mother, Mrs. Benjamin STILLMAN of the same village.
She was reared to woman- hood with loving care in this family
and always preferred to speak of this home as if she was one
of them.
- She received her primary education in the public schools
of West Edmeston and her
- secondary education in De Ruyter Institute and Alfred University
of the state of New York. During her attendance upon these schools
she was engaged, for a brief period, in teaching in public schools
for self support. Afterwards she preferred a business career
and for several years served as a bookkeeper and clerk in the
store of Irving A. Crandall of Leonardsville, New York.
- February 14, 1892, in West Edmeston, New York, she became
the second wife of
- Professor Albert WHITFORD of Milton College, who had
been her teacher in each of the three schools before named.
- In her early youth, Mrs. WHITFORD was baptised into
the membership of her home
- church and later transferred her membership to that of the
Seventh Day Baptist church of Leonardsville, New York, where
during the first pastorate of President William C. Daland of
this church she was an active worker. After her marriage she
transferred her membership to the Seventh Day Baptist church
of Milton, Wis.
- Mrs. WHITFORD's death occurred in the evening of the
29th of Nov. at the home
- of her step-daughter, Mrs. Eugene CRANDALL, where
for the four months of her protracted illness, she received the
tenderest care. Besides her husband, she leaves as her nearest
of kin to mourn her loss an own sister, Mrs. George H. SHEFFIELD
of Holley, New York, and half brothers and sisters, the children
of her father by a second marriage, several of whom now live
in North Brookfield, New York.
- Farewell services were held on Monday afternoon, December
1, 1919, at the home
- of the step-daughter, Mrs. C. Eugene CRANDALL. President
William C. DALAND assisted pastor JORDAN in the
services. Burial was in the cemetery at Milton, Wis. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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