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- Mrs. Mary [E.] BURDICK was the
daughter of the late Henry GREEN and was
- born at Alfred, N.Y., Sept. 27, 1832.
Her mother was Martha COON, sister of Elder Amos W. COON,
one of the early teachers of Milton academy, still living at
Dodge Center, Minn. The family of Mr. GREEN came to Wisconsin
and settled near Rock river in 1840, one of the earliest settlers
in this part of the country. Here their two children, Mary and
Paul M., grew up, receiving fair advantages for an education
at the Milton academy, then in its infancy. On the 21st of October,
1858, shortly after her twenty-sixth birthday, the daughter was
married to Matthew Stillman BURDICK who departed this
life in 1887 after nearly thirty years of happy and useful wedded
life. Of their two children, the daughter, who married T. I.
PLACE of this village, died just about one year after
the father, and the son, who also was married, died a little
more than a year later. Left thus alone, Mrs. BURDICK
went to the home of her brother where she remained as one of
the family to the end and where she received every care and attention
that loving hearts could devise and willing hands bestow. Mrs.
BURDICK was a woman of rare excellence of character, full
of charity and good works. Her last illness, though long and
at times painful, was borne with a patience and calm faith that
was beautiful to see. A large circle of friends are bereaved
by her departure.
- The relatives from out of town in attendance
at the funeral of Mrs. BURDICK were
- E. A. BURDICK and wife, Mrs.
J. A. COON, Mrs. Electa COON, Mrs. Julia FULLER,
and James OGDEN of Edgerton, Mrs. Irene BURDICK
of Los Angeles, Cal., S. R. POTTER and wife, C. R. GREEN
and wife, Joseph GREEN and wife, E. MAIN and wife,
Mesdames Sarah LILLEY, Hattie SWEAT, Mark HEAD,
S. BURDICK, Eliza WOOD, and Jas. HARRINGTON
and Messrs. Henry HEAD, Halbert LILLEY and Jesse
WOOD of Albion, D. B. COON and wife and Elam COON
of Utica, A. I. BROWN and wife of Lodi and D. C. BURDICK
and wife and Emery BURDICK and wife of Janesville. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
- Caleb V[an Rensselaer] WELLS
was born in Sidney, Delaware county, N.Y., Sept.
- 4, 1821, and died suddenly of heart
failure in Milton, Wis., August 23, 1901, lacking but a few days
of being seventy-nine years of age. He spent some time in Milton
in 1848 and then returned to New York state. In 1852 he again
came to Milton to make his home. About a year after, he was
married to Miss Martha WILLIAMS, a sister of Robert and
Dennis WILLIAMS, so well known in Milton. They spent
a year or two upon the farm of Nathan MAXSON, whose wife
was a sister of Mr. WELLS, just west of what is now Milton
Junction - the farm now owned by Mr. PAUL. After this
temporary residence Mr. WELLS purchased and moved upon
the farm in the southeastern corner of the town of Milton and
the southwestern corner of the town of Lima where the remaining
years of his active life were passed - coming into the village
two or three years ago. To Mr. and Mrs. WELLS were born
one daughter, the wife of Mr. Oscar FREEBORN, and Mr.
Byron WELLS, whose home has been with the father for a
number of years. Mrs. WELLS departed this life about
six years ago. A brother and an invalid sister still live in
the state of New York and a half brother, Mr. Frank WELLS
of Elgin, Illinois, who attended the funeral.
- In youth, before coming to Wisconsin,
Mr. WELLS made a profession of religion and
- united with the Methodist church.
From careful reading he came to a change of views regarding
the Sabbath and was dropped from the membership of that church,
and he never united with any other church. He was a great reader
of the Bible acquiring an extended knowledge of its teachings;
he strove, in his own quiet way, to live by its precepts. He
was naturally possessed of a very retiring disposition which
kept him from becoming widely known, for while everybody in this
country round knew who he was, very few intimately knew him.
He was industrious, careful, honest, and kind. He despised
shams and makeshifts in religion and in business, but was quick
to discover sincerity and prompt to aid honest endeavor. Outside
of his own family, as well as in it, are those who mourn his
departure as the loss of a best friend.
- Funeral services were held at the late
residence in this village on Sunday afternoon,
- August 25, conducted by Dr. Platts,
and the body was laid to rest in the village cemetery. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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