The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-02-19
Obituaries.
ISAAC w. BURKE.

ISAAC W. BURKE.
Isaac w. Burke died at his home i'm
OwOsso township on Monday morning, Feb.
8, 1892 of congestion of the lungs, after an
illness of two weeks, aged 70 years.
Mr.. Burke, one of family of seven sons,
was born i'm the town of Newark, Wayne
county, N. Y, Feb. 8, 1870 Anticipating
Horace Greeley's advice "YOung man, go
west" at the age of nineteen he came to
Michigan and spent two or three years with
brother i'm Clinton county. Being quite a
nimrod, when not otherwise engaged he
spent his time with gun and traps, which
his skill rendered very remunerative, and in
later years he took great delight i'm rehears-
ins his hunting and trapping exploits.
When he came to Michigan he did not
enjoy good health and although at that time
our state was not particularly noted as a
health resort, he soon became strong. AS
an evidence of his physical endurance, long
before the days of the self binder, he and
his fellow tOwnsman Hon. John w. Dewey,
used to daily put in the shock five acres of
grain, John using the cradle and Isaac the
rake.
Mr.. Burkes parents having followed their
sons west, they settled in Oakland county.
The winter of 1S40-41 he taught school in
the town of Rose, that county, and made
the acquaintance of Miss Eunce DOty, one
of the 'big girls" of his school, and on
March II, 1s42, Miss Doty became Mrs.
Burke. They made their home in Oakland
county until 1860 when they came to Shia-
wassee and settled in the Mason neighbor-
hood. Remaining there but one year they
removed to a part of the farm now owned
by John Stewart and i'm 1864 to his late
home.
His wife and three of his five children
survive him, u. ID. Burke, Mrs. N. G.
Banghart and Mrs Cass SlOcum, all living
near the old home, also two brothers, Nor
rice Burke, of Saginaw, and William Burke,
Of Rose.
A close student of nature, it early lead
him to Look through nature up to natures
God" and to see in the laws of nature the
law of God as much as in the decalogue. He
was great reader and possessed fine social
qualities. A staunch republican from the
organization of the party, he had held Seve-
raj township offices. His funeral was largely
attended from the Bennington NJ. K. church,
of which society he was member, Thurs
day. Feb. IL, Rev. e. +. Caster, of Bay
City, officiating. lnterment at the Mccall
cemetery in Owosso township. X.
MRS. JULIA BANCROFT POST.
Newburg is mourning the loss of one of
its most loved and respected ladies, Mrs.
Julia Bancroft Post, who died of la grippe
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. p. G..
Carruthers, on Saturday, Feb. 6, 1892, i'm
her eighty-third year.
Funeral services were held at the family
residence on Tuesday afternoon, conducted
by Rev. Mr.. Freeman, of Vernon, and at
tended by large number of friends.
Mrs. Post was born in East Windsor.
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married; to Seth Sheldon, of Suffield, Conn.,,
in August 1928, the young pair soon after
emigrating to the then new state Of Ohio.
where Mr.. Sheldon died i'm 1885. About
three years later she married Mr.. Martin
Post, and in 1910 they came TO the still
younger state of Michigan, where they re-
peated long list of pioneer experiences.
After several years spent in Shiawassee
county they returned to Ohio and later re-
moved to Indiana, where Mr.. Post died at
Indianapolis in 1878, since when Mrs. Post
had resided in the home where she died.
Three children survive her-Mrs. p. G.
Carruthers, S. K. Sheldon. of Vernon, and
q. c. Post, of Lithia Springs, Ga. Two
had preceded her to the mystic bourR, Clara
Post, who died in Perry in 1868 and the late
Arson Sheldon of Chesaning in May $780,
both formerly well known in Shiawassee
county.
Rarely do four score years leave so few
finger marks OH the intellectual faculties;
seldom does time so lightly touch the heart
OF a naturally happy disposition, she had
learned to smile in the face of all earth's
sorrows, deeming 'affliction but the shadow
Of His wing" She was an accomplished
correspondent and a brilliant conversation
alist, retaining an active interest in society
to the very day of her fatal illness.
Mrs. Post was perhaps one of the most
profound nOn-professional students of the
ology in Michigan and from her youth de-
wont Christian of the good Samaritan type,
who literally counted that day lost in which
no charitable deed was done.
North Newburg, Feb. 16, 1892.