The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-10-23
Obituary.
MRS. E. A. BURDICK.

Obituary.
MRS. E. A. BURDICK.
IN the home.going of Mrs. E. A. Bur
dick Edgerton has lost ore of the very
choicest Of its citizens. Her long resi-
dence in this city, the kindness of her
nature, the strength of her character
the center gave her large place in the
esteem and affection of our people Her
last illness@wa brief and her departure
quite unexpected. She had just return
ed from very happy visit with her sons
and thei, families in Minnesota, when
an attack of the grippe was followed by
pneumonia, Fastening the end. 1t seems
like kind providence that the mother
should enjoy this fine visit with her sons
and with her daughter, Mrs. Mccoy,
who had come from Washington, before
she was taken from them. The funeral
service was held at the Congregational
church last Sunday afternoon at 2
o'clock, conducted by her former pastor,
Rev. IT, 81. Keller, of Milwaukee, and her
present pastor, Rev. L. A. Parr. The at
tendance was large and the feeling of all
present most profound. A wreath of
beautiful flowers, such as she loved so
we'll in life, voiced the love she had so
we'll deserved and won from large cir
Gle of relatives and friends.
Nancy Lavina Coon was born Feb. I,
1881, in Alfred, N Y. At the age of IA
she came to Wisconsin. May 3, 1851, she
was married to Edward Austin Burdick
IN Albion and year later they joined
the little group of families that formed
the beginning of what has since become
the beautiful city of Edgerton. The
home they tablished here in the will
derness has been one of the first, not
only IN time, but in its wider reaching in
t1uence on the entire community. Five
children were given to bless the family
life of Mr.. and Mrs. Burdlck One had
gone to heaven to give the mother well
come. Four Of the children have grown
to manhood and womanhood, are pros
porous and have happy homes: Frank
Fl. Burdick, Minneapolis. Mimi; Allan
Burdick, Fairmont, Mimi; Ralph
Burdick, Madelia, MINI, and Mrs.
George Mccoy, Napvine, Washington.
Two years ago, in health and joy, and
with the good wishes and congratula-
tons of hosts of friends, Mr.. and Mrs
8urdick celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary of their marriage.
1t is impossible in a few words to
characterize life so rich and fine as
that of Mrs. Burdick. She had the hap
Ply way of making every one her friend
She was the very soul of generosity and
kindness. Tender hearted, sympathetic,
she gave herself freely to her family, her
church and her friends. She lived for
others. Who can forget her smile so
genuine and expressive?
Mrs. Burdick lived for the best. She
reproduced in herself the fine things she
admired in the great characters of his
tory and fiction. She plucked the weeds
from the gardens Of her heart and cult
waited the flowers. She was first to see
the good in the lives of others and was
patient with their faults. When relig-
lous experience ripened into faith she
united with the church and lived what
she protested.
Phenomenal was her love of flowers.
To her the flower had soul and to that
soul her own was joined in a mystic fell
loWship, and while she loved the flowers
as no miser loved his gold, she gave
them out freely as ministrants to Joy
and sorrow
In pre- eminent sense Mrs Burdick
Was domestic. She reigned where God
intended woman should be queen-in
the home. And what home the Bur
dick home has been! For more than a
half century the fires of love have burned
on its sacred altar with undimmed and
undiminished glow. How many in all
these years have crossed the threshold
of the home and how welcome they have
been! In what JOY and under what ten
der care did the children grow up in this
home, and how often in the struggle of
life have their thoughts turned to this
center of restfulness and peace. Never
did God give man truer wife. Never
did children have nobler mother. God
made her queen and for more than
fifty years she reigned as queen in that
greatest of all earthly kingdoms-the
home.
To such as she death does not come.
1t is life. We say not FAREWELL" but,
Hail in the blessed life to which the
Father has called thee" L Ell. K.