Green Lake County WI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Burdick, Deborah ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lauren Miller cloudprincess@charter.net March 28, 2006, 5:54 pm Cemetery: Burdick Family Cemetery, Private Name: Deborah Burdick Date Of Photograph: August 23, 2005 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/greenlake/photos/tombstones/burdickfamily/burdick2039gph.jpg Image file size: 184.7 Kb Name: Deborah Burdick The broken stone probably originally looked like Abraham's. Information on Stone: DEBORAH Wife of A. BURDICK DIED Apr. 12. 1865 AE 86 y’s 1 mp & 21 d’s. I’ll cease to weep and mourn for her Who sleeps beneath the sod Size of Stone: 25 x 16 1/2 x 2 inches Location in Cemetery: west center Footstone: DB 12 x 5 ¾ x 2 Broken piece: Gone home Symbol: open book Additional Comments: "Deborah [Ferris Burdick]was born in 1779 to Edmund Ferris and Martha Burch Ferris in Pawling, Duchess County, New York, the fifth of nineteen children. She was able to remember seeing George Washington at her grandfather's house as a child." This quote was taken from the Daughters of the American Revolution Grave Marker Ceremony program on Saturday, August 20, 2005. The John Scott Horner and Port Washington Chapters officated. It continues, "In 1802, she married Abraham Burdick and they lived and farmed in Dutchess County for about 20 years. Then they moved to Oswego County, New York where they continued farming until the early 1840s. They had eight children. In 1843 when she was in her early 60s, she and Abraham began their journey to Wisconsin with their son Shadrach Burdick, his wife Aurelia Ann Worden Burdick and four of Shadrach's children. Another grandchild was born on the way. She stayed in Chicago with the rest of the family, while their son Shadrach went to Marquette County, WIsconsin to work. After earning enouth money, he sent for his family and they all went up to Ripon. Because of a land dispute they left the original 160 acre homestead in Ripon and set up a new homestead on the current farm site in 1844. In 1845 the house where she and her family lived was built. Her family still lives in that same house on that same farm where she is buried." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/greenlake/photos/tombstones/burdickfamily/burdick2039gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb