Harriet Francelia Burdick

Name: Harriet Francelia WITTER Given Name: Harriet Francelia Surname: Witter 1 2 Sex: F Change Date: 10 MAR 2014 Religion: Seventh-day Baptist Birth: 09 JAN 1851 in Town of Wirt, Allegany Co., New York Census: 1860 Town of Wirt, Allegany Co., New Yrok Note: age 9 3 Baptism: 1866 Nile, Allegany Co., New York Note: Friendship SDB Church 4 Census: 1880 Town of Friendship, Allegany Co., New York Note: age 29 5 Residence: 1916 Wellsville, Allegany Co., New York Residence: 1933 Wellsville, Allegany Co., New York Death: 16 APR 1934 in Tampa, Hillsborough Co., Florida 6 Burial: 1934 Town of Friendship, Allegany Co., New York Note: Mount Hope Cemetery 7 8 Event: Obituary 04 JUN 1934 Note: "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 116, No 11, p 262, June 4, 1934. At the home of their niece, Miss J. Belle Witter, in Tampa, Fla., April 16, 1934, Mrs. James T. Burdick, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. Harriet Francelia Witter was the tenth child in a family of eleven born to Squire Porter Witter and Mary Ann Bowler Witter. She was born January 9, 1851, near Nile, N. Y., and has lived there and at Friendship the most of her life. She was married in 1874. She is survived by two daughters and two sons: Grace, wife of George Smith of Alfred; Mary, widow of Virgil Kinney of Wellsville; Jennie T. Burdick of Buffalo; and Percy W. Burdick of Niagara Falls, all of New York. There are ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. She has been a loyal member of the Friendship Seventh Day Baptist at Nile, N. Y., for sixty-eight years. She was baptized by Rev. L. A. Platts, married by Rev. Walter B. Gillette, and her funeral was conducted by rev. Geo. B. Shaw, assisted by Rev. E. H. Bottoms, the present pastor of the church at Nile, where the ministers just mentioned have served. The funeral was at Nile and the burial was at Friendship. For years Mrs. Burdick's home has been with her daughter in Wellsville, where in the sanitarium she worked an attendant, giving comfort and hope to the sick and discouraged. The sanitarium will never seem the same without her. A large group of nephews and nieces join with children and grandchildren as they call her blessed. She was "Aunt Franc" to hundreds of those now in middle life and beyond. Rev. E. A. Witter was a nephew. G. B. S.

Father: Edwin Porter WITTER b: 25 SEP 1807 in Brookfield, Madison Co., New York Mother: Mary Ann BOWLER b: 29 DEC 1809 in Charlestown, Washington Co., Rhode Island