1850 United States Federal Census. Name: Sarah Burdick, Gender: Female. Age, 29. Birth Year: abt 1821. Birthplace: New York, Home in 1850: Oakfield, Genesee, New York. Line Number: 41. Dwelling Number: 1340 Family Number: 1416. Household Members Age William Burdick Age, 39. Sarah Burdick, Age, 29. Albert Cummins, Age 10. Walstem Burdick, Age 6. Emma Burdick, Age 4. Helen A Burdick, Age 2.
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Sarah married William Burdick, a man twenty years her senior. Based on 1870 census records, they had at least six children; Alfred, Alena, Jay, Miles, John and Andrew.
"Mrs. Sarah Burdick of Mt. Morris died of pneumonia on the 27th Inst, aged 72 years." (Dec. 31, 1891, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY)
The deaths of the mother of Albert Cummings, Sarah Burdick, his uncle John Muchler and his half brothers.
1892
Livingston County, New York
"The Mount Morris Union" Dated Thursday, January 7th 1892 Last week the Union announced the death of Mrs. Sarah Burdick, who resided a few miles south of this village and also noted the illnesses, with pneumonia of the other members of the family, consisting of three sons. Two of the sons have died since. Miles on Dec 31st and Jay on January 1st. It is thought that the other son John will recover. In column 2 Neighbors, who visited the distressed Burdick family last week, to care for them, when they were all down sick with pneumonia report a terrible condition of affairs. The house a dilapidated old shell, full of cracks and crevices for the cold to come in, was almost destitute of furniture. There was only one small room with a stove in it, and the only other articles of furniture were a couple of chairs, a table, a bureau and a (bunk?). Here in this room were huddled together, in filth and distress, the aged mother, three sons grown to manhood, and an old man who made his home there. All were deathly sick at the time and as will be noticed in another column, death relieved three of them, the mother and two sons of their sufferings. +3 words can't read——) old lady had died and was buried; the old man occupied the bunk, and the young men, large, robust fellows, but weakened by sickness, sat around the Stove, suffering untold misery, and two of them died there with their clothes and boots on. It was indeed a pitiful case of poverty and distress, but there seems to be nobody to blame for it but the sufferers themselves. A family having among its member's three strong able-bodied young men should have been better prepared for an emergency at the close of a prosperous season like the past. In justice to the neighbors it should be told? That they secured medical assistance for the sufferers as soon as their condition was known and cared for them as best they could under the circumstances. Obituary from week before The Mount Morris Union December 31, 1891 Column 3 Died: At Sonyea, in this town, Dec. of pneumonia, Mrs. Sarah Burdick, aged 72 years THURSDAY JANUARY 14, 1892...Sue Mason found this and transcribed it originally.
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No wonder the 2020 Pandemic has traumatized me.... the boys buried Sarah [3rd great-grandmother] in the backyard.. its the DNA....
1892 Jan 13 Pittsburg Dispatch, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania DIED WITHOUT CARE. Four Members of a Rural New York Family Suffer and Die With no One to Nurse Them - Deadly Work of Influenza and Pneumonia.
Mt. Morris, N. Y., Jan. 12 - [Special] Jay Burdick, who was buried yesterday, was the last one of a family of four who died of pneumonia on the outskirts of this village under circumstances which most persons would regard as impossible in a small community, where everybody knows everybody else.
Although they owned considerable land, and had money at interest, the three unmarried men and their mother lived poorly in a two-room house. About two weeks ago Mrs. Burdick fell ill of influenza, and her sons remained at home to care for her. Pneumonia set in, and the three young men, having been stricken with the influenza, were unable to care for her properly. The room in which Mrs. Burdick lay ill contained the only stove in the house, so her sons sat there day night with all their clothes on, while she sank to her death. A few neighbors and a clergyman from this village saw her buried in the back yard.
The three men were taken with pneumonia on the day after their mother's death, and, all alone, without friend or neighbor to nurse them, sat six days and six nights around the stove, resting slightly from their misery, occasionally, by stretching out on the bare, seamed floor. One night Miles Burdick and his elder brother lay down to rise no more. When morning came the third brother woke from his distressed sleep to find them both lifeless and stiff from cold.
They lay with their boots, trousers and coats on for ten hours, for Jay Burdick was too near his end to move them or call help. In the afternoon, however, he attracted from the window the attention of a passing farmer, and the bodies were laid out on boards torn from the fence before the house.
Shortly after his brothers had been buried in the back yard Jay Burdick was taken to the poor house, but lived only a few hours.
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Sarah married William Burdick, a man twenty years her senior. Based on 1870 census records, they had at least six children; Alfred, Alena, Jay, Miles, John and Andrew.
"Mrs. Sarah Burdick of Mt. Morris died of pneumonia on the 27th Inst, aged 72 years." (Dec. 31, 1891, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY)
The deaths of the mother of Albert Cummings, Sarah Burdick, his uncle John Muchler and his half brothers.
1892
Livingston County, New York
"The Mount Morris Union" Dated Thursday, January 7th 1892 Last week the Union announced the death of Mrs. Sarah Burdick, who resided a few miles south of this village and also noted the illnesses, with pneumonia of the other members of the family, consisting of three sons. Two of the sons have died since. Miles on Dec 31st and Jay on January 1st. It is thought that the other son John will recover. In column 2 Neighbors, who visited the distressed Burdick family last week, to care for them, when they were all down sick with pneumonia report a terrible condition of affairs. The house a dilapidated old shell, full of cracks and crevices for the cold to come in, was almost destitute of furniture. There was only one small room with a stove in it, and the only other articles of furniture were a couple of chairs, a table, a bureau and a (bunk?). Here in this room were huddled together, in filth and distress, the aged mother, three sons grown to manhood, and an old man who made his home there. All were deathly sick at the time and as will be noticed in another column, death relieved three of them, the mother and two sons of their sufferings. +3 words can't read——) old lady had died and was buried; the old man occupied the bunk, and the young men, large, robust fellows, but weakened by sickness, sat around the Stove, suffering untold misery, and two of them died there with their clothes and boots on. It was indeed a pitiful case of poverty and distress, but there seems to be nobody to blame for it but the sufferers themselves. A family having among its member's three strong able-bodied young men should have been better prepared for an emergency at the close of a prosperous season like the past. In justice to the neighbors it should be told? That they secured medical assistance for the sufferers as soon as their condition was known and cared for them as best they could under the circumstances. Obituary from week before The Mount Morris Union December 31, 1891 Column 3 Died: At Sonyea, in this town, Dec. of pneumonia, Mrs. Sarah Burdick, aged 72 years THURSDAY JANUARY 14, 1892...Sue Mason found this and transcribed it originally.
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No wonder the 2020 Pandemic has traumatized me.... the boys buried Sarah [3rd great-grandmother] in the backyard.. its the DNA....
1892 Jan 13 Pittsburg Dispatch, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania DIED WITHOUT CARE. Four Members of a Rural New York Family Suffer and Die With no One to Nurse Them - Deadly Work of Influenza and Pneumonia.
Mt. Morris, N. Y., Jan. 12 - [Special] Jay Burdick, who was buried yesterday, was the last one of a family of four who died of pneumonia on the outskirts of this village under circumstances which most persons would regard as impossible in a small community, where everybody knows everybody else.
Although they owned considerable land, and had money at interest, the three unmarried men and their mother lived poorly in a two-room house. About two weeks ago Mrs. Burdick fell ill of influenza, and her sons remained at home to care for her. Pneumonia set in, and the three young men, having been stricken with the influenza, were unable to care for her properly. The room in which Mrs. Burdick lay ill contained the only stove in the house, so her sons sat there day night with all their clothes on, while she sank to her death. A few neighbors and a clergyman from this village saw her buried in the back yard.
The three men were taken with pneumonia on the day after their mother's death, and, all alone, without friend or neighbor to nurse them, sat six days and six nights around the stove, resting slightly from their misery, occasionally, by stretching out on the bare, seamed floor. One night Miles Burdick and his elder brother lay down to rise no more. When morning came the third brother woke from his distressed sleep to find them both lifeless and stiff from cold.
They lay with their boots, trousers and coats on for ten hours, for Jay Burdick was too near his end to move them or call help. In the afternoon, however, he attracted from the window the attention of a passing farmer, and the bodies were laid out on boards torn from the fence before the house.
Shortly after his brothers had been buried in the back yard Jay Burdick was taken to the poor house, but lived only a few hours.
1850 United States Federal Census. Name: Sarah Burdick, Gender: Female. Age, 29. Birth Year: abt 1821. Birthplace: New York, Home in 1850: Oakfield, Genesee, New York. Line Number: 41. Dwelling Number: 1340 Family Number: 1416. Household Members Age William Burdick Age, 39. Sarah Burdick, Age, 29. Albert Cummins, Age 10. Walstem Burdick, Age 6. Emma Burdick, Age 4. Helen A Burdick, Age 2.
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Sarah married William Burdick, a man twenty years her senior. Based on 1870 census records, they had at least six children; Alfred, Alena, Jay, Miles, John and Andrew.
"Mrs. Sarah Burdick of Mt. Morris died of pneumonia on the 27th Inst, aged 72 years." (Dec. 31, 1891, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY)
The deaths of the mother of Albert Cummings, Sarah Burdick, his uncle John Muchler and his half brothers.
1892
Livingston County, New York
"The Mount Morris Union" Dated Thursday, January 7th 1892 Last week the Union announced the death of Mrs. Sarah Burdick, who resided a few miles south of this village and also noted the illnesses, with pneumonia of the other members of the family, consisting of three sons. Two of the sons have died since. Miles on Dec 31st and Jay on January 1st. It is thought that the other son John will recover. In column 2 Neighbors, who visited the distressed Burdick family last week, to care for them, when they were all down sick with pneumonia report a terrible condition of affairs. The house a dilapidated old shell, full of cracks and crevices for the cold to come in, was almost destitute of furniture. There was only one small room with a stove in it, and the only other articles of furniture were a couple of chairs, a table, a bureau and a (bunk?). Here in this room were huddled together, in filth and distress, the aged mother, three sons grown to manhood, and an old man who made his home there. All were deathly sick at the time and as will be noticed in another column, death relieved three of them, the mother and two sons of their sufferings. +3 words can't read——) old lady had died and was buried; the old man occupied the bunk, and the young men, large, robust fellows, but weakened by sickness, sat around the Stove, suffering untold misery, and two of them died there with their clothes and boots on. It was indeed a pitiful case of poverty and distress, but there seems to be nobody to blame for it but the sufferers themselves. A family having among its member's three strong able-bodied young men should have been better prepared for an emergency at the close of a prosperous season like the past. In justice to the neighbors it should be told? That they secured medical assistance for the sufferers as soon as their condition was known and cared for them as best they could under the circumstances. Obituary from week before The Mount Morris Union December 31, 1891 Column 3 Died: At Sonyea, in this town, Dec. of pneumonia, Mrs. Sarah Burdick, aged 72 years THURSDAY JANUARY 14, 1892...Sue Mason found this and transcribed it originally.
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No wonder the 2020 Pandemic has traumatized me.... the boys buried Sarah [3rd great-grandmother] in the backyard.. its the DNA....
1892 Jan 13 Pittsburg Dispatch, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania DIED WITHOUT CARE. Four Members of a Rural New York Family Suffer and Die With no One to Nurse Them - Deadly Work of Influenza and Pneumonia.
Mt. Morris, N. Y., Jan. 12 - [Special] Jay Burdick, who was buried yesterday, was the last one of a family of four who died of pneumonia on the outskirts of this village under circumstances which most persons would regard as impossible in a small community, where everybody knows everybody else.
Although they owned considerable land, and had money at interest, the three unmarried men and their mother lived poorly in a two-room house. About two weeks ago Mrs. Burdick fell ill of influenza, and her sons remained at home to care for her. Pneumonia set in, and the three young men, having been stricken with the influenza, were unable to care for her properly. The room in which Mrs. Burdick lay ill contained the only stove in the house, so her sons sat there day night with all their clothes on, while she sank to her death. A few neighbors and a clergyman from this village saw her buried in the back yard.
The three men were taken with pneumonia on the day after their mother's death, and, all alone, without friend or neighbor to nurse them, sat six days and six nights around the stove, resting slightly from their misery, occasionally, by stretching out on the bare, seamed floor. One night Miles Burdick and his elder brother lay down to rise no more. When morning came the third brother woke from his distressed sleep to find them both lifeless and stiff from cold.
They lay with their boots, trousers and coats on for ten hours, for Jay Burdick was too near his end to move them or call help. In the afternoon, however, he attracted from the window the attention of a passing farmer, and the bodies were laid out on boards torn from the fence before the house.
Shortly after his brothers had been buried in the back yard Jay Burdick was taken to the poor house, but lived only a few hours.
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Sarah married William Burdick, a man twenty years her senior. Based on 1870 census records, they had at least six children; Alfred, Alena, Jay, Miles, John and Andrew.
"Mrs. Sarah Burdick of Mt. Morris died of pneumonia on the 27th Inst, aged 72 years." (Dec. 31, 1891, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY)
The deaths of the mother of Albert Cummings, Sarah Burdick, his uncle John Muchler and his half brothers.
1892
Livingston County, New York
"The Mount Morris Union" Dated Thursday, January 7th 1892 Last week the Union announced the death of Mrs. Sarah Burdick, who resided a few miles south of this village and also noted the illnesses, with pneumonia of the other members of the family, consisting of three sons. Two of the sons have died since. Miles on Dec 31st and Jay on January 1st. It is thought that the other son John will recover. In column 2 Neighbors, who visited the distressed Burdick family last week, to care for them, when they were all down sick with pneumonia report a terrible condition of affairs. The house a dilapidated old shell, full of cracks and crevices for the cold to come in, was almost destitute of furniture. There was only one small room with a stove in it, and the only other articles of furniture were a couple of chairs, a table, a bureau and a (bunk?). Here in this room were huddled together, in filth and distress, the aged mother, three sons grown to manhood, and an old man who made his home there. All were deathly sick at the time and as will be noticed in another column, death relieved three of them, the mother and two sons of their sufferings. +3 words can't read——) old lady had died and was buried; the old man occupied the bunk, and the young men, large, robust fellows, but weakened by sickness, sat around the Stove, suffering untold misery, and two of them died there with their clothes and boots on. It was indeed a pitiful case of poverty and distress, but there seems to be nobody to blame for it but the sufferers themselves. A family having among its member's three strong able-bodied young men should have been better prepared for an emergency at the close of a prosperous season like the past. In justice to the neighbors it should be told? That they secured medical assistance for the sufferers as soon as their condition was known and cared for them as best they could under the circumstances. Obituary from week before The Mount Morris Union December 31, 1891 Column 3 Died: At Sonyea, in this town, Dec. of pneumonia, Mrs. Sarah Burdick, aged 72 years THURSDAY JANUARY 14, 1892...Sue Mason found this and transcribed it originally.
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No wonder the 2020 Pandemic has traumatized me.... the boys buried Sarah [3rd great-grandmother] in the backyard.. its the DNA....
1892 Jan 13 Pittsburg Dispatch, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania DIED WITHOUT CARE. Four Members of a Rural New York Family Suffer and Die With no One to Nurse Them - Deadly Work of Influenza and Pneumonia.
Mt. Morris, N. Y., Jan. 12 - [Special] Jay Burdick, who was buried yesterday, was the last one of a family of four who died of pneumonia on the outskirts of this village under circumstances which most persons would regard as impossible in a small community, where everybody knows everybody else.
Although they owned considerable land, and had money at interest, the three unmarried men and their mother lived poorly in a two-room house. About two weeks ago Mrs. Burdick fell ill of influenza, and her sons remained at home to care for her. Pneumonia set in, and the three young men, having been stricken with the influenza, were unable to care for her properly. The room in which Mrs. Burdick lay ill contained the only stove in the house, so her sons sat there day night with all their clothes on, while she sank to her death. A few neighbors and a clergyman from this village saw her buried in the back yard.
The three men were taken with pneumonia on the day after their mother's death, and, all alone, without friend or neighbor to nurse them, sat six days and six nights around the stove, resting slightly from their misery, occasionally, by stretching out on the bare, seamed floor. One night Miles Burdick and his elder brother lay down to rise no more. When morning came the third brother woke from his distressed sleep to find them both lifeless and stiff from cold.
They lay with their boots, trousers and coats on for ten hours, for Jay Burdick was too near his end to move them or call help. In the afternoon, however, he attracted from the window the attention of a passing farmer, and the bodies were laid out on boards torn from the fence before the house.
Shortly after his brothers had been buried in the back yard Jay Burdick was taken to the poor house, but lived only a few hours.
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