Thursday, November 5, 2015

Obituary (November 5)

Charles L. Burdick
Utica Saturday Globe, December 1905
 
 
Charles L. Burdick
1835 - 1905

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Charles L. Burdick died at his home near White Store Friday of last week, aged 69.  Death was due to partial paralysis and pneumonia after an illness of less than a week.  Mr. Burdick was born and had passed all of his life in Norwich.  He was a farmer by occupation but had become more familiarly known to many people as a drummer formerly in "Jim" Westcott's martial band, of East Norwich, and more recently in Charles Dain's fife and drum corps, of Norwich.  Deceased is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Fayette Carpenter, of Edmeston, and Mrs. Orin Westover, of Norwich, and one son, Cory L. Burdick, of Norwich.  Two sisters, Mrs. Delos Winsor, of South New Berlin, and Mrs. Olive Childs, of Oxford, and one brother, Lorenzo J. Burdick, of Binghamton, also survive.  Mrs. Burdick died two years ago last October.  Funeral services were held form his late home at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.  Rev. John L. Ray officiating.  Burial was made in the cemetery at White Store.

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