Harriet Amanda "Hattie" (Barrows) Burdick (1844-1908)

BARROWS, BURDICK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/14/2017 at 21:41:21

From Nevada Representative September 11, 1908

REPORTED DEATH OF MRS. BURDICK

A clipping from a Denver paper that has come to hand reports the death in that city of Mrs. Harriet B. Burdick.

The Mrs. Burdick who lived here for many years habitually signed herself Harriet A. Burdick, but her maiden name was Barrows, and attendant circumstances indicate plainly that the notice refers to the woman who Nevada people knew well and long and most favorably. The Denver notice is as follows:

"Because she had a horror of operations Mrs. Harriet B. Burdick, an employe at the city hall, steadily refused to have on performed for an attack of ptomaine poisoning, and died an hour after she had finally given her hesitant consent. Complications set in form the delay, although physicians told her the risk she was running in refusing surgical aid. She was finally taken to St. Luke's hospital Friday night and died within an hour after reaching there. Mrs. Burdick was 65 years old and well liked by all employes at the hall."

Mrs. Burdick came to Nevada in the '60s as a young wife, accompanying her husband, who engaged here in the grocery business, and they established the family home where Mrs. Dillin now lives. After a few years Mr. Burdick died; but Mrs. Burdick took charge of the business and conducted it successfully for a dozen or fifteen years. Selling out the business, she went to Iowa City to educate her one son Frank, and after he was through school they removed to Denver, nearly twenty years ago, where they have since resided. Mrs. Burdick was a woman of much ability and worth. For quite a number of years the bad conduct of her son caused her much trouble and distress; but in late years she had had a remunerative position in the Denver court house, and it is understood that her closing years have been comfortable. Her death will occasion regret with very many old and appreciative friends in this community.