History of Cerro Gordo County, IowaFrom materials in the public archives, the Iowa Historical Society's collection, the newspapers and data of personal interviews; also containing sketches of representative citizens . was on Easter Sunday, 1900, that Mr. Burdick took up his resi-dence in Rockwell, he having come to take charge of his daughtersfarm for the sununer. At the present time, on account of pooreyesight, he has practically retired from labor, although he de-votes considerable attention to his garden and to the raising ofchickens. Mr. Burdick was married September 1, 19()(). to
History of Cerro Gordo County, IowaFrom materials in the public archives, the Iowa Historical Society's collection, the newspapers and data of personal interviews; also containing sketches of representative citizens . was on Easter Sunday, 1900, that Mr. Burdick took up his resi-dence in Rockwell, he having come to take charge of his daughtersfarm for the sununer. At the present time, on account of pooreyesight, he has practically retired from labor, although he de-votes considerable attention to his garden and to the raising ofchickens. Mr. Burdick was married September 1, 19()(). to Mrs. EmmaDickson, widow of Robert H- Dickson, a native of Pennsylvania,who came to Cerro Gordo county in 1854 and in 1856 took upgovernment land in Bath township. Mrs. Burdick was born inPotter county, Pennsylvania, and in 1874 came to Iowa with herparents, Joseph and Phoebe (Loucks) Smith. In the home statethe father had been a miller, but followed farming after comingto Cerro Gordo county. The father was born September 1, 1810,and died February 7, 1890, and the mother was born March 30,1826, and died January 19, 1909, the demise of both taking placeat Rockwell. Mrs. Burdick the mother of four children bv. HISTORY OF CERRO GORDO COUNTY 479 her first marriage, and of these two are living, Benjamin R. Dick-son of Waterloo, and Olive May Dickson who makes her home withher mother. Mr. Burdiek was previously married, November 11,1860, and of the ten children of this union four survive. CoraElecta is the wife of Oscar Limdin, of Marshalltown, Iowa; HarrisE., is a resident of Chicago; Leona May is the wife of Chauncey of Rose Creek, Minnesota; Zenas Elza lives in Dekalb,Illinois. Zenas C. Burdiek is a Republican and very active in Story county he served for several years as justice of the is an enthusiastic Grand Army man and has every reason to beproud of his military record. He is at present commander ofAtlanta Post, No. 389 at Rockwell. He is a
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