Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . r children, Maude E. andClara E. having been born in Pennsylvania. Thefamily settled in Spring Bank, Logan county. Hismother came with him to this state, and died atMiddleton, which was his first appointment afterentering the ministry. The companion of hisearlier life, and mother of his children, died , 1899, and he was married to Mrs. Sarah Bax-ter, Sept. 26, , who survives to mourn his de-parture. He leaves the following children: Mrs. Maude E. Stillwell ofUrbana; Mrs. Clara E. Zoll, of Champaign; David E.
Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . r children, Maude E. andClara E. having been born in Pennsylvania. Thefamily settled in Spring Bank, Logan county. Hismother came with him to this state, and died atMiddleton, which was his first appointment afterentering the ministry. The companion of hisearlier life, and mother of his children, died , 1899, and he was married to Mrs. Sarah Bax-ter, Sept. 26, , who survives to mourn his de-parture. He leaves the following children: Mrs. Maude E. Stillwell ofUrbana; Mrs. Clara E. Zoll, of Champaign; David E. of Pleasanton, Kansas,and Robert E. of Danville. He is also survived by two brothers, H. T. ofLewiston, Penn., and Michael of Iowa, and two sisters, one in Pennsylvania,and one in California. Brother Burkitt was converted in Franklin county, Penn., and wasreceived on trial in the Illinois Conference in 1870 and appointed to Middle-town. His other appointments were: 1871. Littleton; 1872, Chili; 1873,Lima; 1874, Shelbyville Circuit; 1875-7, South Shelbyville; 1878, Marshall;. 1911 MEMOIRS 145 1879, Pilot: 1880, Marysville; 1881-2, Catlin: 1883, Georgetown; 1884, Fair-mount; 1885-6, Grove City; 1887-9; Bellflower; 1890-1, Seymour; 1892, Sa-dorus; 1893, Cisco; 1894-6, East Lynn; 1897, Lincoln and Asbury streets,Danville; 1898-9, Murdock. In 1900 he took the Supernumerary relationand made his home in Murdock, but seven years later moved to Tuscola,where he has since resided, and where death came to liim. The friendships of our deceased brother were strong and abiding, andin all the churches that he served he left many whose love i^or him willcontinue through the years. The record of his life in its routine aspect iseasily written, but onlj^ eternity can reveal the full measure of that lifeas it is wrought out in tlie lives of those who by his life and ministry werecalled to seek for themselves higher and nobler things than they wouldhave known had they not come under the influence
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