Transcribed by Laura Black Boldebook, March 9, 2000.
Biddeford Daily Journal, September 21, 1910
Mrs. Ruth Burnham.
Funeral Services for Saco Woman Were This Afternoon.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Burnham were held this
afternoon at 2 o'clock in the home of her son, A.F. Burnham at 166 Pleasant
street, in Saco, being conducted by Rev. J.H. Roberts, pastor of the Saco
Methodist church. The service was largely attended and about
the casket were many beautiful flowers. Singing was by Mrs. Hattie
Hutchins. Interment was in the family lot in Greenwood cemetery.
The death of Mrs. Burnham, noted in the Journal Tuesday,
was heard of with much regret by a a wide circle of friends. She
was born in Hollis and last March posted her 90th birthday. Mrs.
Burnham was the latest joiner of Saco's nonagenarian class which is now
getting quite sizable. Mrs. Burnham's health had not been as good as it
was a few years ago when she annually observed the day in receiving friends
and relatives and her last birthday anniversary was a quiet but pleasant
affair.
Mrs. Bunham (sic) went to Saco to live while still a young
girl and worked in the York mills. This was about three-quarters
of a century ago. Since her retirement from active work in the world.
Mrs. Burnham had kept very busy at home as long as her physical health
permitted. She was famous among her relatives and friends for many
years as a quilt maker and made a large number of patchwork quilts which
have been distributed among relatives in different parts of the country
and are by them highly prized.
Mrs. Burnham's eyesight was good until within a comparatively
shore time and she was a great reader, keeping posted on current events.
Shortly after her marriage to Charles Burnham she moved to Buxton where
she resided until she came to Saco to make her home with her son.
Her husband has been dead about a dozen years.
Biddeford Daily Journal, September 21, 1910
Richard Burnham Aged 9 Meets Instant Death.
Richard Burnham the 9 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
J. Burnham of Kittery, was instantly killed late Tuesday afternoon the
result of being caught on his bicycle between an automobile driven by George
H. Hathard of Hull, Mass. and a mail car on the Atlantic Shore line street
railway as they met in a head-on collision at Locke Cove at Kittery.
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