Biography
Jerusha Parks Burdick was born 25 January 1809 in Scipio, Cayuga County, New York, United States to Benjamin Marvin Parke (1775-1860) and Lucy Lord (1783-1860) and died April 1883 Farmington, Davis County, Utah, United States of unspecified causes. She married Alden Burdick (1803-1845) 12 January 1826 in Athens, Athens County, Ohio.
Jerusha Parks Burdick, dau. ( prob. ) of Benjamin and Lucy ( Wilkenson or Clark ) Parks of Whitesboro, New York. She married in 1823 to Alden Burdick (1803-1845) and late in the early 1830's joined the newly formed LDS Church. Alden was a member of Zion's Camp (1834) and the 1st Quorum of Seventy.
With her family of 11 children, she emigrated to Utah about 1852. She lived for a time in Salt Lake City and supported her family by tailoring, later moving to Farmington, where she kept a boarding place.
She gradually gained a knowledge of medicine, which she practiced as her profession in Carson City, Nevada, and in California.
Later in life she returned to Farmington, Utah, where she died.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Columbus Burse Burdick (1826-1879) | |||
| Catherine Burdick (1827-) | |||
| Lucy Burdick (1829-1895) | |||
| Lutellus Linley Burdick (1830-1914) | |||
| Eveline Burdick (1832-1911) | |||
| Alden Burdick (1834-1905) | |||
| Jerusha Cecelia Burdick (1836-1899) | |||
| Laura Louisa Burdick (1838-1895) | 8 November 1838 Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, United States | 19 December 1895 Farmington, Davis County, Utah, United States | Lot Smith (1830-1892) |
| Charlotte Burdick (1840-1899) | |||
| Marinda Luella Burdick (1843-1918) | |||
| Helen Burdick (1845-1845) | |||
Siblings
References
- Jerusha Parks at Find A Grave #102859932
- Alden Burdick - Grandpa Bill's GA Pages