Mary Jane Pond

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Adopted daughter of Levi W. Pond (inventor of the improved Sheering Boom for logging on rivers). Sons death record shows mother's madian as Joyce. Her death record shows O'Brian

Mary married Allen Leeds Burditt on 11 Dec 1865 in Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. Allen (son of George Burditt and Milly Wadsworth) was born on 21 May 1833 in Dansville, Steuben County, New York; died on 08 May 1895 in Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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As of 1905 was running what was known as the Boston Grocery Store in Eau Claire, Wis. 1910 living in Mountain Meadow, Latah Co., Idaho working as a laborer for a Lumber Co. 1915 living in Plumer, Divide Co., North Dakota.

Allen J. Burditt Ashes Interred in Family Lot Here
The ashes of Allen John Burditt, 52, who died Nov. 4 near Tacoma, Wash., were shipped to Eau Claire and interred in the Burditt lot in Lakeview cemetery Tuesday, Nov. 22. He is survived by no immediate relatives. Funeral services were held at Aberdeen, Wash., November 10, according to information received here by J.F. Ellis from E. J. Murnen, Tacoma, in whose employ Mr. Burditt was a the time of his death. Jack Burditt, as he was known here, was born the son of Allena and Mary Burditt, in Eau Clarie and lived here until the World war at the Burditt homestead between the Lange and Wyman homesteads on Third avenue. He never married. Allen Burditt, the father, was at the time of his death, many years ago, a partner and owner with George W. Prescott of the Dells Lumber Co. and operated one of the large sawmills on the Chippewa river in this city, which business later became the New Dells Lumber Co. the last lumber firm to go out of business in this city, whose mill was torn down during this year. Jack Burditt followed the lumber industry to the west coast after the war. He entered the employ of E. J. Murnen, who had gone west from Chippewa Falls.
(Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, WI, Friday, November 25, 1932, page 8)