"Mrs. Abigail M. (Bowne) Burpee, for thirty years a well known resident of Oneonta, died Tuesday evening about 7 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edward Crippen, No. 85 Chestnut street, in that city, where she had been critically ill for some time. Death was due to the infirmities of age, evidenced in two shocks, which Mrs. Burpee suffered within the past few weeks. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the Crippen residence, conducted by Dr. Herbert F. Randolph, minister of the First Methodist church of which she was a member. Interment will be made in the Burpee family plot of the Fly Creek cemetery. Mrs. Burpee was born, July 30, 1845, at Rochester, one of the seven children of Charles A. and Mary M. Bowne. However, the family moved to Morris a few years later, and her girlhood was spent on the Bowne homestead near Morris. On October 6, 1861, she became the bride of E. Martin Burpee of Fly Creek, and that village was her home much of her married life. She then lived at Worcester and Schenevus for a few years before coming to Oneonta about thirty years ago with Mr. Burpee. Following the death of the latter, seventeen years ago, she had lived with various of her daughters, but most of her time was spent in Oneonta. Surviving are two brothers, Charles G. Bowne of Morris and James Bowne of Penn Yan; five daughters, Mrs. Farley J. Whitington of Rochester, Mrs. Edward Crippen, Oneonta; Mrs. Carl M. Cronk of Delmar; Mrs. Stanley S. Backus of Hartwick; and Mrs. Harry D. French of Lisle; eight grandchildren; and one great grandchild. To them is extended the sympathy of a wide circle of friends. Mrs. Burpee was a descendant of Quaker stock, in her were reflected the quietness and simplicity of that group. She was a woman keenly devoted to her family and one whose influence, in spite of the fact that it has accomplished a full measure of service, will be sadly missed.---Oneonta Star." ["The Otsego Farmer & Republican" (Cooperstown, NY), Friday, Nov. 22, 1929, Page Four]