sympathy to his bereaved family. The Yearly
Meetings, in due time, passed resolutions of the
fiame purport.
The General Conference, at its session held at
Buffalo in Oct., 1868, through its Committee on
the Printing Establishment, said :

"This General Conference having experienced
since its last session a great bereavement in the
death of the late William Burr, who for more
than thirty years acted as Editor of the Morning
Star and Agent and Treasurer of the Printing
Establishment, does hereby enter upon its records
. grateful recognition of the fidelity, ability, and
Ignal success with which he discharged the duties
connected with those perplexing and responsible
duties until the close of his life."

In accordance with a previous vote of the Cor-
porators, the Printing Establishment had early in
Oct., 1867, erected a Monument over the grave of
Mr. Burr in Pine Hill Cemetery. It is of marble,
with a base of granite, standing twelve feet high,
measured from the ground, chaste and simple in
design, beautiful indeed but without ostentation,
and so harmonizing with the character and life



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which it is erected to commemorate. On the
west, or front face, is the following inscrip-
tion:

WILLIAM BURR

DIED

Nov. 5, 1866,

M 60.
This Monument, erected by the

Freewill Baptist Denomination,

stands as a tribute to his memoiy.
He had charge of the Printing

Office at its opening in 1826,

and was Editor of the Morning Star

and Agent of the Printing

Establishment during a penod

of more than thirty years.
(JSTorth Side.)

By his integrity in business,

his urbanity in social intercourse,

his broad and philanthropic

rpathies, and especially by his
out earnestness as a Christian,
he won and retained the high
esteem of all who knew him.
