Burdick Ulysses Travis

  General Notes:

In the 1850 Census of Tompkins, Delaware, NY, there is a Burdick Travis listed living with N. H. Hotchkiss (dwelling #106); a few houses up is the family of Harrison Travis (dwelling #104 - Harrison, 37; Celinda, 39; Francis O., 5; Helen Mallory, 13; and Montravill Heillsinger, 19). [Census Records - National Archives]

A Burdick W. Travis was a musician with the 106th Regiment, Company F, and was mustered from Hughesville, Lycoming Co. PA during the Civil War. [History of Lycoming County Pennsylvania by John F. Meginness, 1892]

He died in National Soldier's Home. [jl]

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: B. U. Travis (44), 1880, Altoona, Blair, PA. ¹⁴⁴

Burdick married Minerva B. Sanders, daughter of Capt. John Sanders and Catherine Winegarden, in 1861 in Lycoming Co., PA.⁴⁸¹ The marriage ended in divorce before 1880. (Minerva B. Sanders was born about 1839 in Muncy, Lycoming, PA ⁴⁵ and died in 1920 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA ¹⁹⁵.)