The Ellen G. White Letters and Manuscripts: Volume 1

BURTON, Samuel G. (c. 1805-after 1880) and Lydia A. (c. 1818-after 1880)

Little is known of Samuel Burton's connection to the Sabbatarian Adventists. A farmer and blacksmith from Pittsfield, later Mayfield, Maine, Burton is mentioned in the Review only in 1855 and 1857. The Review did not carry his obituary. It is quite possible that he remained with the movement for only a few years. The Whites paid a brief visit to the Burton family in 1855. Ellen described Samuel Burton as a “poor brother with nine children,” and the family as “real good people.” 1EGWLM 799.5

See: Search term “Burton” in Words of the Pioneers; 1840 U.S. Federal Census, “Samuel G. Burton,” Maine, Somerset County, Pittsfield, p. 210; 1850 U.S. Federal Census, “Samuel P. Burton” [sic], Maine, Somerset County, Pittsfield, p. 94; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, “Simon G. Burton” [sic], Maine, Somerset County, Mayfield, p. 20; 1880 U.S. Federal Census, “Samuel Burton,” Maine, Somerset County, Mayfield, p. 4; Ellen G. White, Lt 2, 1855 (Aug.). 1EGWLM 799.6