Mr. Martial Otis Dimmick belonged to a family that has a glorious history. The head of the family in each generation has held the office in England of King's Champion since the office was made by William the Conqueror with estates sufficient to support a nobleman and his family. His grandfather Edward Dimmick, a Revolutionary pensioner, was one of the founders of the settlement of Uniondale. His father Martial Dimmick was a man of unusual ability and prominent in the community. He left his mark for progress and uprightness in the young colony. Martial Otis Dimmick was a man of rare gifts and lead a life that exemplified the Golden Rule in his every day life. A conspicuous figure in the community, always a faithful worker for the prosperity of school and church, contributing in all ways of his means and notwithstanding his generous liberality and unfailing hospitality he left a large unencumbered productive farm to each of his two sons. He had a wonderful memory of events and of people that made him an interesting link between the steady going and sedate past and the more hurrying hustling present. It is not easy to estimate the character of our friends especially when our own relations have been intimate. Let us thank God for so many unselfish and useful lives and take comfort in the hope that it may only be a matter of being transplanted into a new soil from out of which will grow increased capacity for doing good (Family of Blackleach Burritt Jr.)