Rufus Burritt went with his parents from the log cabin in Uniondale to Clifford when he was quite young and lived there until his death. The log cabin was larger than the one the family left in Uniondale and contained two rooms one of which they rented to a family with children. He told his young daughters that the new home was surrounded with woods and that marks had been cut in the trees for paths from one cabin to another. The woods were filled with wild animals. One time he walked in the path toward his home when he saw a panther in the bushes. He had been told that the panther would never chase or molest any one if the person walked slowly, so he walked very slowly and reached home. The next day he went over the same ground and saw his own tracks in the snow but they were so far apart that he could hardly jump from one to the next and the panther had disappeared and left no tracks. One day the family in the next room had visitors and there was a good deal of laughing and talking. Little Rufus walked along the side of his own room and glanced quite accidentally through the crack between the logs separating the rooms. The boys on the other side threw sand in his face and he never forgot the suffering in his eyes. The comfortable frame house that was the homestead where the family lived and the children grew up and went out to homes of their own stands on the same site of the old log cabin (The family of Blackleach Burritt Jr.)