Obituaries (Iv, Ja, Je, Jo) MHD Collection

Obituaries (Iv, Ja, Je, Jo)

 MHD Collection

 

Coventry [Chenango Co., NY]:  The funeral of Mrs. Helen Benedict Ives was held Monday at the home of her son, Charles Ives, the service being nicely conducted by Rev. J. Houston of this place, and interment beside her husband, Erastus Ives, at North Afton [Chenango Co., NY].  There was a large number present from near by and also a niece, Miss Ida Minor, of Oil City, Pa.  There was a profusion of beautiful flowers on the casket.  The deceased was 73 years of age and had always lived in this locality where she died with the exception of a few years lately that she has spent with her children in different places.  She had been in failing health for a number of years.  All the members of her father's family had preceded her to the other shore.  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Archie Robinson, of Brisbin, Mrs. Olin Aylesworth, of West Bainbridge, and by two sons, Charles, of this place and Ira, of Church Hollow. 

 

Samuel Jackson, age 59, of Greene, N.Y. [Chenango Co., NY], died at 11 o'clock Thursday morning in City Hospital.  There are no survivors.  The body was removed to the Hopler & Georgia Funeral Home, 483 Chenango St.

 

Cynthia May Jamison, 72 years old February 1st, for many years a resident of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], died at the home of her nephew, Charles Marvin, in Greene last Friday night.  She had been failing in health for several years.  She is survived by one brother, Wilbur Baldwin of Afton, and one sister, Mrs. Cora Badger of Johnson City.  Services were held at Tabor's Funeral Home Monday afternoon.  Rev. W.S. Jones officiated. Burial was in East side cemetery [Afton, Chenango Co., NY]. 

 

Mrs. Elizabeth Leone Jamison, 84, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] died at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at her home.  She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mable Carlen of Afton, Mrs. Anna Knapp of Sidney and Mrs. Maude Strauss of Jackson Heights; a son, Frank Jamison of Afton; two grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter; a brother, Manville Weeks of Binghamton, and several nieces and nephews.  She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Afton for many years, a member of the WRC of Afton and the Auxiliary of the Clifford Holmes Post, American Legion.  The body was moved to the Karschner Funeral Home, Afton, where friends may call.  [d. Dec. 26, 1954]

 

The funeral of Horace Dewitt Jennings was held Tuesday, April 18, 1939, at the home in East Sanford [Broome Co., NY], the Rev. Clifford E. Webb of the Afton Presbyterian Church, officiating.  Mr. Jennings was born February 15, 1850, in the town of Harmony, Pennsylvania.  Death occurred April 14, 1939, at his home in the town of Sanford where he had been a life-long resident.  Mr. Jennings is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Secrest of Sanford and Mrs. Pearl Hare of Binghamton; two grandchildren, Ray Hare and Mrs. Wesley Fowler, both of Sanford; and one great-granddaughter, Gladys Irene Fowler.

 

Frances A. Richards, wife of Clark  M. Jewell, departed this life at the Jewell homestead, Cole's Hill [Broome Co. NY], Monday morning at ten-thirty o'clock, aged 65 years.  Prayer was offered at the house yesterday afternoon at three o'clock by the Rev. E.W. Haner.  The remains were taken to East Guilford where the funeral will be held from the Presbyterian church today at ten o'clock.  The Jewell family have resided on Cole's Hill since the year 1868 at which time the property was purchased of Henry Cole.  The house was built in 1792 by Nathaniel Cole and for a number of years up to 1850 was known as the Cole Tavern.  Mrs. Jewell had a large circle of friends and will be remembered as a kind neighbor, a loving wife and devoted mother.  The deceased was a great sufferer for several months, requiring constant care, but amid the pain and physical breaking up her trust was in the Lord.  The husband, Clark M. Jewell, with four sons survive.  The sons are Wm., East Guilford; Emery, Otego; Earl, Memphis, Tenn.; Ray, Binghamton.  The deceased also leaves two sisters and a brother with a large number of friends and neighbors to mourn their loss. 

 

Monday evening the 7th of December, 1910, Eli M. Johnston was prostrated by a stroke of paralysis, while driving into West St. Paul [Minnesota] from the farm he occupied about six miles south of the city.  He was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in St. Paul where he died on the 14th.  The funeral services were held at the residence of his brother, D.S.B. Johnston, 565 Holley Avenue, St. Paul, on the 17th and he was buried in Oakland cemetery.  Mr. Johnston's wife, formerly Alice E. Barber of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], survives him.  He was married to her January 17th, 1871 and their six children, three sons and three daughters, are still living.  Four of the six are married.  Levi Johnston, the father and grandfather died at the residence of his son, D.S.B. Johnston, Oct. 28th, 1890 in St. Paul, Minnesota.  The mother died in Afton, May 3rd, 1886.  Eli M. Johnston was born March 2nd, 1842 and therefore was in his sixty-ninth year at the time of his death.  His birth place was in the old house on the Afton farm east of the Susquehanna which is now occupied by the Afton Fair Grounds, where Levi Johnston had lived since 1830 and where Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, was first married.  Levi Johnston and the son, Eli, and family moved to the West St. Paul farm in the spring of 1886 and Eli lived there at the time of his death as above stated. 

 

It is seldom that an entire community is so startled and grieved as were the people of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] on last Thursday morning, Jan. 23 by the sad tidings that Mrs. Edward E. Jones had died almost instantaneously while sitting with her husband at the breakfast table.  Death was caused by a piece of stuffed olive which she was eating being lodged in her windpipe.  The end came painlessly and without any struggle whatever.  Mrs. Jones was a model Christian wife and mother, reigning with queenly grace and gentleness in her happy home and in the hearts of her devoted husband and little daughter, Mina, for whom the warmest sympathy is felt by everyone and by whom her sweet presence will be so sorely missed.  She has been for many years one of the most loved and faithful members of the Presbyterian Church and always active in every department of Church worship and work.  She was a prominent member of the order of Rebekahs and the Woman's Relief Corps, and was deeply interested in the various branches of war work and of missionary and charitable activities.  And is addition to all these, many quiet acts of kindness and helpfulness, wherever kindness and helpfulness were needed, are known by those to whom she ministered as a thoughtful neighbor and friend.  The great concourse of sorrowing and sympathizing people who were present at the funeral service at the home on South Main Street, last Monday afternoon, Jan. 27th, was a silent but eloquent tribute to the affection and honor in which she was held.  Mrs. Georgia W. Jones was the daughter of J.B. Kirkhoff, and was born at Savannah, Wayne Co., N.Y., Feb. 22, 1867.  She was a descendant of Thomas Sayre, who came to Southampton, L.I., in 1639 and founded that settlement.  She was married to Edward E. Jones at Richmond Hill, L.I., on June 30, 1904, by Rev. Dr. George H. Liggett.  They have one daughter, Mina May, who is now eleven years of age.  Besides her husband and daughter, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Emma Perley of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Mrs. May Wood of South Coventry, Conn.  The funeral service was conducted both at the house and the cemetery by her pastor, Rev. Dr. J.J. Francis; and at the grave the Rebekahs present in a body, rendered the burial service of the order.  The interment was in Glenwood Cemetery [Afton, Chenango Co., NY].  [MHD notation:  d. 1919]

 

JONES--The funeral of George W. Jones will be held at 3 pm today at the Coleman & Daniels Funeral Home, 300 E. Main St., Endicott [Broome Co., NY].  The Rev. Earl V. Tolley will officiate.  The body will be taken Wednesday morning to the Oakland Methodist Cemetery, Mountain Cemetery, Mountain Home, Pa. for committal service and burial at 11 am. Wednesday.  [MHD notation:  d. Oct. 1956]

 

Mrs. Kathryn L. Jones, 66, of 16 Spring Street, Afton [Chenango Co., NY] died Saturday afternoon at Binghamton City Hospital, after a short illness.  She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Floyd Springsteen of Rensselaer; one son, Lawrence L. Jones of Marblehead, Mass.; two brothers, William S. Lawrence of Whitney Point, and Grover Lawrence of Binghamton; one granddaughter, Kathryn Springsteen of Rensselaer; one grandson, Leigh Jones of Marblehead.  She was a member of Afton Chapter OES. [MHD notation:  d. Oct. 6, 1951]

 

Leigh D. Jones, 69, of 16 Spring Ave., Afton [Chenango Co., NY], died Wednesday afternoon at his home.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Kathryn Jones of Afton; a daughter, Mrs. Floyd Springsteen of Albany; a son, Lawrence L. Jones of Marblehead, Mass.; a granddaughter, Kathryn Springsteen of Albany; a grandson, Leigh M. Jones of Marblehead, Mass.; two brothers, Ray of Afton, and Archie of Windsor; several nieces and nephews.  He was an employee of the D&H Railroad more than 50 years, and a trustee of the Village of Afton more than 20 years, an elder of St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Afton 20 years, and a member of Afton Lodge F&AM.  The body was removed to the Karschner Funeral Home in Afton where friends may call.  [d. Aug. 8, 1951]