Obituaries (Th, Ti) MHD Collection

 

Cory D. Thornton, age 70, prominent Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] farmer, died at the Bainbridge Hospital, last Sunday afternoon at 6 o'clock where he had been a patient for a week, after suffering a severe heart attack, June 16.  Mr. Thornton, who was a member of the Town Board, served as supervisor for 18 years from 1911 to 1929.  He was prominent Republican all his life.  In 1936, he was appointed a member of the Town Board to complete the unexpired term of the late J.W. Weeks, as Justice of the Peace, which office he held at the time of his death.  He was a member of the Bainbridge I.O.O.F. Lodge.  Mr. Thornton was born in Afton, September 17, 1870, the son of Hiram Nelson and Luceada Greene (Wrench) Thornton.  He was married to Amy Manderville Lyon, of West Bainbridge, October 14, 1903.  He is survived by his wife, a sister, Mrs. Ernie Johnson, of Deposit and a half brother, Lawrence Slater, of Afton.  Services were held Wednesday afternoon in Colwell's Chapel at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Paul L. Carpenter, officiating.  Interment was in Glenwood Cemetery at Afton. 

 

Ralph Bresee Thorpe, 1888-1917.  Ralph B. Thorpe was born in Afton May, 1888, the son of Rev. and Mrs. W.L. Thorpe, his father at that time being the Presiding Elder of the Honesdale District of the Wyoming Conference.  Like most children of Methodist Ministers his home was at times in various places in the Wyoming Conference, Plymouth, Newark Valley, N.Y., and Plains, Pa.  Ralph prepared for college at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., and entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1907.  He was making splendid progress in his college work when at the beginning of his junior year, Sept 1909, he was compelled to leave college on account of his health.  For several years he gave his best efforts to recovering his health, living out of doors, and taking the rest cure.  He was always hopeful and cheery, working at something, basketry, photography, raising chickens, etc.  Two years ago he came with his mother to Afton [Chenango Co., NY] to live and while here he has made, as everywhere, many friends by his kindly interest in every one.  His courage and hopefulness in spite of physical weakness and the disappointment of having to give up all thought of a career and his eagerness to be doing something were strong characteristics.  He passed away on Saturday afternoon Feb. 24th [1917], falling peacefully to sleep.  the service in his memory was held at the bungalow home, Tuesday morning, Feb. 27, by the Rev. I.L. Bronson of the Methodist Church who spoke of his fine Christian character and splendid manliness which won the admiration and love of all who knew him.  The burial was in the Thorpe family plot in the cemetery at Otego [Otsego Co., NY]  Our sympathies are extended to his mother and his family and we express our regret that the home is to be broken in that Mrs. Thorpe has decided to leave our village to reside with her older son, Dr. J.L. Thorpe in Clyde, N.Y.  Our best wishes go with her.

Mrs. Charlotte Moat Throop died suddenly early Tuesday morning at her home on Pearl street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], after being stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage Monday.  She was born at Oquaga on April 25, 1882, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moat.  She attended school in Oquaga and in 1900, was united in marriage to Miner Throop of Doraville.  They remained on a farm in Doraville until 1923 and since have made their homes in Bainbridge.  Besides her husband, Miner Throop, village street commissioner, there survive two daughters, Mrs. Llewellyn Tucker of Dalton, Mass., and Mrs. Orson Thorp of Bainbridge; one son, Joseph, a senior at Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy; her father, Frank Moat of Vestal; a sister, Mrs. Clayton Hilton, also of Vestal and a brother, Claude Moat of Doraville.  Mrs. Throop, who had been in fair health for the past several years, was an active member of the local Home Bureau unit and was connected with the local Methodist Episcopal Church.  Funeral services will be held at the Colwell Brothers' Funeral Chapel on Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m.  The Rev. G.N. Underwood of the Methodist Church will be the officiating pastor.  Burial will be made in the Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].  [MHD notation, d. May 10, 1938]

Miner E. Throop, of Pearl street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] passed away quietly Friday night, January 10, 1941, at the home of his mother, Mrs. Helen Throop in Doraville.  He had apparently been enjoying good health until his death.  Mr. Throop was born in Doraville [Broome Co., NY] on April 1, 1880, the son of Joseph D. and Helen Throop.  He was united in marriage with Lottie Moate on August 26, 1900.  In 1923 the family moved to the present home on Pearl street.   During his youth he was a stone mason in his father's quarry at Doraville.  Later he became a foreman in the service of Frank Lewis and Sons, where he was employed in construction work for over 20 years.  Bainbridge people will remember him for many structures whose construction he supervised.  In 1939 he was Commissioner of Streets and Parks in Bainbridge.  Since then he has been managing his farm at Doraville.  He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Helen Throop, and sister, Mrs. Olive Benton, of Doraville; and his brother, Lewis Throop, of Troy, Mont.; three children, Mrs. Ruth Tucker, of Dalton, Mass.; Mrs. Blanche Thorp, of Bainbridge, and Joseph Throop fo Troy, N.Y., He had three grandchildren, Lucille, Llewellyn and Grace Tucker, of Dalton, Mass.  The funeral was Monday, January 13, at 2 P.M.  The body was interned at the vault of the Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge].  The bearers were Messrs. Jesse Doolittle, Austin Finch, Frank Lewis and Robert Davidson.