We are informed that John Carrick, of the Reed & Carnrick Co., died in Jersey City a few days since. There was a branch of their business in this place [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] for a number of years which did a large business giving employment to 100 people. Later the proprietors established their main plant in Jersey City, and considering the Bainbridge factory too remote from their center, had ceased to use it for manufacturing purposes for some time only as convenience permitted. The building has lately been sold to the Bainbridge Creamery Co. The building to the Jersey City plant covers one square block and 500 people are employed. By the death of Mr. John Carnrick the ranks of the pioneer drug trade in the United States have lost a scientific man and their former leader. He was born in 1837 and at the age of twenty-four he took up the study of pharmacy in Jersey City, and was among the first to bring out proprietary medicines together with the manufacturing of drugs for the physicians. [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 12, 1903]
Presson R. Peck died suddenly of heart failure at Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], on Jan. 30. About three weeks before his death he sustained a fracture of the leg while working in the woods with his steam saw mill. Although suffering considerable pain the break was mending well and he was intending to return to his home the day following when, on Friday morning, the heart suddenly failed and he expired in a few moments. The funeral was held from his late residence Monday, Feb. 2. The services were conducted by Rev. Arthur Spaulding and attended by a large number of friends and relatives. Mr. Peck was a resident of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], settling there in 1859 and was widely known in this vicinity. He served three years in the Civil War in the 114th regiment. In the battle of Port Hudson he was shot in the chest, the ball penetrating one of his lungs. He was left on the field for dead but was afterward sought out by some of his comrades and carried to the hospital. He never fully recovered from the effects of this wound for it left his lungs weak; but he did not shrink from trying to do a strong man's work, taking his portable saw mill into the woods and subjecting himself to the hardships of a woodman's life even in the rigorous winter weather. In politics he was a Republican. He served his town as supervisor and justice of the peace and was always interested in civil affairs, town, state and national. His public service was signally free from the questionable practice thought by public men to be necessary and which have brought politics into disrespect. He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence. He had a quick, ready mind which was not long in piercing the husks of a question and getting at the kernel of truth. He was quick at repartee and his sense of humor was keen and he had no mind to dwell on his own misfortune or upon the gloomy side of life. All this made him a most agreeable and cheery friend and companion. His character was unimpeachable. In all his relations with men he maintained that high tone which proclaimed that here was a man that could not be used for unworthy or base ends. He could not stoop to meaness. He was lenient with others, far too lenient for his own good, but he was rigorous in his exactions upon himself, demanding of himself the ethics of honesty and integrity. His neighbors called him a good man and this is the highest encomium that can be passed upon one's character, for it is the judgment of one of the severest critics. The entire community feels its loss in the death of Mr. Peck, and, filled with a deep sense of its own loss, extends its tenderest sympathy to the home circle which has been so suddenly bereft of husband and brother. [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 12, 1903]
Lottie Gilbert was born in the town of Sidney, Delaware county, N.Y., Jan. 14, 1881, and died at her home in Butternuts, Otsego Co.,, Feb. 7, 1903. In her early life her parental home was broken up, but by her mother's efforts the four children were kept together. At the age of nineteen years she gave her heart to God and united with the Congregational church at Guilford Center. Two years ago she was united in marriage to James Oscar Shapley of Oxford, who was a member of the same church. Their happiness was destined to be of short duration. Within five months of their marriage he was carried away by that dreaded disease consumption. She did all that a willing and a loving heart could do for him but it was unavailing. Shortly after his death she made her home with her mother and brothers in Butternuts. But it was soon evident that she was a victim of the same disease that carried her husband away. A little time before the summons came she looked up to her friends and said, "Good bye all, it is all for the best." She was perfectly resigned to her death. She was possessed with a very sweet disposition and when in health her supreme thoughts were for the happiness of others. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Jennie Gilbert and two brothers, Irving and Raymond, of Butternuts, and one sister, Mrs. F.L. Nicholson of Guilford. The funeral was held from her late home Monday, Feb. 9, at 9:30 a.m., Rev. L.A. Pickett of Mt. Upton, officiating. Burial was made by the side of her husband in the Riverview cemetery at Oxford [Chenango Co.,, NY]. [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 19, 1903]
Died, in San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 5, Mrs. Martha E. Kentfield, aged sixty-five years. Martha M. Everest, daughter of Rev. George T. Everest, was born in Peru, Clinton county, N.Y., May 29, 1837. She was married Nov. 22, 1854, in Masonville, N.Y., to Wm. R. Kentfield, who died in Florence, Arizona, in 1902. The family resided in Masonville until 1885, when they moved to Balesfield, Cal. She is survived by three children, George H. Kentfield, of Monroe, Ill., Mrs. Stella Colton, of Florence, Arizona, Mrs. Lottie Peck, of San Francisco, Cal., her brother, George A. Everest of Duluth, Minn., three sisters, Mrs. Sarah Woodward, of Northwood, Iowa, Mrs. Mary Hannah and Mrs. Belle Clark, of Mt. Vernon, Washington. [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 19, 1903]
Lorin St. John met his death Wednesday night of last week, by being drowned in the Unadilla river at Pine Grove about one and one half miles north of Rockdale [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY]. The particulars are as follows: He had been helping John Baird, about two and one-half miles north of Rockdale on the east side of the river, on his farm this winter. About 5:45 p.m., he left to go to a neighbor's, Mrs. George Miller's to get him to go to Mr. Baird's to prescribe for a sick cow; but a few minutes had elapsed when the fearful blizzard of that night began and Mr. Baird thought it nothing strange that he did not return owing to the severity of the storm. They sat up all night waiting for him and when morning dawned and he had not appeared, immediate search was made and not until Friday about eleven a.m., did they find the least trace of him and then only a few foot tracks and cane tracks were discovered near the river banks. They began the cutting of ice on the river which had frozen during Wednesday and Thursday night to about four inches; hooks to drag the river with were then procured and not until Saturday noon were their labors rewarded by finding his dead body as above stated. Mr. St. John has been a life-long resident in this immediate vicinity, a prosperous and much respected farmer. His eyesight has been poor for several years and it is thought that he was bewildered, lost his way in the storm and met his fate as before stated. His age was seventy-four years. He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Samuel Gibson, and two sisters to mourn his loss. The funeral occurred Tuesday at 12 p.m., at the residence of his daughter with interment in the Mt. Upton cemetery where about a year ago his wife was buried. [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 26, 1903]
Martin William Seeley, a highly esteemed resident of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] for the past 37 years, passed away at 4:30 Saturday afternoon at his home on Pleasant street, following several weeks of illness. Mr. Seeley was born at Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] on June 17, 1858, the son of William and Mary E. (Stork) Seeley. His death occurred two days before his 82nd birthday. He was twice married. On April 12, 1882, he married Miss Isabell Eells of Coventry, who died in 1920. December 6, 1922, he married Mrs. Ellen A. King of Bainbridge, who died Jan. 10, 1931. He was a cabinet maker by trade, and during his later years he conducted a repair shop at his home. For the past 37 years Mr. Seeley has been a member of the First Congregational church of Sidney, where his funeral was held Tuesday afternoon, with Rev. J.W. Davies, assisted by Rev. G.A. Parmelee of the Baptist church, officiating. burial was made in Prospect Hill cemetery [Sidney, NY]. Three sons-in-law acted as pall bearers. The survivors are three brothers, Charles Seeley, Guilford; Ray Seeley, Oxford; Ernest Seeley, Johnson City; three sons, Linn Seeley, Endicott; June Seeley, Unadilla and Rev. Geo. Martin Seeley, Sidney; eight daughters, Miss Mary Seeley, Miss Angie Seeley, Mrs. Earl Rutenber, Mrs. Lynn Freiberger and Mrs. Ernest Rutenber, of Sidney; Miss Jennie Seeley, West Englewood N.J.; Mrs. Glenn Tripp, Morrisville Station and Mrs. Edward Cochran, Binghamton. Eleven grandchildren also survive. [published June 20, 1940]
Afton [Chenango Co., NY]: The funeral of Frederick Gibson, age 26 years, whose sudden death early Wednesday morning at the Binghamton City Hospital, following an attack of pneumonia, will be held at the home of his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bradshaw, on East Main Street, in this place, at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Rev. Clifford E. Webb, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this place, will officiate. Burial will be in Bennettsville Cemetery [Chenango Co., NY]. He had been ill only a few days. Mr. Gibson was residing at 9 Ashbury Court in Binghamton at the time that he was taken ill. The deceased was born in Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY] March 31, 1906. He was the son of Charles Gibson and Fannie Bradshaw. He spent most of his early life in the village of Afton. The late Mr.. Gibson was a graduate of the Afton High School. He attended Perkins Institute at Watertown,, Mass. He was a junior engineer with the New York State Highway Department. The deceased is survived by an aunt and uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bradshaw and another uncle, Claude Bradshaw, all of Afton, and by an aunt, Mrs. Clara Bradshaw of Binghamton. Fellow students of the Afton High School will be the pallbearers at the funeral. [MHD notation: d. 1932]
Mrs. Mary J. Briggs, 85 years old, died at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M.B. Shelton, 135 Laurel Avenue. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Shelton and Mrs. Flora E. Collins of Syracuse; a son, Henry P. Briggs of Afton; a brother James R. Thompson of Deposit and two grandchildren, Ralph Briggs and Keith Shelton of this city. The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Centenary M. E. Church. Burial will be in Afton. Arrangements by Roberts & Kelley. [Compiler note: Buried Glenwood Cemetery, Afton, NY, inscription "Mary J. Briggs / 1844 - 1929"]
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