The funeral of Mrs. Stephen Johnson, of North Afton [Chenango Co., NY], occurred on Saturday, Rev. C.B. Personeus officiating. It appears that on Wednesday, not feeling very well, she started to go to Henry Johnson's, a near-by neighbor, but only succeeded in reaching the gate in front of the residence when she was stricken with paralysis. She was assisted into the house, and lingered until about one o'clock Thursday morning, when she passed quietly to the other shore. [Compiler Note: from tombstone transcription, North Afton Cemetery, Deborah Crowell Johnson wife of Stephen Johnson, Jan. 5, 1818 - Apr. 20, 1901]
Afton [Chenango Co., NY]: Mrs. J.B. Butler, 85, former vice president of the Department of Pennsylvania, W.R.C., one of Afton's oldest residents and widow of two Civil War veterans, died at 4 o'clock Monday morning of heart disease. Death followed a long illness. the deceased was born at Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on August 20, 1848, the daughter of Daniel Gilbert and Fannie Harris Prentice. Early in life Mrs. Butler moved to Coventryville and Wilkins Settlement near here. While young, she married George Wood, a Civil War veteran and later in life, she married another veteran of that war, Jeremiah Butler. Both husbands are dead. The late Mrs. Butler was a former vice president of the Department of Pennsylvania, W.R.C., which office she held for many years. She was a member of Cunahunta Chapter, D.A.R., at Afton and was also a member of the First Baptist Church of Afton for more than 50 years, she being one of the oldest members of that church. Mrs. Butler resided in several places and traveled much during her life and her stories of her life when a pioneer in the state of Iowa in 1868 were interesting. Mrs. Butler's hobby was the collecting of old relics, she having had a fine collection. The late Mrs. Butler is survived by one sister, Mrs. Margaret B. Sayre of Trenton, Mich., and by several nieces, nephews and grandchildren. One granddaughter, Miss Sylvia M. Pierce, who is the librarian of the Afton Free Library, resided with her in the late Afton home. Funeral services for the deceased will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Lester D. Huxtable, pastor of the Afton Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery at Afton. [MHD notation: 1934]
Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY]: The tragic death of Mrs. Stanbro, wife of Principal Frank Stanbro, who was burned to death in their barn at Brookfield [Madison Co., NY] on Friday night, when the barn caught fire from their automobile, has cast a gloom over the whole village. Mr. and Mrs. Stanbro motored to Brookfield after school hours on Friday afternoon to spend Saturday at their farm home. Besides her husband she is survived by two young children and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Place, who reside at Mt. Upton. The body will be brought here today and funeral services held at the home on Wednesday.
Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]: The funeral services of Uri Bradley were held Wednesday afternoon of last week and the burial took place in the family plot, Sunset Hill cemetery [Guilford, NY]. Mr. Bradley was born in Ives Settlement, near this village, May 30, 1825, and was the last of a large family of children. He was the son of Ira and Charlotte Mills Bradley and is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Dayton Roth. Mr. Bradley had been thrice married, first to Miss Mary Ann Tyler of Coventry, second to Miss Delia Terry of Oxford and lastly to Mrs. Mary Clark Peckham who died Sept. 1903. The services were conducted by Rev. A.C. Salls of the Congregational church of which Mr. Bradley was a member, and among the friends present were Mrs. John A. Clark, James Clark and Arvine Clark of Sidney, Mrs. Geo. Garvine of Utica. [Bainbridge Republican, Sept. 22, 1910]
James E. Shaver died early yesterday afternoon from peritonitis at his home in the Tillman house on North Main street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] at the age of fifty years. Mr. Shaver had not been critically ill only since Sunday, although he had been complaining of not feeling well for some time. He was well known in Bainbridge having resided here for the past forty-five years, having come when five years old from Guilford where he was born. He was a carpenter by trade, but was engaged at times in different vocations. He is survived by a wife, three daughters, Mrs. Wiley Foster, Mrs. John Ryder and Mrs.George Christian, of Bainbridge, and one son, Louie, of the United States Army, stationed at Boston, Mass. Two brothers and three sisters survive, who are Frank Shaver of this village, William Shaver of Binghamton, Mrs. James Delaney of Binghamton, Mrs. Mary McPherson of Holmesville, and Mrs. Cora Underhill of Gilboa. The funeral will be held at the house at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. [Bainbridge Republican, Sept. 29, 1910]
Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY]: The funeral of H.H. Calkins, one of Coventryville's oldest inhabitants, was held from his late home Friday. The service was conducted by Rev. G.P. Linderman, who took for his text: "We all do fade as a leaf." Until within a week or so the deceased had been able to keep up his regular work, though had not been as well as usual during the summer, but he could not rally from the attack of bowel trouble and passed peacefully away Wednesday, September 14, at the age of 84. He is survived by his wife to whom he was married 68 years ago and who had occupied with him for 61 years the house from which he was buried. She will now live with her daughter, Mrs. D.N. Hunt. He is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. D.N. Hunt of this place and Mrs. DeWitt Rogers of Sherburne. The casket was covered and surrounded with a profusion of flowers, amid which he was laid to rest in the Coventryville hillside cemetery. Mr. Calkins was a cabinet maker and made many useful and artistic pieces of furniture, accuracy and neatness being a characteristic of all his work. His hand carving and inlaid wood work were especially worthy of exhibition. At the age of three score and ten years he made a bookcase and writing desk which had 400 pieces and 18 different kinds of wood and had much beautiful inlaid work on it, all of which showed finely the natural graining of the different wood. [Bainbridge Republican, Sept. 29, 1910]
Briton H. Norton, passed from a quiet night's sleep, to awake to the life eternal, in the early morning hours, of Friday, June 4. Mr. Norton had been in usual health; he went to Binghamton Wednesday returning home by the way of Norwich and Oxford, on Thursday. He stopped at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Foster and after supper came home and worked for some time in his garden. Mrs. Norton arose about five Friday morning and lighted the kitchen fire; returning to her room, she spoke to her husband, but received no reply, as he was sleeping the long sleep which only wakes in the life beyond. Briton H. Norton was born Feb. 26, 1860, at Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], when a young child he went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Ogden and the many years spent with them he was loved and cared for, giving love in return as tenderly as an own son. Mr. Norton was married to Mime A. Ferguson Dec. 21, 1881. Their early life was spent mostly in Coventry. In February 1908 the family moved to Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY], as he had purchased the mill property there, and it has since been their home. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Norton all but one, Jennie, who died November 1890, are left to mourn the loss of one kind parent, and to comfort the mother who is spared to them. Those of his nearest relatives who survive are the aged foster mother, Mrs. Ogden, the wife Mrs. Norton, three daughters, Mrs. Charles Riley of North Sanford, Mrs. George Foster and Mrs. John Parsons of Bainbridge, three sons, Walter C. Norton, Lee R. Norton and Chauncey E. Norton of Bennettsville, and one sister, Mrs. Dora Fowler of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago Ill, also twelve grandchildren and one great grandchild, the infant, Anna Amelia Anderson. Mr. Norton was a man much respected by all who knew him and he will be greatly missed in the community. He was a member and faithful worker of the M.E. church. He had much inventive ability and might have made a fortune by some of his inventions, had he not like so many other geniuses when lacking capital to float inventions and introduce them to the world; fill the mind with other inventions One of his later models was a wheel which was a success, either for farm wagons or automobiles, some of the people in this vicinity are using them on wagons. The funeral conducted by Rev. Mr. Snyder of Wellsbridge, a former pastor was held at the home, Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. The house could not contain all who assembled to show respect to their friend and neighbor. Messrs. R.L. Smith, E.C. Ward and Frank Ward sang favorite hymns. The burial was delayed an hour or more as his sister, Mrs. Fowler was delayed by the train being four hours late. Relatives from out of town were Mrs. Fowler of Oak Hill, Ill., Mrs. Chester Fuller of Schenectady Mrs. Celinda Ferguson, Mrs. Charles Smith of New Milford, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. G. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bliss, Mrs. George Myers, of Bainbridge, Mr. and Mrs. DeRoy Riley of Oxford and children and grand children mentioned before. Messrs Will Laman of Coventry and Peter H. Parker and Charles Parker of Oxford, former friends and neighbors also came to show their friendship and respect. The large attendance and many beautiful offerings also testify to the place Mr. Norton held in the esteem of those who knew him. His family feel much keenly the loss of a kind husband and father. [Bainbridge Republican, June 10, 1920]
Mrs. Angelia Winsor died at her home on South Main street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] last Thursday morning. Mrs. Winsor was born August 11, 1849 and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James K. Wetmore. She was married to George S. Winsor on September 29, 1874. Mr. Winsor and their little son aged two years, both died in the year 1878. She was the last member of one of the old families of Bainbridge. Her father for several years prior to his death, was President of the First National Bank of this village. The funeral of Mrs. Winsor was held at her late residence on Saturday at 4 o'clock. Rev. J. DeLancey Scovil officiated. Mrs. Winsor was a communicant of St. Peter's church and the burial was in St. Peter's churchyard. [Bainbridge Republican, June 10, 1920]
W. Earl Cole, one of the best known residents of McGraw [Cortland Co., NY], was drowned early last Saturday morning under peculiar circumstances. He had been ill since last Saturday from pleurisy and had been practically confined to his bed. He appeared better Thursday night and Mrs. Cole retired about 12:30 o'clock. She arose shortly after 5 o'clock and found that he was not in the house. She went out of doors and discovered Mr. Cole dead with his head and shoulders in the watering trough near the barn. A dipper was near his hand, close to the trough. It is evident that Mr. Cole, after putting on his bath robe, hat and boots, had taken a dipper and gone to the trough for a drink. The supposition is that he was out of his head, and being thirsty and feverish, had determined to get a drink of the cold water coming from the spring to the trough. The exertion evidently was too much for him and he fainted as he stooped over the trough. [Bainbridge Republican, June 24, 1920]
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