Sunday Bishop A. Fleming was called to Norwich on account of the death of James A. Brant, who with the exception of the past year was a life long resident of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]. Mr. Brant was 59 years of age and besides his wife is survived by two sons, a brother and a sister. He had been in ill health for some time, but died suddenly from heart disease. The funeral was held in Norwich Wednesday at 9 o'clock and the body brought here [Guilford, NY] for burial on the 11:03 train. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 17, 1910]
Eliza Smith, aged nearly 71 years, wife of Nathan Thackery, died at their home a few miles from town Monday morning. She had been ill for two weeks, but had suffered some time from diabetes. Besides her husband she is survived by a granddaughter, Edna Burlison, of Guilford, a sister, Mrs. Garlik of Binghamton, and a brother of Cherry Valley, Pa. The funeral service was held at the home conducted by Rev. A.C. Salls of the Congregational church of which she was a member and the interment was in Sunset Hill cemetery [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY]. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 17, 1910]
Miss Kate M. Denison, one of the best known and best loved teachers at the Oneonta Normal school, died early yesterday morning at the home of her parents in Greene [Chenango Co., NY]. For several months she had been in ill health, and in the summer was a patient at the Fox Memorial hospital, where she underwent an operation. From the first it was known that her condition was critical, but she rallied somewhat and about the middle of September went to Greene, where, failing day by day, her life at last went out. Miss Denison was a native of Greene and was educated there and at the Cortland Normal, from which she graduated in 1887. After teaching for a time at Babylon she became teacher in the New Paltz Normal. Later she took a course at Smith college and in 1895 came to Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY] as teacher of methods, a position which for fifteen years prior to her death she filled most creditably. Alike in school and city the death of Miss Denison will be deeply regretted. A woman of rare strength of character, and of great teaching ability, her cheerful, buoyant, hopeful personality had been an example and an inspiration to the hundreds of young teachers under her charge. "Aunt Kate" they affectionately called her one to another, and it was a tribute to the essential womanliness of her character, her kindness and the friendliness which, without loss of self-respect, bound their hearts close to hers. In the school she will be sadly missed, but even more the hundreds of teachers of this state whom she had taught will feel that something infinitely precious has gone out of their lives. The funeral of Miss Denison will be held at Greene at 11 o'clock on Friday. The Oneonta Normal will be closed for the day, and the flag of the institution will remain at half mast--an outward manifestation of the sorrow which is felt alike by local board, faculty and pupils, and in no less degree by the citizens of Oneonta--Oneonta Herald [Bainbridge Republican, Nov.17, 1910]
Entered into rest quietly and peacefully on Sunday morning, December 18th, at her ancestral home Terrace Hill, in this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], Margaret Dickinson, the oldest daughter of Mrs. H.W. Dickinson. Soon after in accordance with an ancient and beautiful custom the bell in St. Peter's church, tolled the age of nineteen. She was born in West Union, Ohio. Five years ago she entered St. Agnes School in Albany. In her second year at school her health failed and after a year spent at Trudeau she came to Bainbridge where she has lived for the past two years. During that time her sweetness of disposition and wonderful bravery in her long illness, combined with an unusual charm of manner and beauty of person, won for her a host of friends. Her influence will be long felt by the young people of the town. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at St. Peter's church, after a few prayers had been said at the house for the relatives. The procession was met at the church door by the rector, the Rev. Luther Weller, and the vested choir. The casket resting before the altar was covered with a pall composed of pink roses, white carnations and green ferns. Beautiful tributes of flowers in varied designs and clusters surrounded the casket. These were sent by friends in Bainbridge, Afton, Sidney, Binghamton, Chazy, N.Y., West Union, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Scranton, Pa., Richmond, Va., and Evanston, Ill. The choir, with Miss Addie Hill at the organ, chanted the psalms from the burial office and sang "Peace, Perfect Peace," "The Strife is O'er," and "For All Thy Saints Who From Thy Labors Rest." During the singing of the last hymn the procession moved to the churchyard and encircled the grave, where she was laid to rest under the shadow of the church, beside her father while the service was concluded. No one present could fail to be impressed with the feeling of Christians' glorious triumph over death conveyed by the beautiful words of the service, the altar with its festal white hanging red Christmas Poinsettias and lights, and the church beautiful with the Xmas decorations of evergreen. The bearers were Charles Kirby, Edgar Pearsall, Frank Fletcher, Edward E. Bennett, Julien Crobin and Adelbert Payne....[Bainbridge Republican, Dec. 22, 1910]
Emma Cooper was born July 21st, 1825, married James Yale May 2d, 1849, and came to the farm then owned by Stephen Yale, but which they afterward purchased. Here they resided until February, 1876, when they moved to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] where they lived until the home was broken up after the death of her husband, April 9, 1896. After this she went to Hammonton, N.J., where for over two years she assisted in caring for an invalid sister. After the death of this sister she went to Michigan in June, 1906, to live with her youngest daughter, Mrs. B.O. Rockwell. Here she quietly passed away December 14, 1910. The remains were brought to Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], but on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Howe, services were held in the M.E Church conducted by her pastor, Rev. H.T. Hill, of Bainbridge. She was laid to rest in Yaleville cemetery [Guilford, NY] by the side of her husband and one daughter. Of a large family of children only one sister remains, Miss Pauline Cooper, of Bainbridge. Mrs. Yale is survived by three children, Mrs. Henry Howe of Guilford, Mrs. Marion Predmore of Yaleville, and Mrs. Burton Rockwell of Bloomingdale, Michigan. [Bainbridge Republican, Dec. 22, 1910]
Frank Zimmer, a Delaware & Hudson engineer residing at No. 76 Lewis street, Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], was so badly scalded to a freight wreck at Nineveh [Broome Co., NY] on Tuesday afternoon that he died at midnight at the City Hospital in that city. The accident occurred when Engineer Zimmer's locomotive, hauling a freight train, collided with a rain on the Pennsylvania division of the D.&H. in the Nineveh railroad yards. Engineer Zimmer's fatal burns were received from bursting steam pipes. The 3:18 passenger train did not reach this station until 5 p.m. on account of the accident. [Bainbridge Republican, Dec. 29, 1910]
While fishing on the Susquehanna last Friday afternoon, the ice gave way and Lewis Hecox of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY] was drowned. Hecox was in company with two others, who were on the ice when it broke under their weight. He was about 29 years of age and formerly resided in Cooperstown and Middlefield. He had lived in Oneonta for about a year. [Bainbridge Republican, Dec. 29, 1910]
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