The death of Mrs. Margaret B. Parsons occurred Thursday, Nov. 2, at her home in New York, No. 437 West End Ave. The funeral was held Saturday, the 5th inst. and interment at Rye, N.Y. [Westchester Co.]. Mrs. Parsons was an occasional visitor in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] during the time her sisters, the Misses Sue and Parthenia Pirnie, spent several summers here, and is remembered as a most kindly woman with pleasing personality. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 9, 1898]
Mrs. Emilie K., wife of Leroy Treadway, died Saturday at her home in Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], aged 47 years. Funeral services were held at the house Sunday evening at 6 o'clock by Rev. D.N. Grummon, and the remains were taken to Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] Monday morning for burial. Besides her husband Mrs. Treadway is survived by one brother, Frank R. Moody of Jamestown, N.Y. Alexander Moody of Bainbridge, was her uncle, and Mrs. R.D.L. Evans her cousin. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 9, 1898]
On Saturday, Nov. 5, Mrs. Abigail Dean, the oldest person in the town of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], died at the home of her son, Orville G. Dean, aged 95 years. The funeral was held in the church in Masonville Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Dean was the widow of Reuben Dean who died about thirty-five years ago. She was the mother of ten children. Miss M. Belle Donahue of this village was her granddaughter. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 9, 1898]
Mrs. Maria Minor, widow of the late Sherman H. Pearsall, died Thursday at her home in Bainbridge, of cancer of the stomach, after a protracted illness, aged 63 years. Mrs. Pearsall had been ailing all the last spring and summer, an oppressive weariness prostrating her but was hopeful of recovery, not aware until a little time ago the nature of the malady sapping her strength, nor conscious of the deadly hold upon her life. The last few weeks her health had failed rapidly and her sufferings were intense but she bore all with resignation and arranged with thoughtful consideration for the future welfare of the one remaining member of the family left after her decease. Mr. Pearsall's home before marriage was in deposit. She was married when twenty-one years of age of Sherman H. Pearsall, a young man of sterling character living upon Searles Hill, town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]. The husband took his wife to the paternal homestead where they resided until their removal to Bainbridge some twenty years ago. The original family of Pearsalls, of Searles Hill, came to that locality early in the century from Dutchess county, not long after the migration of Abner Searles from Dutchess county, from whom the settlement took its name. The Searles and Pearsall families have always been recognized as the first settlers of that region and brought with them strong physical energy and unlimited perseverance to fell unbroken forests and there build homes which should revert to generations of their kin. In the first Pearsall family name there were four sons, Amos, Smith, Samuel, and Henry, all mere lads when their parents came to Searles Hill. These sons grew up trained to agricultural pursuits, were successful in business ways, widely known and respected for strict integrity and honorable conduct. They were, as are their descendants, active members of the Methodist church, and were frequent attendants with the M.E. Church of Bainbridge. The four brothers lived to be aged men. [There are those] in Bainbridge who remember them as they stood in their places in church, in the years past, tall, erect, earnest and forcible, giving their testimony "on the Lord's side." Henry Pearsall's children were Louis S., Sherman H., and Mrs. Ada E. Westcott. Sherman H. Pearsall the husband of the deceased, succeeded to his father's farm and sustained through life the same reputation for manly, honest-dealing, as characterized his ancestors. After coming to Bainbridge he engaged in wagon making which he followed for a few years when he was stricken with consumption and died soon after the completion of a new house. There were two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Pearsall: Lizzie E., deceased, wife of Dr. Clellan Card of Philadelphia, and Albert M. the sole survivor of the family. At her husband's decease, Mrs. Pearsall was left alone with her little son of eight years but resolutely assumed the cares of her position, and strong in her mother's love performed with womanly gentleness and firmness the duties assigned her. Her soul was brave and strong even when enveloped in the shadows of death. She was a Christian woman and exemplified in her daily unostentatious life, the divine influence of a religious nature. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of the deceased, conducted by Rev. C.H. Sackett of the Methodist church of Bainbridge, of which Mrs. Pearsall was a member, assisted by Rev Arthur Spaulding of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. T.F. Hall of Oneonta, a former pastor of Mrs. Pearsall's. The Messrs. Banner, Gilbert, Ives and Smith sang some beautiful hymns. There were many tokens of flowers, one specially valued tribute being that offered by the son's classmates in the High School. The burial was in St Peter's burying ground [Bainbridge, NY].
After a painful illness of more than four months Mrs. Mary Jane Frisbie has left us to join the great majority. Her death occurred at half past four on last Sunday morning. For the past two years she has had attacks of severe illness, gradually becoming more frequent, until about the first of July last, when an attack more severe than the rest prostrated her. From this time, though there were periods when she seemed to improve, her gradually waning strength made it evident that disease was remorselessly working the dissolution of the body. Mrs. Frisbie was born at Bovina, Delaware co., N.Y. There and at Washington Co., N.Y. her early life was spent. In 1870 she was married to Dr. C.M. Frisbie. The year following they moved to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] where they have since resided. The death of such a woman as Mrs. Frisbie is a distinct loss to our community in which she lived for the past twenty-seven years. In her character many virtues met and from her life flowed many healing influences. Though dead she has left behind memorials in many hearts that have been cheered, reclaimed or ennobled by her. Very early in life she recognized the claims of Christ upon her, united with the United Presbyterian church in the village of her early home. When she moved to Bainbridge she transferred her church relations to the Presbyterian church of this village. She ever cherished a most ardent love for her church, and was tireless in her endeavors for its interests both temporal and spiritual. Most unselfishly she would sacrifice time and even the comforts of life for the sake of furthering the cause of Christ and his church. Unceasingly too did she labor for reclaiming lives that others seemed to have given up. She had that rare power of discerning the good in the human heart even when it is crusted over with evil, a quality that is essential for those who would help others. Added to this was a rare faculty of faith that would not allow her to yield to discouragement. With her the helpful side of her nature was always open to all. No one could come into her presence without feeling that they were coming into the presence of goodness, and no one could go from her presence without feeling richer in hope and courage and faith. "Patient continuance is well doing" is the phrase that best characterizes her life, and she has passed to the reward of such, even eternal life. The funeral of Mrs. Frisbie was held at her late home, Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. The Rev. Arthur Spaulding officiated and Messrs Daniel Banner, Geo. A. Ives, Don A. Gilbert and Geo. Smith sang selections. The burial was in Green Lawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY]. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 16, 1898]
Mr. and Mrs. Eli W. Carter of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] received a letter last week from their Chas. E. Carter, of company G, First New York Volunteers, at Honolulu, in which he stated he was in good health. The same [...] was received by the father that the remains of his son would be shipped from San Francisco to his home that afternoon. The young soldier was a student at the Oneonta Normal, a member of the Third Separate Company of Oneonta, and went with Company G into the war ranks. He died at Honolulu. He was a popular young man, a bright student, and highly regarded in Greene and in Oneonta and with whomever he associated. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 16, 1898]
Mrs. Emilie K., wife of Leroy Treadway, died Saturday at her home in Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], aged 47 years. Funeral services were held at the house Sunday evening at 6 o'clock by Rev. D.N. Grummon, and the remains were taken to Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] Monday morning for burial. Besides her husband Mrs. Treadway is survived by one brother, Frank R. Moody of Jamestown, N.Y. Alexander Moody of Bainbridge, was her uncle, and Mrs. R.D.L. Evans her cousin. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 9, 1898]
On Saturday, Nov. 5, Mrs. Abigail Dean, the oldest person in the town of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], died at the home of her son, Orville G. Dean, aged 95 years. The funeral was held in the church in Masonville Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Dean was the widow of Reuben Dean who died about thirty-five years ago. She was the mother of ten children. Miss M. Belle Donahue of this village was her granddaughter. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 9, 1898]
Mrs. Maria Minor, widow of the late Sherman H. Pearsall, died Thursday at her home in Bainbridge, of cancer of the stomach, after a protracted illness, aged 63 years. Mrs. Pearsall had been ailing all the last spring and summer, an oppressive weariness prostrating her but was hopeful of recovery, not aware until a little time ago the nature of the malady sapping her strength, nor conscious of the deadly hold upon her life. The last few weeks her health had failed rapidly and her sufferings were intense but she bore all with resignation and arranged with thoughtful consideration for the future welfare of the one remaining member of the family left after her decease. Mr. Pearsall's home before marriage was in deposit. She was married when twenty-one years of age of Sherman H. Pearsall, a young man of sterling character living upon Searles Hill, town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]. The husband took his wife to the paternal homestead where they resided until their removal to Bainbridge some twenty years ago. The original family of Pearsalls, of Searles Hill, came to that locality early in the century from Dutchess county, not long after the migration of Abner Searles from Dutchess county, from whom the settlement took its name. The Searles and Pearsall families have always been recognized as the first settlers of that region and brought with them strong physical energy and unlimited perseverance to fell unbroken forests and there build homes which should revert to generations of their kin. In the first Pearsall family name there were four sons, Amos, Smith, Samuel, and Henry, all mere lads when their parents came to Searles Hill. These sons grew up trained to agricultural pursuits, were successful in business ways, widely known and respected for strict integrity and honorable conduct. They were, as are their descendants, active members of the Methodist church, and were frequent attendants with the M.E. Church of Bainbridge. The four brothers lived to be aged men. [There are those] in Bainbridge who remember them as they stood in their places in church, in the years past, tall, erect, earnest and forcible, giving their testimony "on the Lord's side." Henry Pearsall's children were Louis S., Sherman H., and Mrs. Ada E. Westcott. Sherman H. Pearsall the husband of the deceased, succeeded to his father's farm and sustained through life the same reputation for manly, honest-dealing, as characterized his ancestors. After coming to Bainbridge he engaged in wagon making which he followed for a few years when he was stricken with consumption and died soon after the completion of a new house. There were two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Pearsall: Lizzie E., deceased, wife of Dr. Clellan Card of Philadelphia, and Albert M. the sole survivor of the family. At her husband's decease, Mrs. Pearsall was left alone with her little son of eight years but resolutely assumed the cares of her position, and strong in her mother's love performed with womanly gentleness and firmness the duties assigned her. Her soul was brave and strong even when enveloped in the shadows of death. She was a Christian woman and exemplified in her daily unostentatious life, the divine influence of a religious nature. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of the deceased, conducted by Rev. C.H. Sackett of the Methodist church of Bainbridge, of which Mrs. Pearsall was a member, assisted by Rev Arthur Spaulding of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. T.F. Hall of Oneonta, a former pastor of Mrs. Pearsall's. The Messrs. Banner, Gilbert, Ives and Smith sang some beautiful hymns. There were many tokens of flowers, one specially valued tribute being that offered by the son's classmates in the High School. The burial was in St Peter's burying ground [Bainbridge, NY].
After a painful illness of more than four months Mrs. Mary Jane Frisbie has left us to join the great majority. Her death occurred at half past four on last Sunday morning. For the past two years she has had attacks of severe illness, gradually becoming more frequent, until about the first of July last, when an attack more severe than the rest prostrated her. From this time, though there were periods when she seemed to improve, her gradually waning strength made it evident that disease was remorselessly working the dissolution of the body. Mrs. Frisbie was born at Bovina, Delaware co., N.Y. There and at Washington Co., N.Y. her early life was spent. In 1870 she was married to Dr. C.M. Frisbie. The year following they moved to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] where they have since resided. The death of such a woman as Mrs. Frisbie is a distinct loss to our community in which she lived for the past twenty-seven years. In her character many virtues met and from her life flowed many healing influences. Though dead she has left behind memorials in many hearts that have been cheered, reclaimed or ennobled by her. Very early in life she recognized the claims of Christ upon her, united with the United Presbyterian church in the village of her early home. When she moved to Bainbridge she transferred her church relations to the Presbyterian church of this village. She ever cherished a most ardent love for her church, and was tireless in her endeavors for its interests both temporal and spiritual. Most unselfishly she would sacrifice time and even the comforts of life for the sake of furthering the cause of Christ and his church. Unceasingly too did she labor for reclaiming lives that others seemed to have given up. She had that rare power of discerning the good in the human heart even when it is crusted over with evil, a quality that is essential for those who would help others. Added to this was a rare faculty of faith that would not allow her to yield to discouragement. With her the helpful side of her nature was always open to all. No one could come into her presence without feeling that they were coming into the presence of goodness, and no one could go from her presence without feeling richer in hope and courage and faith. "Patient continuance is well doing" is the phrase that best characterizes her life, and she has passed to the reward of such, even eternal life. The funeral of Mrs. Frisbie was held at her late home, Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. The Rev. Arthur Spaulding officiated and Messrs Daniel Banner, Geo. A. Ives, Don A. Gilbert and Geo. Smith sang selections. The burial was in Green Lawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY]. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 16, 1898]
Mr. and Mrs. Eli W. Carter of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] received a letter last week from their Chas. E. Carter, of company G, First New York Volunteers, at Honolulu, in which he stated he was in good health. The same [...] was received by the father that the remains of his son would be shipped from San Francisco to his home that afternoon. The young soldier was a student at the Oneonta Normal, a member of the Third Separate Company of Oneonta, and went with Company G into the war ranks. He died at Honolulu. He was a popular young man, a bright student, and highly regarded in Greene and in Oneonta and with whomever he associated. [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 16, 1898]
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