Saturday, October 5, 2013

Obituaries (October 5)

Mrs. Mary B. Keegan, widow of Frank Keegan, died this morning after a short illness at her home, 180 Matthews street [Binghamton, Broome Co., NY].  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gertrude R. Keegan Schaefer of this city and Mrs. Cleason O. Poole of West Englewood, N.J.; two sons, G. Fred Keegan of Englewood, N.J., and Harry J. Keegan of Wilkes Barre, Pa.;  three grandchildren, Laura and Connie Schaefer and Franklin Poole; three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Schmerhorn, Mrs. Alice Riegal of Johnson City and Mrs. Julia Bartholomew of Brooklyn, and a brother Albert Halpin of Rochester.  Mrs. Keegan was a lifelong resident of this city.   The body was removed to the Walter D. Sullivan funeral home, 32 Main street and will be taken to her home tonight.  [Notation:  1936]  Funeral services for Mrs. Mary B. Keegan, who died at her home, 180 Matthews street, Saturday, will be Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at her home and at 9:30 o'clock at St. Thomas Aquinas church.  Burial will be in St. Patrick's cemetery. 

 
 
Samuel A. Riegel, 61, of 15 Avenue B, Johnson City [Broome Co., NY], died at his home at 6:50 o'clock Thursday night.  He is survived by his wife Allie; a brother, W.H. Riegel of Binghamton; a sister, Mrs. Sadie Dubbs of Sedalia, Mo.; a niece Mrs. K.E. Frederick of New York City.  The funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the home.  Rev. Arthur Wright will officiate.  Burial will be made in Floral Park Cemetery [Johnson City, NY].  [Notation: Sept. 1926]
 
One death from diphtheria has been reported to the Department of Health.  the victim is Wesson, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Burr W. Mosher at 35 North Street, who had been ill only three days with the disease.  There were no new cases of contagion reported today but Health Officer Burr gave warning that this is diphtheria weather and urged all parents to see that children are warmly clothed and shod and that any cases of sore throat receive prompt treatment.  The daily record shows:  Diphtheria, 4; tuberculosis in the city, 69; at the State Hospital, 123; in the county, 4: typhoid, 7. 
Wesson Mosher son of Mr. and Mrs. Burr Mosher died Sunday.  The burial was yesterday afternoon in Spring Forest cemetery.  Rev. J.J. Lawrence officiating at the grave.  Besides his parents, he is survived by one sister, Carolyn, and one brother Alfred.  [Compiler note:  As per tombstone, Wesson Mosher, 1909-1915]
 
Mrs. May Mosher Goodsell, widow of the late Dr. Eugene A. Goodsell of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] and sister of Burr W. Mosher of this city, died at her home in Schenectady Saturday morning.  She is survived by two children.  Mrs. Marjorie Miller of Schenectady and Wesson M. Goodsell of Springfield, Mass. and five grandchildren.  The interment will be in Afton.  [MHD notation:  October 1925]

The death of Aurelius C. Pratt occurred at his home in this village Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock, aged 70 years.  Mr. Pratt had been confined to the house for six months suffering more or less with no prospect of recovery.  Wednesday night of last week he received a stroke of paralysis from which he did not rally, though he was conscious most of the time and strove by broken words and gestures to communicate with his family.  Mr. Pratt was born in W. Poultney, Vt., and lived with his parents until he went to Fort Edward, N.Y., to learn the trade of moulding.  He worked for a time in Troy, and was considered one of the finest moulders employed in that city.  In 1850 he came to Bainbridge and was foreman for Moses Burgess in the first foundry established in the place.  The plant was situated just beyond the Burgess home, now occupied by Arvine Ireland at the upper end of West Main st.  Mr. Pratt remained with Mr. Burgess until he died and when the business passed into the hands of Don A. Gilbert, he continued work until the building burned down.  Later Mr. Gilbert erected a new plant upon Johnson street and Mr. Pratt resumed his former position., fire coming again after a short term of years.  Then followed the first Sled Factory building constructed by Mr. Gilbert, in which were iron works and where Mr. Pratt held his old place.  But fire came the third time and like a destroying Nemesis wrought ruin throwing a host out of work and Mr. Pratt among them. Fourteen years ago, Mr. Pratt removed to Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] and engaged in foundry work there for three years and then returned to Bainbridge.  Since then feeble health has obliged him to forego active labor.  The deceased embraced Christianity when sixteen years of age and became attached to the Baptist denomination.  He came to Bainbridge before the formation of a Baptist society in the village but his allegiance was so strong to the church of his youth, that he often walked on pleasant Sundays to West Bainbridge, a distance of several miles, to attend Baptist service.  When the church was founded in Bainbridge, thirty years ago, he was one of its charter members and labored gratuitously, and actively with his own hands, to build the edifice.  His devotion to his religious convictions was of the simple, pure type, burning steadfast and true to the last.  Unassuming and kind in his ways, a good neighbor, friend and citizen, Mr. Pratt was esteemed by all.  His funeral was held at the Baptist church, Monday afternoon, the pastor, Rev. J.E. Vassar, officiating, assisted by Rev. C.H. Sackett of the Methodist church.  The Masonic lodge of Bainbridge of which the deceased had been a member for forty-five years, also an honorary member for several years, attended the funeral and conducted the services at the grave in St. Peter's burying ground.  Mr. Pratt is survived by his wife Mary Coonradt, to whom he was married in Troy, in 1853, and four children:  James H. Pratt and Mrs. Allen Hodge of Bainbridge, Don C. Pratt of Binghamton and Mrs. Geo. Spohn of Guilford.  There are living in West Poultney, Vt., three aged sisters of the deceased, unmarried and occupying together, the Pratt homestead.  [Bainbridge Republican, Mar. 23, 1898]

James Flanigan died Tuesday morning of pneumonia after an illness of about ten days.  He was 48 years of age and had lived in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] for the past 30 years, ever since he came from Ireland.  He had been employed upon the railroad while here up to 1894, when he met with an accident by the loss of an arm.  He had always made his home with Thomas Doran from which place the funeral was held Thursday, conducted by the Catholic church.  Burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery [Sidney, NY].  He left no known relatives.  [Bainbridge Republican, Mar. 23, 1898]

Mr. John Pendlebury, Sr., an esteemed citizen died in a sad way on Monday of last week.  He had been sick from gangrene and as it seemed that he was likely to die of clogging of the arteries he submitted to an amputation of the left leg below the knee but did not survive the operation.  Mr. Pendlebury was survived by his wife and three sons.  His funeral was held at the M.E. church Wednesday afternoon, a large concourse of people attending.  The business places of the village were closed during the services out of respect to the deceased.  [Bainbridge Republican, Apr. 13, 1898]

At her home on West Main street, Mrs. Rosetta A. Treadway, wife of John W. Treadway, died at noon on Wednesday of last week, after a lingering illness caused by nervous prostration, aged seventy-six years.  Mrs. Treadway was born in Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY] and was married there to Mr. John W. Treadway in 1839.  Her husband removed to Coventry, two miles distant, where they resided until coming to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] in 1864.  Two years after Mr. and Mrs. Treadway took up their residence in this village they experienced a severe affliction in the loss of a beautiful daughter.  Miss Iza Treadway, a young lade of twenty-three years of age, who died form consumption.  Mrs. Treadway never fully recovered from this sad stroke, a tinge of sadness being perceptible even in her most cheerful moods.  Mrs. Treadway's illness dates back to five years ago when going to and returning from a visit to her son in the South.  The weariness and the excessive sickness caused by railway traveling so enfeebled her system as to render her a prey to nervous trouble.  For two years she had been a confirmed invalid becoming gradually conscious that there was no hope of recovery.  Through all her long suffering her gentle disposition did not change, and her kindness and consideration for those in attendance upon her were always predominant.  Everyone, to the merest child, felt in this loveable woman's presence, that truth, sincerity and love unbounded prevailed.  The deceased was a true wife, a fond mother, an entertaining woman socially, one who was young even in advanced life.  She was devotedly attached to her church ties, those of the Presbyterian faith.  Her last hours were painless and she passed peacefully away "to that unknown and silent shore."  Mrs. Treadway is survived by her husband, aged eighty years, and three children; Charles Treadway of Binghamton, Leroy of Jacksonville, Florida, and Mrs. Ella Stoughton of Bainbridge, George Waters, an artist of Elmira, N.Y., is her brother.  The funeral was held at the home, Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.  Rev. Mr. Spaulding was the officiating clergyman who spoke impressively upon the occasion.  Selections of music were rendered in harmony with the beautiful character of the deceased, and a profusion of flowers was everywhere manifest.  The interment was by her daughter's side in St. Peter's burying ground.
"Dust, to its narrow house beneath!
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have been thy look in death,
No more may fear to die."
[Bainbridge Republican, May 4, 1898]

 

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