Obituaries (January 13)

BURLISON:  Near this village, April 2, 1894, of heart disease, Mr. John K. Burlison, aged 45 years, 8 months, 5 days.  Funeral services at the house today (Thursday) at 9 a.m., Rev. T.F. Hall officiating.  Interment at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].  He is survived by his widow and six children.

 

J.K. Burlison, a highly respected and well esteemed farmer, living in this town, about two miles east of the village, on the Curtis farm, was found dead, Monday morning.  Mr. Burlison had not been feeling well for several days previous, and Sunday night, upon retiring, he expressed himself as feeling better than he had in some time.  His wife went to his room early Monday morning, and found him dead.  The cause of his sudden death is supposed to be rheumatism of the heart.  The funeral was held Tuesday morning at the house, interment at Oxford; Rev. T.F. Hall officiating.

 

Benjamin Burlison died at the home of his son, James Burlison in this place, on Saturday morning last.  The funeral was held on Monday at 10 a.m. at the house, Rev. J. Whitney officiated.  Interment at Oxford.  The deceased was 94 years old and leaves several children to mourn his loss. [Oct. 19, 1895]

 

Mrs. Octra Ives died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Andrew Burdon, Guilford Center [Chenango Co., NY], Saturday afternoon, at the age of 72 years.  The funeral was held in the M.E. Church, Guilford Center, Tuesday afternoon.  Interment, Ives Settlement [Guilford, NY] beside her husband.  [1893]

Last Thursday occurred the sad death of Nettie, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mead.  The funeral was held at Christ church [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY], Rev. G.G. Perrine, officiated.  [Aug. 18, 1896]

 

The death of Miss Ella A. Ives at the hospital in Philadelphia, Pa., Tuesday, Oct. 30th was heard with deepest regret in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], her place of residence for many years. Much anxiety was entertained regarding the outcome in her case when Oct. 4th Miss Ives departed for Philadelphia, accompanied by her niece Mrs. Orson Thorpe, as her condition of health was already frail and shattered, leaving but slender hope for recovery.  Much might be said of the gentle and amiable character and life of this much beloved lady; her kindly pleasant social relations, her devotion to her church and to every duty and when all is told, be it said that hers was one of those Christian lives against which there was no reproach.  Gently she lays down her cross and burden of earth to enter the realms of her Savior.  Two weeks after her arrival at the hospital was performed an operation which might have had favorable results, but during the latter part of October pneumonia set in and death soon followed.  Miss Ives was 61 years of age and is survived by four brothers, Samuel Ives, of So. New Berlin; John Ives of Guilford, N.Y.; George Ives of Bainbridge, and Otto Ives of Guilford.  Also two sisters, Miss Lena Ives of Sidney and Mrs. Mary Shelton of Bainbridge--Sidney Record.  Services were held on Friday afternoon, Nov. 2nd, at 2 o'clock at the Congregational church in Sidney, the Rev. Charles G. Cady, of Bainbridge, officiating; interment in the Ives Settlement cemetery [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY].  The tender sympathy of all goes out to the bereaved family circle. When informed of the serious condition of his sister, George A. Ives of this village hurried for Philadelphia, but did not reach there until a short time after her death.  He returned with the remains to Sidney where the funeral was  held.  [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 8, 1921]

 

Last Friday afternoon, Nov. 2nd witnessed a large assemblage of mourners at the Congregational church to pay their last tribute of respect to the memory of the late Miss Ella A. Ives, whose death occurred at the Sanitarian hospital in Philadelphia Oct. 30th.  The presence of so many was a fitting act on the part of friends worthy of the high esteem in which the decedent was held in this community.  The floral remembrances were numerous, many of them exquisite in design.  The services were conducted by the Rev Charles G Cady of Bainbridge, who spoke feelingly of the life just closed appealing to all to follow an example of the true Christian life worthy of emulation.  A message was read from the pastor of the church Rev. W.W. Chambers testifying to the zeal and devotion to the church of Miss Ives, her liberality in its support, her cheerfulness of spirit that endeared her to every one.  It was a message tenderly appropriate to the sad occasion.  The interment, was held at Ives Settlement Cemetery in Guilford.  The death of Miss Ella Ives was the first break in the family circle of four brothers and three sisters and the surviving members of the family have the sympathy of all--Sidney Record.  [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 15, 1923]

 

The death of Hobart Ives, Nov. 3rd at his home near Rockdale [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY], was heard with regret by many friends in that locality and along the Unadilla valley, where he had spent a long lifetime and had attained the advanced age of 88 years.  Mr. Ives had been ill for some months but death may be attributed to the infirmities of great age.   In the immediate family surviving are his brother Charles Ives of Trestle,  N.Y and nephew Frank Ives of Rockdale, N.Y.  On Wednesday, Nov. 7th services were held, Rev. J.W. Bump of Guilford officiated, followed by interment in the Mt. Upton cemetery.  [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 15, 1923]

 

Mrs. Saphronia E. Broad Payne:  The passing from this vale of tears of this beloved Christian lady was a great blow to the relatives and friends who knew but to love her.  Her death came peacefully on the afternoon of Nov. 3 at her late home on Bixby street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], after about one year of severe suffering from cancer of the breast.  She was born in Masonville [Delaware Co., NY] on July 8, 1951, her father being Whitcomb Broad, a carpenter by trade.  The deceased was of a very retiring disposition and distinctively a home maker.  She never cared for the frivolities of life but her whole aim was to make others happy.  She displayed the most fortitude all through her great affliction often saying in substance "I will bear the toil, endure the pain supported by His (Gods) word" believing that "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."  [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 15, 1923]

 

Floyd Root, 45, of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY] and well known in Bainbridge where he made weekly trips when salesman for the Oneonta Grocery Company, was killed when the automobile which he was driving crashed into the guard rail on the curve in the highway north of Potter's crossing of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad above Unadilla at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning.  His wrecked machine was discovered by a passing motorist shortly after the accident, but Root was dead by that time.  Supreme Court Justice Leon C. Rhodes and Justice-elect James P. Hill of Norwich, together with a party of friends happened along soon after the accident, on their way home after a dinner given in honor of Justice Rhodes in Cooperstown on Monday night. They assisted in an investigation of the case.  Root was found dead behind the steering wheel, his body tightly wedged between the end of the guard rail and the back of the seat.  Had he been riding with anybody who could have extracted him from this position his life might have been saved, but it is believed that he was prevented from breathing by reason of the pressure of the end of the guard rail.  A physician was summoned from Unadilla, and after an examination found that the skin on Root's body was not even broken by the force of the blow.  Root was a commercial traveler and started from Binghamton Monday morning, intending to cover his territory from Binghamton to Wells bridge, where he planned to remain over night at the home of his father.  After transacting business late Monday night he started for his father's home.  After making the railroad crossing he failed to notice the turn in the road owning to the dense fog and crashed into the guard rail.  Besides his wife, Root is survived by his father and a brother, both of Wells Bridge.  [Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 15, 1923]