Obituaries (January 24)

John Whitman who has been very ill for some months past, died on Tuesday July 1st at 6 o'clock aged 66 years.  The funeral service was held Thursday at 2 p.m. at his late home, Rev. R.B. Whitman of Bainbridge officiated.  Interment was made in the Masonville cemetery [Delaware Co., NY].  Mr. Whitman died in the same house he was born in.  He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Bertha Gifford, four grandchildren, one sister Mrs. Peter Couse of Deposit, also several nieces and nephews. Friends and relatives from Afton, Mt. Upton, E. Afton, Gilbertsville, Deposit, Binghamton attended the funeral.  Mr. Whitman has been poor master in the Town of Masonville for over ten years, and a trustee in the M.E church for several years. He will be greatly missed.  [Bainbridge Republican, July 10, 1924]

 

Frank D. Lyon superintendent of streets of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY] and prominent in highway work throughout the state, died suddenly July 4th, from an attack of acute indigestion suffered while he was attending a theatre performance.  He was removed to the Moore-Overton hospital and died a few hours later after an early rally.  Mr. Lyon was named the "Father of Good Roads" as it was though his efforts that the Higbee-Armstrong and Filler-Plank acts were enacted on the state engineer's department as special examiner of highways.  It was during this connection that he helped draft the highway laws of the state.  During the Hughes administration he was second deputy highway commissioner.  Mr. Lyon was born in Oxford [Chenango Co.,  NY], March 7, 1865.  He married Florence L. Lyon of Bainbridge September 1, 1885.  They had two children one of which, Walter J., managing editor of The Morning Sun, survives.  Mr. Lyon was connected with the Dix administration for 14 months.  He helped organize the first military company in Binghamton, later becoming an officer in the Twentieth Separate company, known as Company H.  He served on the old rifle team which won many trophies and championships.  He rose to corporal, sergeant and lieutenant.  Mr. Lyon is a thirty-second degree Mason.  [Bainbridge Republican, July 10, 1924]

 

James W. Sherwood, who carved the wood work on the doors of the Capitol at Albany, is dead.  Mr. Sherwood, eighty-seven, last member of the family of William and Abigale Smith Sherwood, and believed to have been the oldest survivor of the 114th Regiment of New York volunteers, died at his home at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] Thursday  night.  Mr. Sherwood's grandfather, Asa Sherwood, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; his father, William Sherwood, was in the war of 1812 and Mr. Sherwood enlisted as a musician in Company "C" of the 114th Regiment.  He was placed in the ranks and was promoted to corporal, October 19, 1864, and to sergeant May 17, 1865.  He was wounded in the face at Pleasant Hill.  He went out with the regiment in 1862 and served three years.  For a time after his return from the war, Mr. Sherwood resided in Norwich at the corner of Rexford and Silver streets, the present home of his nephew, Dr. Eugene J. Allen.  He was an expert hand woodworker and carved the doors in the Capitol at Albany being recommended to Architect Perry by Mr. Benway of Binghamton, foreman in the wood working plant of the W.H. Sternberg and company, of Norwich.  In 1886 Mr. Sherwood married Miss Cordelia Judson of Oxford.  Besides his wife he leaves many nephews and nieces.  [Bainbridge Republican, July 24, 1924]

 

Mrs. M.A. Bogart of Oneonta received word yesterday of the death of Mrs. Augusta Bogart Watts of Ashland, Va., on July 24.  Mr. Watts was crushed to death in an automobile accident.  The deceased was a sister of the late M.A. Bogart and was born and lived for many years in Delhi [Delaware Co., NY].  She has a large number of friends in this vicinity who will deeply regret her passing.  [Bainbridge Republican, July 31, 1924]

Miss Vivian Walker aged 19 years, died at her home Saturday night, five hours after returning home from the Moore-Overton hospital in Binghamton where she underwent an operation for appendicitis two and a half weeks ago.  Miss Walker was a member of the 1923 High School graduating class and an active member of the World Wide Guild, and was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Walker.  Besides her parents, she is survived by her grandmothers, Mrs. Lucretia Pickering of this village and Mrs. Daniel Frace of Johnson City, her aunts Mrs. Lewis Snitchler, Mrs. William Snyder, Mrs. George Cook, Mrs. William Thomas and uncles Mr. Walker of Philadelphia and George and Wylie Foster of Bainbridge.  A private funeral was held from her late home Tuesday afternoon.  Burial in St. Peter's Episcopal cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].  Rev. R.B. Whitman officiating.  [Bainbridge Republican, July 31, 1924]