Relatives in Guilford received the sad news telling of the death of Robert Cornell, the eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cornell, at their home in New York city. Death was due to pneumonia. Robert is survived by a younger brother and two sisters. Mrs. Cornell was formerly Agnes Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Young, for many years residents of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], now residing in Homer. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 2, 1933]
Walter Franklin Robinson passed away at the Chenango Memorial Hospital, Norwich, at midnight, Friday, February 24. He was taken to the hospital Friday and in the evening underwent an operation performed by Drs. Manley and Boname. He had been in very poor health for some time. The deceased was born in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] January 25, 1889, the son of the late William Franklin and Mary (Delavan) Robinson. In early life he was married to Miss Pansy Page, of Oxford. From this union five children were born. During his early life he was a resident of Guilford until a few years ago when he and his father moved to the former Ross farm in Oxford. Funeral services were held from the Seymour undertaking parlors Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. [He is survived by two daughters], Evelyn and Dorothy; three sons, Archie, Carl and Paul; an aunt, Mary Emeline Robinson; an uncle, Adrian T. Robinson, of Guilford, and two cousins, Mrs. Barstow, of Binghamton, and Mrs. Clayton Whaley, of Johnson City. Burial was in the family plot at Riverview cemetery, Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 2, 1933]
Robert and Raymond Harris, 13-year-old twins, were drowned at Unadilla Forks [Otsego Co., NY] late Thursday evening when they broke through thin ice on the Unadilla River. They had been trapping and were homeward bound. Earle Toughey, also 13, who was with them, clung to the edge of the ice and was rescued. The twins were inseparable, and died as they had lived. Henry Wilcox, who went to the rescue of the boys, had a narrow escape from drowning. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 2, 1933]
Maurice Booth, of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], a former resident of this village, was killed instantly near Newark, N.Y., on February 21st, when a truck in which he was riding swerved from the road and crashed into a tree during a snowstorm. The funeral was held at the Colwell Funeral Chapel on Saturday afternoon, Rev. Clarence Carman officiating. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]. Maurice Porter Booth was born in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] on January 29, 1912, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Laverne C. Booth. He has made his home in Oneonta for about four years, and during the past year had resided with Mr. and Mrs. John Indian, of that city. He was very well liked in Oneonta, and had made a place for himself in the activities of the Elm Park Methodist Church and Epworth League, as well as in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Indian, who took a great deal of interest in him. He is survived by his father, Laverne C. Booth, of Binghamton, his mother, who makes her home in Brooklyn, and seven cousins, Judge Leon C. Rhodes, of Binghamton, George Rhodes, Boston, Fred Smith, Matteawan, N.Y., Clarence Smith, Otego, Mrs. George Myers, Mrs. Ernest Ingersoll and Mrs. Stephen Ireland, of Bainbridge....The accident occurred when the truck in which Booth was riding turned off the road to avoid a collision with another truck. Five other occupants of the truck were injured, but none seriously. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 2, 1933]
Rose Etta, wife of David Rider, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Glen Crandall, in Mt. Upton, Friday, February 17. Mrs. Rider was born in New York city May 30, 1862, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lacharius Hall. Interment was at Port Crane [Broome Co., NY]. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 9, 1933]
Lillian, wife of Hiram Wilcox, passed away at her home on Searles Hill [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] Wednesday, February 22, 1933. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Roberts, having been born in Lincoln, Neb., July 11, 1858. Burial was in Masonville [Delaware Co., NY]. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 9, 1933]
Hon. Leland M. Cowles of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], died at the Bainbridge Hospital last Thursday of angina pectoris, after he had been a patient there for six weeks. Mr. Cowles was born at Smithville, on April 4, 1852, the son of Marillo and Mary E. Hough Cowles. Following his graduation from Oxford Academy he went to Unadilla, where he studied law in the office of Attorney E.C. Belknap. He was admitted to the bar in 1887 and shortly after entered into partnership with Mr. Belknap. After a few years spent in Cortland in law practice, he returned to Unadilla and engaged in politics. He served in the State Assembly in 1898-99, and in 1916 was appointed surrogate judge of Otsego county to fill a vacancy. He was one of the oldest practicing attorneys in this section of the state, and during his residence in this vicinity had made many friends who sincerely mourn his passing. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Emma Graves, of Oxford; three brothers, Daniel and Walter Cowles, of Oxford, and William Cowles, of Smithville' also five nephews and five nieces, including Mrs. Harry Crane, of this village. The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon at the home of Miss Harriett Belknap, in Unadilla. The services were conducted by the Rev. Yale Lyon, rector of St. Matthews' Episcopal Church and burial was in the family plot at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]. Among the many relatives and friends present were a number of representatives of the Otsego County Bar Association. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 9, 1933]
Alice Hannah Newman, the 20-months-old adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.D. Hibbard, died Saturday morning from pneumonia, following measles. the funeral was held Monday, March 6th, at the Colwell Funeral Chapel, Rev. G.H. Orvis officiated. Burial was at Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY]. She is survived by one brother, Robert Newman, of Sherburne. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 9, 1933]
In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] Jan. 12, 1876, Nicholas Smith, aged 88 years. The past history of this man deserves more than a passing notice. Mr. Smith was born in Gloucester, Providence county, R.I., and passed the years of his boyhood in the vicinity of his native town. Born amid the stormy days immediately following the revolution, his character partook of that buoyancy of spirit, and love of adventure which the times and circumstances under which he was placed, were calculated to develop. With this ardent temperament in full play, we find him in the first flush of manhood, biding adieu to his native home and full of confidence in the present home, and full of confidence in the present and of faith in the future, turning his footsteps toward what was then termed the "far west," where, with his young companion and other friends from the same locality, he selected a house deep in the wilds of this new country and commenced his great life work in sober earnest. The journey from Rhode Island to this place in these primitive times was one of serious moment, and we find this resolute company accomplishing that journey of two hundred and fifty miles in the short space of fourteen days. On the 8th day of October, 1813, this enterprising company landed within the present limits of this town, to commence the battle of life ready to meet and overcome every obstacle that opposed their onward march. A grist mill at East Guilford was the only resort of the few inhabitants, and the surrounding wilderness was only broken here and there by small openings of the few pioneers who had braved the dangers and deprivations of frontier life in their voluntary seclusion, while the blazed trees were their guides of communication with each other and the distant settlements. Of all that grand pioneer host, who thus united in the opening ceremony of our present greatness in this particular vicinity, but one now remains. Like an aged pine on the mountain's brow, lofty in its altitude, grand in it's position, lonely in its surroundings, smitten indeed of its foliage, yet towering in its loneliness above its fellows, a beacon of the glory of the past, the grandeur of the present, and the hope of the future. Let us then throw the mantle of Charity over the errors and short comings of this noble company, who, ere long, will have passed form our sight forever; and let us remember the tolls, the sufferings, and the sorrows of those noble, men and noble women, who through their sufferings bequeathed to us the noble inheritance of the love of country, the blessings of liberty and the smiles of Heaven. [Bainbridge Republican, Jan. 22, 1876]
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