Obituaries (March 15)

Ira A. Yale, son of Richard and Rebecca Yale, who was born and lived for a number of years in Yaleville [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY], died at his home in Windsor, Mo., Oct. 25, at the age of 93.  Mr. Yale for quite a time had a dental office in Bainbridge and one in Afton.  In the fall of the year 1879, Mr. and Mrs. Yale and two daughters moved to Nebraska and with his parents were among the pioneers of that region.  They were among the founders and supporters of the first church in that section of the country.  Mr. Yale is survived by a daughter, two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.  Relatives in Bainbridge are:  Hudson Lyon, Jesse Doolittle and Miss Agnes Hayes.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Oct. 31, 1935]

 

The remains of Edna Hanover, chief state's witness in the Eva Coo murder trial in Cooperstown, who died Saturday morning in the Sidney Hospital of injuries received in an automobile accident between Unadilla and Wells Bridge, were brought to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] on Tuesday for interment in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  The burial service was held at the Carr & Hare Funeral Home in Sidney; Rev. Jesse Dickerson of the Bainbridge M.E. Church officiating.  Mrs. Hanover was the niece of Edward Ringleka, of this village.  The accident, in which Theodore Kennedy, of Oneonta, was killed, occurred on the newly completed portion of Route 7. The car left the road, mowed down several steel posts and overturned.  Mrs. Hanover was driving.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Oct. 31, 1935]

 

Word has been received here of the death recently of Roy M. Everidge, manager of the Bamby Baking Co., of Dothan, Ala.  The deceased was the father of Mrs. Jimmie Hartmann, Bainbridge.  He had resided in Dothan for the past four years and as manager of the baking concern had expanded its field of operations to include southeast Alabama, southwest Georgia and northern Florida.  He succumbed after a short illness of pneumonia.  He was aged 37.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 7, 1935]

 

The funeral of Bert Seeley, who passed away Oct. 31 at his home in this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], was held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel of Colwell Bros., West Main street.  Rev. H.G. Orvis, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiated and interment was made in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  Mr. Seeley was born in West Colesville [Broome Co., NY] on Aug. 5, 1865, the son of David and Catherine Quackenbush Seeley.  As a young man he learned the trade of a cabinet maker, at which he worked until 1932 when he was forced to retire from active labor.  Mr. Seeley came to Bainbridge from Binghamton about 29 years ago, entering the employ of W.R. Proutey and later working for the Monroe Lumber Company.  During his residence here he had made many friends whose sympathy is extended the bereaved family.  Surviving are his wife, two daughters (Mrs. Harley Race and Miss Mina Seeley, both of this village), and a son, Herbert Seeley, of Leominister, Mass.  A sister, Mrs. C.E. Marshall, of Bainbridge, also survives. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 7, 1935]

 

Arthur B. Humphrey, who has been a resident of the town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] for the past seventeen years, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 3, at his home in Evans street. Funeral services were held on Wednesday at 2 o'clock from the Colwell Funeral Parlors, with burial in the Bennettsville Cemetery, Rev. M. DeForest Lowen officiating.  Mr. Humphrey, the youngest of eight children, was born in the town of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] in 1866 to Perry and Julia Latimer Humphrey.  Most of his life was spent on the farm where he was born, which is about three miles south of Bainbridge.  He was a farmer and later, after moving to Bainbridge, he changed his occupation for that of a carpenter.  Surviving are two members of the immediate family:  Perry Humphrey and Augusta Humphrey, both of this village.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 7, 1935]

 

Mrs. Mary Prince, one of Bainbridge's oldest residents, passed away last Thursday afternoon, following an illness of five weeks' duration, at the home of Mrs. Nancy Silvernail, Pearl street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], where she had made her home for the past 11 years.  Mrs. Prince was born in the town of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on May 28, 1854, the daughter of James A. and Merinda Abigail Proutey.  At the age of 16 she moved to this village, where she has since resided.  On March 23, 1876 she was united in marriage with Eli Prince, of Bainbridge, whose death occurred on Jan. 22, 1897.  Mrs. Prince possessed a very lovable character which made for her a host of friends, many of whom knew her as "Aunt Mary."  She was always interested in the welfare of others, ready and willing to do a kindly act or offer a word of cheer to her friends.  Retaining all her faculties until her death, she kept in touch with the happenings of the day through the newspapers and also was an interested listener to the better programs on the radio.  Early in life she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and for 75 years had been a member of the local society and a regular attendant at the services as long as health permitted.  The funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the chapel of Colwell Brothers, West Main street, with the Rev. Jesse H. Dickerson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating.  Burial was made in St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  The immediate survivors are a sister, Mrs. Alida Elwell, of Binghamton' and two brothers, W.R. Proutey, of this village, and Chauncey Proutey, of Binghamton.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 7, 1935]

 

Bainbridge friends were shocked this week to learn of the death at Ilion Hospital, Monday afternoon of Harry A. Schaupp, a former resident of this place [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]. Schaupp was struck by a motor car some weeks ago at Frankfort, N.Y. [Herkimer Co.], where he resided, and the injuries caused him to be paralyzed below the neck, and eventually caused his death.  Schaupp was sales manager of the Acme Road Machine Co. of Frankfort, and was some years ago a contractor in highway and bridge construction.  He built the state highway between this village and Afton and also constructed the overhead bridge spanning the D.&H. track in Route 7 near the William S. Porter farm, north of Bainbridge.  He leaves a wife and two children.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 14, 1935]

At Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], Saturday morning, March 16th, 1878, Margaret W., widow of the late John W. Foster, aged 76 years.  Between fifty and sixty years Mrs. Foster has been a member of this community, honored and respected by all.  She was a woman of strong mind, and calculated to exert a decided influence in all her associations.  Fifty years ago, last February, she made a public profession of her faith in Christ, and ever maintained an active, consistent, Christian character.  But for many years past, she has been called to glorify God in the furnace of affliction, and here her Christian character shone forth and "hope proved an anchor to the soul, sure and steadfast."  Again and again it seemed that death was at the door--that no human frame could possibly sustain such intense sufferings.  In these seasons of distress, which were continued for days, and sometimes for weeks, her favorite expressions were, "my Father doeth all things well," "let patience have her perfect work."  She had great anxiety for the salvation of her children and grandchildren yet out of Christ, and was known to lie for hours, on her couch of pain, in prayer for them. She often expressed the desire to depart, yet willing to wait and suffer as long as God saw best.  At last the messenger came, not when friends were looking for him, nor armed with such terrible sufferings; but in comparative ease, the cords of life were loosened, and the glad spirit passed away, her last words being, "Let me go,--let me go."  [Bainbridge Republican, Mar. 28, 1877]

On Friday the 16th inst. at her late home in Babylon, L.I., Mrs. Clifton Pettit, eldest daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Bicknell of that place, and granddaughter of Mrs. E. Bishop of Bainbridge, N.Y.  The death of this dear girl has awakened in the hearts of all her friends a deep sorrow and sympathy for the bereaved ones, such as is rarely shown.  Beautiful in character, as in person, she leaves, behind her the fragrance of a life of live; and we feel the better for having known her.  The truth of these familiar lines forces itself upon us:

"'Tis better to have loved and lost,

Than never to have lived at all."

As a daughter she was ever loving and thoughtful proving herself a comfort in the days of her mother's widowhood, smoothing rough places and partaking of the care and anxiety which falls to a mother's lot.  As a dear sister, the remembrance of her sweet offices of love will never be forgotten; and as a wife, she has left a void in the heart of one which time can never heal.  One year ago a happy bride, crowned with love and joyful anticipations, stepping tenderly and eagerly from the light of a mother's home; she had taken, as it were, but one step in the shadowy, uncertain future, when "Israhl"--angel of death--gently pressed the eyelids closed, and placing her babe on its mother's breast, bore them both away in his sheltering arms. We can only remember that our Heavenly Father chasteneth in love, and not in anger; he is tender and merciful, and wounds not one of us unwittingly.

"He walks with us, that Angel kind,

And gently whispers 'be resigned'

Bear up, bear on, the end shall tell,

The dear Lord ordereth all things well."

[Bainbridge Republican, Nov. 29, 1877]