Obituary (March 28)

Louise M. Hickox, for the past 30 years a resident of this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], died at her home Friday evening, April 10.  Mrs. Hickox was born Dec. 12, 1850, in Davenport Center [Delaware Co., NY], the daughter of Sylvester and Jane Utter Marble.  The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at her home with the Rev. B.H. Tite officiating.  Interment was in the cemetery at Sanitaria Springs [Broome Co., NY].  Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Homer D. Owens.  The husband of the deceased passed on in April 1928.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 15, 1936]

Burr C. Newell, a life-long resident of this vicinity, passed away April 8 at the home of his niece.  Mrs. Ernest Hawkins, in Kirby street, Pruyn Hill [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], where he had been living since last September when poor health made it necessary for him to leave his home on the East Side.  Mr. Newell was born on the East Side in the town of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], Aug. 11, 1857, the son of Chauncey and Silvia Church Newell, and during his entire life had resided in that vicinity.  In early life he learned the trade of a carpenter at which he worked for many years, during which time he was employed in the erection of many of the buildings in this village.  Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Hawkins, of this village, and Mrs. Mary Proctor, of Watervliet, and two nephews, William Main, of Susquehanna, Pa., and Herman C. Newell, also of this village.  The funeral was held Friday afternoon, April 10, at the chapel of Colwell Brothers, West Main street, with the Rev. G.H. Orvis, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating, following which the remains were taken to Afton for interment in the East Side Cemetery.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 23, 1936]

 

Laurence E. Eggleston passed away at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Eggleston, in this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], early Sunday morning, death resulting from streptococcie infection of the throat.  His sudden death came as a shock to his many friends as he was not known to be seriously ill until Saturday morning.  The previous Monday he was taken ill at his home in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] and later in the week he was thought to be suffering from a rheumatic condition following an attack of grippe.  Saturday morning he was brought to the home of his parents in this village and Dr. Dodge summoned, who diagnosed the condition, but his system failed to respond to treatment.  Born on March 30, 1915, in the city of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], he had grown to young manhood in this village, where he had resided with his parents since their coming here in 1917.  He was a member of the last year's graduating class of the Bainbridge Central School and since then has been employed in this vicinity.  On March 30 last, the anniversary of his birth, he was united in marriage with Miss Doris Mae Drake, of Sidney, and while he continued to work at a gas station in this village, they had taken up their residence in Sidney.  Besides his wife and parents, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Clayton Wakeman, of Bainbridge.  Private funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the chapel of Colwell Brothers with the Rev. M. DeForest Lowen, pastor of the Baptist Church, officiating, and interment was made in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 23, 1936]

 

Early Tuesday evening, May 9, occurred the death of Miss Barbetta Ziegler, after many years of ill health, and several weeks of intense suffering.  Miss Ziegler was born 71 years ago April 5th in Germany.  She came to this country with John Neidlinger's family on the steamer, Fulda, when she was 26 years of age, and for several years made her home with them.  For many years she has made her home in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]; a kindly neighbor and a most faithful worker in whatever way her path of duty lay.  When her health permitted she gave of her time and efforts to the service of the M.E. Church.  for years she made her home with Mr. Emery Bush, caring for him through his years of invalidism.  At his passing the life use of the Bush home was given her by her benefactor.  When her time came to go, it was Mr. Bush's wish that she be laid to rest in the one remaining space on the Bush lot.  Surviving are an only sister, Mrs. Barbara Frank, of Germany.  Funeral services were held form the late home Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, The Rev. Z.J. Hall officiating.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 14, 1936]

 

Mrs. Alice Maebel LeSuer, aged 41, passed away at her home on the East Side of this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], Monday, May 11.  Mrs. LeSuer was born May 13, 1894, in Colesville [Broome Co., NY], the daughter of Moses and Almina (Mitchell) Demorier.  For the past 20 years she had been a resident of Bainbridge.  The funeral is this Thursday afternoon at Colwell Brothers' Chapel, Rev. M.D. Lowen officiating.  Burial will be in the Afton Cemetery.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 14, 1936]

 

Bruce C. Wilkinson, 6-1/2, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Ray J. Wilkinson, of Kenmore, N.Y. [Erie County], died suddenly at his parents' home, May 6.  He had been ill with the mumps, but with constant medical and nursing attention he was thought to be on the road to recovery.  A heart attack occurred and caused his death soon after.  Surviving besides his parents, is a brother, Thomas Wilkinson.  The funeral took place May 8 at the family home with Rev. W.S. Boyd, of the Methodist church officiating.  Mrs. Wilkinson, formerly Miss Norma Cartledge, is well-known in this village, where she resided as a young lady and attended the Bainbridge High School.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 14, 1936]

 

Mary Nelson, 18-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Nelson, of Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY], passed away Wednesday night, May 13, at the Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown.  Death was due to scarlet fever, other children in the family being afflicted at the same time.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 21, 1936]

Hiram Cronk, the last survivor of the war of 1812, for whom a group of patriots in New York are planning an elaborate public funeral whenever he shall be accommodating enough to die, has no motion of shuffling off just at present.  To be sure, he is 104 years old, a mighty span of years when it is considered the Biblical measure of three score years and ten that is not reached by the average.  Mr. Cronk is very comfortable at his home in Dunn Brook, Oneida county and his health is as good as at any time within the last few years.  He sits in his old arm chair by the window every day and has not yet asked anyone to bury him.  [Norwich Sun, Dec. 24, 1904]

[Compiler Note:  Many thanks to Mike Gillett for locating the following information about Hiram Cronk.]

Hiram Cronk

 

Ava, NY, May 13 [1905] - Hiram Cronk, the only survivor of the war of 1812, died today at the age of 105 years.  Hiram Cronk for years occupied a unique place in American History. As the last survivor of the first foreign war in which his country engaged after securing its independence, he had been honored by the national government and by his native state as well. The aged veteran also had another unique distinction. Months before his death, and when he pronounced himself to be in almost perfect health, despite his more than 104 years, the board of aldermen of New York City outlined and practically perfected elaborate plans for disposition of his body after death. Signal honors were to be shown him according to these plans, and even the spot where his body would find its last resting place was selected. Born at Frankfort, Herkimer County, N.Y. on April 29, 1800, Hiram Cronk became a member of Capt. Edward Fuller's Company of the 157th infantry when only a little more than fourteen years of age. His term of service was short, however, scarcely five weeks, and nearly all of it was spent in camp near Lake Ontario. He had hardly "smelled powder" up to that time. On the day following his discharge, however, while at Watertown on his way to his home, there came the sounds of cannonading at Sackett's Harbor, where a British warship was bombarding the fortifications. In less than a month he was back in the ranks serving with his father, James Cronk, and his brothers, John and Caspar, at Sackett's Harbor. There he served forty days as a private, assisting in the construction of barracks. In November 1814, he was honorably discharged from the service.  At the close of the war Mr. Cronk learned the trade of shoemaker, at which he gained a livelihood for many years. He was married in 1825 to Miss Mary Thornton, of Western, NY, and they lived together for sixty years on the old farm in this town. They had seven children. During the last years of his life Mr. Cronk received from the state of New York a special pension of $72 per month, in addition to the pension granted by the federal government to all survivors of the war of 1812. He was an honorary member of Fort Stanwix chapter, Sons of the Revolution, and also of the State and National chapters.  Under a resolution passed by the New York City board of aldermen in December of last year, the body of Mr. Cronk will lie in state in the City Hall there, and will be buried in Mount Victory, Cypress Hill Cemetery, in Brooklyn, where more than half a hundred of his fellow soldiers in the war of 1812 have been laid at rest.   [The Washington Post (Washington, DC) 18 May 1905]

 

New York, May 17 - The body of Hiram Cronk, who lived to be the last survivor of the war of 1812, was brought here today from Boonville, N.Y. and will be laid away in Cypress Hills Cemetery with full military honors. The funeral will be held tomorrow, and in the meantime the body will lie in state in City Hall. Accompanying the body were Mr. Cronk's three surviving sons and one daughter. They were Philander Cronk, eighty-one years old; William, seventy-two years old; John, sixty-six years old; and the daughter, Mrs. Sarah Rawley, seventy-one years old. As the funeral cortege moved from the Grand Central Station to the City Hall it afforded an imposing and unusual spectacle. Led by a police escort of mounted and foot officers, a detachment from the United States regular army, the Society of 1812, and the Old Guard, in uniform, came the hearse bearing the old warrior's body. Around it, in hollow square formation, marched the members of U.S. Grant Post, G.A.R. Then followed the Washington Continental Guard, of New York, and the Minutemen of Washington, D.C., the Army and Navy Union, and carriages with members of the Cronk family. Carriages with Mayor McClellan and members of the city government brought up the rear. The body will lie in state at the City Hall until tomorrow, when a second cortege will proceed to Cypress Hills Cemetery. The body will be buried in the Mount of Victory, where sixty other veterans of the war of 1812 have been laid at rest.  [The Washington Post (Washington, DC) 19 May 1905]

The remains of Harry C. Hugaboom who fell from a ladder some time ago while painting on the Reformatory building at Elmira and died from the result of his injuries, were brought to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] Tuesday night, and Wednesday afternoon were interred in Green Lawn cemetery, Rev. C.D. Reed officiating.  The deceased was the son of Mrs. Harry Cooper, who lives upon Dr. Evans' farm in the western part of the town--Bainbridge Republican [Norwich Sun, Dec. 24, 1904]

At Marine Hospital, New Orleans, Sept. 6th, 1863, Willard F. Lewis, Co. C, 114th Reg., N.Y. Vols., aged 24 years.  The funeral services will take place at his mother's residence, 3 miles east of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday, Oct. 25, at precisely 3 o'clock.  [Chenango Union, Oct. 21, 1863]

In Camp Hospital, at Folly Island, S.C., Sept. 19th, Lieut. Ira D. Jacobs, Co. I, 89th Reg. N.Y.S.V.  [Chenango Union, Oct. 21, 1863]