Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: Dr. Alpha Raymond Morse, prominent Chenango County physician and coroner, died Sunday night [Feb. 16, 1936] of a heart attack at the home of Leslie Bowers, who lives on the Oxford-Coventryville Road. Dr. Morse had been making a call and was returning to his home at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] when he felt the attack. Realizing his condition he stopped his auto and entered the Bowers home. He had opened his medicine case and was preparing a hypodermic when he passed away. Dr. Norman C. Lyster of Norwich was called, but Dr. Morse had succumbed before he arrived. The deceased was born in Oxford on July 1, 1871, and after graduation from the Oxford Academy entered the Baltimore Medical College, where he was graduated in 1904. He had practiced his profession continuously at Oxford since that time with the exception of a brief interval when he moved to Eaton. He had served the county for more than 20 years as coroner, and was elected to succeed himself on the Republican ticket at last Fall's election. He served one term as president of the village of Oxford; was pensioner examiner for several years and from 1914 to 1928 served as physician at the County Welfare Home at Preston. Dr. Morse was a member of the Oxford Lodge of Masons and Norwich Commandery. He was the immediate past president of the New York State University of Maryland Alumni Association; a member of the Chenango County Medical Society and the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Society, also the Odd Fellows. The funeral will be held from the Morse home on Main Street in Oxford on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The survivors are the widow; one son, Dr. Carter R. Morse of Tupper Lake and one daughter, Mrs. Cecil Rogers of Hadley.
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, April 21 [1936], occurred the death of Miss Laura Etta Turner after an illness of many weeks, at her home here. Miss Turner was the daughter of Helen Ives and Nelson Turner and was born in the town of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 14. Perhaps no one in our community will be more greatly missed. Very active in social and church affairs, it will be difficult to fill her place. She has been a life-long member of the M.E. Church. Surviving are a niece, Mrs. Gladys Johnson, and nephew, Lester Turner. Services were held Saturday afternoon, April 25: prayer at the late home at 1:30, followed by services at the church she so dearly loved and served. Rev. Leon Bouton officiated. Beautiful floral tributes testified to the place Miss Turner held in the hearts of her family and friends.
The body of Silas G. Barnum, who died in St. Petersburg, Fla. March 2 [1936], will be brought from the vault there for burial services in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] on Friday, May 8th, at 2:30 p.m., and interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. Mr. Barnum was born in the town of Union, Broome County, in 1846. At the age of 16 he enlisted in the Union Army and saw active service during the Civil War as a pontoonbridge builder and also as an ambulance driver and private soldier. He was proprietor of a store at North Sanford for some years and for a long time resided at Deposit, where he was successful in business. He was for 16 years town clerk of the Town of Sanford (Deposit) and for 40 years was a Sunday school superintendent, first at North Sanford and later at the Deposit Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Barnum's first wife (Jane Gallup) died in 1919. In 1922 he married Mary A. Sexmith, who for several years taught school in the Sanford area. She survives Deceased was the last survivor of Eggleston Post, No. 184, Grand Army of the Republic, of Deposit, an organization formerly composed of 167 Civil War veterans from Deposit and vicinity.
Mrs. Mary Anna Bradley passed away Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Pearce, at Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY]. Mrs. Bradley was born in Germany, Sept., 1853, the daughter of Martin and Christine Toby. Shortly after her birth, her parents came to this country, settling on a farm in Yaleville, Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]. In 1882 she married William Bradley and many years of their life was spent on a farm in our village. In 1932 Mr. Bradley passed on and Mrs. Bradley has resided with her two daughters, Mrs. William Gardner, of Sherburne, and Mrs. Pearce, of Unadilla. She also leaves two sons, Warren, of Binghamton, and Ira, of Guilford. Services were held Friday afternoon at Colwell bros.' Chapel in Bainbridge. Interment at the Yaleville Cemetery, Guilford. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Emma L. Strevell, of Port Dickinson, and Mrs. Martha H. Ireland, of Albany; a brother, Alvin R. Jones, of Albany; also several nieces and nephews. [Notation: May 5, 1936]
William H. Sargeant, an Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY] resident, passed away Tuesday, April 28 [1936], in the Memorial Hospital, Albany, where he had been a patient for over than three weeks. He had undergone two operations for a kidney ailment. Mr. Sargeant was a member of the 306th infantry during the World War, and saw 15 months of service in France. He was gassed and had never fully recovered. Mr. Sargeant was a native of Morris [Otsego Co., NY], where he was born Oct. 3, 1893, the son of Ira and Minnie Sargeant. He married Miss Esther Payne at Afton, Dec. 22, 1908. She and a son, Edward, survive, as do his parents and three sisters, Mrs. Hayward Hutchinson, Mrs. Fred Gerow and Miss Hilda Sargeant, and two nephews, Stanley and Carl Hutchinson, all of this village. Mr. Sargeant had been employed by the D.&H. Railroad as a car inspector and repairman for the past 14 years. Eleven years ago he moved to Oneonta from Bainbridge, and had made his home there ever since. He was a member of the Bainbridge Baptist Church and of the American legion. Funeral services will be held this Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Colwell brothers' chapel, and interment will be in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]. Military honors will be accorded by members of Oneonta and Bainbridge posts of the American legion.
After many years illness Mrs. Vernetta Shepherdson passed away at Binghamton on April 26. The remains were brought to this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] and funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in Colwell's Chapel with the Rev. Jesse H. Dickerson, former pastor of the First Methodist church, of which Mrs. Shepherdson had been a life-long member, officiating, and interment was made in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY]. Mrs. Shepherdson was 63 years of age and was born in the town of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman C. Redfield. For many years she resided in this village, later removing to Johnson City, where in 1903 she was united in marriage with Joseph M. Shepherdson of that city. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. H.G. Stoddard, of Burmingham, Ala., and three nephews, sons of the late Frank P. Redfield.
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