Lewis J. Merrill, 87, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Everett Moses of Waverly, late Sunday afternoon, December 4, 1938, after an extended illness. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Moses, with whom he resided, Mrs. E.W. Spohn and Mrs. L.M. Chase, both of Johnson City; one sister, Mrs. Raymond Sykes of Meeker, Colo; six grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. A prayer service was held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. with funeral services at 2 p.m., Wednesday, from St. Ann's Episcopal church at Afton. The Rev. Walter M. Higley, pastor of All Saints' church, Johnson City, assisted by the Rev. Sidney Heath, rector of St. Ann's officiated. Burial was made in Sylvan Lawn Cemetery at Greene [Chenango Co., NY]. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 15, 1938]
Benjamin Y. Cooper: Large, sympathetic and respectful was the company which gathered at the funeral of Mr. B.Y. Cooper on Monday afternoon of this week. Mr. Cooper with his wife and brother, Mr. Marcus Cooper and wife, had been a resident of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] nearly twenty years, coming from the old Cooper homestead in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], where he had lived for nearly forty-eight years. Mr. Cooper, as all who knew him, was a quiet, unpretentious, unassuming, kind-hearted, broad-mined man. Funeral services were performed by Rev. J.E. Vassar of the Baptist church and interment took place in the family cemetery in Guilford. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 15, 1938] [Compiler note: from column "In Years Gone By" which presented extracts from "News Briefs of Dec. 14, 1898." The obituary of Benjamin Y. Cooper appeared in the Bainbridge Republican issue of Dec. 14, 1898]
Mrs. Elizabeth Griffin Hawkins, 84, widow of the late Orrin Hawkins, died at the home of her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Hawkins, of Coventryville, on Dec. 24, after an illness of three months. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 o'clock at Colwell's Chapel on West Main street, the Rev. Woods, Congregational minister of Greene, officiating. The body will be placed in a vault in Bainbridge and buried at Oneonta Plains Cemetery later. Mrs. Hawkins, who has lived here for the past two years, is survived by her son, Grover Hawkins; a sister, Mrs. Carrie Rockville of Granville Summit, Pa.; two brothers, W.D. Griffin of Canton, Pa., and Aaron Griffin of Nebraska; and by a grandson James L. Hawkins. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Dec. 29, 1938]
Funeral service for Abel J. Barlow, 98, Civil War veteran and for 50 years owner of The Unadilla Times, will be held at 2 o'clock today (Thursday) at the Kays and Guy Funeral Chapel in Deposit [Broome Co., NY]. The Rev. M.W. Pomeroy will officiate and full military rites will be given with a firing squad and bugler from Oneonta. Burial will be at Pine Grove Cemetery in Deposit. Passing of Mr. Barlow at the Millard Walley farm in Cannonville [Delaware Co., NY], the old farm of the Barlow family where Mr. Barlow was born Aug. 18, 1840, in a log cabin, leaves Delaware county with only two Civil War survivors, Andrus Crabb of Walton and George Dugan of Roxbury. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 9, 1939]
The often repeated wish of a man that he might not live to see his dog, a companion of many years, die, was granted when death claimed Bruce Lakin, 72, a former resident of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY]. His funeral was held Saturday, with burial at Fish's Eddy. Mr. Lakin's constant companion for eleven years has been a little Scottie dog called Jeanie. Mr. Lakin had brought the dog up from a puppy, and it is said by friends of Mr. Lakin's that Jeanie would never forage for herself, as will most dogs, but would only take food from the hand of her beloved master. Mr. Lakin was a great fisherman and lover of the out-of-doors, and wherever he went Jeanie was always by his side, frolicking along. Sometimes, she warned him of danger, as she did one day when she discovered a rattlesnake coiled among the rocks at a site where Mr. Lakin was building a camp. Mr. Lakin's and Jeanie's home in Sidney was one of Sidney's oldest landmarks, being a half-way house on the old Catskill Turnpike. Many are the stories the old walls could tell. Many the pairs of feet that danced in the old ballroom till dawn. That tavern had one very unusual feature--there was no bar. The house has been closed for the past few years. No doubt Jeanie will soon follow her master, because dogs, like human beings, can carry grief and a heavy heart. But, as long as she lives, she will remember a kind and loving friend at whose side she always walked. Jeanie will not forget. [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 9, 1939]
Edward Frank Sargeant, age 17, of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], passed away on Tuesday, March 7, at 1:20 p.m. in Fox Memorial Hospital, where he had been a medical patient for a few days. Death was attributed to an infection at the base of the brain. Edward was born April 19, 1921, at Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], the only child of William H. and Esther Payne Sargeant. His father, a world war veteran, passed away in Albany in 1936. Edward has been a resident of Oneonta for 15 years. He was a graduate of the Plain School and a member of the sophomore class of Oneonta High School. Edward was very popular with the younger class and his willingness to aid others endeared him to many. He attended the Elm Park Methodist Church. Funeral Services were held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Colwell funeral parlors, with the Rev. Sidney E. Heath officiating. The bearers were Earl Clark, Jr., Stanley and Carl Hutchinson and Stanley Davis of Morris. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Esther Sargeant, his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sargeant, several Aunts, Uncles and cousins. They will have the sympathy of their many friends. [Bainbridge Press, Mar. 16, 1939]
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