Obituaries (July 16)

Theodore Henry Haynes, of East Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], died at his home Mar. 14 after an illness of several weeks, death was due to plura-pneumonia.  He was born in the Town of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY] July 5, 1879, the son of Andrew and Susan D. Haynes.  On Sept. 21, 1901, he married Christina B. Wolfe, of Ridgefield Park, N.J., and moved to West Winfield, where he worked in a tannery; later they lived in Norwich, where he worked in the hammer factory.  For many years he was employed by the O.&W. RR Co., making his home in East Guilford.  For the past two and one-half years he was an employee of the Scintilla Magneto Co., of Sidney. Mr. Haynes was a member of the East Guilford Presbyterian Church, and for many years sang in its choir.  He is survived by his wife, Christina; six children, Edwin T. Haynes and Mrs. Normina Brigham, of Bainbridge; Harold Haynes and Herman W. Haynes, of Endicott; Mrs. Paul Lowe, of Unadilla; and Russell Haynes, M.M. 2/C, USN; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Whitcomb, of West Winfield; Mrs. Vernon Pier, of Cooperstown; and Mrs. Flora Sibley, of Hornell; two brothers, Herman Haynes, of East Guilford; and Louis Haynes, of Guilford; 15 grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.  The funeral was held at the East Guilford Presbyterian Church on Friday at 2 o'clock, the Rev. J.W. Bump, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Gamewell.  The bearers were his three sons, Edwin, Harold and Herman; Paul Lowe, Murray Haynes and Matt Hogoboom.  Interment was in the Greenlawn Cemetery vault at Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 23, 1944]

 

Mrs. Jacob Geertgens, a highly esteemed resident of Franklin [Delaware Co., NY], died of a heart attack last week Monday.  funeral services were held Friday.  Burial will be made in the Ouleout Valley Cemetery. She has been a resident of Franklin for 25 years.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 16, 1944]

 

Mrs. Rachel Decker died at the Delaware county house, Delhi, Wednesday of last week, after being bedridden for the past 20 years.  She was 98 years of age.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 16, 1944]

 

Joyce Adena, seven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Kittle of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], passed away at the home on Feb. 27, with spinal meningitis and disturbance in the intestinal tract.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 16, 1944]

 

Mrs. Walter A. Cranston died at her home in Walton [Delaware Co., NY], March 4.  She had been in ill health for many years and the immediate cause of her death was a heart attack.  She had been a resident of Walton for the past 14 years.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 16, 1944]

 

Miss Kittie Helen Place, of Sidney [Delaware co., NY], passed away Friday evening, March 3, in Johnson City, after an illness of two months.  She was the daughter of the late John Fields Place and Amy M. (Newton) Place, long residents of Sidney.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Mar. 16, 1944]

 

Mrs. Donohue, of Port Dickinson [Broome Co., NY], died recently from the effects of milkweed, eaten as greens.  After eating them she drank a quantity of buttermilk which had stood for several days, the combining of the two baffling the skill of physicians with the above fatal results.  [Bainbridge Republican, July 1, 1876]

A sad accident occurred at Genegantslet corner, two and one-half miles this side of Greene [Chenango Co. NY], on Tuesday, at 1 p.m.  Linna Harrington, eldest son of George Harrington, and Henry Gross, boys of about 12 years, were drowned in Genegantslet creek, while engaged in bathing.  One was endeavoring to save his companion at the time, but was caught in his grasp and met the same fate from which he was trying to rescue toe other.  Both the boys were good swimmers.  The bodies were both recovered soon after the accident by George Gross, uncle of one of the lads, who brought them up by diving, but too late to save their lives--Binghamton Times  [Bainbridge Republican, July 1, 1876]

At the residence of P.M. Bennett, in Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY], June 15th, 1876, Sabrina, wife of Dr. Oliver E. Noble, of Dundee, N.Y. [Yates Co., NY], in the sixty-fifth year of her age.  Deceased was a native of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], a daughter of the late James Humphrey, Esq., a well-known and well-remembered citizen of this town.  Accompanied by her husband, she came out on a visit to her large circle of relatives and friends, was stricken down with disease, and was quickly removed to the bourne whence no traveler returns.  Her sorrowing husband and children bore her remains to the family burying place at Penn Yan, N.Y. [Yates Co.]  Deceased was a person of great excellence, borne up at all times, amid the conflicts of life, and especially in the hour of death, by an unwavering trust in Him who was meek and lowly in heart.  [Bainbridge Republican, July 1, 1876]