Monday, September 1, 2014

Obituaries (September 1)

Alexander Swenson of South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] died at the Norwich Memorial Hospital Thursday morning, aged 50 years.  Mr. Swenson was brought to the hospital a few days ago for an operation for gall stones.  He leaves a wife and three children.  [Norwich Sun, Feb. 11, 1926]
 
Mrs. Emily E. Arnold died Wednesday afternoon, February 10, at her home in Preston [Chenango Co., NY] at the age of 87 years.  Funeral services will be held from the Breese funeral parlors on Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock, the Rev. L.D. Palmer officiating.  [Norwich Sun, Feb. 11, 1926]
 
Mrs. Clara Sands Arnold, wife of F.B. Arnold, Esq., of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY] and daughter of Frederick A. Sands, died on the 2d inst. after short illness.  The event is one which caused much sorrow in her native town.  [Freeman Journal, Cooperstown, NY, June 11, 1881]
 
In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], June 3d, Clara M., wife of Frank B. Arnold, and daughter of Frederick A. and Clarissa S. Sands, in the 26th year of her age.  [Freeman's Journal, Cooperstown, NY, June 11, 1881]
 
In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], June 2, Frank, infant son of Frank B. and Clara M. Arnold, aged 2 days.  [Freeman's Journal,  Cooperstown, NY, June 11, 1881]
 
Frank B. Arnold, who shot himself in his office at Unadilla last Thursday morning, was a native of County Clare, Ireland, where he was born March 29, 1839.  While still a lad he came to this country with his parents and settled in Connecticut.  He was educated at Gilbertsville, Otsego county, and later at Hamilton College.  He was supervisor of the town of Unadilla from 1880 to 1885, and chairman of the Board to 1881.  In politics he was always an ardent Republican, and he was elected member of Assembly in 1885, 1886, and 1887.  In the fall of 1887 he was elected to the State Senate over George Berry and served one term.  Last fall he was nominated for a member of Congress by the Republicans, and after a warmly contested canvass was defeated by Geo. Van Horn.  Mr. Arnold was a practicing lawyer in Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], and was held in high esteem.  The news of his death was a great shock to his many old friends in Gilbertsville.  That he was deranged at the time he committed the deed is generally conceded, for in his normal state Frank Arnold was too brave to yield in the battle of life.  [The Otsego Weekly Journal, Dec. 17, 1890]
 
Clinton Taylor, 71, a resident of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] for 50 years and a village trustee for 17 years, died suddenly Monday morning at his home in the village.  Born in Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 15, 1870, Mr. Taylor operated a hardware store in Sidney with his twin brother, Clayton, for 47 years.  Clayton died April 27, 1937, and the business was sold to the Doyle Hardware co., on Dec. 1 of that year.  Clinton Taylor was the prime mover in Sidney's program of municipal water system expansion, having been the biggest backer of the reservoir built in the collar brook section.  He and his brother also built and remodeled more than 35 homes in Sidney.  His wife, Laura, is the only survivor. Services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Grand street home of Mr. Taylor, with burial in Prospect Hill cemetery [Sidney, NY].  [Unadilla Times, Aug. 1, 1941]
 
Funeral services for Joseph Young, 50, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], were held Monday afternoon at the home of Wilbur Whitney, Roxbury.  Mr. Young died suddenly Friday afternoon at the Whitney home, where he and his wife had been visiting her parents.  He is survived by Mrs. Young and an 11-year-old daughter, Virginia.  He was born June 29, 1895, at Danville [Livingston Co., NY], and had been employed at the Scintilla plant.  [Sidney Enterprise, July 12, 1945]

Relatives have received word of the death Sunday of Mrs. Susie Bennett Lyon, Pekin, Illinois.  Her death followed a lingering illness.  Her husband, J. Vernon Lyon, passed away  May 21st, this year.  Mrs. Lyon was a daughter of the late M.D. Bennett of Sidney. She was a graduate of Sidney High School.  [Sidney Enterprise, July 12, 1945]

Mrs. Anna E. Weeks, 58 of Harpursville [Broome Co., NY], died Monday morning at her home.  She is survived by her husband, Alfred P. Weeks of Harpursville; two sons, Staff Sgt. Edwin T. Hopkins of Kearns, Utah, Robert Hopkins of Harpursville; one daughter, Neta Hopkins of Eagleville, Pa., one granddaughter, Neta Ann Hopkins of Albany; one sister, Miss Fay Chase of Oneonta.  [Afton Enterprise, Nov. 1, 1945]

J. Paul Ahrens, Sr., of Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY], died at the Bainbridge Hospital of injuries received when the truck which he was operating was struck by the afternoon passenger train at about 3:25 Tuesday at the Scott street crossing of the D.&H. railroad, Bainbridge.  Paul was born on Loomis Hill on the old Ahrens Homestead Dec. 21, 1897.  He lived there with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ahrens, until his mother died.  He attended the Deposit High School and the Walton school.  He married Ruth Dibble, of Sanford.  Three children were born to them.  He has resided on a farm in Bennettsville for the last 20 years and has been employed at Eldred's feed mill in Bainbridge for 10 years.  Besides his widow, Ruth Ahrens, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Jennie DeMott, of Binghamton, and Mrs. Margaret Smith, of Trenton, N.J., and one son, Paul, Jr., who has been in the armed services for about three years, and who has been in the Pacific theatre of war. He is also survived by his father, John P. Ahrens, of Sanford; a sister, Mrs. Frank Thomson, of Sanford; and one brother Ralph Ahrens, of Johnson City, and a number of grandchildren.  The funeral was held at Bainbridge Friday, Oct. 26 with the Presbyterian minister of Bainbridge officiating.  Burial in the Bainbridge Cemetery.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Nov. 1, 1945]
 

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