Sunday, November 2, 2014

Obituaries (November 2)

The death of Mrs. Eliza Whitney, wife of the late Dexter Whitney, a pioneer resident of this county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G.P. Sibley, at Triangle [Broome Co., NY] Friday morning.  Deceased was in the 86th year of her age.  Her parents came from Scotland nearly 100 years ago, and were among the first to make blossom the wilds of northern Broome.  Dexter Whitney died about twenty years ago leaving a large immediate family, and numerous branches which have become identified with the business interests of the county.  Mrs. Whitney was a woman of strong and earnest character, and remained in possession of her faculties to the last.  She is survived by five sons and two daughters as follows:  Messrs. J.B., Abram T., D.D., Wm. D. and A.R. Whitney, and Mrs. Annette Sibley and Mrs. Aurelia Loses.  The funeral will take place Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.  Burial in the family ground at Triangle.  [Eliza Whitney, 1806 - 1891, buried in South Street Cemetery Triangle, Broome Co., NY]

From the home of her parents, 182 Conklin avenue, at 4:45 this morning, the gentle spirit of Eva A., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Brown, took flight for worlds beyond.  Twenty years of earthly residence, sixteen of which were years of painful illnesses, have served to show her cheerful, sweet disposition, her Christian faith and fortitude.  Loving, uncomplaining, she was the light of the home her departure has made desolate.  The consolation of aching, mourning hearts is that she is forever at rest.  Her memory remains like a golden halo after a glorious sun has set.  The funeral will occur Monday, Feb. 23rd, at 2:30 p.m.  [died between 1890 and 1910]

North Fenton [Broome Co., NY], Nov. 18, 1878:  In May 1871, three children of Melvin and Emily Macomber, in North Fenton, New York, died of scarlet fever within one week.  On the 7th instant Willie, their youngest child, was prostrated with diphtheria in its most malignant form, and then it spread through the family.  On the night of the 17th instant Ora A., died, aged 11 years.  On the night of the 16th, Jennie C. died, aged 11 years, and on the 17th Willie H . died, aged seven years.  The last two were buried on the 18th in one grave.  One thing that made the affliction all the more severe, was that Mr. Macomber was on the road selling goods for the Binghamton firm, and knew nothing of the sickness in his family, and they not knowing just where he was, could not get any word to him, either by mail or telegram for five days.  But he came home just in time to see his beautiful daughter Ora die.  And then Mrs. Macomber was prostrated by sickness and has not been able to be up any since, consequently there was no regular funeral service held.  But a funeral sermon is to be preached on the death of these children in the North Fenton Methodist Episcopal church on Sunday the 24th instant, at one o'clock in the afternoon.  The neighbors and relatives were untiring in their efforts to assist this afflicted family.

Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Augusta Winegard were held at her home, 84 River street, Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], Thursday afternoon.  The Sidney  Methodist Church, of which she was a member, officiated and burial was made in the family plot in Prospect Hill Cemetery [Sidney, NY].  Born Aug. 5, 1863, near Deposit [Broome Co., NY], the daughter of Lysander and Melissa Juckett, she was married to Willis Winegard, who passed away five years ago last April.  Mr. and Mrs. Winegard observed their 50th wedding anniversary during his lifetime and she had resided in her present house 53 years.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Jan. 6, 1943]

Albert Buell Young, aged 63 years, of Nineveh [Broome Co., NY], died at Daytona Beach, Fla., Dec. 22.  The body was sent home and the funeral held in the Nineveh Presbyterian Church, Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 29, with the Rev. Clifford E. Webb and the Rev. Louis Falk officiating.  Burial in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton.  Mr. Young is survived by a son, L. Coe Young, of Harpursville; three daughters, Mrs. Harrison Merrell,  of Harpursville, Mrs. Harold Baer, of Fairview, Va., and Mrs. Ernest Poole, of Afton, and 12 grandchildren.  Mr. Young was employed by the D.&H. Railroad for 35 years, and was a member of Thomas H. Barber Camp, Spanish War Veterans, of Binghamton, who conducted the services at the grave.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Jan. 6, 1944]

Jerome Rickard, 78, for 30 years a resident of Arena [Delaware Co., NY], died at the home of his son in Vineland, N.J., Wednesday morning after an illness of some time.  His funeral was held Friday at the Methodist Church in Arena with interment in the cemetery at Shavertown.  Mr. Rickard was born in the East Branch section and spent his life in that vicinity and at Arena.  He was a saw-mill operator and lumberman and knew the woods thoroughly and had a large part to do with the lumber industry in the East Branch valley for the last half century.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Jan. 6, 1944]

Death Notices, Antimasonic Telegraph, 1834
September 3, 1834
In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th ult.  Mrs. Mary Williams, wife of Asa Williams, Esq. aged 65 years.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. Charles, second son of Mr. Frederick Byington, aged about one year.

November 12, 1834
In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on Tuesday, the 4th inst. Mrs. Rebecca West, wife of Mr. Stephen G. West, aged 39 years, leaving nine children, the youngest of which was but a few days old, to lament her loss.  Mrs. G. was an affectionate wife, a kind mother, and an exemplary Christian.

November 19, 1834
Died At Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on Saturday evening last, Mrs. Lovina Wheeler, wife of Isaac U. Wheeler, Esq. of that place, aged 48 years.  The deceased was an exemplary woman in the discharge of the various duties devolving upon her as wife, parent, sister and friend, and she goes down to the grave in the universal regret of a wide circle of relatives and acquaintances.  She died, as she had lived, with full confidence in the blood of the Savior as an atonement for sin, and has exchanged a world of cares and sorrows for the incorruptible crown which fadeth not away.  She has left a bereaved husband and a numerous family to mourn her loss. 

December 24, 1834
Died in this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst. Drusilla C. Bloom aged three years; And on the 8th, John C. Bloom, aged eight months, both children of Mr. Benjamin Bloom.



 

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