Obituaries (November 22)

Lucinda Nash Wheeler

The funeral of Mrs. Lucinda Nash Wheeler, 87, a former resident of Guilford was held at Oxford, Friday, August 16th [1935].  She is survived by a son, Charles G. Nash of Norwich, a step-son, Floyd Wheeler of Washington, D.C., three grandchildren, Mrs. Fred Plumb and Harry Nash of Guilford and Edward Nash of Norwich, a sister, Mrs. William Brant of Norwich and a brother, Tremont Bentley of Bainbridge. Burial was in the Yaleville Cemetery [Guilford, Chenango Co. NY].

 

Rev. Robert L. Clark

 

Funeral services for the Rev. Robert L. Clark, a retired Methodist clergyman who has served in many churches of the Southern Tier, will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the Bainbridge Methodist Episcopal Church with the Rev George Underwood officiating.  Burial will be in the New Forest  Hills Cemetery at Utica [Oneida Co., NY].  The Reverend Clark, who had served as a pastor in Norwich, Binghamton, Candor, and Waverly, died yesterday at his home in this village.  He had been confined to his bed only a week but he had been in failing health for some time.  He was born in Forestport, the son of Captain Linus R. and Mary Case Clark, and came to Bainbridge with his family in 1879.  He attended Bainbridge High School, Wyoming Seminary and Syracuse University, later receiving degrees from Boston University and Illinois Wesleyan University.  He spent four years in missionary work in Boston and then came to the Wyoming Conference in 1897, after having spent two years as superintendent of University Settlement in Boston.  Soon after he took the pastorate at Gilbertsville and then later had charges in Candor, Waverly and the Broad Street Methodist Church in Norwich and the Tabernacle Methodist church in Binghamton.  The illness of his daughter, Miriam, took him to Lake Placid in 1918 and after her death he stayed on in Lake Placid to fulfill his dream of a church which should minister to an entire community.  Before his retirement in 1933 he had built up the Adirondack Community Church, a large stone edifice which is one of the most widely known houses of worship in the Adirondacks.  He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eloise Newton Clark; a daughter, Mrs. Hannah Hall of Kenmore, and a son, Robert Newton Clark of Ithaca.  [Aug. 23, 1938]

 

George J. Spohn

 

George J. Spohn, a life-long resident of this vicinity, passed away early Sunday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Rexford Thornton, West Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  Mr. Spohn's death followed less than two months after that of his wife, Rose B. Spohn, who passed away on December 30th, 1936.  Mr. Spohn was born at Yaleville, town of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on June 18, 1871, the son of Mathew and Mary Ann Bronger Spohn and the youngest of a family of eight children.  When he was two years of age his parents moved to the farm known as the Spohn homestead and located on the Guilford road, town of Guilford, just outside the Bainbridge township line.  Reared as a farmer, he followed that occupation throughout most of his life, continuing to reside on the homestead farm until last September when poor health made it necessary for him to give up active work, and at that time, with his wife, went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Thornton.  Mr. Spohn was twice married his first wife being Melpomene Pratt, daughter of A.C. and Mary Pratt, of this village, with whom  he was united on February 28, 1895.  Her death occurred on September 13, 1913.  In June, 1916, he was united in marriage with Rose B. Neff, daughter of Reuben LeDurn and Eliza Morgan Neff, of Bainbridge, whose death occurred December 30, 1936.  Early in life he united with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of this village where he was a regular attendant and always interested in the church's activities as long as health permitted.  Possessing a general disposition with willingness to serve his fellowmen, he leaves a large circle of friends who regret his passing.  Besides his only child, Mrs. Rexford Thornton, and two grandsons, Harold and Rexford, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Carrie Cook, of this village, and three brothers, Joseph Spohn, Topeka, Kansas; John Spohn, Niagara Falls; and Sharles Spohn, Johnson City.  The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at Colwell Brothers' Chapel, West Main street, with the Rev. George Underwood, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church officiating, followed by interment in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]. The bearers were Fred Sherman, Moritz Roehlk, Otto Neidlinger, John Preston, Jay Smith and Fred Neidlinger.  [1937]