Alan Blanchard
Bainbridge News & Republican, February 3, 1944
Allen Blanchard, of East Meredith [Delaware Co., NY], died Wednesday morning, Jan. 26, in Fox Hospital, Oneonta, as a result of a fall about 10 days before, in which he fractured his skull. He had lived at East Meredith since 1938, previously having farmed near Watertown. His wife and two sons, Robert and John, of Watertown, survive.
Stephen E. Secord
Bainbridge News & Republican, February 3, 1944
Funeral services for Stephen E. Secord, 58, who was fatally injured in a fall through a trap door on the farm of Mrs. William R. Brock of South Kortright, was held Sunday at the Hall Funeral Home in Delhi with the Rev. Thomas J. Carlisle officiating. Burial was in Andes [Delaware Co., NY]. Mr. Seacord, who had been a resident of Delhi [Delaware Co., NY] for 23 years, was employed as a farmhand. His body was found Friday by another employee on the second floor of the three-story barn. A verdict of accidental death was given by Dr. Ben Andrews, of South Kortright, a coroner's physician. It was believed that Mr Seacord stepped through an open trap door on the third floor and died instantly as the result of severe head and internal injuries. It was his custom to sleep in the barn. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Gordon Coulter, of Delhi.
Rev. Moses S. Godshall
Bainbridge News & Republican, February 3, 1944
The Rev. Moses S. Godshall, D.D., 81, member of Wyoming Methodist Conference since 1890 and for many years a leader in Conference services and activities, died "unexpectedly" at his home in Waverly, Pa., Saturday. Dr. Godshall had served for many years in Methodist pulpits, continuing until close of his district superintendency over Oneonta District, from 1922 until his retirement in 1928. Since then he had remained on the conference retired list and made his home at Waverly. His pastoral record reveals that he has served Methodist Churches in New Berlin, Lisle, Guilford, Windsor, Waverly, Pa., Binghamton, Ashbury, Scranton, Carbondale, Oneonta district superintendent. He was born in Montgomery, Pa., and during his 54 years in Wyoming pastorate service he held leading conference chairmanships and was prominent in committee activities.
Glenn Scott Tripp
Bainbridge News & Republican, February 3, 1944
The community was shocked by the sudden death of Glenn S. Tripp, O.&W. station agent at Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Wednesday, Jan. 26, around 2 p.m. The milk train had pulled into Guilford and Mr. Tripp had begun to pull away from the train with the loaded wheel cart of freight, when he was stricken. Trainmen and Scintilla workers, who at that time had begun to arrive to take the 2:18 train to work, began calling to locate a doctor. Dr. A.H. Evans could not be found. Other doctors were called, but were unable to come at that instant. Mrs. Laura Hubbard, R.N., who lives next to the station, was summoned, but she could find no life in the body, and it was thought death was instantaneous. As soon as Dr. Matt Boname, of Oxford, could clear his office of patients, he came, and as coroner pronounced him dead. Cary & Landers, morticians of Sidney, came for the body. Richard Kline, a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Tripp, who is employed in the G.L.F. at Homer, was notified and he and his wife left immediately for Guilford, to be with their mother. Another daughter, Mrs. Charles Ackley, and husband, the Rev. Charles Ackley, of Millerton, Pa., arrived the next day. Mr. Tripp was born in the Town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] on May 21, 1887, 56 years ago, the son of Jenny (Bairgess) and Elias Tripp. Mr. Tripp came to Guilford as station agent after the death of Walter Wedge. He had been station agent in Rockdale and Morrisville for many years. He was eligible for retirement, and had put in five years over the required time, but had not reached the specified age when an agent. He had only served here one year, but was very well liked, always courteous and genial, and considered one of the railroad's best agents. He had been subject to a heart condition for several years and Mrs. Tripp assisted him in all ways that she could. A Masonic service was held Friday night in Sidney, and final rites were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The body was placed in the vault at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Sidney, to await burial in the spring. The flowers were especially lovely, one large piece from the Scintilla workers who daily take the train from Guilford, another one form the business places in Guilford and many more. Our sincere sympathy is extended to the widow and the two daughters.
Rev. Francis C. Davidson
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
Funeral services for the Rev. Francis C. Davidson, former pastor in Walton [Delaware Co., NY] who died Thursday at his home near Pittsburgh, were held Saturday. At the time of his death the 62-year-old clergyman was pastor of the united Presbyterian Church of Gayley, Pa. A native of Gallery, Pa., Mr. Davidson entered the ministry in 1906 as pastor of the Second United Presbyterian Chruch in Altoona, Pa He also held a pastorate in Johnstown, N.Y. He is survived by his widow and three sons.
Archie Holmes
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
Archie Holmes died at his home at Downsville [Delaware Co., NY] last Thursday morning from the effects of a shock he sustained Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Holmes had not been in good health for several months. He had had two previous strokes, the second one last summer and since then he had been able to get around but had been more or less incapacitated. Mr. Holmes was born in Downsville on May 21, 1900, and had lived in that village practically all his life. Until several years ago he was the manager of the Holmes Milling company in Downsville, feed merchants, and became very well known through this section of the county. He had been prominent in the Masonic fraternity serving as district deputy grand master. He is survived by a son, John, in the United States navy, and a daughter, Miss Beta, cadet nurse in the Albany hospital, and two sisters, Mrs. Willard Young, of Elmira, and Miss Esther Holmes, of Downsville.
Lucia Rosencrance Crompton
Bainbridge News & Republican, April 4, 1946
Death claimed Mrs. Lucia Rosencrance Crompton, eighty-one, wife of the Rev. John S. Crompton, retired, Monday night of last week at the family home at Mehopany [PA] following an illness. Mrs. Crompton was born at Shohola, Pa., a daughter of the late James and Charity Rosencrance and married the Rev. Crompton on May 12, 1891. They would have celebrated their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary on May 12. The deceased served with her husband at a number of Methodist Churches of the Wyoming Conference over a period of forty-two years. The Rev. Crompton's charges included several churches in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. Some forty years ago he was pastor of the Methodist church in Bainbridge. His last pastorate was at the First Methodist Church, Pittston. He retired thirteen years ago. In addition to her husband she is survived by a son, the Rev. J. Rolland Crompton, D.D. Kingston, district superintendent of the Wilkes-Barre District of the Methodist Church; a daughter, Helen G. Crompton, a member of the Tunkhannock High School faculty; a niece, Mrs. H.J. Spangenberg, Toledo, Ohio, who from childhood made her home with the Cromptons; three grandchildren, Richard E. Crompton, a junior in the Syracuse College of Medicine; Sgt. Wesley R. Crompton, with the Army of Occupation in Germany and Patricia Ruth Crompton, Kingston; a sister, Mrs. Ida Sebring, Toledo, Ohio, and a brother, Bert Rosencrance, St. Mary's, Pa., The funeral was held Thursday afternoon with services in the Mehoopany Methodist church. The Rev. W.S. Jones, pastor, officiated. Burial in Union Hill cemetery.
Death Notices
Chenango Telegraph, September 23, 1835
PACKER: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., after an illness of a few hours, Miss Lucretia Packer, youngest daughter of William Packer, Esq., aged 26 years. In the death of this young woman we have a striking instance of the uncertainty of human life. Yesterday we saw her enjoying and enlivening the social circle of friends, in all the bloom and beauty of health-today, alas! we consign her mortal remains to the cold and silent grave! Could youth, beauty, or intelligence, have averted the shafts of the Dread Destroyer, we should now be spared the melancholy reflection that Lucretia is no more. But, it is the fulfillment of destiny from which there is no exemption--"Tis the way of all the world."
"Here would I dwell and heave the sigh,
Nor, haste to wipe the weeping eye:--
Tis Pity's tear, O, let it flow,
It soothes my heart, relieves my woe!"
Chenango Telegraph, December 23, 1835
BALDWIN: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday, the 16th inst., Mrs. Louisa, wife of William Baldwin, aged 27 years.
Chenango Telegraph, February 3, 1836
TOBY: In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., Mrs. Mary Toby, daughter of Stephen Arnold, Esq., aged 30 years.
Bainbridge Republican, February 7, 1878
WEST: In Union Valley [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 29th, 1878, Mrs. Lewis West, aged 73 years.
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