Obituaries (March 24)

Benjamin J. Tillett

Utica Saturday Globe, January 25, 1902

 

 

Benjamin J. Tillett

 

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After a brief illness, Benjamin J. Tillett, the well known colored barber, died at his home on State street recently, aged 62.  A week previous he suffered a paralytic shock and failed gradually until the end.  Benjamin Tillett was born at Northeast, N.C., and was a slave until the emancipation proclamation, and shortly thereafter came north and to Norwich, where he found employment with a Dr. Smith and afterwards with Dr. H.K. Bellows.  On November 11, 1863, he enlisted as a private in Company I., Eleventh United States Colored Volunteers, and after serving until the close of the war was honorably discharged, October 2, 1865.  Returning to Norwich he learned the trade of barber with the late H.C Molson and continued in the profession, having for many years conducted shaving parlors of his own and became one of the best known barbers in this vicinity.  The photograph reproduced with this sketch was made several years ago.  Mr. Tillett was a member of E.B. Smith Post, G.A.R., a Knight Templar of Palestine Commandery, and while not a member was a regular attendant at the A.M.E. Zion Church.  Funeral services were held at that church on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the pastor, Rev. W.O. Cooper, officiating, assisted by Rev. B.F. Wheeler, of Oneida.  The burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery [Norwich,  NY] with Masonic honors.  Deceased is survived by his widow, and two adopted daughters, Mrs. Ella Fields and Miss Edith Tillett, of Norwich, and by one son, Benjamin, who resides in the south.

 

Clayton I. Burch

Bainbridge News & Republican, March 30, 1944

 

Clayton I. Burch, 59, editor of The Earlville Standard for 48 years, died last Wednesday night.  He had been ill two weeks after suffering a heart attack.  Active in New York State newspaper affairs, he was district director of the new York Press Association, and secretary of the Madison County Press Association.  Mr. Burch was postmaster at Earlville from 1915-1924 and from 1933 to the time of his death.

 

Frank Judd

Bainbridge News & Republican, March 23, 1944

 

Frank Judd, a resident of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] for a number of years, died in the Goshen Hospital last Thursday evening.  Mr. Judd, a driver for Carleton Whitaker on one of his fleet of milk trucks, was driving to New York City on a regular run Wednesday night, when it is believed that he, having become tired, stopped his car by the side of the road near Goshen to rest, and soon after fell asleep, and was overcome by monoxide gas fumes as he slept.  Thursday morning, another driver for Mr. Whitaker, returning from New York at 9:30, saw the car and stopped to investigate, and found Mr. Judd apparently overcome by monoxide poison.  He was rushed to the hospital at Goshen, but failed to respond to treatment, and died at 6:30 Thursday evening.  Mr. Judd is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Snitchler, of Binghamton, and a son, Justin at home.  The body was brought to Sidney by Morticians Carr & Landers' ambulance.

 

Death Notices

Bainbridge News & Republican, March 16, 1944

Rachel Decker:  Mrs. Rachel Decker died at the Delaware County home, Delhi, Wednesday of last week, after being bedridden for the past 20 years.  She was 98 years of age.

 



Joyce Adena Kittle:  Joyce Adena, seven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lauren kittle, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], passed away at her home on Feb. 27, with spinal meningitis and disturbance in the intestinal tract.

 



Mrs. Walter A. Cranston:  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.

 

Kittie Helen Place:  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, March 23, 1944

Mrs. Robert B. Lewis:  Mrs. Robert B. Lewis, who for the past few days had been ill at her home on the Brooklyn side, Hancock [Delaware Co., NY], passed away Wednesday evening. She was in her 86th year.  Funeral services were held at the Henderson Funeral Chapel on Saturday afternoon.  Mr. Lewis passed away Dec. 31, 1943.