Obituaries (July 11)

Mrs. Warren Miles

Utica Saturday Globe, August 10, 1907

 

 

Mrs. Warren Miles

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After a brief but painful illness which she endured with extreme patience and Christian cheerfulness, Mrs. Warren Miles passed away at her home on Gold street Sunday afternoon, aged 27.  Mrs. Miles was the daughter of Harmon and Olivia Cleveland.  Her birthplace was East Worcester, Otsego county.  October 19, 1899, she married Warren Miles of this town.  Two children were born to them, Edith Lulu, who died at the age of four months, and Viola Hazel, who died last April.  Besides her widowed mother, who resides in Norwich, she is survived by her husband, six sisters and seven brothers, of whom Willard Cleveland and Mrs. Harry Fitch reside in Rochester; Mrs. William Handy and Mrs. Charles Arnold in New Berlin; Carlton Cleveland, in Mount Vision; George, Charlie, Herman, Herbert, Grover and the Misses Minnie, Lulu and Grace Cleveland live in Norwich.  Mrs. Miles was very fond of children.  Her last active work was to care for one of the little fresh air visitors out of the first party which came to Norwich a few weeks ago and she was to have had the care of another from among those who arrived here on Monday of this week.  But ere they came she herself had gone on her last long journey.  Funeral services were held from her late home at 1 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Dr. John L. Ray officiating.  Burial in the family plot at Mount Hope [Norwich, NY].

 

Thomas Shapley
1874 - 1916

Thomas Shapley died in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] Tuesday afternoon after a short illness with typhoid fever.  Deceased was a son of Jabe and Nora Shapley of this village and was 41 years of age and for the past nine or ten years had been locomotive fireman on the Ontario &Western railroad.  In March last Mr and Mrs. Shapley were both stricken with pneumonia.  Mrs. Shapley died, having been a wife for only one week.  Besides his parents, Mr. Shapley is survived by a brother Joseph Shapley of this village, a sister , Mrs. Merton Church, also of this village, a sister, Mrs. Merton Sergeant and a brother Howard Shapley, both of Norwich.  the funeral was held in Norwich at the home of the brother, Howard,[--; yesterday.

 

Ellen Youmans Mallette

1844 - 1923

Entered into Life Eternal on the 12th of March, 1923, Ellen Youmans Mallette at the Youmans home where she came as a girl many years ago.  Mrs. Mallette was born on a farm between Wellsbridge and Otego on June 26, 1844, the youngest of thirteen children.  She joined Saint Matthew's Church in Unadilla at the age of seventeen and graduated form the Delhi Academy at the age of twenty-four.  In 1871, she was married in Saint Matthew's to the late James Mallette of this village.  They lived in east Worcester for three years and in Sidney for ten years, afterward returning to the Youmans home in this village.  Mrs. Mallette was endowed with many gifts, including intellectual ones, a deep sense of responsibility for others, will power and determination.  Her deep interest in education is now reflected in the work of her two daughters, one of whom is now teaching in our school.  She was never more delighted than to have her dining table surrounded by her family and friends.  Mr. and Mrs. Mallette had four children, the late William Mallette, the late Zar Mallette, Mrs. George MacLagan of Rockdale and Miss Helen Mallette of this village.  She is also survived by two grandchildren.  There has passed from our sight a remarkable personality who will be missed by all who knew her. The funeral was held at her late residence on Thursday at 2 o'clock, the Rector of Saint Matthew's reading the Burial Service.  On the morning of her death Mrs. Mallette was heard repeating lines from Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" which she had learned years ago and which was read at her funeral.

 

                                                                         Crossing the Bar

 

                                                                 Sunset and evening star,

                                                                     And one clear call for me!

                                                                 And may there be no moaning of the bar

                                                                     When I put out to sea.

 

                                                                 But such a tide as moving seems asleep,

                                                                     Too full for sound and foam,

                                                                 When that which drew from out the boundless deep,

                                                                      Turns again home.

 

                                                                  Twilight and evening bell,

                                                                      And after that the dark!

                                                                  And may there be no sadness of farewell,

                                                                      When I embark;

 

                                                                  For tho' from our out bourne of Time and Place

                                                                       The flood may bear me far,

                                                                  I hope to see my Pilot face to face

                                                                       When I have crost the bar.

Death Notices

Chenango Union, February 11, 1892

COOK:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], February 15, 1892, Walter A. Cook, aged 65 years.

EAGAN:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], February 11, 1892, Mrs. Mary Eagan of Earlville [Madison Co., NY].

PRESTON:  In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], February 7, 1892, Mrs. Geroge Preston.

WILBUR:  In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] February 10, 1892, Miss Jane Wilbur.

WELLS:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], February 11, 1892, George Wells, aged about 50 years.

FRANKLIN:  In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], February 11, 1892, Moses H. Franklin,

WADE:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], February 11, 1892, Chauncey Wade aged 80 years, father of Mrs. Edward A. Lally of this village.