Thursday, July 30, 2015

Obituaries (July 30)

Benjamin A. Knapp
1859 - 1901
 
 
Benjamin A. Knapp
 
Utica Observer, March 3, 1901
Benjamin Knapp, aged about 45 years, is a switch tender for the Ontario & Western Railway, being employed in the yards at Norwich.  Yesterday as he was turning a switch for one engine he was struck by another.  He was thrown upon the track and had his left arm crushed diagonally just above the wrist.  he was also bruised about the hips and received a slight scalp wound.  He was taken home and the crushed arm amputated near the elbow.  He has previously met with two accidents on the O.&W.  In one, about a year ago, he was so badly squeezed between cars, that his recovery was not thought possible.  Knapp has a wife and four children. 
 
Utica Saturday Globe, March 1901
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Last week's Globe contained an account of an accident of Benjamin Knapp, a switchman employed in the Ontario & Western Railway yard, on Wednesday of last week, he injuring his left arm in such a manner that amputation was necessary.  He also received a slight scalp wound and bruises about the hips.  Although his injuries were known to be serious, he was thought to be improving and his death about 12 o'clock on Wednesday night last was quit unexpected and caused a great shock to  his family and many friends.  Mr. Knapp was 41 years of age and was born in Margaretville [Delaware Co., NY].  He came to Norwich from Sidney nine years ago and had since been employed on the Ontario & Western as conductor, flagman, etc.,  and was yard brakeman at the time of the accident which resulted in his death.  About a year ago he was quite seriously injured by being caught between the cars and his life was despaired of at that time.  Before coming here he had worked on the Delaware & Hudson and also on the West Shore.  He is survived by his widow and four children, Effa A., Stella M., Charles T. and Raymond B.  His parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Knapp of this village also survive and five brothers:  Herman and James, of Syracuse; Amos and Clarence, of Norwich, and George, of Lookout, Pa.  He was a member of the Whaupaunaweau Tribe of Red Men and was well known and popular among many outside the railroad employees.  The funeral services will be held Sunday, Rev. Wilson Treible, pastor of the Broad Street M.E.Church, officiating.  Interment in Mount Hope Cemetery [Norwich, NY].
 
Son of Stiles B. Grant
Chenango Union, June 26, 1872
A singular and distressing accident, result in the death of a promising little two-year-old son of Stiles B. Grant, of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], occurred last week.  On Thursday evening he was attacked with violent coughing, and at times would place his hands upon his throat, and articulate the word "stone."  Later in the evening he became quiet, and rested well during the night; but on Friday morning the spasms were renewed, when the family were alarmed, and Dr. Purdy was summoned.  All efforts to relieve the little sufferer proved unavailing and on Saturday evening he breathed his last.  An examination was made on Sunday, when a stone about the size and shape of a five cent coin was found in the right bronchial tube.  It is supposed that while playing out doors with other children, on Thursday evening, he had placed the stone in his mouth, and by accident drawn it into the windpipe, when by the succession of spasms it became lodged as above stated, near the right lung.
 
Wiley H. Scott
Chenango Union, August 21, 1872
Wiley H. Scott, Esq., died at his residence in Nineveh, Broome Co., on Monday of last week, aged 76 years.  Mr. Scott had been for many years a prominent and respected citizen of that place, and was well known throughout the central portion of the State, he having for a long time been the popular proprietor of a hotel at Nineveh.  During an active business life, he had acquired a competency, and several years since retired to the quiet of his home.  He was a brother of Asher c. Scott, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].
 
Chenango Union, August 28, 1872
The Bainbridge Review, of last week, gives the following account of several noteworthy and unfortunate incidents attending the assembling of the friends of Wiley H Scott, deceased, to participate in the funeral ceremonies:
 
"The burial services were postponed from the 14th to the 15th.  Mr. R. Clark, a brother-in-law, who came on the first appointed day, on his return to his home in Rockdale, Chenango county, found his large and well-filled dry goods store a heap of ashes, it having been burned with all its contents the night previous, during his absence.  Mr. Emmet Scott, of Saginaw, Mich., a son of the deceased, was so much hindered by delayed telegrams and failure to make connections on different railroads, that he was only able to reach Tunnel station at the appointed hour for the funeral.  He hired Esquire Utter to get him to Nineveh as soon as possible, but had only got a short distance when the horses took fright and one of them broke its leg."
 
In addition to the above, we learn that Mr Scott, in springing from the wagon, was considerably bruised, but finally reached his destination.  On his return home, he was a passenger on the train that was wrecked at a culvert at Waterman's Cut, two miles east of Binghamton, on the evening of the 16th inst. fortunately, none of the passengers were injured; and a telegram from Mr. Scott announced his safe arrival home after his perilous journey.
 
Mrs. Shepard
Bainbridge Republican, April 9, 1880
Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. Shepard of this place, died very suddenly Sunday morning at 3 a.m.  She and her daughter, Miss Ann Shepard, slept in the same room. Her daughter noticed she was uneasy and asked her if she was not feeling well, and her answer was that she had a hard pain in her right side.  Her daughter then got up and dressed, and asked her if she should call the Doctor, who lived in the next yard,  She said no, but thinking it best she went to the Doctor's house, and before  she got back her mother was dead, it being not more than ten or fifteen minutes from the time she awoke before she died.  She has been a member of the Methodist church of this place for the last 30 years or more.  The funeral will be held in the M.E. church, Wednesday, April 7th, at one o'clock p.m.

 
Civil War Memorial - Deceased Soldiers of Norwich, Chenango Co., NY
Chenango Union, June 12, 1872
Part 3
 
Benjamin F. Guile enlisted in Company C, 114th N.Y.V., August 9th, 1862.  Severely wounded at Cedar's Creek, October 19th, 1864.  Died, it is supposed, from effects of injuries, soon after.
 
William B. Sanders, Son of Henry J. and Olive L. Sanders, was born in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] October 23d, 1848.  Enlisted in Company--114th N.Y.V., January 8th, 1864.  Captured at Cedar Creek, October 10, and died a prisoner in Libby, of Chronic diarrhea, in March, 1865.
 
Byron L. Terry entered the service of the Christian Commission, in August, 1864, in the General Hospital of the 9th Army Corps.  Died form disease then contracted, in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], October 26th, 1864.  Buried in Norwich cemetery.
 
Dwight Parce, connected with the 114th Regiment was captured at Brashaer City, La., when that place and stores were taken by the enemy, on the 23d of June 1863.  Subsequently, after a long and weary march, he was confined in Camp Goce, Texas, where he died on the 23d of October following his capture.

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