Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Obituaries (December 29)

Henry P. Macksey
Utica Saturday Globe, June 1912
 
 
Henry P. Macksey
1876 - 1912
 
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  At his home in Newark, N.J., Saturday, following an illness of about one year, occurred the death of Henry P. Macksey, a former Norwich resident, aged 36.  Mr. Macksey was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Macksey, of Norwich, and was born June 21, 1876.  During his residence here he was for a time an employee of the machine shop of the O.&W. Railroad.  Some years ago he went to Newark, N.J., to reside and until his health failed he was head baggagemaster for the Lackawanna Railroad at the Hoboken terminal of that road.  He is survived by four brothers, Thomas F., of East Orange, N.J.; John C. Edward J., and William P., of Newark, N.J.  Funeral services were held in Newark Tuesday and the remains were brought here that afternoon, accompanied by his brothers and other relatives, and burial was made in the family plot in St. Paul's Cemetery.  [Glen Buell Collection, Guernsey  Memorial Library, Norwich, NY]
 
Henry Welch
Northern Christian Advocate, Auburn, NY, May 5, 1847
Henry Welch died in Watertown, Jefferson Co., N.Y., January 21, 1847, in the 68th year of his age.  Br. Welch was a native of Connecticut.  He removed to this State in 1802.  He thought he experienced religion in his youth, but did not publicly profess faith in Christ till the year 1813 in Copenhagen, Lewis Co., where he united with the M.E. Church, of which he remained a worthy member, till he was removed by death from the Church militant to the Church triumphant, after a severe and lingering illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude and holy resignation, and was enabled frequently to say that pain was sweet, while Jesus was with him, to make all his bed in his sickness--that he soothed his bed and gave him rest.  He left the world with the greatest composure and peace, (after taking a formal and affectionate leave of his family, and exhorting them all to meet him in heaven) in joyous expectation of a glorious immortality beyond this vale of tears, where
"Sickness and sorrow, pain and death,
Are felt and feared no more."
Thus has the Chruch been deprived of one of the worthy members, and the family, of an affectionate husband and father; and we are all admonished by this providence, of the importance of being also ready.  May this providential visitation be sanctified to the good of the family and Church, and we all meet him in heaven, where, unlike the disturbers of earth, we shall be identified in one common interest and bound together by a golden chain of eternal concord.     E. Wheeler,  Redman, April 10, 1847
 
Emeline Minerva Lobdell
Utica Saturday Globe, Auburn, NY, May 5, 1847
Miss Emeline Lobdell, daughter of George and Almira Lobdell, of the town of Victor [Ontario Co., NY], died at the residence of her parents, on the 14th inst., at the age of 18 years.  Emeline experienced the pardoning mercy of God some years ago, and united with the M.E. church; but as is too common with the young, she subsequently forsook the good and the right way, and lost her standing in the Church.  While in this backslidden state, the consumption marked her for its victim and she began rapidly to decline.  Though at first she was perfectly indifferent to her fate, yet subsequently she sought for mercy and pardon; nor did she seek in vain--It was a great grief to her, that she had so far wandered from God as to lose her standing in the Church, and she expressed an ardent desire to have her name reinstated before she died.  During a few of the last weeks of her life, she gave the most satisfactory evidence that she was prepared to die, and looked forward with unspeakable delight, to the hour of her final release.  Unquestionably, she has gone to join the church triumphant in the kingdom of heaven.     G. Hines, Victor, April 26, 1847  [Buried Victor Village Cemetery:  Inscription:  "In memory of Emeline M, daughter of George & Almyra Lobdell. Died April 14, 1847, aged 17 years, 9 mo's & 20 d's"]
 
Helen M. (Parsons) Sweet
1856 - 1919
Helen M. Sweet, wife of John I. Sweet, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.E. Herrick, Saturday, August 15th, 1919 after an illness of six months.  Mrs. Sweet was the daughter of Johnathan and Harriett Parsons and born in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] in the year of 1856.  Her marriage took place in 1876 and she was the mother of two children, Ralph K., who died in 1911 and Mary who survives her.  She is also survived by her husband, two brothers, Henry A., and Ben W. Parsons and one sister, Mrs. E.T. Wright.  She became a member of the Congregational church of Coventryville when a girl and always lived a well ordered Christian life. The funeral was held at her daughter's home, Monday August 18, with Rev. G.F. VanWoert officiating, assisted by Rev. Norman Knight. Burial at Afton [Chenango Co., NY]. The many and beautiful flowers prove her many friends who will mourn her loss.  [Afton Enterprise, August 28, 1919]
 
Death Notices
The Guilford Mail, April 1892
 
STEAD:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 23, 1892, Mabel G. [Stead], only child of Rial W. and Clara m. Stead, age 6 years and 9 months.
 
PARSONS:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], March 4, Mrs. Nelson Parsons, aged 76 years.  Mrs. Parsons was the mother of Mrs. Albert Alcott and sister of Mrs Silas Root, of this place [Guilford, NY].
 
FRANCISCO:  Chauncey Francisco died lately at the Asylum for insane in Binghamton [Broome Co., nY].  His remains were brought here [Guilford, NY] for interment.

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