Obituaries (January 16)

Charles W. Winsor

Utica Saturday Globe, November 1912

 

 

Charles W. Winsor

1850 - 1912

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After an illness lasting nearly 15 months, Charles W. Winsor died on Thursday of last week at the home of his son, Merton Winsor, on the White Store road six miles east of Norwich.  Deceased was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Ziba Winsor and was born in the town of Norwich February 17, 1850.  He was reared on a farm and as a young man followed that occupation.  After leaving the farm and coming to Norwich to reside, he found employment with Marvin W. Tanner in his bus and baggage business.  He afterward conducted a bakery business on East Main street for several years and later purchased the Greenman bakery on South Broad street, remodeling the building and greatly enlarging the business during his five years proprietorship.  Since selling the bakery he had passed the remaining years in retirement at the home of his son, Merton Winsor, besides whom he is survived by two grandchildren, Kenneth and Marion Winsor.  Miss Lizzie Grant, who became the wife of Mr Winsor in 1870, died March 7, 1909.  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Ira W. Bingham Monday afternoon, burial being made at White Store.

 

James D. Johnson

Northern Christian Advocate, November 19, 1851

James D. Johnson, died at his residence in Candor [Tioga Co., NY], Oct. 13, 1851, aged 66 years.  Dr. Johnson had been a consistent member of the M.E. Church, for about 25 years.  His death was caused by a cancer, with which he had suffered much.  For about a year previous to his death, his suffering was extreme.  I visited him several times during the last of his illness, and always found him happy in God.  I never witnessed so much rejoicing in the midst of such suffering.  While conversing with him about his soul, he would say, "O, what refreshing seasons are these."  He continued to express himself in this manner (when conversed with) as long as the power of speech continued, and though for a few of his last hours, unable to speak, he gave unmistakable signs of the presence of reason, and of his unshaken confidence in God.  He is no doubt, safely landed

May his friends who are left behind to sigh,

Like him, be prepared to suffer and die;

That when like him, they are borne away,

They may meet again in the realms of day.

E. Owen,  Candor, Nov. 4, 1851

 

Sabra Westcott

Chenango Union, September 6, 1906

Mrs. Sabra Westcott, wife of Guy R. Westcott, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], died at Minneapolis, Minn., August 26, aged 79 years.  Among the former Norwich people at the funeral were George Breed, Mrs. Guy Breen and child, and Will Breed, of Chicago.  Mrs. Westcott was a devoted wife, watchful and skillful in the home and home loving. She possessed great executive ability but she preferred to devote her talents to her home instead of to society. She is survived by her aged husband, who will continue his home at Minneapolis, and by one daughter, Mrs. Frank Guthrie, of St. Paul and one brother, Daniel Lyons, of Binghamton.  Mrs. L.J. Brooks, Mrs. Joseph Gibbs and Mrs. Clarence Snow, of Norwich, are nieces.

William B. Sternberg

Chenango Union, September 6, 1906

The Wichita, Kansas Eagle of August 26 says:  "William H. Sternberg died yesterday at his home, 1505 Rochester avenue, after a lingering illness.  The funeral services will be held Monday at 4 o'clock, at the residence, and will be in charge of Wichita lodge No. 99, A.F. & A.M.  Mr. Sternberg was one of the foremost contractors in the state of Kansas, and more than 100 of the business buildings of Wichita stand as monument to his business honesty and professional efficiency.  More than fifty years ago Mr. Sternberg entered the contracting and building field at Norwich, New York, and at that early age he was a man of most excellent business repute.  He was enterprising and prominent in local affairs and served as mayor with great satisfaction to his fellow citizens.  He lived in a fine residence, the first one in Norwich that had a mansard roof.  He built the main buildings of the city, including the church in which presided Mr. Scoville, the son-in-law of Henry Ward Beecher, for nearly twenty years.  He built buildings at Norwich at a period when lumber was only about $6 a thousand, and one of these buildings was the Chenango county poor farm.  Mr. Sternberg came to Wichita in 1877 and has been a conspicuous figure and factor in the upbuilding of Greater Wichita.  He was one of the charter members of Wichita Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons, and was also a member of Wichita Commandery, Knights Templar.  Mr. Sternberg had four children, but only two of them survive. They are William O. Sternberg, for many years assistant business manager of the Wichita Eagle, now manager of the wholesale drug and druggist and surgical supply business under the firm name of the Moore Drug company, and Oscar E. Sternberg, with the Western Planing Mill company."  The deceased was formerly in business with the late Henry Hall, under the firm name of Sternberg & Hall.  The firm owned and operated the lumber mill lately operated by the W.L. Scott Co.

Death Notices

Chenango Union, December 27, 1871

MILES:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 15th, Mr. George Miles, aged 81 years.

BURNHAM:  In Utica [Oneida Co., NY], Dec. 20th, Hon. Clark Burnham, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], father of O.C. Burnham, of this village [Norwich, NY], in the 70th year of his age.

Oxford Times, March 12, 1902

CALLAHAN:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], March 8, 1902, Bartholomew Callahan, aged 65 years, a member of the 69th Reg't during the civil war.

CASHMAN:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], March 8, 1902, Mrs. Eliza J. Cashman, aged 59 years.

RICHMOND:  In Tyner [Chenango Co., NY], March 5, 1902, Mrs. Mary Richmond, aged 83 years.

SHERMAN:  In Brooklyn, March 1, 1902, Mrs. Porter Sherman, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged about 70 years.

NIVEN:  In Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 28, 1902, John Niven, aged 83 years.