Emma Smith
Utica Saturday Globe, January 1909
Emma Smith
1841 - 1909
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: Mrs. Emma Smith, who died at her home near the Norwich reservoir Monday morning, was born near the same place January 6, 1841, and had passed nearly her whole life in this vicinity. Mrs. Smith was the youngest daughter of Erasmus and Sally Sherman Smith. Her father being a descendant from one of the pioneer families of this section. Her great-grandfather, Deacon Elisha Smith, came from Hatfield, Mass., prior to the year 1800 and occupied a log cabin on the site of what is now Westside Park in this village. In 1798 he built a mill on the west bank of the Canasawacta creek on the opposite side from the present stone mill, where now only a pile of stone marks the site. A year later, in 1799, he built a house, afterwards occupied by William B Guernsey and which now forms a part of the Guernsey Memorial Library. October 24, 1860, the deceased married Benjamin A. Smith who survives her. Mrs. Smith was a most devoted wife and mother and she will be missed not only by her immediate family, but by a large circle of long-time friends. Her funeral was held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Ira W Bingham officiating. Burial was made in the Quaker Cemetery.
Susan B. Cure
Chenango Union, March 7, 1907
Mrs. Susan S. Cure, aged ninety years, died at the home of her step-son, Rev. George A. Cure, of No. 47 Henry street, this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Saturday morning, March 2. She suffered a stroke of apoplexy, February 20. Mrs. Cure was born in Rhode Island, November 20, 1817, and accompanied her parents to Tompkinsville, Pa., in early childhood. She was first married to Henry Brown, of that place and four children were born, three of whom still survive. Several years after her husband's death she was married to George Cure, of Tompkinsville. Since Mr Cure's death, some thirteen years ago, she has resided in the family of Rev. G.A. Cure, presiding elder of the Wyoming conference, for the past three or four years located in Norwich. Private funeral services were held from the house and Monday morning the body was taken to her old home at Tompkinsville, Pa., for burial.
Stephen Maxfield
Chenango Union, March 7, 1907
Stephen Maxfield, aged 71 years, died at his home near Beaver Meadow [Chenango Co., NY] on February 27. Funeral services were held March 3, from the home of Menzo Van Deusen, Rev. Whitney, of South Otselic, officiating. Mr. Maxfield is survived by a widow, one son and three daughters, all of whom are residents of this county, except Mrs. Gertrude Aldrich, of McGraw.
Melissa R. (Cohoon) Tucker
Chenango Union, March 7, 1907
The funeral of Mrs. Melissa R. Tucker was held from the residence on Mitchell street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Saturday afternoon, Rev. Ira W. Bingham officiating. Deceased was the daughter of Stephen and Rhoda Swan Cohoon, and was born in Norwich, March 7, 1832, in a little house that stood across the river opposite East Main street, then a part of the Cohoon farm. This village had ever since been her home, being educated in the old Norwich Academy, and marrying one of the teachers of that institution, Charles J. Tucker, in 1860. In 1887, Mr Tucker entered the ministry, and for several years following was located at Port Crane and Port Dickinson, as pastor of Baptist churches. He died in 1891, since which time Mr Tucker and her daughter, Mrs. Ernestine Albott, have resided in this village.
George King
Chenango Union, March 7, 1907
George King, aged about sixty years, was almost instantly killed near Chenango lake [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Friday morning, by a falling tree, while at work in the woods on the farm of F.M Brooks. Mr. Brooks and Mr. King were sawing a large pine tree down, and when the tree began to fall Mr. Brooks stepped to one side and supposed that Mr. King did the same. But in falling the large tree struck a serah oak, which caused the butt of the falling tree to go to one side, striking Mr. King, pinning him to the ground, one leg being broken and the abdomen and intestines being fearfully torn. When Mr. Brooks reached his side he gave but one gasp and was dead. Coroner Manley was summoned and gave a certificate of death in accordance with the above facts. He came to Chenango Lake two years ago, and rented a farm, living during the winter months entirely alone.
Juvenal Griswold
Chenango Union, March 7, 1907
Juvenal Griswold, a prosperous farmer, living in the western part of the town of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], met a tragic death this afternoon by being buried and suffocated in a pile of sawdust. Mr Griswold drove to the old Pierce mill to get a wagon load of sawdust. A man driving another team who went to the place a little later found the man's mittens beside the wagon and concluded that he must have been buried by a fall of the dust. With some help this man started to dig and Mr Griswold's body was soon found buried several feet beneath the pile of saw dust. The body was taken to his home and medical assistance was summoned from Greene. Although everything was done to resuscitate him it was found that life was extinct before the body was discovered. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Louise and Florence, and one son, Earl.
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