Obituaries (February 21)

Josephine Smith Mudge

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1909

 

 

Josephine (Smith) Mudge

1877 - 1909

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Josephine Smith Mudge, the beloved wife of Adelbert J. Mudge, passed peacefully away at her home on East Main street on Monday night.  Her age was 31.  The husband and children who are so sadly bereaved have the sympathy of many friends in Norwich.  Josephine Smith was born in the town of West Winfield, N.Y. [Herkimer Co., NY]  In November 1898 she became the wife of Adelbert J. Mudge, then a resident of that place.  In 1903, they came to Norwich and have since resided here with the exception of a few months.  To them were born two children, both of whom survive together with her husband, her mother, Belle Smith, and a brother, George S. Smith, of West Winfield, also a half-sister, Miss Rose Smith and a half-brother, John F. Smith, both of Utica.  A prayer service was held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and the remains were taken on the 4:30 Lackawanna train to West Winfield, where the funeral was held from St. Joseph's Church.  Interment in West Winfield Cemetery.

 

Hattie A. Eichler Geer, 1876 - 1907

Chenango Union, April 4, 1907

Preston [Chenango Co., NY]:  Hattie A. Eichler, wife of Linn Geer, died at her home on Saturday after a brief illness with peritonitis.  She is survived by her husband and one child.  Mrs. Geer was a daughter of David Eichler, of North Norwich, and was born in that town.  Funeral services will be held from her late home Thursday morning at nine o'clock and from the church at North Norwich at two o'clock Thursday afternoon.  Burial will be at North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

 

Jacob Erion

Chenango Union, April 4, 1907

Jacob Erion died at his home on Diamond street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] Wednesday afternoon, March 27, aged seventy years.  Funeral services were held from his residence Saturday, and burial made in St. Paul's cemetery [Norwich, NY], the services at the grave being conducted by the G.A.R.  Deceased was a veteran of the Civil war, being a member of Third regiment, N.Y. Light Artillery.

 

Ettie St. John

Afton Enterprise, March 26, 1886

Miss Ettie St. John, daughter of E.V. St. John, of this town [Afton, Chenango Co., NY], whose serious illness was mentioned in the Enterprise of last week, died Wednesday afternoon.  Miss St. John was an estimable young lady and had a large circle of friends and acquaintances who deeply mourn her loss.  Her funeral will be held Saturday morning, and the remains will be interred in the cemetery at Nineveh [Broome Co., NY].  her age was twenty-one years; two months, and eight days.

 

Mrs. Philo Landers & Lola Landers

Afton Enterprise, March 26, 1886

Saturday afternoon as the express train which passes through Whitney's Point a 2 o'clock, was nearing the Pease crossing below the village, a horse driven by Mrs. Philo Landers became frightened and ran into the engine just as it reached the crossing. The occupants of the carriage Mrs. Landers and daughter, Lola, a little girl about ten years of age, were thrown against the side of the cars and carried along some yards.  Mrs. Landers was instantly killed and the girl lived a few moments. The bodies were taken to the house of Alonzo Pease and Coroner S.P. Allen summoned.  Mrs. Landers lived in Hyde Settlement [Broome Co., NY] about five miles from the Point and has a husband and three sons living - Binghamton Republican

 

Harriet Newell Hyde

Afton Enterprise, March 26, 1886

Mrs. Harriet Newell Hyde, of Afton, N.Y [Chenango Co.], was born in April, 1817, and died Feb. 19, 1886 in the sixty-ninth year of her age.  In her sixteenth year she united with the Presbyterian church of Bainbridge; but in after years, with her beloved husband, Elijah Hyde, who a few years before preceded her to the heavenly home, she united with the Methodist Episcopal Chruch.  Her life was one of devotion to God and to the well being of her family and the community in which she lived.  Such lives become so embalmed in the hearts of those they have blessed that their memories are forever superior to decay.  She was a true, faithful, helpful Christian, always fulfilling her duty in the church, in her bible class, and in all appointed means of grace, when her health permitted.  Her consistent Christian life in her eulogy. This mother, so sweet and saintly, whom her children mourn, is not dead, but gone before.  How consoling, when we bury Christian friends, as we often must, to realize that they are not lost, we know where they are, and how to find them.  they have only gone in advance of us, and when the Master bids, we shall be permitted to join them. We may say,

 

"Beyond the flight of time,

Beyond the vale of death,

There surely is some blessed clime

Where life is not a breath."

 

From this human stand point to die seems terrible, but to died in faith is glorious. To see our friends die, is agonizing, but what faith then sees so changes the scene that we can exclaim.  "Tis not the Christian, but death itself that dies."  Our precious friends, and Mrs. Hyde we count among that number, with whom we knelt at the communion altar, with whom we sung the sweet songs of Zion, and to whom we have been united by a thousand endearing ties have departed, gone, died. These have "all died."  But what an important modification of the thought is given by the completed sentence.  "These all died in faith."  May the church, with whom she worshiped, her children she so dearly loved, and all who shared so largely in her sympathy and prayers, copy her Christian example, that a peaceful triumphant death may be theirs, and may we find our "greatest foe under our feet at last."