Obituaries (February 25)

Hon. Russell Aplin Young

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1909

 

 

 Russell Aplin Young

1835 - 1909

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Hon. Russell A. Young died at his home on West Main street Wednesday afternoon after being confined to the house for the past few months.  His health had been failing for two years or more.  Deceased was born in Pittsfield, Otsego county, September 30, 1835, the son of Martin and Mary Young.  He came to Norwich in 1853 and for a time was employed as a carriage maker by Joel J. Bixby, the father of Attorney J.J. Bixby.  He was afterwards employed for a short time as salesman by W.H. Ashcroft in the marble business and then became the western representative of the Smith Granite Company, of Westerly, R.I. having an office in Chicago, but retaining his residence in Norwich.  In 1898 he established the Empire Monument Company of this place which he, in connection with his son-in-law Edward E. Davis, had since conducted.  For nearly 50 years Mr. Young had been an officer in Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Norwich.  For many years he had been a warden and he was also a lay reader of wide reputation in this vicinity and also in Chicago.  In 1873 he was elected member of Assembly from Chenango county and for seven years held the office of highway commissioner of the town of Norwich.  For several years he was secretary of the Chenango County Agricultural Society.  He was educated at the New Berlin Academy.  On September 5, 1850, he married Miss Fannie E. Brown, who, with an only child, Mary L. Davis, survives him.  The funeral was held from the house Friday afternoon, Rev. Luther Weller officiating.  [Buried Mt. Hope Cemetery, Norwich, NY]

 

Mary Hoffman

Chenango Union, May 2, 1907

Mrs. Mary Hoffman, wife of John Hoffman, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R.D. Tuttle, Gold street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday, April 28, aged 76 years.  Funeral services were held Thursday, Rev. C.H. Hudson, of the Free Methodist church, of which deceased was a member, officiating.  [Buried Mt. Hope Cemetery, Norwich, NY]

 

Melissa A. Carpenter

Chenango Union, May 2, 1907

Mrs. Melissa A. Carpenter, aged 65 years, died at her home in McDonough [Chenango Co., NY] Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.  She had been a resident of that village all her life and passed away in the house in which she was born and which had always been her home.  Funeral services were held Wednesday at 11 o'clock, Rev. Wilson Treible officiating, and interment was in East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].

Whitman R. Mowry

Chenango Union, May 2, 1907

Whitman R. Mowry, residing in the southeastern part of the town, died April 24, aged 64 years.  He was a son of the late Solomon C. Mowry and was born in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] in 1843.  In 1869 he married Sarah P. Wheeler.  He has been in poor health for years, but his condition has not been considered serious until recently.  [Buried Riverview Cemetery, Oxford, NY]

 

Lydia Darling Moore

Chenango Union, May 2, 1907

Mrs. Lydia Darling Moore, widow of Ira S. Moore, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E.R. Gifford, Thursday, April 18, 1907, aged nearly 83 years.  [Buried Moore Cemetery, McDonough, Chenango Co., NY]  Daughter of Thomas and Sarah/Sally (Steere) Darling.