Obituaries (February 26)

Pardon Sherdon Brown

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1909

 

 

Pardon Sherdon Brown

1829 - 1909

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Pardon Sherdon Brown, who died at his home on Cortland street Sunday morning, aged 79, was a son of Pardon and Maximilla Brown of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], where he was born June 8, 1829.  At the age of 25 he united with the Plymouth Methodist Church, continuing in his membership down to the day of his death.  In 1870 he was united in marriage with Miss May C. Sternberg, who died November 12, 1833.  Three years later he married Miss Martha Shattuck, of Norwich, who died in February, 1897.  About five years after his second marriage Mr. Brown moved form his farm in Plymouth to the home on Cortland street, where he died, and from which the funeral was held on Thursday afternoon, Rev. H.L Ellsworth officiating.  The burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery [Norwich, NY].  Always of a kind and unusually cheerful disposition, he will be greatly missed by a wide circle of friends.  The only near relative who survives him is a sister, Mrs. Abigail G. Sternberg, who made her home with him.  Numerous nieces and nephews mourn his loss.  He was one of the substantial citizens of his period, respected and looked up to by all, and a true Christian gentleman.

Harvey D. Montgomery

Chenango Union, May 9, 1907

Harvey D. Montgomery of Hobart, Delaware county, who was serving a life sentence in Auburn prison for the murder of his second wife, died in the prison hospital Sunday night, aged 65 years.  Montgomery shot his wife to get her property, March 30, 1901.  On trial he was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be electrocuted, but got a new trial and was convicted of murder in the second degree and sent to prison for life.

Mary Reynolds Paul

Chenango Union, May 9, 1907

Mrs. Mary Reynolds Paul died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Cook, Tuesday morning at three o'clock.  She was about eighty-five years old and had been in failing health for some time.  Funeral Thursday from the M.E. church at one o'clock, burial in Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY].  She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Lura Smith of Oxford, one brother William Brown of Sherburne, three sons, Alfred, Lorenzo and Charley and one daughter, Mrs. Cook, with whom she was staying at the time of her death.

Death Notices

Chenango American, Greene, NY, May 5, 1898

LOW:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 27, 1898, David Low, aged 82 years.

O'LEARY:  In Rome, N.Y., April 25, 1898, Michael O'Leary of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 51 years.  Funeral at St. Joseph's church and burial in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 23.

HAYNES:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], April 23, 1898, Levi Haynes, aged 73 years.

BEST:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], April 16, 1898, Rev. Best, aged 73 years.

MILLARD:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], April 29, 1898, Mrs. Sarah L. Millard, aged 82 years.

TREADWAY:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], April 27, 1898, Mrs. John Treadway, aged 70 years, mother of Mrs. John C. Stoughton, formerly of this village.

CUMMINGS:  In East McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], April 27, 1898, Moses Cummings, aged 80 years.

TILLOTSON:  In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], April 26, 1898, Perry A. Tillotson, aged 42 years, formerly of this village [Greene, NY].

VAN WOERT:  In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], April 23, 1898, Jacob Van Woert, aged 80 years.

DARLING:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], April 20, 1898, Miss Cindia M. Darling.  interment in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

BEARDSLEY:  At Cicero, N.Y. [Onondaga Co.], April 21, 1898, Alice Hackett [Beardsley], wife of Rev. O.R. Beardsley, aged 54 years.