Monday, June 20, 2016

Obituaries (June 20)

Ellen B. (King) Sanders
South New Berlin Bee, March 28, 1914

 
Ellen B. (King) Sanders
1834 - 1914
 
Ellen B. Sanders, wife of George W. Sanders, died at the family residence, 11 Rexford street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Wednesday morning, March 25, 1914, aged 71 years.  Mrs. Sanders was in her usual health Sunday morning and attended morning services.  In the afternoon she suffered an attack of acute indigestion from which she did not rally.  Ellen B. Sanders was born in King's Settlement, October 31, 1834, the daughter of John W. and Adelia Roberts King. She had lived in or near Norwich during most of her life. Beside her invalid husband, one daughter, Mrs. Walter J. Smith of Rexford street and two brothers, John H. King of Norwich and A. King of Cleveland, Ohio, and one sister, Mrs. C.H. Loomis of Norwich survive. Funeral services will be held from her late home on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. A.R. Burke of the M.E. church officiating.  Burial will be made in Mt. Hope cemetery [Norwich, NY]--Norwich Sun.

Rev. George W. Sanders
Cortland Standard, April 12, 1914
Rev. George B. Sanders died at the home of his daughter Mrs. Walter Smith, 13 Rexford st, in Norwich, N.Y., Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, aged 71 years.  Mr. Sanders was born in Homer [Cortland Co., NY] December 27, 1842, and was married June 6, 1864 to Ellen B. King, who died about three weeks ago.  He is survived by the one daughter, Mrs. Smith.  Mr. Sanders was at one time a Methodist minister having served charges at Silver Lake, Pa., and Hawleyton.  After giving up the ministry he moved to Plymouth and came from there to Norwich about nine years ago., where he and Mrs. Sanders made their home with their only daughter.  Mr. Sanders has been ill for twenty months and death came as a relief in great suffering.  Funeral services were private and were held from the home this afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. A.R. Burke officiating. The Odd Fellows of Norwich had charge of the services at the grave.  [Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Norwich, NY]

Utica Saturday Globe, April 1914
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Funeral services held last Saturday afternoon for Rev. George W. Sanders, followed exactly three weeks after similar services for Mrs. Sanders.  Mr. Sandes died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Walter J. Smith, on Rexford street, Thursday afternoon, aged 71.  He had been ill for nearly two years, death resulting from hardening of the arteries.  The deceased was born at  Homer, Cortland county, December 27, 1842, the son of Simeon and Electa Sanders.  On June 6, 1864, he married Ellen B. King, of Norwich.  He was a student in the old Norwich Academy and after completing his course was a --?-- for several years until ordained a Presbyterian minister.  He served at Silver Lake and Hawlyton.  Eighteen years ago he gave [up the ministry] and returned to his [family home in Plymouth] which he left nine years ago to come to Norwich.  He is survived by an only daughter, Mrs. Smith.  Another daughter, Mrs. Mary Barnes [died in] October, 1910.*  Private funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, Rev. A.R. Burke officiating.  The Odd Fellows, of which organization the deceased was a member for 25 years, had charge of the burial services.
 
*May Adelia Sanders Barnes died in October 1911 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Norwich, NY.
 
Julia (Aldrich) Holly
Utica Saturday Globe, April 1914
 
 
Julia (Aldrich) Holly
1841 - 1914
 
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY:  Julia, wife of Charles E. Holly, of  Norwich, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lewis C. Jennings, in Cortland [Cortland Co., NY], last week; aged 72. The deceased was the daughter of Gaylord and Caroline Aldrich and was born in Springville, Pa., July 6, 1841.  Her marriage to Mr. Holly took place December 2, 1858, and they came to Norwich to reside 38 years ago.  For the past 35 years their home has been on Walnut street.  Mrs. Holly was a member of the Free Methodist church and a woman greatly beloved by those who knew her intimately and appreciated her real worth. Besides her husband and her daughter, Mrs. Jennings, at whose home she died, deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Sarah Ely, of Elmira. A second daughter, Ellen, died 33 years ago.  The remains arrived in Norwich from Cortland on Saturday afternoon and funeral services were held from the Free Methodist church on Sheldon street Monday afternoon, Rev. L.L. Rowley officiating. The bearers were: Eric Preston and Henry Aldrich, of East Pharsalia, and W.D. Southworth and Mason J. Aldrich, of Norwich.
 
James H. Day
Utica Saturday Globe, April 1914
 
 
James H. Day
1836-1914
 
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  James H. Day, a well-known farmer, died at his home at Lyon Brook on Sunday morning, aged 76.  Funeral services were held from his late home Wednesday afternoon, Rev. R.A. Gates, of Oxford, officiating.  Interment in Mount Hope Cemetery in Norwich.  Deceased is survived by his widow and by three sons, Ernest, Charles and Fred Day.
 
Alida J. Tripp
The New-Era Gleaner, DeRuyter, NY, July 25, 1889
TRIPP:  In Oneida, N.Y. [Madison Co.], July 20, 1889, Alida J., daughter of Israel and H. Jane Tripp, aged 26 years, 10 months and 10 days. The deceased had gone with her aged mother to visit her sister, Mrs. DeWitt Hopkins, and after spending several weeks very happily she was taken seriously sick from the effects of a carbuncle, which resulted in blood poison. The remains were brought home and the funeral services held at her mother's in this village, and the body laid at rest beside her fathers' in the cemetery in Quaker Basin [DeRuyter, Madison Co., NY].  In early youth she made a profession of religion, and though an invalid the most of her days, she set a noble example of patience and forbearance, realizing her own infirmities better than any one else could, and during all these years of bodily infirmity she was one of the most devoted and faithful members of the M.E. Church and a life member of the Missionary Society.   L.R.S.

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