Obituaries (September 28)

Ellen Elizabeth (Potter) Colton Spriggs

Utica Saturday Globe, September 1916

Ellen Elizabeth (Potter) Colton Spriggs

1851 - 1916

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Ellen Elizabeth Spriggs, who passed away recently at the family home on Columbia street after a brief illness, was the daughter of Jermyn and Elizabeth Babcock Potter. She was born at South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] April 19, 1851.  August 7, 1873, deceased married Benjamin Z. Colton, who died January 2, 1892, leaving one daughter, Minnie May Colton, since deceased, and two sons, Lorraine Potter Colton and Winfield Scott Colton, who survive their mother.  June 21, 1892 she married William V. Spriggs, who died September 20, 1902.  Besides the two sons mentioned there are surviving a granddaughter, Gertrude Mary Colton; two nieces, Mrs. Mabel G. Marwell and Mrs. Marie Curry, of Utica, and a nephew, Frederick F. Goodrich, of Sidney. After the funeral services Friday the remains were taken to Waterville for cremation.  Mrs. Spriggs had been a resident of Norwich for 23 years.  She was a member of the Broad Street M.E. Church and a woman highly esteemed by all who knew her.  During her last illness all that her family and friends could do to ease her suffering was done and the best of medical skill was employed in an effort to prolong her life, but she passed peacefully away as a tired babe falls asleep in the arms of its mother.

 

Percy D. Richer

DeRuyter Gleaner, May 15, 1919

The subject of this sketch, Mr. Percy D. Richer was the only son of Dewitt and Edith Marble Richer and was born in the town of Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] April 9, 1884.  His entire life was spent in this town.  He worked in the blacksmith shop with his father six years and for the past twelve years had conducted the business for himself.  He was united in marriage to Miss Florence Bowler Dec. 25, 1902, by Rev. George Bowler, father of the bride at Homer, N.Y.  The deceased was ill but one week with tonsillitis and death occurred Sunday morning, May 11, 1919.  It came so suddenly that the entire community was shocked, many not being aware of his illness.  Mr. Richer was a member of the Baptist church, Cascadilla lodge, No. 478 I.O.O.F., Arrah Wanna Rebekah lodge No. 425 and the South Otselic Fire Department.  The deceased is survived by his widow and two sisters, Mrs. J.J. Gilgan of Boise, Idaho, and Mrs. Robert Gladding of Syracuse.  His father Dewitt Richer of Otselic also survives.  The funeral services will be held at the Baptist church next Saturday afternoon at one o'clock. Rev. J.C. Whitney of McGraw officiating. The services at the grave in Valley View will be conducted by the Odd Fellows with Rebakah as an escort.  South Otselic has lost one of its best citizens of whom everyone speaks in the highest terms.

 

Ulysses T. Green

South New Berlin Bee, April 27, 1929

Mr. Ulysses T. Green, one of the well known residents of this village and in fact this section, where he was universally respected and  highly thought of died at the home of his son, James Green on Riverside [Sidney, Delaware Co., NY], Friday evening at 9:30 o'clock of neuralgia of the heart, at the age of 80 years.  Mr. Green was born in New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] on August 7, 1849.  In his early life he followed farming, which occupation he continued up to about eight years ago when he, with his wife, came to Sidney to make his home with his son, with whom he and Mrs. Green have since resided.  In 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Emma Parsons of Bainbridge, and to them were born eight children, the father of this family being the first one to pass to the other shore.  In his young manhood he united with the Presbyterian church, his sturdy character making that faith appealing to him, and he was a regular communicant of that church during his days of activity.  The Greens were of Revolutionary stock, he being a direct descendant of General Green of Colonial and Revolutionary fame. When the years of his active life began to bear down heavily upon him, he came to Sidney and his children have made his life of retirement a contented and happy one.  Mr. Green is survived by his wife, two daughters and six sons;  Mrs. Ida Hotaling and Mrs. B.C. Fairbanks of Sidney; John Green of Guilford; Edwin Green of Bainbridge; George Green of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Henry Green of Mt. Kisco; Robert and James Green of this village; also eight grandchildren, and to them the deep sympathy of a host of friends is extended in their bereavement in the loss of a husband and father.  He is also survived by a sister, Mrs.  Hollis of Schenectady, and a brother, Thomas Green of Mount Upton.  The funeral services were held at the home of the son, James Green, on Riverside, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. J. William Davies, pastor of the Sidney Congregational church, officiating; the interment was in Prospect Hill cemetery [Sidney, NY]. The bearers at the funeral were Mr Green's six sons, George Green coming from Oklahoma to attend the last sad rites of the father.--Sidney Enterprise.