Obituaries (October 14)

Hiel G. Hickok

Utica Saturday Globe, December 1916

 

Hiel G. Hickok

1830 - 1916

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After an illness of some months, during which he endured four operations,  Hiel G. Hickok died at his residence on Court street recently, aged 86.  Throughout this period of intense suffering he showed a brave and patient spirit that revealed his undaunted courage to the end.  Mr. Hickok was the last of 12 children born to Harry and Sarah Morehouse Hickok, of Butternuts, Otsego county, where he was born November 10, 1830.  He came to Norwich in early life and except for a short time had always resided here.  For a number of years he was associated with Ira Spaulding and conducted the Spaulding House, now the National hotel.   He also conducted at one time the Palmer House on East Main street and was also in the hotel business in Sidney for a few years.  he was for some time engaged in the livery business here and later was clerk in the grocery store of his son, the late Charles H. Hickok. The last of his active business life was as assistant in the store of the Empire Monument Company, where he remained for 14 years.  Mr. Hickok was known to a large circle of friends as a man of upright character and genial disposition.  He never used liquor or tobacco.  He married December 30, 1852, Miss Laura A. Hibbard of Sherburne, and after a happy life of 59 years together, she passed away in October, 1911.  Since that time his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jennie Hickok, had kept home for him and faithfully and tenderly cared for him during his last long illness.

 

Lucy May (Kelsey) Law

1880-1938

Lucy May Law, wife of Bert Law of Preston [Chenango Co., NY], died at the Chenango Memorial Hospital at 12:10 Tuesday morning.  She was born in Cannonsville, N.Y. [Delaware Co., NY], June 30, 1880.  There survive her husband, Bert Law; her mother, Mrs. Anna Kelsey of Preston; a sister, Mrs. Jennie Bliven of Preston, and a brother, Robert Kelsey of Liberty, N.Y., also a niece and nephew.  Services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1:30 at the Breese Funeral Home, Rev. Robert Webster officiating, with burial in Floral Park cemetery at Binghamton [Broome Co., NY].

 

Dora Marie (Atherton) Hewes

1857-1938

New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY]:  The death of Mrs. Dora Marie Hewes, widow of Adley S. Hewes occurred at her home here Sunday.  Death was due to the infirmities of old age, following seven years of failing health.  Mrs. Hewes was born in New Berlin Jan. 8, 1857, the daughter of Darius T. and Martha Demming Atherton.  She was united in marriage August 13, 1901.  Mr. Hewes died March 1, 1928.  A member of the Universalist church in Columbus which she joined in early life, Mrs. Hewes was well known in this community and held in deep affection by a wide acquaintance. She was the last surviving member of her family, two brothers, Lowell H., and Charles E. Atherton having passed away in 1934.  Funeral services are to be held from the Dakis Funeral Home here at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Rev. B.H Eddy, former pastor of the Baptist church here will officiate. Burial will be in St. Andrew's cemetery.  Serving as bearers will be Charles I. Matteson, Floyd Brown, Rene Hoag, Frederick Ezick, Bert Howard, Duane Gilmore, Arthur Morse, Neal Wallace. The only immediate survivors are several cousins who include Mrs. Matie Crandall of Leonardsville; Mrs. Frank E. Brand of Utica; Mrs. Cora Deyo of Eau Clair, Wisconsin, and Mrs. Helen Hedback of Cumberland, Wisconsin.

 

A. Martin Gilbert
Chenango Union, November 3, 1892

Intelligence was received Saturday of the death at his residence in Greene [Chenango Co., NY], that afternoon, of A. Martin Gilbert, aged about sixty years, after a brief illness.  Mr. Gilbert was for many years a resident of Norwich, an employee in the Sawyer cooperage works. From this place he moved to Truxton, and from there to Greene.  During his residence here he was well known and had many friends.  he was a good citizen, a kind hearted neighbor and a sympathetic fried.  His remains were brought to Norwich, Monday afternoon and the burial took palce at Mount Hope cemetery [Norwich, NY].  A number of members of Canasawacta lodge of Odd Fellows and of Lily of the Valley Lodge, Degree of Rebekah, of this village, of which organizations he was a worthy member, attended the burial services which were conducted by Rev. L.C. Hayes according to the beautiful ritual of the order.  Deceased leaves surviving him a widow and two children, who have the sympathy of many friends in this their dark hour of affliction.

Caroline M. (Guernsey) King

1820-1893

Caroline M. King, widow of the late Haxton King, and daughter of Dr. J. Guernsey, formerly of the Unadilla Valley, died at Madison [Madison Co., NY], January 19, 1893.  A little more than a year ago she had a severe attack of la grippe, from which she never fully recovered.  One week of intense suffering from trouble closed the record of a long and useful life. A bride, a widow, and a mother in one short year, she tested the promises of Him who is the widow's God, and the Father of the fatherless. The funeral services were held at 8 A.M. in Madison and at 2 P.M., at Mt. Upton, where, notwithstanding the short notice, many friends of her youth gathered at H.F. Place's the home of her sister, to pay the last tribute of respect to her who slept in death.  Rev. C.H. Sackett conducted the service, and made very appropriate remarks, and Rev. H.J. Whalen, himself so recently bereaved, read some of the comforting assurances of the Word.  She was laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery [White Store, Chenango Co., NY], where representatives of five generations of her kindred sleep, and which overlooks the beautiful valley she always loved.