Hon. Charles A. Fuller
Utica Saturday Globe, November 1916
Hon. Charles A. Fuller
1841 - 1916
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: Hon. Charles A. Fuller, one of the most distinguished of Chenango's sons, who died at his home in Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] last Friday, aged 75, was born August 17, 1841, in Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY]. He was the son of Thomas A. and Harriet DeForest Fuller and when he was a small lad the family moved to Sherburne, where he attended the public school and later was a student for two terms at Madison University, now Colgate, and in the spring of 1861 entered the law office of Boardman & Ingersoll at Cleveland, Ohio. On September 1 following he responded to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers and was assigned as a private to Company C, Sixty-first New York, attached to the Army of the Potomac. He took an active part in many battles, being promoted to be a sergeant, and in 1863 commissioned a second lieutenant, July 2, 1863, in the battle of Gettysburg he was shot in the left arm, necessitating the removal of three inches of bone to save the member, and his left leg was so badly shattered that it was amputated eight inches from the body while he was still on the battlefield. His marvelous constitution and pluck enabled him to recover and he was discharged form the service in December, 1863, having proven true to his French-Huguenot ancestry and worthy the grandsire who served in the war of the revolution. After his discharge he again took up the study of law at Sherburne and in 1864 entered the Law School at Albany. In 1865 he was admitted to practice and in partnership with E.H. Risley located at Hamilton. In the spring of 1866 he returned to Sherburne and opened the office which he occupied for half a century. For several years his son-in-law, Ward N. Truesdell, had been associated with him. Politically Mr. Fuller was always a staunch Republican and one of the leaders in his party in the county. In 1888 he served in the Assembly and in 1894 was a delegate to the constitutional Convention. From March 14, 1867 to March 16, 1887, he was postmaster of the village of Sherburne. Keen at all times for the best interests of the village, he had held every office practically within the gift of the people of Sherburne. For years he was president of the Board of Education and his services as a lawyer were much sought after. A genuine patriot, he was active in the affairs of the G.A.R. and equally devoted to his religion, having been a deacon in the Congregational Chruch for years. June 23, 1869, Mr. Fuller married Miss Mary E. Mathewson, who, with their two daughters, Mrs. Charles L. Carrier and Mrs. Ward N. Truesdell, survive him. Funeral services were held in the Sherburne Congregational Church Sunday afternoon at 3, Rev. W.A. Trow officiating, and interment was in Sherburne Cemetery.
Orson S. Rowley
DeRuyter Gleaner, April 17, 1930
Funeral services for Orson S. Rowley, 80, civil war veteran and oldest resident of the town of Fabius [Onondaga Co., NY], will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at this home on the Fabius-Pompey Center-Manlius road. He died on Tuesday evening. Mr. Rowley was one of 13 boys in Keeney Settlement school who enlisted with their teacher, Jerome Woodruff, on October 8, 1861, in Company G, 61st New York Volunteer infantry, and served until January 5, 1865. He fought under Col. Nelson A. Miles, later commander-in-chief of the Untied States armies, and was wounded three times. He married Miss Cornelia Cornue in 1866 and purchased a farm south of Pompey. They resided there until 1911. Mrs. Rowley died five years ago. He was active up to the time of his death and made a Memorial day address last May. He is survived by a son, Giles Rowley; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Franklin Delos Hoag
1834-1914
Glenn Buell Collection, Volume 5
Norwich [Chenango Co. NY]: The body of Franklin Delos Hoag was taken from the Chenango river near the O.&W. Railway bridge, just south of the railroad shops, Monday forenoon. Yard Conductor J.E. Brown while crossing the bridge on a switch engine first saw the body floating in the water, which is about 20 feet deep at this point. Coroner E.W. Wilcox was notified and in company with District Attorney J.P. Hill and Officer, Neil Lewis went to the scene and removed the body from the river. After an investigation it was taken to the Breese undertaking rooms. Hoag was 78 years of age and had made his home with his daughter Mrs. Daniel T. Aldrich, near Lyon Brook. He was seen about town Saturday afternoon. He had evidently started for his home by way of the railroad and probably fell from the bridge and was drowned. The body had been in the water several hours. The coroner found no evidence of any suspicious circumstances connected with the unfortunate man's death. He had 75 cents in money, a knife and some tobacco in his pockets, but his hat and coat were missing and it is believed that he was carrying his coat on his arm when he fell to his death. Besides the daughter mentioned he leaves a brother, Milton Hoag, of Preston. The remains were taken to the home of his daughter where the funeral was held Wednesday, Rev. A.O. Austin, of Oxford, officiating. Burial was made at White Store [Chenango Co.., NY].
Isabel Sheldon
Chenango Telegraph, April 18, 1860
SHELDEN: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., Mrs. Isabel Shelden relict of Dr. Ira Sheldon, formerly of Plymouth, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], aged 72 years. Mrs. Sheldon was a member of the Congregational Church, a mother in Israel, a woman of unwavering religious principle, of uniform and decided interest in the prosperity of Zion at home and abroad, of strong personal attachments and friendships, which gave to her life a more than ordinarily distinctive and positive characteristic. What she felt to be right and true she heartily approved, defended and sustained; but what she felt to be wrong, she as heartily and unhesitatingly condemned and reproved. To her friends she was ever true and faithful. Few persons perhaps, have possessed strong friendly sympathies. Her husband's thoughts, principles, wishes, though now eleven years dead, were nevertheless cherished with a sacredness amounting almost to reverence. Her children all of whom she had out lived many years, seemed still to be living with her only, forsooth, that they had stepped out to a neighbor's. Her last great trouble seemed to be, that perhaps she loved her family in heaven more than her savior and Redeemer. In fact she never could feel so positive as many about the trueness and stability of her hope. Still, she said, "I must trust in Christ--in Christ alone!" The last of her family, we believe and buried by friends of no consanguinity, her body sleeps with her family at Plymouth and her spirit, we hope, joys with them in heaven. Her husband we believe, some time previous to his death, had signified his pleasure with reference to the disposition to be made of any property that might remain at the decease of Mrs. Sheldon, and his pleasure, as in other things, was law to her; in this also and in accordance with it, aside from the demands of comfortable living, all funds were charily guarded and treasured in Bank or good securities. As the result, we think the A. Tract society receives some $500, The A.B. Society, $500 and A.C.C.F.Missions, some thousands of dollars. Her friend, Warren Newton, Esq., is understood to be her executor, and no one, perhaps, would be more likely to make the most of the estate in the interest of the several objects to which it has been appropriated. How much better to die, knowing that the last dime has been, in good faith, consecrated to God, than to leave all, no knowing whether he, who shall posses it, shall be a wise man or a fool.
Death Notices
Chenango Telegraph, April 18, 1860
CHEEVER: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on the morning of April 6th, Miss Augusta Elizabeth Cheever, niece of Mrs. S.R. Clarke, and daughter of Mr. Wm. Cheever, of New Haven, Oswego Co., N.Y., aged 25 years and 7 months.
SQUIRES: In new York, Tuesday evening, April 3d, James [Squires], infant son of Selah and Mary E. Squires, aged 8 months.
HOAG: In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mrs. Irene Hoag, aged 63 years, 3 months and 26 days.
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