Obituaries (November 17)

Chauncey Depew

Utica Saturday Globe, July 1919

 

Chauncey Depew

1915 - 1919

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Chauncey Depew, aged 4, the youngest of the five sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Depew slipped into the Chenango river while playing on the bank and was drowned on Wednesday afternoon.  The bank was very slippery from the recent rains and the river swollen and the water muddy from the same cause so that the body was not recovered until Friday afternoon although diligent search was kept up by the father and friends during all the daylight hours.  The scene of the drowning was about a quarter of a mile above the bridge that spans the river at Wood's Corners.  The little lad was playing on the west bank dipping water from the stream with a tin cup which Duane Foster, aged 11, had used to carry his bait.  Duane was fishing and Chauncey's brother, Harry, aged 8, was with them.  The other two did not miss Chauncey until they saw him floating out into the river and being carried down on the swift current.  They attempted a rescue with the fish pole, but were helpless.  Running home they told what had happened but by the time the neighbors and would be rescuers arrived the body had disappeared.  The most thorough search was started and every plan tried to bring the body to the surface.  Harvey Depew, the frantic father, plunged into the deep water, treading the bed of the river in an effort to locate his baby boy.  A wire fence was stretch across the river some ways below the scene and in this the body finally lodged on Friday.  Mr. and Mrs. Depew with their five sons lived at Wood's.  The five boys Paul, Harry, Linden, Miles and Chauncey, ranged from Paul, aged 14 to Chauncey, aged 4.  Neither Duane Foster nor Harry Depew, who were with Chauncey at the time of the accident could swim though all of the boys in that section spent much time playing about the river, banks and the bridge.  Practically every foot of the river bottom for a long stretch was dragged in the earnest effort of the father and his friends to find the remains.  Much sympathy is felt for the parents and the funeral of the little fellow was largely attended on Sunday afternoon.  Rev. Frank W. Young, pastor of the Broad Street M.E. Chruch, officiated.  Harvey Depew, the father, is an industrious, respected employee of the Ontario & Western Railway.

 

Ida D. (Rupe) Franklin

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 7, 1893

Died in this village Jan. 4, 1893, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Ida D. Franklin, aged 33 years.  Mrs. Franklin was the wife of Charles W. Franklin and daughter of Charles H. and Sarah Rupe, and was born in Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], June 24, 1859.  Mr. Rupe soon after moved to this village and became a member of the business firm of Cox & Rupe, which continued until his death in 1885.  Mr. and Mrs. Franklin were married Jan. 18, 1881.  She at an early age, united with the Park Place Baptist church, of which she has since been an active, devoted, consistent member.  She was a faithful member of and an earnest teacher in the Sunday school, and in its musical features a very important factor. She was educated in the Norwich academy and in Boston, graduating from a special course in music in 1879.  Naturally of a confiding and vivacious temperament, she, by her intelligence and culture, won a large circle of friends.  For several months she has suffered a painful illness, yet she bore it with remarkable patience and fortitude, and while at times hope gave way, yet she held on to life, based upon her love for her family with wonderful tenacity until at last she yielded and sank into a quiet sleep in Christ her Redeemer.

"Why then her lot deplore, she is not lost.

She gently lives, though not a life on earth.

But where angel are.

All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond is substance.

How solid all, where change shall be no more."

She leaves a husband and three sons to mourn her loss, and to them and her mother 'tis irreparable.  She will be missed and mourned by many friends. The family have the deepest sympathy of this entire community. Funeral services at the family residence on Henry street, Friday at 2 p.m., her pastor, Rev. T.O. Cass, officiating.  Burial in Mt. Hope [Norwich, NY]

 

Robert Mettler

Cortland Democrat, October 17, 1941

South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY]:  Robert Mettler, age 33 years, of Cazenovia [Madison Co., NY] was fatally injured Sunday night on the Cazenovia-Oneida highway.  After passing a car he met another head-on.  The accident happened about midnight and he was taken to the Oneida hospital where he died Monday at 6:30.  The body was brought here to the funeral parlors by Kenneth Davis and L.J. Warner Monday.  Mrs. Mettler, who is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sherman of this village was in New York attending a hair dressers' convention, having left for there Sunday, came Monday evening to the home of her parents.  Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church in this village Thursday afternoon. Burial in Valley View Cemetery [South Otselic, NY]

 

Oral Huttleston

DeRuyter Gleaner, July 27, 1939

Oral H. Huttleston, 56, died at 6:30 Tuesday evening at the VerNooy Sanitarium Cortland, where he had been taken about three weeks ago, following an illness of seven weeks at his home near Blodgetts Mills.  Mr. Huttleston has been in ill health for the past three years after receiving a severe injury when cranking his truck.  The motor backfired, the crank striking him in the face and resulting in the loss of sight of his left eye.  Oral Huttleston was born in Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY], May 22, 1883, the son of LeGrande and Amelia Richor Huttleston.  he married Lena Legg Allen in Montrose, Pa, June 21, 1928.  Mr. and Mrs. Huttleston have owned and operated the roadside restaurant and gas station on the Cortland road for a number of years past.  Besides his wife, Lena Huttleston, Mr. Huttleston leaves two sons, Linn of Smithville Flats and Neal of So. Otselic; one daughter, Amelia Huttleston of Blodgett Mills; one step-daughter, Mrs. Gerald Reynolds of Cortland; one grandson, Richard Huttleston of Smithville Flats and an uncle, DeWitt Richer of Otselic.  Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Thursday afternoon at Hall's funeral home in McGraw.  Rev. F.E. Raymond, pastor of the Methodist church will officiate. Burial will be made at South Otselic, his former home.