Obituaries (December 18)

Minnie M. (Jones) Teelon

Utica Saturday Globe, February 1921

 

Minnie M. (Jones) Teelon

1867 - 1921

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. William Teelon, who died Sunday night at the Norwich Memorial Hospital, aged 54 years, had been in failing health for several months, and had only recently been received at the hospital.  She had made her home in Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY] for a year, previous to which she was a resident of this city.  Mrs. Teelon was born in Masonville, Delaware County, April 5, 1867, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Jones.  She had always resided in this vicinity and was a woman much esteemed for her many excellent qualities.  She was especially devoted in her home. She attended the Methodist church at Rockdale, and her death is mourned by all who knew her.  Besides her husband, she leaves six sons, Harry, Arthur, Paul, Frank, Carl and Percy; her mother, Mrs. Chloe Jones of Norwich; three sisters, Mrs. Susie Shattuck and Mrs. Warren Wilson, of Norwich, and Mrs. S. Head of Johnson City; also three brothers, Frank Garfield and William Jones, all of Norwich. Another brother, Eugene, died in 1894, and the father in 1893. There are also three grandchildren, Minnie May, Pauline and Glenn Teelon, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held from the home of her brother, Frank Jones, on the Mt. Upton road at 1 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Frank W. Young officiating. The body was placed in Mount Hope receiving vault [Norwich, NY] awaiting burial in the spring.

Miranda Ensworth

Norwich Sun, April 9, 1909

Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]:  Miss Miranda Ensworth passed away at her home in the village Tuesday morning about 10 o'clock, aged 77 years.  Although quite feeble in health she was still able to be about and go out some until the last few days. While her life has been quiet and retiring it has been one of usefulness and by her kindness and interest in others has made many friends who will greatly miss her.  For many years she has been a faithful and devoted member of the M.E. church.  Her home has been with a sister, Miss Abbie Ensworth, who survives her, and also a brother N.A. Ensworth. The funeral will be attended from the M.E. church Friday at 1 p.m., the pastor Rev. R.M. Pascoe officiating with burial in the Guilford cemetery.

Cornelia White

Bainbridge Republican, August 24, 1888

Died, in Yaleville, town of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], August 18, 1888, Mrs. Cornelia White, wife of Richmond White, aged 56 years.  Her sickness was brief.  All that loving hands could do failed to stay the hand of the destroyer, and she left loving friends for a home where sickness and death never come.  The funeral was held on Monday afternoon from the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.M. Cooper, the Rev. Mr. Jennison of Guilford conducting the services.  Kind friends expressed their sympathy in gifts of flowers, in appropriate designs, and she was laid to rest in the Cooper cemetery [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY], near their home.

Eliza Donnell

Miss Eliza Donnell died in Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], on Saturday last [April 23, 1892], aged eighty-five years.  Miss Donnell removed from Norwich to Unadilla some ten or twelve years ago, with the family of Rev. D.E. Loveridge, at the time Mr. Loveridge assumed the rectorship of St. Matthew's church.  When Rev. Mr. Loveridge and family removed to Portland, Oregon, about three years ago, Miss Donnell's health would not admit of the accompanying them, and she has been gradually failing, and growing weaker up to the time of her death. She was laid at rest Monday in St. Matthew's church yard cemetery, by the side of Mr. Loveridge's son Willie, who was accidentally drowned in a small stream that flows through the vicarage grounds in the rear of the church.

 

Charles D. Whittemore

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, February 13, 1904

Charles D. Whittemore died at his home in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 29, 1904.  He was the son of Asa T. and Mary F. Whittemore, who came to Guilford early in the last century and settled on a small place on the road leading from "Smith's Corners" (so called at that time) to Oxford, four miles west of his place; the so called road being simply a path, indicated by marked trees.  here he was born Nov. 3, 1825, and here he lived to a good old age.  He early developed habits of industry and thrift, and while still young worked out by the month and by his earnings paid off an indebtedness on the place, that his father, by reason of ill health was unable to do.  He soon began to want more room, and added acres to his place until in later years he was one of the largest land owners in town.  In early life he joined the Congregational church at Guilford Center, and was a regular attendant and gave liberally for the church work.  An obliging neighbor, ever ready to help care for the sick, and to assist in the burial of the dead.  He is survived by his widow and two sons, Charles, Jr., who has for some years lived in a part of the house and been associated with his father in his extensive diary business, and Asa T. Whittemore, who owns and lives on a nearby farm.   F.S.C.