Obituaries (December 5)

Mary E. (Crandall) Towner

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1920

 

Mary E. (Crandall) Towner

1845 - 1920

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. Mary Towner, who passed away early Monday morning after a several months' illness, was one of the best known and highly esteemed residents of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], where she had made her home for a long period of years.  Funeral services were held from her late home on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, interment being made in the family plot in the West Hill Cemetery at Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].  Besides her many friends in Smyrna, and in Sherburne, Mrs. Towner is survived by four sons, Arthur A. Towner, of Syracuse; Walter B. Towner, of Binghamton, and George and P.A. Towner, of Norwich; one daughter, Miss Sarah Towner, of Smyrna; four brothers, Frank Crandall, of Norfolk; Edgar, Oscar and Byron Crandall, of Sherburne, and two sisters, Mrs. V. Smith, of Norwich, and Mrs. Frank Davison, of Sherburne.

 

Catherine B. (Thomson) Pitts

The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, NY, October 4, 1945

Mrs. Catherine B. Pitts, the mother of Miss Irene Minaker, a social studies teacher in the Longfellow junior high School Annex, died Monday in St. John's Riverside Hospital after an illness of six months.  She was seventy-seven years old and made her home with her daughter at 573 South Broadway.  Twice-widowed, Mrs. Pitts first husband was Thelismar Minaker.  The second was Henry Pitts.  A native of Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of George and Catherine Roxbury Thomson, Mrs. P:itts came to the United States in 1904 and lived in New York City for some time. Before coming to Yonkers in 1927 after the death of Mr. Pitts, she had made her home with a brother, the late George Thomson, in South Otselic, Chenango County.  Mrs. :Pitts was a member of the church of the Redeemer on Valentine Lane.  Besides her daughter, she is survived by two nieces.

 

Dora Stanard

DeRuyter Gleaner, March 10, 1938

Mrs. Dora Stanard of South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] succumbed to a heart attack Monday afternoon.  She was found sitting in a chair with newspaper in hand by Dr. Glezen of Cincinnatus and Mrs. Mable L. Angell about 4 o'clock.  It was thought she had been dead about two hours.  She had been in poor health for the past year or more, but had performed her regular duties until within the past few weeks, during which time she had been under the care of Dr. Glezen.  The doctor had called at the home previously in the afternoon, but as no response came by his knock, he thought she wasn't at home.  Mrs. Stanard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Richer, was 67 years of age and was a member of the M.E. church.  She was the wife of Devillo Stanard, who died in 1904.  Most of her life she had lived in South Otselic.  She is survived by two sons, Cecil Stanard of Syracuse and Ivan Stanard of Beaver Meadow; one brother, DeWitt Richer of Otselic; several grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.  Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock.  Rev. G.F. Crawford officiated.  Funeral Director Welter & Son of Syracuse conducted the burial.

Henry W. Christian

Broome Republican, April 9, 1873

The most painful duty I am called upon to do is to record the death of him who was my most esteemed friend and neighbor.  The announcement is extremely sad, and casts a shadow of gloom over this entire community.  His long and continued residence among us, his many acts of kindness, and especially those in always visiting and caring for the sick, and dying in this community as well as the surrounding country, had so won upon the affections of the entire community that none knew him but to respect him; those that knew him best respected him most.  The unexpected event is painful in the extreme. 

I have no desire to eulogize him above his true merit; knowing him for many years I can, with all who know him, truthfully say that none would sacrifice his rest and pleasure, and many times his health, to visit and alleviate the sufferings of the sick and dying, more than the deceased.  He had many friends, both old and young, who respected him, as was attested by the large audience that gathered at his funeral--the largest that has assembled for many years on a funeral occasion at this place.

Mr. Christian was born in Putnam county, New York, April 9, 1823, being at his death less than 50 years old.  He came to this county with his father's family in 1838, remained one year, when he returned to the vicinity of his birth; worked at the masons' trade and became very proficient to it; continued at work in New York city, Brooklyn and other places until 1847, when he became acquainted with Miss Ladra Gorham, then teaching in Cold Spring, New York; was married on the 29th day of March 1847, just 26 years to an hour from the time that death parted them; always a kind, dutiful and indulgent husband and father.

The deceased was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in good standing, for over 30 years, always taking a very important part in all its meetings, always in the choir, and for a long time its leader.  Mr. Christian steadily contributed to the Sabbath School when many of its warmest friends abandoned it.  He was a Free Mason, and belonged to Eastern Light lodge, no. 126, and at his request, made in his last sickness, was buried with Masonic honors, many of the order being present.  The deceased was sick with congestion of the lungs six days, knowing for the last two days that his attending physician had no hope of his recovery, making all his business arrangements, being conscious until the last, when death took him from us.  He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss.  Alas, to soon came that death, and too short that life with us.

Death Notices

Chenango Union, July 8, 1875

MURPHY:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], July 5, 1875, Mr. Michael Murphy, aged 33 years.  A worker in the forge room of the Hammer Factory, unmarried and his only relative a sister in the convent in St. Joseph, Missouri.

CLARK:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], July 4, at the residence of her son Edward S. Clark, Mrs. Lucinda Clark, widow of the late Samuel T. Clark aged 84 years.

THOMPSON:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], July 4, Mr. James W. Thompson, late of Friendship, Allegany Co., aged 59 years, 9 months and a brother-in-law of Charles Davis of Norwich.

RITTENBURG:  In Fenton [Broome Co., NY], Mrs. Alice T. Montrose [Rittenburg], wife of Charles Rittenberg, aged 24 years.

O'DANIELS:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], June 27, 1875, James Andrew [O'Daniels], son of Thomas O'Daniels, aged 6 months 14 days.