Thomas Dickinson
Chenango Union, May 14, 1885
We are sorry to announce the failing condition of our aged neighbor, Thomas Dickinson, Esq. for about a year, Mr. Dickinson has been afflicted with a cancerous affection upon the face. Last summer, in hopes of obtaining relief, he submitted to having it eaten out, but his age, some eighty odd years and enfeebled condition, were against its success, and he has gradually declined till now there is little hope of his surviving long. Mr. Dickinson is the only surviving brother of the late Hon. D.S Dickinson, of Binghamton, and Hon. John R. Dickinson, of Washington. An only sister, Mrs.. Alpheus Johnson, also quite aged, is yet living, we believe, near Afton
Chenango Union, May 28, 1885
DICKINSON: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], May 18th, Mr. Thomas Dickinson, aged 81 years.
F.D. Hunt
Chenango Union, May 14, 1885
We copy from the Leavenworth (Kansas) Times of the 6th inst., the following obituary of a former resident of Chenango county [NY]. the subject of the sketch was born in Smyrna, and some twenty-three years ago married Julia [McNitt], daughter of the late Morgan McNitt of North Norwich. For some years he resided in the town of Plymouth, and was agent for a New York publishing house, introducing their school books. He left for the west about fourteen years ago.
"The educational public of the West will be greatly surprised and pained to learn of the death of Mr. F.D. Hunt, which occurred at his residence in this city on Sunday evening last, after an illness of about a month. Mr. Hunt has been prominently connected with the school book business of the Western states and territories for the past twenty years. During the past ten he has lived in this city, acting as general agent for the house of A.J. Barnes & Co. He was noted, among those who came in contact with him, for indomitable energy and sagacity in the management of his business, as well as for his kindly and sympathetic traits of character, which greatly endeared him to thousands of teachers throughout his field of work. We learn that he leaves his family, consisting of a wife and five children, in comfortable circumstances. His will power must have been remarkable, for, in spite of physical endowments rarely met with, he laid down his work at the age of forty-five, from sheer overwork. Mr Hunt's extensive acquaintance and travels gave him large opportunities for influence in shaping the general educational policy of his field of work, and these he improved always for the good of the cause. His loss will be mourned, especially among those who are prominent in the management of educational affairs, as a wise and unselfish counsellor, as well as by thousands in the humbler walks of the profession who have been cheered on their way by his precepts and example. It will be a source of satisfaction to his more intimate friends to know that in his last hours of consciousness he expressed a Christian faith and resignation."
Hilley Coon
Otsego Journal, May 6, 1885
Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY]: It is seldom indeed that we are called upon to chronicle an occurrence so melancholy as that which resulted in the death of Hilley Coon on Monday afternoon. He was engaged in loading a car with lumber near the depot, the boards being passed to him by Decalvus Bowen. The car was a flat, holding two tiers, the forward one being nearly complete when the accident occurred. At the point where the car was standing on the switch a brook passes under the track, making a gully about four feet deep below the level of the road bed. Between this side and main tracks where they cross the brook, is a space about two and one-half feet wide between the ends of the ties. About two o'clock while placing the lumber, by some means unknown, he fell from the car to the bottom of the brook, the distance being about fourteen feet. He was taken up in an unconscious condition, the blood gushing from his nose and right ear and carried to the house of Charles Chamberlin, who lives near by. Dr. Smith being absent, a telegram was sent for Dr. Winans, of Gilbertsville. He arrived too late, however, to see his patient alive, death having ensued about half an hour after the accident occurred, and before even his mother could reach his bedside. No one saw him fall and it is conjectured that he slipped off the car backwards, and in falling, struck his head on the end of the tie of the main track, fracturing his skull at the base of the brain and behind his right ear. His age was about sixteen years. His father, Hiram Coon is in a somewhat critical condition from the effects of a severe hemorrhage with which he was attacked on Saturday while engaged in loading the same car of lumber. The blow is a severe one for both him and his wife, Hilley being their last living child. They have the sympathy of all in this great and sudden affliction. The funeral will take palce on Wednesday.
James Hiram Coon
April 1913
In the death of Mr. Coon there goes from among us one of the oldest and best known residents of the farming communities in this vicinity. He passed away at his home across the river on Saturday evening, his death following a brief illness of but a few days' duration. Mr. Coon had been practically disabled from rheumatism for years, but was able to come to this village frequently and to oversee the work of his farm until the day when he was seized by is last illness. He was a good citizen, one of the kind whose lives of industry, thrift and honorable dealing wins the confidence and respect of their fellow men and lends solidity and character to communities. He was a man who read much and kept well informed on the current events and history of the times,. His domestic relations were marked by kindness, indulgence and consideration, traits as well calculated to promote happiness in families, but years ago himself and wife were bereaved of three daughters and an only son, who had they been spared might have been their hope and dependence in their old age. Mr. Coon was married to Margaret A. Hastings in 1858. for two years after their marriage they worked a farm in the vicinity of Gilbertsville and then moved upon their present farm, then owned and occupied by his father, James H. Coon, Sr. They continued to reside with and care for his parents while they lived, the place having been their home for 53 years since they came there in 1860. As stated above four children were born to them: one daughter, Mrs. Mattie Lewis, died in 1881 at the home of her parents, two other daughters, Nettie and Chloe, having died in infancy years before; and the sad accident by which their son Hiram [Hilley Coon], lost his life at the age of 19 by a fall from a car he was helping load at the depot, it is still fresh in the memory of many. His death occurred in May, 1885. The wife of Mr. Coon survives him, and his loss, removing as it does the last member of her family is a grief appreciable only by those who have passed through the same great sorrow. The funeral occurred form the house on Wednesday at one o'clock, the service being conducted by Rev. John Yates of Gilbertsville. The burial was in Evergreen cemetery, White Store [Chenango Co.].
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