Obituaries (April 25)

Frank L. Rhodes

Utica Saturday Globe, February, year unknown

 

Frank L. Rhodes

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] Feb. 28:  Frank L. Rhodes, who died February 18 of apoplexy in Clint, Texas, was a native of Norwich.  He was the only son of Dr. Lewis A. and Martha Rhodes and was born March 16, 1859, residing here until his arrival at young manhood.  For 17 years his home had been in Clint, Texas, with Grant Wheeler, another former Norwich resident.  For a number of years Mr. Rhodes had acted as a newspaper correspondent in that section.  He leaves only one near relative, a sister, Mrs. Ida Taylor, of this city.

 

Daniel Bond

The Home Sentinel, Afton, NY, July 8, 1876

About 8 o'clock, last Monday, train 12 going east, struck and fatally injured Daniel Bond, a workman on this section of the road.  It seems the men were repairing the track about 2-1/2 miles of this place, and as the train came near, they all stepped off the track.  Mr. Bond seeing some tool left behind reached for it just as the engine came up to them, when the cross beam or cylinder struck him on the side of the head, crushing the skull.  He lived probably 60 minutes and expired. Dr. Hayes was summoned, and was prompt to attend the call, but the poor man breathed only a few moments after he arrived.  He was about fifty-five years of age, and leaves a family to mourn his loss.

 

Newton Martin

Chenango Union, August 11, 1881

Newton Martin, a young man twenty-two years of age, residing in Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], was killed in that city on Monday, by a blow from a base ball bat.  Martin, with another young man, and two women of questionable reputations, were passing along the street about four o'clock in the afternoon, and when in front of John Regan's store, he became engaged in an angry discussion with a man near the store, who hailed him and his companions with offensive words. the disturbance becoming annoying to Regan, he went out and ordered Martin to move on, but he refused, became very abusive, and called to Regan to come across the road and fight. Regan accepted the challenge, took off his coat, and the fight commenced.  Martin got the upper hand of Regan, and had him down, when the latter called to his boy in the store for assistance. Tim, a lad about thirteen years of age, rushed from the store with a base ball bat, with which he struck Martin a heavy blow on the back of te head.  Then Regan got on top of Martin, and struck him several blows before he realized that he was insensible.  He then went to his store, but returned in a few moments, when told that Martin was dead. Regan's face was considerably bruised in the melee. Both father and son were arrested, and an inquest is being held. Regan has always borne a good reputation.  Martin is said to have been under the influence of liquor.

 

Sarah Cary

Norwich Journal, June 27, 1821

Died, at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. Mrs. Sarah Cary, in the 22d year of her age, after a distressing sickness of about two months, which she bore with Christian fortitude and humble resignation, trusting in the merits of our Saviour.  In the dispensation of Divine Providence, in the death of this truly amiable woman, in the morning of life, an affectionate husband and an infant child have sustained an irreparable loss.  Her numerous relatives, friends and acquaintance, to whom she was endeared by the strongest sympathies of human nature, will feel the distressing calamity as not easily repaired, nor soon to be forgotten.  Let this unexpected mortality enforce the salutary admonition, that in the midst of life there is death," and the importance of being prepared to meet this momentous event.