Obituaries (April 29)

Harry Burton

Oxford Times, July 4, 1906

Died, in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] July 2, 1906, Harry Burton, youngest son of Alfred Burton, aged 29 years and 10 months.  Funeral services will be held from the M.E. church, of which he was a member, Wednesday at 2 p.m.  He was a young man of good habits, of kindly disposition, a good neighbor and much respected by all.  He lived in the town of Guilford all his life, with the exception of one year spent in Norwich  He was married in 1902 to Lois Cobb of Norwich, who survives him, as also his parents, one brother and one sister. Burial at Yaleville [Guilford,, NY].

Joseph Russell Clark

Chenango Telegraph, February 10, 1876

DIED:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 31, 1876, Mr. Joseph Russell Clark, in the 79th year of his age.  The death of Mr. Clark demands more than a passing notice.  He was born in Middletown, Conn., July 31, 1797, but soon moved to Norfolk Conn., where he lived until the age of 20, when he came to Guilford in 1817, and built a part of the home now standing simply "inclosing" it, using blankets for doors and sheets for windows, and has lived in it a period of 58 years.  The place was then an unbroken wilderness, and travelers were guided in the path by marked trees. He was married Jan. 25, 1824, and celebrated his golden wedding Jan. 25, 1874, his wife living nearly one year afterward.  He was the youngest of five children and the last one left, all living beyond the allotted time of life, whose ages at death were as follows:  87, 85, 84, 80, 78, all lived with the companions of their youth to old age except one, who buried her husband and married again.  United with the Congregational church, August 1831 and has been a consistent active member for 44 years, giving liberally for one of his means, not only for his particular church, but for benevolent objects in general.

Thomas Cole

Chenango Republican, Oxford, NY, November 9, 1827

Departed this life, at his residence, in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday evening the 28th ult. Mr. Thomas Cole, aged 92 years.  His days were industriously spent in the pursuits of agriculture.  He was exemplary in his morals, and just in his dealings.  The wear of time had so enfeebled his nerves that he was confined to his bed nine days before his death and we may with propriety quote the words of the poet as applicable:

 "Of no distemper, of no blast he died,

But fell like an autumn fruit that mellow'd long,

Ev'n wondered at because he falls no sooner,

Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years:

Yet freshly ran he on twelve winters more,

Till, like a clock worn out with eating time,

The wheels of weary life at last stood still."

Mr. Cole was born at Voluntown (now Sterling) in Windham county, Conn. on the 25th August, 1735, and in December, 1757, was married to Miriam Kinne, of the same town, with whom he lived the remainder of his days,; he has now left her a widow in the 90th year of her age.  They have had ten children, five of whom are now living.  Nine of them had issue. Their grandchildren now living are fifty-eight; their great-grandchildren are eighty-two, and their great-great-grandchildren are five; making in all of the four generations, one hundred and fifty!

Reuben Kirby

Chenango Republican, Oxford, NY, November 9, 1827

Died in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th ult. Mr. Reuben Kirby, aged 67 years.  Deacon Kirby was one of the first settlers of the Town, and during a long life he sustained the character of one of the brightest ornaments in society.  In the various relations of husband, father, neighbor and citizen, he had few equals and no superiors. After an illness of many months, which he endured with that fortitude which ever attends devotional piety, he died in the firm belief of the reconciliation of his Divine Redeemer, and in hope of a blessed immortality.

Adalaide A. (Jones) Johnston

Chenango Union, May 15, 1867

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], May 1st, 1867, Mrs. Adalaide A. Johnston, wife of John Johnston, Esq., recently of Paterson, N.J., and youngest daughter of Horace and Betsey Jones of Coventry.  This sad bereavement has sent a pang of grief and sorrow to the hearts of a large circle of relatives and friends.  The deceased was a young woman possessed of more than ordinary charms and attractions.  Her evident intelligence and cultivation of mind, and her pleasing manners, made a favorable impression at once upon all who met her; while her bright cheerfulness, gentleness and amiability of character, drew to her the warmest affections of all who knew her intimately.  But thus taken from us by a mysterious visitation of Providence, we bow our sorrowful hearts in humble submission to the will of the Great Dispenser of all events, and find our consolation in the fact that she died "in communion of God's holy church; in the comfort of a reasonable religious and holy hope;" and while looking forward in hope "to the general resurrection and the life of the world to come,": we invoke God's mercies and blessing upon her bereaved husband and tender infant whom she leaves behind.

 

Death Notices

Chenango Republican, Oxford, NY, November 23, 1827

DIED:  On Wednesday evening the 14th inst. at Willett, Cortland county [NY], Margaret [Fisher], wife of John Fisher, Jun. in the 26th year of her age.

Bainbridge Republican, March 2, 1888

Leonard Cole, aged 74 years, a resident of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Nelson Parsons in this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst.  The funeral was held on Sunday and the remains were taken to Ives settlement [Guilford, NY] for interment.