Obituaries (April 5)

Mary Emogene Race Hicks

Utica Saturday Globe, January 1918

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Mary Emogene (Race) Hicks

1849 - 1918

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  The friends of Mrs. Charles R. Hicks were greatly shocked to hear of her death in Brooklyn on Saturday last after a brief illness.  Two days before Christmas Mrs. Hicks went to Brooklyn to visit her daughter.  The following Friday she was taken ill of pneumonia, and for several days previous to her death her life hung in the balance.  Emogene Race was the daughter of George and Jane Harder Race and was born November 4, 1849, at North East, Dutchess county, N.Y.  In 1855 she moved with her parents to this city and March 15, 1870, was united in marriage with Charles Ransford Hicks and went to make her home on the Hicks farm, three miles below Norwich, where she had since resided.  Always busy and fond of social life, she had many friends in town and country who will miss her cheery presence.  She was an interested member of the Order of the Eastern Star.  Of her immediate family, she leaves to mourn her loss her husband, her aged mother, now 90 years old, a son, John Race Hicks, of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Warren Putnam, of Brooklyn, and four grandchildren, Hicks, Charles, Emogene and Olive Putnam.  The funeral services were conducted from her late home Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. H.R. MacMillan officiating, and burial was made in Mt. Hope Cemetery [Norwich, NY].

 

Charles Ransford Hicks

Norwich Sun, July 15, 1935

Charles R. Hicks, a life long resident of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W.H. Putnam, 114-21 118th street, Ozone Park, L.I. Sunday at midnight in his 87th year.  Mr. Hicks, aside from failing eyesight, from which he had suffered for several years, was a remarkably healthy man for his years.  His death was due to the infirmities of age.  The body will be brought to Norwich late Tuesday afternoon and funeral services will be held from the Breese funeral home at 3 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Scott d. Clarke officiating, with burial in Mt. Hope [Norwich, NY].  Besides the daughter above named there survive a son, John Hicks of Hayes street; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.  Mr. Hicks was born on the old Hicks farm, three miles south of this city, January 7, 1849, and had been a farmer all his life.  He had always lived in the place of his birth until a few years ago, and since then he had made his home winters with his daughter in Long Island and summers with his son in this city.  The deceased was one of the best known men in Norwich, and his death will be mourned by all who knew him.

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Nettie A. (Wilkins) Smith

Afton Enterprise, January 16, 1924

Mrs. H. Henry Smith died very suddenly on Wednesday, January 2nd, at her home in Wilkins Settlement [Chenango Co., NY].  She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Geo. W. Rice, of Scranton, Pa., and a brother, G.B. Wilkins, of Ararat, Pa.  Funeral services were held at her late home at 1 o'clock, Saturday, January 5th, Burial at West Bainbridge.  Mrs. Smith was 64 years of age.  Born and lived in the neighborhood all her life, having been married 46 years.  She was the daughter of Charles and Orlina Wilkins.

 

Frederick H. Smith

Afton Enterprise / Harpursville Budget, November 5, 1936

Frederick H. Smith, aged 68 years, died Friday, October 30th, 1936 at his home in the Town of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].  HIs entire life was spent in this place, the home having been in the family for 106 years.  He is survived by his wife, Nellie Smith, one daughter, Mrs. Ray Birdsall of Otego, two sisters, Miss Anna smith of Binghamton and Mrs. J.M .Creighton of Phoenix, Ariz., and one brother Clark Smith of Coventry and four grandchildren.  The very large attendance at the services on Monday afternoon, spoke eloquently of the high esteem in which Mr. Smith was held.  Rev. Wm. Bartz of Castle Creek, formerly of Coventry, officiated.  Burial was in Glenwood Cemetery, Afton [Chenango Co., NY]

 

Edwin Potter Smith

Tioga County Herald, December 28, 1917

Edwin Potter Smith, for nearly fifty years, one of the prominent citizens of this town, died this afternoon at 12:30 at the Thur Smith place, where he had made his home for some time, and had been cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Jabez Smith.  He had been in failing health for months, due to the infirmities of age.  The funeral will take place from the residence where he died at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday.  The deceased was born in Otsego Co., Jan. 18, 1828, and thus had nearly 90 years.  He came to Newark Valley in 1870 and bought the farm which is now the Smith Stock farm, just north of this village.  He is survived by the son, Jabez, and a daughter, Miss Mame, of Binghamton.  He married Mary Howland, of Lisle, who died some years ago.  Mr. Smith was a man of kindly disposition and sound business sense.  In the later years of his life he was chosen by many to attend to the matter of settling estates because of his good judgement and conservative business dealings.  For years he was elected Overseer of the Poor of this town and for many years had been one of the Trustees and a "mainstay" of the Baptist Church, of which he was one of the most regular attendants.  His acquaintance was wide all through this section, and he will be kindly remembered for his sterling qualities.