Obituaries (May 24)

Lewis T. Winsor

Norwich Sun, March 10, 1943

Funeral services for Lewis T. Winsor of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], who died at the Chenango Memorial Hospital Tuesday, are to be held at the Seymour Funeral Home in Oxford Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. Charles Dempsey, pastor of the Guilford Methodist church, officiating.  The body will be placed in the vault at Mt. Hope cemetery, Norwich, pending burial in the spring in Mt. Hope.  Mr. Winsor was born in Guilford, Aug. 11, 1883, a son of Charles A. and Frances Anderson Winsor.  He was a member of the Methodist church at Guilford, also Oxford Masonic lodge, 175, F.&A.M. and Oxford chapter, 254.  He had been town superintendent of highways of Guilford for the past 22 years.  There survive the widow, Marion Delavan Winsor and a son, Donald Winsor of Guilford.  A Masonic service will be held at the Seymour Funeral home Thursday night at 8 o'clock.

 

John B. Wooster

1869 - 1946

John B. Wooster passed away at his home in Guilford Center [Chenango Co., NY], November 29, 1946.  He was born April 22, 1869, the son of Lulu (Bennett) Wooster and Arron Wooster.  He was born in the same house where he died, an unusual coincidence.  He was never married and leaves no near relatives.  All of his entire life was passed in the town of Guilford.  He worked for many years in the Guilford Center station and feed store and after that in the creamery at Guilford.  He was a member and elder in the Presbyterian church at Guilford Center.  A man of sterling character, loved and respected by all who knew him.  His wise counsel and cheery manner will be blessed by a host of friends.  Final rites were held from the Guilford Center church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the pastor Rev. Harold A. McKenzie, officiating.  Burial was in the Guilford Center Cemetery.

 

Orrin Warner

Chenango Union, December 25, 1873

Many who recollect "or" Warner, years ago a popular member of Wescott's Cotillon Band, will read the announcement of his death with a feeling of sadness.  During the past twelve years he has been subject to fits of a very singular character, leaving him a mere wreck of his former self, although for the past few month he had been comparatively free from them; but last week he was again attacked, and after suffering the tortures of thirty-seven successive fits, death ended his sufferings on Thursday.  His funeral was attended at the residence of his father, in East Norwich, on Saturday last, by many of his old friends, and the services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Haynes, of this village.

 

Philander Reed

Chenango Union, December 25, 1873

Philander Reed, a demented inmate of the County House [Preston, Chenango Co., NY], left that institution between midnight and daylight on the morning of the 12th inst.  Search was made for him in all directions, until Tuesday morning of last week, when his body was discovered about a rod from the Tamarack road, in the edge of a piece of woods, southwest and within a half a mile of the county House.  He had evidently died soon after leaving the house, probably from cold and exposure to the storms of rain and snow.

  

Death Notices

Norwich Journal, April 23, 1823

Died in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday the 16th inst., Mrs Nancy Hammond, widow of the late, Wm. R. Hammond. She left four children to lament her loss. 

 

Died on Thursday, the 17th inst., Joseph Orlando Hale, son of Mr. Israel Hale, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], aged one year and two months.

 

Norwich Journal, September 25, 1822

Died at Unadilla Village (Otsego) on Monday, the 16th inst. Mrs. Octava Wilmot, consort of Mr. William Wilmot, ad daughter of Capt, Charles Wattles, of this village, aged 33 years.

 

 Unadilla Times, October 29, 1891

Henry B .Coon, of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], formerly train dispatcher in the Grand Central station in New York, died Tuesday night, Oct. 20, of consumption.  He was only 22 years of age.

 

Chenango Telegraph, December 25, 1873

On the 9th inst. George Wright, of East Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], received injuries that proved fatal while engaged in binding a load of hay.  He was springing down on the pole in order to tighten it, when it broke into three pieces, and he fell to the ground, striking on his back, with part of the binding pole top of him.--republican