Obituaries (June 22)

Capt. V. Foster

Norwich Journal, November 18, 1829

Shocking death:  Capt. V. Foster, a worthy inhabitant of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], being on the 29th ult. engaged in his distillery, when by some means, the steam became confined in the boiler, the cap flew off and in an instant he was overwhelmed in showers of steam and boiling water.  He was, with great effort, enabled to extricate himself from this dreadful situation, and jumped into  a vat of beer standing near.  His clothes were instantly stripped from him by cleaving the sleeves with a knife.  With assistance he walked to his house, a short distance, but was literally raw.  With all due attention, he survived but ten days in agonies [of] the most excruciating pain, leaving a wife, two children, and many to lament his loss. 

 

Red Jacket

Norwich Journal, February 3, 1830

The celebrated Indian Chief, Red Jacket died at his residence in the Indian village on the 20th inst.

 

John Scranton

Norwich Journal, February 10, 1830

John Scranton, of Pharsalia, in this county [Chenango Co., NY], went to his sawmill last week for the purpose of cutting the ice from the wheel, where he was found dead.  It appeared that he slipped through the floor and hit his head against the wheel which occasioned his death.

 

Herbert & Herman Bennett

Bainbridge Record & Express, June 12, 1919

Herbert and Herman L. Bennett, brothers, and sons of Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Bennett, who lives on R.D.2, near Plymouth Reservoir in the town of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], were drowned in White's ice pond at East Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] Wednesday evening.  Herman was wading in the pond when he slipped on the bank and fell into fifteen feet of water.  He called for help and Herbert went to his assistance but was also pulled into the deep water.  Mr. Frink who went to the assistance of the two was unable to effect a rescue and in the struggle nearly lost his life.  The bodies were recovered later in the evening and brought to the undertaking rooms of Lawrence & Devine.  Herbert Bennett was about twenty-three years of age and has been employed by Mr. White.  He made his home with his uncle William Cobb of Birdsall street [Norwich, NY].  Herman Bennett was a member of one of the first contingents which went out under the operation of the selective draft law and saw service overseas, where he went through the campaigns without injury.  Both young men were splendid specimens of physical manhood and both enjoyed excellent reputations.--Norwich Union  The unfortunate brothers were nephews of Hubert L. Bennett of this village. Their father, Herbert A. Bennett formerly resided in Bainbridge and is well known.

 

Evelyn Sutliffe

Binghamton Press, June 8, n1951

Mrs. Evelyn Sutliffe, 18, mother of a three-month-old son, died of heart failure yesterday after crossing the narrow foot bridge high above Rexford Falls Gorge near Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].  Out riding with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Dolores Sutliffe, and their children, the young mother left the others in the parked car south of the falls, and crossed over the high land bridge to buy soft drinks at the Gager lunch stand.  She never got to the stand.  Three schoolboys found her body at the north edge of the bridge just outside the turnstile.  her hands still clutched a dollar bill.  The three boys, Robert Ingraham, Bert Reynolds and James Lewis, called Sherburne police chief Thomas Favaloro.  Chief Favaloro called Sheriff Frank J. Machio in Norwich, who got Dr. Leslie T. Kinney, coroner, and went to Sherburne.  Meanwhile, the grief husband, Charles Sutliffe, an employee of Webb & Son Lumber co., other relative and Dr. D.U. Gould, coroner, arrived at the falls. The body was removed to the Benedict & Fox Funeral Home where Dr Kinney, Dr. Gould and Dr.  H.H. Epstein performed an autopsy last night.  Dr. Gould issued a coroner's verdict of natural death due to acute cardiac dilatation.  Surviving, besides her husband and her son, William, are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wyman and several brothers and sisters, all of Brookfield.  Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Benedict & Fox Funeral Home. Burial will be in Union Valley Cemetery.