Obituaries (September 1)

Genevieve (Carpenter) Stratton

1876* - 1940

Mrs. Genevieve C. Stratton, widow of the late Carroll I. Stratton, passed away at her home on Chenango street Wednesday morning, April 24, after a long period of ill health caused by heart disease.  Funeral services will be held at the Seymour Funeral Home, Friday afternoon, April 26, at 2 o'clock.  The Rev. James E. Mahagan will officiate and burial will be made in Riverview cemetery [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY].  Mrs. Stratton was born at German [Chenango Co., NY], May 27, 1876, the daughter of George W. and Lydia Rathbun Carpenter.  She graduated from Waterville High School and taught school for several terms before her marriage to Mr. Stratton, Dec. 2, 1896.  Since then she has always lived in Oxford.  For many years she conducted the Stratton Hat Shop on Navy Island and did a thriving business, which she relinquished only when ill health forced her to discontinue.  She was a communicant of St. Paul's church, past matron of Lafayette Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, and a member of the Oxford Garden Club.  Surviving is one son, C. Vernon Stratton, of Oxford; two brothers, Fayette Carpenter of Rhinebeck and George Carpenter of Norwich, and one sister, Mrs. Ida Totman of Waterville.  [Note:  Tombstone in Riverview says she was born in 1872].

Eva (Tuttle) Ingersoll
1854 - 1940

West Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. Eva Ingersoll, daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth Sanders Tuttle, passed away Tuesday night at eight o'clock, at the home of her son, Ellis, in Coventry township [Chenango Co., NY].  She was born at Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], May 26, 1854, and was twice married, the last marriage taking place at her home in Ouaquaga in the year 1886.  From here she went with her husband to the old homestead and lived with his parents and tenderly cared for them and her mother also during their last days.  Several years after the death of their parents they moved to the Cordon Burlison farm.  After the death of her husband less than two years ago she made her home with her son, Ellis, where she was cared for until the end, although she had been in ill health all winter, she was able to be around the house most of the time and her death came as a shock to all.  Mrs. Ingersoll was baptized with her husband and joined the West Bainbridge Baptist church the 13th of May, 1888, and attended regularly until last fall when cold weather prevented.  She was a kind wife and mother, never complaining which made it very hard to determine the seriousness of her illness.  Mrs. Ingersoll is survived by the one son mentioned, two grandchildren, Otto M. Chase of Johnson City, and Mrs. Joseph Royer of Binghamton; three nephews and two nieces, Frank Tuttle of Salisbury, Maryland; Elmer of Philadelphia, Raymond Tuttle of West Colesville, Mrs. Harvey Aylesworth and Mrs. William Hinkley of Kattelville.  The many floral tributes played a silent part in the high esteem in which she was held.  The bearers at the funeral were her four  nephews and was held at Colwell Brothers Funeral Chapel in Bainbridge, Friday afternoon at two o'clock with the Rev. Z. James Hall of Coventry M.E. church officiating.  The body was placed in the vault and will be buried at West Bainbridge cemetery at a later date.

Robert Buckley Stratton

1868 - 1940

Robert Buckley Stratton died at his home on Taylor street, Thursday evening, May 14, at 7:30 o'clock after an illness of seven weeks.  Mr. Stratton was a son of Charles H. and Marion Buckley Stratton, whose parents were among the pioneer settlers in this locality.  He was born July 13, 1868, at the Stratton homestead south of the village and attended school in the district there and at Oxford Academy.  He then went to Cortland where he learned the machinist trade under Cooper Bros.  His marriage to Minnie E. Brown of Homer, occurred Jan. 26, 1893.  A short time later they returned to Oxford from where he was employed as stationary engineer for the Borden's Company at Mt. Upton, later being promoted to superintendent, and remaining in their employ until 1909.  During those years he had taken a Moody Bible course and also studied at the Practical Bible Training School in Binghamton.  In July 1909, he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Stockton Baptist church where he was ordained, fulfilling a long cherished ambition and in this field he was most successful.  Following a severe illness he was obliged to relinquish this work and in December 1913, returned to his boyhood home.  I(n 1915 he accepted a clerkship in the Oxford postoffice under the regime of Jesse Jacobs and so remained in this position until 1934 when he reached the retirement age.  During these later years he had frequently supplied in various churches in this locality and made many warm friends.  He was most devoted to his family taking a keen interest in all their activities and enjoyed most having them with him.  Surviving is the widow, three daughters, Mrs. Robert J. Shader, of Norwich; Mrs. Herbert N. Griffin and Mrs. Floyd Cronk, and a son, Julian L. Stratton, all of Oxford, and two granddaughters, Ruth Griffin and Diane Shader, also two brothers, Judge Hubert C. and Vernon D. Stratton of Oxford. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home with Rev. Harlow Parsons of Johnstown, a lifelong friend, officiating.  Burial was made in Riverview cemetery [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY].  The bearers were his son, Julian Stratton, and his son-in-laws.

Death Notices

Chenango Telegraph, March 18, 1863

TANNER:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], March 16, 1863, suddenly of inflammation of the bowels, Theodore G. Tanner, aged 51 years.

McINTOSH:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], March 6, 1863, Mr. Asa Dean McIntosh, aged 53 years.

MARVIN:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], March 11, 1863, Hermon [Marvin], son of Henry and Cynthia Marvin, aged 3 years and 5 months.

CAMPBELL:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], March 4, 1863, Charles W. [Campbell], son of Rufus and Lovina Campbell, aged 7 years, 5 months and 11 days.

CURLEY:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 1, 1863, Bridget Jane [Curley], daughter of John and Bridget Curley, aged 2 years, 7 months and 7 days.

BRETT:  At Willoughby Lake Co., Ohio, Dr. J.R. Brett, of  Mount Upton [Chenango Co., NY], Surgeon of the 7th N.Y.S.V., aged 28 years.

CHURCH:  At the Marine Hospital, New Orleans, Feb. 14, 1863, of typhoid fever, Corporal Frederick J. Church of Co. A, 114th Rev. N.Y.S.V. aged 30 years.

KETCHUM:  In Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 6, 1863, John I. Ketchum, Esq., aged 37 years, 8 months and 13 days.

DYER:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], March 15, 1863, Mrs. Sally Dyer, widow of Nehemiah Dyer, aged 67 years.