Obituaries (September 11, 2017)

Calvin M. Lewis

Chenango Telegraph, September 16, 1863

Calvin M. Lewis Esq. of the firm, Hayes, Lewis & Rider died at his residence in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on Thursday evening, September 10, after an illness of about one week.  Mr. Lewis was a young man of great energy and enterprise and his efforts had done much to build up and enlarge the splendid business of the firm with which he was connected.  It is ...[unreadable]...he became involved in the business of manufacturing pianos with Moses Hayes and during most of that time he was the traveling man of the firm making regular visits to every village of any importance within a circle of a hundred miles and in all of these he had established a reputation for integrity and in all his generous kindly nature had made for him many warm personal friends who will sympathize with those who were near and dear to him in the sorrow which his death has caused.  Mr. Lewis was about 36 years of age.

 

Stephen A. Scott

Chenango Telegraph, September 16, 1863

SCOTT:  Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863, Mr. Stephen A. Scott, Co. G, 61st Reg. N.Y.S.V. aged 20 years and 8 months.  Only 7 months before, his only brother died in the army of typhoid fever.  They have an only sister who deeply mourns their loss.

 

Though I mourn thy loss dear brother,

All thy conflicts now are o'er

The aching head is calmly resting

Safe beyond the battle's roar

 

For thy country thou dids't venture,

To engage in the deadly strife.

And while upon the field of battle,

Quickly yielded up thy life.

 

Dan Baswell Gage

Chenango Telegraph, September 16, 1863

In Memphis, Tenn., on Saturday, Aug. 1, 1863, of typhoid fever, Dan Baswell Gage, of Enfield, N.H. and a member of the 15th N.H. Volunteers, aged 42 years.  Deceased, after spending the winter with the regiment, sharing with it the hardships and glory, found himself at the expiration of his term of enlistment fronting Port Hudson, but with the regiment volunteered to remain until the rebel flag was lowered.  He mingled his shouts with the victorious at the taking of that stronghold and started for his Northern home to meet his waiting wife and children.  But it was decreed otherwise.  His lifeless form rests upon the banks of the Mississippi, and his friends, mourn the loss of a true friend and brave soldier, who has passed away in his usefulness.  Deceased was a brother of Mrs. Ansel Berry of this village [Norwich, NY].

 

Death Notices

Chenango Telegraph, September 16, 1863

 

GILBERT:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Miss O.E. Gilbert, daughter of Mr. O.S. Gilbert, recently of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 26 years.

 

ROWLEY:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. Jennie E. [Rowley], daughter of Gilbert S. and Sarah A. Rowley, aged 13 months and 8 days.