Obituaries (October 25)

Minerva Cox Tallett

DeRuyter Gleaner, April 24, 1930

Early Monday morning, April 7th, 1930, Minerva Cox Tallett passed to the great eternity at Cortland, N.Y. [Cortland Co.,].  Her health had been failing for nearly two years.  She celebrated her 79th birthday January 19th, 1930.  Her life with the exception of the last seven years was passed in Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] on the farm and in the village. A faithful and loyal member of the South Otselic Baptist Church from 1885 and for many years she has been ready and anxiously waiting for the change that would take her home where so many of her loved ones are.  Her husband, Merton M. Tallett, passed away February 9, 1893 and previous to parting with  him she had to give up all her children, three, L.J. aged 16 months, Belle May, 4 weeks, Mamie A. 2 months.  This was during the years 1875 to 1884 and through it all she never lost faith in God; without the all sustaining grace of her Saviour, she could not have endured. 

 

Mrs. Tallett was the daughter of William S. and Minerva Myers Cox.  Her mother passed away the day she was born, but she knew no difference in the family of brothers and sisters that came of the second marriage of her father for she had the same motherly care from her own mother's cousin.  Upon her 18th birthday, January 19th 1859, she was united in marriage to Merton M. Tallett by the Rev. John Storrs, a Baptist minister.  They were baptized soon after and united with the Otselic Baptist church at Upper Beaver Meadow.  In 1885 they transferred their membership to the South Otselic Baptist church.  To mourn her departure, one sister, Mrs. Dorn L. Baldwin of South Cortland; two brothers, Fred E. Cox and Frank E. Cox of South Otselic; also nephews and nieces and a host of more distant relatives and friends. To know her was to love her.  Many are the keepsakes of her handiwork.  To do and to give, living and doing for others in her declining years.  The funeral was held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at her South Cortland home, Rev. Gerald Watkins, pastor of the First Baptist church, Cortland, officiating, and at 2 p.m. in her own church at South Otselic with burial in Valley View cemetery [South Otselic, Chenango Co., NY] beside her husband and three children, Rev. J. C. Whitney officiating and Charles H. Woodley undertaker in charge.

 

Calvin G. Brown

DeRuyter Gleaner, January 29, 1931

Calvin G. Brown, aged 70 years, died Wednesday, January 21st, at his home in Cincinnatus [Cortland Co., NY], following a long illness.  Mr. Brown was the son of William R. and Elizabeth French Brown and was born at Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY] on March 25, 1860, being the youngest of six children, now all deceased.  His boyhood and early manhood were spent on the farm where he was born.  On January 22, 1878, he married Nellie Bennett of Lincklaen.  In the fall of 1905 he sold his farm and with his family moved to Cincinnatus., where he has since resided.  He is survived by his wife; two sons, Ross B. Brown of Pharsalia and Alfred B. Brown of Cincinnatus, chairman of the Cortland county board of supervisors and one daughter, Mrs. Jay H. Nourse of Cincinnatus.  Mr. Brown who was taken ill four years ago, has been tenderly cared for by Mrs. Brown during all this time of suffering.  In politics he was a Democrat and for several years he was town superintendent of highways.  The funeral, which was private was held at the home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. H.C. Sears officiating. Burial was made in Cincinnatus.

 

Leroy Palmer

Syracuse Journal, August 14, 1933

....Leroy Palmer, 19, of South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], believed to be a student at St. Lawrence university, died in Crouse-Irving Hospital at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon of injuries suffered an hour and a half earlier when he was thrown from his motorcycle on the High Bridge road. 

The injured: 

     Miss Katherine Novak of Oriskany Falls,  minor cuts.

     Miss Helen Hayduk of Oriskany Falls, minor hurts.

     William Barber, 19, 315 Williams st., Facial cuts

Palmer suffered his hurts when he was thrown from his motorcycle on the High Bridge road, just over the village line of Manlius at 11 o'clock this morning.  According to Trooper Carmen Sicilla of the North Syracuse sub-station, Palmer was riding west when he rode over the brow of a small hill and applied his brakes to slow down for a line of traffic in front of him.  As he did so the front tire ripped part way off the wheel and this threw him over the handlebars to the concrete highway.  He was unconscious when picked up by witnesses and carried to the lawn of the home of Attorney Floyd Hoag.  Hospital reports said the young man suffered a fractured skull, broken nose and a fracture of the cheek bone.  From papers found in his clothing it is believed he was a student at St. Lawrence university.  Relatives of his in South Otselic were notified and made arrangements to come to Syracuse.

 

Elijah Cunningham

DeRuyter Gleaner, May 7, 1935

The funeral services of Elijah Cunningham were held at the M.E.  church, Saturday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. DeWitt Stanley officiating, with Undertaker Kenneth Davis in charge.  Interment was made in Valley View cemetery [South Otselic, Chenango Co., NY].  Mr. Cunningham was a member of the M.E. church and I.O.O.F.  He is survived by two sons, one who lives in the west and Ralph, with whom he lived and one daughter, Mrs. Jones of Warsaw, N.Y.