Obituaries (November 30)

Dexter H. Doing

Utica Saturday Globe, January 1905

 

 

Dexter H. Doing

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Dexter H. Doing died at his home on Beach street Tuesday morning last, aged 54.  He had been ill for a week with grip and had also suffered from an abscess in his side.  Deceased was born in Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], January 17, 1851, and had lived in the town of McDonough for some time before becoming a resident of Norwich some 20 years ago.  For the past seven years he had been employed in the car repair department at the Ontario & Western Railway shops.  He was a member of the Carworkers Union, of the National Protective Legion and of the Whaupaunaucaw Tribe of Red Men.  He is survived by his widow, his mother, Mrs. David Rouse, of Oxford, and by one son, Ivan Dexter, fo Norwich, and by a married daughter, Mrs. Ora Birdsall, of Middletown.  He is also survived by two brothers, Loren Doing, of Norwich, and George Doing, of Greene, and by one sister, Mrs. William Westcott, of Oxford.  Funeral services were held from the Calvary Baptist church on Birdsall street Thursday afternoon, Rev. S.J. Ford officiating.  Interment was made in Mount Hope Cemetery [Norwich, NY].

 

William Henry

Chenango American, Greene, NY, August 2, 1860

In New Orleans, on the 14th ult., after a protracted illness, brought on by the bursting of a blood vessel, in the 24th year of his age, William Henry, second son of William and Mary Henry, of Smithville Flats, Chenango County, N.Y., and grandson of the late Geo. Henry, Esq. of Broomfield, and of the late Hugh Jackson, Esq. of Cremoorne, House Co., Monaghan, Ireland.  From his childhood up, no better son were parents ever blest with, and the stroke has fallen the more heavily on us as we each day looked for his arrival at home, where his amiable and cheerful disposition made every one feel happy, but God had willed it otherwise, and we bow to the decree; thro' faith in Christ knowing that our beloved Willie is not dead but sleepeth. The cold hand of death has laid his body in the grave, but his happy spirit freed from bondage, winged its flight to God who gave it.

He is only gone before!! we shall meet again,

Oh! that will be joyful to meet to part no more.

 

Colonel Elisha Brown Smith

Chenango American, Greene, NY, July 2, 1863

The Chenango Union has received the following letter from Assistant Surgeon Beecher, announcing the death of Col. Smith.  The letter is dated Marine Hospital, New Orleans, June 20th.

 

"Hoping, though almost against hope, that e report which came down a few days since, that Col. Smith was mortally wounded, might be incorrect, I have waited to the last possible moment before writing in confirmation of the fact.  But alas!  the evidence is too painfully true.  He died at one o'clock Thursday morning last, apparently unconscious of suffering having previously expressed his willingness to depart, being fully satisfied in his own mind that he could not recover.  This morning, with a number of deceased officers, his remains were brought down from Port Hudson, and with the Chaplain of the Marine, the Rev. J.W. Williams, of the 131st N.Y., who spoke highly in his praise, and knew him well.  I have just returned from taking a last view of all that is left of this brave officer and truly good man.

 

"The body has been placed in the hands of the celebrated undertaker, Bosthwick, on Lafayette Street, who has deposited it in a heavy leaden casing, enclosed in a black walnut coffin, with the expectation that it would be sent out on the next steamer, which in the morning sails for New York.  But considerable change necessarily having taken place, from prudential reasons, it was thought best to retain it for a few days, when, in charge of Lieut. E. P. Pellett, who has a leave of absence of thirty days for that purpose, it will be taken to the quiet and peaceful resting place of his northern home.

 

[Colonel Elisha Brown Smith, commander of the 114th NY Infantry Regiment, was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Norwich, NY.  He received a mortal wound at the Battle of Port Hudson.]

 

Death Notices

Chenango American, Greene, NY, August 2, 1860

 

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on the 31st ult, Mr. Theodore Miller, aged 65 years.

 

At Van Buren Corners, in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th ult., Mr. Abner Gilbert, 2d, aged 66 years.

 

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th ult. Mr. Clark A. Eaton, aged 24 years.

 

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Mrs. Lucy Whiting, aged 68 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Mary W. [Smith], wife of Pardon Smith, aged 56 years.

 

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult., Arthura Whiting, relict of Dea. Erastus B. Whiting, late of Guilford, aged 58 years.

 

Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 4, 1861

 

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., Mrs. Susannah Robinson, aged 59 years.

 

In New Ohio [Broome Co., NY], on the 31st ult., Mr. Nelson Randall, aged 28 years.

 

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., Mr. Warren Decker, aged 33 years.

 

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Miss Mattie Stanley, aged 16 years.

 

In Batavia, Kane Co., Ill, on the 29th ult., Dr. Thompson Mead, formerly of Norwich, aged about 40 years.

 

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult, Mrs. Hannah Hinman, aged 28 years.

 

At sea, on the 16th ult., Mrs. Nellie M. [Baldwin], wife of Rev. S.L. Baldwin, and daughter of Rev. B.W. Gorham, of Norwich, aged 21 years, 7 months, and 15 days.