Obituaries (November 9)

David W. Pettis

Chenango Union, September 28, 1864

In the U.S. General Hospital, at Annapolis junction, Md., Sept. 13th, David W. Pettis, of Co. E, 114th Regiment, son of Ralph Pettis, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 23  yrs.

 

Chenango American, Greene, NY, December 15, 1864

Soldier's Burial:  The body of David W. Pettis, son of Ralph Pettis, of this village, a soldier in the 114th Reg., who died in hospital some weeks since, was brought to this village for interment on Tuesday last.  His remains were escorted to their last resting place, by Ocean Fire Co., of which he was a member, and a concourse of citizens. A funeral sermon was preached at the Congregational church by Rev. H. Garlick.

De Witt C. Northrup

Chenango American, Greene, NY, December 15, 1864

Death of a Printer:  De Witt C.  Northrup, a printer who served his apprenticeship in this office [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], died in this village, of consumption, on Monday last.  We knew him as a faithful upright and industrious boy, and deeply regret that he has been thus called away in the prime of his youth.  For the past few years he has been employed in responsible positions in a western state and bid fair to attain prominence and usefulness.  He returned with the seeds of disease firmly fixed upon him, to the home of his parents in this village, about four weeks since, where he rapidly declined and died.  He was 24 years of age, and leaves a wife and child to mourn his untimely departure.

Henry Gartsee & Fayette York

Chenango American, Greene, NY, December 15, 1864

News has been received, through Charles Gross, who is a detailed nurse on board the steamer George Leary, that Henry Gartsee of this village, died some months ago in the rebel prison at Andersonville, of dropsy.  He was taken prisoner near Fredericksburg, Va., during the first days of the fighting in the Wilderness, together with a number of others from this place.  He enlisted last winter in the company formed here by Capt. Henry Vaughn for the 22d cavalry.  He was a printer by trade, and had many friends among the young men of the county.  Of a genial, kindly, cheerful disposition, his nature was of the sort to draw about him the pleasant hearted and the gay.  He was one of the "laughing sons of mirth" whom nothing could make sour and gloomy, and we are sure that the untold horrors of a Southern prison and the near approach of death there did not shake the firm faith he cherished that "there is no darker fate before us than that we've left behind."  He will be long remembered and regretted. 

By the same letter we learn that Fayette York, son of C.C. York, who was taken prisoner at the same time with Gartsee, died at about the same time at Andersonville.  Chenango Chronicle

George D. Rockwell

Sidney Record, October 25, 1883

Mr. George D. Rockwell, of whose illness frequent mention has been made through the columns of The Record, died at an early hour on the morning of the 17th inst.  Few men in the Unadilla Valley commanded the universal respect and confidence of this young man, who died in the dawn of life at the age of twenty-six years.  He was born at Rockwell's mills [Chenango Co., NY] and for the last two years he has assumed the management and direction of the woolen mills at that place.

Charles S. Carpenter

Sidney Record, October 25, 1883

The death Charles S. Carpenter, in the village of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], last Thursday noon, causes the loss of a gifted and decidedly able journalist.  Although seriously ill several days previous to his death, that event took even his most intimate friends by surprise. The loss is one greatly to be deplored.

Mr. & Mrs. Clinton

Sidney Record, February 7, 1884

The following horrible accident, related by the Norwich Telegraph, occurred in the town of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY]:

On Thursday morning our citizens were thrown into a state of excitement by the report that there had been a dwelling burned over east, and that two people, a man and his wife, had perished in the flames.  On inquiry it was found that the house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Clinton has been consumed and themselves with it.  The facts as brought out at the inquest are as follows:

Michael Lyons, the neighbor retired at about 10 o'clock on Wednesday evening and had been in bed but a short time when he was awakened by a glaring light shining into his sleeping apartment.  He quickly aroused his wife, thinking his own house on fire, and arising passed into the kitchen but saw that every thing was all right there.  On opening the door he was startled to see the flames bursting from the doors and windows of the Clinton house.  He then aroused his sons and dispatched them for assistance, which quickly arrived, and everything done that could be was done to extinguish the flames, but all efforts proved unavailing, there being no water at hand, snow was used as a substitute, but it did very little toward quelling the flames.  It was known that Mr. and Mrs. Clinton were in the house, as George Lyon and Michael, had spent the evening there, and had left about nine o'clock leaving the old gentleman sitting by the fire, Mrs. Clinton having retired.  It was utterly impossible to do anything toward saving the inmates as the fire was not discovered until it entirely enveloped the building.  The house burned like tinder and in three quarters of an hour from the time of the first discovery the roof fell in and the house was a smoldering mass of ruins.

The neighbors began a search for the bodies, which was continued until about seven o'clock Thursday morning when James McGarrity pulled from the ashes what was once a human form, but now burned and charred beyond all possible recognition.  The body was found to be that of the woman, and by some feathers near, it was concluded that she was in bed at the time the fire broke out.  The body of the man was not found until an hour later and was then taken from the cellar from beside the stove, where George Lyons had left him setting the night before....The remains of the victims were brought to Norwich, Friday, and the funeral held in St. Patrick's Church.  The remains were interred in the Catholic Cemetery at Wood's Corners, Rev. Father Cullon conducting the services.

Death Notices

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 23, 1865

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst., of scarlet fever, Minnie A. [Fowler] daughter of Frederick and Mary E. Fowler, aged 8 years, 1 month, 14 days.

In Fabius, Onondaga county7, on the 8th inst., Dr. Hiram Andrews, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].

In the Hospital, at Salisbury N.C., on the 22d ult., Fernando C. Keyes, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged 20 years.  He belonged to Co. E, 5th Reg., Heavy Artillery.

In Armenia, Bradford Co., Pa., on the 9th inst., Mr. Samuel Walls, formerly of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged 62 years, 6 months and 26 days.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst., Deacon Orris Hamilton, aged 61 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Mary E. Hammond, aged 14 years.

In prison hospital, at Salisbury, N.C., Jan. 3d, James W. Eaton, of the 5th N.Y.H.A., and son of Warren Eaton, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

In rebel prison, Feb. 7th, Henry A. Pierce, of Co. B, 86th N.Y. Vet. Vols., son of Sewall P. Pierce, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].