Obituaries (May 24)

Elizabeth Hall

Northern Christian Advocate, June 22, 1871

Elizabeth [Hall], wife of Rev. U.S. Hall, of East Genesee Conference, departed this life in Chemung, N.Y. [Chemung Co.], May 26th, 1871, aged 36 years.  Sister Hall gave her heart to the Savior in youth, and although her religious life was marked from the first by both ardor and constancy, for the last year of her life we are informed she seemed to experience a more rapid growth in grace, through which, no doubt, she was maturing for the heavenly garner.  For fifteen years she had shared with her now bereaved husband, in the trials and triumphs particular to the itinerant ministry.  Her last illness was brief, but very severe until within a short time of her decease, when she seemed to be graciously relieved from suffering, and sweetly fell "asleep in Jesus."  Her remains were brought to the village of Painted Post, where the funeral services were held, after which they were interred in the cemetery in this place, by the side of her deceased father, and of her we may safely say in the language of the Shunammite woman, "It is well."  J. Joralemon, Painted Post, June 5, 1871

Alice (Babcock) Medbury

South New Berlin Bee, March 23, 1934

Alice Medbury, 84, died at the home of her nephew, Charles Medbury, near New Berlin village [Chenango Co., NY], Saturday.  She was born August 8, 1850, the daughter of Lyman and Octavia Speere Babcock in Columbus [Chenango Co., NY].  Her early life was spent and she received her education near New Berlin.  About 1873 she was married to William B. Medbury who died in 1924.  She leaves several nieces and nephews. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at the Lincoln funeral home.

Leonard Horton

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, June 30, 1888

In the death of Leonard Horton, which occurred at his late residence at Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY], June 19th, another link was broken which binds the past to the present.  Leonard Horton was born at Naugatuck, Conn., Nov. 15th, 1807, being the third son of a family of eleven children. When Leonard was 9 years old his father removed his family "Out West" to the town of Columbus, Chenango County, N.Y., where he settled on a large farm, he had there purchased while still in his teens.  Leonard was apprenticed for three years to a mechanic in the village of New Berlin to learn the wagon makers trade.  This branch of mechanism he mastered very thoroughly, which subsequently did him excellent service in doing business for himself.  In March, 1829, he was united in marriage to Jemima Conover, of Oxford, and soon afterwards set up in business as a wagon maker at Robinson's mills in Oxford. A few years after this he removed with his business to the western part of the town of Coventry, where he labored successfully for seven years, when he again removed four miles east to the site of the present Horton homestead near Coventryville where he lived until his death, a period of over fifty years.  He outlived his wife 11 years.  He was the father of four children who are all living, viz. Comm. M.N. Horton now of Bainbridge; Mrs. W. Streeter, of Coventryville; Mrs. S.D. Silliman, of Salisbury, N.Y., and C.L. Horton, of Coventryville.  The funeral was attended at the house at 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 21st, Rev. D. Reese officiating. The remains were interred in the family plot in the Coventry cemetery.

Death Notices

Chenango American, March 27, 1856

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th inst., Mrs. Rebecca Decker, aged 80 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th[?] inst., Sarah [Wentworth], wife of Gideon Wentworth, aged 83 years.

In New York city, on the 11th[?] inst., Charles H. [Randall] eldest son of S.S. Randall, Esq., formerly fo Norwich, aged 21 years and 6 months.

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th[?] inst., Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Joel Parker, Esq., aged 17 years.

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., Sanford Greene, aged 55 years.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Amy D. [Shaw], wife of Daniel Shaw, aged 36 years.

In Dayton, Illinois, on the 3d ult, Martha [Beebe], wife of J.A. Beebe, Esq.

In Smyrna on the 4th inst., of consumption, Mary [Reynolds], wife of Timothy Reynolds, aged 68 years.