Saturday, August 18, 2018

Obituaries (August 18)

Elijah Chamberlain
Chenango Telegraph, May 16, 1838
In Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY] on the 25th ult. Mr. Elijah Chamberlain.  He left a wife and an infant child, and aged parents, who depended on him for support, to lament his loss.  The circumstances attending his death are as follows:  on the afternoon of the 22d, he went to chop a few scattering trees in his follow.  In one or two hours he returned to the house and said he was very sick.  Medical aid was immediately called, and on a close examination it was concluded that he had received a blow on the head.  The ground being examined, it appeared that in felling one tree, it had brushed against another, and threw back a limb, which weighed upwards of twenty pounds.  On a post mortem examination it was found that his scull was fractured which occasioned his death.

Emily E. (Parker) Davis
Morning Sun, Norwich, NY, March 9, 1898
Mrs. E.E. Davis who is to be buried here today was the wife of Paris O. Davis, a well known farmer on the East Hill some thirty years ago. She was a Parker and her ancestry were early settlers of Chenango and are prominently linked with the history of the county.  An active member of the Baptist church, she and her husband as well as their daughter, were quite prominent in the social events until Miss Emma Davis became the wife of Professor James H. Worman and removed to New York  Mr. Davis died here in 1876 and after that Mrs. Davis spent much of her time away from Norwich.  Her only grandchild, Ben J. Worman, was at school here as a youth and many of the young men of today remember him well as a ballplayer and athlete.  His serious illness while a student at Harvard and his subsequent impaired physical condition were a subject of much grief to his sainted mother and finally cost her life.  After she had been laid to rest here, a little more than two years ago, Mrs. Davis took up her residence in New York with Dr. J.H. Worman, her son-in-law, and her grandson, Ben. They came here yesterday accompanied by Ben's wife, William H. Bishop, and a friend of the Wormans, and an attache The Outing office.  Both father and son edit The Outing and have large publishing interests in New York. Ben Worman is presumably the only heir of the Davis estate and its landed and personal property will no doubt pass into his hands unbroken.  Dr. J.H. Worman has acquired a considerable estate on Lake Champlain, where he has just completed his summer home in anticipation of having Mrs. Davis spend much of her time with him, and he feels her sudden end keenly.  He also owns some property in Norwich and has always been interested in the improvements of this town.  Mrs. Davis had been sick less than a week, although her health has not been good for a number of years. She died of heart failure, in her sleep. She was 78 years of age on the eighth of February last. The funeral services will be held this morning at 11 o 'clock from the home of A. Dwight McNitt, No. 1 Hale street, the Rev. R.N. Martin officiating.  Burial in Mt. Hope cemetery [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].

Emma P. (Davis) Worman
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 25, 1896
Mrs. Emma P. Worman, wife of Dr. James H. Worman and treasurer of the Outing company (limited) which publishes the Outing magazine, was found dead yesterday, shot through the breast, in apartments which adjoin and connect with the offices of Outing at 239 Fifth avenue.  It is believed that she killed herself because of worry over a surgical operation which was soon to be performed upon her son, Ben J. Worman.  Only the three members of the family were in the flat.  Ben, the son, is 22 years old.  About three or four years ago he shot himself through one of his lungs in the apartment of a friend of his.  He was fooling with an old blunderbuss pistol which his friend had hanging on his wall and the piece was discharged accidentally.  Since that shooting young Worman has been almost continuously an invalid, and has gone on crutches when he was able to go about at all.  He has submitted to two surgical operations in hopes of relief, and each of these was very long and painful and was followed by protracted periods of painful confinement and treatment.  It has recently been decided that her son must undergo a third operation and this was a source of great anxiety to his mother.  She had been  resting at their country place on Lake Champlain since the holidays, and had come from there only three days ago to make arrangements on her son's account for his ordeal.  It had been decided that he should go to Florida for a time to gain strength and then returna and submit to the knife.

Nine years ago when the Worman family bought Outing, they went to live in apartments adjoining the offices.  In recent years they have lived at the Hotel  Majestic, but have retained a small suite of living rooms on the third floor at the office. The living rooms were used by Mrs. Worman when she wished to rest of a afternoon and were occupied frequently by the crippled son, because the office of Dr. Reginald Sayre, at 285 Fifth avenue is near by.  Mr. Worman had lunch with her husband and son at the Hotel Majestic yesterday, and was much cast down about the impending operation. She seems to have gone directly from the hotel to the apartment where she was found dead. The key to this apartment was kept in the business office of the magazine. The young girl who had charge of it thinks it was about 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon when Mrs. Worman came in and got the key and went up stairs.  Mr. Charles Turner, the editor of Outing was in his office and indistinctly remembers hearing her pass, but did not see her or speak to her.  No one heard the sound of the pistol shot or shots.  About 3:30 o'clock one of the girls employed in the office below went to the door of the apartments and rapped for admission, but got no answer.  Mr. Turner said he thought Mrs. Worman must be asleep.  About 4:30 o'clock Dr. Worman arrived at the office and became engaged at once with some men who were waiting for him.  At 4:45 the son arrived "Your mother is upstairs" they told him in the office, and he went up to see her.  He found her lying on the bed there dead.  Hobbling out to Mr. Turner, he said "I have awful news to tell you.  Mother has shot herself."  Mr. Turner sent messengers for physicians at once, although Mrs. Worman's body was already cold.  Until the doctors came and declared that there was no hope the news of his wife's death was kept from Dr. Worman. The pistol with which she shot herself was one that belonged to her son, and it was kept in a drawer in the room where she died. She had partly undressed and had fired, it is said, two shots into her left breast. the pistol was in her stiffened hand and two chambers had empty shells in them.

Mrs. Worman was about 50 years old.  She was a Miss Davis and was born in Norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co.].  She was a graduate of Vassar college and was married shortly after she left college.  Her mother is still living and is now on a visit to Oakland Cal.  This sad and startling story will be received with sadness by the many friends and acquaintances of Mrs. Worman who knew her as Emma P. Davis, when a girl in Norwich. She was the only daughter of Paris O. Davis, who resided east of this village. At an early age she showed great aptitude as a scholar and was given by her parents every educational advantage.  For a number of years she attended Norwich Academy studying not only the branches usually prosecuted by girls, but other branches such as Greek and the higher mathematics. After graduation from our Academy, she entered Vassar college where she further prosecuted her studies. About a year after leaving Vassar she was married to Prof. James H. Worman, than a professor in Drew Theological Seminary, at Madison, New Jersey.

About 1873, Prof. Worman purchased an interest in the Telegraph and removed his family here. His connection with this paper did not last for a long time, he selling out to devote his entire attention to work on McClintock's and Strong's encyclopedia, which he was editing for the Harpers, and which caused his removal to New York.  Since that time, Mr. and Mrs. Worman have visited Norwich nearly every summer, Mrs. Worman spending several weeks here last summer. Mrs. Worman was a highly accomplished woman. The accidental shooting of her son, Ben J. Worman which left him permanently crippled, cast a shadow over her life, which was very perceptible in her diminished cheerfulness when she visited our village the last time, but no one dreamed of the terrible sequel, which the deed of yesterday has told.  Her remains, undoubtedly, will be brought here [Norwich, NY] for burial.

Stephen H. Redfield
Norwich Sun, September 16, 1927
Stephen H. Redfield died at the home of Harry Jones on Grant street [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] on Wednesday, Sept. 14, following an illness of about ten days from heart trouble.  Mr. Redfield who was 79 years of age was born at Franklin, N.Y. [Delaware Co] and was first taken ill two weeks ago Friday.  He was not confined to his bed until last Thursday when he grew rapidly worse and failed to rally. Early in his life he was united in marriage with Mary Louise J. Johnson who died in this village in January 1921.  Mr. Redfield has resided in this place for fourteen years and leaves many friends who regret his death.  Surviving are a daughter Mrs. G.M. Dewey of Cortland, and four grandchildren, Roger, Donald and Valerie Dewey and Hugh A. Wedge of Binghamton.  The funeral was held at the home of Mr. Jones on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. C.A. Winters officiating. Burial was made in Riverview cemetery [Oxford, NY].

Virgil A. Scott
Norwich Sun, February 27, 1934
Virgil A. Scott, for many years engaged in the glove manufacturing business in this city, died at the home of his sisters, 13 Guernsey street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], about 11 o'clock Monday night after a brief illness.  Mr. Scott was born in Preston [Chenango Co., NY] but had been a resident of Norwich for a great many years.  He conducted a glove factory in this city until about 1919, when he sold the business, and since then has been employed as a traveling salesman by the Groff glove concern of Johnstown. For the past 11 years Mr. Scott has lived in Syracuse.  He was taken ill about a week ago while traveling on the road, and was only able to reach Norwich.  Mr. Scott will be remembered by many Norwich residents, and he enjoyed a wide acquaintance elsewhere, for his business took him to many parts of New York state.  He was an attendant of the Methodist church.  There survive, his wife and two sons, Stanley and Donald of Syracuse; a son, Wilbur Scott and daughter, Mrs. G.E. Clayton of this city, and four sisters, Mrs. H. D. Barr and the Misses Rittie and Roxie Scott of 13 Guernsey street, and Mrs. Gertrude Thompson of Cortland. Funeral services will be held from the Breese funeral home Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. J.W. Nicholson officiating.

Death Notice
Chenango Telegraph, May 16, 1838


In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], 8th inst., Joseph [Hart] son of S.P. Hart, aged 10 months and 5 days.

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