Obituaries (August 23)

Nora Ryan
Norwich Sun, February 4, 1907

Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]:  The many friends of Miss Nora Ryan of this village will learn with regret of her death which took place Saturday, Feb. 2, after an illness from pleurisy.  She was [20] years of age.  Miss Ryan was born in Oxford and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Ryan. Besides her parents she is survived by several brothers and sisters, Merritt, Hubert, Ardell, Thomas and George Ryan and Mrs. Frank Hogan.

Norwich Sun, February 5, 1907

After a long illness and of great distress Miss Nora L. Ryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Ryan was released from suffering Saturday evening. Everything had been done including several operations by Dr. Glass of Utica to bring help and relief, but without avail.  She was in her twenty-first year and will be greatly missed in the home circle. The funeral was attended form her late home today at 1 pm.

Eugene B. Ryan

April 21, 1852 - September 1, 1907

Eugene B. Ryan died at his home on the East hill at one o'clock Monday morning.  Death was due to an injury to his head received in an accident in his hay barn five weeks ago Saturday by the breaking of an iron pulley.  His skull was fractured, and although two operations were performed, in one of which eleven splinters of bone were removed, and the best of medical attendance provided, he never clearly rallied from the blow.  His life had been despaired of for the past week, and the chances were not in his favor from the start as the wound was a deep one.  Mr. Ryan was born in the town of Solon in Cortland county, April 21, 1852, and was the son of John and Mary Ryan.  He came to Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] when sixteen years of age, and since that time has been a resident, covering a period of thirty-nine years.  In 1874 he married Ellen [Root], daughter of John B. Root, and had since resided on the Root homestead near the Guilford line.  My Ryan aside from farming was engaged in buying horses and cattle at various times.  In politics he was a Democrat, and had served well the town as highway commissioner several terms.  He was a member of Oxford Lodge, No. 175, F.&A,M. Oxford Chapter, No. 254, and Norwich Comandery, no. 46, K.T.  Mr. Ryan was possessed of a fine genial nature, was always kind and cheerful, and the life of every public and social gathering.  He will not only be greatly missed in the home circle but by his fellow townsmen generally.  Besides the widow, deceased is survived by five sons, Merrit, of Mt. Upton, Hubert, Rod, George and Thomas, who reside at home, and a daughter, Mrs. Frank Hogan, of this village.  Nora, a beloved daughter, died last February, just seven months to a day before her father.  He is also survived by his mother, who resides at Rochester, Minn., four sisters Mrs. Mate Malone, Mrs. Wm. Daily, of Rochester, Mrs. Thos. Lynch of Elmira, N.Y. and Mrs. Wm. Sheehan of Minneapolis, and four brothers, Richard, Michael, and William of Rochester, Minn., and John of Minneapolis.  Funeral services will be held at the house this afternoon at one o'clock.  Interment in Riverview  [Oxford, NY]. Services at the grave by the Masonic fraternity.

Ellen (Root) Ryan

Norwich Sun, February 8, 1933

Mrs. Ellen Ryan, widow of the late Eugene Ryan, died at the home of her son, George Ryan, on Thursday evening, Feb. 2, 1933, after a short illness from pneumonia.  Prior to that she had enjoyed a remarkable degree of good health.  She was the only daughter of John B. and Martha Shapley Root and was born Dec. 5, 1856, on the farm on East Hill where she always resided. She was married on Nov. 17, 1874 to Eugene B. Ryan, whose death occurred on Sept. 2, 1907.  Of a quiet disposition, she was most devoted to her home and family and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew her.  Surviving is one daughter, Mrs. Frank Hogan, and five sons, Merritt, Hubert, Rod, George and Thomas Ryan, all of Oxford.  The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Rev. R.A. Gates officiating.  Burial was made in Riverview cemetery [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], her grandsons acting as pall bearers.

Adelaide (Stratton) Bronson

ca 1836 - December 2, 1907

Mrs. Adelaide Stratton wife of Edward D. Bronson, died in Mexico City, Mexico, December 2, aged 71 years.  Mrs. Bronson was the daughter of Albert G. Stratton, and was born in the town of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].  She lived in this village up to the time of her marriage with Isaac L. Bronson of Amsterdam, October 31st, 1855, where she lived many years.  Mr. Bronson died Sept. 27, 1864, and she was again united in marriage with his brother, Edward D. Bronson. They resided in Philadelphia for a time and later went to Mexico. She is survived by her husband and three sons; two sisters, Mrs. Henry M. Juliand of Greene and Mrs. Rector W. Willoughby of Howard, Col.; one brother, Melville B. Stratton of this town.

A Strange Occurrence

October 1907

The death of James Barton recently occurred at Chenango Bridge [Broome Co., NY].  Mrs. Barton, at the time, was visiting a daughter in Pennsylvania and her son Edward sent her a dispatch regarding the father's death.  The same day he received a telegram from his sister informing him that "Mother's body will arrive on Erie No. 2 Saturday."  He was horrified at the news and never for an instant doubted that he had lost both parents, until Saturday, when he was at the depot with an undertaker ready to receive the remains of his mother, when to his astonishment he saw her getting off the train in the best of health.  An error in transmitting the telegram was responsible for the strange coincidence.