Obituaries (August 5)

Fannie Alling
1861-1917

Smyrna Press

Mrs. Ivory Alling died suddenly at her home Friday night, aged 56 years.  She had been about her work as usual through the day, and at night was feeling good, until the fatal attack came about 12 o'clock.  Mr. and Mrs. Alling moved here about a year ago and lived with his brother. The first of last month they moved into the tenement house of Maurice Spooner, where he was to work this summer. Beside her husband she leaves one son in Earlville, and an aged mother in Syracuse. Though a resident of this town but a short time, she had made many friends.  She was a member of the Methodist church, having joined by letter last fall.  [Sherburne West Hill Cemetery]

Fanny Amelia (Hartwell) Sternberg

Smyrna Press, February 28, 1918

The community was saddened to hear Saturday morning of the death, after not more than a week's illness, of Mrs. Earl W. Sternberg.  She had been taken with the measles in the light form which has been common in the neighborhood.  But she had a chill, then complications set in, the heart was unable to render its service and the end came suddenly about three o'clock in the morning, February 16.  Fanny Amelia Hartwell was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hartwell and was born at the family homestead at the Four Corners May 30, 1870.  She was married to Earl W. Sternberg Oct. 6, 1896.  She leaves five children, Charles Hartwell, Dorothy Hartwell, Herbert Hartwell, Sheldon Brown and Donald Per Lee.  She is survived also by one brother, Walter H. Hartwell, of Sherburne Four Corners, and five sisters, Mrs. Elbert f. Smith, of Greene; Mrs. Walter G. Willcox, Mrs. Edwin S. Billings, Mrs. William W. Lyon and Mrs. Mance L. Messenger, of Smyrna.  She became a member of the Congregational church in Smyrna in her girlhood, uniting together with her husband with the First Congregational church of Sherburne in 1897.  She was also a member of the Captain John Harris Chapter of the D.A.R. of Norwich. She was active in Red Cross and Grange and also in church work.  She possessed considerable artistic and musical ability. She was a devoted wife, mother, sister and friend.  She was always cheerful, helpful and hospitable.  Although her family duties kept her much at home she had a wide circle of friends who share with her immediate family a deep sense of sorrow and loss.  The funeral was held from her late home on Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. W.A. Trow, pastor of the Congregational church, of which she was a member, officiating, and her body laid at rest in the family in West Hill cemetery [Sherburne, Chenango Co., NY].  The great profusion of flowers expressed the sympathy of many friends for the bereaved family.

"Why will ye call it 'Death's dark night?'

Death is the entrance into light,

Behind its cloudy purple gates

The everlasting morning waits.

Thus fear not death, its pains, its strife,

its weakness--these belong to life!

Death is the moment when they cease,

When Christ says, 'Come" and all is peace."

Eunice Blair (Chapman) Atkins

Norwich Sun, December 31, 1923

Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY]:  Once again the hand of death has visited this community, this time removing its oldest, best known and best loved member, Mrs. Eunice Atkins, who passed away suddenly at her home in the F.A. Sweet house at an early hour Saturday morning, December 29, 1923.  Mrs. Atkins had been in her usual good health up to the time of her passing and had been able to attend to her household duties unassisted with the exception of the attention of relatives and friends who visited her from time to time and performed little tasks as they saw need of or as she directed. She had been visited for nearly a week by her sister, Mrs. Esther Comstock of Binghamton, who had left her for her home the afternoon previous to her passing.  Floyd Vermilyea, little son of Mr. and Mrs. William Vermilyea visited her rooms on Saturday morning, as he was wont to do to ascertain if she needed any assistance and found her dead across an arm chair where she had evidently fallen a short time previous as she was dressed and had started her fire, preparatory to getting breakfast.  Coroner A.K. Benedict of Sherburne was notified at once, who decided that an inquest was unnecessary, giving as his opinion, that she had either suffered a stroke or experienced a fainting spell and fallen across the chair from which she was unable to arise. Eunice Blair Chapman Atkins was born January 15, 1832, on the William Warner farm in the town of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], just over the Smyrna line, but with the exception of a few years had always been a resident of this town. She was the oldest of nine children born to Simon S. and Adeline Chapman and is survived by one sister, Mrs. Esther Comstock of Binghamton, and one brother, James H. Chapman of this palce. Other brothers and sisters who have passed on are Simon Smith Chapman, Stephen Anthony Chapman, Lovina, wife of Charles Wilber, Eliza, wife of Isaac Weaver, and Pardon and Sabra, who died in youth. When about twenty years of age she was united in marriage to Leander Atkins and to them was born one son, Irving D. Atkins of this place, who also survives.  In youth she became a member of the Methodist church of this place, retaining her membership at the time of her death and was always vitally interested in the affairs of the church, always being found on the side of right, ready and able to give valuable advice for the best interests of the church, collectively and individually.  Such characters as she, standing for the highest standard of Christian principles, are the ones to whom the vicinity owes much, for it was they, who by prayer, labor and righteous living made possible the Christian church of today. Being of Study New England stock, she retained her faculties to a remarkable degree and her passing takes one of the few living today who can relate from memory incidents of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" of the flourishing and active Quaker churches of this community, of the tolling of the church bell for the death of William Henry Harrison, president of a month, and of the many other interesting incidents in the early history of the country and community which we are all so much interested in hearing by word of mouth.  Besides the above mentioned relatives she is survived by several nephews and nieces and by a host of friends, both old and young, in whose hearts there will be sincere sorrow at the passing of "Aunt Eunice," as she was lovingly known to all.  The funeral services were held from the Methodist church on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock and the remains placed in the vault on Sherburne Hill, pending burial in the spring.

Death Notices

Chenango Union, October 11, 1894

SMITH:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 5, 1894, Mr. Joseph W. Smith, age 75 years.

MARR:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 7, 1894, Mr. George W. Marr, aged 78 years.

GOLDEN:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 7, 1894, James E. [Golden] son of Michael and Margaret Golden, age 1 year 8 months.

LETSON:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 7, 1894, Mr. John Letson, age 42 years.

BROWN:  At Plasterville [Chenango Co., NY] Oct. 3, 1894, infant daughter of Mr. & Mrs. N.H. Brown, aged 17 days.

BUSH:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Oct 2, 1894, James A. [Bush] son of Judson and Betsey Bush, age 7 months.