Obituaries (June 9)

Robert G. Foreman

Sidney Enterprise, April 13, 1944

Robert G. Foreman, 74, retired farmer, died at his residence in Walton [Delaware Co., NY] Monday following an illness of about three years.  Services were conducted this Thursday at 2 p.m., at Walton United Presbyterian church of which he was an elder.  Burial was in Bovina Center cemetery.  A farmer all his life, Mr. Foreman had been a resident of Walton for about 30 years.  He was born at  Bovina [Delaware Co., NY], Jan. 22, 1859, a son of Archibald and Davina (Laidlaw) Foreman.  He married Miss Dora Boggs of Bovina, who survives.  Also surviving are five sons, Robert, of West Brook farm; Clifford A. Foreman of Walton; Lester B. Foreman, superintendent of schools at Pittsfield; James A. Foreman, assistant cashier of the Walton National Bank & Trust Co., and Lt. E. Thomas Foreman, U.S. Army, now in Italy; one brother, James F. Foreman, for many years county welfare commissioner and Republican chairman; a sister, Mrs. James A. Thomson of Delhi; several grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

Cora L. Yale

Bainbridge News, February 28, 1952

Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. Cora L. Yale, 78, of Guilford, passed away at the Bida Convalescent home in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], early Thursday morning, Feb. 21, 1952. She had only been a patient there for a few hours.  Cora Yale was born in Guilford on Oct. 24, 1874, the daughter of Erviette and Eddy Wade.  She was united in marriage to Frank Yale early in life and Guilford has always been her home.  She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Bernard Windt, of Phoenix, Ore. two sons, Maurice W. Yale, Patterson, Calif., and Francis C. Yale, of Guilford; two sisters, Mrs. Libby Gridley and Mrs. Mary Dexter, both of Guilford, and several grandchildren. The body was removed to the Seymour Funeral Home in Oxford. Services were held Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., with the Rev. C. Duane Butler of the Guilford Methodist church officiating.  Burial will be in River View Cemetery, Oxford, in the spring.

Peter J. Monihan

Bainbridge News, February 28, 1952

Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]:  Peter J. Monihan, age 71, a retired Guilford farmer, passed away early Friday morning, Feb. 22, 1952.  He was born in Newark, N.J., on Sept. 12, 1880, the son of Owen and Bridget Carroll Monihan. The survivors include a brother, Hugh, of Hillside, and a niece, Mrs. Mary Ritenmyer. The body was removed to the Devine Funeral home in Norwich. The Rev. Henry Contols conducted funeral services Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock from St. Paul's Church and the body was placed in the Mt. Hope vault [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] for burial in the spring.

Floyd A. Musson

Bainbridge News, February 4, 1954

Floyd A. Musson, 38, Gilbertsville [Otsego Co., NY] polio victim, died Saturday in the Binghamton City Hospital [Broome Co., NY].  Funeral services were held in the Gilbertsville First Baptist church, Tuesday, Feb. 2.  The family requested that instead of flowers, friends send contributions to the Otsego County March of Dimes to help finance research work on a polio vaccine.  Mr. Musson was the first Otsego County person to die of polio this year. During 1953, there was one polio death in Otsego County.  Mr. Musson was the third member of the Musson family to be felled.  Ramona, nine, and Janice, 17, were stricken previously.  They are both reported recovering.  Mr. Musson's case also was the third reported this year for Otsego County.  His daughter, Janice, was the first, and an 18-month-old Unadilla boy the second. The case of Ramona Musson is listed under Chenango County because she lives in Norwich.  Dr. Flanders pointed out that since Dec. 15, there have been five polio cases reported in Otsego County.  One year ago, only one case was reported for the entire month of January, usually considered a non-critical month for the crippling disease.  Incidentally, Mr. Musson was stricken just one week before his death.  Shortly after returning home from a visit to his daughters in Binghamton City Hospital, he complained of back and head aches and a leg pain.  He was hurried back to the hospital, this time as a patient.  Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Walter A. Miller, pastor of the First Baptist church, of Gilbertsville.  Interment in the Brookside Cemetery.

Obituaries (June 7)

Jennie (Williams) Robertson

Sidney Enterprise, April 13, 1944

Mrs. Jennie Williams Robertson died at her home in Mountain Lake, N.J., Sunday.  She was a former resident of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] where she spent her girlhood days, and graduated from the Sidney High school in the class of '89.  Mrs. Robertson had been with the Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply House in new York city for the past several years.  Her funeral was held at St. Peter's church at mountain Lake Wednesday.  She is survived by nephews and nieces.

Dr. Earl C. Winsor

Sidney Enterprise, April 13, 1944

Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Winsor, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jewell and Miss Bessie Talcott attended the funeral of Dr. Earl C. Winsor, which were held Friday at 2 from the Methodist church at Schenevus.  Rev. D.M. Corkwell, pastor, officiating, assisted by two former pastors of the church, Rev. Charles M. Adams of Otego and Rev. Frederick Connell of Cooperstown.  Dr. Winsor was born Feb. 3, 1891 in Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], the son of Frederick M. and Jennie (Chamberlain) Winsor.  On June 25, 1918, he married Miss Savalia Cornell of Mt. Upton in that village.  After attending public schools, and high school in Mt. Upton, Dr. Winsor graduated from Syracuse Medical College.  He served as a lieutenant in World War I and 25 years ago went to Schenevus where he since had enjoyed a wide practice.  Dr. Winsor had served as master of Schenevus Masonic lodge and district deputy of Otsego-Schoharie Masonic district, was a member of Oneonta American Legion, the Otsego county Medical society, a charter member of Schenevus Rotary club, of the official board of the Schenevus Methodist church, and of the Fox hospital staff. Surviving are his wife, his parents, and one daughter, Mrs. John Lane of State College, Pa.

John Keeler Neff

Sidney Enterprise, April 13, 1944

V.D. Keeler received this week news of the death of his great nephew, Lt. Col. John Keeler Neff of Wichita, Kansas.  The following obituary is reprinted from the Wichita and San Antonio papers:

Lieut. Col. John K. Neff, 31, decorated several months ago by Gen. Douglas MacArthur for outstanding service with amphibious units in the Southwest Pacific, died Thursday at the Brooke General hospital in San Antonio, Texas.  His death was attributed to overseas duty.  Colonel Neff, son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Neff of Wichita, Kansas, had received the Legion of Merit in recognition of his work as commander of a boat battalion with an engineer amphibian regiment and later as commander of the regiment.  He was cited for his maintenance of high morale of his unit and for the high fighting efficiency to which he had trained inexperienced personnel.  He returned to the United States last summer on sick leave, visiting with his parents at that time.  Colonel Neff was graduated from West Point military Academy in 1936 before his appointment to West Point he attended Wichita University for two years.  He served first at Fort Sam Houston and later was at Scofield Barracks in Hawaii, Fort Roberts, Calif., and in Australia, being stationed at the latter place for three months in 1943 before he contracted his illness.  Colonel Neff's father is a former dean of the University of Wichita, now absent on leave as area director of the war manpower commission there.  Other survivors in addition to his parents, include his widow; a daughter, Mary Jane, and two sisters, Mrs. Ann Neff McVery of Chicago, and Miss Mary V. Neff, who is assistant attorney general of Illinois.  Funeral services ere held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Post Chaplain Martin officiating.  Interment was in Fort Sam Houston National cemetery, San Antonio, Texas with military honors.

Walter E. Thomas

Bainbridge News, February 4, 1954

Another name has been removed from the list of soldiers missing in Korea.  Mrs. Ardo S. Thomas, Greenlawn avenue, Bainbridge, received a letter Monday afternoon from the Army stating that her son, Pfc. Walter E. Thomas, 19, was killed while a prisoner of the communists in North Korea.  The letter was the culmination of checking and re-checking by the Army for many months.  It closed the door to hope for the Thomas family that Walter, the youngest member of the family, might somehow turn up safe.

Private Thomas was reported missing on July 20, 1950, in the telegram received Aug. 17, 1950.  Until the letter Monday, no further word had been received by his parents.  In the letter, Major General Walter E. Bergin, adjutant general reported:  "I am writing to you regarding you son, Pfc. Walter E. Thomas, reported missing July 20, 1950.  American POWs released have been interrogated to obtain all possible information concerning other prisoners. A statement has been received from an enlisted man who was a member of your son's organization that your son was killed in action Nov. 4, 1950, in North Korea while in the hands of the opposing forces."  Private Thomas, when captured, was a member of the Heavy Mortar Company 34th Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. The 24th Infantry Division, which has been stationed in Japan, was one of the first organizations to land in Korea at the outbreak of the war.

Private Thomas began his military service by enlisting in the Navy when he was 17.  A few months later he received a medical discharge and enlisted in the Army.  In October, 1949, he went overseas to Japan, and in June, 1950, to Korea.  Private Thomas attended Bainbridge Central School and was employed at the Bowl-O-Drome prior to his enlistment in the Army.  Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Ardo K. Thomas, also of Bainbridge, who served with the infantry in Europe in World War II:  a sister, Mrs. Edward Raymond, of Nineveh; and three nieces and nephews.  

Obituaries (June 6)

Daniel Edgar Brand
Chenango Union, January 7, 1897

It has been said the unexpected always happens, and most surely, no one among numerous friends, or relations, ever dreamed that the New Year of 1896 would dream upon the lamentable death of Daniel Edgar Brand, of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], a young man of most excellent character, unyielding energy, unimpeachable integrity and sterling worth.  He was a self made young man, who by hard study and perseverance was rapidly advancing to the top of the ladder of success.  Always supported by shrewd sound sense, and courteous deportment, he was successful far beyond his years.  He began teaching the district schools in this vicinity at an early age, and at his decease had charge of the village school at Lebanon.  His numerous pupils will be among those to whom his loss will be most keenly felt.  A great favorite in the circle in which he moved, he has been called hence, in early life, in the midst of his usefulness, when it seems he could be least spared.  As a friend we all oved him, as a man we all honored him for his perseverance and uprightness.  Deceased was 22 years of age, the youngest son of the late Daniel Brand.  He was married September 18th, 1895, to Libbie L [Humphrey]. daughter of Solon and Mary Humphrey.  His death came after a short illness of pneumonia, on Wednesday evening, December 30th at 8 o'clock.  The funeral was very largely attended from his late home on Saturday at 11 A.M., Rev. S.S. Mead officiating.  The interment was at Sherburne West Hill Cemetery.  In their sad bereavement the heart felt sympathy of all is extended to the estimable young wife, the fond mother and the kind hearted brother, and they may be assured his memory will be cherished tenderly in the hearts of all, who esteem his many noble qualities and deeply regret his untimely death.

Calphurna (Card) Brand Coy

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 16, 1897

Mrs. George Coy, died at the home of her son, Benjamin Brand, on Saturday, January 9th, of heart failure caused by pneumonia, in the 53d year of her age.  Mrs. Coy had been at her son's taking care of her son, D. Edgar Brand, whose death occurred on January 6th, of whom it was thought she contracted the fatal disease.  Mrs. Coy had spent her life among the people of West Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], having been born and brought up in our midst.  She was the daughter of Benjamin Card, and upon her marriage with Daniel Brand, which occurred in 1870, she moved to his home scarce one-half mile from her childhood home.  Mr. Brand died in 1892.  They were blessed with two children, D. Edgar, whose obituary appeared last week, and Benjamin who alone is left.  Mrs. Brand, four years after the death of Mr. Brand, married Mr. George Coy, who lived but a short distance from her former home.  Her marriage with Mr. Coy which occurred on September 27, 1896, and her entrance into his home, had served to lift the heavy clouds of sorrow which had shrouded her pathway.  Although their union was brief, yet a strong and mutual attachment had sprung up between the members of Mr. Coy's family, which consisted of two sons and one daughter, with their new mother, also Mrs. E. Gardner, an aunt, who lives in Mr. Coy's family.  Mrs. Coy has been a home missionary in every sense of the word.  Her life has been a blessing and help to those about her, and was finally sacrificed in caring for her son.  The poor and suffering always found in her a ready helper and sympathizing friend.  her love and devotion to the cause of Christianity and the church were very ardent.  For sixteen years she had been a member of the Free Baptist church in West Smyrna in which she always filled an important place.  As a teacher of the young men's class, her memory will be cherished in each of their hearts, and also of the juvenile class, which position she held at the time of her decease.  Her place in the choir was seldom vacant.  Her circle of friends and acquaintances was very extended, as the large crowd which turned out to pay their last respect to the deceased at the funeral on Monday attested.  Rev. Mead preached form the text "Carest thee not that we perish."  Interment was made in the Sherburne Hill cemetery.  The blow falls very heavily upon Benjamin Brand, her son, who has so recently been doubly bereaved, and also upon her sister, Mrs. Jerome Brand and family, with whom her life has been very closely connected.  She leaves besides, three brothers who deeply mourn her loss.  Her husband, George Coy, and family wish to extend thanks to the neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted during her illness and -- to be able to pay their debt of gratitude wherever --- requires.

Amelia Talcott Sweet

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 17, 1903

On Monday evening at her late home in Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], occurred the death of Amelia [Sweet], the wife of the late Leroy C. Sweet, at the age of 75 years.  She was well and favorably known throughout all that vicinity.  Her illness lasted for several weeks with but very few hopes of recovery. She was born and married in the house in which her death occurred.  She leaves two sons, Dwight L. and Fred A., of Smyrna, and one daughter, Mary, the wife of Henry Colwell of Auburn. She was also a sister of the wives of the late Benjamin Hartwell and Nathan P. Wheeler of Norwich. The funeral will be held at her late home on Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock.

Ernest R. Miller

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 17, 1903

Died, at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. miller of South Broad Street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Sunday, January 4, 1903, Ernest R. Miller, aged 28 years.  Deceased was a young man of kind heart and bright intellect, but had been an invalid since childhood.  He was born in Rochester, N.Y., and came to Norwich three years ago with his parents.  He is survived by his parents and one brother, Photographer William C. Miller.  Funeral on Wednesday at 2 p.m., Rev. Wilson Treible officiating. Burial in Mt. Hope [Norwich].

Blog Post Listing May 22 - June 4 , 2018.

Listing of blog postings for May 22 to June 4, 2018

Marriages

Posted May 22, 2018

Irving Richer Mitchell - J. Louise Hagstrom (1946)

Marriage notices - 1856

     Albert Wilkins - Mary Burroughs

     James K. Evans - Elizabeth A. Lewis

     Delos Francisco - Esther L. Ireland

     William H. Hickok - Elizabeth Aldrich

     Albert J. Ferris - Mary J. Stebbins

     William Dane - Sarah C. Wood

     Burns Case - Polly Younglove

     Albert Stedman - Corinthia C. Bedell
     Aaron D. Gates - Mary J. Hall
     Orsman Aldrich - Arelia Mundy
     Martin Sher - Nancy M. Eccleston
     William B. Ward - Jemima Moe
     Almon Tompkins - Caroline Skinner
     Mr. S.M. Tinkham - Margaret E. Bright
     Joseph A. Hopkins - Sarah Jane Curtis

Posted May 31, 2018
Maude Lorimer - Robert Bidwell (1934)
Dorothy Parsons - Robert Hyer (1930)
Gertrude Marie Berns - Albert Edward Dodge (1930)
Marriage notices - 1856
     Albert Stedman -Corinthia B. Beedle
     Charles S. Waters - Janette M. Lyons
     Arvin O. Walsworth - Jane R. Kelsey
     Elias R. Fosgate - Mary . Fletcher
     Thomas Hitchcock - Caroline Ferris
     David Thomas - Margaret Ramsey
     Ira Phillips - Octavia Wightman
     Mr. J.H. Goodrich - Hattie S. Norwood
     John Burgess - Abigal Atwater
     Andrew Young - Elizabeth Mo-----
     Live To-- - Ruth Adelia Light
     Mr. ----- Reynolds - Janette Davidson
     Henry M. Swan - Philina Ames

Obituaries

Posted May 22, 2018

Alvira (Perkins) Chandler (West Falls, 1871)

Susan B. Alvord (Woodstock, 1871)

Franklin C. Bartlett (Norwich, 1918)

Mary (Mitchell) Newton (Los Angeles CA, Norwich, 1900)

Eva A. (Babcock) Mitchell (New Berlin, 1936)

Posted May 23, 2018
Sarah Biggerly (Clifton Springs, 1871)
Glenn Arbor Gage (Greene, 1918) WWI soldier
Merton Graves (Norwich Quarter, 1920)
Andrew Hill (South New Berlin, 1934)
Death notices - 1856
     Jedediah Randall (Syracuse, 25y)
     Mary E. Babcock (Norwich, 86y)
     Isaac Boyer (Guilford, 87y)
     William T. Brown (New Berlin, 45y)
     Andrew Breed (Lincklaen, 66y)

Posted May 24, 2018
Elizabeth Hall (Chemung, 1871)
Alice Medbury (New Berlin, 1934
Leonard Horton (Coventryville, 1888)
Death notices - 1856
     Rebecca Decker (Greene, 89y)
     Sarah Wentworth (Norwich, 83y)
     Charles H. Randall (NYC, 21y)
     Elizabeth Parker (Coventry, 17y)
     Sanford Greene (New Berlin, 55y)
     Amy D. Shaw (Sherburne, 36y)
     Martha Beebe (Dayton IL)
     Mary Reynolds (Smyrna, 68y)

Posted May 27, 2018
Richard Lancaster (Sterling, 1871)
Orrin E. Wood (Norwich, 1874)
Amanda A. (Hopkins) Lathrop (Clinton, 1874)
Clark E. Phetteplace (Norwich, 1934)

Posted May 29, 2018
Mary King (Bangor, 1871)
Rev. Dr. John A. Davis (Johnson, City, Afton, 1934)
Death Notices - 1894
     Harriet Robinson (Oxford, 45y)
     Mrs. James Lee (West Smyrna)
     Diana king (Preston, 71y)
     Clifford White (Plymouth, 10m)
     Olive Fisher (Afton, 59y)
     Julia Robinson (Binghamton, Greene, 65y)
     Freelove Mathewson (Steamboat Rock IA, New Berlin, 88y)
     Mrs. William H. Caulkins (South Edmeston, 50y)

Posted May 30, 2018
Marvin J. Crosby (Cowles NB, Harpursville, 1890)
Harris Briggs (Afton, 1890)
Albert Stone (Sanford, 1890)
Nora Lewis (New Berlin, Elkhart IN, 1891)
Willie McMahon (Binghamton, 1891)
Russel  M. Smith (Coventry, 1891)

Posted June 4, 2018
Clarissa Brown (Pharsalia, 1884)
Dewitt C. Bissell (Norwich, 1894)
Sarah Warner Burlingame (Norwich, 1897)
Mary Hynes Lally (Oxford, 1903)

Miscellaneous

Posted May 24, 2018

Famous People Chenango Co. Has Given to the World, Mrs. Archie D. Gibbs (1921)

Part 1 - Gail Borden 1801-1874

Posted May 27, 2018
Famous People Chenango Co. Has Given to the World, Mrs. Archie D. Gibbs (1921)
Part 2 - Anson Burlingame, 1822-1870

Posted May 29, 2018
Famous People Chenango Co. Has Given to the World, Mrs. Archie D. Gibbs (1921)
Part 3 - David Maydole, 1807-1882

Posted June 3, 2018
The Stage Driver's Story [advertisement for Warner's Safe Cure], 1884

Obituaries (June 4)

Clarissa Brown

Chenango Union, June 19, 1884

In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], April 16th, 1884, of pneumonia and heart disease, Mrs. Clarissa Brown, wife of Luther Brown, left her mortal body, at the age of sixty-three years.  Something more than a passing notice is due to one whose life-long history as daughter, sister, wife, mother and friend, were so full of excellence that any poor words of praise that I may offer will seem cheap to those whose privilege it was to know her intimately as I did, for a period of over forty years.  It is seldom we find in human character the opposite qualities of firmness and ambition, united with amiability and unselfishness, yet these traits were beautifully combined in her nature, making her one of the best of women. She was loved by all for her uniform kindness of disposition and her unfailing devotion to every duty.  Over twenty years ago, when diphtheria was making it s first dreadful ravages in the neighborhood, she was one of the bravest to stand by the bedside of the sick and dying, until her own precious child caught the contagion, and lived but a few days.  No mother ever loved their children better than she, yet her fortitude and unselfishness were exhibited in this, her hour of trial; she laid her treasure in the dust, and resumed without a murmur her daily duties, moving on cheerfully to the end.  She never made any profession of religion or goodness, yet in all her relations to the world she exhibited continually and at all times the noblest attributes that are usually ascribed to the best Christian character.  

Clara, as she was familiarly called, had the rare domestic qualities for making home attractive.  No hired man or woman ever felt themselves a menial in her house. They were ever treated with consideration and kindness, which fact made it easy for Mr. brown to always have the best help about his farming affairs; and it is but just to say that Mr. Brown's success as a farmer is largely due to the patience, kindness, industry and economy of his wife, and whose devotion as a wife was rarely equaled.  Mrs. Brown was the mother of four children.  One died in infancy, a second at the age of eleven years;  two daughters and one granddaughter are still living, Mrs. Elizabeth Eldridge, of Pitcher, being the eldest child, and Mrs. Antoinette Warner, of Cincinnatus, the youngest.  It was the sweet privilege of these daughters, as well as the kind husband and grandchild, to minister to the wants of one of the dearest of wives and mothers during her last and almost only illness.  These four, together with an aged sister, who was a member of Mr. B's family at home, are left to mourn the loss of one for whom they can never find a substitute.   M.P.

Dewitt C. Bissell

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, May 23, 1894

Dewitt C. Bissell died at the home of his mother, Mrs. Fitch Bissell, in Woods Corners [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Saturday evening.  He was forty-seven years of age.  Mr. Bissell had been a sufferer from heart trouble for a number of years.  A short time since he experienced a shock which resulted in his death.  He leaves, besides his mother, a wife and three children, Mrs. Charles E. Porter and Misses May and Theresa Bissell.  He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Jackson Bissell, of North Norwich and Mrs. Charles H. Brooks, of Norwich. The funeral was held Tuesday, from his late home and the body taken to the cemetery at North Norwich, for burial.

Sarah Warner Burlingame

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 16, 1897

After four score and one years, the golden bowl of a beautiful life of self sacrifice is broken and the gentle heart of mother, grandmother and sister is at rest.  After an illness of six days, at her home in Springvale, Jan. 4th, 1897, she, subject of this notice, yielded to the Supreme Conqueror and peacefully passed away.  Mrs. Burlingame was born in Cambridge, Washington county, N.Y., Nov. 26, 1815.  She was the eldest daughter of the late Philip and Lovina Warner. She came with her parents to this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] in 1825.  Her parents located about three miles east of this village on the quarter rod.  With the exception of the five years she lived in South New Berlin, she has always resided in the neighborhood where she died.  In 1831 she was married to the late Reuben Burlingame, who died 15 years ago.  Their union was blessed with nine children, eight of whom, two sons and six daughters, survive her, who were all with her to minister unto her during her last sickness.  At the age of fourteen, she gave her heart to Christ and united with a Methodist class, which was organized in that place, and was baptized in the brook a short distance from her late home.  Her distance from church and with a family of children to care for, made it impossible for her to attend the village church as often as she desired.  She loved the prayer meeting, and although of modest and retiring nature, her voice was always heard in testimony in cottage prayer meeting, and for nearly seventy years she was a gentle, earnest, consistent Christian.  Fourteen years ago she met with an accident which crippled her and deprived her of the full use of her limbs, since that time she has suffered from the injury almost constantly, yet she was always cheerful and happy and no one ever heard a murmur from her lips.  As the years went by she became more gentle, pure and sweet, and those that knew and loved her best felt that she was ripening for Heaven.  Of her it could truly be said, none knew her, but to love, none named her but to praise.  Her last birthday was celebrated Nov. 26, 1896, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Lewis of this village. She was the queen of the occasion, and the center of attraction, and all who looked on that calm, happy (and we thought it almost angelic) face can never forget it.  She was wonderfully preserved and her fingers were always busy with any kind of needle work, and at the time of her death, she had just completed some pieces of fancy work that would have done credit to one of much younger years.  Her mind was active and clear to the last, and she talked of things she desired to have done after she was gone. some of her last were "It will be a glorious meeting over there.  I am safe in the arms of Jesus.  I am not afraid, O, how good the Lord is."  But mother is gone, and now that she has passed away, she leaves a memory fragrant with good offices, loved, honored and respected by all, a priceless legacy to her children and to her children's children.

Mary Hynes Lally

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 7, 1903

The following obituary on the death of Mrs. Mary Hynes Lally of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], mother of ex-Sheriff E.A. Lally and Mrs. W.F. Lennon of this village, who died on Monday of last week, is taken from the Oxford Press of Tuesday. 

Mrs. Lally was born in Talbert, County Roscommon, Ireland, December 25, 1833, and having obtained an exceptionally good education in the parish schools of her native township, came to this country and was married to William Lally in 1854.   Mr. Lally died November 7, 1878, aged forty-eight.  He was a farmer and resided in this town near Guilford.  They were the first couple married in St. Joseph's church, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Father Callahan, who then resided in Oxford, in the house, now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. B.S. Callahan on Greene street.  They had eight children, two boys and six girls, two of whom are dead.  Mrs. Agnes Smith and Mrs. Anna Jones.  She is survived by ex-Sheriff E.A. Lally and Mrs. W.T. Lennon, Norwich, Mrs. Charles Byron Grant and Mrs. Joseph E. Albert, Guilford, Mrs. J.W. Martin, Parksville, N.Y. and William H. Lally of Oxford.  Mrs. Lally is also survived by her sister, Delia, wife of the late Professor DeLima, Brooklyn.  Mrs. Lally was a devout member of St. Joseph's church and always took a deep interest in its spiritual and temporal welfare.  Only serious indisposition kept her form mass on Sunday or Holy day, because she always strove by her good example to lead others to God.  Her faith and piety were known to all and the esteem to which she was held was shown by her large funeral and the number of friends who followed her to her last resting place in St. Joseph's cemetery, where she lies beside the remains of her husband, children and mother.  the funeral services were simple but impressive, and were conducted by Rev. Father Mahon, who spoke of the great influence of a mother's love and devotion to her children.  He also gave a brief history of Catholicity in Oxford fifty years ago. The singing of Miss May Cox of Norwich was very impressive and her rendition of "Heaven is My Home" was most solemn and pathetic.

The Stage Driver's Story

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The Stage Driver's Story

Chenango Union, June 19, 1884

The traveler of the present day [1884], as he is hurried along by the lightning express, in its buffet cars and palace sleepers, seldom reverts in thought to the time when the stage coach and packet were the only means of communication between distant points.  It is rare that one of the real old time stage drivers is met with now a-days and when the writer recently ran across Fayette Haskell, of Lockport, N.Y., he felt like a bibliographer over the discovery of some rare volume of "Forgotten lore."  Mr. Haskell, although one of the pioneers in the stage driving (he formerly ran from Lewiston to Niagara Falls and Buffalo) is hale and hearty and bids fair to live for many years.  The strange stores of his early adventures would fill a volume. At one time when going down a mountain near Lewiston with no less a personage than General Scott as a passenger, the brakes gave way and the coach came on the heels of the wheel horses. The only remedy was to whip the leaders to a gallop.  Gaining additional momentum with each revolution of the wheels the coach swayed and pitched down the mountain side and into the streets of Lewiston. Straight ahead at the foot of a steep hill flowed the Niagara river, towards which the four horses dashed, apparently to certain death.  Yet the firm hand never relaxed its hold nor the clear brain its conception of what must be done in the emergency.  On dashed the horses until the narrow dock was reached on the river bank, when by masterly exhibition of nerve and daring, the coach was turned in scarce its own length and the horses brought to a stand still before the pale lookers-on could realize what had occurred. A purse was raised by General Scott and presented to Mr. Haskell with high compliments for his skill and bravery.

Notwithstanding all of his strength and his robust constitution, the strain of continuous work and exposure proved too much for Mr. Haskell's constitution. The constant jolting of the coach and the necessarily cramped position in which he was obliged to sit, contributed to this end, and at times he was obliged to abandon driving altogether.

Speaking of this period he said:

   "I found it almost impossible to sleep at night; my appetite left me entirely and I had a tired feeling which I never knew before and could not account for."

   "Did you give up driving entirely?"

   "No.  I tried to keep up but it was only with the greatest effort.  This state of things continued for nearly twenty years until last October when I went all to pieces."

    "In what way?"

    "Oh, I doubled all up; could not walk without a cane and was incapable of any effort or exertion.  I had a constant desire to urinate both day and night and although I felt like passing a gallon every ten minutes, only a few drops could escape and they thick with sediment.  Finally it ceased to flow entirely and I thought death was very near."

   "What did you do then?"

   "What I should have done long before; listen to my wife.  Under her advice I began a new treatment."

   "And with what result?"

   "Wonderful.  It unstopped the closed passages and what was still more wonderful regulated the flow. The sediment vanished; my appetite returned and I am well and good for twenty more years wholly through the aid of Warner's Safe Cure that has done wonders for me as well as for so many others."

Mr. Haskell's experience is repeated every day in the lives of thousands of American men and women.  An unknown evil is undermining the existence of innumerable numbers who do not realize the danger they are in until health has entirely departed and death perhaps stares them in the face.  To neglect such important matters is like drifting in the current of Niagara above the Falls.

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Niagara Falls Gazette, February 19, 1964

Fayette Haskell came to Lockport soon after the Niagara Falls and Lake Ontario Railroad was completed to Lewiston in 1853.  The stagecoach business being no longer profitable, he opened a livery stable.  Of the many in Lockport, Mr. Haskell's was one of the most popular. We have a number of his advertisements and note this one in the Lockport Daily Journal of 1863:  "Mr Fayette Haskell has a new carriage, one of the finest in the city."  Another reads--"Fayette Haskell and William Bromley, proprietors of Hacks and Omnibuses running to and from the cars in this village are compelled by the high rate of taxation and the daily increase of other expenses to advance their fares of 25 cents for carrying passengers to and from the depot and inside the village corporation."

One more advertisement will complete the picture of public transportation of those days:  "Fay Haskell the hack liveryman is having a light omnibus built at Gaudy and Traubs Shops on Elm Street to use to run to the depot when all his hacks are attending funerals, weddings and other events.  The vehicle will contain room for 10 passengers," Lockport journal, 1889.

Most Lockportians of any generation will remember Fayette Haskell's Livery Stable at 47 Caldonia St.

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Fayette Haskell died 5 November 1898 and was buried in Cold Springs Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara Co., NY