Obituaries (January 8, 2019)

Dr. Ezekiel Guy
June 29, 1816 - March 22, 1895

Dr. Ezekiel Guy, who died on Friday morning at Harpursville [Broome Co., NY], had been in feeble health for years.  He was born in Guilford, Chenango county in 1816, and was a graduate from Geneva Medical College.  He was twice married, but is survived only by two sons, Fred E., of New York city, and Dr. A.A. Guy, of Coventry, and one daughter, Mrs. Geraldine Lyon, who has cared for her father in his declining years. [married Mary N. Perry (d. 1871) and Elizabeth Olendorf (d. 1887), buried Riverview Cemetery, Harpursville, NY]

Mrs. Addison Miller

We have the painful intelligence to announce that the wife of Addison Miller, formerly of this town, and now of Ketchum's Corners, Broome County, came to her death by drowning on Tuesday last.  It appears that Mrs. Miller has been for some time afflicted with periodical attacks of severe pains in the head, which have at times rendered her quite frantic.  On the morning of the day of her death, she complained somewhat, but thinking nothing serious, her husband went to Binghamton upon business, leaving his wife at home with a little boy. About 8 o'clock in the evening, she put the child to bed, but after a short time the child arose and not finding his mother in the house, alarmed the neighbors. Search was made, and the body of Mrs. Miller was found quite dead, in a large spring, near the house, into which she had evidently plunged head foremost, while laboring under a temporary aberration of mind indeed by the condition of her health.

Emma Tiffany
died February 11, 1897

After an illness of several months with consumption Miss Emma Tiffany, daughter of Dr. T.J. Tiffany died at her home in this village last Thursday evening, aged 18 years.  the deceased was one of Afton's most highly respected young ladies, and was loved by her many friends. She was a member of the Afton Baptist church and Sunday school, and will be sadly missed by that society.  The stricken parents have the sympathy of the entire community. The funeral was held from her late home Monday afternoon, Rev. B.B. Carruth, officiating.  Burial in Glenwood cemetery [Afton, Chenango Co., NY].

Sarah J. (Barstow) Hoskins

1869 - 1896

Sarah J. Barstow was born in the town of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], May 28, 1869, and entered into her rest Aug. 30, 1896.  She was the daughter of Chauncey Barstow and the adopted daughter of Nathaniel Barstow and wife of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], where nearly all her life was spent.  She was married May 2, 1886 to Royal [Rozelle] Hoskins and one child [Floyd] was born to them.  She will be missed by her aged mother, who depended on her for assistance, and a husband and little child who needed her love and care. The funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the M.E. church at Union Valley and the interment took place at Union Valley. [Buried West Bainbridge Cemetery]

Ella M. Corwin

1870 - 1889

Miss Ella M. Corwin daughter of City Clerk Daniel Corwin, after several months' patient suffering with consumption of the bowels, died yesterday afternoon at the home of her parents on Grove street.  She was in her nineteenth year, having been born on Christmas Day, 1870.  The deceased was taken ill about the middle of December last and it was a month or more before she was confined to her room.  Since that time, for eight long months, she has been most of the time unable to leave her bed without aid.  Her sickness was borne without a murmur.  For the past few days her death was hourly expected by her sorrowing family and friends, and it came to relieve her of her illness about a quarter of five yesterday afternoon.  The deceased was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Corwin.  She is survived by her parents and one sister, Miss Flora Corwin, a student at the State Normal School at Oswego, but who has been home during the latter part of her sister's sickness.  She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and until her health prevented was a regular attendant of the Sunday school.  She was also a member of Wallkill Academy at the time she was taken ill, and but for her sickness she would have graduated last June in the class of '89.  Her great ambition before her sickness was to get through with her education so that she would be able to aid her parents. The deceased was possessed of an unusually sweet and amiable disposition and her uniformly kind and pleasant manner and unselfish ways made her not only the idol of her home but endeared her to all.  While she thus shed sunshine all along her pathway her sickness and death were in complete harmony with her life.  Though during the greater part of her long sickness she suffered acute pain, she never complained, and her only thought was for her mother and friends who had the care of her, lest they should become over-fatigued. She was wholly conscious to the moment of her death, and in the afternoon, a short time before she passed away, she bid all her friends good-bye and sent messages of affection to several of her schoolmates and others who had been especially kind to her.  Death to her was but going home, and she met it without a trace of fear, or of regret, save for the sadness which her going would cause her friends.  Though she had but a few years upon the earth it is given to but few to so fully and beautifully exemplify the transforming power of the religion of Christ in the human heart as did this young girl in her life and in her death.  [Ella M. Corwin, d. 11 Sept. 1889, Middletown, Orange Co., NY]

Elizabeth (Earle) Wilson
1831 - 1897

Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, wife of Benjamin Wilson, died of pneumonia at her home near West Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Tuesday, March 30th [1897], at 5:30 p.m.  She was the daughter of Moses and Lucy Earle and was born in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] and was 65 years and 10 months of age.  A husband and one daughter survive her.  Mr. Wilson has been very ill for a number of weeks and his wife had been his faithful and loving nurse up to a week ago when the dreaded pneumonia set in.  She was one of those women who are an honor to America--a true wife and loving mother, always thinking of the home over which she has presided with such gentle grace. The funeral was held at the Baptist church, Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock with interment in the Fairview cemetery [New Berlin, Chenango Co., NY].

A precious one from us is gone,

A voice we loved is stilled;

A place is vacant in our home

Which never can be filled.

God in his wisdom hath recalled

The boon his love had given;

And though the body molder here

The soul is safe in heaven.