Obituaries (February 26)

Tirzah A. Gregory

Chenango Telegraph, March 2, 1842

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on the 21st inst., Miss Tirzah A. Gregory, in the 19th year of her age.  Sudden and awful is the approach of death.  When age, full of honors is summoned to depart, we bow with reverence at the decree of an All-wise Providence, but when youth is cut down in the spring time of its existence, it touches every tender fibre of our nature, and proclaims to us in legible characters too plain to be misunderstood, that we too must die. The deceased was a young lady of a mild and amiable disposition, beloved by her friends and acquaintances, and has gone down to the tomb, leaving a lasting evidence of her confidence in the smiles of her Redeemer.

Isaac Foote

Chenango Telegraph, March 9, 1842

At Smyrna, Chenango County, New York, on the 27th February last, Hon Isaac Foote, in the ninety-seventh year of his age.  Judge Foote was a native of the town of Colchester, in the State of Connecticut, from whence he removed to the town of Stafford, in the same State, where, for many years, he held the office of Magistrate, and often represented the town in the General Assembly of the State.  In the year 1795, he removed to the place first above mentioned, it then being a part of the town of Sherburne, in the county of Herkimer, and in the year 1799 was elected to represent said county in the most numerous branch of the State Legislature, and subsequently was elected a Senator for the Western District of said State.  And when the county of Chenango was incorporated, he was appointed to the office of first judge of the Court of Common Pleas and General Session of the Peace, which office he held until constitutionally disqualified, having arrived at the age of sixty years; after which, he retired from active life, and devoted the principal part of his time to reading, especially the Scriptures, and having been an exemplary member of the viable Church for seventy-five years or more, and contributed to the support of the Gospel, and the dissemination of its truths, he died a peaceful death, and has, as there is reason to entertain a strong hope, been transferred to the Church Triumphant.  "where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest."

Emily T. Moses
Died August 1, 1906, Deposit, Delaware Co., NY

Mrs. Emily T. Moses, widow of the late Squire Moses, for many years a prominent lawyer of this village, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frances Aumock, corner Court and Second streets, last evening, aged eighty-three years.  Mrs. Moses has been gradually failing for over a year, but has been confined to her bed only a few weeks.  Deceased is survived by four daughters--Mrs. Frances Aumock, Mrs. William Beardsley, and Mrs. Sara Freeman, of this village, and Mrs. Georgianna Hitt, of Oneonta; also three grandchildren--Miss Ella Freeman and Harold and Lulabell Beardsley.  Funeral private.

Myra R. (Lum) Silvey

Died May 10, 1956

Mrs. Myra R. Silvey, 70, of 20 Newton Avenue, Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], died Thursday morning at her home. She is survived by her husband, Rexford Silvey, three daughters, Mrs. Edna Stimpson, Mrs. Harold Miller, both of Oneonta, Mrs. Lynn Lanfair of Mount Upton; three sons, Charles R. of Bainbridge, Edwin M. of Mount Upton and Frank A. Silvey of Newington, Conn.; 20 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Madden of Brisben and Mrs. Nellie Silvey of Binghamton; four brothers, Howard Lum of Brisben, Homer Lum of Smithville Flats, Elmer Lum of South Edmeston and Stanley Lum of New Berlin; several nieces and nephews. the body was moved to the Harold Sherman Funeral Home, 58 West Main Street, Bainbridge.

Milo A. Saxton

Died August 9, 1957

Milo A. Saxton, 62, of 105 Roosevelt Avenue, Endicott [Broome Co., NY], died at 4:15 p.m. yesterday at Wilson Memorial Hospital, after a short illness.  he is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ethel Saxton; one daughter, Miss Ida Saxton, both of Endicott; three sisters, Mrs. Louisa Collins of Haskenville, N.Y., Mrs. Lynn McDaniels and Mrs. Sylvia Grey, both of Hornell, N.Y.; three brothers, Grant, in and Irving Saxton, all of Hornell; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.  He was a veteran of World War 1, a member of the Union-Endicott American legion Post 82, KEndicott, and of the FOE, Aeriel 2269.  He was an IBM employee for the last 36 years, a member of its Quarter Century Club, and Country Club, an dof its safety council advisory board  The body was moved to the Allen Memorial Home, 511-513 East Main Street, Endicott.

Death Notice

Chenango Telegraph, March 2, 1842

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Saturday morning last, Mrs. Edith [Parker], wife of Nathan Parker, Esq., aged 73.