Obituaries (April 2)

Caroline S. (Oliver) Clark

Chenango American, February 23, 1860

At the residence of her father-in-law, Amasa Clark, in Great Bend, Pa., on the 30th ult., of Consumption, Caroline S. [Clark], wife of D.D. Clark, U.S.N., and daughter of Mr. Oliver of Rome, Oneida Co., N.Y., in the 26th year of her age.

Thus has a circle of loving hearts been entered and a priceless jewel taken.  And though we mourn, deeply mourn our loss, yet we feel assured that her great attainments in personal piety--her devotedness and untiring activity in the cause of Christ--her living and triumphant faith, afford ample evidence, that, through the merits of our Saviour, she is now a white-robed ransomed one in glory.  It seemed that we could not part with "our Carrie" yet, for a few years at least.  Her gentle and unassuming manners, her generous regard for the happiness of others, her amiable, self-sacrificing and uncomplaining disposition; won the affection and esteem of all who made her acquaintance.  She possessed superior mental powers, and a poetic nature, but her extreme delicacy forbade her submitting many of her thoughts to the public.  The following little poem, published in the Advocate and Family Guardian about a year since, is one of the sweet effusions of her pen.

The Loom of Life

Thoughts suggested by reading Mrs. Dimond's beautiful letter in the Advocate for Nov. 1.

We're sitting at the loom of life,

Our final garments weaving;

And when before Heaven's bar we stand,

For one last, dread revealing,

Within His holy presence there,

We then, this self-wrought robe must wear.

Time's busy, never-tiring hand,

How swiftly flings the shuttle!

And what the fabric it shall weave

Our course of life must settle.

Oh! what shall then the garment be

That robe us in eternity!

Shall selfish pleasure sway our hearts,

And govern every passion?

And worldly pride and hoarded wealth

Our final garments fashion?

While suffering sorrow pleads in vain

From our full hand one single grain?

Or shall a deep heart-sympathy

And sacrifice of pleasure,

Weave in our robes their golden threads,

A never-failing treasure?

That noble deeds of love and care,

May weave their beauteous traces there?

Help us, "Great Author" of our lives,

To use the "warp" thou'st given,

And weave us garments that may deck

The imperial courts of heaven;

That when we at thy bar appear,

The "wedding garment" we may wear.

She has woven her "garment for Eternity," and purified in the Saviour's blood, it is a shining one.  Although she was yet young and looking forward with joyous expectations to the time when her husband would return from his service in the Navy, and they should again be united, to be no more separated except by death--yet, when she learned her Father's will to take her home; the stronger attractions of a Saviour's love, and the anticipated rapture and bliss of Heaven, outrivaled all earthly charms, and she cheerfully responded, "I come, my Father!"  When the heart-rending and unexpected tidings shall reach her husband, Oh! in that bitter hour may he exercise in all its strength, that Christian faith and confidence in the wisdom and mercy of an over-ruling Hand, which will sustain him, beneath this crushing weight of grief.

Ada Cole

Died April 20, 1951

Funeral services for Mrs. Ada Cole were held at the Methodist church at Bloomville Monday.  Rev. W.B. Chandler officiated.  interment was in Riverside cemetery.  The bearers were R.M. Maxon, Andrew Dibble, W.S. Fuller, Leslie Williamson, Leslie Nichols and Harry Craft.  Mrs. Cole was born June 29, 1879, at Lewbeach.  She married George Cole, who died Nov. 28, 1943.  For many years she was a Bloomville resident and member of the Methodist church and Ladies' Aid society.  Later she lived at Oneonta and transferred her membership to the Main Street Baptist church.  She had been in ill health for several years and in serious condition the past winter.  She passed away Friday night, Apr. 20, at a nursing home at Sheds.  Mrs. Cole is survived by two daughters, Mrs. James Stevens, Margaretville; Mrs. Barton Downey, Mt. Morris; a son, John, Norwich; a sister, Mrs. Ollie Sprague, Westville, and a brother, Arthur Conklin, Margaretville.

Death Notices

Chenango American, February 2, 1860

In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 27th ult, Frederick Theodore [Rogers], child of Thos. S. and H.N. Rogers, aged 2 years 9 months and 16 days.

In East McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult. Mary [Steere], wife of William Steere, aged 75 years.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult. Mr. Luke Wheeler, aged 44 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Mr. Joel Barber, aged 82 year.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Mrs. Sophia Barnes, wife of the late Asa Barnes, aged 72 years.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. Mr. Lathrop Rosbrook, aged 58 years.

In Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th ult. Mr. Ephraim P. Eldridge, aged 68 years and 10 months.

Chenango American, February 9, 1860

In this town, on the 7th inst., Harriet M. [Chalker], daughter of Orlando and Adelia Chalker, aged 18 months and 20 days.

In New Ohio [Broome Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Mrs. Polly Scoughton, aged 80 years.

In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mrs. Lovina Lowell, mother of Daniel Lowell, aged 86 years.

In Ketchum's Corners, on the 8th inst., Mr. Isaac Marshall, aged 80 years.

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Sarah Jane [Tuttle], infant daughter of Moses and Jane Tuttle, aged 4 months.

In Middlebury, Tioga Co., Pa. on the 22d ult. Mr. Eben Sherwood, formerly of Oxford, aged 68 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mr. John Noyes, son of Daniel Noyes, aged 29 years.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. of cancer of the stomach, Mr. Lathrup Rosbrook, Esq., aged 58 years.