Obituaries (June 16)

Ai Scribner

Died May 17, 1923

Ai Scribner, aged 73 years, died in the Binghamton City  Hospital [Broome Co., NY] Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock.  He is survived by a son Howard of New Berlin; five sisters, Mrs. Ellen Clarke, Hawleyton; Mrs. Maria Doty of Kirkwood; Mrs. Emma Phillips, Mrs. Cornelia Atwood and Mrs. Adeline Wetmore of Binghamton, and two brothers, Wilson Scribner of Norwich, and Door Scribner of Kirkwood.  The funeral will be held Sunday morning at 9:30 in the home of his sister, Mrs. Emma Phillips, o. 13 Mill street, Binghamton.  Burial will be in New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].

Paul LaVern Seifert

Died November 19, 1942

Paul LaVern Seifert, aged five years, died at the Chenango Memorial Hospital [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] at 2:45 Thursday morning after a brief illness.  The child was taken ill Wednesday and was taken to the office of Dr. E.F. Gibson for medical treatment.  The physician directed the boy be removed to the hospital.  The deceased was born in Norwich, April 10, 1937, and the family recently had resided at Woods Corners.  Frank Seifert, the father is in the U.S. Army, and the mother, Mrs. Freda Seifert, resides here. There is also a sister, Beverly Ann, and the grandmother, Mrs. Ida May Garlock of Buffalo, surviving.  Services are to be held at the Breese Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon with Rev. L. S. Charters officiating. Burial will be made in Mt. Hope [Norwich, NY].  

Services for Paul Seifert, five years old, were held at the Breese Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.  Rev. L.S. Charters officiated and burial was made in Mt. Hope. A beautiful array of flowers extended sympathy to the bereaved parents and respect to the memory of the deceased.

Stella (Beattey) Schworm

Died November 18, 1942

Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY]:  When her small flock of ducks swam away from their home near Wharton creek Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Harry Schworm went in search of them.  Her body was taken from the raging creek waters two hours later.  Discovering that the ducks had disappeared, Mrs. Schworm and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert Schworm, went down to the creek banks.  Walking upstream, they soon came upon the flock, bobbing along a creek swollen by a steady two-day downpour.  The women threw sticks at the fowls but still were unable to drive them ashore. The elder Mrs. Schworm, 47, then climbed into a nearby rowboat.  Propelling herself by tugging at the branches of trees and bushes along the bank, she was able to move nearer the ducks and was closing in on the flock when the boat came to a strong cross-current.  Caught unawares, Mrs. Schworm grabbed the branch of a tree overhanding the stream to steady herself.  The boat, however, was snatched from beneath her by the current, leaving her dangling in the icy water.  Her daughter-in-law waded out until the water reached her neck and tried to push the boat back beneath the woman, but the current was to swift. She regained the shore and began running toward the village screaming for help.  Help arrived shortly, but it was too late, for the force of the water had broken Mrs. Schworm's grip and she had been swept downstream.  Her body was found in the center of the village.  Neil Card freed it from a log beneath which it had become wedged in 10 feet of water.  Principal G.H. Purple of the high school and Dr. E.C. Granger, coroner, applied artificial respiration and a pulmotor from Morris also was used to no avail.  It was just over two years ago, November 12, 1940 that Mrs. Schworm's son, Donald, was drowned in Big Moose lake when a canoe capsized during a hunting trip.  Drowned with the youth were his father-in-law, Thaddeus Chase of New Berlin, and a friend, Warren Parker of this village.   Stella Beattey Schworm was born in the town of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] 47 years ago, the daughter of Frank E. and Minnie Wheeler Beattey. She was married to Mr. Schworm on Oct. 19, 1914.  Mrs. Schworm was a member and past matron of the OES and attended the Methodist church here.  Surviving are three children, Earl, Leon and Robert; also her husband and a sister, Mrs. Earl Becker, Newark Valley. Services will be held from the Houk Funeral home at 3:30 Saturday afternoon, with Rev. Winfield Kelley, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in Union cemetery, Edmeston.

Coroner Edwin C. Granger of Morris today issued a verdict of accidental drowning in the death late yesterday afternoon of Mrs. Stella Schworm, 47, of Edmeston.  Mrs. Schworm, using a home made boat, was attempting to drive some ducks to the shore of Wharton Creek when the boat overturned.  Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Leonora Schworm, witnessed the accident from the bank, but hampered by heavy clothing and but a slight skill in swimming was unable to rescue her. The body was recovered by her husband, Harry J. Schworm, who with a friend administered artificial respiration until the arrival of a pulmotor from Morris, but all attempts at resuscitation were futile.  Mr. Schworm is survived by her husband; three sons, Robert, 23; Earl, 10, and Leon, 8; a sister, Mrs. Earl Becker, of Newark Valley, and several aunts and uncles.

Death Notices

Chenango American, November 1, 1860

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on Monday evening, the 29th ult., Mrs. Susan M. Clarke, wife of the late Dr. S.R. Clarke, and daughter of the late Wm. M. Cheever, of New Haven, Oswego Co., aged 52 years.

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult., Mary D. [Reynolds], wife of Cyrus Reynolds, aged 22 years.

Chenango American, November 8, 1860

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst. of putrid sore throat, Lee [Phetteplace] son of Easton and Mahala Phetteplace, aged 2 years, 2 months and 15 days.

In Fentonville, Michigan, on the 6th ult., Dr. Thomas Steere, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st ult., Mrs. Sally Rogers, aged 88 years.

Chenango American, November 15, 1860

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., of cancer in the stomach, Mr. Hiram Hotchkiss, aged 61 years.

In German [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mrs. Abigail Smith, aged 86 years.

At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 18th isn't., Mrs. Spencer, aged 79 years.

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mr. Lorenzo M. Barrows, aged 42 years.

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th isn't., Corlestia [Parker], daughter of Jonas Parker, aged 10 years.

At Smithville Flatts [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.  Hannah Roos, aged 88 years.  The daughter takes this opportunity to acknowledge her heart-felt gratitude to her friends.  Their kindness in health, sickness and death has dried the cheek of the widow and made glad the heart of the orphan.