Obituaries (November 1)

Fred Linn Townsend

Died October 31, 1933, New Berlin, NY

Fred Linn Townsend, 48, died at his home in Holmesville [Chenango Co., NY] at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning, after a brief illness.  Mr. Townsend was a section worker on the O.&W. railroad and had worked until Oct. 24, when he was taken sick. Deceased was born in Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY] but had lived in Holmesville three years.  He leaves a wife, Edith Bresee Townsend; two brothers, Howard and Olin; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Mumbulo and Mrs. Alfred Silvey.  Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday at the late home in Holmesville.

Uriah C. Toby

Died February 11, 1935, Bainbridge, NY

Uriah C. Toby

Uriah C. Toby, well known and prominent citizen of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] passed away at his home in West Main St. Monday morning February 11th after an illness of several weeks.  Mr. Toby went to Albany the middle of December where he was under observation in St. Peter's Hospital, but due to heart conditions an operation was deemed inadvisable and he returned to his home here where he was under the care of Dr. Edward Danforth.  Mr. Toby was a loyal citizen of Bainbridge and actively interested in the welfare of the town and community, having served as a member of the village board of trustees and a member of the present town board.  When a young man he united with the First Presbyterian Church and for many years had been a member of the board of elders.  He was also a charter member of the Bainbridge lodge and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 920, also a charter member of the Bridgehanna Rebecca lodge. He was a past Grand of the Odd Fellows and a Past Captain of the Sidney Canton.  Mr. Toby was born Jan. 2, 1863 in the Town of Guilford [Chenango jCo., NY] near Yaleville, the son of Martin and Christine Spindler Toby. At the age of 21 Mr. Toby went to California where for seven years he was employed as a stage coach driver between Madera and the Yosemite Valley, a distance of 200 miles.  Returning to Bainbridge in 1892 he was united in marriage with Mary L. Humphrey and for several years they resided on the Humphrey farm west of the village.  About thirty-three years ago they sold the farm and came to the village to reside where Mrs. Toby's death occurred Feb. 9, 1922.  In Aug. 1924 Mr. Toby united in marriage with Mrs. Minnie Wadhams of Carthage who now survives.  Others who survive are a sister, Mrs. Willard Bradley of Davenport Center, a step-daughter, Mrs. R.H. Powell and children Varna Louise and William G. of Waterbury, Conn. and several nieces and nephews.  The funeral service was held Wednesday afternoon in the First Presbyterian church where the body lay in state from 11 A.M. until 2 P.M. Rev. G.H. Orvis pastor, officiated and the remains were then placed in the Greenlawn cemetery [Bainbridge, nY] vault for later interment.

Lydia Ann (Whipple) Throop

Died March 1, 1927, Norwich, NY

Lydia Ann (Whipple) Throop

In the death of Mrs. Lydia Ann Throop, which occurred at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. William E. Bolt, Norwich lost its most aged residet and only centenarian.  Mrs. Throop passed her 101st birthday on January 6, 1927.  Her death occurred Tuesday morning, March 1, 1927, and was due to the infirmities of age.  Mrs. Throop was born in Cazenovia, N.Y. [Madison Co., NY] on Jan. 6, 1826, the daughter of Joseph and Elsie Whipple.  She was one of a family of six children, all of whom she survived.  When Lydia Ann Whipple was 6 years old, her bather's death occurred and she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. William Throop of Hamilton [Madison Co., NY].  It was at their home that she met Daniel DeWitt Clinton Throop, Mr. William Throop's younger brother, to whom she was married on May 1, 1847.  With her husband, Mrs. Throop moved to Preston and resided there for about 20 years.  Here her three children, James H., George and Susan, were born and spent their childhood. About 1867 the family felt the general unrest which followed the Civil War, and finally determined to move to the Midwest.  They selected Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, as their home and settled there, remaining for about 22 years.  Mr. Throop became editor of the Mt. Pleasant Free Press, a position which he held until his death on March 10, 1888.  During their years in Mt. Pleasant, Mr. and Mrs. Throop had suffered a loss which was especially severe, in the death of their only daughter, Susan, who had become the wife of Marion Blanding of Mt. Pleasant.  Mrs. Blanding left two small children when her death occurred in 1877, a son George and a daughter, Mary. The latter, now Mrs. William E. Bolt of this city, remained always with her grandmother, taking a daughter's place in her heart, and by her tender care over a long period of years, doing everything possible toward the comfort of her declining days.  Four years after Mr. Throop's death, or in 1892, Mrs. Throop acceded to the wish of her son, James H. Throop, who had returned to the east, and came to Norwich to join him.  With her at that time was her aged mother, Mrs. Whipple, and her granddaughter.  Mrs. Whipple, who was born in 1800, died in 1897 at the home of Mrs. Throop in this city, at the ripe age of 97 years.  In Davenport, Iowa, where he had continued to make his home, the death of George Throop occurred on Jan. 31, 1917.  Mrs. Throop, altho she never joined a church, was a strong Universalist in faith and was closely allied with the Universalist church at Mt. Pleasant.  When asked to what cause she attributed her long lifetime, she always replied "temperate and regular habits."  she retired early, rose early, was active thruout the greater part of her lifetime and enjoyed the full use of her faculties.  Mrs. Throop was a kindly and charitable  woman, and her home was a refuge to all members of her family, no matter how far removed. She cared for the aged and sick during the years of her own activity, and was in a large measure rewarded, as she herself has many times said, by the devotion and care showered upon her by her one surviving son, James H. Throop, and her granddaughter, Mrs. Bolt.  Mrs. Throop has seen all modern inventions come into being, the telephone, the telegraph, electric lights and steam engines were  unknown in her girlhood.  She had seen her country in the throes of bitter Civil War, and lived thru the dark days that followed it. She felt the tragic pall that settled over the land when news of the assignation of the beloved Lincoln was flashed over the wires.  She came from her home in Preston to hear Henry Ward Beecher preach the word of God from the pulpit of the First Baptist church in this city.  All of these things she remembers and conversed interestingly about, and in her passing this city has lost its nearest contact with those days of history thru which she lived.  Surviving Mrs. Throop are her son, James H. Throop and granddaughter, Mrs. William E. Bolt of this city, two grandsons, George T. Blanding of --lesburg, Ill. and Frank Throop of Davenport, Iowa, and two great-granddaughters.  Several nieces and nephews also survive.  private funeral services will be held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Bolt, 9 King street, at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, the Rev. Lloyd S. Charters officiating with interment in Mt. Hope cemetery [Norwich, NY].

Death Notices

Chenango American, June 12, 1862

In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Kattie [Adams], only child of Wm. H. and Caroline Adams, aged 2 years 9 months.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., Miss Ida A. [Lewis], daughter of Alonzo and Mary Lewis, aged 12 years.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mr. Martin Sackett, aged 85 years.

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Widow Timothy Davis, aged 65 years.

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Widow Pardon Redfield, aged 75 years.