Obituaries (November 22)

Dr. Charles C. Willard

Chenango American, September 25, 1862

Our village was startled last evening with the announcement that Doct. Chas. C. Willard was dead.  His health from childhood has been uniformly good.  For a few days only he complained of being unwell, yet was able to attend to his business as usual.  He left his office at 6 o'clock last evening, and at 8 was a corpse.  Only a few minutes elapsed from the time he was considered dangerous by his family before his death.  Doct. Willard, was the son of Doct. Augustus Willard.  He graduated in 1852--since which time he has been in practice in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY].  He leaves a wife and one child, together with a large circle of mourning relatives to lament his death.  As a husband, a father , a neighbor and friend, as well as in his professional relations, he will be greatly mourned and missed by this whole community.  Doct. Willard was 33 years of age. Thus has been cut down one of our most respected citizens in the prime of life, in the zenith of his prosperity and usefulness. Verily "in the midst of life we are in death."

Jennie S. Newton

Norwich Sun, April 25, 1932

Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie S. Newton, wife of Alanson T Newton, who died at her home in South Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] Sunday morning at 4:30, aged 73 years, will be held from the late home at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.  Interment will be at South Plymouth.  Besides the husband there survive the following sons and daughters:  George Newton of Binghamton, Mrs. Frances Montgomery of Norwich, Mrs. Charles Jenks of North Norwich, Mrs. Frank Tiffany of Norwich, Mrs. Albert Fox of Norwich, Erford Newton and Mrs. Asher Stewart of McDonough. There also survive several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Alanton T. Newton

Chenango Telegraph, December 16, 1938

Alanson T. Newton, 87, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank M. Tiffany, 22 King street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] at 4:45 Thursday morning.  Besides the daughter above mentioned he is survived by the following sons and daughters, Geo. N. Newton of Binghamton, Mrs. Jesse Montgomery of this city, Mrs. Charles Jenks of North  Norwich, Erford Newton of Norwich and Mrs. Asher Stewart of McDonough.  Funeral services are to be held from the Breese Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, with burial in South Plymouth.

Myrtle V. (Dixson) Nelson

Died May 8, 1941, Norwich, NY

Mrs. Myrtle V. Nelson, wife of Leslie C. Nelson of Holmesville [Chenango Co., NY], died at the Chenango Memorial Hospital Thursday night, after an illness of about four weeks. The deceased was born in Morris [Otsego Co., NY], Feb. 8, 1901, the daughter of the late Frank and Mary Goodrich Dixson.  She attended the schools at Morris and her early life was spent there until her marriage to Mr. Nelson at Edmeston on March 17, 1923, since which they have resided in Holmesville, South New Berlin and vicinity. Besides her husband she leaves three children, Kenneth M., Ruth E., and Barbara M., three brothers, Ralph Dixson of Norwich, Leon Dixson of Gilbertsville and Bailey Dixson of Morris, also several nephews and nieces.  Funeral services are to be held in the First Baptist church at South New Berlin Sunday afternoon at 2:30, standard time, with the pastor, Rev. Clinton H. Skinner officiating.  Interment will be made in the family plot in South New Berlin cemetery [Chenango Co., NY].  Mrs. Nelson was a member of the Baptist church at Morris and the White Store unit of the Chenango County Home Bureau. She was a delightful person to meet and had a faculty of making friends easily.  Her many fine qualities of womanhood and pleasing personality endeared her to a wide circle of friends who will be shocked by her passing.  She was well known in her native village and in South New Berlin, Holmesville and adjoining communities.  Her loss will be keenly felt by all who knew her. The body will rest at the funeral home of Geo. J. Devine in this city until Sunday noon.

Emma Hitchman Nash

Died January 6, 1925

The many friends of Mrs. Emma Hitchman Nash were shocked and grieved to learn of her death on Friday, January 6, at Dunedin, Florida.  Mrs. Nash left Norwich on Dec. 28, with Mrs. Charles Tracy and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hitchman of Waterville to spend the winter in the south and was stricken soon after they reached Dunedin, their destination.  Her body arrived in Norwich Monday and her funeral will be held at the Breese Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.  Emma Hitchman was born in the township of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], October 5, 1869, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hitchman.  Thomas Hitchman came to America from England, and after he had established a home, sent for his young wife who made the long journey on a sailing vessel.  Mrs. Nash was a woman of rare resourcefulness and efficiency, qualities which stemmed directly from this pioneering mother who brought up seven children on a back hill farm, keeping them well by the herbs she grew in her garden, dyeing their clothes from the butternuts gathered on the place, feeding them the balanced diet almost unheard of in those days.  In late life, doing the great variety of tasks that she excelled in, Mrs. Nash was frequently asked, "who taught you that?" And the answer was invariably, "My mother."  In 1911 Emma Hitchman married Charles H. Nash of Norwich, and for a few years enjoyed what she considered the best thing in life, a home of her own.  After Mr. Nash's death, her friends began to seek her out to stay with their children, and from this relationship one of her most outstanding characteristics became apparent, an ageless spirit and a complete understanding of youth.  In her death many young people realize they have lost their best friend and jolliest companion.  Mrs. Nash was also a great lover of nature and a seeker after its truths. the birds, the flowers, the stars, a storm cloud in the sky, a mossy path, a hidden spring, all these claimed her interest and made her a stimulating companion.  She leaves to mourn her passing, three brothers, Thomas, William and Ernest; her husband's daughter, Mrs. Henry Berry of Poolville, and three grandsons, whom she considered truly her own, George, Henry and Richard Berry.

Death Notices

Chenango American, August 28, 1862

In Key West, Fla., June 5th, of brain fever, Mr. Jeremiah Slawson, of Co. E., 90th Reg., N.Y.S.V., formerly of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged 28 years. 

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., Lizzie Hallem [Bacon], daughter of CA. Bacon, aged 34 years.

In Waconsta, Mich., on the 8th inst., Mr. John Lawrence, late of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], aged 73 years.

In Plymouth [Chenango co., NY], on the 20th inst., Mrs. Lucy Miller, widow of the late William G. Miller, aged 60 years.

In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 22d inst., suddenly, Mr. Seebling Gilmore, formerly of this town [Greene, NY], aged 48 years.