Obituaries (April 27)

John Carley

Utica Saturday Globe, November 1903

 

John Carley

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  John Carley died at his residence on West Railroad street Sunday, aged 39.  About the first of September Mr. Carley was injured by being thrown from a load of hay.  While passing through Silver street he came in contact with a telephone wire and was thrown to the ground, striking on his head.  He never fully recovered consciousness after the accident.  Last week Joseph Winsor was appointed a committee to manage Mr. Carley's person and property, the latter consisting solely of an alleged right of action against the company or corporation upon whom the blame for the accident rests.  On Sunday a post mortem examination conducted by Coroner E. W. Wilcox revealed a fracture of the skull and on the opposite side a degenerated blood clot.

Thomas Carter

Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, January 23, 1867

CARTER:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 15th, Thomas Carter, aged 62 years.  Mr. Carter represented the First Assembly District in this County in the Legislature of 1861, and at his death, was Post Master at Pitcher.  It can be truly said that no one in this community had more friends or fewer enemies.  He was a devoted husband and father, an accommodating neighbor, and a Christian. 

Another correspondent writing from Pitcher says:  The deceased had been a resident of this town for some forty years, beloved and respected by all who knew him, and in his death, society has lost one of its best and worthy members, the State one of its most devoted citizens.  In 1861 he was elected a member of the Assembly of this State in which body he voted for all those measures which were calculated to strengthen and support the general government against the rebellion and at the time of his death was Post Master at this place.  His funeral was attended on the 17th at the Congregational Church, of which had long been one of its prominent members, when a very impressive and appropriate sermon was delivered by the Pastor, Rev. C. Barstow, to a large and sympathizing congregation.  In this sudden bereavement the wife has lost one of the best and devoted of husband's the children a kind, indulgent father.  May they seek consultation in the arms of their Savior.

Sally M. Weaver,

Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, January 23, 1867

WEAVER:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 3d, Mrs. Sally M., consort of Russel Weaver, in the 67th year of her age.  In the death of Mrs. Weaver, a husband has been deprived of a kind and affectionate companion and [her children] a beloved parent, society one of its most useful members, and the Baptist church of which she has been a worthy member for many years, one of its chief ornaments, on account of her uniform piety, benevolence and good principles. The numerous concourse of relative and sympathizing friends who attended her funeral at the Church, is a sure indication of the esteem in which she was held.

 

Jeremiah Medbury

Chenango Union, September 6, 1871

Another pioneer has gone to his rest.  The subject of this brief notice, Jeremiah Medbury, of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], was born in Rhode Island about the year 1784.  When a lad of eight years, seventy-nine years ago, he came with his father, Joseph Medbury, to New Berlin township, then a dense forest, in which roamed beasts of prey and containing scarcely half a dozen inhabitants.  For a quarter of a century, Jeremiah lived with his father upon lands near Great Brook, changing the face of nature, rugged and sterile, into fruitful fields, making the wilderness places to bloom as the rose. The larger portion of his days were spent upon a farm but a few rods distant from the homestead.  He lived an honest, industrious, useful life, rearing a family of six children, all of whom except one, are still living.  Jeremiah Medbury of this village, is the eldest son and next to the oldest of the family.  Mr. Medbury retained his faculties and the vigor of manhood, in a remarkable degree, being seldom indisposed for a day, till his end drew nigh.  On Saturday, Aug. 26th, he was attacked with a stroke of paralysis, soon became unconscious, and died on the Tuesday following, at the advanced aged of 87.  On Thursday last he was buried on the premises he had so long occupied.  We are reminded how little we of this age of Railroads, Telegraphs, splendid equipages, and manifold comforts and luxuries, realize of the trials, hardships and deprivations of our fathers of three score and ten years ago.  It is sad to think the Pioneers of our own county are nearly all gone, and that we have no more reliable record of their services and lives.  Tradition, always vague and uncertain, in a little while will constitute the only link upon which to depend, to connect the remote past with the present and future.

 

Daniel W. Irons
ca 1837 - 1907

Daniel W. Irons, a former resident of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], died at the home of his son, Lucius A. Irons, in Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 14, 1907.  The body will arrive in Norwich this evening and be taken to Breese's Undertaking rooms form which place burial will be made in Mt. Hope cemetery [Norwich, NY] Tuesday morning, the time not yet having been arranged.

Adaline Medbury

1829 - 1907

At the residence of her son, Edgar Medbury, east of this village, Sunday afternoon, Sept. 15, 1907, Mrs. Adaline Medbury, died aged 78 years.  Funeral services will be held from the home at 1 o'clock and from the church at White Store at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Rev. J.L. Ray officiating and burial will be in the cemetery at White Store.

Mary Reitano

Norwich Sun, October 1, 1942

Cortland [Cortland Co., NY]:  Mrs. Mary Reitano, 41, wife of Anthony Reitano, died Monday at her home, 68 Pomeroy street, following a heart attack.  Born in Italy September 15, 1900, the daughter of Joseph and Antonia Natoli, she had resided here for the past 39 years.  In addition to her husband, she is survived by one daughter, Anna; one son, John T. Reitano; a sister, Miss Frances Natoli; two brothers, Dominick and Joseph Natoli, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday morning from the home and St. Mary's church with burial in St. Mary's cemetery.

Lydia Medbury

Norwich Sun, October 1, 1942

Mrs. Lydia Medbury died at the county welfare home in Preston [Chenango Co., NY] yesterday morning.  She had been a resident of the home since 1937 coming from Holmesville [Chenango Co., NY].  She was born in Morris [Otsego Co., NY], Feb. 5, 1852 and is survived by a great nephew, C.N. Sherman of Binghamton.  Services are to be held at Dakin's Funeral Home in New Berlin Thursday afternoon with burial in White Store Cemetery [Chenango Co., NY].