Obituaries (April 30)

Hezekiah Brown

Utica Saturday Globe, July 1902

  

Hezekiah Brown

At the home of his daughter in Phillipsburg, Mont. on July 3, occurred the death of Hezekiah Brown, a former resident of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].  Mr. Brown was born in Norwich December 1, 1820, at the old homestead adjoining Mt. Hope Cemetery.  He was the eldest of nine children of Hezekiah and Elizabeth Brown, early settlers of this place and a brother of Mrs. S.B. Prentice, of South Broad street, who is the only surviving member of the family.  He left Norwich many years ago and after residing in Illinois for a time returned to this village and a few years later removed to Michigan. For the past few years he had made his home with his daughters in Colorado and Montana.  He was a brother of the late Elisha Brown, of this village, and will be remembered by many of the older residents.

Bertha Lord Stevens

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 7, 1944

Mrs. Bertha Lord Stevens, wife of Wesley A. Stevens, died at her home in Richmond, Va., Aug. 15.  She was born in Sanford [Broome Co., NY], Aug. 15, 1878, the daughter of Rufus and Celina Rowe Lord  She is survived by her husband, Wesley A. Stevens, of Richmond, Va.; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Boland of Richmond, Va., and Mrs. John Burgess, of Miami, Fla.; a granddaughter, Miss Janet Boland, of Richmond, Va., and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Goodnough and Mrs. Frank Knapp, of Afton. Two brothers, Herbert Lord, of Chenango Forks and Fred Lord, of St. Petersburg, Fla., also survive.  Funeral services were held Wednesday at her home in Richmond, Va., and she was brought to Afton for burial in Glenwood Cemetery [Afton, Chenango Co., NY].  A prayer service was held at the grave, Thursday, Aug. 17.  The Rev. Alan Douglas of the Afton Baptist Church officiated.

Maude E. Cook

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 7, 1944

Miss Maude E. Cook, 55, a lifelong resident of Hancock [Delaware Co., NY], passed away Tuesday, Aug. 29, at the City Hospital, Binghamton, where she had been a patient for several weeks.  Her health had been failing for a long time.  For several years she had been a trusted employee of Hancock post office under several postmasters.  She is survived by two brothers and a sister.

Frank Homer Pomeroy

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 7, 1944

Frank Homer Pomeroy, 59, of Roscoe [Delaware Co., NY], died suddenly of a heart attack on Aug. 18 in Utica, where he was working at his profession as a brick mason.  He had not been very well for a time but his death came as a great shock to his family and friends.

Henry J. Tietjen

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 7, 1944

Henry J. Tietjen died at his home in Walton [Delaware Co., NY] on Thursday, Aug. 24.  He had been ill with heart trouble for three years and was confined to his bed for three weeks preceding his death.

Mary Belle Forbes Root

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 14, 1944

Mrs. Mary Belle Forbes Root, 79, wife of Francis H. and mother of the Rev. James F. Root, rector of the Zion Episcopal Church, Windsor, and St. Luke's Church Harpursville, died Monday at the Windsor rectory, Chapel street.  She is also survived by a brother, James H. Forbes, of Chicago, Ill.

George Arvine Clark

Bainbridge News & Republican, September 14, 1944

George Arvine Clark, oldest Shriner in the United States, and well known in this area, died suddenly Sunday in Hammondsport [Steuben Co., NY].  Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Carr & Hare Funeral Home in Sidney.  He was born in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] in 1862, and began a career which included railroading, retailing and manufacturing in Syracuse where for several years he was a conductor on the Chenango Branch of the West Shore.  Mr. Clark conducted a hardware store in Earlville and later opened a wood box factory in Sidney, supplying many Central New York industries.  One of the founders of the Bennett Fireplace Heater Company of Norwich, in recent years he was identified with the Bennett Aircraft Company of Hammondsport, of which he was also a founder.  In Masonic circles he was particularly well known and only recently received a plaque designating him as the oldest member of A.A.O.K.M.S.  Surviving are his wife, Margaret, of Sidney; a son, John, a Standard Oil executive, of Clarksburg, W.Va.; a brother, John, vice-president of Public Service Gas & Electric of East Orange, N.J.; and four nephews, Howard, of Chicago, Winsor, of Philadelphia, Richard, of Cleveland, and Homer W., of Syracuse.