Obituaries (May 12)

Devillo Phelps Brown

Utica Saturday Globe, March 19, 1906

Devillo Phelps Brown

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Devillo Phelps Brown passed away at  his home on South Broad street at an early hour on Wednesday morning, his death resulting from a shock suffered only the day before.  Mr. Brown was the second of five sons of Charles and Caroline Brown and was born in Otselic, February 1, 1831.  Both his parents died ere he was 2 years of age and he made his home with his aunt, Mrs. Nancy Walcott until 13 years of age, when he went to Smyrna and apprenticed himself to Benjamin Hartwell, the hatter of that place and later of Norwich.  Mr. Brown followed the hatter's trade for only a short time, abandoning it to learn the carpenter's trade, which he had since followed.  For 29 years he was employed by the New York, Ontario & Western Railroad Company as a bridge and building carpenter and a good share of the time as patternmaker.  He is said to have served the company for the longest continuous time of any Norwich employee in the capacity of a carpenter and was a man greatly respected by his associates.  He was a charter member of the A.O.U.W. organization of Smyrna, a member of the Sherburne Lodge, F.&A.M., and of Norwich Commandery, K.T.  For many years he had been a member of the Broad Street M.E. Church.  In 1855 Mr. Brown married Fannie M. Mead, of Smyrna, who survives him with a daughter, Miss N. Cornelia Brown, of Norwich; a son, Mott D. Brown, and two grandchildren, Frederic Mead Brown and Mott D. Brown, Jr., residents of Troy.  A daughter, Miss Linnie C. Brown, died a short time ago.  Funeral services will be held from his late residence, 62 South Broad street, at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. Wilson Treible officiating.  The commandery will have charge of the ritualistic service at the burial in Mount Hope Cemetery [Norwich, NY].

 

Harry H. Phetteplace

Norwich Sun, December 21, 1904

About four miles east of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 20, 1904, Harry H., the infant son of Jesse D. and Mary Phetteplace, died, aged two months and 25 days.  Funeral services will be held on Thursday at 12 o'clock, Rev. J.L. Ray officiating.  Burial at White Store [Chenango Co., NY].

 

Theodore Henry Haynes

Bainbridge News & Republican, March 16, 1944

Theodore H. Haynes, of East Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], and father of Edwin Haynes, of Bainbridge, died early Tuesday morning after an illness of several weeks.  The funeral will be held Friday at the East Guilford Church.

 

Sidney Enterprise, March 23, 1944

Funeral services for Theodore Henry Haynes of East Guilford were held at the East Guilford Presbyterian church on Friday, March 17, at 2 p.m. the Rev. J.W. Bump officiating, assisted by Rev. Gamewell.  The bearers were his sons, Edwin, Harold and Herman Haynes; Paul Lowe, Murray Haynes and Matt Hogoboom.  Interment was in the Greenlawn cemetery vault at Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  Theodore Henry Haynes was born July 5, 1879, in the town of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], the son of Andrew and Susan D. Haynes.  On Sept. 21, 1901, he married Christina B. Wolfe of Ridgefield Park, N.J., and moved to West Winfield, N.Y., where he worked in a tannery; later they moved to Norwich where he worked in the hammer factory.  For many years he was employed by the O.&W. Railroad company, making his home in East Guilford.  For the past two and one-half years he was an employee of the Scintilla Magneto Co. of Sidney.  He died at his home after an illness of several weeks.  Plural pneumonia was the cause of his death.  He was a member of the East Guilford Presbyterian church, and for many years sang in its choir.  He is survived by his wife, Christina; six children, Edwin F. Haynes and Mrs. Normina Brigham of Bainbridge; Harold Haynes and Herman W. Haynes, of Endicott; Mrs. Paul Lowe of Unadilla and Russell Haynes MM 3-c, of the U.S. Navy; fifteen grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews also three sisters, Mrs. Mary Whitcomb of West Winfield, Mrs. Vernon Pier of Cooperstown, and Mrs. Flora Sibley of Hornell, and two brothers, Herman Haynes of East Guilford and Louis Haynes of Guilford.

Frank A. Judd

Sidney Enterprise, March 23, 1944

The funeral of Frank A. Judd, who died Thursday night at 6:30 in the Coshen hospital, was held Sunday at 3 o'clock at the Carr & Landers' funeral parlors.  Rev George Young, pastor of the Unadilla Methodist church, officiated and the body was placed in Prospect Hill vault for burial later in Unadilla [Otsego Co.., NY].  Mr. Judd was born in Franklin Oct. 19, 1893, the son of Justus and Ella May (Potter) Judd.  He married Miss Hazel Olen August 26, 1925.  He resided in Sidney for about 14 years, moving here from his farm in Youngs.  He is survived by his wife, a son, Justus at home; a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Snitchler of Binghamton; Mrs. Earl Footer and Mrs. Etta VanAlstyne of Sidney, are aunts, and Maynard Potter of Stamford is an uncle. 

Edward Pardee

Sidney Enterprise, March 23, 1944

Edward Pardee, seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pardee of 55 Cartwright avenue, died Monday.  The funeral service was held at the Sacred Heart church this Thursday morning at 2 o'clock, Rev. Farther Kavanaugh, officiating. The burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery [Sidney, Delaware Co., NY].  Besides his parents, he is survived by a small sister and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Pardee of New Berlin, and Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Esposito of this village.

Norman A. DeForest & Hial F. Hodge

Bainbridge News & Republican, November 23, 1944

Believed to have been overcome by escaping coal gas, Norman A. DeForest, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn DeForest, New Berlin R.D. [Chenango Co., NY], and Hial F. Hodge, 22, of Oxford R.D.3 [Chenango Co., NY], were found dead in a small cabin at Hawley's Corners Friday morning says a correspondent.  The two young men, who were employed at Maydole-Mayhew Hammer Factory at Norwich, had been living in the small cabin about a week.  Their bodies were found shortly after 9 a.m. Friday by Joseph Letson and Ernest Moffit, foremen at the hammer factory, who went to the cabin to see why the young men had not reported for work.  Unable to arouse the men whom they could see lying on a bed in the cabin, Mr. Letson and Mr. Moffit notified the sheriff's office and undersheriff Frank Machio investigated.  Both men were dead when he entered the cabin.  Undersheriff Machio said that he could detect a strong odor of coal gas.  Further investigation brought out that the cabin had been heated previously by an oil stove, but that the two men had purchased a small coal stove Thursday.  Undersheriff Machio said that the body of the stove was still warm and contained unburned coal.  Dr. L.T. Kinney, coroner, said that the men had been dead between five and six hours.  The bodies were removed to the Breeze Funeral home where an autopsy was performed Friday afternoon.