Obituaries (May 9)

Mrs. William McQueen

Utica Saturday Globe, May 5, 1906

 

 

Mrs. William McQueen

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY[:  At her home on Court street Wednesday evening of last week, occurred the death of Mrs. William McQueen, aged 59.  Recently  Mrs. McQueen underwent an operation and it was at first thought that she would recover, but owing to her weakened condition she was unable to survive the shock.  Deceased was born in the town of Norwich and since her marriage to William McQueen about 35 years ago had resided in this village.  Mr McQueen died about three years ago.  Mrs. McQueen was a member of the National Protective Legion and leaves many friends.  Her only surviving near relative is an aunt, Mrs. Jane King, of this village.  The funeral was held from her late home on Court street this (Friday) afternoon Rev. J.S. Southworth officiating.  Burial was made in Mt. Hope cemetery [Norwich, NY]

 

Henry M. Ireland

1846 - 1912

Monday evening, June 17, 1912, marked the death of H.M. Ireland, one of West Bainbridge's [Chenango Co. NY] respected citizen's.  Mr. Ireland was born June 6, 1846, in West Bainbridge and was a resident of this neighborhood all his life  In the year 1871, Feb. 27, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Sweet of Coventry.  She was a woman of beautiful character and exemplary life but died June 27, 1886.  January 15, 1888, he was united in marriage to Miss Lily Terwilliger.  To this union a daughter was born June 1889, and died January 17, 1896.  Eight years ago Mr. Ireland began to break physically and was unable to follow his vocation. Three years ago L.H. Yetter with his family moved into the Ireland homestead, and faithfully cared for Mr. Ireland until death ended his earthly troubles.  He was a kind hearted man, a good neighbor and is kindly remembered by those who knew him best. The funeral services were held from the Yetter home Wednesday June 19, 1912, where the brother died. The services were in charge of Rev. Frank James, assisted by the choir.  Interment was made in the Union Valley Cemetery.  Mr. Ireland is revived by one sister, Mrs. John Matteson, two  nieces Mrs. LH. Yetter of West Bainbridge, and Mrs. Jessie M. Russell of Orlando, Florida.

 

Addie Louise Woodruff

1878  - 1913

Addie L. Woodruff died at her home in Yaleville [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY] Tuesday morning, May 20th 1913, at 6 o'clock, and was the only daughter of Lewis J. and Laviona M. Woodruff.  She was born June 8th, 1878, on her grandfather's old homestead which is known as the Beriah Bradley farm.  When about two years of age her parents removed to the place where they now reside.  Her funeral was held from her late home Friday, May 23d at 1:30, the Rev. Mr. Little of Christ Church, Guilford, officiating.  There was a profusion of flowers contributed by loving friends, which were only true symbols of her pure life and character.  She had been in failing health for some time, but her condition was not thought dangerous until Sunday, when there was a slight change, and at Monday noon she grew rapidly worse and in spite of medical skill she passed away at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning.  We can no better portray her departing hours than in the following lines:

 

We watched her breathing through the night,

Her breathing soft and low,

As in her breast the wave of life,

Kept heaving to and fro.

 

So silently we seemed to speak,

So slowly moved about,

As we had lent her half our powers

To eke her living out.

 

Our very hopes belied our fears,

Our tears our hopes bellied;

We thought her dying when she slept,

And sleeping when she died.

 

For when the morn came, dim and sad,

And chill with early showers,

Her eyelids closed; she had

Another morn than ours.

 

As review her past life from the cradle to the grave, as we have known her and seen reflected in it those beauties of daughterly love and devotion to her parents, it was her sweetest thought and wish to ever bring sunshine and good wishes into her home with all its loving sacredness to her, and with all its tender ties and associations in her mother's never failing love and devotion to an only daughter which never failed, and grew stronger and more ... in the advance of years.  Never in all the work of truth and fiction has there ever existed such a picture, so  beautiful and so expressive of loyal love between parents and daughter, and it never failed until in that Golden Sunset in death, when the dear one passed out of sight and behind the twilights "Purple hill of the New Jerusalem" where the same love will blossom forever.  Her life was full of those beautiful traits of character and a mind bright and blessed with those noble and inspiring energies of womanly nature and beauty that made her companionship sweet, and her presence everywhere was like a ray of sunshine that diffused and warmed the hearts of those who were blessed with her acquaintance.  She in her early years gave her heart to God and her church, and lived in the sunlight of that faith and hope of a blessed immortality. She was a member of Christ's Church of Guilford and was for many years a faithful member of the church choir and whose voice was so sweet in song and chorus, as we know it will be in the Heavenly choir with the angel voices singing with her Heaven's sweetest melodies. She has left behind a wealth of golden deeds.  Oh, how sad the parting and severing of the ties on earth, and yet how sweet and tender are God's promises and assurance, "that though we die, yet shall we live again in that higher life and in that supernal love and reunion with God and her dear ones.  And so she has left us just at the dawn of Spring, when all the world has turned its face and thought toward a new resurrection, bringing anew to our minds of a Risen Saviour, and so in nature's springtime we lay her away to sleep beneath the smiling face of mother earth, and to wait the glad resurrection morn, for Jesus makes us understand that we must take the parting hand.

Irma Winchell

Bainbridge News & Republican, November 9, 1944

Mrs. Irma Winchell, 53, of Windsor [Broome Co., NY], R.D.1, died Friday at the Binghamton City Hospital.  She is survived by her husband, Laurence L. Winchell, and three sons, Claude and Jack, of Windsor, R.D.1, and Lee, of Binghamton; a sister, Mrs. James Lane, and two brothers, George and Lewis Burgher, all of Endicott; three grandchildren and nine nieces and nephews.  The body was removed to the chapel of Clinton E. Wood Windsor.

 

Earl H. Friend

Bainbridge News & Republican, November 9, 1944

Earl H. Friend, 53, popular Delhi [Delaware Co., NY] florist and mail carrier, passed away very suddenly at his home in that village Wednesday, Nov. 1, after an illness of only four days.  Death was caused by coronary occlusion.  He was born Oct. 11, 1891, at Davenport [Delaware Co., NY], the son of Lena Cargil and M. Jay Friend.  The family went to Delhi in 1906 and for the past 27 years Mr. Friend had operated Friend's Greenhouses. The past 25 years he has been rural mail carrier and was soon to have been retired.

 

Howard Moore

Bainbridge News & Republican, November 9, 1944

Howard Moore, aged 52, died recently at Goshen Hospital of injuries sustained in an accident at the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. at Maybrook [Orange Co., NY].  A resident of Walden [Orange Co., NY] for three years, Mr. Moore was employed as a switch tender at the Maybrook yards.  The injuries which resulted in his death, described in the health officer's report as accidental, occurred as a motor car used in the yards to push freight engines and to switch cars struck him while he was at work. Besides a wife, one son and two daughters, he leaves three brothers, one of them at Hancock, and a sister, Mrs. Fred Turner of Deposit.