Obituaries (June 3)

Myra (Underhill) Cook

Utica Saturday Globe, April 21, 1906

 

Mrs. Myra (Underhill) Cook

 

After a prolonged illness, Mrs. Myra Cook died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Underhill, in Lestershire [Broome Co., NY], Friday afternoon, aged 41.  Mrs. Cook was born near Binghamton and passed the greater portion of her life in that vicinity.  For some eight or nine years she was a resident of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], but some three months ago having become an incurable sufferer from Bright's disease she went to the home of her parents.  While a resident of Norwich the deceased was an active member in the local lodge.  Daughters of Pocahontas, and her last wish was that she be buried here.  Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin on North Broad street, Rev.  Dr. W.D. Benton officiating.  The members of the D. of P. attended in a body.  Interment was made in Mount Hope Cemetery [Norwich, NY].  Besides her parents, she is survived by her husband, George A. Cook, of Norwich, by two brothers, Harvey L. Underhill, of Hallstead, Pa., and Leonard of Binghamton, and by two sisters Mrs. E.T. Walton and Mrs. S.D.Carman, of Lestershire.

 

Samuel Derby

Bainbridge Republican, October 2, 1879

Samuel Derby, a well known citizen of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] died on Thursday morning, aged 59 years.  The funeral will be held at his late residence, on Saturday forenoon, at 11 o'clock.

 

John Vanderwacker

Bainbridge Republican, October 2, 1879

John Vanderwacker, the oldest resident of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] died Tuesday night at the advanced age of 97 years.  Deceased was a pensioner of the war of 1912.  The funeral took place on Thursday.

 

George Emmet Hubbell

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, January 27, 1883

The usually pleasant household of A.R. Hubbell was saddened on Wednesday last, the 24th by death's visitation, taking away their little son, George Emmet, aged four and a half years.  The funeral took place today, Friday at the home on Miller street, Rev. L.C. Hayes officiating.  Mr. Ely P. Hubbell, of the Elmira Telegram, a brother of the boy, was in attendance.  The family has our sympathy in their affliction.

 

Chauncey Beardsley

Bainbridge Republican, October 2, 1879

News and Wave, Sidney Plains:  Chauncey Beardsley, a well-known farmer living three miles east of Gilbertsville [Otsego Co., NY], was drowned in the Butternut creek, near that place, last Saturday evening.  He had been to the village, and it is supposed he was intoxicated at the time of his death.  A new bridge is being built across the creek and teams are obliged to pass through the stream, and late at night as he was driving across, the seat upon which he was seated was thrown out together with himself, and the team went home and into the wagon house, and as Mr. B. did not return the team was immediately driven back and inquiries made for the missing man.  He was soon found drowned in tHe creek.  he leaves a family and was worth some property.

 

Smith Baker

Bainbridge Republican, October 24, 1879

One by one the pioneers of the country are dropping away, and but a few years will intervene ere those men who lived, when the country hereabouts was new will be as scarce as are Revolutionary heroes now.  This time we are called upon to chronicle the death of Smith Baker, who died the 17th inst, at the advanced age of 83 years, at Center Village, Broome county [NY].  Mr. Baker was born in Hunter, Greene county [NY], but at the early age of nine years, removed with his parents on to the farm on which he died, having for over 74 years made it his home. Here he married and raised a family of five children--two sons and three daughters, all of whom are now living, and with a widow mourn the departure of a kind father and husband.  Although not a professed Christian nor member of any particular church organization, Mr. Baker belonged to that class of men whose Christianity consists in deeds, not words bolstered by the cloak of pretension.  He was a good neighbor, charitable to the deserving poor, and universally liked by all who knew him.  By industry and economy, added to careful business habits, he had amassed wealth, which he used liberally to make those happy connected with him.  There were four generations of his family present at the funeral obsequies, numbering seventy-eight persons.  The remains were interred in the cemetery on the Plains at Center Village, and were followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of relatives and friends.