Obituaries (July 19)

Cora Bell (Gregory) Roberts

Utica Saturday Globe, February 1902

 

 

Cora Bell (Gregory) Wilmer

 



Mrs. Wilmer Roberts died of consumption at her home in Camden, N.J., Sunday night, aged 24.  The news of the sad event reached Norwich early Monday morning and Mrs. Roberts' mother, Mrs. H.E. Gregory, left immediately for Camden.  Until her marriage to Mr. Roberts, deceased was Miss Cora Gregory and lived in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] for a number of years, attending the High School.  As a  young lady,  she was much admired for her beauty and made many friends.  Her marriage to Mr Roberts took place in Philadelphia a few years ago, but for some time their home had been in Camden.  During the past six months Mrs. Roberts had suffered intensely but bore up bravely, showing great fortitude throughout all of her illness and she passed peacefully into the great beyond.  Her early demise is regretted by none more than her Norwich friends. The funeral occurred at Camden on Wednesday.  Her mother, Mrs. A.E. Gregory, and a sister, Miss Carrie Gregory, survive.

 

Annah (Bigelow) Bush

1821 - 1895

 

BUSH:  In Tioga Pa., Aug. 26, 1895, Annah Bigelow, widow of the late A.C. Bush, formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]. [Chenango American, Greene, NY, September 12, 1895]

 

Entered into rest, Monday, August the 26th at her home in Tioga, Pa., Annah Bigelow, widow of the late A.C. Bush.  It is fitting that here in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], where Mrs. Bush grew to womanhood, and whose occasional visits of kinship are well remembered, some tribute should be paid to her memory.  She was born in 1821, and was a sister of Mrs. Adeline Kidder, deceased, and daughter of Judge Levi Bigelow, who was prominently associated with the early history of Bainbridge and Chenango county.  Mrs. Bush married and moved to Tioga, Pa., when quite young and it was in that quiet little village that her life was brought to a close.  For an interval of about fifteen years she, with her husband, passed her winters in New York city, returning to Tioga for the summer months.  In New York as in her country home Mrs. Bush was noted for her precious hospitality and charming manner.  Her house was always open and her cordiality and courtesy unbounded.  Possessed with rare versatility in the use of her pen, she found one of her greatest pleasures in the interchange of letters with her many friends.  She had traveled much on both continents and was a woman of wide culture and reading.  She was endowed by nature with many delightful qualities, and one that perhaps most forcibly impressed her friends, was her fidelity to those she loved.  Her faith once given, it never faltered and none who have been privileged to know her can forget her high bred welcome and kindly treatment.  She was a devoted church woman and gave liberally of her means and time to the support of St. Andrews' church in Tioga.  There, in the little village among the hills, in the midst of her friends and under the shadows of the great trees that waved their welcome to the bride of fifty years ago, she sweetly and peacefully sank into that deep rest, which is eternal.  "He giveth His beloved sleep."

 

Ellen Bigelow Bush Mathews

Winona Daily Republican Herald, March 19, 1907

 

The funeral of the late Mrs. John A. Mathews has been set for Thursday afternoon at 2:10 o'clock form the family residence at the corner of Fourth and Market streets.  Mrs. Mathews died quite suddenly last evening a few hours after having suffered a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. and Mrs.  Mathews had been spending the winter at the home of Mrs. E.S. Gregory, and had only recently returned to their own home.  Mrs. Mathews is survived by her husband and by two nieces, Mrs. E.S. Gregor, of this city and Mrs. Elmer G. Chamberlain of Devil's Lake, North Dakota, who were brought up as members of the family.  Mrs. Mathews was seventy-five years of age and came to Winona [Minnesota] from Tioga, Pa., as a bride in 1855, having spent her entire wedding life in this city.  A little over a year ago she and Mr. Mathews celebrated their golden wedding anniversary  She occupied a prominent position in Winona social circles for many years, but lately, with advancing years, had led a more retired life. She was a woman of most kindly disposition who in her long life did much good in a quiet way and who was universally esteemed by all who knew her.  She will be greatly missed by a wide circle of friends.

 

Adaline (Bigelow) Kidder

Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 9, 1894

 

Mrs. Adaline Kidder, widow of the late Elliot J. Kidder, died at her home in Bainbridge, Tuesday morning, Feb. 6.  Her death was the result of a stroke of paralysis, received September last.  Her life went out in suffering, but calmly and trustingly had she waited for the summons to join the "silent majority" and find rest.  Mrs. Stella A. Yale and Miss Annah Kidder, her only children, were with her during her long illness, doing all  that the most intense love could suggest to sooth the long ordeal of pain.  Although the sad event had been expected for many weeks, when the shock came--

 

"There fell upon the house a sudden gloom,

A shadow on those features fair and thin;

And softly from that hushed and darkened room

Two angel issued, where but one went in."

 

Mrs. Kidder was born in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 22, 1818, and married to Elliot J. Kidder, of Grafton, Vermont, Dec. 15, 1845. Of the relatives of her immediate family, one brother and two sisters survive her.  These are William Bigelow, of Englewood, New Jersey, Mrs. Annah Bush and Mrs. Stella Smith, of Tioga, Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Kidder was the daughter of Levi Bigelow, one of the former residents of Bainbridge, a leading man in the place and widely known throughout Chenango county for many years as lawyer and judge.  Mr Bigelow resided for some time in the hotel now called the Central House, thence moved to East Main street, occupying the house at present owned by William Payne, establishing his law office in the yard through which passed Front street.  In this office were wont to gather the younger lawyers of the town and the only living member of that coterie of half a century ago speak in warmest praise of the friendly counsel and gracious hospitality received in that olden time from Judge Bigelow.  Mrs. Kidder was a woman of rare charm of manner, inheriting from her father fine social qualities and buoyancy of temperament, and although a person of much sorrow, permitted no cloud to mar the enjoyment of others.  Those who knew her so well--and all in her native town knew her--old and young, all classes and conditions of people were always touched by her bright, cordial, sympathetic spirit, her devotion to her family, her kindly interest for those in trouble, and in whatever concerned her dearly loved village--Bainbridge.  Mrs. Kidder was a member of the Episcopal Church in Bainbridge from childhood, and though for several years had spent her winters in Washington, being a communicant of St. John's Episcopal Church there, yet her active work and zeal for her home church never waned, during the changes of her long life.  Mrs. Kidder's life will be a delightful memory to be cherished as an example of perennial youth as an embodiment of all that was genial, companionable, and loving in attractive woman hood.  The pathos of her death send a thrill of deep sympathy through all hearts and a community mourns with the bereaved, the great loss.  Impressive funeral services were held at the Episcopal church, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  Mourners and friends filled the house.  An abundance of the choicest flowers surrounded the bier and the handsome coffin rested amid a display of beautiful tributes.  Rev A.G. Singsen officiated.  The last sad rites ended in the burial of a beloved mother, a kind sister, the dearest of friends in the Episcopal Cemetery.