Obituaries (July 5)

Harry E. Doyle

Utica Saturday Globe, May 25, 1907

 

 

Harry E. Doyle

 



Harry E. Doyle met his death while at his duties of flagman on the Watertown branch of the New York Central lines, shortly after noon on Tuesday.  He was a member of a local freight crew and when the train reached McKee's about eight miles north of Rome the engine was cut loose to do some switching.  Flagman Doyle stepped in between the rails in front of the still moving cars to turn a valve and apply the air brakes to stop the train.  Brakeman Burke Maloney, of Sherburne, who was also a member of the train crew and saw the accident, says that before Doyle reached the valve he stumbled and fell but regained his feet.   and was making further effort to reach the valve when he again stumbled.  As he fell his body was outside the rail but his head rested on the rail and before he could throw himself out of the way he was caught by the wheels.  Death was instantaneous.  The body was taken aboard a freight car to Rome when Coroner Hubbard ordered it carried to the Orton undertaking room pending an inquest.  Other witnesses corroborate Brakeman Maloney's account of the accident.  The conductor of the train was Timothy Goulding and the engineer Mott Jones, both residents of Utica.  Harry Doyle was a native of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] and was 24 years old last October.  He was a son of Baggageman Thomas Doyle, of the New York, Ontario & Western.  In 1902 he married Miss Cora Usher, of Utica [Oneida Co., NY], and at the time of his death his home was in that city.  He is survived by his widow, his parents, two brothers, Fred, of Chicago, and Joseph , of Norwich, and by three sisters, Mazie, Rose and Florence, all of Norwich.  He was  a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and highly regarded among his associates.  The funeral was held Friday at Utica with interment in that city.

Charles W. Gage

Syracuse Journal, July 11, 1890

The funeral of the late Charles W. Gage was held here Thursday.  Mr. Gage died on Tuesday, in the 57th year of his age.   In 1843, when ten years of age, his mother died, and when thirteen years old his father died, leaving him to make his own way in the world.  At the age of sixteen, Mr Gage went to Cleveland, Oswago county, where he began work in the chair factory of Hitchcock & Son, and by economy saved a little money, enabling him to attend the schools in Albany county for a year.  In 1854 he married Abigail Pearsall and the following year moved to Homer, where he began to work for Raymond Smith.  At this time Mr. Gage invented and received patents on several useful articles, among which were a churn, a butter worker and an antirattling shaft coupling.  In 1868 he first established what afterward developed into the immense business of which he was for so many years the head.  Starting alone he gathered more and more help about him until more than a hundred workmen were in the employ of what was finally known as the firm of Gage, Hitchcock & Co., manufacturers of cutter woods, and from a small shop improvised from an old barn the works were enlarged to several buildings three and four stories in height. When Mr. Gage began the wholesale manufacture of cutter woods the facilities for doing the work were of such a character that the cost of manufacture was five or six times what it now is. the great reduction was due almost entirely to improvements in machinery invented by Mr. Gage, one of the most important being a machine for sawing around a log, by which  thin lumber for dash boards was turned out.  He has at different times held various local offices, as trustee and president of the village, president of the Cortland County Agricultural society, etc.  In 1882 he was the Republican candidate of this county for the office of member of Assembly.  He leaves a wife, one son, Adelbert S. and three daughters, Belle M., wife of Edwin C. Johnson of Afton, N.Y., Carrie M. wife of Frank Bronson of Binghamton, and Miss Frances D. Gage.

Jacob Hammond Medbury

Chenango Union, June 7, 1888

On Monday morning inst., J.H. Medbury of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] who was visiting his son, Enos in Bainbridge met with a shocking accident, which resulted in his death in the afternoon.  His son is a machinist in the Gilbert Manufacturing Company's works, and the father, who had been visiting him over Sunday, was walking up the track from the depot to the factory to bid his son a final good-bye, when the way freight, which was switching in the yard, flew a car in on that track, the drawhead striking the old gentleman on the back and throwing him on his face in such a  manner that his left arm was cut off near the shoulder and his right leg near the knee.  He was observed by the brakemen, who called to him, and did everything in their power to warn him of his danger, but in vain.  He was carried to the depot, where Dr. Evans, assisted by Drs. Place and Copley, amputated both arm and foot.  He died at 3:45 in the afternoon.  Coroner Spencer, of Guilford, was summoned, who held an inquest in the evening.  Deceased was seventy-seven years of age, and resided on a farm on the east side of the river, near Afton.

Lucy A. (Bradley) Bush

1815 -  1910

Tuesday afternoon all that was mortal of Mrs. Lucy A. Bush was tenderly laid to rest in the family plot in Guilford cemetery [Sunset Hill] and the grave covered with beautiful flowers.  By her death which occurred Saturday morning March 19th, Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] has lost not only one of her most respected citizens, but the most aged one.  Born August 13, 1815, she had nearly reached the age of ninety-five years.  In referring to her long useful Christian life R.M. Pascoe, who conducted the services at her late home at 1:30 p.m., used the appropriate text--Job 5:26--"Thou shall come to thy grave in full age, like a shock of corn cometh in his season."  The favorite hymns of the deceased were sung by a quartet: "Jesus Lover of My Soul," "A Few More Years Shall Roll," and "Asleep in Jesus."  Mrs. Bush was the daughter of Ira and Charlotte Mills Bradley and has been a life long resident of this town.  She united with the Guilford Center Congregational church over seventy-five years ago and for eighty years has been a member of the Guilford Methodist church.  January 14, 1840, she was married to David Bush by Rev. J.L. James of the Congregational church and has survived her husband twenty-one years.  She is survived by one brother, Uri Bradley, nearly eighy-five, two children, Emory D. Bush and Mrs. Louise Bromley of Guilford; and three grandchildren, Mrs. E.H. Burlison of Unadilla, Mrs. Alfred Ives and Mrs. W.P. Shelton.  Owing to a fall seventeen years ago, which resulted in a broken hip, she has since been a cripple but retained an active interest in home and church affairs. Oon her 90th birthday she was surprised by a gathering of friends, that has gradually failed for the past few years. 

Sarah Jane (Jackson) Wheeler

1838 -  1910

Entered into rest May 12th at 9 o'clock, Sarah Jane, beloved wife of Willis Wheeler.  After a long time suffering which was borne with resignation to her Savior's will, she received her reward.  The deceased was the eldest daughter of the late Levinus B. and Caroline Jackson born Dec. 2d, 1838.  She gave her heart to God in early youth and united with the Free Will Baptist church of Oxford, then in after years she moved into Oxford village when she united with the Congregational Church by letter.  Her Christian life was an exemplar one of gentleness and kindness ever ready to lend the helping hand to the poor and needy, with a kind word and smile for every one.  She attended the house of God as long as her health would permit.  For the past two years she has been so afflicted that she could not attend, but her faith in her Savior did not waver, she relied fully on his word.  With weeping friends standing around she sweetly fell asleep to rise to meet a father, mother and sister who had passed on before her.  She is survived by her bereaved husband, two sisters, Mrs. Martin Holmes of Afton and Mrs. Susan Phelps of Union Valley, one uncle, nearly 90, three nieces and one grand niece, but their loss is her gain.  She has overtopped the mountain.

But when the light of morning

Broke in her little room,

She rose and cried Hosanna

Deliverance has come.

[Buried West Bainbridge Cemetery, Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]

Death Notices

Cortland Standard, April 21, 1904
GAGE:  In Afton, N.Y., April 19, 1904, Mrs. Abigail Gage, widow of the late Charles W Gage, formerly of Homer, n.Y., aged 74 years.  Burial in Homer, N.Y.

McGRAW:  In Peshtigo, Wis., April 10, 1904, Mrs. Jared McGraw, aged 76 years.