Obituaries (August 3)

Clara S. Brown

Utica Saturday Globe, July 1901

 

 

Clara S. Brown

1865 - 1901

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After less than a week's illness, Miss Clara S. Brown died at her home on the King Settlement road in the town of Norwich, recently, aged 36.  Miss Brown was born September 20, 1865, grew to womanhood and attended the Norwich village School.  Afterward she engaged in teaching and for 15 years taught continuously in the primary department of the Mitchell street school and later the Rexford street ward school.  She was greatly beloved by her pupils and by a large circle of friends.  She was a member of the Methodist church and a faithful attendant upon its services.  Deceased was unmarried and made her home with her father, Marquis D. Brown, by whom she is survived and also by three sisters, Mrs. E.R. Weed and Miss Lydia M Brown, of Norwich and Mrs. C.M. Durfee, of Waterville, and two brothers, Geroge A. Brown, of Florence, Ariz. and Edward D. Brown, of Norwich.  Her mother died 18 years ago.  Funeral services were held this (Friday) afternoon at 2 o'clock, her former pastor, Rev. Samuel Moore, now of Binghamton, officiating. Burial in the Buell Cemetery at King Settlement.

 

Catharine (Hines) Carley

Northern Christian Advocate, March 29, 1848

Mrs. Catharine Carley, wife of Samuel Carley, and daughter of James and Betsey Hines, of Brockport, died in the town of Hastings, Oswego Co., N.Y., April 1st, 1848, in the 31st year of her age.  Sister Catharine bore a long and lingering sickness with Christian fortitude and resignation.  She had, for many years, known that the Lord was her strong hold in the day of trouble.  Her tender babes were the last thing to give up. But, as she went down the steps of Jordan, the victory was won, and the text which was used at her funeral was the language of her heart:  "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."  She died in hope of a blessed immorality, leaving a husband and six small children together with a large circle of relatives, to mourn her loss.

Central Square, April 1848,---Wm. Morse.

 

Orlie Purdy

Bainbridge Republican, July 16, 1880

Tuesday afternoon, about 2 o'clock, as Dr. L.J. Purdy, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], was returning home from a professional visit on what is called the "ridge road," accompanied by his little son, Orlie, aged about seven years, and as they were crossing the Hazelton bridge the horse (which was blind) was frightened by a passing bird which struck him on the ear, causing him to jump from the bridge, throwing the carriage and occupants clear over him.  Little Orlie struck on the top of his head on the stones in the bottom of the creek, a distance of about twelve feet, crushing the whole top of his skull, and his father struck on top of him.  He was immediately picked up and carried to the nearest house, where he lived until eleven o'clock the same evening.  Dr. Johnson and Dr. Wood, of Greene, were called, but could do nothing for him.   His father sustained no serious injury.  His parents are almost crazy over the terrible death of their only son, who was a very brilliant child and respected by all who knew him. The funeral was held at 1 p.m., Thursday, at the home of his parents.

 

Lucinda Vanderhule

Bainbridge Republican, July 30, 1880

Died at Beach Hill, Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], July 18th, Mrs. Lucinda Vanderhule, wife of Samuel Vanderhule, aged 67 years.  She leaves four children, three young men and one daughter, all of age.  It was said of her:  She was a faithful wife, a devoted mother, and a kind neighbor.  The funeral was held at the Baptist church in Masonville.  The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. L.W. Jackson, assisted by the Rev. N. Ripley.  She was greatly beloved.

 

Thomas H. Lewis

Chenango Union, March 20, 1884

After years of suffering, Thomas H. Lewis died at his residence in this village, on Tuesday morning last, aged fifty-seven years.  Deceased was a son of Thomas Lewis, one of the early settlers in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]; he was born in this village, and here he resided during his life.  Graduating from Norwich Academy he taught for a number of terms in our district schools,, but the most of his life was spent in agricultural pursuits.  Of generous impulses and bright promise, he was a leader among his youthful associates, with whom he was a general favorite; and arriving at manhood's estate, he was frequently chosen by his townsmen to fill offices of trust; he was also for a number of years Under Sheriff.  He was one of the founders of the old Deluge fire company, and was long an active fireman.  For some three years past he had suffered intensely from acute inflammatory rheumatism, which, with an aggravated internal disease, terminated his life.  His widow, three daughters and one son survive him, and the sympathies of the community are theirs in their affliction.  Funeral services will be held at his late residence on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. H .A. Delano officiating.

 

Hannah (Holcomb) Ingersoll

Bainbridge Republican, May 21, 1880

INGERSOLL:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] at the residence of her grandson, Mr. Hamilton Ingersoll, May 12, 1880, Mrs. Hannah Ingersoll, aged 84 years.

 

Mrs. Ingersoll was born March 12, 1796, in the present town of Unadilla, Otsego county, and has seen all the changes incident to our country from the rough, unbroken wilderness, with its Indian camp fires and its blazed trees to guide the traveler through its dense forests, through all its grades of improvements up to its present position of culture and competence.  She was the daughter of the Rev. Levi Holcomb, one of the pioneer ministers of Western New York, and as one of his family partook of the vicissitudes and dangers of frontier life.  Upon one occasion she went with his family into the wilderness, near where Lisle, Broome county, now stands, working his roads as he went, and stored his goods under a hemlock tree, and tented in the wagon until the customary log cabin could be built for their home.  In 1815, at the age of 19 years, she was united in marriage with David Ingersoll, then a young and hardy pioneer, with whom she shared the privations and hardships incident to a new country, and limited means, for 62 years, until the death of her husband, in 1876, at the age of 85 years.  The death of her father, at the early age of 54 years, from over work and exposure in his field of labor, was among her first bereavements, although her mother, after living a widow nearly fifty years, died at the advanced age of 99 years and 11 months.  Mrs. Ingersoll was a woman of culture, rare mental gifts, and spiritual graces, and was an ornament to the church of which she was an exemplary member, having first united with the Baptist church of Coventry at the early age of 16 years, and from that day until her death was one of tis most consistent and devoted members; and although in the orderings of Providence, her lot had been to fill a membership in the church in several different localities, yet in the later years of her life she had held a membership with the 2d Baptist church of Bainbridge for a period of forty-two years.  Mr. Ingersoll, the husband of the deceased, was, from his youth, remarkable for his amiable disposition.  His exemplary deportment, his upright dealings with his fellows, and his simple, yet consistent religious life; and many are the reminiscences of his pioneer days that are treasured up by his surviving friends; of his acts of heroism and noble daring, that necessarily fell to his lot in grappling with the realities of frontier life.  Thus another of our landmarks that unites us to the past is taken away.  One who, for years, has stood like some aged pine on the mountain brow, venerable in its appearance, lofty in its attitude, grand in its surround, and majestic in its fall.