Obituary (October 19)

Hiram D. Merithew

Utica Saturday Globe, April 1905

 

 

Hiram D. Merithew

1823 - 1905

Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]:  At his home just north of this village Friday afternoon, April 7, occurred the death of Hiram D. Merithew, after an illness of some months with consumption.  He had reached the advanced age of 82 years.  Mr. Merithew was born in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] in 1823, but had spent the greater part of his life in the town of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] where for many years he was a prominent farmer.  In 1846 he was united in marriage with Lavinia Burrows, of Guilford, who survives with two sons, Elmer, of Guilford, and Frederick E., of Jackson, Tenn.;  two daughters, Mrs. William Yager, of Newark, N.J., and Mrs. Harriet Peck, of Binghamton; one brother, Lyman Merithew, of Norwich.  His funeral was held from his late home Sunday, and interment was made in Mount Hope Cemetery, Norwich.

 

Daniel B. Ainsworth

Chenango Union, November 26, 1874

AINSWORTH:  In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 7th, Mr. Daniel B. Ainsworth, aged 74 years.  Mr. Ainsworth was a native of the State of Connecticut, but at an early age he came in New Berlin, where he had resided over fifty years.  Coming into New Berlin when the country was new, he became identified with the growth and development of the town, and was generally known and respected as one of its oldest and best citizens.  At the early age of nineteen, he married Rhoda Leach, with whom he shared the joys and ills of this life for the period of fifty years.  On the 19th of June last, Mrs. Ainsworth died very suddenly, of disease of the heart, and from that day her husband was filled with sadness and grief; and though a man of great strength of body and mind, yet when death struck down the partner of his life, he was unmanned, and amid his gloom and sorrow became a victim of that terrible disease known as "Bright's Disease," and after a brief illness of five days, he too was laid in the grave, by the side of her he so fondly loved in life, now mourned by a large circle who can only think and trust in the bright forever.

 

Viola Searles

Bainbridge Republican, February 10, 1888

Died, January 6th, 1888, at Herndon, Guthrie county, Iowa, of quick consumption, Viola, wife of Burton M. Searles, aged about 35 years.  Eight years ago this month, Mr. and Mrs. Searles left this place for the west, and settled on a farm in Central Iowa, where they have since resided.  Mrs. Searles was a former resident of Colesville, Broome county.  Three children are left without the care of a good mother.

 

Mrs. Stephen Hungerford

Bainbridge Republican, February 3, 1888

Stephen Hungerford is having more than his share of affliction.  Four of his children died last year, in June and July, of diphtheria.  On Tuesday night his wife, heart broken, followed them to the unseen shore.  Her age was 39--Oneonta Herald

 

Hon. George Scramling

Bainbridge Republican, February 4, 1887

Hon. George Scramling died suddenly at his home in Oneonta, Jan. 30, at 7 o'clock, a.m. of apoplexy.  Judge Scramling was a member of Assembly from this district in 1877 and was elected County Judge in the fall of 1883.  His death is a heavy loss to the town of Oneonta and to the Bar of Otsego county.