Obituaries (November 15)

Bradford J. McNitt

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1911

 

 

Bradford J. McNitt

1867 - 1911

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Bradford J. McNitt died at his home, four mile southeast of this village, on Tuesday night at the age of 44.  The immediate cause of his death was pneumonia which developed after an accident which befell him two weeks ago while working in the woods.  While prying a log from a pile the lever slipped and Mr. McNitt was thrown with great force upon the logs.  He struck on his shoulder apparently unhurt, but two days later he came to Norwich to consult a physician.  His shoulder blade was injured and he suffered intense pain.  Upon the advice of the physician he returned home and went to bed.  Two days later pneumonia had developed.  Mr. McNitt was the son of John McNitt, who died several years ago.  He is survived by his mother, his wife and one son, 9 years of age.  He leaves four brothers, Nelson and Irving McNitt of Oxford; Adelbert McNitt, of Greene, and Frederick McNitt, of Norwich.  He also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Christopher Zoerb and Miss Minnie McNitt, of Norwich, and Mrs. George Sheridan, of Sherburne.  Funeral services were held from the home on Friday afternoon, Rev. Ira Wilcox Bingham officiating.  [Glenn Buell Collection, Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY]

 

Minnie (Quinn) Connellan

Utica Saturday Globe,  March 1911

 

 

Minnie (Quinn) Connellan

1874 - 1911

 

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After a brief but painful illness, Mrs. John J. Connellan passed peacefully away at the home where she was born and had always lived.  Rarely has death brought sorrow to so many hearts in Norwich and neighborhood.  Mrs. Connellan was born December 9, 1874, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Quinn.  She was graduated from Norwich High School in the class of 1893.  For several years she taught district schools near Norwich and for some time was a bookkeeper in the store of M.W. Cox.  She was a member of the Ladies' Auxiliary of A.O.H. of the L.C.B.A. and the Rosary Society and had been a trusted officer in each of these societies.  She was a devout member of St. Paul's Church and all her life had been active in administering the worthy charities of that church.  She had been a teacher in the Sunday school, a member of the choir and was earnestly devoted in every work that tended to the progress of the Catholics of Norwich.  Thirteen years ago she was married to John J. Connellan, of Norwich, who with a little daughter, Helen Agnes, aged three months, survives her, as do also her parents and one sister, Mrs. Samuel J. Braskett, of Poolville.  She was a loving daughter and a devoted wife, always busy in some effort to enhance the happiness of those about her.  Her sunny disposition and her strong grasp upon things that are worth while in life won a wide circle of friends, among whom she will be sadly missed.  One of the largest funeral corteges ever seen in Norwich followed the remains to their last resting place on Wednesday morning.  The services at St. Paul's Church were conducted by Rev. Father Prendergast, assisted by Father Hyland, of Utica, and Father MacDonald, of Hamilton,, read solemn high mass.  There were many beautiful flowers, including designs from the K. of C., the A.O.H.D. of E., Rosary choir, Borden Condensary and others.  Music was by the church choir.  [Glen Buell Collection, Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY]

 

Budd D. Wood

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1911

 

 

Budd D. Wood

1889 - 1911

 

News reached Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on Sunday of the death of Budd D. Wood, which occurred at the State Sanitarium for Tuberculosis at Raybrook on Saturday evening.  The news came as a surprise and shock to many friends in this village, where he attended the High School for about a year before his enlistment.   Budd Wood was born in Butler, Pa. May 22. 1889.  His father was killed  in his occupation of oil shooter and after the death of his mother Budd was adopted by his aunt, Mrs. Mary E Wheeler, who brought him up as her own son and could not have been more strongly attached to him if such had been the fact.  Bud came to Norwich in 1905, his adopted mother making her home here with her daughter, Mrs. Ira  H. Hyde.  In August 1904, he went to Hartford, Conn., and enlisted in the navy and was assigned to the cruiser Glacier.  He proved himself to be of the right sort of stuff when his ship was in collision with the Des Moines in a storm.  Wood was at the wheel at the time and it was through his coolness that a serious disaster, if not complete destruction of the vessel, was averted.  He accompanied the united States fleet on its memorable tour around the world under the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.  It was while the fleet was coaling at Yokohama that he was forced to work several days in the snow and sleet, being constantly on duty, and the exposure resulted in a cold that culminated in the disease that caused his death.  He was honorably discharged from the service at San Francisco on his 21st birthday, May 22, 1910. He came to Norwich, where he spent the summer and then passed several weeks in a camp in the Adirondacks.  In November last, through the kindly interest of ex-Senator Allds, he was admitted to the Raybrook Sanitarium.  He is survived  by one brother, Frank Wood, of Utica. Funeral services were held on Wednesday at Munnsville, Madison county, the former home of the boy's adopted mother, Mrs. Wheeler.  Burial was made in the Stockbridge Cemetery.  Among those who attended was John A. Newman, a former shipmate of the deceased, now of the United States cruiser Lancaster, League Island, Philadelphia.  [Glen Buell Collection, Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY]