Nathaniel Sykes Donaldson
Utica Saturday Globe, September 1911
Nathaniel Sykes Donaldson
1839 - 1911
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: At his home on Brown street suddenly on Wednesday morning, occurred the death of Nathaniel Sykes Donaldson, aged 71. Mr. Donaldson was apparently in his usual health and was engaged in mowing the lawn when he was seen to fall to the ground and was dead when he was reached by the people near him. he had been troubled with heart disease for several years. Mr. Donaldson was born in Butternuts, Otsego county, N.Y., on December 31, 1839, and was a son of Lewis and Hannah Millard Donaldson. February 7, 1867, he married Eliza Coggeshell, who with one son, Scott R. Donaldson, survives. Mr. Donaldson was a carpenter by trade and had followed that occupation for some years in this village. During recent years he had been employed at the works of the W.L. Scott Lumber Company. For some years he served as member of the village Board of Trustees. Mr. Donaldson served in the civil war as a member of Company E, Second New York Heavy Artillery. He was a member of Smith Post, G.A.R., the Norwich Lodge, F.&A.M., and a director in the Chenango Cooperative building and Loan Association. The funeral will be held from his late home Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The commitment services will be in charge of Norwich lodge. [Glen Buell Collection, Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY]
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