Obituaries (December 11)

Aden Deming

Utica Saturday Globe, February 1912

 

Aden Deming

1844 - 1912

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After a brief illness, lasting a little over a week, Aden Deming, a veteran of the civil war, died at his home in North Norwich, on Saturday afternoon.  Deceased was 69 years old and a native of the town of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], where he was born May 20, 1844, the son of Nelson and Mary Nichols Deming.  Mr. Deming's was record began with his enlistment in Company F, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, New York Volunteers, in August, 1862, and continued until his honorable discharge for disability in June, 1865.  Throughout this period he served with honor and distinction, never failing to be at the front in the hour of peril.  Mr. Deming was for a time a resident of Norwich and for two years conducted a feed business in the stand now occupied by H.O. Hale.  Later he conducted a feed and general store at North Norwich for six years and afterwards engaged for a time in the creamery business in New Berlin and North  Norwich.  He then turned his attention to farming, an occupation in which he succeeded., until failing strength compelled his retirement and he had since made  his residence in the village of North Norwich.  In November 1865, Mr. Deming was united in marriage to Helen Snedeker Tallman, who with two sons, Nelson, of New Berlin, and Dr. Samuel A., of Ida Grove, Iowa, survives him, besides three sisters, Mrs. A. Noble, of Syracuse, N.Y.; Mrs. A.J Shepherd, of Monroe City, Mo., and Mrs. N.O. Aylesworth, of Lincoln, Neb.  Funeral services were held from his late home on Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. Moses D. Fuller officiating. Burial was made in Mount Hope Cemetery in Norwich, Smith Post, G.A.R., having charge of the interment services.  [Glen Buell Collection, Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY]

 

Fanny Makepeace Daniels

Chenango Union, November 15, 1906

Fanny Makepeace Daniels, wife of Harvey B. Daniels, died at her home on South Broad street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] early Saturday morning, after an illness which had been considered serious for only a few hours.  She entertained the members of the Congregational choir Thursday night and Friday complained of not feeling well, but her indisposition was attributed to the nervous excitement of Thursday evening.  Friday night she grew worse and suffered from what was diagnosed as acute indigestion, but which it is believed was an intestinal ulcer.  She died about five o'clock Saturday morning.  Fanny Makepeace was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.  William Makepeace and was born in Norwich.  She graduated from Norwich High School, taught in New York City for two years and in 1901 married Harvey B. Daniels.  She was a member of the Congregational church and for years had been a faithful worker in the church and Sunday School, and especially in the choir, of which she was an efficient member. She was promiently known in society and was very popular with a large circle of people, over whom her sudden death has cast a gloom.  Funeral services were held from her late home Monday afternoon, Rev. Daniel B. Dexter officiating.

 

Albert J.E. Hubbard

Chenango Union, November 15, 1906

Albert J.E. Hubbard, son of Charles E. Hubbard, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], died last week at the National Printer's Home at Colorado Springs, Col.  Mr. Hubbard was formerly employed in the Union office and a number of years ago secured a position in the government printing office at Washington, where he remained for several years.  Later he was publisher of the Washington "Trades Unionist" but in 1908 he was obliged to go to Colorado for his health.  He established a trades paper there and conducted it up to the time of his death.  About the middle of September he came to Norwich to visit his parents, returning about the first of November.  He is survived by his parents, his wife and two sons.  His remains were  brought to Norwich for burial on Monday.