Obituaries (December 7)

Rev. Dr. Samuel Moore

Utica Saturday Globe, December 1911

 

 

Rev. Dr. Samuel Moore

1836 - 1911

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Rev. Dr. Samuel Moore passed out of this life Saturday afternoon at his residence on Locust street.  Dr. Moore was one of the best known and had been one of the most active ministers in the Wyoming Conference until he was smitten with apoplexy in October, 1909, since which time he had been quite helpless.  Deceased was born January 21, 1836, in the town of Broome, Schoharie county, the sixth of seven children.  He was educated in the public schools and was educated in the public schools and in the old Norwich Academy, afterward teaching for a time.  He was converted and became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Norwich during the winter of 1855-56.  In 1862 he was granted a local preacher's license by the Norwich quarterly conference and after supplying for a year at Masonville, N.Y., united with the Oneida Conference in 1863.  In 1869 he became a member of the Wyoming Conference when by act of the General Conference the Oneida district was dissolved and the territory divided among the Wyoming, the Central New York and the Northern New York conferences.  Excepting for a few years spent in the west he remained a member of the Wyoming Conference, serving churches at Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Carbondale in Pennsylvania and Waverly and Norwich in New York State.  he was twice presiding elder, first in the Owego district of the Wyoming Conference and later in the Tacoma district of the Puget Sound Conference.  He was also financial agent of the Puget Sound University and afterwards of the Wyoming Seminary.  He was a strong and eloquent preacher and very successful in his life work.  He resumed his residence in Norwich in the spring of 1910 and until a few weeks before his death had been a faithful attendant upon the Sunday morning and mid-week services of the Broad Street Methodist church, from which his presence will be greatly missed.  Dr. Moore was twice married, his first wife being Laura J. Day, to whom he was married March 14, 1860, and who passed on to the life beyond January 31, 1901.  Of the five children born of this union only one, a son, Rev. E.J. Moore, survives.  On February 5, 1902, Dr. Moore married Miss Mary D. Brewer, who during the long period of his helplessness cared for and ministered to him with unsurpassed faithfulness.  Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Dr. Fuller officiating.

 

George Knapp & Lovicy Winsor

Chenango Union, August 1, 1878

Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] News Items:  Since our last writing Time has worn well into the summer and carried with it many changes both in nature and man.  From the green blossoming fields of early June, we are now in the midst of an abundant harvest.  The late broad acres of ripening grass have nearly all been gathered into the barns, and the golden fields of grain that map our hill sides on every hand are ready to yield their bounties to the husbandman.  And those later crops of Autumn now promise as bountiful a return for the labors of these honored sons of toil.  Meantime, the never ceasing hand of Death has made changes among our fellow men, and carried suffering and sorrow into many households.  It has taken from our community several of its most respected citizens.  Among these, of whom the Union made brief mention at the time, were Mr. George Knapp and Mrs. Lovicy Winsor, of Ives' Settlement, just south east of our village.  They were both early settlers in that part of our town, enduring the hardships and privations incident to the times, and both lived to witness the great changes and innovations of the country.  Mrs. Winsor was something over ninety at her death, and retained her faculties to the end.  Mr. Knap we remember in our younger days as one of the most reliable and respected among our townsmen.  This reputation he bore with him through life.  He reared a large and respected family, of whom our late District Attorney, David H. Knapp, was one.  We never tire of recounting the virtues of these old settlers; theirs was a hard lot, yet they discharged its arduous responsibilities with praise worthy credit.

 

Eppenetus Winsor

Norwich, Sun, June 4, 1930

Eppenetus Winsor, a highly respected citizen of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] for more than fifty years, died in the early morning of June 4, at the home of Mrs. John F. Skillman on Guernsey street, following an illness of several weeks.  On Sunday last he reached the age of seventy-six, having been born in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] on June 1, 1854.  As a young man he left the village of his birth and boyhood and came to Norwich to enter the employ of Joseph Latham, father of Charles H. Latham of this city and former well known  hardware merchant.  For fifty years Mr. Winsor plied his trade as a sheet metal worker and his was the unique distinction of having labored all that time not only in the same community but at the same location, continuing at his bench as the ownership and management of the business passed successively to new and younger hands.  It was only a few years ago, when the firm was known as Reynolds, Thompson and Robinson, that he was forced by reason of advanced age and failing health to lay down his tools forever.  His constancy in business was no less marked than his faithfulness to every other important trust.  His friends of advanced years recall his marriage on Christmas Day of 1887 to Miss Julia Esther Randall with whom he lived devotedly until death claimed her December 27, 1914.  An earlier sorrow had been the death of his little daughter, Katherine Irene, who was born November  12, 1888, and who died February 18, 1892.  The loss of his child and later of his wife was an ever present sorrow which, in spite of its magnitude, neither repressed his spirit nor dimmed his faith.  As Mr. Winsor was loyal to the obligations of home and business, so he was loyal to the challenge from on high and active as a communicant of Emmanuel church, he devoted his talent to the spread of Christ's kingdom among men. The fidelity and achievement of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the parish but more especially in East Norwich is owning in large measure to the active and valuable leadership of Eppenetus Winsor. The result of the services and classes in religion as conducted Sunday after Sunday, summer and winter, in the schoolhouse at East Norwich, is a band of young men and women now scattered over the country but who with one accord would rise up and call this man "blessed."  His body will remain in the church tonight and there, tomorrow morning, at ten o'clock, his many friends will attend his last rite.  Included in the number will be the membership of Norwich lodge, F.&A.M. to which body he belonged.  Included also will be his near relatives of whom there are but a few, namely Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth P. Winsor and their daughter, Ella M., brother and sister-in-law and niece, respectively of Greene; and William W. Nash a nephew, of Guilford.  All well respect the memory of a man they loved and pray for him who served his day and generation unselfishly and well.

 

Death Notices

Chenango Union, April 17, 1867

 

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], April 12th, Georgie Cushman, daughter of George and Elizabeth Rider, aged 6 months and 27 days.

 

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], April 10th, Carrie N., daughter of D.W. and R.J. Garlick, aged 2 months and 16 days.

 

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], April 10th, Mr. Charles Durrant, aged 24 years, formerly a resident of this village [Norwich, NY].

 

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], March 28th, Sarah, wife of Charles B. Haynes, aged 69 years.

 

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], April 13th, Helen D., wife of Lafayette Winsor, aged 29 years.

 

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], April 8th, Melissa, wife of Lewis Burdick, aged 60 years.