Charles Augustus Houghton
Utica Saturday Globe, March 1914
Charles A. Houghton, Sr.
1842 - 1914
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: After a brief illness of acute indigestion, Charles A. Houghton, Sr., died at his home on Maydole street on Tuesday morning, aged 72. The deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jephial Houghton and was born in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] but had spent the larger share of his life in Norwich. For more than 40 years he was an employee at the David Maydole Hammer Factory, most of the time as foreman of the polishing department. He was a veteran of the civil war, serving in the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment, New York Volunteers. He was a comrade in Smith Post, G.A.R. For many years he had been a leading member of the local lodge of Odd Fellows. Mr. Houghton was twice married, his first wife having been Annie Fisk, of Middletown, whom he married August 10, 1862. She died in February, 1908, and in November, 1910, Mr. Houghton married Mrs. Libbie Russell, of Norwich, who survives him. He is also survived by one daughter, Miss Jessie Houghton, of Norwich, and two sons, Ansel Houghton, of Portland, Maine, and Charles Houghton, Jr., of Norwich. There are also three sisters, Mrs. Julia Madden, of Seaside, Oregon; Mrs. Harriet Young, of Harrisville, Mich., and Mrs. Alice E. King, of Harrisville, Mich., and a brother, Ansel Houghton, of Harrisville, Mich.
Hattie Evans
Sidney Record, September 13, 1888
The death of Hattie, the only child of Mrs. Evans, occurred last Saturday and was learned with deep regret on all sides. To her mother this burden of grief is an unusually heavy one, and leaves her alone in the world. Hattie was a bright, companionable girl; only sixteen years of age, with a bright future apparently before her. A large company gathered at the funeral Monday afternoon, including teachers and scholars of the Academy. Six young ladies, dressed in white and wearing black shawls and gloves, acted as a special escort. The mortuary chamber and the beautiful white casket were banked in masses of flowers, and floral designs. The services were conducted by Rev. H.B. Benedict, assisted by Rev. W. Thorpe and Rev. A.M. Colgrove.
Lelia Preston Flaesch
[Source Unknown*] May 28, 1910
Last Monday ev'g, 23rd inst., the sad, but not unexpected news, of the death in Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], of Mrs. Lelia Preston Flaesch, the beloved and highly esteemed wife of Attorney Charles O. Flaesch, brought a feeling of keen sympathy and deep sorrow into every heart. The homelike devotion of Mrs. Flaesch, her brilliant social qualities and kindliness of heart, and now her death, leaves a broken home circle that she idolized, in the gloom of despondency. Every joy, every happiness and success of life were hers, and to be thus ruthlessly torn away by death's cold hand, kindles in every heart a sense of keen sorrow. Mr. Flaesch's illness was a comparatively brief one, a fact which makes it the more difficult to realize that the fatal day so soon arrived. Only last Wednesday, 18th inst., occurred her birthday anniversary, and sunshine broke thro' the gloom of her sick room when she received from friends cheering letters, flowers and other evidences of their love and sympathy. The services take place as we go to press on Thursday afternoon. May 26th and are to be held at St. Matthew's church, with the Eastern Star Chapter in charge at the grave.
Susan A. Evans
[Source Unknown*] April 23, 1910
The death of Mrs. Susan A. Evans last Sunday, the 17th inst., removes from this locality one of Sidney's [Delaware Co., NY] oldest residents, who resided here practically all her life and was highly esteemed by a large circle of friends as a most worthy and kindly Christian lady. The farm owed by the family for many years is located about one mile at East End of the Corporation and has been willed to the children of the late Dr. Coe, who died in California. Mrs. Evan's husband, the late Wallace Evans, died in Sidney 24 years ago. Funeral services were held at the house last Tuesday afternoon, followed by interment in Prospect Hill cemetery [Sidney, NY].
Harry Benedict Cecil
[Source Unknown*] April 27, 1910
People in this locality will learn with a sense of the deepest sorrow on the death by drowning at Butteville, Oregon, of Harry Benedict Cecil, a well educated man and member of an old English family, who worked about four years ago on the Copley farm near Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY]. He was a studious, kindly gentleman and preferred the quiet of farm life where he could pursue his studies and writing without hindrance. About four years ago Mr. Cecil took a trip to England to visit his well connected relations. This visit he particularly enjoyed. Returning to the United States, he went to Oregon. He was known to many people in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] and occasionally preached at the Unitarian church in the Searles block about five years ago during the occasional absence of the pastor Rev. H.E. Gilchrist. The decedent was a descendant of a distinguished family, his father being a Colonel in the British army, as well as his other ancestors. It is understood that he intended soon to return to England for the purpose of marrying an old friend and schoolmate and settling there. In speaking of him the Copley family entertain only the highest opinion and respect, and state that he was a man of strong character and possessed many fine attributes.
*Probable newspaper of Sidney, Delaware Co., NY
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