Obituaries (June 17)

Dr. John T. Hand

Utica Saturday Globe, April 1914

 

Dr. John T. Hand

 1859 - 1914

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Dr. John T. Hand, one of the best known physicians of Chenango county, died at St. Luke's Hospital, Utica [Oneida Co., NY^], Wednesday, aged 55.  Death followed an operation for appendicitis.  Dr. Hand was born in Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], but spent his early life in Norwich.  He was the adopted son of the late Dr. Stephen M. Hand, of this place.  He began the practice of medicine in Columbus, N.Y., about 33 years ago, later going to New Berlin, where he had resided for the past 18 years.  He was president of the Chenango County Medical Society, a member of the Board of Supervisors, a member of the trustees and president of the village of New Berlin, and from January, 1908, to January, 1914, held the office of coroner.  He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Lulu Hawkins of Edmeston; one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Deming, of Indianapolis, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Dexter, of Rochester.  The funeral will be held from his late home in New Berlin Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock.  [Buried St. Andrew's Cemetery, New Berlin, NY]

Lydia Beatman Bush

Oxford Times, May 31, 1911

Lydia Beatman Bush, widow f the late Richard Bush, died Wednesday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alonzo M. Reynolds, where she had spent the last four months.  The body was taken to North Afton [Chenango Co., NY] Saturday and the funeral service was held there at the home of her son, Chester Bush.  Mrs. Bush was 72 years of age and is also survived by her daughter, Mrs. Will Bennett of Guilford, Mrs. Charles Whitney of Afton, three brothers and three sisters.

 Ozias Bush, Jr.

Ozias Bush died at his residence in Guilford N.Y. [Chenango Co.], August 31st, aged 83 years 4 months and 15 days.  His father moved from Connecticut in 1780, and settled first at Oxford and after a few years married and moved upon the farm where the said O. Bush was born, and lived during his whole life.  This part of the town was than an unbroken wilderness, there being but two dwellings between the same and what is now Oxford village a distance of nine miles.  One being the Cable Hotel and the other a small house on the Virginia road near Oxford.  During his early life he helped to clear most of the same farm, and during the winter evenings by the use of the best text books and by continued perseverance, he acquired what was then a good education.  He taught school during seventeen consecutive winters, two of which he spent at the Union or Rockwell's Mills, giving instructions to more than one hundred students in a log school house at each term.  He was School Superintendent and commissioner of Guilford for twelve years.  He held various offices in the gifts of his townsmen and was for a number of years one of the Assessors.  In 1832 he was married to Samantha Green, of the same town, with whom he lived the remainder of his life.  She still survives him.  He was the oldest of seven children, five sons and two daughters, three brothers and one sister still living.  In politics he was a old line Jeffersonian Democrat then a free soiler until the formation of the Republican party, since which time he has been a staunch member of the same; never having failed to vote at a Presidential election, thinking very much of this as a citizen, as he conversed quite freely with his physician even at his last visit upon the general outlook of the campaign, and expressed a desire to live and vote for Blaine and Logan.  In religion he was a member and liberal supporter of the M.E. Church, in which he had lived over forty years, and died a happy and peaceful death.  He had been an attentive reader of the New York Christian Advocate ever since its first issue for the term of "fifty-nine years.  "For a score or more years his health was such he could do but little manual labor but he retained his mental faculties to a remarkable degree, his memory, hearing, sight and reasoning truly wonderful for his age even to the last day of life.  He was always anxious to get The Telegraph and often read it through at one sitting, and often related to neighbors and other members of the family a general synopsis of the same and was especially delighted with the locals of the county course,      E.R.