Obituaries (July 30)

Chester Wentworth

DeRuyter Gleaner, June 29, 1933

On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and less than a month after, on April 30th, Chester Wentworth enlisted in the U.S. Army.  He was a Corporal in Co. G 22nd Infantry.  He died at his home in DeRuyter [Madison Co., NY] on June 25, 1933, at the age of 34, less than a year following the death of his wife.  Services were held at the home on June 28th, with burial at South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY].  Members of Owen Woodford Post of the American legion of which he was a member assisted in the services. The bearers were all ex-service men, two of whom, Guy Perkins and Albert Sanderson enlisted at  the same time and served in the same battalion.  Deceased was born in Lebanon [Madison Co., NY], March 14, 1899, the son of Thomas Wentworth, and was a resident of South Otselic at the time of his enlistment.  He married Hazel Wilcox of Georgetown in May, 1923, and they lived in Syracuse for a time before coming to DeRuyter about four years ago.  His father survives him; also a son, Kenneth, 7 years of age, and a sister, Mrs. James Grooms of Norwich.

DeRuyter Gleaner, July 6, 1933

In the account of the death of Chester Wentworth, World War veteran, in last week's Gleaner, the age of the son, Kenneth, was given as seven years, which was in error, the lad being nine years old.  Orphaned at this tender age he has the sympathy of all, but with his grandfather, Mr. Thomas Wentworth, has found a welcome home with his uncle, Harland Wagner, in Georgetown.

Max Eugene Reynolds, Jr.

DeRuyter Gleaner, October 5, 1933

Pleasant Ridge:  Our community was shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Max Eugene Reynolds, Jr., five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Reynolds, which occurred at the Memorial Hospital at Norwich at 9 o'clock Sunday night from shotgun wounds received about 3:30 Sunday afternoon.  Roger Sherman of Chittenango, who had been doing mason work for Mr. Reynolds was preparing to go hunting and laid the gun on a table.  All the family including Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds and the three children were in the room.  Just how it happened no one knows. There was an explosion and little Max fell to the floor with most of the shot imbedded in his back.  Some of the shot struck Mrs. Reynolds in her right arm and back.  Wm. Salmon, a neighbor, rushed them to the hospital, where they said death  was caused by the shots that punctured the lungs and Mrs. Reynolds' condition is critical.  Little Max was a very bright and cheerful little fellow just starting in school, was a favorite with the children.  Much sympathy is expressed for the family in their bereavement.  Funeral services are to be held Wednesday at one o'clock at Tully, with burial in a nearby cemetery.

 

Hannah Huttleston

DeTuyter Gleaner, May 3, 1934

This church mourns the loss of Hannah Huttleston, aged 89, who passed away at her home in South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] on Monday evening, April 23.  She joined this church on November 13, 1878, from probationary relationship, under the pastorate of Rev. H. W. Williams, and was until the time of her death a faithful member whose loyalty to Christ and His church had stood the test of almost fifty-six years. she was a member of this particular church longer than anyone else in its history. The deceased was born April 11, 1845, in Prattsburg, Steuben county, N.Y., the oldest daughter of eleven children of Emily Griffith and Leander Haight.  Her early girlhood was spent in East Homer.  She married Lewis V. Huttleston June 27, 1868 and they moved to South Otselic in 1873.  Her husband passed away in March, 1907, and these words in regard to him are in the church records following his name:  "A good soldier for Christ."  Mrs. Huttleston was the mother of six children:  Ray D., Cortland; Jay who died in infancy; Blanche Park, Cortland; Jessie Gallinger, deceased; Ralph H ., Blodgett Mills; and Beatrice H. Davis, South Otselic. She is survived by eleven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.  For many years she was affectionately called "Aunty Hud" by the children in the neighborhood.  Fourteen years ago her health failed to be followed by the loss of her eyesight eleven years ago. Through all her affliction she remained cheerful and by her Christian fortitude lived each day as it came along in faith and trust in God and His Providence.

"Weep not that her toils are over

Weep not that her race is run;

God grant we may rest as calmly

When our work like hers is done.

Till then we would yield with  gladness

Our treasures to Him to keep;

And rejoice in the sweet assurance

He giveth His beloved sleep."

 

Fred Brown Sanford

Afton Enterprise, February 25, 1926

The community was greatly shocked last Tuesday when Fred Sanford, the sixteen year old adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. L.F. Sanford of The Plains, was accidentally drowned in Elk Lake while engaged in getting out ice.  The body was recovered and taken to Kark's undertaking rooms in Harpursville.  The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the Baptist church Harpursville [Broome Co., NY] with burial in the cemetery at that place.

 

Fred Brown, 16 years old, adopted son of Mr ad Mrs. Lewis E. Sanford, of Harpursville, was drowned 16th inst, while helping his foster father harvest ice on Brown's lake in Nineveh.  The boy was left alone at the lake with his pike, working away at a cake of ice while the father drove a wagon load of ice to the icehouse.  Upon his return his father found the cake overturned, the pike had disappeared and there was no sign of the boy.  Fearing the boy had fallen from the ice into the lake, his father and others dredged the lake and found the body on the bottom only a short distance from where he had been working when his father left him.  Besides his foster parents, he is survived by a brother, James Hitt, of Downsville, Delaware county, and three sisters, Mrs. Harry Murphy, of Nineveh Junction; Mrs. Clarence Dibble of Deposit, and Ruth Rischer, of Scranton.

 

Death Notices

Chenango Union, May 6, 1875

 

BENEDICT:  In Ogdensburg, April. 27, Mr. E.W. Benedict formerly of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], aged 62 years.

 

LASELLE:  In North Plains, Mich. January 20, 1875, Mrs. Roxana LaSelle, aged 67, formerly of Earlville [Madison Co., NY].

 

BROOKSBANKS:  In Oxford, April 23, Emerson [Brooksbanks], son of Robert and Ursula Brooksbanks, aged 6 years.

 

COLE:  In Marietta, Ga., April 18, Mr. Henry Cole, aged 59 ears, formerly of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].   Henry G. Cole of Marietta, Ga. was born in new Berlin, N.Y. and when but a lad was adopted by the late Samuel Kent of Guilford, by whom he was reared to manhood.  30 years ago, he moved to Marietta, Ga.  He leaves a wife and several children to mourn him.

 

FARR:  In N.Y.C., April 24, Mr. James W. Farr, aged 63, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

 

ROWLEY:  At the  home of his son-in-law, R.D. Guile, Yaleville [Chenango Co., NY], April 17th, Mr. Seth Rowley, aged 91, formerly of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].