Amos Billings Parker
Utica Saturday Globe, November 1915
Amos Billings Parker
1855 - 1915
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: Amos Billings Parker, who died last Friday after a brief illness of pneumonia, was the youngest son of Amos Billings and Sally Moore Parker. He was born in Norwich October 22, 1855, and had passed all of his life in his native place. After completing his studies in the old Norwich Academy he became a law student in the office of the late Robert A. Stanton and was admitted to the bar in 1880. For six years he was surrogate's clerk under Hon. W.F. Jenks, after which he began the general practice of law. For many years Mr. Parker had been identified with public enterprises and had filled with credit many responsible positions. He served as village trustee and attorney, secretary of the Board of Health and as one of the seven commissioners of the city. He was a member of the Chenango County Bar Association, a charter member of the Norwich Club and secretary of the Latham Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church. He was a trustee of Mount Hope Cemetery Association and nobody was more interested in improving and beautifying the silent city. He was intensely interested in the Norwich hospital, to which he served a term as president. It was largely due to his efforts that the hospital was established. In February, 1875, he united with the First Baptist church and was as faithful in his duty to the church as to the city. Quiet and unobtrusive, he never shirked any responsibility that was placed upon him. He was a member of the Board of Trustees and a valued counselor, loyal at all times to the interests of his own church and to the cause of Christianity at large. As a friend he was kind, genial and true, and as a man charitable in judgment, sympathetic and sought to be just in all of his dealings. His death is a loss to the community in which he lived and made better and brighter by his life. He is survived by a brother, James Parker, and by a sister Sarah L., with whom he made his home for several years; two nephews, Frederick F.P. Hall, of this city, and Dr. Robert M. Hall, of New York, and one niece, Mae Parker Crandall, of Norwich. Funeral services were held from the First Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. A.E. Alton of Colgate university, officiating. The County Bar Association at a special meeting adopted resolutions and attended the funeral services in a body.
Julia Maria Steere
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, August 2, 1902
The funeral of Julia Maria Steere, who died at her home on West Main street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] Friday afternoon, July 25, 1902, was held from her late home on Monday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. D.W. Dexter officiating. In her death Norwich loses a representative of one of the pioneer families of Chenango valley. The Steeres located here in the early days of our village and at one time owned large tracts of land. The grandfather of the deceased donated Eastside park to the county of Chenango at about the time Colonel Guernsey gave the Westside park. Julia Maria Steere was born in Norwich and lived here nearly, if not quite, all her life. A sister, Miss Betsey Steere, lived for many years at the corner of East Main and Silver streets. Many of our older citizens attended in their younger days the "select school," which was taught for many years by Betsey Steers and the deceased. Miss Steere was of a retiring nature, but a refined and old time gentle woman. She had reached an age of upwards of 80 years. Her surviving relatives are a niece residing in Scranton, and cousins residing in South New Berlin, Addison and Sidney.---Sun
Mahala Winsor Phetteplace
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, August 2, 1902
At the residence of her son, Clark E. Phetteplace, East Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], July 25, 1902, Mrs. Mahala Winsor Phetteplace, widow of the late Easton Phetteplace, died, aged 84 years. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 12:30. Burial at White Store [Chenango Co., NY]. Deceased was born in the town of Norwich on the Winsor homestead about one and one-half miles this side of Latham's Corners. She has resided here practically all her life. Of a large family she was next to the oldest daughter of fourteen children. A rather remarkable circumstance in this connection is that there were six members of the family, including herself, that were over 70 years old and whose combined ages averaged 77 years. Deceased is survived by two sons, Clark E. and Edgar Phetteplace, and one daughter, Mrs. Herbert Hunt of this town, four brothers, Richard Winsor of Norwich, Joseph Winsor of Guilford, Edson and Zenas Winsor of Mt. Upton; two sisters, Mrs. Almeda Shepard of Mt. Upton, and Mrs. Nancy Gibbs of Princeton, Ill.--Sun\\
Martha (Wells) Stratton
Mohawk Valley Democrat, June 9, 1921
Mrs. Martha Stratton, mother of Mrs. Hayes of Union street, died at the home of her daughter, on Monday night, of arteriosclerosis, aged 80 years. The remains were shipped to Whitesboro [sic - White Store], near Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], where the funeral and burial was held yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Stratton had lived in the village a little over a year.
Amsterdam Evening Recorder, June 6, 1921
Mrs. Martha Stratton died Sunday night at 10 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Hayes, of Union street, after an illness of two weeks of hardening of the arteries and general debility. She was born at Norwich, Chenango county, December 12, 1840, a daughter of Reuben and Betsey Wells. She married Lemuel Stratton. In addition to the daughter with whom she lived she is survived by two sons, Chester Stratton of Utica and Henry Stratton of Mt. Upton. The funeral will be held at White Store, Chenango county, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the body being shipped there Wednesday morning. The interment will be at that place.
Edward W. Swancott
Utica Observer, June 21, 1934
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: While his wife, daughter, and son-in-law sought new living quarters in Utica where his wife and he were to make their future home, Edward W Swancott, 64, died in a blaze that razed their Rockwells Mills [Chenango Co., NY] home, near here. With her daughter, Mrs. H. Stanley Jones of 1914 Holland Avenue, Utica, and Mr. Jones, Mrs. Swancott had practically decided on a house at which the couple would live in Utica to be nearer their daughter, when the Rockwells Mills house burned to its foundation yesterday afternoon. The relatives of the victim were in Utica when they learned of his death early last night. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, as was their custom, motored to Rockwells Mills Friday. About noon yesterday, they returned to Utica accompanied by Mrs. Swancott to complete arrangements for the new home. When they received word of the fire and its fatal result early last night, they started immediately for Rockwells Mills. Mr. Swancott suffered a shock about three years ago and was partially paralyzed. he was said to be an almost constant smoker and one theory as to the cause of the fire is that it may have been started by a cigarette. Mrs. Walter Burns, a neighbor of the Swancotts, reported she saw him on the porch of his home about 4 yesterday afternoon and shortly after he went inside, she noticed smoke coming from the house. She called to another neighbor who went into the house and was nearly overcome by the smoke. Joseph Stevens and Herbert Barnes who were passing at the time were told by Mrs. Barnes that there was a man in the house and they went in and brought out the partly overcome neighbor. On learning that Mr. Swancott was still inside, they started to go in again but were forced back by smoke and fire. After the house had been burned to the ground, the body of the victim was found in the cellar. It is presumed he was in a rear bedroom laying down at the time of the fire. Firemen from Mt. Upton and New Berlin responded to a call for aid but were unable to do anything toward saving the burning house. They concentrated on preventing the fire from spreading to nearby homes. The house was owned by an Edmeston man who had worked yesterday morning at laying new floors in it. Dr. E.W. Wilcox, coroner, was called to investigate. Troopers Zieman and Drumm investigated for State Police at Sidney. Loss is estimated at $1,500 and is covered by insurance.
The Otsego Farmer, Cooperstown, NY, June 22, 1934
Edward W. Swancott, aged sixty-four, an invalid, lost his life when his home at Rockwell's Mills, nine miles from Norwich, caught fire about 4 o'clock, Saturday afternoon. He was alone in the house when the flames were discovered and the structure burned to the ground before firemen could save it. Swancott suffered a stroke about three years ago and he has been a semi-paralytic since then. He was sitting on the porch when his neighbor, Mrs. Walter D. Burns, noticed him fifteen minutes before the fire. When she smelled smoke and went to save him dense smoke clouds drove her back, preventing her from entering the house where the invalid's charred body was found later.
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