Obituaries (August 27)

Susie (Rhoads) Cooley Tracy

Utica Saturday Globe, December 1915

 

Susie (Rhoads) Cooley Tracy

1859-1915

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. Susie Cooley Tracy, wife of Edgar L. Tracy, died recently at her home in Poolville, at the age of 56.  Her health had been failing for a year and an operation resorted to last June at the Norwich Hospital did not prove as beneficial as hoped.  Mrs. Tracy was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rhoads and was born in Pharsalia November 17, 1859.  She married George Cooley, of the same place, and 24 years ago they came to Norwich to reside.  Mr Cooley died in 1905 and in September, 1908, she married Edgar L. Tracy and went to Poolville to reside.  While a resident of Poolville she became widely known and highly regarded as a nurse.  She was an attendant of the First Baptist Church and made many friends who recall her unselfish life and the many kind acts for the comfort and help of others.  Besides her bereaved husband she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. L.A. Nicholson, and a granddaughter, Lu Reta Nicholson, of Oswego; by one brother, Cyrus Rhoads of Georgetown, and by two sisters, Mrs. Angeletta Truman, of Lincklaen and Mrs. Clara Brown, of Kansas.  Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning from her late home, Rev. Mr. Poppe, of East Hamilton, officiating.  There were many beautiful flowers. The remains were brought to Norwich for burial in Mount Hope Cemetery.

 

Abby Ann Thornton

Chenango Union, May 31, 1888

Mrs. David Thornton died at the residence of her son, Mr. S.M. Thornton, in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday, May 23d, at the age of 74 years.  For ten weeks she had been a great sufferer, but death came at last to her relief.  Funeral services were held at the home on Thursday afternoon.  The large attendance of friends and neighbors spoke their sympathy for the aged companies and relatives.  Rev. Mr. Allen, the Baptist minister of Gilbertsville, officiated.  The singing by a quartette was beautiful and impressive.  Interment on the family plot in the cemetery at White Store [Chenango co., NY].  The deceased for many years resided in Preston [Chenango Co., NY], and was a sister of Mr. E.S. Clark, of that place.

 

Otsego Journal, May 30, 1888

Mrs. David Thornton died on Wednesday last at her home near Latham's Corners, principally from an injury received from a fall she sustained some time before.  Mrs. Thornton was an aged lady much respected where she was known.  She is survived by her husband and leaves three sons and one daughter to mourn her loss.  Her death occurred at the old homestead, now occupied by her youngest son, Samuel Thornton.  Rev. Mrs. Allen, of Gilbertsville, officiated, the burial being at White store.

 

Norman Coon

Otsego Journal, May 30, 1888

Norman Coon, well known to many of our citizens was found dead in his bed at the home of W.H. Coon, near New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], with whom he has for some years resided.  The cause of his death was attributed to a clot of blood on the brain.  He was never married.  The funeral occurred at the M.E. church in this place on Tuesday, the interment being in the Shaw Cemetery in Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY].

 

Mrs. Ur Hayes

Otsego Journal, May 30, 1888

Mrs. Hayes died very suddenly at her home in this place on Tuesday night last.  She retired usually well and shortly after midnight was taken suddenly ill, and expired before the doctor, who was summoned as quickly as possible, could reach her bedside.  Mrs. Hayes was almost a lifelong resident of this place, having in early life removed here from Connecticut, where she was born.  She had lived with her husband Ur Hayes who is left to mourn his loss, 59 years, most of the time on the place where she died.  Almost providentially, it would seem, her son, N.L. Hayes, of Clinton, arrived home the night of her death, and was thus enabled to spend a few hours in the society of his mother in the evening, and to be present to comfort his aged father in his great affliction   Mrs. Hayes was an exemplification of the type of a high minded woman of elevated principles and views of life, and possessed that natural unconscious dignity which is inherent with but few and can be acquired by none.  Her age was nearly 84 years.  The funeral was held at the house on Friday afternoon, the officiating clergyman being Rev. L.B. Weeks. The interment was on the family plot in our cemetery, beside a son and daughter, the former Thomas Hayes, who died in 1861, being well remembered by many of our citizens.