Obituaries (September 10)

Johanna (Westergren )Johnson

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1916

Johanna (Westergren) Johnson

1847 - 1916

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Johanna Westergren, the wife of John Johnson, who died recently at the family home on Elm street, was born in Sweden about 69 years ago.  She came to America and to Norwich about 44 years ago.  For over 30 years the family had resided in the house in which she died.  Mrs. Johnson was a devoted wife and mother and though ill health had caused her much suffering, she endured the pain bravely and cheerfully.  Besides her husband she is survived by five children:  Miss Anna, the only daughter and four sons, Oscar, August, Charles and Frank, all of this city.  Two brothers, Axel Westergren, of Jamestown, and Adolph Westergren, of Kane, Pa., and a sister and brother in Sweden also survive.  Private funeral services were conducted at her late home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. H.W. Foreman, the body being placed in Mount Hope receiving vault awaiting interment.

George Lamb

Chenango Union, March 12, 1885

South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY]:  George Lamb, of this village, who has been a sufferer from disease of the kidneys from 1864 (the result of a wound in the loins while in the army) died March 8th.  Dr. Crumb made an examination of the body, and found ulceration of the left kidney, which was filled with pus. The right kidney was far advanced with the same disease.  the bladder was about the size of a pear, and badly inflamed.  It is one of those cases where the medical profession can only say, "How did he live so long?"  His funeral will be attended on Wednesday, by the Masonic fraternity, with an escort from the Grand Army Post.

Mary Jane Winsor

Otsego Journal, July 19, 1917

Mrs. Winsor died on the morning of July 11th.  The immediate illness that caused her death had not been of long duration, but her advanced age supplemented by a fall that she sustained some time ago, proved more than her vitality could successfully withstand.  Since the death of her husband, Edson Winsor, a few years ago she has resided with and been cared for by her daughter Della, at the Winsor home at the north end of the village, the relations existing between the two being one of those close ones that develop under such circumstances and make the inevitable parting so hard to bear.  Mrs. Winsor was the daughter of Ezra Gibbs and was born in this town November 5, 1828.  Throughout her long and useful life she was held in the highest esteem by a large circle of relatives and friends and exemplified in its highest sense the qualities of wife, mother and friend.  She was married to Edson Winsor January 14, 1858, and is survived by one daughter and two sons, Miss Della Winsor, Fred, of Rockwells Mills, and W.E. Winsor, of Sidney. Also by three sisters, Mrs. Zenas Winsor, of Norwich; Mrs. R.Z. Arnold, of Mt. Upton, and Mrs. Delos Arnold, of Preston.  Mrs. Winsor untied with the Presbyterian church of North Guilford when but 19 years of age and for 70 years maintained this relationship, being the oldest living member of the society as regards the duration of her connection with it at the time of her death.  These many years of faithful service and loyalty to the church of her choice are exceptional in any human life, and constitute a record that is rare indeed. The funeral  of Mrs. Winsor occurred at her late home on Saturday at 2 o'clock.  Many relatives and friends were present.  The services were conducted by Rev. W.D. Lathrop of the Methodist church. The burial was by the side of her husband at Evergreen cemetery, White Store [Chenango Co., NY], where many others of the family have found their last resting place.

Mary Virginia Winsor

South New Berlin Bee, January 21, 1938

Miss Mary Virginia Winsor, 71, passed away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bidwell, on West street, this village [South New Berlin, Chenango Co., NY], Sunday, January 16, 1938, after a serious illness of seven days, death being due to angina pectoris.  She had lived at the Bidwell home for some time.  The deceased was born on a farm in the town of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], near White Store, December 15, 1866, a daughter of Delos Winsor and Mary Burdick Winsor his wife and is the last member of that family to pass away.  Miss Winsor never married, her childhood was spent in the vicinity of White Store. She was of Unitarian faith and is survived by a niece and nephew.  The funeral was held in the church at White Store, Wednesday, January 19, 1938, at 1:00 o'clock p.m., Rev. C.H. Skinner, pastor of the Baptist church South New Berlin, officiating.  Burial was in the cemetery at White Store [Chenango Co., NY].

Death Notices

The Sabbath Recorder, December 13, 1849

In Otselic, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], Oct. 16th, Levi Allen, in the 79th year of his age.  He was the father of Rev. Ira M. Allen, who died on his way to California, Aug. 30th, a notice of which appeared in the Recorder of Nov. 22d.  Brother Allen was a worthy member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church in Otselic.  He terminated his earthly pilgrimage as he had lived, in full hope of a blessed immortality.  "Blessed are the dead that die din the Lord."

In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY]  of dysentery, on the 6th of August, Ephraim [Church], aged 8 years, and on the 8ths of August Marril [Church], aged 10 years, and on the 22d of September Calvin [Church], aged 3 years, sons of Thelismar A. and Mercy G. Church.