Obituaries (September 12)

Marsena B. Ames

Utica Saturday Globe, April 1916

 

Marsena B. Ames

1840 - 1916

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After a six months' illness.  Marsena B. Ames passed away at his home on Cortland street, Monday morning in his 70th year.  Deceased was the son of Joseph and Melissa Ames and was born in Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] May 17, 1840.  In September, 1862, Mr Ames married Clarissa Davis, of Plymouth, and until three years ago they resided in that town.  Mr. Ames being a prosperous farmer.  He was a veteran of the civil war, serving between two and three years.  He first enlisted in 1862 in Company E, of the Eighty-ninth New York Volunteers, known as the Dickinson Guards, and after 18 months was discharged for disability.  He re-enlisted in 1864 and became a member of Company E, Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, and served until the end of the war.  He was in many battles and had an unbroken record for bravery and capable service.  Two brothers were killed in the war. Mr. Ames is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. J.L. Cook and two sons, C.D. Ames, of this city, and M.D. Ames, of Kirk.  Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. John Cole, of Cortland, officiating.  Burial was made in the Plymouth Cemetery [Chenango Co., NY].  Mr Ames was a member of E.B. Smith Post, G.A.R., and his comrades attended the funeral in a body.

 

Mary Hill

Cortland Democrat, June 6, 1924

Mrs. Mary Hill died at the home of her brother, John Gladding, in Cortland [Cortland Co., NY], May 28, aged 84 years, 2 months and 13 days.  She was a life-long resident of South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], but last fall, on account of failing health, she went to the home of her brother.  She was an active member of the M.E. church and always ready to help in any good cause.  The funeral was held at her late home, Saturday, Rev. E.B. Granger officiating.  Mrs. Rose Kellogg and John Gladding are the only ones left of the family of nine children.  Many relatives from out of town attended the funeral.

 

Benjamin C. Kenyon

DeRuyter Gleaner, April 22, 1926

Benjamin C. Kenyon, for several years a resident of this town, died at his home in Syracuse [Onondaga Co., NY], Saturday night, aged 68, following a brief illness.  Mr. Kenyon was born in Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] and was the youngest son of the late Joseph and Sarah Chase Kenyon.  His home was in Norwich for many years, where he was a member of Norwich lodge, F.&A.M. and the Order of Red Men; also a member of Norwich lodge I.O.O.F., and the Rebekahs of South Otselic.  He is survived by his wife, Ena J. Bell, of Syracuse and one son, Joseph, of Sandusky, Mich.  Funeral services were held from the M.E. Church in this village, Tuesday afternoon, with J.C. Whitney officiating.  Burial in Valley View, Odd Fellows gave the grave service.

 

Adelia Harvey

Cortland Standard, May 26, 1927

South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. Adelia Harvey, aged 64 years, died quite suddenly last Wednesday morning with heart trouble, being sick only a few hours.  Funeral services were held at the late home, one mile above this village.  Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  burial was made in the local cemetery.  Undertaker Rumsey of Georgetown having charge.  Mrs. Harvey is survived by her husband, Frank Harvey, and two children, Mrs. Harley Priest of Cortland and Linus Harvey of this place, a granddaughter, Mrs. Harold Baulch of Cortland and a half-sister, Mrs. Emma Monroe.

 

DeRuyter Gleaner, May 26, 1927

Mrs. Adelia Adelphine Harvey passed away at her home in South Otselic, on May 18th, 1927, aged 66 years.  Funeral services in charge of undertaker Rumsey, were held at the home on Saturday, May 21, at 2 p.m., Rev. Anable of North Pitcher officiating.  Those surviving are her husband, Frank Harvey, one daughter, Mrs. Alida Priest of Cortland, one son, Elias Harvey of South Otselic, a half-sister, Mrs. Dever Monroe of Plymouth, and one granddaughter, Mrs. Daisy Balch, of Cortland.

 

Phebe (White) Snow

Chenango Union, January 13, 1881

On Sunday, January 2d, at the residence of her son, Alva Snow, in this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Mrs. Phebe Snow departed this life, at the extreme old age of ninety-five years and five months.  The subject of this sketch was born in Greenwich, Washington Co., in this State, where she lived until the year 1802, when she was united in marriage to Thomas Snow, her maiden name being Phebe White.  Four years afterward, attracted by the marvelous stories of the great fertility of this County, they concluded to go west, and removed to the then a most unbroken wilderness of the County of Chenango, traveling themselves and bringing all of their movable goods, in a one-horse lumber wagon. The journey hither was made seventy-five years ago last May, and something of an idea of its length may be formed, when we consider that ten miles per day was thought to be a good average.  The deceased was noted throughout her whole life for her integrity.  Her life was spent in trying to do her whole duty to God, and her fellow creatures.  She survived her husband about thirteen years and leaves descendants as follows:  five children, thirty-six grandchildren, sixty-nine great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.

"Here on earth she only waited,

Waited for the Master's call.

For her harvest long had ripened,

God and heaven were her all.

 

"There her loved ones waited,

Waited on the other shore.

Father, mother, husband, children,

She will miss now nevermore."

 

"What to us is Death's dark shadow,

And an ever vacant chair,

Is to her a glad reunion;

May we meet her 'over there' "