Obituaries (September 17)

Peter E. McMahon

Utica Saturday Globe, June 1916

 

Peter E. McMahon

1856 - 1916

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Peter E. McMahon, who died at is home in this city Saturday last, had been in failing health for several months but was able to keep about until three weeks before his death.  He was born at Highbridge, N.J., October 4, 1856, removing two years later with his parents to Preston, Chenango county, where he was educated and made his home until his retirement three years ago when he came to  Norwich and had since resided here.  Mr McMahon spent most of his active life upon the farm and was known as a most successful farmer.  During two years passed in Denver, Col., he was employed in a flour mill.  For 20 years he was a justice of the peace in Preston and for five terms ably represented his town on the county Board of Supervisors.  In politics he was a Democrat and frequently was a delegate to the party conventions and was a member of the county committee.  Deceased married Mary J. Baulk, who passed away in 1912.  He is survived by three sons, John J. and William H., of Norwich, and Frank, of Elmira, and two daughters, Mrs. Stephen Flanagan, of Preston, and Mrs. Catherine Dalrymple, of Norwich.  His mother, Mrs. John McMahon, and one sister, Mrs. Owen Murtaugh, of this city, also survive.  Mr. McMahon was a devout member of St. Paul's Church and of the Holy Name Society  He was a faithful and conscientious public officer, a devoted husband and father, a kind hearted neighbor, a patriotic citizen and a loyal friend.  During his long period of official life he gave the best that was in him to the people whom he represents, always upholding a high standard of official integrity and fidelity to every trust reposed in him.  Funeral services were held from his life residence on Rexford street [at 8:30] on Monday morning and at 9:30 at St. Paul's Church, a high mass of requiem being said by Rev. Edward R. Prendergast.  Interment in St. Paul's Cemetery.

 

Minnie A. ( Herrick) Figary

South New Berlin Bee, November 21, 1941

The funeral of Mrs. Minnie A. Figary who died recently was held from the White Store church on Saturday with burial at the White Store cemetery [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], with service conducted by Rev. Louis V.S. Hutton.  Minnie Herrick Figary was born at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on Nov. 17, 1874 and was married to Morgan A. Figary on November 17, 1903.  She lived most of her life around Norwich and vicinity and was a member of the Episcopal church at Oxford. She is survived by a son, John Figary of Lathams Corners, three daughters, Mrs. Philip Gerhards of White Store, Mrs. Ray Harris Cope of White Store and Mrs. James Blanklley and two brothers, Alvin Herrick of Brooklyn and James Winslow Herrick of Norwich and eight grandchildren.

 

Virginia Mae Figary

Norwich Sun, December 2, 1937

Virginia Mae [Figary], infant daughter of John and Gertrude Stanton Figary, passed away Friday afternoon, November 26, at 3:15, at their home in the town of Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY].  Following a cold of about a week's duration, she was taken by pneumonia and lived but a short time. She would have been one year old on the 12th day of December of this year.  She was buried Monday, Nov. 29, at 2 p.m., in White Store Evergreen cemetery [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], following funeral services held at White Store church.  The deceased is survived by her parents John and Gertrude Figary; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Figary and Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Stanton, the former of the town of Butternuts and the latter of Oxford; two great-grandmothers, Mrs. Susan Herrick and Mrs. Jennie Westcott of Oxford; several uncles, and aunts, Delos Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Webb of Oxford, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cope, Mrs. Phillip Gerhards of White Store, Mr. and Mrs. James Blakely of Norwich; several great-uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Murray of Binghamton, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Westcott, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Spencer of Oxford, Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Herrick of South New Berlin, Alvin Herrick, of Brooklyn, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Burlingame, Mr. and Mrs. George Figary, Andrew V. Figary of Norwich, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bowers of Guilford; several cousins, Eugene and Alvina Cope of White Store, Tracy Webb of Oxford, Mrs. Anna Eaton, Robert, Mary Jane and David Blakely of Norwich; and uncle Phillip Gerhards of Green Bay, Wisconsin also survives.

 

Christopher Forsyth

Otsego Journal, November 28, 1907

Died at his home in Holmesville [Chenango Co., NY] on Friday, November 22d, Christopher Forsyth, aged 76 years.  Funeral services occurred form the house on Monday at 1:30 and were conducted by Rev. Mr. Barnfather, of South New Berlin.  There was a large attendance of relatives and also from the extensive circle of friends which Mr. Forsyth had made throughout his long and useful life.  He was born in Scotland, his father, John Forsyth coming to this country when deceased was but a few years of age. Thirty-six years ago he purchased the farm at White Store, now owned by Mr. Johnson, moving there from Franklin Station and continuing to reside there for twenty-four years.  He then sold out and retired form the active affairs of life to a place which he purchased in Holmesville village where his first wife, Miss Julia Parker, to whom he was married in 1855, died in 1901.  In February, 1904, he was again married to Mrs. Loretta Kellogg, who survives him.  No children were born to him from either of these marriages, but a niece, Mrs. Albert Winsor, who entered his family in infancy, sustained to him the relationship of a daughter, in every essential particular.  The honesty, and integrity of Mr. Forsyth's character are too well known to make any special reference to them necessary.  The impression which he conveyed upon first acquaintance of natural qualities that were genuine, practical and unassuming never needed to be revised upon subsequent acquaintance however intimate.  He regarded the hollow conventionalities of mere show and pretense with the contempt natural to his nationality and antecedents, and his social and business relations emphasized principles well worthy of respect and emulation.  Mr. Forsyth is survived by four brothers and one sister, Silas and George of Franklin, James, of Belden, Herbert, of Centreville, and  Miss Jessie Forsyth, of Franklin. The burial was in Evergreen cemetery [White Store, Chenanog Co., NY] by the side of his first wife.