Obituaries (October 12)

Peter L. Smith

Utica Saturday Globe, December 1916

 

Peter L. Smith

1876 - 1916

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  The sudden death of Peter L. Smith at Woodbridge, N.J., Thanksgiving was the cause of sincere regret to many friends in Norwich, where he formerly resided.  Mr. Smith was for a number of years a popular employee of the O.&W. Railway as electrician. A few years ago he resigned his position here and went to Woodbridge, where he engaged in business for himself.  "Pete" was known to a large circle of friends as a genial companion and a royal entertainer.  he was a member of the Norwich Council, Knights of Columbus, and a member of the local Lodge of Eagles.

 

Betsey Jones

Chenango Union, August 14, 1867

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday morning, August 4th, Mrs. Betsey, wife of Horace Jones, Esq., aged 54 years.  The circumstances attending the death of the deceased were most sad and trying.  A kind and charitable neighbor, a tender and affectionate mother, an earnest Christian and truly estimable woman, her loss would have been deeply lamented by a large circle of friends and neighbors under any circumstances.  But the peculiarity of her death added much to the sadness of the occasion of her funeral, and to the sympathy felt for the bereaved husband and family.  She had been for some time suffering under an attack of insanity, brought on by grief over the death of a lovely and fondly beloved daughter.  She had threatened to take her own life, but the care and watchfulness of her friends had prevented her from committing any violence upon herself, until on Saturday, the 3d last, when she managed to elude their vigilance long enough to procure and take a dose of arsenic, which proved fatal. After it was known what she had done, every effort was made to annul the effects of the poison, but it was too late before the discovery was made for anything to be done effectually.

 

Amelia Peck Jewell

South New Berlin Bee, March 17, 1932

On Tuesday evening, March 15, at half past six at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H .A. Jewell, Conkey avenue [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], occurred the death of  Mrs. Amelia Peck Jewell who last January 23 observed her eighty-first birthday.  Stricken suddenly September 1 last year at her home in Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], she was removed to her son's residence in this city where Mr. and Mrs. Jewell and their daughters, Margaret and Esther cared for her tenderly until the day of her death. That day, curiously marked the forty-third anniversary of the death of her beloved husband.  Amelia Peck Jewell was born at South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], January 23, 1851, and was educated at Cazenovia Seminary of which her maternal grandparents of the Haight and Merriman families were founders.  Some years later, August 16, 1877, in the Methodist church at Mt. Upton she was united in marriage to Hiram A. Jewell, the Rev. E.P. Halstead performing the ceremony. There in Mt. Upton they made their home,.  And there, after her husband's death, she continued her home with the exception of twenty years' residence in Sidney from 1904-1924.  Identified with the Methodist church of Sidney, she was an active participant in the work of foreign missions.  Her life found expression in art, however, as her special avocation. This was her talent and in this she excelled.  For many years she was a teacher of painting. Wide was her influence in this endeavor and many her friends.  In the number of these was Fanny Crosby (Frances Jane VanAlstyne) the famous hymn writer, with whom Mrs. Jewell enjoyed an intimate association for many years.  Among her surviving relatives are four children, Mrs. K.D. Wheeler of Norwich, Mrs. Don Prentice of Earlville, T.A. Jewell of Forest Hills, Long Island, and H.A. Jewell of Norwich; and three sisters, Mrs. Clara Hayt of Lowville, Mrs. Amanda Baker of Freeville and Mrs. Fanny VanEtten of Garwood, New Jersey.  The funeral service will take place at the home of her son, 17 Conkey avenue, Friday afternoon, March 18, at 2:00 o'clock, the Rev. Floyd S. Charters, rector of Emmanuel parish, officiating.  Interment will be made in Evergreen cemetery, White Store [Chenango Co., NY], where her mother and father lie buried--Norwich Sun

 

Grace May (Evans) Johnson

South New Berlin Bee, February 12, 1916

Mrs. Grace May Johnson died at her home on Eastside in this village [South New Berlin, Chenango Co., NY] on Tuesday, February 8, 1916.  She leaves a husband, Clayton G. Johnson of this palce and two children, Rose Evans, aged 14 and Theodore, 11.  The funeral service will occur at the home at 1:30 p.m., Friday and the burial will take palce at White Store [Chenango Co., NY], in the family lot.  Mrs. Johnson was Grace May Evans, daughter of Charles and Ella (Mills) Evans and granddaughter of Albert Evans of Unadilla, N.Y.  She was born in the town of Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY], September 15, 1878, and so was about 39 years of age at the time of her death.  She had been ill for only two or three days with pleurisy and her case had not been considered grave until Tuesday morning when pneumonia developed. The progress of the disease was rapid and she passed away Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.  Mrs. Johnson was a wife and mother of the finer type.  Her devotion and self sacrifice for her family were unbounded. She lived the simple life in the extreme, denying herself everything for the sake of her children and her home.  She was a woman of the finest principle and the most loyal fidelity to her obligations and trusts.  Generous to a fault, she was gentle, kind and obliging and quick to respond to every opportunity for good. She was the soul and center of the activities of her family and guided her children by mother love and the all persuasive force of her sterling character. That guidance has borne fruit in her two fine children, in whom, let us sincerely hope, the bereaved father will find a solace for his great loss and unfailing incentive to put forth the best that is in him for their lasting good.