Obituaries (October 29)

John H. White

Utica Saturday Globe, March 1918

 

John H. White

1870 - 1918

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  After a very brief illness of pneumonia John H. White passed away at his apartments in the Palmer House shortly after midnight Monday.  About 10 days prior to his death, Mr. White contracted a severe cold, but improved sufficiently so that he left his hotel and went about transacting his regular business for a short time.  His condition became rapidly worse and soon after his return to his hotel, pneumonia developed.  He was 47 years of age.  Mr. White became a resident of Norwich in the year 1900, at which time he purchased the Scott brewery on the East river road.  Previously he had conducted a hotel in Unadilla.  He organized the Norwich Brewing Company, which carried on the business until the destruction of the plant by fire, about two years ago.  Shortly after coming to this city, Mr. White was elected a director of the Chenango County Agricultural Society and later served as president of the fair association for several years, retiring in 1917.  In May, 1907, he was chosen a director of the Chenango Co-Operative Savings and Loan Association, of which directorate he was a member at the time of his death.  Since the destruction of his brewery by fire he has been identified with the Bartel Brewing company, of Syracuse, traveling over a considerable territory, but making Norwich his headquarters. Deceased was popular in many circles in the city.  He was a member of the local lodge of Elks and a life member of the Syracuse Lodge.  Funeral services were attended from St. Paul's Chruch at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, Rev. J.S. Tiernan officiating, and interment was made in St. Paul's Cemetery, Norwich lodge, No. 1,222. B.P.O. Elks attended in a body. Deceased leaves four brothers, William and George, of Norwich; James of Schenectady, and Richard, of New Haven, Conn.

 

Nelson A. Ensworth

1846 - 1919

Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]:  Last Wednesday evening, September 3d, 1919, the subject of this notice, Nelson A. Ensworth, peacefully passed from this life to enter into the higher life beyond.  He was the son of Nathaniel and Lydia Sherwood Ensworth, was born in the town of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] November 30, 1846.  Mr. Ensworth was the youngest of a large family, all of which have crossed the river.  Although of late he was in feeble health, he was able to be around until a few days before his death.  In early life he was married to Miss Josephine Banner who survives, also two sons, Arthur D. Ensworth, of Oswego, Clinton Ensworth of Akron, Ohio, and one daughter, Miss Florence J. Ensworth of Guilford. At two o'clock Saturday afternoon funeral services were held at the family homestead by the Rev. N.S. Boardman. The remains rest in the cemetery at Bainbridge. 

 

Roxy Jane Lathrop

Binghamton Press, September 15, 1939

Mrs. Roxy Jane Lathrop, 91, widow of Lyman N. Lathrop, died at the home of her son, Melrose M. Lathrop, 264 Conklin avenue, Thursday night at 8:45 o'clock.  Besides her son, she is survived by a brother, Henry E. Banner of Boone, Iowa; two sisters, Mrs. Josephine Ensworth of Scranton Pa., and Mrs. Elizabeth Willets of Skinners Eddy, Pa.

 

Rev. Philip Bartlett

Republican Watchman, Monticello, NY, June 23, 1899

Long Island City, NY:  The funeral of the Rev. Philip Bartlett, who died at his home in Astoria [Queens, NY] of pneumonia late Saturday afternoon after an illness of three weeks will be held tonight.  He was in his eighty-eighth year and for sixty years he had been active in the ministry of the Methodist Church in this state.  His first charge was at Hornellsville, and his salary was $50 and a bushel basket full of home-made socks, a contribution from the women in the congregation.  Prior to 1858 he was a member of the Oneida Conference and after that time a member of the Wyoming Conference, which takes in a small portion of the State of Pennsylvania.   He was retired in 1898.  During his long term in the ministry, the Rev. Mr. Bartlett had many experiences that sound like fiction today.  He was for years a local preacher traveling from place to place preaching the gospel. He would be away from home for weeks at a time, preaching every night in the week, and three times on Sunday.  Most of his traveling was done on horseback, and it was while riding from place to place that he gained much of his education, as he never had an opportunity to attend college.

 

Years after his tours ended, he was called upon many times to visit growing villages and attend the dedication of churches which were the outgrowth of his early sermons in the place.  He often related his experiences preaching from the stumps of trees and in log school houses and other places.  It was seldom that he had an opportunity to hold service in a church edifice.  In those days means of communication were limited and the local preacher was looked upon as a sort of circulating medium for news.  His arrival in a village would cause a gathering of the inhabitants and they would keep him up late at night telling what he had heard in different places along the route.

 

The Rev. Mr. Bartlett came to Long Island in 1869 as pastor of Trinity Methodist church in Astoria and afterward was pastor of the Bellport Methodist church and the church at Oyster Bay.  His last charge was the Union church in the Steinway section of Long Island City.  He was born in Kent, England, in 1811, and came to this country when 22 years old.  He is survived by his wife and seven children.  Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on August 27, 1893.  They were devotedly attached to each other and his death has had a depressing effect upon Mrs. Bartlett. The funeral services wlll be held in Trinity Methodist church, corner of Crescent and Temple street, Astoria, at 8 o'clock to-night, and the interment will be in the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery.