Mrs. Faucett
Chenango Union, May 30, 1878
Death of Mrs. Faucett, a former resident of this place [White Store, Chenango Co., NY], and at the time of her death, May 25th, 1878, of Rockwell's Mills. For several weeks the deceased was afflicted with a disease which caused her death, and which has baffled the skill and puzzled the minds of the most skilled physicians. Counsels have been held between Dr. B.F. Smith, of Mt. Upton, who attended her, and eminent and learned physicians of Norwich, and other towns, without, however, throwing any light upon the nature of the disease. An inquest and examination was held over the body, Saturday afternoon, the result of which we have not ascertained. The remains were conveyed to Smyrna, Sunday, for interment.
Willie Nichols
Chenango Union, May 30, 1878
White Store [Chenango Co., NY]: Diphtheria still rages to an alarming extent in Oregon (Butternuts). A son of Norman Nicolls, aged eleven years, was buried in our cemetery, Saturday. Three other cases (one in the same family, twin brother of the deceased) are considered hopeless. Eleven cases are reported from there, and five from Mt. Upton. Parents are trembling for the safety of their children and selves form the dread disease.
Walter Ney Norton
Otsego Journal, May 14, 1908
Walter Ney Norton, son of Walter B. Norton, died at their home on the Oxford road on Monday forenoon last, of measles complicated with congestion of the lungs. He had suffered from a lung trouble for some years and in his weakened condition was unable to withstand so serious a complication, which proved fatal within a week. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Norton, with whom he and his family resided, his death removing their mainstay in carrying on the farm. He was a young man who was well liked and had just passed his thirty-second year. Aside from his parents, he leaves surviving him a wife and two small children. The funeral will occur on Thursday at eleven o'clock, with burial in Evergreen cemetery, White Store [Chenango Co., NY]
Emergene L. (Patrick) Norton
Otsego Journal, September 3, 1908
At her home on the Oxford road west of White Store [Chenango Co., NY] occurred on Saturday afternoon last, the death of Mrs. Walter B. Norton. On the Sunday previous Mrs. Norton sustained a paralytic shock, which fell without premonition or warning, reaching a fatal termination unarrested by anything that the best of care and medical skill could accomplish. Walter Ney Norton, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Norton died in May last, a bereavement to his mother which doubtless hastened the catastrophe that ended in her own death. This blow, falling so soon after the death of his son, is of crushing severity to Mr. Norton who survives his wife, and also to Mrs. Adams, a younger and only sister, who is a member of the family. Mr.s Norton was not only greatly beloved in her family, but was highly esteemed in the neighborhood and wherever she was known. The funeral was largely attended from the house on Tuesday, Rev. Mr. Harris of the Oxford congregational church officiating. The burial was in Evergreen cemetery, White Store. Mrs. Norton was 58 years of age and was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of W.W. Patrick, whose death also occurred at the home of Mr. Norton, in November, 1907.
Walter B. Norton
Otsego Journal, June 3, 1909
The sudden death of Walter B. Norton at his home in the town of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on Saturday night last, was a shock to his many friends in that vicinity and the village of Norwich, where he had a large acquaintance. Up to the time he retired for the night he was in his usual health. About 1 o'clock he was taken suddenly and violently ill; a doctor was summoned from Norwich but was unable to afford any relief, and Mr. Norton died without regaining consciousness. he was born in the town of Norwich, December 21, 1834, and received his education at Oxford academy. He subsequently engaged in teaching until the breaking out of the Civil war when he enlisted in the eighth New York cavalry. After a service of two years he reenlisted and served for the remainder of the war. As a soldier he made an enviable record for bravery and efficiency. He served with the Army of the Potomac and was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Mr. Norton was married in February, 1874, to Emergene L. Patrick at Norwich. One son was born to them, Ney, whose death but little more than a year ago followed by the death of his faithful wife in September last, imposed upon his advanced age and not robust health a burden of grief from which he never entirely rallied. During many years of his life, Mr. Norton engaged in bee keeping, caring for them summers and teaching school winters. As a teacher, the prestige which he won is yet far from extinction by the lapse of years. Mr. Norton possessed a mind of rare retentive and acquisitive powers. In his mental processes and attainments, embracing as they did discriminative and cultured taste and familiarity with literature of the highest class, in his ability for correct and incisive judgment into things, he was a far remove from the vast majority of us, and yet with habits and tastes so simple and manners so unassuming, that this richly endowed side of his character might remain undiscovered by any but his intimate friends. His friendships were life long and a source of perennial satisfaction and joy to the fortunate possessors. Deceased is survived by one brother, Gardner, who resides in the home which has been kept since the death of Mrs. Norton, by her sister, Mrs. Adams. The funeral occurred on Monday at 1 o'clock, Rev. M.H. Reid officiating. Mr. Norton was buried at White Store by his wife and son, all of whom have passed away in a period of time but little in excess of a year. It was the misfortune of the writer to have known him but the last few years of his life, but those few served to emphasize a lack of something in all that went before. Peace to the ashes of Walter B. Norton. As husband, father, soldier, citizen and friend he measured up to the stature of the best from the laboratory of God and nature and in none of these was he found wanting. His casket was draped with a fine flag, one of his choicest possessions, typical of four of the best years of his life which he gave to his country.
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