Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 8, 1878
Deaths
Bainbridge, Chenango Co. NY: Pardon Redfield an old resident of the town, died on Sunday.
Diphtheria which has swept away so many victims at East Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], has made its appearance among us. Two children of George Townsend has died, and there are several other cases in the community. It is of an unusually malignant type and is justly dreaded by all.
Intelligence of the death of Mrs. N.L. Ireland of West Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] is received. Mrs. Ireland who formerly resided at the Latham Stand, was very much respected in this vicinity, and endeared herself to a large circle of friends who are deeply pained by the news of her sudden death.
Plymouth, Chenango Co. NY: The funeral services of Almond Tower were held at his residence on Friday last. Rev. Samuel Scoville of Norwich, officiating.
German, Chenango Co. NY: Mrs. William Hall died Tuesday morning. She was sick only about a week.
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PARKS: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 3d, Asa Parks aged 95 years, 3 months, 26 days.
We chronicle in our death notices the decease of Asa Parks, which occurred at his residence on Mechanic St. on Friday last, at the advanced age of nearly 96 years. Until within a few months the deceased has been as active and energetic as most men a score of ears younger and was daily on our streets where his genial smile and sturdy step attracted no little attention from those who were aware of the many years that had rolled over him and whitened his head with the frosts of many winters. He was born in Preston, Connecticut and removed to Preston [Chenango Co. NY] in 1810, and during the rigors of a severe winter built one of the first houses ever constructed in that town. There he resided until twenty-three years ago, when he removed to Norwich, where he has since lived. He has been for more than 60 years a member of the Free Will Baptist church.
Some two years ago we published in the Telegraph an account of a remarkable meeting of four shoemakers in the shop of Fred Weiler, in this village. The quartet collectively had worked at their trade for nearly three hundred years, and their names are as follows: Asa Parks, the deceased, who at that time was nearly 94 years of age, Caleb Peabody, aged nearly 80 years, and who died in Rome, N.Y., about two weeks since, Thomas Stackhouse, aged 82 years, who died about a year ago, and Benjamin Bunker, who at the time was nearly 80 years of age. Of the four, Benjamin Bunker alone remains, now aged nearly 82 years, and on Tuesday afternoon as he sat in Mr. Weiler's shop and related the facts to our reporter, from which this article is written, he would hardly be taken for a man over sixty-five years of age, so well is his vigor and intellect preserved, and as he spoke of his friends that had gone before, the unbidden tear started as he thought of his dead friends and seemed to realize that he had passed one decade more than the time allotted to man, and that he too must soon cross the dark river.
Preston, Chenango Co. NY: Asa Parks of Norwich was buried here beside his wife on the 5th. He was over 95 years of age and was for many years a respected resident of this town.
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Rev. Dr. J.T. Mattison, died at 10:30 o'clock on Sunday evening, at his boarding house, the Temperance Hotel, Cortland. He had been unconscious since Saturday forenoon. Sinking spells began very markedly on Sunday morning. His vitality became completely exhausted by evening, and he quietly passed away. The funeral services will take place at the Baptist church on Wednesday, May 2 at 2 P.M. Dr Dodge, President of Madison University, and the lifelong friend and counselor of Dr. Mattison, is expected to be in charge of the exercises. He will be assisted by Rev. Mr. Ford of the Baptist church of Homer, and by the pastors of the other churches of Cortland. Dr. Mattison graduated from Madison University in 1858 and in 1860 from the Theological Seminary. He leaves a wife and two children, a girl of eight years, and a son of about sixteen.
J.G. DeVoe, Esq. of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] proprietor of the Exchange Hotel, died very suddenly at 8:20 o'clock on Monday morning. His disease in the medical term was aneurism of the aorta, or a giving away of the main artery from his heart. The artery had, for quite a long time, been weakened, so that it was unable to hold against the great pressure of the stream of blood from the heart. Mr. DeVoe was in his room alone when the artery burst and succeeded in ringing the bell connecting his room and the office. William Riley, the clerk, and Matt Cary, the porter, were first in his room, and by his request held his head while he expired. He was lying upon his bed when they reached him, and said audibly, "hold my head." These were the last words he was noticed to attempt to speak. He died easily and calmly. As he had been expecting to die suddenly, he requested that no postmortem examination be made of his remains. Times
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