MRS. JOSEPHINE
WAIGHT.
In the passing of Mrs.
Josephine Waight our township
has lost one of its best known
and most
useful
women. She was
born in
1851 in the city of Pittston, Pa., the
daughter of
Jerry Smith, later
a justice and
prominent farmer of
West
Union, and of Huldah
Bailey
Smith. By the untimely death of her mother,
she, as
a mere girl, was left
with the care of four younger children, a
task in
which she early showed
those qualities of
energy and
unselfish
devotin which were
hers to a
notable degree throughout life. After a
number of
years spent as a
capable teacher in the country schools, she
became
the wife of Frank
Waight, who had served in
the
civil war as
corporal of the
color guard of the
161st regiment, New York
Volunteers,
and who settled
with her on
the Waight
homestead farm in West Jasper,
there by
their hearty cooperation to make a farm
home, where
in the midst
of plenty, was dispensed
good
cheer and an open hearted hospitality long
to
be remembered by all
relatives
and friends.
Josephine Waight was a loyal
and esteemed member of
the Jasper M. E.
church, as
well as the Women's
Relief Corps and of Jasper
Grange. Her
death on July
nineth was due to pneumonia
and heart trouble. She
leaves to
mourn her loss, besides three sisters, one
daughter,
Mrs. Alfred Spencer,
and three sons, Archie and
Jerry Waight, who reside on
the Waight farm in
Jasper, and Garde F.
Waight, a
business man of the
city of
Binghamton.
Canisteo
Times (Canisteo,
NY) July 31, 1918; page 4,
col.
3.
FREDONIA,
NY
OCT. 31
Afflicting dispensation.
- As Jeduthan Higby, Esq.
Jonathan
Wales, George
Copper, Noble
Sweet, and
Chauncey Phelps,
were
passing in a wagon, in
the
town of Pulteney,
Steuben
county, on the
11th
inst
in
a severe storm of
wind, just
as they
came
out of a piece of
woods
into a
clearing, a large
walnut
tree was
torn up by the
violence
of the
wind, and, shocking
to relate,
fell directly across
the
wagon,
and killed
three of
them, viz:
Jeduthan Higby,
Esq.
Jonathan
Wales,
and
George
Copper.
Daily
National
Intelligencer,
November 13,
1820.
JASPER:
Ella, wife
of
Russell E. Walrath, died of quick
consumption on the
13th. She
was the
daughter
of Frank
Marlatt and
was 21
years old. One child,
a
son, was
born
to them April 25,
1885.
His
name is Ross. Mrs. Walrath
had
been
ill
since
Christmas and
died
rejoicing in
Christ.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo,
NY).
Mrs. Mary
Walrath
Mrs.
Mary
Walrath,
wife of
the late
Russell
Walrath of Jasper,
died
Thursday afternoon at the
home
of her
daughter, Mrs.
Willard
Bronson at 10 E.
Washington
street, Hornell, where she
had
made
her home for 15 years.
Her
death was unexpected.
She
was taken
with a
stroke of apoplexy and died
without
regaining
consciousness.
She
was a
former
resident of Jasper
and
widely
and favorably
known. She was
a
devout member
of
Westminster
Presbyterian
church, and
a
member of
the
Philathea class
of
Hornell.
Besides
the
daughter
she is survived
by a
son,
LeRoy Walrath of
Jasper;
a
sister,
Mrs. Christina
Schwank
of
Sterling,
Ill., and six
grandchildren.
Funeral
services
were
held from the
late
home Saturday afternoon
at
1:30
o'clock. Rev.
Ward B.
Flaxington
officiated. Burial in
Jasper
cemetery.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
November
28,
1935;
page 2, col.
5.
SOLOMON
WALRATH.
On
Friday
morning,
February
1,
at
his
home 1
1/2 miles
from this
village
occudred the
death of
Solomon
Walrath. The
cause of his
death was
apoplexy. Mr.
Walrath
had
been in poor health for
a
long
time due to
heart
trouble,
and
on Thursday
afternoon he
suffered a
shock from
which he died
the
following
morning. He had
spent his
entire life in
this place;
he
was a
farmer and
was highly
respected as
a
citizen. He was
an
active
member
of Banner Grange
from
which order he will be
greatly
missed. He
is
survived by
his
wife
and four children;
Lawrence
and Leo
of this
place, Vinnie of
Hornell
and
Mrs.
Gertrude Dyer
of
this
place;
also one
sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth
Adams of
Jasper and
one brother, Fred
E. Walrath
of
Rochester. The
entire
community
extend
sympathy to
the family
in their sad
bereavement.
The
funeral was held Sunday
afternoon at 2
o'clock
from
the
Methodist church,
Rev. T. V.
Moore
officiating. Burial in
Jasper
cemetery.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
February 6,
1918; page 5, col.
3.
Frank
Ward, Formerly
of
Canisteo,
Dead
The
death of Frank
Ward, formerly a
prominent resident
of
Canisteo, occurred Saturday
morning at 3:30 oclock at the
home
of his daughter,
Mrs. Robert Soper in Addison
following an illness of several months
of
complication of
diseases.
Mr.
Ward
was born
in Jasper,
August 12,
1854, and
most of his
life had
been spent in
that
vicinity.
On March
25, 1879 he
was
united in
marriage
to Miss
Alice
Marvin,
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs.
William Marvin
of South Canisteo.
For several
years
Mr.
and Mrs.
Ward resided on a
farm and
later moved
to
this
village to
reside. About
four
years
ago they came
to Addison
to make their
home with
their
daughter. Mr. Ward was a
member of the South
Canisteo
Methodist
church.
Besides
his widow
he leaves his daughter
and
three
sons: Lewis
of
Altoona;
Albert, Glendale
of
California and
George of
Binghamton
and a
brother,
Reuben Ward of
Costello,
Pa.
Funeral
services were
held
from
the
home
of Mrs. Soper in
Tuscarora street.
Monday
afternoon
at 2 oclock
Rev. H.
E.
Kendrick
pastor of the
Methodist church
offiiciated.
Interment
was made
in
Addison
Rural
cemetery.
Canisteo
Times (Canisteo, NY)
January
14,
1932;
page 6, col.
2.
Mrs.
Ellen M.
Warner
Mrs.
Ellen
M.
Warner, 79,
died after
a long
illness, at the
home of ? E. Cowles in Stephens
street,
Canisteo, at
1:45
p.m.,
Tuesday. She was
born in
Hornell June 13, 1856. All of
her
life was spent
in
this
vicinity. She was one
of the
most
respected women of
Canisteo
for many
years.
She
married
William
Wirt
Warner of Hemlock,
N.Y., in
Oct. 1879. He died in
Jan.
1923. She
was a member of
the
First
Presbyterian
church of
Canisteo. She
leaves 2
brothers, John Murphy
of
Canisteo
and
James
Murphy of
Hornell and
several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral
arrangements
were
incomplete this
Wednesday morning,
undertaker
R. H.
Scranton
stated.
Canisteo Times
(Canisteo, NY)
September
19,
1935;
page 2, col.
3.
Thomas J. Watson, Head of IBM, Dies at Age 82
NEW YORK (AP). - Thomas J. Watson, 82, board chairman of International Business Machines Corporation, died Tuesday of a heart attack.
A slim, erect figure, Watson only last May stepped down as executive chief of IBM, turning the job over to his son, Thomas Jr., 42. But the older Watson continued active in the business.
Recently he complained of what he took to be a digestive upset. He came here from his New Canaan, Conn., summer home last Sunday and entered Roosevelt Hospital.
Death came at 1 p.m. Tuesday, with his wife and four children at his bedside.
President Eisenhower issued this statement in Washington:
"In the passing of Thomas J. Watson the nation has lost a truly fine American - an industrialist who was first of all a great citizen and a great humanitarian.
"I have lost a good friend whose counsel was always marked by a deep-seated concern for people.
"Mrs. Eisenhower and I join with the many thousands of his friends in many countries in sending our heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Watson and her family."
The White House said Mrs. Eisenhower sent a personal message of sympathy to Mrs. Watson.
It was Watson who adopted the 1-word slogan "THINK" and displayed it prominently throughtout IBM property in 79 countries. It amused him in later years when wits corrupted the slogan to read "THIMK."
Watson started out selling pianos, organs and sewing machines in Painted Post, N.Y. When Watson took over IBM in 1914, it had fewer than 400 employees. Today it has nearly 60,000.
One hundred shares of IBM stock in 1914 were worth less than $3,000. In exercising all purchase rights and including dividends, the 100 shares today would amount to 3,990 shares worth more than two million dollars.
For his part in spearheading this fantastic growth, Watson was one of the highest paid business executives in the world. At one time he was paid more than $425,000 a year.
Watson travelled more than a million miles on company business, usually with his wife, the former Jeanette K. Kittredge, daughter of an Ohio industrialist.
Born in Campbell, N.Y. Watson was the son of a lumber dealer. He took a year's business corse after high school and went to work as a bookkeeper in a Painted Post market at $6 a week.
After two years of selling, Watson joined the National Cash Register Company as a salesman in Buffalo. In the next 18 years he rose to general sales manager.
He was called from National Cash Register to head the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company - forerunner of the giant IBM enterprise of today.
IBM turns out a complexity of computing machines from the simple electric typewriter to the huge electronic brain.
Besides his son, Thomas Jr., the elder Watson left another son, Arthur K. Watson, president of the IBM World Trade Corporation, and two daughters, Mrs. J. N. Irwin II of New York, and Mrs. Walker G. Buckner of Bronxville, N.Y.
All IBM offices, plants and laboratories will be closed Thursday when funeral services are held for Watson in New York.
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) Wednesday, June 20, 1956; part 3, page 16, cols. 4 & 5.
MRS.
WILLIAM
WELCH
WHO
WAS
RIDING IN A
BUGGY,
THE
VICTIM
STARTED
WITH
HER TO THE HOSPITAL,
BUT
SHE
DIED
SOON AFTER
STARTING. -
AN
INQUIRY HELD
YESTERDAY TO
DETERMINE THE
BLAME. - CAR GOING
SLOWLY.
JASPER,
N.
Y.,
Oct. 23. -
A fatal
accident occurred
in
this village Monday night
in
which one woman lost
her life
and her husband
sustained
serious
injury. The
victims of
the
accident
are
Mr. and
Mrs. William Welch
of this place who
were
just
crossing
the Jasper four
corners
driving a
horse and
buggy,
when they
were
struck
by
the Ford car
driven by Mr.
Michael
Kearnes of
Addison.
Just how
the
accident happened is still
a
matter
of question as outside of the parties
concerned no one was
near to
witness
it but
were
attracted to the
scene only by
the crash of
the
collision. It is
stated that
Mr. Kearnes
was
proceeding east in
Main
street
while
Mr. and Mrs.
Welch were
crossing north in
State
street,
that
when Mr.
Welch realized that
they
were in the path of the machine
he attempted
to hurry
across with
the result that
the car hit the rear
wheel of
the
buggy
throwing Mr. and Mrs. Welch
with great
force against
the
front of the
car and
then to the
roadside
directly in
front of
Bouck's
garage. Mrs. Welch was
crushed
in the
chest
besides
sustaining a
fractured
skull and
severe
lacerations
about
the
face and
body
from which she
died soon after
the start was
made to take
her
to
the
hospital in Hornell. Mr.
Welch
sustained the
fracture
of
several ribs and
bruises
about the face.
After
the
accident
Mr.
and Mrs.
Welch were
taken
to the
home of Dr. E. E.
Wallace and
Dr.
W. J. Tracy of Hornell was
called to
assist.
Dr. Tracy
responded quickly
and
everything possible was
done by the two
physicians to
alleviate the
suffering
of the
injured but
Mrs.
Welch's
injury
proved to
be beyond
help and
she
succumbed as stated
above.
This was a
particularly sad
and
unfortunate
accident and
the
whole
community was
shocked by
its
disastrous
result.
Mr. Kearnes,
the
driver of the
car
was
deeply
grieved by
the accident and
anxious
to do
anything in his
power for the
unforunate
victims.
He too
received
the sympathy of the
people in general because
of
this
unfortunate
occurrence.
The
corner at which the
accident
happened
is a
particularly dangerous
one and
at
the rapid rate at which
careless autoists
speed
through
our
village
constitutes a grave
menance to
public
safety. It
is
stated, however, that
Mr. Kearnes was not driving
at
a
rapid rate and this is
shown
by
the
fact that he was
able
to
stop
his machine within a few
feet of the
accident. A
hearing was
held Tuesday
afternoon to get
at the facts
of the
case.
Mrs.
Welch is
survived by her
husband, 2
sons
Richard and
Nelson, an
aged
father
and mother, Mr.
and
Mrs.
Richard Davis,
also 2
brothers
and a
sister, all
of
Troupsburg. The funeral
arrangements have not been
completed.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo,
NY)
October,
1923.
MRS.
WILLIAM
WELCH
CANISTEO
- Mrs.
Anna
M.
Welch, 69,
died in
St.
James Hospital early Wednesday
morning after
three weeks
of
illness. She was
born in Cameron, November
1,
1876,
and spent her life
there.
In October, 1894,
she
was united in
marriage with
William
H. Welch of
Cameron. He died
in 1942.
She
was a
member of the
Methodist
Church of
Cameron Mills.
Surviving
are
six
daughters: Mrs. Jerry
Hart,
Mrs. John
Flahive, Mrs.
Milford
Parks and Mrs.
Alonzo Loucks of
Canisteo,
Mrs.
Stanley Jimmerson of
Hornell
and Mrs. Ella
Simmons
of
Cameron; four
sons,
Arthur Welch
and Harold
Welch of
Cameron
Mills,
William
Welch
of
Woodhull and John
Welch of
Canandaigua; 35
grandchildren
and
nine
great
grand-children; two
sisters,
Mrs. Cleo Jack
of
risingville,
N.Y., and
Mrs.
Emma
Jenkins of
Mansfield,
Pa.;
two brothers, James
Torrence
of Bolivar and
Solomon
Torrence of
Painted Post;
several nieces,
nephews and
cousins.
The body
is at the
home of
her daughter, Mrs.
Milford Parks in Stephens street,
where
friends may
call, and where a
prayer
service will be
held
Saturday at 1:30
p.m.
Funeral
services will be
held
in
Town
Line
Church at 2:30, with
burial in Town
Line
Cemetery. The
Rev. Robert
Hubbell of
Cameron
will
officiate.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo,
NY) June
1945
James
Welch
James Welch
of Adrian passed away at the
St. James
Hospital
in
Hornell
Thursday,
following
an
appendicitis operation,
peritonitis
having
developed.
He
is
survived by his
widow and two
children,
his
parents, Mr.
and Mrs.
Herbert
Welch,
six
sisters and
five
brothers. The
funeral
was held
from the
family
home
in
Adrian Sunday at
three
o'clock with
the
Rev.
Harry L.
Somers,
pastor
of the
Canisteo
Presbyterian
Church
officiating.
Interment was
made
in
the Town Line
Cemetery
at
Cameron
Mills.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canister, NY)
October
24, 1935
CAMERON
MILLS
James
Welch
James
Welch,
a former
resident
of
this
place,
passed
away
at the St.
James hospital in
Hornell on
Thursday,
Oct.
29, after an
operation
for
appendicitis. Besides
his
widow and two children and
his
parents,
Mr.
and
Mrs. Herbert Welch of
Cameron
Mills,
he
leaves several
sisters and
brothers. The
funeral was
held Sunday at 3
p. m.,
from
the home in
Adrian.
Interment
was made at the
Cameron
Mills
cemetery.
Rev.
H. L. Somers of
the
Presbyterian church in
Canisteo.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo,
NY)
November
7,
1935
CAMERON
MILLS
The funeral of Merle
Welch, was held
Tuesday afternoon at
the
Town
Line Church, with
interment
in Town Line
Cemetery.
Besides his
parents,
Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Welch
he
is survived by
three
children,
Lucy,
James and
Doris and several
sisters and
brothers.
Canisteo Times,
(Canisteo, NY)
February
28,
1936
Mrs.
Merle
Welch, 36,
Is Claimed by Death
Death
Follows
Short Illness.
Funeral
Services to
be Held
Thursday,
Burial at
Rathbone.
Canisteo,
Dec. 30 -
Mrs. Merle
Welch, 36
years
old, died
last
evening
at the home
of her
parents,
Mr. and
Mrs. E. E.
Besse
of 40
West Main
street,
after a
short
illness.
Besides
her husband,
Mrs.
Welch is survived
by two
daughters, Lucy and Doris and a
son,
James, all at
home; her parents
and
two sisters, Mrs. Claude Hurd of
Hornell and
Mrs. Floyd
Sells of
Angelica and a
brother, Philip Besse
of
Canisteo.
Funeral
services will be held
Thursday
at
1:30 p.m. at the home and
at 3
p.m. at the
Cameron Mills
M.E.
Church.
Burial
will be in the
Town
Line
cemetery at
Rathbone.
The
Rev.
Joseph
McClintock will
officiate.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo, NY) December 30,
1930
Woodhull
Man Dies of Hurts;
Accident
Ruled
An
accidental
death
certificate
was issued
today
by Dr. H.B. Smith,
Steuben
County
Coroner,
in
the death of
William
Welch,
42, of
Woodhull,
who died
in Corning
Hospital
at 7:20pm Wednesday
from
injuries
suffered when
hit by
a car
five days
earlier.
Dr. Smith
said
that
death
was
caused by a
skull
fracture,
concussion of the
brain,
and shock.
No
inquest is
planned, he
said.
Welch
was
admitted to
the hospital
in an
unconscious
condition early Saturday
morning after he was struck by
a
car
opperated by Arthur
Hill
of
Addison
RD2. He never
regained
consciousness.
His
death is
the
fourth highway
fatality
in the county
since
January.
According
to
Deputy
Forrest Herrington, who
investigated, Welch was
injured as
he walked
across Route
17 about
three miles east of
Addison.
Welch was
crossing
the
highway to
talk
with
a
truck
driver about an
accident
which happened
a few
minutes
earlier
involving the
Woodhull
man's
car and the
driver's oil
truck, the
deputy
said.
A car
preceding
the
Hill
car pulled
to the right
side of the
road and
slowed
when the
driver saw Welch on
the
highway
and Hill, unable
to see
him, swung
towards the
center
of
the road and struck
him
with
the
left front
fender
of his
car.
Born in
Cameron, June 21, 1907,
the
accident
victim was
the son
of Herbert
and
Anna Torrance
Welch.
Funeral
services will be
conducted
Saturday
afternoon
at
2 pm,
from the
Smith
Funeral Home in
Woodhull,
where
friends
may
call.
The REv.
Carl Reppert, pastor
of the
Woodhull Methodist
Church will
officiate
and burial
will be
made in the
Woodhull
Cemetery.
Survivors
include his
widow.
Canisteo Times, (Canisteo, NY) November 21,
1949.
JASPER NEWS AND
PERSONALS
Mrs. William
Wentworth
JASPER, N. Y., Aug.
5.
- Mrs. Fannie
Lucinda
Wentworth,
wife
of William B.
Wentworth of Jasper,
died at
the
family home Friday night,
July 31, at 9
o'clock, from
angina
pectoris. She
was confined to
her bed only 6
days,
having
been
about the house as
usual
until
Sunday
afternoon,
although in
very frail health
for
the past
several
years. Loved and highly esteemed by
all,
memories
of her faithful
service in
the home, church
and community
will live.
She
possessed
such
fruits as
kindness,
cheerfulness,
faithfulness,
pride,
patience, truthfulness.
She
was a
member of Jasper
Free Library
Association, and
down
through its many years of
existence, she has continued
this interest. At
the time of
her death, she was
vice-president of the
association.
She
had been a
devoted member of
Jasper
Prsbyterian
church for a
number of years,
and
active
in
the Search
Light
Band
and Ladies' Aid Society
until
declining
years
forced
her
retirement.
She
was a member
of
the
Ladies of the
Maccabees
and
president of the
Jasper
unit. The
deceased was born
December
8, 1861 to Allen and
Lucinda
Andrew
Drake on
the Drake
homestead
in West
Jasper. She is the
last
of a
family
of 10
children to pass
on. October
20,
1881 she
married William
B.
Wentworth of
Jasper.
Besides
her husband, one
daughter,
Mrs. Mabel
Pritchard
of
Jasper,
survives
together
with 5
grandchildren,
2 great
grandchildren,
several nieces,
nephews
and
other
relatives.
The
funeral was held from the
late
home
Monday
afternoon at 2
o'clock,
Rev. Chas. Ritenberg
of
Roulette,
Pa., formerly
of South
Canisteo,
officiating. Burial
in
Jasper
Cemetery.
Canisteo Times, (Canisteo,
NY)
August 6, 1942, page
5, col. 1 &
2.
Melancholy. -
We understand
that
Willard
Wetherby, an
industrious and reputable
young man,
of Guilford,
aged
22, was
found, on Sunday,
the
30th ult.,
drowned in a
mill-pond in
Addison,
Steuben
county,
whither
he
went to labor about
a year
since. Mr.
Wetherby, as
our
informant
states,
had
been unwell some
time -
dreamed
the
night before
his
body was found, that he
was,
or
was to
be, drowned in the
pond,
and
related this
circumstance
in
the
morning. From
the
circumstances, it
is more
than
probable
that a
derangement
of
mind,
occasioned by
sickness,
was
the
cause of his death. -
Chenango
Telegraph.
New-York
Spectator, (New
York,
NY)
Friday, June 18,
1830;
col.
F.
South Bradford.
Geo. Wheaton died at her home in South Bradford, December 1st, 1899. She was the daughter of Peter and Sarah Wheaton, and was born in Milo Center, July 25, 1841. She was married to George Wheaton of Fenton, Mich., on April 28, 1866, who survives her with one son.
Hornellsville Weekly Tribune (Hornellsville, NY) Friday, December 22, 1899; page 5, col. 5.
From the
Bath, Steuben co.
Advocate.
During a
thunder
gust on
Monday the
22d
ult.
Mr.
Jonas
Wheeler, son of
Seth
Wheeler,
Esqr. of the
town of
Wheeler,
N. Y. was
unfortunately
killed by
the
fall of a
tree.
Mr. Wheeler
was
an industrious
and
worthy young man,
25
years of age,
and the
circumstances
under
which his
death
occurred
render it
peculiarly
afflicting to
his
friends. He had
been at
work in a shop near
the
woods
from
which he appeared to have
been
retreating
for
safety, when
the
tree
fell which occasioned his
death
- He
was found soon
after, his
limbs shockingly
crushed
and
broken, and
his head
and
face
badly wounded. In this
situation he
lay imploring
help,
while his
father
and
brother chopped
away the tree
in
order
to
extricate him. - He
was
carried
to the house alive but
survived but a short
time.
Baltimore
Patriot
(Baltimore, MD)
Friday,
July 11,
1828; page
2.
Died,
at
Wheeler,
Steuben Co.,
on
the 26th, Capt.
Silas
Wheeler,
aged
78y., father of Gration H.
Wheeler; one of the 1st
settlers of Wheeler; a
Revolutionary
soldier.
Albany Angus
(Albany,
NY)
December 9,
1828.
JASPER:
Alvin E.
Whipple,
65,
died on Sunday night, Feb.
11
at the
Bethesda
hospital,
Hornell.
He was an
employee of
the Erie railroad,
and a
former
Jasper
resident.
Two
sons,
Coy of
Poughkeepsie and
Carrol of
this place,
survive.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
Wednesday,
February
14,
1923.
JOSEPH
F.
WHITE
Joseph
F.
White,
62, of
Rathbone
died Sunday
morning
at St.
James
Hospital in
Hornell after
a
short
illness. He was born in
Cameron, July 20, 1893, the son of
William and
Jeanette
Simons
White.
He is
survived
by his wife, Mrs.
Mildred
White; one son, Rex White; a
brother, Henry White of
Wellsville;
a
granddaughter,
Barbara
White, who made her home with her
grandparents.
Mr.
White
served
with the AEF in
Europe
in
1918. The body was at the
Smith
Funeral Home
in Woodhull
where
services
were held
Wednesday
at 2
p.m. Rev. Irvin
Kelley, pastor
of the
Hedgesville
Presbyterian Church,
officiated
and
burial was
in Boyds Corners
Cemetery.
Canisteo
Times
(Cansiteo, NY)
November 24, 1955, page
5,
col.
5.
Mrs.
Agnes E.
Whiting
Mrs.
Agnes
E.
Whiting
died
Sunday at
the
home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles
Morrissey, 73 West
Genesee
street,
Hornell.
She
had been ill a
long time.
She had lived in
Hornell most
of her life
and
attended the
Universalist
church.
Surviving
are
three
nieces, Mrs. Cowles
Whiting of
Jasper, Mrs.
James
Rewalt of
the
Hornell-Almond road
and
Mrs.
Edith
Whiting of
Bolivar.
Funeral services were
held
from the
home of
Mr. and Mrs.
Morrissey
Tuesday
afternoon
at 2
o'clock.
Rev. J. A. Judge,
pastor
of
the
Universalist church
officiated. Burial was
in Hope
cemetery,
Hornell.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
November
28,
1935; page
2,
col.
5.
PASSED
AWAY LAST
EVENING
SAD
DEATH
OF KENNETH
WHITING AT
THE
WEST END
HOSPITAL IN
PITTSBURGH.
ONLY
SON
OF
SUPERVISOR
AND MRS. GEO. C.
WHITING, WHO
HAD JUST
ENTERED THE
CARNEGIE
TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE. - A
VICTIM OF INFLUENZA AND
PNEUMONIA.
KENNETH
Whiting, only
son of Supervisor and Mrs.
Geo. C. Whiting, died at 8:20
o'clock last evening
in
the
West End City hospital
in
Pittsburgh, Pa., following
an attack of influenza
and
pneumonia. He
was
graduated
with honor last
June
from
Canisteo
Academy
where
he
was one of the
brightest,
most
popular and
genial
pupils, he spent
the
summer
working
in
the railway
mail
service, and
three weeks
ago went
to
Pittsburgh to
enter Carnegie
Technical Institute
for the college course.
He was
taken
with
influenza and
went
to the hospital a
week
ago
Thursday.
Pneumonia
developed a
week ago
today.
The parents
sent Dr. G. L.
Whiting there
Friday. He
found
Kenneth
unconscious and
critically
ill, but well
cared
for. He
remained until
Sunday night, leaving
the
patient
noticeably
improved.
Messages received
Monday
were
that
his
temperature had
risen, but the
heart action
was
normal. Yesterday
morning
messages
were
received that
the
temperature
was
normal,
also the heart
action.
At six
o'clock the day
surgeon telephoned Dr.
Whiting that he was
failing
rapidly, having had a
change
for the worse. The
father Geo. C. Whiting,
who
had been confined to
the
house
for a week with
grip,
got up out of a
sick
bed
and left at 7:30 p.
m. for
Pittsburgh.
The
message
received from the
hospital
surgeon
stated that he passed
away
last evening at
8:20. He
leaves his
parents
and a younger sister,
Elinor.
Canisteo is again
in mourning today
over
the
death of a most
promising,
popular
and
exemplary
young
man.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo,
NY)
October
23, 1918; page 1,
column
2.
MRS. NANCY WHITING.
Mrs. Nancy Whiting,
one of our oldest and most highly respected
residents, passed away Sunday
night. She was found
dead in
bed. She was to go on
the afternoon bus that
day to
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Willis Marsh,
to
spend the
winter.
When the bus driver, Justin
House, went to the house for
Mrs. Whiting he
found
the
doors locked and no
evidence of anyone around.
Fearing something
might
be
wrong he raised a
window and found her
peacefully
sleeping "the
sleep that knows
no wake."
Mrs. Whiting had been usually well and was
calling
at the
neighbors'
early in the evening. Dr. E. E. Wallce
was
called
and it was decided
heart failure was the
cause of
death and that
she passed away
some time
during the night
while
asleep.
Mrs. Whiting was
born in
Jasper 83
years ago last
August and was the
last of a family of twelve
children. She
had lived
her
entire life in
this town. Her husband, Jonathan
Whiting,
died
several years
ago. Her
only son, Harlan
Whiting,
died
a few months
ago. She is
survived by
two daughters, Mrs. Willis J. Marsh of
this place
and Mrs. Frank Simpson of
Elkland, Pa. The funeral
will
be held from the
house
Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Canisteo
Times (Canisteo,
NY)
December
4, 1918; page 5,
col. 2.
CHILD BURNED TO
DEATH.
LaVern
Wilcox
returned
Friday from
Corning
with
the body of
is daughter
Irene, who was burned to death
in
that place Wednesday
morning.
She was six
years old
and
since her
mother's
death four years ago she
had
lived with
Mrs. Willard of
Corning.
The
funeral was held
... from
the
home.
Canisteo
Times (Canisteo, NY)
October
23,
1918; page 5, column
1.
MRS.
SOPHIE E.
WILFORD
(Steuben
County)
Mrs.
Sophie E.
Wilford,
aged
67
years,
died at
Brigham Hall last
evening at
7
o'clock.
She had
been at
the
institution since
September,
1920. Remains
will be taken
to
Bath for
internment.
The
Daily Messenger,
(Canandaigua,
NY) Thursday,
January
5,
1922;
submitted by
Melissa
Rodriguez
MRS.
MARY C.
WILKINS
The
death of Mrs. Mary
Coleman
Wilkins, the wife of
Bert
Wilkins, occurred
Sunday
afternoon
after an
illness of two
weeks. She
was
the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs.
Wm.
Coleman of
West Union
and was 25
years old. She came
here
5
years ago and
married
Mr.
Wilkins 2
years
ago. She was highly
thought of
both
in this
place
and in her home
town
and leaves a wide
circle to
mourn her loss. Besides
her
husband and
parents
she is
survived by
several
sisters.
Burial
was made in
St.
Mary's
Cemetery
yesterday.
Canisteo Times,
(Canisteo, NY)
July 10,
1907
DIED.
In Addison,
Steuben
county, N. Y., on
Friday, Sept. 11th, 1860,
at
10 o'clock
P. M.,
SOLOMON B.
WOLCOTT,
son of the
late Dr. Solomon
Wolcott,
of
Utica,
Oneida county, N.
Y.
The
Sun
(Baltimore,
MD)
Tuesday,
September 25,
1860;
page
2.
DEATHS.
At
the house of his father, at Lindsleytown, Steuben county, New York, on the
29th of October, Mr. PHINEAS BRADLEY
WOLCOTT, just having entered into his 23d year. This young
man commenced his apprenticeship with the senior Editor of the Village
Record, completed it at Westchester; and had performed his duties
correctly. He gave promise of usefulness and respectability in his
profession. During the last winter he caught a violent cold, which settled
on his lungs - and that slow, but certainly fatal disease, Consumption,
commenced its operations - and in the morning of life, with bright
prospects of happiness flitting before him - he is numbered with the
silent dead. If the affectionate attachment of parents - the kind
attention of brothers and sisters - or the ardent wishes of numerous
friends, could have prevailed - WOLCOTT would have lived to ornament the
profession, and the society of which he was a member. - Village
Record.
Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC) Wednesday,
November 11, 1829; Issue 5235; col. C.
Mrs.
Fayette Woodward (Eva
Sabrina) of
North Canisteo died 1:30am Tuesday age 78
years, 6 months,
8 days. She
was
born in Greenwood Oct 5,
1884 the daughter of
David and
Sarah Jane Jackson
Fenton.
Leaves
behind
children, Mrs.
Frank
Allen,
George Woodward,
Acel
Woodward
all
of Canisteo
and Mrs. John
McCormick of
Rexville,
grandchildren, 17
great
grand
children and
sister Mrs.
Trowbridge of
Greenwood.
Buried
Greenwood
Cemetery.
Canisteo Times, (Canisteo, NY) 15 Apr
1943.
JOHN S.
WOODWARD
John
S.
Woodward,
well known
Jasper
carpenter,
one of the
most
respected
residents of Jasper,
died at
the home
of his
niece, Mrs.
Sarah
Wood
Monday
night
after being ill
for
several
years. He
was 68
years
old. He
is
survived by 4
brothers, Sumner, Burt
and Arthur
Woodward
of Jasper
and Melvin
Woodward of
Woodhull; 2
sisters,
Mrs.
Olive Whiteman and
Mrs. Anna
Card of
Jasper and
several
nieces
and nephews. Funeral
services
will be held from the
France
Funeral
home
Thursday at 2
p.m.,
Burial
will be in
Five
Corners
Cemetery.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo, NY)
September
17, 1942, page 4,
col.
4
Funeral
of
John
Woodward
Funeral
service for
the late
John S.
Woodward, who
died
at
the
home of his
niece, Mrs.
Clinton Wood
Monday
night, Sept. 14, was
held from the
J.
H.
France Funeral
Home Thursday
afternoon
at 2
o'clock
with burial
in
the
family plot
in
Five Corners Cemetery.
Rev.
Frederick D. Raymond,
pastor
of the
Methodist
Church,
conducted
the
rites.
Survivors
include 5
brothers, Melvin E.
and
George R.
Woodward of
Woodhull;
Sumner J., Bert and
Archie
Woodward
of
Jasper; 2 sisters,
Mrs.
Olive Whiteman
and Mrs. Anna
Card of Jasper,
besides
nieces and nephews.
The
deceased was
the
son of Jacob
and Sarah
Jackson
Woodward, born
in
Jasper May
5, 1874. By
trade
he was a
blacksmith and
carpenter, having
followed the
latter
trade
some years in
Philadelphia. For
10
years he
resided in
the
state
of
Oregon, where he was
engaged in cement work.
The
greater part of his
life
was
lived in this
vicinity,
making him
well known,
especially to the
older
people. He
was well
respected.
Among his
affections
were
children, to
which
he was
greatly
devoted. Cause of
death was
hardening of the
arteries,
paralysis and
complications.
Canisteo Times, (Canisteo,
NY) September 24,
1942,
page 3, col.
3.
Mrs.
Wilson Woodward (Orra
M.) of
Greenwood
died at home
of daughter Mrs.
Marie Brownell at
Woodward
Hollow,
Greenwood.
Suffered
from Cerebral
hemorage.
She was the
daughter
of
David and
Sarah Jane
Fenton. Age 86
years old, she
was born Jasper
June
15,
1856, the widow
of
Wilson Woodward who
died in
1929.
She
is
survived by 1
daughter, Mrs.
Marie
Brownell, 1 son
Lavasso
Woodward
of
Greenwood, 2
sisters
Mrs. Olive
Trowbridge
and
Mrs Brina Woodward of
Greenwood, 1 brother in
law
Mr.
Ephraim McMindes
of
Canisteo, 5 great
grandchildren.
Buried
Greenwood
Cemetery.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo, NY) 20
July 1942.
Died,
at
Cohocton, Steuben
county,
on
the 21st of
August, Mr.
Edward
Wyckoff, about
40
years of age. In
taking
honey
from a tree in the
woods, he
was
stung by a bee at
the
lower point of
the ear, near
the
angle of the jaws.
Instantly after
the
sting, his system
was so
strangely affected that
he sat
down fainting, and
begged
assistance!
There were three or
four
of
his
friends
in company, and they
used
every possible exertion
to
save
him. But
within six
minutes
his
power of
speech was gone,
his eyes
became blind, and he
died
without a struggle or
groan.
-
Steuben Patriot.
Cherry Valley Gazette,
September
5,
1820.
DIES AFTER OPERATION
Henry J. Wynkoop of Bath, N.Y., Passes Away in Bay City.
Father of Michigan Newspaper Men Fails to Rally After Attack of Appendicitis.
(Special to The Evening Press.)
Bay City, Mich., Aug. 28. - Henry J. Wynkoop of Bath, Steuben county, N.Y., died here today following a recent operation for appendicitis. He was seventy-three years old and is survived by a widow and four sons, B. M. Wynkoop, general manager of the Bay City Times; Frederick Wynkoop, business manager of the Muskegon News-Chronicle, and Dr. Harry Wynkoop and Attorney George Wynkoop of Bath. He was an uncle of George G. Booth and Ralph H. Booth of Detroit and Edmund W. Booth of Grand Rapids.
Mr. Wynkoop was well known in southern New York state through his connection for many years with the Pultney Land company, an organization of titled Englishmen which at one time owned one-fourth of the Empire state. Later he came into possession of the remnant of the land company's holdings and at the present time the family owns a great deal of real estate in New York state.
But perhaps one thing which brought Mr. Wynkoop into prominence was the fact that he was an exceedingly expert ponman, although the bone of his right shoulder and his upper right arm had been removed in an operation which resulted from Mr. Wynkoop being shot while in service in the civil war.
At the time he was shot it was expected that the arm of necessity would be amputated, but Dr. Swinbourne, the famous surgeon, whose attention was called to the case, decided to try a previously unheard of operation to save the arm. He removed the shoulder bone, which had been shattered by the bullett, and also removed several inches of the upper bone of the arm. The wound healed and, although Mr. Wynkoop's whole right arm had nothing but the muscles of the upper arm to support it, he was able to use it for some purposes as well as before being shot.
The body will be taken to Bath, N.Y., probably Sunday, and funeral services will be hed there.
Grand Rapids Press (Grand Rapids, MI) August 28, 1908; page 12. |
