In Jasper, Steuben Co., N.
Y., March 8th, Betty
Hadley,
consort of Joshua
Hadley,
formerly of Lyndeborough,
N.
H., aged 86 years, 2
months,
12 days. She
died in
the
full
assurance of
eternal
life
beyond the
grave. Prs. in Mass.
& Vt.
please
copy.
The
Farmers'
Cabinet
(Amherst, NH)
Thursday, April
20, 1854;
page
3.
Judge Hakes Dead.
HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y., Feb. 1. - Hon. Harlo Hakes, late judge of Steuben county, died at his home in this city.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, NJ) February 1, 1896; page 4.
NEWTOWN,
(Tioga Co.) June
24.
Suicide.
-
On
Monday
last,
Jacob
Hallet
esq. of
the
town of Addision,
Steuben
county, committed the act of
suicide by hanging
himself;
which
appears
to have
been effected
by
bending
down a pine sappling,
withing the
top
end
around his
neck,
and
then letting
it
spring up. He
had been
in ill
health
for about
eight
months, of a
consumption, and
had bcome
very low
and
feeble.
He got up sometime
in
the night
previous to
the
day on
which he was
found, and left
the house
unobserved
-
went about
half a mile ascending a very
steep
hill, and
was found
suspended
to
the
sappling.
The horrid
deed is
supposed
to have been
the result of
insanity.
He
had
been for
many years a
respectable
farmer of that
town and
for
several years a
justice of the
peace. He was
about
55
years of
age.
The
American, June
29, 1820.
From the
Geneva
Gazette of
July
5.
Nathan
Hallet, a
respectable magistrate
of
Canisteo, Steuben
County, put
a
period to his
existence the
19th
ult. by
twisting a yellow
pine
shrub
into a withe and
fastening it
around
his
neck.
The National
Advocate, for the
Country,
(New
York,
NY) July 11, 1820; col
E.
PERRY
JOHN
HALLETT
DEMISE
OF ONE
OF
THE
MOST
POPULAR YOUNG
LAWYERS
OF
CANISTEO
Perry
John
Hallett,
born in the town
of
Canisteo, N.Y., May 24th,
1853, died at his
residence
Dec.
20, 1887. He
was a
son of Thomas Hallett,
deceased, who
was born
May 19,
1830,
and
died
February 23,
1887. Mr.
Hallett's
wife and Perry's
mother's
maiden name
was Sylvia
Travis, born
April 3,
1829, and she died
April
12,
1887.
Perry was the
last
of the
family living, the
other
two
children
having
died several
years
ago, Lydia M.
died Oct. 29,
1868,
aged 8 yrs 2 mon 16
days;
Thomas R.
died Dec. 6, 1874
aged 16
yrs. 10 months. Perry
was
left
a
fortune of
several
thousand
dollars by his
father. He
received a
fine
academic
education,
having
attended
school at
Hammondsport,
Alfred and
Canisteo Academy,
chose
the
profession of
a
lawyer and
studied law
at the
office of
the
late Hon. David
Rumsey
deceased of
Bath, N.Y., and
the
Hon. Horace
Bemis of
Hornellsville, N.Y.,
and
was
admitted
to the bar in
June,
1877. His
reputation as
a
young
lawyer
stood high and he
was
numbered
among
the most
prominent
young men of
Steuben
Co.,
and might
have been
one
of the
legal lights in
Western
New
York had
his
life been spared.
He was a
whole
souled generous man
and
made friends where-ever
the
went,
died without
ever having
a
known enemy, and
no
man ever
sickened
and
died
in
Canisteo,
whose
extensive
acquaintance
were
more
anxious
for his
wellfare and
recovery. On
October
24, 1877, the
subject of
this sketch and
Miss
Stella
Ayers, a
talanted and
estimatable
lady, were
married.
Three
children
bless their
union, a
daughter,
Rena, born on
Dec. 15, 1878,
and two
sons,
Thomas, born on
Jan. 24,
1881,
and
Earl born on
September
11,
1882.
They are
three bright
interesting
children,
who with their
widowed
mother keenly
feel the
great loss. The
husband and
father
was one of
the kindest
of men
and was
never
known to speak
a cross
word to any
member of his
family. The
afflicted family
have
the
sympathy of the
entire
community. The
funeral
was
observed
from his
late residence,
and a
large
audience was
present,
the Rev.
James
Moss
officiating,
and
the remains
interred in
Hillside
cemetery.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo,
NY) December
29,
1887;
page 2, col.
3.
MRS.
ADDIE
HALNINEN
Addie, wife of John
Halninen
Sr.
of
this
town, died at the
home
last
week
Monday morning
after an
illness of one wek
from a
paralytic
stroke.
She was born at
North
Jasper
58
years
ago
and
was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Talbot,
deceased.
Having
spent
her
life
in
the vicinity in
which she died, no woman
in
the town
was
better known than
Mrs.
Halninen
and she
was held in the
highest
esteem. She was
a member of
the
North Jasper M.E.
Church.
She is
survived by her husband
and
three sons, Ira
and John of
Cameron
and Adelbert of
Olean;
also one
sister, Mrs.
Marie
Marlatt of
North
Jasper, and a
large number of other
relatives
and
friends.
The funeral
was held
on
Wednesday at one o'clock p.m.
from the house
and
at
two
o'clock from the
North
Jasper
M. E. Church, the
Rev.
Geo. J.
Porter
officiating.
Burial
in the North
Jasper
cemetery.
Canisteo Times, (Canisteo,
NY)
Wednesday, February
12, 1919, page
5, col.
4.
ULCERATED TOOTH FATAL
SAD DEATH OF LAWRENCE CRAIG HAMLIN OF
JASPER AT HORNELL SUNDAY MORNING
ONE OF THE
BRIGHTEST
AND MOST THOUGHTFUL
BOYS IN THIS
SECTION
DIED FROM
PNEUMONIA
CAUSED
BY
INFECTION
FROM A
DISEASED
TOOTH.
Lawrence
Craig Hamlin, only
child
of
Mr. and
Mrs. Edward
H. Hamlin,
died in Hornell at three o'clock
Easter morning from pneumonia which the
attending
physicians state was
caused by pus from an
ulcerated
tooth.
He was
a
native of
Jasper, and was
born
there
18
years ago Aug. 31,
last.
He
spent
his
life
there with his
parents
until six
months
ago
when they
moved to
Hornell,
residing at 86 Elm
street,
Mr.
Hamlin being a
tinner
for a
hardware store of
that
city.
Lawrence
went
through
the
Jasper school
and
last
year
and the year
before he
attended
Canisteo
Academy.
He was one of
the
most
popular
boys in
the
Academy,
quiet, of the highest
character;
exemplary
habits,
respectful of the
rights
of
everyone else,
and
unusually bright
both in
studies
and in
his outside
work.
He
attended the
Hornell
high
school and
worked
in
Hawley's drug store
nights
and
mornings. He was
preparing
for
college
and expected
to
complete
this
year the four
years'
high school
work in three
years,
which gives the measure
of
his
ability in
school work.
In
the
drug
store he became
very
popular
with the
public and had the
affection and
confidence
of
his
employer to the fullest
degree.
He was
clean, gentlemanly
and
courteous and
those who knew
him
predicted
a bright
and promising
future for
him.
PNEUMONIA
FROM
TOOTH.
On
Monday
morning,
April
17, he got up with a
severe
toothache, but went on with
his work
and
attended
school. At
night, the
pain was
severe and he
went to
a dentist who
"froze"
the
tooth, stating
that it was
apparently
sound
and
should be
"saved".
He went to
bed, but was
awakened
during the night with
a
violent
toothache. The
next
Tuesday night
the ulceration
of the
tooth
broke.
The next morning he was
very
ill. Dr.
Raymond
Kelly
was
called and found he had a
temperature of 104
1/2.
H soon
pronounced the patient
ill
with pneumonia, and
stated that
the
pneumonia was caused
by
a few
drops of pus from the
ulcerated tooth running down
into
the lungs and
being
absorbed
into the
system. The
disease
spread from one
lung to the
other. Dr. O.K.
Stewart
was
called as council, but he
stated that
everything
possible had
been
done, and that the boy
was in
an
extremely critical
condition. He gradually
grew worse
until
he
passed
away, early Easter
morning.
The
parents
have the
deepest
sympathy in their
great
bereavement. He was the
nephew of
Mrs. Wm.
Burrell
of this
place
and
E.
Mae
Craig
of
Rochester.
The
body was
taken to
Jasper Monday night
to the
Craig homestead and the
funeral
will
be held
there
this
afternoon at
2:30,
Rev.
G. A. Wilkinson
officiating.
Burial will
be in
Jasper
cemetery.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo, NY)
April 23,
1919, page
1, col.
3.
VETERAN LUMBERMAN
DIES
Charles B.
Hand Succumbs
to
Blood Poisoning
Caused
by
Splinter.
After
two
weeks'
confinement
in
the Good
Samaritan Hospital,
Charles
B. Hand, of 501
North
Twenty-first
street,
a veteran
lumberman,
died
yesterday morning. Death
resulted from
blood
poisoning
caused from a small
splinter
entering the
palm of his
right
hand.
Mr. Hand was
born
August
14, 1857, at
Addison
Hill,
Steuben County,
New
York, coming to
Portland
in
1880, and
seven years
later
entering the
planing mill
business, operating his mill at
Nineteenth
and
Vaughn streets
as the Hand
Manufacturing
Company.
About
1904 he
disposed of his
planing
mill
and since
then had
engaged
extensively in the
wholesale
lumber
business.
Mr.
Hand is
survived
by his widow, a
son
Arthur
H.
Hand, a daughter Grace
J.
Hand, and sister,
Mary
J. Hand, of Popular,
Mont., and
brothers,
Owen
Hand, of
Addison, N. Y.;
Perry Hand, of Elkland,
Pa.;
George Hand
of
Uniontown,
WAsh.;
Alphonso
Hand, of
Michigan;
Gates
Hand, of
Elkland,
Pa.; Dewey
Hand,
of
McMinnville, Or., and
Edwin
Hand,
of
Portland.
Morning
Oregonian
(Portland, OR)
Tuesday,
July 15,
1913, page
11.
DEATHS.
GEORGE A.
HARDY.
George
A.
Hardy,
aged 79 years,
died
at his
home
in this
village
yesterday at
12:30 p.m.,
following an
illness of four
days.
He had
been in failing
health
for som time,
and
gradually gave way
to the
infirmities of age. He
was
born
in Jasper, the son
of Deacon
Adin and Levisa
Hardy. He
was
an invalid in
early life and
labored
under the
most severe physical
handicap, but being
possessed
of a strong will
and
steadfast
determination, he
overcame
these difficulties, and while
never
robust, he
lived a long and
energenic
life and amassed a
comfortable
property.
Mr.
Hardy
moved from
his
large farm
in
Jasper to
this village 21
years ago and
has lived here
since. He
was a
soldier in the
civil
war, serving
ten
months in
the 9th
heavy
artillery. He
leaves
his
wife and three
children:
Lynn
L.
Hardy
of
Canisteo, Dr.
Glenn H.
Hardy
of
Detroit, and
Miss
Pearl
Hardy of
Canisteo.
The
funeral
will
be
held on Friday at 2
p.m. from
the
residence.
Burial
in
Jasper.
Canisteo Times
(Canisteo, NY)
April 17,
1918; page
8,
col.
4.
F.
GERALDINE
HARKENRIDER
REXVILLE - F. Geraldine
Harkenrider,
75, of
Loomis Road, Rexville,
entered into rest on
Friday
(November
26, 2004) at
Jones
Memorial Hospital in
Wellsville
following a
long
illness.
Geraldine
was
born July 26,
1929, in
Greenwood, the
daughter of
William and Olive
McMindes
O'Dell.
She married James
Harkenrider
Dec. 2, 1950,
in
Canisteo,
who predeceased her
in
November
1999.
She was
also
predeceased
by
brothers Augustus,
Richard,
William
George, Robert and
Wilbur
O'Dell and
sister,
Sara
Padden.
Geraldine
had
been
a
homemaker,
wife
and
mother who
helped
run
the
Harkenrider
Farm in
Rexville
for
more than 50
years.
She
was a
graduate of
Canisteo
Central
School
class of
1947 and had been
employed at
the
Hornell
Evening Tribune
at one
time.
She
is survived by
four
sons, Michael
Harkenrider of
New
Holland,
Pa., Stephen (April)
Harkenrider of
Whitesville,
Christopher Harkenrider and
Patrick
Harkenrider,
both of
Rexville; two
daughters,
Monica
(John) Dean
of
Andover and
Susan Harkenrider
of
Rexville; two
sisters,
Marguerite
Nye of Hornell and
Veronica (Paul)
Crosby;
four
grandchildren,
Krista
Harkenrider, Kathleen
Buckius,
Joshua
Harkenrider
and
Caitlan
Dean; three
great-grandchildren,
Hunter
Leeanne, Alexander
Jean
and
James Lee and
several
nieces
and
nephews.
At
Geraldine's
request there will
be no
calling
hours. A
Mass
and
Christian
burial will be held
Monday
at 11 a.m.
at St.
Mary's
Catholic Church
in
Rexville.
Burial will be
in
the St.
Mary's
Churchyard
Cemetery in
Rexville.
Memorials
in
Geraldine
Harkenrider's name
may
be made to
St. Mary's
Church in
Rexville c/o Betty
McCormick,
Christian
Hollow
Road,
Rexville, NY
14877 or to St.
Jude's
Shrine, 512
West Saratoga
St.,
Baltimore, MD
21201.
Hornell Evening Tribune,
(Hornell, NY) 3 Dec
2004
Gertrude A.
Harrison.
The
two
months
old
daughter
of Mr.
and
Mrs. Charles
Harrison
of Jasper near
the Gully church,
died Monday
night.
The
funeral will
be
held this
afternoon at
1:30, burial
in the
Gully cemetery.
The
parents have
the
sympathy of
all.
Canisteo
Times (Canisteo,
NY)
Jasper
N. Hayes of
this village died
suddenly in
the Erie Railroad yards, at
Hornell yesterday where he had
been employed for a
year
past. He
worked about
the
round
house wheeling
ashes to the dump
and
doing
other similar
work. He had
eaten his dinner,
and when the whistle blew, he got
up and
"checked in" on the
time
register, then walked out
into
the
yards to
begin work when he
fell forward on his
face and
died almost
instantly.
Dr.
John A. Conway was
notified by
Coroner O.
K.
Stewart to make
an
examination and
he at
once
gave permission to remove
the
body as death
resulted
from
natural
causes. He was
attacked by
acute
indigestion
which
prevented heart
action, thus
causing
death.
Mr. Hayes
was 67
years old, having been
born in Jasper in
1851. He
spent
the early part
of his
life there and in
Canisteo, and 27
years
ago he moved
to
Bayonne, N.
J.,
where they resided
until 6
years ago, when
they
moved
back
to Canisteo and have
since
resided here. He was a
member
of the
Methodist
church
and of the Men's
Assembly. He
was
genial,
kind,
and
industrious
and had
the utmost
respect of all.
He
leaves his wife, but no
children.
The
body
was
brought
here yesterday
afternoon by
undertaker F. E.
Williams and
prepared for
burial. The
funeral
will
be
held at 2 p. m.
Friday from
the house
in 8th
street,
Rev. J.
L.
Box
officiating.
Burial will be at
Jasper.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
Wednesday,
September 11, 1918;
page
1,
column
3.
Mrs.
Charles
Head
Lunetta J.
Whiteman was
born
in
Jasper
July 1,
1848.
Early in life
she became
a
Christian
and
united with
the
Baptist
church
June 1865. She was
married to
Ira Clark of
Greenwood.
Three
children were born
to them,
Mrs. A. B.
Bennett of Geneva,
Mrs.
Myrtle
Conkey
of
Hornell and a son
Dever Clark
of
this place. Ira
Clark
died
Dec. 2,
1909. April
22, 1910
she
married
William Moon of
Waupaca,
Wisconsin,
who
passed
away
at the
Wisconsin
Veterans' home
in
1922.
Oct.
10 she was married
to
Charles
Head. Mr.
and Mrs. Head
resided at the
Veterans home
for a
time and then moved to
Waupaca,
Wisc.,
where they spent the
last
four
years. They returned
to the
home a few
weeks
ago where she
died
Dec. 14, 1931
at
the age
of 83
years, 5
months and
13
days. She is
survived by
her
aged
husband, Mr.
Head, here
three children, 10
grandchildren,
six
great
grandchildren
also
one
sister,
Mrs.
W. T. Baker
of
this
place.
Services
were
held
from
the home on
Dec. 16,
Rev. Doody
and
Rev.
Earl of
Waupaca
officiated.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo,
NY)
January
7,
1932; page
2, col.
4.
Ida E.
Heart
Canisteo -
Ida E. Heart, 84, of
Russell Street, died early today,
Monday, Sep 21, 1981 in
St.
James
Mercy Hospital in
Hornell
where she had
been a
parient over
three
weeks.
Born July 15,
1897
in
the
Town of
Rathbone,
she
was
the
daughter of
Herbert and Anna
Torance Welch.
She
had
resided
in the Town
of Cameron
for
several years priot to
moving
to Canisteo 36 years
ago.
Surviving
are: four sons, Earl
Thompson
of
Yorkshire, Merle,
Herbert
and
Lyle,
all of Canisteo;
three
daughters, Mrs. Wilbur
O'Dell and
Mrs Leo
Bailey,
both of
Canisteo;
Mrs. albert Subject
of
Clarksville; several
grandchildren and
great
grandchildren
and one
great-great-granddaughter;
four
sister, Anna
Flahive
and Emma
Parks, both of
Canisteo; Ethel
Loucks
of
Cameron
Mills RD
and Lula
Smith
of Wellsville RD;
three
brothers,
Arthur Welch of
Canisteo
RD2, Harold
Welch
of
Corning, John
Welch
of
Canandaigua.
Friends
may
call
at
the H.P.
Smith and Son Funeral
Home,
Inc. in
Canisteo today
7-9 pm
and Tuesday 2-4
and
7-9 pm. Services
will be
there
Wednesday at
4pm
with
the Rev.
Ronald
Reichman,
pastor of
the
First United
Methodist
Church
of
Canisteo,
officiateing.
Burial
will be
in Town
Line Cemetery, Town
of
Rathbone.
Friends who wish may
make
memorial
donations to the
Ambulance
Fund or
the Fire
Department in
Canisteo, in
care
of
Roy
Greenfield,
Canisteo
14823.
Mrs.
Jerry
Heart
Canisteo
-
Mrs.
Ida
E.
Heart,
84,
of
Russell Street
died
early today
(Sept. 21, 1981)
in
St. James
Mercy
Hospital,
where
she had been a
patient
for the
past three
and
one-half
weeks.
A
native
of
the Town of
Rathbone,
she
had
lived for
several
years
in the
Jasper-Cameron
area
before
moving
to Canisteo in
1945.
She was
the widow of
Jerry
Heart.
Survivors
are
four
sons,
Earl Thompson of
Yorkshire and
Merle, Herbert
and
Lyle
Thompson of
Canisteo;
three
daughters,
Mrs.
Wilbur O'Dell of
Canisteo
RD1,
Mrs. Albert
Subject of
Clarksville
and Mrs. Leo
Bailey of
Canisteo; four
sisters, Mrs.
Anna
Flahive of
Canisteo RD2,
Mrs.
Ethel
Loucks of
Cameron Mills
RD, Mrs.
Emma Parks
of Canisteo
and Mrs. Lula
Stewart of
Wellsville
RD; three
brothers,
Arthur Welch
of Canisteo
RD2,
Harold
of
Corning
and John of
Canandaigua,
several
grand-children,
great-grandchildren
and
a
great-great granddaughter.
Friends
will be
received from 7 to 9
pm
today and from 2 to 4 pm
and 7 to
9
pm Tuesday
at the H.P.
Smith and
Son Inc.
Funeral Home in Canisteo,
where a service will be
at 4
pm
wednesday. The Rev. Ronald
Reichman will officiate.
Burial will be in
Town Line
Cemetery, Town of
Rathbone.
Friends
wishing
may
make
memorial
contributions
to
the
Canisteo
ambulance
fund or fire
company in
care of Roy
Greenfield,
Canisteo,
N.Y.
14823
The
Hornell
Tribune,
(Hornell,
NY)
21
Sep
1981
Mrs.
Heckman, Among
Oldest Jasperites,
Dies
Jasper -
Mrs. Jane
(Jennie)
Heckman,
98, of Jasper, died
Sunday at
Bethesda
Community
Hospital in
North
Hornell following
a long
illness. She
was one of
the
oldest
residents
of
Jasper. The widow
of
the
late
Seymour
D.
Heckman, she was a
lifelong
resident
of
Jasper, where
she was born
Sept.
20,
1873,
the daughter of Uzal
and
Addie
VanOrsdale
McMindes.
She
at
one time
taught
school in the
Jasper
area and
was a
member of the
Jasper
Methodist
Church,
which
she
had
represented
at general
conferences
for a
number
of years.
She is
survived by
three
sons,
Lawrence
Heckman of
Canisteo,
Howard Heckman
of Jasper and
Lyle
Heckman of
Greenwood; two
daughters, Mrs.
Archie
Foster of
Canisteo and
Mrs.
Joseph McCraig of
Jasper RD;
one
sister,
Mrs. Maude
Whiting of
Chester, W. Va.; 25
grandchildren, 82 great
grandchildren
and 16
great-great-grandchildren.
Friends
may call
at the
Smith
Funeral Home in Canisteo
today
from
7 to 9 p.m. and
Tuesday
from 2 to 4 and 7 to
9
p.m. A
funeral service
will be
held
there
Wednesday at
2
p.m., with the
Rev.
Earl
Burdick
of
Canisteo
officiating.
Burial will
be in
Woodlawn
Cemetery,
Canisteo.
The
Hornell
Tribune,
(Hornell,
NY) December
1971
Woodhull
- Seymour
D.
Heckman
died
suddenly
Thursday
at 5:30 p.m.
at this
home
in Jasper where
he lived for
the past 60
years. He
was born
September 22,
1870
the son
of George
and Betsy
Saxton Heckman
of West
Union. Mr. Heckman was
a
member of
Jasper
Grange.
Surviving is his
widow, Mrs.
Jennie
McMindes
Heckman;
two daughters,
Mrs.
Archie
Foster and Mrs.
Joseph
McCaig, both
of Jasper;
four
sons,
Lee
of
Woodhull;
Lawrence, Canisteo;
Howard,
Jasper; and Lyle,
Greenwood; a
sister,
Mrs. Frank
Woodward,
Jasper;
24
grandchildren and
seven great
grandchildren.
Funeral
Services will be
held
Sunday
at 2 p.m. at the late
home in
Jasper
with
the Rev. Mabel
Johnson of
Lawrenceville in
charge. Interment will
be in
Canisteo
Cemetery.
The
Evening
Leader, (Corning, NY)
Friday,
October 4,
1946
HESELTON DEAD
TWO
DAYS
WHEN FOUND
Prominent
Farmer
of West Union shot
himself
through
the head with a
revolver on
his farm
where
he had
been alone for
six
weeks.
The
community
of West
Union, Rexville
and
Whitesville was
shocked on
Monday when
the lifeless
body of
Floyd
Heselton was
found
in
his
bedroom. There
was a
bullet hole in
his head and he
grasped
a revolver in
his
hand, one chamber
being
empty.
Heselton
was
a
well
known and
respected
farmer. He
had
been
living alone on his farm
for 5
or 6
weeks while
his
wife was
visiting
her
mother, Mrs.
Lydia
DeWilton, No.
50 Church
street,
Hornell,
taking
medical
treatment in Hornell
it is
said. Earl Jackson,
one of the
neighbors,
went to
Heselton's
house
Monday with
some
bacon,
but could
not
find
Heselton and
the
cattle and
horses in
the barn,
sensing
his
presence,
made loud
bellowings
as if
famished,
which
proved
to be the
condition.
This
aroused his
suspicion.
He
forced his
way
into the house
through a
window,
fearing
Heselton
might
be
ill.
Instead he
found
his body
in
the bedroom. The
house
was securely
locked. Jackson
is
employed by Miss
Emily
Barney on
her farm
not far away,
Geo. J.
Burd of Canisteo
owns
a farm
adjoining
Heselton's
which is
about 3
miles from
Whitesville
and 4 miles
from
Rexville
located on a cross
road
leading into Marsh
road.
Investigation
Started.
Dr. L. G.
Probasco
of
Whitesville
was
notified
and he in turn
notified
Coroner
M. G.
Burch, coroner
of
Hornell who in
turn
notified
undertaker Fred
Wildman
of Whitesville and
authorized
him
to
investigate the
matter and
care for
the body.
An Elmira
paper
raised
the cry
about foul play
and Sheriff
W. B.
Page sent deputy Marz
Blair of
Greenwood
to
investigate.
All facts
showed
plainly that it was
suicide. Nothing had been
moved or
touched
in the
house
and there was
some money in
Heselton's pockets.
The
condition of
his body
indicated
that
he must have
killed himself on
Saturday, about 48
hours
prior
to
the discovery
of the
body. The
stock
had also
been without
fodder for
about that length
of
time.
Heselton was rated as
one of
the
richest and most
progressive
farmers in
the
town of
West
Union.
Despondency and
lonliness are
attributed
as
the causes
of
his act. He had a fine
well
maintained farm,
dairy
and large farm
buildings.
He
leaves his
wife
and 3
sons,
Victor
who
lives
between Whitesville and
Wellsville
and George and Leo
who
live between
Whitesville
and
Genesee. All are on farms
of
their
own.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
February
18,
1926;
front page,
col.
7.
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
CARRIE
HILBORN.
The
body of
Carrie Hilborn was
brought to this place Tuesday.
her death occurred at the Willard
sanitarium and was
due to
tubercular trouble. She was 30 years of age, the
daughter of Martha Hilborn of
this place. She had
long been
in poor health
and
her
condition became
such as to necessitate her
removal to the willard
institution some time in
March.
Besides her
mother she is survived by one
sister, Mrs. Bert
Smith of
this place, and
two brothers,
L. E. Hilborn
of
Canisteo and
R. A. Hilborn
of Jasper. The
funeral
was
held from the house Thursday. Burial in Jasper
cemetery.
Canisteo
Times (Canisteo, NY) July
10,
1918; page 5, col.
3.
C.
B.
HILBORN.
He
Was One of Jasper's
Most
Influential
Citizens.
Sixty-nine
years
ago
the
thirtieth day of
last
August
on what
is now known as
the
E.
Davis
farm, in
Jasper
township, Charles B.
Hilborn
was
born. His parents,
William
Hilborn,
and
Polly Brutzman
Hilborn
were of
the good
old
Dutch
ancestry,
with
a hardy,
well-developed,
muscular
physique, the
force
of will
and
strength of
character
so
characteristic of
the typical
Hollanders of pioneer days,
and the
son,
Charles B., was
the
recipient of a legacy of character and an unswerving
will,
that
marked
him a
unique personage
during
the 68
years of
his
lifetime in Jasper
excepting
three,
and
one-half
years'
service for
his country. He
sub-listed in
'61
and
went to the
front with the
boys in
blue of
the 86th
regiment,
Company K,
New
York
State
Volunteers. He
was
taken
prisoner while in
line of duty
and
endured
the horrors
of a six
months'
incarceration in
southern
military
prisons.
During the six
months he
was transferred five
times
to as
many different
prisons, namely,
Libby,
Columbia,
Andersonville,
Florence
and Belle
Isle.
The
transfers
were
made
with
the
prisoners
herded
together like
swine in
box
cars,
the filth of
which
was as
the
filthiest hog
pen
compared
with
a
modern
parlor car. When
one
considers for a
moment
the
awfulness of those
southern
military prisons
reeking
with
vermin and the
microbes of
festering
disease,
the
prisoners
reduced by
starvation to a
point where
a raw snake or
toad
is
as
palatable as quail on
toast
to
the well-fed;
the
wonder certainly
is,
that a survivor
was left to
tell
the
tale; yet
there were, Mr.
Hilborn
came
home, a
skeleton of his
former
self,
of course, sick
and suffering;
but he
came
home, and
finally
grew
strong
enough
to take his
place in
the
world
of
enterprise and
industry. Mr.
Hilborn
was
married to Miss Mary Ann
Kane
and for a
number of years
owned
and occupied
the farm about
two and
a half miles
east of
this village,
now
owned by Lincoln
Hunt. He also
owned
and
occupied the
farm at
the Five
Corners, now
owned
by T. J.
Sheffield. Thirty-two
years
ago he disposed
of his real
estate
interests and
purchased the stock of
harware
and tnsmith
tools
of
the
Hardy Brothers in this
village and
conducted
a general
hardware
business for a
period
of
two
years
in
the building then
standing
on the
present
site of the
building
erected by Fred
Wood
as a
barber shop. The original
building was
destroyed
by fire when
the Hotel
Burd was
burned. He erected
the
building known as the Hilborn
hardware store on a corner lot purchased
of D.
F.
Countryman. He
conducted
a
general
hardware, farm
impliments, and grocery
business 30
years,
or until
failing
health
compelled him to
retire.
Fourteen
months
ago his illness
assumed a
serious
aspect and since
that
time in spite of
the
best
medical attendance
and
the skill of noted
specialists, he
grew
gradually
weaker, until
Wednesday,
October 11,
about 4
o'clock a.
m., he passed
quietly
and
peacefully
away. The cause of
death was
mitrol
insufficiency. The
funeral was held
from
Jasper M. E.
Church,
Saturday,
at
2
o'clock
p. m., Rev.
M.
M.
Miner, the
pastor,
officiating,
assisted
by
Rev. G. H. Gall,
of
Buffalo, a
former
pastor.
Interment
in Five Corners
cemetery.
He is
survived by a wife,
two
sons,
Edwin, of
Waterford, and
Harrison,
of Phoenix, and
one sister,
Mrs.
William
Alger, of
Jasper,
who
have
the
sympathy of the entire
community
in
their
bereavement. Mr.
Hilborn was a
member of
Jasper
M. E.
church
thirty-four years
and
loved
his church as the
apple
of his eye. He was a
member of the
official
board in some
capacity almost
continuously,
during his
time of
membership
and
the church
has lost a support
that
will not soon, if ever,
be
replaced, and
Jasper has
lost
one of its
most
enterprising citizens,
one
who
was
always
among
the first to
respond
and one
of the
most liberal wherever
his
judgment deemed it
a worthy
cause.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo,
NY) October
18,
1911.
GENERAL HOLDEN, FIRST MAYOR OF CONSOLIDATED PUEBLO DIES
ONE OF CITY'S PIONEER CITIZENS AND PROMINENT BUSINESSMEN
DeLos L. Holden, one of the city's pioneer citizens and the first mayor of the consolidated city of Pueblo, died yesterday morning at St. Mary's hospital following an illness of several months.
General Holden has been a resident of Pueblo since 1881, and at all times one of its most loyal and enthusiastic citizens, and to his large circle of friends among whom are all of the old timers, his passing away will bring keen sorrow.
"The General" as he was affectionately called by reason of his military activities and service as department commander of the department of Colorado and Wyoming, Grand Army of the Republic was a type of American of whom all may be proud, upright and straight-forward in all his dealings. Loyal to his friends and to his country in time of its greatest need he will not soon be forgotten by those who knew him.
General Holden was born April 6, 1840 at Reading Center, Steuben county New York. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he offered his services to the government and was commissioned as second lieutenant in the 50th New York volunteer engineers and served with that regiment thruout the peninsular campaign of General McClellan and until the return of th earmy to Washington. His versatility and aptitude in military matters received recognition by his appointment to act as adjutant of the regiment and as instructor of non-commissioned officers, and also for service on general court martial.
After resigning from his regiment Lieutenant Holden assisted in the organization of an infantry regiment in Pennsylvania, of which he was appointed adjutant, but to his great disappointment President Lincoln issued orders that no more regiments be accepted (owing to a surplus in the early stages of the war, and Lieutenant Holden was regretfully compelled to retire to civil life at Elmira, N. Y., where he went into business.
In 1864 he was married to Anna Knight Morss. This marriage was blessed with six children, of whom four survive, two sons, Leonard T. and Delos and two daughters, Mrs. Howard F. Wierum and Mrs. Ora C. Snethen.
Mr. Holden closed out his business interests in Elmira in 1881 and moved to Pueblo where he and his brothers organized the South Pueblo National bank, later known as the Central National Bank, and which afterwards merged with the Western National bank. It was during this most active period of his career that he was appointed to many positions of honor. An active campaigner in favor of consolidation of the three cities of Pueblo, South Pueblo and Central Pueblo, he was the logical candidate of the Republican party for mayor of the consolidated city to which position he was electd in 1886 and in this position his active brain was of great assistance in solving many intricate problems connected with the organizing of a new municipality.
From 1888 to 1892 he served upon the staff of Governors Cooper and Routt, with the rank of colonel in the National guard.
From its organization General Holden has been an enthusiastic member of the G. A. R. and was honored with election as commander of Baldwin Post, Elmira, N. Y., and Upton Post, Pueblo. In 1890 he was selected as commander of Colorado and Wyoming. He was also a prominent member of the military order of the Loyal Legion.
General Holden aided in the eslablishment of the Pueblo lodge of Elks and became a charter member. He was a life-long Christian and a member of the First Presbyterian church of this city.
The funeral services will be held at the First Presbyterian church Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Hugh T. Gary will conduct the services. The ladies of the Relief Corps will render their ritualistic service at the church and the interment will be at the family lot in Roselawn cemetery in charge of Pueblo Post No. 8 G. A. R.
Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, CO) Friday, September 7, 1917; page 4, cols. 4 & 5.
DEATHS.
At
Wayland, Steuben Co., N. Y., 9th inst., Amos
Holliday,
106 yrs. 3 mos. 15 ds. He was a revolutionary
soldier, and served at the battle of Bunker Hill,
&c.
The
Boston Daily Atlas (Boston, MA)
Thursday, April 28, 1853; Issue 256; col.
F.
TROUPSBURG
HENRY
HOLT.
Henry
Holt died at his home
Wednesday morning, after
an
illness of
two years
from heart
disease. He
leaves
a wife
and
two
daughters,
Mrs.
Lena
Reynolds
of
Rochester and Mrs. Lewis
Minard of this place. Funeral
services were
held from
the
home
Saturday at 11 a.m.,
Rev. A.
R.
LeRoy,
a former
pastor,
officiating.
Interment in
Mount Hope
cemetery. Mr. Holt
was
an
honorary member
of McClean
Lodge No.
649, F. &
A. M. Those from
away
to
attend
the
funeral
of
Henry Holt
Saturday
were:
Mrs.
Orcelia Fitch, Mr.
and
Mrs.
David Fitch,
Thomas
Fitch,
Mrs.
S. L. Griggs and
Mrs.
Ellen Coates
of
Knoxville.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo, NY)
Wednesday,
April 2,
1919, page 4,
col.
4.
Drowned, in Deerfield, (Mass.) on the 25th ult. William D. Hornell, aged 19, member of Williams College; son of Hon. George Hornell, of Canisteo, Steuben County (N.Y.) He, with other young men, went into Deerfield River to bathe, and by exerting himself to preserve the life of a boy who was in danger of being drowned, lost his own.
Rutland Herald (Rutland, VT) Wednesday, June 13, 1810; page 3. DEATHS - Ogden Honeyman.
Ogden Honeyman, who for 30 years was sexton of the Third Presbyterian Church, died yesterday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lena Brundage, at Bath, N.Y., aged 70 years. Mr. Honeyman had been in ill health since spring, when for three months he was a patient at Mercer Hospital, this city.
Early in July, his health having improved, he went to Bath.
Mr. Honeyman leaves his daughter, two brothers, Theodore of Trenton and Austin of Bath, and two sisters, Miss Martha D. Honeyman, Trenton, and Mrs. Susan Wyckoff of Bath. His wife died about 25 years ago.
The funeral will be held tomorrow and Mr. Honeyman will be laid to rest by the side of his son, Lewis, who died about five years ago, and was buried in the cemetery at Bath.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, NJ) October 3, 1904; page 2.
DEATH OF PETER HOPKINS. From the Binghamton Republican, April 3. News was received in this city yesterday of the death of Peter Hopkins, the father of the late Senator P. W. Hopkins, in the Allegany County Poor-house. It will be remembered that after the death of the late Senator Hopkins, Mr. Keeler, of this city, with other friends of the Senator, procured the removal of Peter Hopkins from the County-house to Painted Post, Steuben County, where a comfortable home was provided for him, and where he was boarding with Mr. Hastings, the Constable of the place, $4 per week being paid for his board. He had not been there long, however, when Messrs. E. E. Barton and S. W. Barrett, of this city, in conjunction, it was said, with John Hopkins, of Syracuse, procured an order from a County Judge of Allegany County to return him to the Poor-house, to be examined in lunacy proceedings. The deceased was 94 years of age. Just how he came to be surrendered on an order from a Judge in Allegany County, when he was in Steuben County has not appeared.
The New York Times (New York, NY) April 4, 1879.
JASPER
CHARLES HORTON DEAD.
Charles Horton, 36
years
old, died at his home
shortly after 9 o'clock
Friday
evening of pneumonia
following an attack of
influenza. Mr.
Horton
was
employed on the M.
L.
Drake
farm. He is
survived by
his
widow, Mrs. Dora Horton,
and six daughters,
the
oldest 11 years old
and the
youngest five
months;
his
mother, Mrs. John
Gosper
of Angelica, and
one
brother of
Addison.
Mrs.
Horton and
children are
recovering
from
influenza.
Owing to
illness in the home a
short
funeral service
was
conducted at 2
o'clock
at
the grave by Rev.
T. V.
Moore.
Canisteo Times
(Canisteo, NY) October 30,
1918; page 5, column
1.
Jesse D.
Horton
Dead.
Jesse D. Horton, who for
the past five
years has
been a
larger portion of the
time
on
the
sick
list, died
Friday, from
the
effects
of
paralysis. His
funeral
was
attended
Sunday at the
M.E.
church at
Saunders, the
Rev.
Frank
M.
Baker of Whitesville,
officiating.
Internment
in
the
cemetery at Whites
Corners. He
leaves,
beside his
wife,
four
children, two sons,
John, of
Andover,
and
Leon,
of Saunders;
two
daughters,
Mrs.
Myrtle
Hunt, of
Cuba,
and Mrs.
Lurah
Sluyter,
of
Yokima, Wash., and
nine
grandchildren; also
a
brother,
John
Horton, of
Canisteo,
who have
the
sympathy
of the community
in
their
bereavement.
Mr.
Horton was
born at
Spring
Mills,
August 16,
1851,
and has spent his life
in that
vicinity.
April
23,
1873, he
married
Miss Mary
Kane, of the
same
place. He
was a farmer, which
occupation he
followed
until
his
health failed him.
For
about a
year he has
resided in this
village.
The
family
wish to
express
their
thanks to the
male
quartet of
Whitesville
for
their excellent
music at
the funeral; also to
their
friends and
neighbors
for
their
many
acts of
sympathy
and
kindness
during his
long
sickness and assure them
that they are duly
appreciated.
The
following people
from
out of town
attended the
funeral:
Mrs. Myrtle
Hunt, of Cuba;
Mrs.
Chapin,
of
Scio;
Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore
Kane
and
Mrs. Oll Hamilton of
Vandermark Creek;
Mrs. John
Kane,
of
Chicago; John
Horton
and
family of
Canisteo,
besides
quite a
number
from
Whitesville,
North
Bingham, and
other nearby
localities.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
October,
1911.
DEATHS.
At
Plattsburg,
Steuben Co., N.
Y., 21st inst., Rev. Jas. H.
Hotchkin, 70,
author of Hotchkin's
History of Western New
York.
The Boston Daily
Atlas (Boston, MA) Tuesday, September 3,
1851; Issue
78; col.
F.
E.
H.
Hough, Oldest Active
Printer
In County Died
Yesterday
Was
Ill But Few Days ---End Came
Suddenly But
Peacefully
at the
Home
of His Son,
Editor Leon
L.
Hough on
Greenwood
Street
(From
Tuesday's
Hornell
Evening
Tribune-Times)
Edwin H.
Hough, 81 years old, one of
the pioneers
of Steuben County
and
probably
the
oldest
newspaperman in the
county
died at
5:00 o'clock
yesterday
morning
at the home
of
his
son
Leon
L.
Hough, on
Greenwood
street, in
this
village,
following
an illness of but a
few
days.
Mr.
Hough
returned
about
two weeks
ago from a
two
months' visit with
his
daughter
in Brooklyn while his
son
was in
California
and last
Friday
was taken ill. He grew
steadily
worse
until
yesterday
morning
when
he
expired. Mr. Hough's
career
is
a most
interesting
one,
especially in the
newspaper
world.
He
was
born
in
Buffalo
in 1834
where he secured his
education. At the age of
seven
years
he set his first line
of
type. While a
young
man he
and
his
father, Edwin Hough,
moved to
Springville,
in Erie
county,
where they
started a weekly
paper
which was known
as the
"Springville
Express." The
machinery on
which the
paper
was
printed was
purchased by
Mr.
Hough's
father
from
G. N.
Starr, and was
formerly used
in the
office of
the Lodi,
now the
Gowanda Banner at
Buffalo.
Mr.
Hough's
father
was not satisfied
with
his
location at Springville,
and a
short time later he met
Benjamin Loder,
president of
the
struggling New York
and
Erie Railway, who
recommended
Hornellsville as a
favorable
location.
Mr.
Hough,
eventually
decided to
follow Mr. Loder's
suggestion
and in
March 1851 he
loaded
the
machinery and tools
of
the
Springville Express, on
sleighs
and
started
east.
At Olean
father
and son found the
ground bare
but nothing daunted,
the
father
started on alone to
Hornellsville to stake
out a
claim.
The
machinery was
finally
brought
on by
Mr.
Hough, Jr., and set
up in
the second
floor
of the
John H.
Little
building
on
the
corner
of
Main and Broad
streets,
in
the building now used by
the
Youngs
Pharmacy. On November
15,
1851
the
first edition of
the
Hornellsville
Tribune,
now the
EveningTribune-Times,
made
its
appearance, Mr.
Hough
setting the
first
type by hand
and
printing the first paper
in
Hornellsville. This
paper was
printed
on an old
Washington
hand
press
brought all
the
way from
Springville on
sleighs.
In
1868
the
Hough's
sold the
Tribune to
Daniel
R. Shafer who
conducted
it
until
1870 when he traded
the
Tribune
plant to
John
Greenhow,
the
father of the present
editor,
for
the
Canastota
Herald.
He
was
always a
vigorous
and
forceful
writer,
and
as
the
result of
his
efforts the
Tribune in its
early
days
secured
an
exceedingly large
circulation
for a
paper of those days.
Improvements were
made
from
time to time and
when it was
turned
over by the
Hough's it
was one of
the leading
publications
of the
county.
In
1876 Mr.
Hough,
purchased the
Hornellsville
Herald,
which he continued
until about
1898
when it
ceased
publication.
Two
years later
Leon L. Hough
moved
the
machinery to
Canisteo and
established
the
Canisteo
Chronicle
and Mr.
Hough
moved
to
Canisteo
and
made his home
with
his
son.
He
has lived
there
ever
since. Up to within
a few
days
ago he took
an
active
interest
in
the
affairs of the
Chronicle
and
for
years has
taken care of
the
Greenwood
and
Rexville departments,
going to
these two
places
each week,
rain or
shine, he
taking
a
great interest in
these weekly
trips; many
times
going
when others
would not have
thought
of it, on
account
of wintry, bad
weather. These
two
departments he
conducted
in
person,
up to last week Monday, when
he made his
last
trip,
returning in
high
spirits,
with plans for
the
future
which will now
fall to other
hands
to carry out. The day
before
he died
he asked the
doctor
if
he would be
able, by
Saturday, to
again make
his trip to
Greenwood. Of late
his
eyesight
became so
impaired
that he
was
unable to write,
and was
obliged to
dictate his
material to a
stenographer.
Mr. Hough
and
his father have the
distinction of
having
established
the first daily in
Hornellsville,
this
taking
place during the period of the
Civil
War.
Mr.
Hough is
survived by two
sons, Leon L.
Hough
of this
village, Will
Hough of
Canaseraga, one
daughter,
Mrs.
George
Hutchinson
of Brooklyn,
and three
brothers,
Ernest and Le
Roy
Hough of Los
Angeles,
Calif., and
Millard
Hough of
Kansas
City.
The funeral will be held
Thursday
afternoon at
1:30
o'clock
from the home of
Leon
L. Hough on
Greenwood street.
Rev.
Roush
of the
Baptist
church, of
which
Mr. Hough has been
a
member
for over
60
years, will
officiate.
Burial will
be in
Hope Cemetery at
Hornell.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
1915.
Will
L.
Hough,
Brother of
Late
Leon Hough
Dead
Will L.
Hough, widely known as
a
member of
a
family
of
newspaper
men,
operating
in this
section in
years gone
by, died
Monday
at
his
home in Canaseraga. He
was 72
years
old and a brother
of the
late
Leon
L.
Hough
of Canisteo, and for
many
years
publisher of the
Canisteo
Chronicle.
Deceased
has
been blind
for more
than
30
years.
He was associated
with his
grandfather,
Edwin
Hough, in the
publication of
the
Hornellsville
Tribune.
Surviving
are
his widow and a
sister,
Mrs.
George
Hutchinson of
Brooklyn.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY)
Thursday,
February 19,
1931.
KILLED BY
A FALLING
TREE
PERRY
HOUGHTALING, A
PROMINENT
RESIDENT OF JASPER,
THE
VICTIM OF AN
ACCIDENT.
Was
Cutting
Down a
Tree When
it
Fell on
Him, Inflicting Fatal
Injuries. - He Was Highly
Respected in His Home
Town and
Well
and
Favorably
Known
in
Canisteo. -
Leaves a
Family.
JASPER,
N.
Y., Jan.
1,
1917. - Th funeral of
the late Perry
Houghtailing
was held
from the
Presbyterian
church Sunday
afternoon, and was largely
attended,
Rev. G.
A.
Wilkinson,
the pastor,
officiating.
Burial was
made in
Jasper cemetery. The
tragic death of
Mr.
Houghtaling
caused in the
woods
Thursday
cutting
down
a
tree
when it became
lodged in
the
top of
another tree
nearby. In his
efforts to
dislodge the
tree
he was
caught
beneath it
as it fell
in such a manner as
to
inflict fatal
injuries. His
daughter
Mildred, aged 12
years,
was
playing
near
him, but she had
gone to
a
place
of
safety while he
was
chopping
down
the tree.
She heard
him call
for
assistance.
Help was
summoned
but when it arived
Mr.
Houghtailing
was
dead.
He was one
of the
most
successful and respected
farmers of
the town of
Jasper,
and
was a well
known horseman and
stock
breeder.
His farm
was on the state
road to
Woodhull,
near the Five
Corners.
He was well
known in
Canisteo. He
leaves
his wife and
three
daughters,
Mrs.
Thomas Carey
of
Harrison Valley, and
Hazel and
Mildred, who
live
at
home; also three
brothers,
Wesley and
Floyd of West
Union and
Theron of Coneville,
and
one sister,
Mrs. Wm.
Margeson
of
West
Union.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY) January 2,
1918; page
1, col.
1.
EDDIE
HOUSE.
Late Saturday
afternoon
occurred the
death
of
Eddie House,
age 32
years.
His
death
followed a
long
period of
illness from cancer
and he
suffered
intensely.
About a
year and
a
half ago he
went
to Buffalo, where he was
operated on and for a time his
condition was
improved,
but
the trouble developed
again
and he
grew gradually
worse.
Three
weeks ago he went
to
Bath for
an operation, in
the hopes
that some
help might
be received.
However his
condition
proved
worse
than
was anticipated
and
beyond the
help of medical skill. He returned to
his
home in a very
serious
condition
to
await the inevitable.
During
his
long illness he was
under
the
constant and
kindly care of
his
family and no effort was spared
in
their
ministrations to
his relief
and
comfort. Although an
intense
sufferer he
endured
with remarkable
patience and
faced death
with
indomitable
courage.
Mr.
House
was
born
Feb.
2, 1886, and had
spent
his
life in this
place.
He
was
the
son of
Mrs. Genevieve
Hilborn. He was
married
to
Cassie
Bebout of
Woodhull and
they
have one daughter, Flona, aged
9. He
was
a
good
fellow
in every
sense of the
work,
industrious
and
a
faithful
worker as
long as
health
permitted.
The
fact
that he
was
no
longer able to
do his part
in
active
work
was
especially
painful
to him. He was
conscientious
and
maintained certain
commendable
ideals by
which
he
lived.
He was faithful and
kind
as
a husband and father
and
his
loss is an
especially
tragic one to
the
sorrowful family that
remains.
Besides
his
wife
and
daughter, he is
survived
by
his mother, Mrs.
Genevieve
Hillborn,
two
brothers,
Justin
and Merle House
of
this
place.
The
funeral
was held
Monday
afternoon
at the
Presbyterian
church, Rev. G.
A. Wilkinson
of
Dresden,
former
pastor,
officiating,
assisted
by
Rev.
G.
G. McChesney of the
Methodist
church. Burial in
Jasper
cemetery. The floral
oferings
were many and
beautiful.
Canisteo
Times (Canisteo,
NY) May
22, 1918;
page 5,
col.
3.
MRS. EDGAR
HOUSE
The
funeral
of
Mrs. Mildred Evelyn
House
of
Jasper,
who was burned
fatally
Sept.
2 at her farm
home,
was
held
from
the Jason H. France
funeral
home
in
Jasper
Saturday,
Sept. 5 at 2
p.m.
Rev. Mabel Johnson
of Belmont, formerly of
Jasper,
officiated.
Interment
was in
the Jasper
cemetery.
Mrs.
House was
32,
daughter of
Edward and
Hattie E.
Whiting Davis. She
was
born
Jan. 7,
1910.
Survivors
include her parents,
her
husband
Edgar House and 4
children: Barbara
June,
11;
Ronald, 7;
Vane, 5;
and
Glenn
3; one
brother
Carl Davis of
Buffalo;
two
sisters,
Mrs. Margaret
VanFleet
of
Jasper and Mrs.
Victor
Dence
of
Wellsville.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo, NY)
September
10, 1942, page 4,
col.
6.
JASPER
WOMAN VICTIM OF FIRE
Mrs.
Edgar
House Filling an Oil
Stove
Yesterday
to Get Dinner
When
it
Ignited. - She was
Horribly
Burned, 90% of
Her
Body
Being
Scorched.
Mrs.
Mildred
Davis
House, wife
of Edgar House of Jasper
sustained fatal
burns
yesterday
while getting
dinner. She was
filling the
oil stove in the
kitchen
when it
ignited.
The
oil
sprayed her clothing
which was
ignited and burned
fiercely.
Her
first thought
was
for
her
little children. She
then apparently rushed
out
doors
and rolled on
the
grass
to
put
out the fire.
The
kitchen
was
ignited and the
back end
of the
house was burned off,
it is
stated. A neighbor,
Mattie
Murphy,
saw the
fire or
heard the
screams of
the agonized
woman and
ran to
her
assistance.
She was then
taken
to
the home
of
her
parents,
Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie
Davis
in
Jasper village. Dr.
Koenigsberger of
Jasper
administered
hypodermics
and
first
aid and had
her taken to St.
James
hospital, Hornell. She
remained
conscious
till
6
p.m.,
when
she died. Ninety per cent
of
her
body
was
covered
with crisp
burns. There was
no chance
for her recovery.
All of
her
clothing was
burned
from her
body.
Mrs. House was a
native of
Jasper about 40
years old.
Her
husband
who trucks
milk,
was
absent from home on his
route.
Their
farm
was
once
known as
the
Nellis
farm,
later
as the
Frank Viall
farm,
located
one
mile
north
of
Jasper
village on
the Talbot Creek
road.
She is survived by her
husband,
parents,
Mr.
and
Mrs. Edward
Davis, 4
children,
Barbara
June
11,
Ronald 7, Vane
5,
Glenn 3;
one brother,
Carl
Davis in
U.S. service in
California;
Mrs.
Mildred
VanFleet
and
Mrs.
Madelyn -----
recently
married.
Canisteo
Times,
(Canisteo, NY)
September
3, 1942,
front page,
col.
5.
Daniel C. Howell Dead.
BATH, N. Y., May 16. - Daniel C. Howell, superintendent of banks from 1870 to 1873, died here, aged 75 years. He was for many years cashier and later president of the Steuben County bank.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, NJ) Tuesday, May 16, 1893; page 7, col. 4.
CORNELIUS
HOWLAND.
Cornelius Howland
died
at
his
home near Gravel Run,
in this town, at 9:30 p. m.,
Dec. 24,
aged 85 years.
He was
a sterling citizen and
had
resided in this town for
many years he leaves his
wife,
one son, Peter
Howland,
one daughter, Mrs.
Katie Barrett of
Canisteo, and
two sisters,
Mrs. Robert Wilson of Cameron
and Mrs.
Helen Stuart of
Canisteo. The
funeral was
held from
the
house
Friday at 12
o'clock,
burial in
Stephens
cemetery.
Canisteo Times
(Canisteo,
NY) January 1,
1919; page 5,
column
2.
OBITUARY. DR. ICHABOD PATTERSON HOYT. Dr. Ichabod Patterson Hoyt, City Coroner of Danville, Va., died yesterday from pneumonia, superinduced from an attack of la grippe, aged sixty-seven. Dr. Hoyt was born at Painted Post, near Corning, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1823. He received the rudiments of his education in the village school, and afterward graduated from the medical department of Geneva College in 1845. Soon after graduating he was appointed surgeon in a Philadelphia hospital and resigned to engage in the wholesale drug business in Philadelphia. He moved to Marion, Smythe County, Va., in 1860, where he continued in the drug business until the breaking out of the war, when he entered the Confederate Army as a private. He rose to the rank of Adjutant. He removed to Danville, Va., in 1876, where he engaged in the drug business and practiced his profession. His first wife was Miss Emily Hutchinson of Philadelphia. He published and edited in Marion the Southern Star, and in Danville edited a paper called the Daily Border Express. The former journal gained considerable notoriety by its big fight against Mahoneism, as exemplified in the management of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad. The New York Times (New York, NY) February 18, 1890.
Oldest Mason Dead Again.
WINONA, Minn., May 30. - Phil P. Hubbell, known as Father Hubbell, died Monday at the advanced age of 94. He was the oldest Mason in the United States, having joined the Painted Post Lodge No. 203 in his 21st year at Painted Post, Steuben County, N. Y., where he was born.
Grand Forks Daily Herald (Grand Forks, ND) Wednesday, May 31, 1893; page 2, col. 2.
DEATHS.
In this city, February 1st, Julia A., wife of D. B. Hughes, daughter of William and
Abigal Bennett of Steuben county, New York, aged 41
years and 5 months.
[Portland (Oregon) and Cairo
papers please copy.]
Daily Evening
Bulletin
(San Francisco, CA) Friday, February 2, 1866; Issue 99; col.
C.
HENRY D. HULL.
Henry D. Hull, editor of the Steuben Courier, died suddenly last night in Rochester, N.Y., of apoplexy. Mr. Hull was the only son of the late H. H. Hull, for many years Canal Appraiser, who founded the Courier in 1844. Deceased had been its editor since 1876. He was vice president of the State Press Association and had been a prominent figure at the State Sunday school conventions for several years. He was thirty-seven years of age and leaves a wife and four children.
New York Herald (New York, NY) July 10, 1890; pg. 10.
Many
Attend
Funeral
Funeral
services for
Mrs.
Adalfa
Huntington
were
held
from
the
Presbyterian
church
Saturday
afternoon at
2:30 p.
m. Rev. E. T. Cooke
officiated and
burial
was made
in
Jasper. The
funeral was
largely
attended
by
relatives
and
friends. Among those
from
out
of
town were Mr. and Mrs.
John
Huntington and
daughter
of Wheeler;
Mr.
and Mrs. Leon
Shepard of
Rochester, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred
Huntington and Mr.
and
Mrs.
Stephens, Mr. and
Mrs.
Basil
Wells,
Mr.
and Mrs.
Beardsley,
Mr. and
Mrs.
Ralph
Warburton,
Misses
Flossie and
Ina
Huntington, Mrs.
Chas.
Burrell,
Mrs.
Harold Stewart, and
W. B. Miller of
Canisteo; Dr. and Mrs.
E. E.
Wallace of
Bath; Mrs.
George
Potter of
South
Canisteo, Mrs. Minnie
Shaw and
Mrs. Mildred
Fish of
Greenwood; Mr. and
Mrs.
Lester Drake and D. E.
Drake of
Wellsville;
Mrs.
Harvey Cloos
and
Mrs. Glenn Sims
of Painted
Post
and Mr. and Mrs.
John
Atherton
of
Adrian.
Canisteo
Times
(Canisteo, NY) January
7,
1932; page 6, col.
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