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Obituaries and Death Notices
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Westchester County |
ANGEVINE, John
ANGEVINE - At New-Rochelle, on Monday morning, Sept. 21, Mr. John Angevine, formerly of Scarsdale, Westchester Co., N. Y., in the 53d year of his age. His funeral will take place at 1 o'clock p.m. this day, (Tuesday) from his late residence, New-Rochelle. [New York Times, Sept. 22, 1857]
ARCHER, Lee A.
NEW YORK- Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company and founder of a venture capital firm, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 90. His son, Roy Archer, said his father died at Cornell University Medical Center in Manhattan. A cause of death was not immediately determined.
The Tuskegee Airmen were America's first black fighter pilot group in World War II. "It is generally conceded that Lee Archer was the first and only black ace pilot," credited with shooting down five enemy planes, Dr. Roscoe Brown Jr., a fellow Tuskegee Airman and friend, said in a telephone interview Thursday.
Archer was acknowledged to have shot down four planes and he and another pilot both claimed victory for shooting down a fifth plane. An investigation revealed Archer had inflicted the damage that destroyed the plane, said Brown and the Air Force eventually proclaimed him an ace pilot.
Archer, a resident of New Rochelle, N.Y., "lived a full life," said his son. "His last two or three years were amazing for him."
Archer was among the group of Tuskegee Airmen invited to attend President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009. The airmen, who escorted bomber planes during the war fought with distinction, only to face bigotry and segregation when they returned home, were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their service in 2007 by President George W. Bush.
Archer was "extremely competent, aggressive about asserting his position and sometimes stubborn," Brown said. "He had a heart of gold and treated people with respect. He demanded respect by the way he carried himself."
Brown estimated that about 50 or 60 of the 994 Tuskegee Airmen pilots are still alive.
Born on Sept. 6, 1919, in Yonkers and raised in Harlem, Archer left New York University to enlist in the Army Air Corps in 1941 but was rejected for pilot training because the military didn't allow blacks to serve as pilots.
"A War Department study in 1925 expressly stated that Negroes didn't have the intelligence, or the character, or the leadership to be in combat units and particularly, they didn't have the ability to be Air Force pilots," said Brown. Archer instead joined a segregated Army Air Corps unit at the Tuskegee, Ala., air base, graduating from pilot training in July 1943. After he retired from the military in 1970, Archer joined General Foods Corp., becoming one of the era's few black corporate vice presidents of a major American company.
He ran one of the company's small-business investment arms, North Street Capital Corp., which funded companies that included Essence Communications and Black Enterprise Magazine, according to his son and Brown.
Archer was an adviser to the late Reginald Lewis in the deal that created the conglomerate TLC Beatrice in 1987, then the largest black-owned and -managed business in the U.S.
After retiring from General Foods in 1987, Archer founded the venture capital firm Archer Asset Management.
Archer is survived by three sons and a daughter. His wife, Ina Archer, died in 1996. Services have yet to be announced. [By The Associated Press, Daily News Staff Writer - Friday, January 29, 2010 - Submtted by Leroy Sundin]
BARKER, John Henry
SING SING, N. Y., July 6. -- John Henry Barker, colored, was electrocuted here to-day for wife murder. The crime was committed on Aug. 30. 1895, just outside of White Plains. Barker was jealous of his wife and after being separated from her for some time returned on the date mentioned and shot her to death, after wards hacking her body with a spade. [14 Jul 1897; "Indiana State Journal", submitted by A Friend of Free Genealogy]
BLANCHARD, Rollo Kimball
Rollo Kimball Blanchard, 67, of Ardsley Park, Irvington, N.Y. died suddenly Saturday while vacationing in Clearwater, Fla. He is survived by two sons, Harry Cutler Blanchard of Westport and Kimball Blanchard of Greenwich and a daughter, Mrs. Robert T. Bower of Washington, D.C. Services will be held at his late home in Irvington with burial taking place in Barre, Vt. [April 29, 1953. The Norwalk Hour, Norwalk CT.]
BURD. -- At Yonkers, N. Y., Saturday, July 26, 1919, Elizabeth Ann Burd. Funeral services private, on Tuesday at 78 North Broadway, Yonkers. [New York Tribune July 29, 1919 - Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
BUTLER, George, son of Rev. David BUTLER, Rector of St. Paul's Church at Troy, died Aug. 27, in Scarsdale, N.Y., age 31. (Sept. 6) [Source: "National Intelligencer", as pub. in the NGSQ, vol 55, No. 1, March 1967, submitted by K. T.]
COUTANT, John L.
COUTANT - At White Plains, on Monday, Sept. 11, John L. Coutant, aged 8 years, 10 months and 10 days. The friends and relatives of the family are invited to attend his funeral, at Trinity Church, at 2 o'clock, this day, Sept. 15. [New York Times Sept. 15, 1857]
GIEDELHOUSE - On Sunday, July 27. 1919. Henry A., aged 67 years, dearly beloved husband of Mary (nee Feigel), father of George H. and Dr. Philip H. Gledelhouse and brother of Mrs. Sophia Halbe. Funeral services Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock, at his late residence, 577 East 3rd St., Mount Vernon. Interment private. [New York Tribune July 29, 1919 - Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
HATFIELD, Abraham
Hon. Abraham Hatfield, of Westchester County, N.Y., who is well known in Wisconsin, died last week. "Milwaukee Daily Sentinel", (Milwaukee, WI) Monday, Jan. 3, 1876. Submitted by Candi Horton]
JONES, Alice Palache
A. P. Jones, 82, Ex-Banker, Dies
Alice Palache Jones, retired vice president of the Fiduciary Trust Company of New York, died of complications arising from a heart condition yesterday at Northern Westchester Hospital Center in Mount Kisco. She was 82 years old and lived in North Salem, NY.
Mrs. Jones, a native of Cambridge, Mass., joined the company in 1933 as a trainee. She retired as senior vice president in 1974, after overseeing the bank’s move to the World Trade Center. Mrs. Jones was a director of the Dreyfus Third Century Fund, an investment fund, and a trustee of the North Salem Free Library. She had been a member and chairman of the North Salem Planning Board.
She graduated from Bryn Mawr cum laude in 1928 and was a member of the Bryn Mawr board of directors since 1951. In 1930 she was hired by Margaret Sanger to become executive director of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control.
Her husband, Russell K. Jones, retired vice president of the now-defunct advertising agency Cunningham & Walsh, died in 1986. She is survived by two sisters, Mary Gregory and Jeanette Barker, both of Jaffrey, NH. [June 13, 1989, "New York Times", Submitted by Kathie Marynik]
JONES, LeBaron Wilmont, Dr.
Dr. LeBaron Wilmot Jones, 55, practicing physician in Pleasantville for 31 years, whose activities on various hospital staffs and skill at research work particularly with regard to infantile paralysis had won him fame, died at his home on Bedford Road, Pleasantville, yesterday, of heart trouble. Dr. Jones had been suffering with this disease the last two years. He was stricken at Cape Cod two years ago. The next attack came last summer. He continued to practice, however. The fatal attack occurred Sunday at his home. He regained consciousness from his last attack only a few times before his death.
Dr. Jones gained considerable prominence when he devised a course of exercise as a cure for the deformities left by infantile paralysis. His system was successful in many cases.
For 31 years he resided in and was practicing physician in Pleasantville. He came to Pleasantville in 1895. He was born in St. John, New Brunswick, May 5, 1870, the son of Albert S. and Cornelia Kennedy Jones. Dr. Jones was graduated from Arcadia College, then came to New York, entered Bellevue Medical College, and was graduated from that institution. He became an intern at Bellevue Hospital.
During the World War, Dr. Jones was chief examining surgeon of the draft board for Westchester and served for many years on the staff of the Ossining Hospital. He had a wide practice, which included well known New York families with country houses in Westchester.
Dr. Jones was a member of Pleasantville Lodge, F&AM, a charter member of the Pleasantville University Club, and member of the Mount Pleasant Tennis Club and Westchester County Medical Association, also a vestryman of St. Johns Church, Pleasantville.
Dr. Jones was married twice. His first wife, who was Miss Sarah Etta Brown of Eastview, died in 1916. Subsequently he married Miss Vera Brown of Eastview, who survives him. Two sons and a daughter also survive – Russell Kennedy Jones, Kenneth Wilmot Jones, and Evelyn Jones.
Funeral services will be held at St. John’s Church, Pleasantville, at 10:30 o’clock tomorrow morning. The Rev. [illegible] will officiate. Interment will be at Kensico Cemetery and for members of the family only. ["The Daily Reporter", White Plains, Submitted by Kathie Marynik - Thursday, April 29, 1926]
JONES, Russell Kennedy
JONES—Russell K., on October 3, 1986 of North Salem, NY. Husband of Alice; father of Alice Jones Taylor and the late Russell Kennedy Jones, Jr. Also survived by 6 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Memorial service at St. James Episcopal Church, North Salem, NY, Sunday, October 12, 1986 at 4 PM. [New York Times, October 7, 1986 - Submitted by Kathie Marynik]
KEUGH - Margaret T., at the residence of her sister, Mrs. John Carr, Scarsdale N. Y., July 27, 1919, in the 70th year of her age. Funeral private. [New York Tribune July 29, 1919 - Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
LAWRENCE, Charlotte E.
LAWRENCE - At Throng's Neck, Westchester County, on Wednesday evening, Sept. 16, Charlotte E., wife of D. Lynch Lawrence. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her brother-in-law, Robert Grelet, No. 857 Broadway, on Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, without further invitation. [New York Times, Sep. 1857]
LUIKERT - On July 27, at her residence, Hall Ave., Tuckahoe, Loretta Luikert (nee Quirk), beloved wife of William S. Luikert. Funeral on Tuesday, July 29, at 9:30 a. m. thence to the Church of Immaculate Conception, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of her soul. Interment Woodlawn. Automobile cortege, [New York Tribune July 29, 1919 - Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
LYON - At Mount Kisco, N. Y., July 26, 1919, Albert Comstock, son of Julia E. and the late John N. Lyon, in his 51st year. Funeral from the residence of P.M. and Mrs. G. P. M. Curry, 29 Carpenter Ave., Mount Kisco, N. Y. on Tuesday July 29, at 2:30 p.m. [New York Tribune July 29, 1919 - Sub. by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
RAYMOND, William S.
VISTA, NY - Services for William s. Raymond were held Wednesday in Stevens Memorial United Methodist church in Lewisboro, N.Y., with the Rev. Harold E. Quigley, pastor, officiating.
Interment took place in South Salem Cemetery in South Salem, N.Y.
Mr. Raymond, 63, of Smith Ridge Road, died Saturday in Veterans Medical Center in West Have after a long illness. He was the husband of Diane Bouton Raymond.
Born in Pound Ridge, N.Y., Mr. Raymond was employed by the Town of New Canaan as a heavy equipment operator at the volume reduction plant. He was a longtime resident of Vista.
Bouton Funeral Home, Georgetown, was in charge of arrangements.
["The Hour", Norwalk, Conn., Thursday, March 7, 1991 - Submitted by A Friend of Free Genealogy.]
SPARKS, Stephen
SPARKS - At Peekskill, Westchester County, Stephen Sparks, aged 83 years, 5 months and 20 days. His friends and relatives are respectfully requested to attend his funeral, this day, (Monday) at 2 o'clock, at his residence, Peekskill. [New York Times, Sept. 28, 1857]
THOMPKINS, Jonathan G.
Died at Scarsdale, Westchester county, New York, on Thursday morning, the 22d ult, in the 87th year of his age, Jonathan G. Thompkins, Esq., father of his excellency Daniel D. Tompkins. [Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa) June 4 1823 Page 3] Submitted by Nancy Piper]
TUCKER, Mrs. Edmund
CHOKED TO DEATH
Mrs. Edmund Tucker Killed by a Burglar In Her Yonkers Home.
YONKERS, N. Y. Jan. 27.—Mrs. Edmund Tucker was choked to death by a burglar, at her home on Central avenue, near Underhill, tonight. She was found by her husband, who returned late and discovered that all the doors were locked. Thinking his wife might be visiting, he Inquired, of the neighbors, and was told that she had not been seen since late in the afternoon. He then returned to his house, and, going to a back window, heard the screams of his three-year-old boy from within. He opened the window and climbed inside to find his wife lying dead in the hallway just outside the sitting room door. The little boy was also found to be suffering from a severe cut across the face, and when asked what had caused the trouble he said that an old man wearing a slouch hat and a seedy gray overcoat, had entered the house and demanded money. When this was refused him, he seized Mrs. Tucker and choked her into submission. He then struck the boy with a
heavy cane which he carried and proceeded to take what valuable things he could find in a hasty trip through the house. Some of the missing articles are a lady's double cased gold watch and several gold rings.
Coroner Miles's examination disclosed the fact that Mrs. Tucker had been in a delicate condition, and that the shock as well as the assault was responsible for her death. [Weekly Indiana State Journal January 29, 1896. Submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy]
VAN WATT, Isaac
Another Revolutionary Character gone.
A letter dated at Greensburg, near Tarrytown, 24th May, states that Isaac Van Watt, one of the captors of Major Andre in the Revolutionary War, died on Friday last. Mr. Van Wart was a worthy man and much respected in his neighborhood. - N.Y. Enquirer. [Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA, June 4, 1828 - Sub. by Nancy Piper]
WEBB, Jean Francois
J. F. Webb, Former County Resident., Dies in East
Jean Francois Webb, a former resident of Placerville who for years had made his home in the east, died on January 5 at White Plains, New York. This is according to word received during
the week from his son. Mr. Webb was a native of St. Louis, born there 82 years ago. He had been a lawyer, soldier, pioneer and miner and inventor. Within the last few years he had perfected an automatic safety device for stopping trains within a dangerous 'block'. In 1925 he was declared to be the oldest commuter from White Plains, N. Y., making the trip to New York City every morning on the 8:20 train in his capacity as president of the International Signal Company. In the Civil War he served as a boy of 16 with Company B of the 145 Illinois Infantry.
Although he lived during his later days in the east, Mr. Webb had a home at Denver, Colorado, and made frequent trips to the capital of the Centennial state. He had mining interests in that vicinity at one time. On August 9, last, an embolism developed on his lower right leg and he was incapacitated. The ailment became more severe during the Winter and on January 1 he went to White Plains hospital for an operation which was never performed because of his weakened heart action. Mr. Webb was a member of El Dorado Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar. [Mountain Democrat, 1/31/1930, page 4. Submitted by Brenda Wiesner]
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