Abstract of Obit for Charles Kelsey, 79
Unidentified newsclipping - date not apparent
Born: Aug. 8, 1903, Oxbow Rd., near Theresa, N. Y.
Parents’ Names: Charles H. and Nettie Fikes Kelsey
Died at Edward John Noble Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.
Marriage: Rosalie Brownell of New Berlin, October 1932. Rosalie died July of 1952
Schooling: Theresa High School; Morrisville ATC (sic).
Occupation: Taught school at Poole’s Corners Road; drove truck for Empire Milk Co.; operated the family farm from 1941 to 1971
Charles played semi-professional baseball in the New Berline area (NY)
Memberships: I. O. O. F., Lodge 755; United Presbyterian Church; Bowling League
Survivors: Two sons, Donald and Marvin; two daughters, Mrs. Donald (Beverly) McDermott and Mrs. Marie Tully; three sisters, Miss Grace Kelsey, Mrs. Harold (Marian) Leeson, and Mrs. Harold (Dorothy) Laschomb.
Predeceased: Sister, Mrs. Albert (Florence) Gilman; two brothers, Winfield and Dr. E. J. Kelsey.
Burial: Oakwood Cemetery
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Abstract of Obit for James E. (Speck) Lawler, 91
Unidentified newspaper - date of death: Oct. 4, 1984
Born: Aug. 18, 1893 - Town of Orleans, Jefferson County, N. Y.
Parents’ Names: John and Agnes M. McMillin Lawler
Died at Mercy Hospital in Watertown, N. Y.
Married: 1) Irene C. Radley - Jan. 10, 1917 - St. John’s Church, LaFargeville. Irene died Oct. 16, 1976, at age 85. 2) Hattie N. Zimmer - June 28, 1980, at St. John’s Catholic Church.
Education: LaFargeville schools.
Occupation: foreman at the New York Air Brake Co.
Interests: Watertown Pirates baseball and the Watertown Pirates Booster Club
Survivors: Wife, Hattie; nieces, nephews and cousins.
Predeceased: Brother, Leo and a sister, Mrs. Mary A. (Mae) Mahanna
Burial: St. John’s Cemetery, LaFargeville.
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Obit for Josephine Laurie, age 72
Unidentified newsclipping - penciled date: 1978
Alexandria Bay -- Word has been received of the death of Miss Josephine Laurie, 72, on Apr. 26 in a hospital in Orchard Park where she had been a patient for two days after suffering a heart attack. She had suffered a stroke in November. Miss Laurie had transferred last May to the Aurora Park Nursing Home, East Aurora from E. J. Noble Hospital here.
The funeral was Friday, Apr. 28.
Miss Laurie had resided in Alexandria Bay since 1945 and was a home economics teacher at Alexandria Central School until her retirement about 14 years ago. She first lived in the Porter home on Church Street and then moved in 1950 to the Church Street Apartments. She left May 16 for the nursing home in East Aurora after being hospitalized here for some time.
Survivors include her sister, Viola Rodgers of Orchard Park, nephews and nieces.
Miss Laurie had been a member of St. Cyril’s Church and its Altar and Rosary Society, Fireside Study Club, Fortnightly Study Club, the Service Club, Sylvia DeGrasse chapter NSDAR, and the Cooperative Extension.
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Abstract of Obit for Mrs. Mary House Lashbrooks, 84
Watertown Daily Times - date not apparent
Born: Feb. 27, 1882, House Road, Town of Hammond, St. Lawrence County, N. Y.
Parents’ Names: John and Hattie Preston House
Died: E. J. Noble Hospital
Marriage: Edwin Lashbrooks - Oct. 27, 1901, in Hammond, N. Y. Edwin died March 18, 1950. He was a blacksmith.
Survivors: Four sons, Nelson, Raymond, Kenneth and Clarence; dour daughters, Mrs. Lila Rucheleau, Mrs. Jennie Snyder, Mrs. Lewis (Dorothy) Love, Mrs. Frank (Madelaine) Scherman; 29 granchildren and 61 great-grandchildren.
Burial: Riverside Cemetery
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Abstract of Obit for Stennett M. Leeson, age 18
Watertown Daily Times - November 10, 1989
Born: May 6, 1971 - Watertown, N. Y.
Parents’ Names: Mark and Karen Bibbins Leeson
Survivors: Parents; brother, Brett Leeson; maternal grandparents, George and Beverly Bibbins; paternal grandfather, Francis Leeson; paternal grandmother, Verna Leeson; aunts, uncles and cousins.
Note: Stennett’s death was the result of an automobile accident
Burial: Town of Pinckney, Lewis County, N. Y.
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Abstract of Obit for Hattie Zimmer Lawler, 88
Watertown Daily Times - no date apparent
Born: May 15, 1906 in Leraysville, N. Y.
Parents’ Names: Charles and Annie Wiswell Neuroth
Died: At her home in the Town of Pamelia
Marriage: 1) Ira A. Zimmer, of Goose Bay, on Jan. 10, 1927. Ira died in 1971. 2) James Edward “Speck” Lawler on June 28, 1980. Speck died Oct. 4, 1984.
Employment: Olga Knitting Mill, Watertown
Memberships: Redwood United Methodist Church, the Rebekah Lodge, the Order of the Eastern Star and local senior citizen groups.
Survivors: Son, Leon; three daughters, Arlene Parker, Leona Smith, Delores Covell; 15 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Edith Cheever, Ethel Johnson, Eleanor Van De Walker and Blanche Farrell; two brothers, Floyd Neuroth and Charles Neuroth.
Burial: North Watertown Cemetery
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Abstract of Obit for Mrs. Katherine Lieterman, 79
Watertown Daily Times - penciled date of 1953
Born: Sept. 27, 1873 - Redwood, N. Y.
Parents’ Names: George and Sarah Martin Hyle
Location of Death: Massena, N. Y.
Marriage: George Leiterman - Sept. 19, 1899 -- George died March 6, 1946 at Carthage
Residency: Redwood until 1903 -- went to Syracuse where Mr. Leiterman was associated with a wholesale grocery; moved to Carthage in 1930 - where he was manager of Wagg Foods Warehouse;
then, Katherine moved to Massena to live with son-in-law and daughter, the Holmes.
Memberships: Fralick Chapter 550, O. E. S. in Syracuse; First English Lutheran Church in Syracuse; First Methodist Church, Carthage; Friendly Bible Class of Emmanuel Congregational Church in Massena; the Grandmother’s Club of Cretona Chapter 523, O. E. S. Massena, N. Y.
Survivors: Two daughters, Mrs. Duane (Ruth) Holmes and Mrs. G. Elizabeth Beacham; three grandchildren, Edward, Nancy and Barbara Holmes.
Burial: Redwood, N. Y.
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Abstract of Obit for John Laidlaw, 85
Watertown Daily Times - November 9, 1992
Born: July 10, 1907 - Gouverneur
Parents’ Names: Earl Emery and Bertha Dodds Laidlaw
Place of Death: Columbia Greene Medical Center, Hudson, N. Y.
Marriage: 1) Althea M. Hutchinson who died Dec. 31, 1967; 2) Margaret Zilnick
Education: Gouverneur High School; Syracuse University School of Business Administration (1925)
Employment: RCA, Life Savers, Inc.; owned Joslen Tobacco Co. in Hudson, N. Y.
Memberships: Blue Anchor Youth Club; Board of Directors of Hudson Community Chest; Hudson Youth Advisory Board; Hudson Lions Club; Hudson YMCA, director; Hudson Junior Chamber of Commerce; Hudson Federal Housing Authority; offices and elder of the Presbyterian Church; president of the Syracuse University Alumni Rowing Association; officer of the New York State Association of Tobacco Distributors; member and officer of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors.
Honors: Distinguished Letterman’s Award from Syracuse University in 1976.
Survivors: Wife, Margaret; three daughters, Bonnie Wilkinson; Tammy Davis; Sally Hyde; eight grandchildren, several cousins.
Burial: Gouverneur Cemetery.
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Abstract of Obit for Delavan Lyman, 85
Thousand Islands Sun - penciled in, 1983
With photograph
Born: July 1, 1898 - Lowville, N. Y.
Parents’ Names: Myron M. and Lucinda Crowner Lyman
Died: Watertown, N. Y., House of the Good Samaritan
Marriage: Gladys Peckham of Lowville - July 2, 1921 in Schenectady
Education: Lowville Academy; Union College (1920); Albany State Teachers College; Columbia University (1934)
Occupation: Taught mathematics and science; assistant athletic instructor at Perkiomen Preparatory School; Haverling High School staff for five years; Alexandria Bay school principal.
Survivors: Wife, Gladys; nieces and nephews.
Burial: Cremated
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Obit for John Leffler, 67
Unidentified newspaper - January 5, 1950
John Leffler, 67, Native of
Theresa, Dies in Hemstead
Theresa, Jan. 5. -- News came to this village Wednesday of the death at Hempstead, L. I., on Monday of John Leffler, about 67, native of this village and graduate of the Theresa High school. His death was caused by a brain tumor.
His parents were the late Gottlieb and Caroline Grieb Leffler. When he had finished school here, he entered college to become a druggist. On Long Island he was highly successful, and he made frequent visits to his home town here and to visit his parents, and the young people of his school days.
He is survived by his widow, a native of Long Island, and two daughters, and a sister, Mrs. David (Carrie) Kitts of Penfield, near Rochester.
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Obit for Mrs. Mannie Leona Olney Leiterman, 70
Unidentified newspaper - February 16, 1939
Native of Redwood
Dies Saturday
Mrs. Leonard Leiterman Dies At
Her Home In Clayton After A
Month’s Illness
Mrs. Mannie Leona Olney Leiterman, 70, wife of Leonard Leiterman of Clayton and mother of Mrs. Joseph Houghton of Holliston, Mass., died Saturday at midnight at her home after a month’s illness.
Mrs. Leiterman was born in Redwood, Jan. 9, 1869, the only daughter of the late Darwin and Caroline Helmer Olney. She attended the Redwood schools and later the Ives Seminary, Antwerp, and the Crane Institute of Music in Potsdam. She was married to Leonard Leiterman of Redwood on July 26, 1899. They first made their residence in Poughkeepsie, moving to Clayton thirty years ago.
She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Miss Lucile Leiterman of Clayton and Mrs. N. Joseph Houghton, of Holliston, Mass.
Private funeral services were held from the home, Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Royal Fishbeck, pastor of the Clayton Methodist church officiating. Burial was made in the Plessis cemetery.
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NOT AN OBIT
A piece from an unidentified newspaper - no date specified
REDWOOD
REDWOOD, July 9. -- Miss Lillian Layng, principal of one of the schools at Melrose, Mass., has arrived to pass the summer here. ---Miss Marion Holmes has returned from an extended visit with friends in New York. ---Miss Beatrice Ellis, of Alexandria Bay was the guest of Mrs. G. M. Holmes Thursday. ---Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kable and son, Robert, leave Wednesday on an automobile trip to New York, Tarrytown, Camp Dix, and other points in New Jersey and New York. ---Augustus Gates is very seriously ill at his home. ---Mrs. Mary Holmes and daughter, DeEtta, of Binghamton, are here for the summer. ---Miss Ethel (torn off) has returned from her school in Boonville. ---Mrs. George Bickelhaupt, of Herkimer, has been passing some time here with her daughter, Mrs. Edward Carmon. ---Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Shoulette passed the week end in Philadelphia with friends. --George Kable is having hardwood floors and electric lights installed in his residence in Main street. ---Richard Gates left Saturday for Buffalo. Mr. Gates was one of the men to be selected from this district, to enter the Buffalo Mechanical school for two months’ training. ---Mrs. G. M. Holmes, and daughter, Frances, Miss Addie Holmes and Miss Sarah Yost motored to Utica via Carthage, Boonville and Rome, last Tuesday.
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Abstract of Obit for Katharine Lynch, 78
Watertown Daily Times - 1992, penciled in
Born: April 11, 1914 - Orange, N. J.
Parents’ Names: Edward and Emily Burrows
Place of Death: home in Alexandria Bay, N. Y.
Occupation: Owned and operated the Redwood Trading Post. Katharine served in the Women’s Air Corps of the U. S. Army from Sept. 18, 1942 to Aug. 7, 1943; stationed at Ft. Sam Houston in Texas.
Survivors: nine grandchildren; a sister, Dot Sweanarton; several nieces and nephews.
Predeceased: Brother, Jim Thorpe Burrows; sister, Betty Toommey.
Burial: St. Cyril’s Cemetery
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Obit for Ola Lowe, 88
Unidentified newspaper - September, 1988
Alexandria Bay -- Ola Lowe, 88, Alexandria Bay, died Sept. 22, at United Helpers Cedars Nursing Home, Ogdensburg, where she had been a patient since Feb. 2, 1983.
The funeral was Monday at the Giltz Funeral Home, with the Rev. Robert Vrooman, pastor of the Reformed Church of the Thousand Isles, officiating. Burial was in Barnes Settlement Cemetery, Redwood.
Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Richard (Harriett) Zuller, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. John (Margaret) Burgess, Syracuse; Mrs. Floyd (Frances) Martin, Syracuse; Mrs. Philip (Audrey) Roch, Syracuse; Mrs. Alfred (Wanda) Meneteret, Largo, Fla.; Mrs. George (Bernice) Houghton, Skaneateles; six sons, James Austin, Tex.; Kenneth "Bub," San Antonio, Tex.; Walter, Rochester; Ernest D., Clayton, Melford "Hank," Alexandria Bay; Mernad "Jack," Jacksonville, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Emma Eckert, LaFargeville; a brother, Walter Wood, Alexandria Bay, 35 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
Two sons died before her, George Lowe, Jr. in 1970 and Edward Lowe in 1943 in World War II.
She was born Aug. 1, 1900 in Alexandria Bay, a daughter of Charles and Lucy DeYoung Wood. She lived all her life in Alexandria Bay.
She was a Gold Star Mother, a member of the John B. Lyman Post of the American Legion, Auxiliary Post 904; a member of the Rebekahs and the Order of the Eastern Star, Alexandria Bay. She was a past noble grand of the Rebekahs and was a member of the Reformed Church of the Thousand Isles.
She married George Lowe Aug. 26, 1917. He died Oct. 21, 1979.
NOTE BY TYPIST/WEBSITE HOST: If you are a member of this family and can help me with dates and grandchildren, I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you. Ola and George’s children are descendants from my 2nd great-grandfather, Nicholas and Abigail Wiltse Hosner who came to Plessis in 1819. I would dearly love to have the History and Genealogy of this family as complete as possible. Please contact me at: [email protected]
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Abstract of Obit for Harold Leonhardt, 91
Watertown Daily Times - May 13, 1995
Born: Nov. 19, 1903 - Town of Alexandria, Jefferson County, N. Y.
Parents’ Names: Henry Elisabeth Zimmer Leonhardt
Died at Hepburn Medical Center, Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Marriage: Hazel Thompson of Alexandria Bay - Oct. 10, 1925 - St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Redwood
Mrs. Leonhardt died Nov. 22, 1989
Employment: Cornwall Bros. Store, Bert Anson’s electrical business; owner of an electrical business from 1930 to 1940;Halley Electric, for 30 years.
Survivors: Son, Harwood; daughter, Mrs. Ronald (Nancy) McLennan; four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
Predeceased: Three sisters, Mary Roeder, Elsie Meisenheimer, Anna Leonhart; a brother, Karl.
Burial: not stated.
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Article about the will of Edward C. Lewis, 77
Unidentified newspaper - January 1941
EDWARD C. LEWIS
WILL UPHELD
Jury Finds No Fraud Nor Deceit In
Will Disposing of $50,000 Estate
The last will and testament of Edward C. Lewis, 77 year old Collins Landing ferryman, who died Dec. 14, 1939, was upheld in Justice Henry J. Kimball’s trial term of supreme court, when a jury reported Friday afternoon that no fraud, deceit or undue influence has been exerted upon Mr. Lewis.
Mr. Lewis executed his will Nov. 18, 1939, disposing of an estate of approximately $50,000, in which his daughter, Mrs. Ruth G. Nunn, and his son, Ross D. Lewis, were the principal beneficiaries, but it was his desire that the latter’s wife, Mrs. Sue Wilbur Weller Lewis, should come in for none of the estate after the death of Ross.
Ross D. Lewis, 44, contested the will, which provided that he should be permitted to reside during the balance of his life on the Homestead farm at Collins Landing and have a life income from one-half the residuary estate, but that his sister should have outright two farms aggregating about 700 acres on Wells island, and half the residuary estate while her two children should have $l,500 each.
The will is now sent back to surrogate’s court for probate. The executors are Mrs. Ruth G. Nunn, daughter, and Charles U. Putnam, Alexandria Bay.
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Obit for Mrs. Jennie T. Lillie, 70
Unidentified newspaper - Sept. 13, 1938
MRS. JENNIE T. LILLIE, 70, DIES
Theresa, Sept. 13. -- Mrs. Jennie Timmerman Lillie, 70, died suddenly at her home in Riverside avenue, this village, at 7:30 a.m. today from a heart disease attack.
She had been about the village until about ten days ago when she suffered a fainting spell that caused her to remain indoors. This morning the family were about as usual and Mrs. Lillie seemed to be resting quietly. Soon afterward she seemed to have difficulty in breathing and Dr. Byron Haskin was summoned but she had died before he reached the place.
She was born in what is known as the Backus Settlement in Alexandria in July, 1868, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Timmerman. Her early life was spent there and in Orleans. She was twice married, first to Herman House who for a long term of years conducted the store at Orleans Four Corners and was postmaster, his wife being his assistant. Closing out their store they retired to this village to reside, buying a home on Riverside avenue where she had since made her home. He died several years ago and later she married to Clinton Lillie of this village -- (rest of obit torn off)