Thousand Islands Sun

Anson Hawley Died at Watertown

Born: Nov. 12, 1912 - Binghamton, N. Y.

Parents’ Names: James L. and Sarah Anson Hawley

Marriage: Mary T. Hartman - April 18, 1948 - Binghamton, N. Y.

Survivors: Wife, Mary; son, John; daughter and her husband, Gail and Harold WRight; sister, Wylda Johnston; seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Note: Severed as trustee of the Village of Alexandria Bay, N. Y. Did body and fender work at Frenchie Gionet’s Garage and Reynolds Garage.

Burial: Cremated

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Abstract of Mrs. Kathleen K. Haas, 94

Passed away at the home of a niece, Mrs. George Wagner

Born: Theresa, N. Y. (not other specifics)

Survivors: Nieces and nephews: Mrs. George Wagner; Miss Kathleen Grieg, Mrs. Mabel Wescott and Charles Lehr; Abner Kissel; Miss Mary Dorr; Mrs. Emma Finnigan

Burial: Theresa Cemetery

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Obit for Wm. J. Hussey - unidentified newspaper - date not apparent

Jefferson County, N. Y.

Taken from the Pierce-Putnam Scrapbooks

Wm. J. Hussey,

Redwood, Dies

Expires In Hospital

After Major Operation

WAS CLOTHING MANUFACTURER

He Headed the Levy-Hussy Company of New York

From 1908 to 1915 and the William J. Hussey

Company, Its Successor, Until 1928---Active in

National Guard

William J. Hussey, retired clothing manufacturer of New York city and a resident of the village of Redwood for the past three years, died at 3:40 this morning at the House of the Good Samaritan where he had been a patient for the past week. He was 75 years old.

Mr. Hussey underwent a major operation Tuesday, and had apparently passed through the operation successfully when complications developed early Wednesday which resulted in his death.

William James Hussey was born in Lightstreet, Columbia county, Pa., on June 23, 1860. He was the son of Thomas J. Hussey who had come to the United States from London, England, in 1850, and Mary C. Crossley of Danville, Pa;., who died in 1858 at Espy, Pa. Thomas J. Hussey’s death occurred at Stamford, Conn., in 1904. He resided in Stamford after retiring from active business.

For over 30 years William J. Hussey was widely known throughout New York and the New England states where he traveled as a salesman. In 1908 he organized and was president of the Levy-Hussey company of New York city, manufacturers of women’s coats and suits. The firm was succeeded in 1915 by the William J. Hussey company.

Mr. Hussey retired form active business in 1928.

In his earlier years, Mr. Hussey was active in the National Guard. He enlisted in Company F of the old 22nd regiment, N. G. F. N. Y., now the 102nd regiment of Engineers. He was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant of that company, and was captain and inspector of rifle practice of the regiment, serving on the staff of Col. John T. Camp.

He was commissioned a captain in 1889 and commanded Company H of the regiment until 1893 when he resigned his commission.

Mr. Hussey in 1895 married Katherine Brown of New York city, a daughter of the late Lieut. Col. Charles C. Brown of Rochester. She died in Stamford in 1923.

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Obit for Rev. Clarence E. Hastings, 67

Watertown Daily Times, Jefferson County, N. Y. - November 26, 1935

Found in the Pierce-Putnam Scrapbooks of the Thousand Islands Region (NY)

REV. CLARENCE E.

HASTINGS, 67, DIES

Succumbs to Heart Attack

At Sarasota, Fla.

Retired Theresa M. E. Minister

He was Pastor at Theresa Seven Year

Until Retirement Last May--Formerly

Pastor at Antwerp, Heuvelton and Copenhagen

(Special to The Times.)

Theresa, Nov. 26. -- Rev. Clarence E. Hastings, 67, retired Methodist Episcopal minister of this village, died suddenly in Sarasota, Fla., Monday evening, according to a telegram received in this village this morning.

Death was caused by a heart attack. He had been suffering from heart disease for some time but had been feeling quite well since arriving in Florida. Mrs. James B. Vock of this village invited Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Hastings to spend the winter at her home in that place and the party left here for the south on Nov. 8.

The minister had retired last May after 41 years as a preacher. He held the pastorate of the Methodist Episcopal church in this village for seven years.

Rev. Mr. Hastings was born on the shore of Chesapeake Bay on June 16, 1868. He spent his early life there and received his education in that section. He was licensed to preach in Delmar, Del., in 1894 and was admitted to the Wilmington conference of the Methodist Episcopal church on March 25, 1896, and on March 25, 1898, was admitted into full connection.

His first appointment was at Dover, Md. He was transferred to the Northern New York Conference on April 11, 1904. He served at Belmont from 1904 to 1907 and at Copenhagen in 1908 and 1909. He was then transferred to the Austin conference in Texas where he preached until 1912 when he returned to the Northern New York Conference. His next appointment was at Heuvelton from 1912 to 1917.

He served at Antwerp in 1918 and 1919 and then was at St. Johnsville from 1920 to 1922. He was (?) at Utica and in 1928 he came to Theresa where he was pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal church until his retirement last May. He purchased a home here to make his residence in this village after his retirement.

Rev. Mr. Hastings married Miss Mattie Terrill in Newark, N. Y. She survives together with a daughter, Mrs. Gilberta Popple of St. Johnsville, N. Y., where Rev. Mr. Hastings owned a farm, and two sons, Elliott Hastings of Utica and Terrill Hastings of Theresa.

According to the message received here, the body will be sent north by train, arriving at St. Johnsville Thursday. Burial will be in Newark, N. J.

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Article about the death of Mrs. Ruth House Hartman, 28

Unidentified newspaper - date unknown

WOMAN IS FOUND
DEAD ON ISLAND

Body Discovered on Board
Island in River Near
Clayton

CONTENTS OF STOMACH ARE
BEING ANALYZED BY DOCTORS

AUTHORITIES CLAIM SHE
HAD TRIED BEFORE TO
END HER LIFE

MRS. J. HARTMAN, 28, CITY

Former Teacher at Philadelphia
High School Walked in Water

Across Sand Bar to Island
Where She Was Found on Rocky
Ledge--Cause of Death Unde-
termined.

Mrs. Ruth House Hartman, 28, wife of Adam J. Hartman, 139 Michigan avenue, is believed by authorities to have ended her life by swallowing poison after she made her way across a 400-foot, water-covered sand bar to Board island, in the St. Lawrence river between Clayton and the Chateau, late Saturday afternoon or early Saturday night.

The contents of the woman’s stomach were being analyzed today by Dr. Thomas T. Walker, local pathologist, but officials said that it will probably be a day or two before the chemical analysis is completed.

The body of Mrs. Hartman, who authorities say tried to end her life with poison once before, was found sprawled on a rocky ledge on the island about 7:30 Sunday morning by Charles Steele, a Clayton fisherman. Mr. Steele was starting out on a fishing trip when he noticed the body. He notified authorities who started the investigation.

The body was removed to this city as soon as possible after it was discovered and Dr. Walker and Dr. J. T. Fowkes, Clayton, performed an autopsy in an effort to learn the cause of the woman’s death. The fact that there were no fractures or serious wounds on the victim’s body leads authorities to believe that there was no foul play.

“The physicians were unable to find anything during their autopsy to disclose the cuase of death,” said Sheriff Brayton E. Peck, who headed the investigators.

“If the chemical analysis of the stomach fails to disclose traces of poison, the woman likely died of exposure,” said Corporal Gerald Thorpe, state police bureau of criminal investigation, who entered the case when puzzling angles appeared in the investigation.

For a time, officials, said, it appeared that the woman might have been the victim of an attacker but the theory was discarded when minor bruises about body were considered to have been caused by contact with rocks and underbrush.

Mr. Hartman disappeared from her home here at about 2:30 Saturday afternoon, according to Sheriff Peck. She took her husband’s sedan and drove towards Clayton. It was found during the investigation that the car ran out of gasoline about three miles from Clayton and that Mrs. Hartman hitch-hiked the rest of the way to the village. She was picked up on the road by Mrs. Ruth Consaul as she stood beside her car.

Mrs. Consaul told the sheriff that she had offered to advance the woman money to buy gasoline but that Mrs. Hartman declined the offer, saying that she knew a man at Clayton who would get the car.

“I let the woman out at the junction of the Clayton-Alexandria Bay road and she started walking,” Mrs. Consaul told the sheriff.

“We found that Mrs. Hartman walked through the underpass towards the Chateau,” said the sheriff. “She was last seen alive walking alone on the road leading out to Steele’s Point.”

Re-constructing the tragedy, officials said that they believed that when the woman reached the end of the point she struck out through the shallow water over a sand bay and waded out to Board island.

“The water is only a foot or two deep over the bar and it was an easy matter for her to walk to the island,” said Corporal Thorpe.

One of the victim’s shoes was missing when her body was found. It is believed to have been pulled free from her foot while she was walking over the sand bar.

Her legs were marked by scratches which officials say resulted from her pulling herself over a jagged, four-foot rock ledge at the edge of the small island.

“Her clothing was wet when the body was found,” said Corporal Thorpe. “However, this fact did not indicate anything for the reason that it had rained during the night.”

The woman had no hat or coat on when she was found but her husband told the sheriff that when his wife left home she did not take a hat or coat. His topcoat and a brief case were found in his abandoned automobile.

When his wife failed to return home Saturday night, Mr. Hartman notified authorities.

Sheriff Peck, Undersheriff L. Raymond Johndrow and Deputy Sheriff Byron McDermott went to the island to investigate after they were notified of Mr. Steele’s discovery by Dr. Fowkes. Later Assistant District Attorney Roy A. Fuller went to the scene as did Corporal Thorpe and Trooper Rossbrook, B. C. I. James Stage, Clayton chief of police, aided in the investigation.

Mr. Hartman told investigators that he was in the bathroom at his home when his wife left home. Officials later found the keys to the car on the woman’s body.

When discovered, the woman’s body lay over a rock ledge with one leg hanging down in a crevice. Her stocking were torn and there were marks about her face. Physicians said that the face marks may have been results of rigor mortis.

Mrs. Hartman, a Smith college graduate, was formerly a school teacher. A few years ago she was a patient at the St. Lawrence state hospital, Ogdensburg. Last January she entered a private sanatorium at Troy. She returned home from the institution Wednesday.

She and her husband had resided in Theresa but they established their home in this city when she returned from Troy last week.

Mrs. Ruth Hartman was born in this city, Aug. 7, 1908, the daughter of Walter and Cora Timmerman Mattison. Her mother died at her birth and the baby was taken by Mr. and Mrs.Herman House of Orleans and Theresa, to bring up. Mrs. House was a sister of Mrs. Cora Timmerman Mattison.

Mrs. Hartman developed a love for dramatics and her education was along that line. She was graduated from the Theresa High school in June, 1925, and entered Smith college where she was graduated with honors in 1929. She accepted a teaching position at the Philadelphia High school and was with that school for four years.

On Nov. 20, 1930, she was married to Adam J. Hartman of Alexandria and they made their home in Riverside avenue in Theresa. In her high school days she had charge of the church plays of the Methodist Episcopal church here, of which she was a member. In later years, she coached plays for the stage here, presenting plays each year. Last November she presented a play at the town hall under the auspices of one of the church organizations.

She is survived by her husband, and her foster mother, Mrs. Jennie House Lillie, of Riverside avenue, Theresa.

Mrs. Hartman was a member of the Theresa Progress club, of the home bureau, the grange, Theresa Methodist church and Sunday school, being a worker in the Live Wire class.

The funeral services will be held from the Lillie home in Riverside avenue in Theresa on Wednesday at 2 p.m., Rev. W. J. Hancock, former pastor of the Methodist church, Theresa, with Rev. Richard F. Henderson of ST. Paul’s Lutheran church at Redwood, officiating.

Burial will be in the family plot in this city.

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Unidentified newspaper

Mrs. Ruth H. Hartman Death
Was Due To Natural Causes

Assistant District Attorney Roy A. Fuller officially announced a verdict of death due to natural causes in the case of Mrs. Ruth House Hartman, 139 Michigan avenue, whose body was found on Board island in the St. Lawrence river, near Clayton, Sunday.

“I find she died of arterio-sclerosis and edema of the brain,” said Mr. Fuller, “and that her death was not caused by any self-infliction or by the intervention or act of any other person.”

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Obit for Mrs. Ruth H. Hartman, age 28
Unidentified newsclipping - date unknown

WOMAN DIED OF
BRAIN DISEASE

Dr. Walker Testifies To

Her Condition

MRS. RUTH H. HARTMAN, 28

Hardening of the Arteries and
Edema of Brain Is Cause, Claim---
Autopsy of Woman Found on Island
Showed No Trace of Poison.

Mrs. Ruth House Hartman, 28, wife of Adams J. Hartman, 139 Michigan avenue, whose body was found on Board island in the St. Lawrence river, near Clayton, Sunday morning, died of natural causes, according to the testimony of Dr. Thomas T. Walker given at an inquest held this afternoon by Assistant District Attorney Roy A. Fuller.

Dr. Walker, pathologist at the House of the Good Samaritan and Mercy hospital, who made a chemical analysis of the contents of the woman’s stomach after an autopsy showed that the woman was not drowned and revealed no trace of any poison, said that Mrs. Hartman had arteriosclerosis of the brain and edema of the brain, Mr. Fuller said. The hardening of the arteries and the brain condition caused her death, the doctor testified.

The analysis showed no evidence of any poisoning in the stomach or any evidence of foul play or drowning, Mr. Fuller said the doctor testifed (incomplete)