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Obituaries & Clippings Collected from Scrapbooks by Joyce M. Tice For her Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project. Please submit any additional clippings that you have available. |
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| Reading a series of obituaries from a single cemetery, as they are presented here, is like reading the multi-generational history of a community. These people were the local populace at a particular time. The people buried here knew each other, were neighbors, relatives and school mates. They attended church together and engaged in "trade" or business. All people are listed in alphabetic order by surname at BIRTH. Women identified by a married alias only and for whom a birth surname can not be identified, are listed on the last page for the cemetery's obituaries. |
| SRGP ID Added in parentheses by Joyce M .Tice if included in her Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project. If you are researching or descended from any of those so designated, it is requested that you share your research with Joycs's SRGP if you have not already done so. That is the price I ask for making this site available. It is your opportunity to share in the cost of creating this site and reward Joyce just a tad for making this enormous body of resource available to you. It is a way to pay your dues in a small way for use of this site. Please reference the SRGP ID and the page you found this on the site, when you write to me. For women listed under a married alias, I have provided her real name, if I know it. |
Deacon D. C. Edgeton [SRGP 14886]
In Sullivan, Pa., December 28, 1875, of pneumonia, Deacon D. C. Edgeton,
aged 81 years. (Tuesday, January 11, 1876, The Wellsboro Agitator,
Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)
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Addis E. GARDNER, (SRGP 09429)of Sullivan, up to a few minutes before his death on Wednesday last was, to all appearances, in perfect health. Coming from the barn into the house, he complained of being chilly, and fell to the floor. His brother raised him up. It was thought he had been attacked by a fit. He thought not, and said that, save for a fullness of the lungs, he felt all right. A minute later he dropped on a couch and instantly expired. He was born on the farm where he died, and always lived there with his brother and family. Mr. Gardner was 53 years old and unmarried. He was respected by his neighbors, and was an honest, upright citizen and excellent neighbor. The funeral was held from the home on Friday afternoon, the services being conducted by the Rev. B. Brunning, of Mansfield. There was a large attendance of neighbors and friends. |
DANN, MILDRED A. GARDNER (SRGP 3220)
On Monday evening, March 17, the Gates of Eternity opened and
the pure soul of Mildred Dann, or Millie, as her loved ones called her,
passed through into the eternal light of an endless day. The funeral
services were held on Thursday from the home. Rev. Grant Roblyer
and Rev. William Hall were the officiating ministers. Rev. Roblyer’s
scriptural reading was from Psalms 90 and 103, and his remarks were largely
scriptural quotations and exemplifying the everlasting love and unchangeableness
of God. Rev. Hall made a very touching and tender prayer and both
ministers spoke very feelingly of their personal acquaintance with the
departed and of her Christian character and spotless life. Mrs. Leah
Dial sang most beautifully and touchingly those old hymns, “Beautiful Isle
of Somewhere” and “Sometime Somewhere”. Mildred Gardner Dann was
the daughter of Leander and Fannie Gardner and was born on April 28, 1877.
On the sixth day of September, 1905, she was united in marriage with Judson
L. Dann, with whom she lived happily until his death on October 31, 1911.
Since that time her life has been passed in her girlhood home. Millie’s
entire life was spent in making her family and friends happy. She
always thought of others first and self last. Endowed with a keen
mind, a friendly disposition, and a remarkable amount of Ambition she enjoyed
society and an active, energetic life until failing health prevented.
Several years ago she united with the Universalist Church of Mansfield,
and was a close personal friend of Rev. E. E. Bailey. Millie believed
in the religion of character as exemplified by Jesus and her life was spent
in living that kind of a life. Six years ago she underwent a serious
operation at Blossburg hospital and since that time her health has been
failing; the cold weather so aggravated her disease that she has been compelled
to spend a large part of the winters in bed. But during all those
years of ill health and through her last sickness he has ever been
solicitious of those who cared for her, never once frowning, and ever ready
with words of comfort and cheer. Children loved her and grown-ups
respected and revered her. The beautiful flowers and the tears of
sorrowing friends gave proof of the esteem in which she was held, while
the beautiful Easter lily clasped in her hand was emblematic of the pure
soul that had gone up to that home of many mansions. She leaves to
mourn her loss, her mother and one brother, Ward W.; two step children,
Mrs. George Dewey and Ruhl Dann, besides multitudes of friends. Interment
was in Ames Hill cemetery.
Ward W. GARDNER
Ward W. Gardner, 59, of Mainesburg, died in the Robert Packer Hospital,
Sayre, Aug. 31, 1941. Funeral services were held at the Methodist
Church in Mainesburg and burial was made in the Ames Hill Cemetery at Chandlersburg.
JONES, EDWARD (SRGP 04952)
Ed Jones, of Sullivan, passed away Monday, April 17, at 2 o’clock.
He bore the suffering of an extended illness without complaining.
He was 70 years old on November 28, and had always lived at the Jones homestead,
about one mile south of Elk Run. The funeral was held at the home
on the following Thursday, at two o’clock, the Reverend Snyder officiating.
Interment was in Ames Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Amos MUDGE (SRGP 00216) died on Monday at his home near Elk Run, aged about 84 years. He had been steadily failing for a number of years. Mr. Mudge was an exemplary citizen and a member of the Elk Run M. E. Church. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Abram Slingerland, and four sons, Edgar, Clinton and Loren Mudge of Delmar Township, this county, and Menzo Mudge of Sullivan, at whose home he died. He was an uncle of Mr. Stephen Mudge of this boro. The funeral will be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon from the church at Elk Run, the Rev. H. E. Hyde officiating. (Died 29 NOV 1897)
REYNOLDS, Lucy A. (SRGP 09036) Mansfield Advertiser -Apr 29th 1873 - Died Lucy Ann Ripley Robbins Sullivan Township Apr. 25th age 48 years Wife of J.W., Dau. Lyman Reynolds.
Mansfield Advertiser 30th May 1877: Died Isaac RICHMOND age 77 years May 14th in Sullivan of dropsy. (SRGP 05571)
WELLSBORO AGITATOR, 6 March 1880, p.3
ROBBINS- (SRGP 06531) At his residence in Sullivan, Feb. 17, 1880, Mr. Dexter Robbins in the seventy-first year of his age. Mr. Robbins was one of the early settlers of this township, having located here with his father at the age of 14. His life, though long, has been full of usefulness. As a citizen he has always enjoyed the respect of his fellow townsmen, as a Christian he has been loved and trusted by his brethren. by Rev. J. H. Ward
Mansfield Advertiser 23rd Sep 1885: Charles SMITH, Sr. (SRGP 04259) died at Sylvania last Sunday Age 85 y 8 m ddd., funeral Sept 22nd at Mainesburg.
SMITH , D. T. (SRGP 00162) Sullivan Township lost another of its old residents Sunday afternoon by the sudden death, while eating a lunch, of Thomas Smith, father of William and James Smith, and Mrs. Benj. Jones, all residents of that vicinity. Mr. Smith had outlived the allotted three score years and ten. The obsequies were held yesterday from the church at Elk Run and were largely attended. (handwritten on article 1894) [Note from Joyce - D. T. Smith and his wife Lucretia Welch built the house I now live in. They settled this property in the 1840s and built this house in 1858. My grandparents bought it from their son in 1917.]
1866 - d in Sullivan 28th Sep Abigail, wife of Mr. Bradford Edgeton, aged 43 yrs. (SRGP 18968)
? Mrs. Rispah Gardner [SRGP 09192]
In Sullivan, November 10, 1879, Rispah, wife of Clark Gardner, in the
57th year of her age. (Tuesday, November 25, 1879, The Wellsboro
Agitator, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.) [Probably Ames Hill Cemetery][Own surname
not known]
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