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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. |
| HARVEY - Mrs. Pearl Jessie Woodard, (SRGP 04636) aged 63, died Thursday, January 15, 1948, at 1:15 a.m., at her home near Covington, after a serious illness. She was a daughter of the late William and Hannah Welch Harvey. She was born May 6, 1884, in Sullivan Township. On July 2, 1904, she married Frank Woodard, of Sullivan Township, and she apent the rest of her life near Covington. The funeral was held at the Shaw Funeral Home, Mansfield, Saturday, January 17,, at 10:45 a.m.. The burial was at the Riverside Cemetery, at Covington. Surviving are her husband, Frank Woodard, a Son, Paul; three daughters, Ivah Hilfiger, of Canoe Camp; Irene Frost, of Covington, and Joyce, at home; fifteen grandchildren; two brothers, Claude W. Harvey, of Sullivan, and Paul Harvey, of Tioga. She will be missed by her many friends and neighbors. Submitted by C. V. Woodard |  |
WHITTAKER Catherine, Mrs. S. L. Barber died Wednesday morning last after a short illness. Katharine Whittaker was the oldest daughter of Peter Whittaker and was born in Schoharie County New York, April 12, 1817. The 28th day of February 38 she was married to Sylvester L. Barber who survives her. She leaves three daughters. Mrs. Seward French, Mrs. Star Barber and Mrs. H. W. LeValley. To say that her long life even to the very end had been eminently useful would only be saying what is known to all of her friends and acquaintances. The aged husband and the family have the heartfelt sympathy of this community, where all feel her death as a personal loss. Poem followed: At Rest. Long the road and rough the way to reach the journey's end, But He who gave the will to do, The just reward will send. Who dies, as sinks the sun to rest, At close of summer day: Leaves the sky of life as bright As last departing ray. Gives promise of a future life Of rest, serenely sweet, When past the mystic border line Where earth and heaven meet. We would not wish to call thee back, Nor mouth our bitter loss, Except our tears express our love; Our sorrows weigh our cross, May those who follow after thee, As closely heed the right. And may the bright star of thy life, To them be beacon light. (Copied as written paper not known) I believe the date to be in December of 1890.
Marjorie Robinson
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WOODWARD, IDA BLANCHE (SRGP 4639)
Ida Blanche Woodward, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woodward, was born in Sullivan township, August 11, 1912, and passed away February 26, 1934, in Covington township, at the home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Herrick Wilcox. She had been sick since last October and at that time she was in the Blossburg hospital for about two weeks with asthma, never gaining strength afterward, and since returning to her home from there she had been treated constantly by Dr. Doane of Mansfield, who did all he could to help her to regain her health, but to no avail. At the last it was bronchial pneumonia and heart trouble. The funeral was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herrick Wilcox last Thursday at 2 o’clock; burial in the Glass Factory Cemetery at Covington. The singing was rendered by the Misses Vivian Clark, Vaudine Nelson, Marion Longwell, Mrs. Fred Blanchard played. The two songs were, In the Garden of Prayer and Safe in the Arms of Jesus. The pallbearers were Carlton Hilfiger, Leon Butler, Osmar Welch, Donald Aumich, Theodore Scaife, Robert Nelson. She leaves to mourn her loss her parents and two sisters and one brother, Ivah and Irene and Paul, all at home and one son, Robert William four years old. Although she was a constant sufferer she never complained or found fault. She will be greatly missed in her home; no one can take her place or fill her vacant chair. She joined the Baptist church at the age of 12. Photo of Ida Woodward 1908 from Connie Wilcox. |
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