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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. |
CADY Melvin L
Elkland Journal 1896 25 Jun Died - Cady, Melvin, who has been suffering
for several weeks from dropsy, died Saturday afternoon. Funeral at
Pleasant Valley, Sunday
CADY Simeon
Wellsboro Agitator, Tioga, PA--Wednesday, March 18, 1896
Mr. Simeon Cady, a well-known and respected citizen of Elkland, died
on the 10th instant in the 75 year of his age. Mr. Cady was born at Osceola,
January 22, 1822, being of a family of 11 children and spent his whole
live in the Cowanesque Valley. He was esteemed as an honest, intelligent
and industrious citizen, with a heart full of the milk of human kindness.
...He left 6 children- 5 sons and one daughter. The funeral was held last
Friday afternoon. Peters Cemetery Farmington
CASS Willard
Wellsboro Gazette – May 23, 1895
--Willard Cass, the aged father of ex-County Superintendent Cass, died
at his home in Farmington Saturday morning after a brief illness following
the accident of last week. The funeral took place Monday forenoon
at the late residence of the deceased.
GROVER Tryphena
Wellsboro Agitator - December 11, 1895
Rev. Charles Weeks attended the funeral of Mrs. John VanDusen, who
died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. A. D. Kemp, last Thursday.
HOUSE William C.
Wellsboro Agitator – July 4, 1923
Farmington, July 2—William C House, a lifelong resident of this place,
died Wednesday afternoon, June 27. He had a stroke earlier in the day and
did not regain consciousness. He was the only son of the late Carlos
House and had always lived on the farm where he died. He was born June
15, 1857, and on June 10, 1893, he married Bertha Dodge, who survives him.
Seven children were born to them: Mrs. Coral Mosher, of Alfred, N. Y.;
Mrs. Alonzo Brimmer and Mrs. Jesse Brimmer, of Farmington, and Marian,
Carl, Mortimer and Erma at home. Mr. House was a member of Fairview
Grange of Farmington and was well liked by all who knew him. Funeral services
were held from the home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Mr. Gee,
pastor of the Reformed Methodist church, of Farmington, officiated; burial
in the Peters cemetery.
JONES - Kenneth Allen Jones, two-month old son of Mr. & Mrs. James Jones, Wellsboro, died at his home Friday, January 19, 1962, of pneumonia. Also surviving are five brothers, James Jr., Linford, Michael, Gerald and Gerard, all at home; maternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. William Randall, Wellsboro and paternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. William Sutton, Sanford, Fla. Services were held Saturday afternoon and burial was in St. Peter's Catholic Church Cemetery. - Wellsboro Agitator, January 25, 1962
The Wellsboro Gazette, February 26, 1942
MEADE - Homer K. Meade about 53, a World War veteran, died February
11 at the home of his cousin, Mrs. Lillie Beard, in Farmington. The funeral
was held in Elkland and burial in Peters cemetery at Farmington. He had
made his home with his cousin recently after giving up his own home in
Bradford. There are no near survivors. He had many friends here where he
was a frequent visitor at the home of his cousin Mrs. Mazie Sears Bodine.
PETERS Harriet
Wellsboro Gazette - Died Cady, at Elkland, Dec. 4, 1877, Mrs. Erastus
Cady.
RICE Oliver
Wellsboro Agitator – March 11, 1903
--Mr. Oliver Rice, aged 68, formerly of Elkland, died on February 26th
in Charleston. Burial in Peter’s cemetery in Farmington.
SEELEY Alice
Wellsboro Agitator - September 6, 1911
--Mrs. Alice VanDusen died at her home in Westfield on August 25, after
many months of poor health. She leaves three daughters, Jessie, Janie
and Kathryn; two brothers, Chas. Seeley, of Farmington, and Grant Seeley,
of Osceola and two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Handcock, of Florida, and Mrs. Betsy
Butler, of Farmington.
STAYSA Charlotte
Wellsboro Agitator – February 6, 1906
Mrs. Charlotte Staysa Snyder died Friday, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Stephen Edwards, at Sabinsville, and her funeral will be held at the
Butler church, Tuesday, at 11 o’clock; burial in the Peter’s cemetery.
SPRINGER Charlotte
Wellsboro Agitator – April 7, 1909
Charlotte Springer VanDusen was born in Orange county, N.Y., August
24, 1844, and when fifteen years old came to Farmington to live with her
sister. She was married to Andrew VanDusen on March 12, 1860.
To them were born four sons, all of whom are living; Walter, of Knoxville;
and James, John and Leroy, of Westfield. She is also survived by
sister, Mrs. Ann E. Roe, and a brother, Nelson Springer, both of Middlebury.
About four years ago Mr. VanDusen died. Mrs. VanDusen’s early married life
was spent on the VanDusen homestead in Farmington. In 1874 they moved
to Wellsboro, where they resided until 1889, when they removed to Westfield.
Mrs. VanDusen was a devoted member of the Westfield Baptist church and
was highly esteemed by all who knew her. The funeral services were
held from the home of Walter VanDusen, at Knoxville, last Tuesday morning,
Rev. W. H. Hunt, of Westfield, officiating. Interment was made in
the Peter’s cemetery, in Farmington township. Mrs. Charlotte VanDusen
died Sunday, March 28, at the home of her son, Walter VanDusen, at Knoxville.
She is survived by four sons, John, James and Leroy, all of Knoxville;
one sister, Mrs. Ann Roe; one brother, Nelt. Springer, both of Keeneyville;
also several grandchildren and a host of friends. The funeral was
held at the home on Tuesday; burial in Peters cemetery.
SULLIVAN Eugene
Wellsboro Agitator – December 1, 1937
Eugene Sullivan who died at the home of Curtis Gleason, of Addison
Hill, was buried Friday in Peters cemetery.
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VanDUSEN Byron
Wellsboro Agitator – March 14, 1923
--Byron VanDusen, one of the oldest residents of Middlebury, died at
the home of W. C. House on March 4. He had resided with the House
family for the past 20 years. He was about 78 years of age, and was
a veteran of the Civil War. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Kate
Kemp, of Odle’s Corners. Funeral services were held Tuesday
at 1 o’clock, interment in the Peters cemetery in Farmington.
VanDUSEN Charles
Wellsboro Agitator - February 10, 1892
Mr. Charles VanDusen, of Farmington, who died on Tuesday, was a member
of the Knights of Honor Lodge of this place. He had an insurance
of one thousand dollars on his life.
VanDUSEN Jennie
Wellsboro Agitator – February 13, 1946
Mrs. Jennie Van Dusen, aged 91 years, died Sunday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Walter Spencer, Knoxville, R.D. She was born March
18, 1861, in Farmington, daughter of Trphenna and John Van Dusen.
She was the wife of Walter S Van Dusen. Besides Mrs. Spencer, she
is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Price, of Knoxville; two
grandsons, Walter Spencer and Charles Price, of Troupsburg, and six great
grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Spencer home
at 2 p.m.; burial in the Peters cemetery in Farmington.
VanDUSEN Ray
Wellsboro Agitator – January 8, 1902
Death of Ray VanDusen.
The Christmas holidays, to many a season of rejoicing and pleasure,
brought first a cruel anxiety and then a heavy affliction to Deputy Sheriff
Fred VanDusen and his wife. Their oldest son, Ray, aged 16 a beloved, affectionate
boy, was seized with pneumonia the day before Christmas Day, at his birthplace,
the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Emma VanDusen, in Farmington, and he
died early on the morning of New Year's day. The day before Ray was
taken ill he set out in high spirits from here with his brother, Carlton,
aged 10, to spend the holidays at their grandmother's, but anticipated
pleasures were never realized. Instead, the boy's parents were soon summoned
to his bedside and his life was finally yielded up to its Giver.
Ray was a good boy. He was dutiful towards his parents; he was kind, considerate
and helpful to his brother Carlton; his four year old brother, Clifford,
and his baby cousin, the Sheriff's son, and his death causes much grief
in Sheriff VanDusen's household, of which he, his parents .and brothers
were members. He had lived in Wellsboro only a year, but had made many
friends here. He had attended our borough school and bad gained
the esteem of teachers and fellow students alike. Ray's largely attended
funeral was held from the Pleasant Valley church in Farmington early Friday
afternoon, Rev. L. A. Davis, the Methodist pastor in Nelson, officiating.
Burial in the VanDusen family plot in the Peters cemetery in Farmington.
The church, which was decorated elaborately and beautifully, was filled
with people intent upon paying the last tribute of affection to the amiable
lad. Six boys of his own age, residents in the community where be had been
bred, acted as pallbearers. They were Ray's cousins, Harry, Burr
and Joseph VanDusen and George and John Northrop and Frank Starr.
Prominent among the decorations at the funeral was a handsome floral tribute
from Hay's fellow pupils here, the students in tbe Junior Grammar department,
taught by Miss Nannie E. Johnson, and another beautiful floral offering
from the clans in the Methodist Sunday school here of which Ray was a member.
The pupils of his grade in the day school here were, during the time his
funeral was in progress, dismissed from study out of respect to his memory.
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