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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
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Marriages of the Tri-Counties
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HOWE-SATTERLY
Announcement is made by Mrs. Ottis H. Riffle of Lawrenceville of the
marriage in Tucson, Arizona, June 2, of her grand niece, Joyce Elaine Satterly
to Staff Sergeant Ellsworth L. Howe. The bride wore a pastel blue gabardine
suit with white accessories and a corsage of Cecil Breuner roses and her
matron of honor carried the same kind of roses. The bride is the daughter
of the late Stanley Satterly of Corning and spent most of her life with
her aunt, Mrs. Riffle. She was graduated from the Lawrenceville High School,
class of 1939, and was employed as a bookkeeper at the First National Bank
in Lawrenceville for two and one half years. The bridegroom, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles R. Howe, of Lawrenceville, was graduated from the Lawrenceville
High School, class of 1933 and is now located at Marana Army Air Field,
Tucson, Arizona.
Wellsboro Agitator 6-13-1945
Source: email from Gary L. Butler to Sue Edling
Dated 29 DEC 2007
Gary L. Butler GLButler@nc.rr.com
Wellsboro Agitator 6-13-1945
Miss Fanny Howell and Mr. K. Edward Parkhurst
A terrible tragedy took place at the Nichols House, at Bath, Steuben
county, NY, last Saturday afternoon. Mr. K. Edward Parkhurst, a young
lawyer who had recently been graduated from Hamilton College, shot and
killed Miss Fanny Howell, eldest daughter of Mr. James F. Howell, an old
merchant of Bath and a highly respectable citizen. We condense the
facts of the case from our Elmira and Rochester exchanges. For many years
a very warm attachment had existed between young Parkhurst, who was but
a little more than 23 years of age, and Miss Fanny Howell, who was one
year his senior. Three or four years ago, on an excursion to Penn
Yan with a number of young people from Bath, they absented themselves from
the party for a few minutes and were secretly married, but returned with
their friends, and for several days the fact of their marriage was not
suspected by any one. The truth became known, however, and it is
said that by an amicable agreement a decree was obtained from the courts
setting aside the marriage. After this, to all appearances, all social
intercourse between them stopped--they not even recognizing each other
on the street, but since the tragedy it transpires that they have for several
years been in the habit of meeting secretly, and but a few weeks ago, it
is also said, they were again clandestinely married at Rochester.
On Saturday afternoon last, young Parkhurst was preparing to leave Bath
and take up his residence at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and as late at 3 o’clock
on that day was arranging for a ticket preparatory to taking his departure
at seven o’clock in the evening. A letter from Parkhurst to Miss
Howell found upon her person after the tragedy, and addressed to her at
Hammondsport, where she had been visiting for several days, asked her to
meet him before he started for the West at the Nichols House, and designated
room No. 1 for the interview, a little chamber remote from the public rooms.
Miss Howell arrived in Bath from Hammondsport at 3 o’clock on Saturday
afternoon and after going home returned immediately to the hotel, and seeing
Parkhurst standing near the entrance, turned and looked him full in the
face, and then went into the hotel. She was seen by one of the chambermaids
shortly after to go alone to room No. 1 and shut the door. Parkhurst
immediately followed her, entered the room and the door was then shut and
locked. It is not definitely known whether they met in the parlor
before going to the room or not. But just before the tragedy Parkhurst
procured the pistol with which the shooting was done, and it is not known
whether he went out and got the pistol after the interview commenced and
before either went to room No. 1 or whether he procured it before meeting
her. At all events the pistol was purchased a few minutes before
the fearful tragedy occurred. The chambermaid heard the shots soon
after they entered the room. She tried the door and finding it locked
got a stepladder and looked over the transom and saw their bodies as they
were afterward found. An alarm was given, the door was broken open and
Miss Howell was found lying on a lounge in the room as if asleep. Her head
was resting in an easy and natural position on her right hand, and her
left hand which held a handkerchief, rested upon her side. Her eyes
were closed, there was a smile upon her face, and it was evident that not
a muscle moved after the fatal shot was fired. The muzzle of the
pistol was evidently placed very close to, if not entirely within her ear.
The body of Parkhurst lay by the side of the lounge in a pool of blood
with his brains oozing from a pistol shot wound in the eye, the ball having
passed through his head. In his pocket was found the following note.
Rather than live separate we die together. If we have done wrong,
may God have mercy on our souls. This seems to furnish a key to the
whole fearful affair. They had been married and were so strongly
attached to each other that the opposition to their living together had
driven both to desperation. They have written letters daily to each
other even when both were at home and during the few days Miss Howell was
at Hammondsport. Parkhurst went there frequently. There had
been no disagreement between them and they had told their friends they
should marry and live together as soon as Parkhurst was established in
business.--The second secret marriage, before referred to was not known
to more than half a dozen persons in Bath. The truth seems to be
that they preferred death to the long separation which would follow Parkhurst’s
departure to the West. It is believed that the act was contemplated
until about the time it took place. Young Parkhurst was a finely educated
young man and possessed a brilliant intellect, giving promise of good success
as a lawyer. Miss Howell was also highly accomplished, a sweet singer
amicable in her character and greatly beloved by all who knew her.
It is stated that young Parkhurst, who used the deadly pistol was more
or less under the influence of liquor when the murder and suicide were
committed. Viewed from any standpoint it is the most terribly terminated
romance in the history of Bath. Coroner Goff compounded a jury at
a late hour Saturday evening and after viewing the remains adjourned the
inquest until 11 o’clock Monday morning and granted permission to the relatives
to remove the bodies. The body of Miss Howell was taken to the home
of her father on Steuben street and that of young Parkhurst to the house
of Dr. Kasson(?), a distant relative of the family. On searching
the body of Miss Howell a letter was found in the handwriting of Parkhurst
requesting, an interview at the Nichols House on Saturday afternoon.
On Parkhurst’s body was found two letters, one addressed to his uncle R.(?)
F. Parkhurst and the other to his grandmother, residing at Lawrenceville,
Pa. The letters were not opened but will of course be read at the
inquest. On young Parkhurst’s body was also found a scrap of paper
on which was written. If we cannot live together we can die together,
and only God forgive us. The body of Parkhurst was to be taken to
Lawrenceville, Pa., for interment and the funeral of Miss Howell will take
place in Bath at 3 o’clock, this (Tuesday) afternoon. The mother
of the unfortunate girl was in Elmira at the time of the tragedy.
(Tuesday, August 17, 1880, The Wellsboro Agitator, Wellsboro, Tioga Co,
Pa.)
Kenneth Rodgers Vance ..........MHS 1952
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bradshaw of Lawrenceville entertained at a party
to announce the engagement of their only daughter, Marjorie Lou to Kenneth
Rodgers Vance, son of Mr. & Mrs. Lyle Vance of Mainesburg, PA. 32 friends
and relatives attended. Miss Bradshaw attended the Williamson Jr.-Sr. High
School and is now employed by the Commonwealth Telephone Co. at Mansfield.
Mr. Vance graduated from the Mansfield Senior High School, spent 2 years
in the army, 18 months of which were spent overseas.
Marriage
Miss Ida Viola Freeland, of Lawrenceville, and Edward Francis Reed,
of Corning, were married May 27, by Rev. Harold Stanley Stewart. They are
to make their home at Lawrenceville. The groom is a fireman employed on
the Pennsylvania division of the New York Central. – Wellsboro Agitator,
7 June 1916
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