"Friendship Register," 22 March 1894:
John STANNARD, of Scio, died Sunday, March 11, 1894, and was buried
at Scio the following Wednesday. He was a familiar figure in Friendship twenty years ago, when he kept a hotel at the West End. His eldest son, Clarence, is the son-in-law of our citizen, Nelson NOWLIN. [Note: Cemetery list shows death date as 1893 and a misread LDS list shows
1899. This newspaper record and his death certificate both confirm 1894.]
Friendship (NY) Register, 16 Aug 1894:
C. D. STANNARD
On the night of August 10th, on the Chicago,
rock Island and Pacific railway a fearful accident occurred. By the spreading or misplacement of the rails the passenger train of which Mr. C. D. Stannard was conductor, was thrown from a trestle under which pass the tracks of two other railroads. The engineer and fireman were
killed and burned, the head of the one and the leg of the other being the only portions of their bodies that were recovered. Mr. Stannard was in the rear coach and of all its two dozen occupants only the brakeman and two passengers were uninjured. The former, Harry Foote, came to
the assistance of Mr. Stannard only to find no response to his call and to discover him with his head crushed. The newspaper account that Mr. Stannard was burned to death was contradicted by those in position to know the train. His hat, watch, keys, punch and match safe were
recovered and his body was brought here last Tuesday and buried in Mt. Hope cemetery. Eleven other person shared is terrible fate some of them being cremated and a number were badly injured. It is to be feared that they were the victims of hate awakened to unusual ferocity by late
events. Mr. Stannard was several times compelled to defend his train and himself from the assault of train robbers and desperadoes. A negro is under arrest for complicity in the wreck, that caused Mr. Stannard's death.
Clarence DeForest [sic] Stannard was born at Nile June 24,
1848, and it was in Friendship that most of his boyhood was spent.
Mr. Stannard early entered the service of the Erie and was rapidly promoted to conductor of passenger trains. Leaving that service seven years ago he assisted in the construction of the bridge where he was
killed. Upon the completion of the branch of the C.R.I.&P. from Council Bluffs to St. Joseph, he was assigned a passenger train. His vacations were spent at Binghamton, Hornellsville and Friendship. His father died at Scio a few months ago and his mother accompanied him home from
the funeral little dreaming of the sad errand that should recall her so soon to the east.
Mr. Stannard married Velora, the oldest daughter of our esteemed townsman, Nelson Nowlin, July 1, 1868. Two sons were born to them, one of whom is in the employ of the Gas and Electric
Light Co. of Binghamton and the other of the Standard Oil Co., at St. Josephs, Mo. To them and their bereaved mother the warmest sympathy is expressed.
Mr. Stannard was deservedly popular among his former associates on the Erie and thirty of them, including conductors,
engineers and brakemen attended the funeral. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors and the A. O. U. W. Wm. Hollis, formerly of the Erie service, but now a conductor on the Rock Island road, and his wife, accompanied the remains from Lincoln, Neb.
The burial was
from the Congregational church, the Rev. T. S. Leonard officiating. When he was a resident of Beatrice, Neb., a friend intimacy sprang up between him and the dead man.
A CARD OF THANKS
Our warms thanks are due friends for sympathy and attentions at the funeral of the best of
husbands and fathers. To our neighbors at St. Jospeh and Council Bluffs, to Conductor Hollis and other conductors of the Rock Island road, to the officials of that road and to the railway men of the Erie, former companions of Mr. Stannard, we are greatly indebted for many cheerfully
tendered favors. We shall ever hold all of you in grateful remembrance.
Mrs. C. D. STANNARD
CLARE N. STANNARD
FLOYD C. STANNARD
[Note: Later stories in NE newspapers indicate this railroad "accident" was sabotage, probably by union trying to prevent arrival of strikebreaking troops who happened not to make the connection to Stannard's train.]
Friendship (NY) Republican, 28 Jun 1923:
MRS. VELORA NOWLEN STANNARD BURIED HERE
Former Resident of this
Place, Died at Home of Son at Denver--Buried Here Sunday--Son Escort Body.
Rocky Mountain News, Denver, June 21:
Mrs. Velora A. Stannard, mother of Clare N. Stannard, vice president and general manager of the Denver Gas & Electric Light company, died at her home, 4335 Stuart
street, at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, following a stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. Stannard was 75 years old, having been born in Friendship, N.Y., July 16, 1848. She had been a resident of Denver for the past ten years.
She was a member of the Daylight chapter of the
Eastern Star and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the O. R. C. [Order of Railway Conductors].
Surviving her are two sons, Clare N. Stannard and Floyd Stannard of Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. Stannard's husband was killed in a railroad accident in 1894. He had been connected
with the Chicago and Rock Island and the Erie railroad systems for a number of years.
Funeral services will be held at the Olinger Mortuary at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Clare Stannard will accompany the body to Friendship, N.Y., this evening and interment will be in that city.
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It will be recalled that Mrs. Stannard former lived in Friendship. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Nowlen, who owned the Nowlen farm on the Cuba road a mile and a half west of Friendship, or where the highway first crosses the Erie railroad going to Cuba.
Mrs. Stannard was a member of Henrietta Rebecca Lodge No. 209, I.O.O.F. of this place.
Mr. Clare N. Stannard, a former resident of this place, now Vice President of the Denver Gas and Electric Light Co., escorted the body from Denver to this place. Mrs. Mark A. Wightman, of
Prattsburg, N.Y., a sister of the deceased, attended the funeral.
[Note: Cemetery listing erroneously states she is buried at Denver. That's where she was living when she died. Obits. in both Denver papers also state burial at Friendship.]
Friendship (NY) Republican, 12 Feb 1920:
MRS. NELSON NOWLEN DIES AT AGE OF 96
Grandmother of Clare Stannard Saw New York State Grow from Days of Indians
The following was taken from the Denver Times, Denver, Colorado,
issue of Feb. 4, 1920. The body of Mrs. Nowlen was received here last Sunday morning and buried in Mt. Hope, the Rev. W. Ballard conducting the service. Mrs. Clarence DeFrance Stannard of Denver, accompanied the remains and is stopping at the home of Mrs. Gardner Wells on East Main
street this week. The Times said:
"Mrs. Nelson Nowlen, aged 96, grandmother of Clare N. Stannard, secretary and commercial manager of the Denver Gas and Electric company, died at the home of her grandson, 3408 East Seventeenth avenue, early this morning.
"Ninety-four years
of her life were spent in the town of Friendship, N.Y., but two years ago she came to Colorado to be with her daughter and grandson. Mrs. Nowlen was one of the few persons who saw the state of New York grow from the old Indian stamping ground to its present civilization. She saw
the first railroad train which ran from New York to Chicago.
"She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Clarence DeFrance Stannard of Denver and Mrs. Mark A. Wightman of Prattsburg, N.Y., and by three grandchildren, Clare N. Stannard of Denver, Floyd C. Stannard of Salt Lake City
and Mrs. Edward Eagle of Gary, Ind. She had eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
"Private funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow at the residence, and the body will be taken to her old home in New York for burial."
All obits transcribed from newspaper microfilm.
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