OBITUARY LIST

We will be happy to have you submit an obituary for posting on this site if the person had ties to Allegany County.  Please send the obituary by email and it will be added to this list as soon as possible. We ask that you submit the date & name of publication if known.  If not, you will be the submitter listed.  All submittals preferred to be in Microsoft Word file format and ready for copy/paste.  Email: Obituary Submittal

Note to Researchers: More birth/death information on this website is contained on other pages....you might want to refer to "Towns & Villages",  "Veterans Page", "Burials", "Biography Files", and the "Cemetery Pages".  Have fun!

below, several areas to search.......

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• In addition to the individual obituaries listed at the bottom of this page,

• TAP HERE for a list of approximately 800 names that we have obituaries on file.  These are mostly individuals from the northern part of Allegany County.

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• 5/22/2006 Thanks to the generous work of Sherry Bledsoe I now publish the 800+ clipping collection of Mrs. Barney of Hallsport.  FOR THE INDEX: PRESS HERE; then go to the numbered page and find the obituary on that page......

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• 8/22/2007  Many Thanks to Marsha Altvater & Sherry Bledsoe for their assistance in helping me obtain the Barney Scrapbook for use here. Also, Thanks to Howard Barney for allowing the hard work to be displayed. Although none are labeled, most are known to have been printed in the Wellsville Daily Reporter, Wellsville,NY.  PRESS HERE For Index to 527 obituaries.

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• 19 pages of obituaries from Diane Converso of Wellsville, NY; Older area pioneers including the last Wellsville Civil War Veteran - with INDEX

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• 12 pages of obituaries from Gary Coats of Allegany County area Relatives; Surnames: Benedict, Coats, Crandall, Gorton, Green, Hibbard, Ingley, Jandrew, Kenyon, Reynolds, Scoville, Smith and more....with INDEX

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• GLOVER FAMILY OBITUARY COLLECTION: William Glover of Hull,

  Yorkshire, England and Burns, Allegany Co., NY and his descendants

                by Harold Ross Glover and Robert Harold Glover

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• Linda Cline Smith Obit Clippings from The Dispatch

• Linda Cline Smith "Whitebook of Obituaries"; Index List of Obits (235)

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The following Obituaries have been applied from various sources; Tap the Name for a report.......

• Adams, Margaret B."Aunt Maggie" (d.10-11-1959)

• Adams-Mix, Polly Robinson (b. 1793, d. 1873)

• Allen, Lettie Litchard (LeRoy) (d. 9/9/1904)

• Allen, Lillian Butler (d.2004)

• Allen, Marcia D. (d.12-5-1953)

• Allen, Phillip LeRoy (d. 2/6/1905)

• Allen, W. F. (d.1911)

• Anderson, Florence R.

• Ayers, Bernice L.

• Babcock, Erma (d.1962)

• Babcock, Porter (d.1911)

• Bailey, Fannie (Mrs. Tabor; d. 1965)

• Bailey, Nora E. (d. 2/29/1920)

• Bailey, Willard T. (d. 1892)

• Baily, Squire J. (d. 1935)

• Baker, Robert A. "Moose" (d. 1/2/2008)

• Baker, Susie D. (d.5-6-2003)

• Baldwin, Doris (Regis) Hilligas (d. 12-3-2005)

• Bannister, William J. (d. 9/10/2001)

• Bartlett, Josiah (d.1882)

• Bellamy, Myra Hotchkiss (d. 12-21-1912)

• Bellamy, William (d. 7/28/1894)

• Bellisle, Mary J. (d. 1918) Mother of W. M.

• Bellisle, W. M. (d. 1926)

• Benedict, Lawrence E. (d.1979)

• Billings, John N. (d. 10-30-2007)

• Black, Ida Mae (d.5-4-2003)

• Blackman, May T. (d.12-3-1977)

• Blackman, Oliver S. (d.11-16-1976)

• Bennett, Sylvia

• Bogle, David M.

• Boss, Sr., Lewis (d. 10/6/1889)

• Boyd, Charles A. (d.7-6-1932)

• Boyd, Frederick J. (d. 8/13/1953)

• Boyd, May Allen (d. 2/11/1954)

• Branch, Sarah Allen (d.1911)

• Budd, E. Margaret

• Bunnell, Luella Shields Maynard (d.1943)

• Bunnell, Margaret Williams (d. 3/28/2006)

• Burdick, Charles J. (d.2007)

• Burger, George B. (d.1/31/2007)

• Burke, Catherine Costello (d.1931)

• Burke, Michael M. (d.1941)

• Burr, Arthur B. (d.1978)

• Burr, Moses  Van Campen (d.7/27/1895)

• Burrows, A. M. (d.1906)

• Cady, Mary A. (d. 1915)

• Cady, Pearl Babcock (d.1956)

• Campbell, Daniel (d. 1902)

• Carlin, Frank J.

• Carpenter, Florence R. Harder (d.2007)

• Carpenter, Rosella

• Carroll, Joseph (d.1880)age 14

• Cartwright, Gerald

• Case, Russel C.

• Catlin, Dr. William L. (d. 6/29/1893)

• Chalker, Harriett A. 1846-1922 (Lewis)

• Childs, Clara B. Warfield (d. 2/28/1942)

• Childs, William L. (d. 3/15/1948)

• Church, Charles (d. 3/1/1940)

• Church, William Henry (d. 11/11/1931)

• Clark, Dorothy E. (Kenneth) (d.1976)

• Clark, Harriet S. (Chauncey) (d.3-17-1898)

• Clark, Kenneth B. (d.1982)

• Cleveland, Albert

• Cleveland, J.C. (b.9/1858 d.1912)

• Cline, Alice E. (d. 1/26/2001)

• Cline, Earl

• Cline, Frank E.

• Cline, Lydia

• Cline, Oristus E.

• Cline, Raymond

• Coats, Andrew Jackson (d. 1908)

• Coats, Durwood F.

• Coats, Hiram A. (d.11/12/1884)

• Coats, Susan A. (d. 1958)

• Colburn, Isabel Moore (Mrs. Alfred)

• Colburn, Mae S. (Mrs. Alfred E.)

• Colvin, W. J. (d. 1923)

• Comstock, Dr. Francis E. (d.1931)

• Cook, Therold "Terry" (d.2004)

• Cooley, Mary E.

• Coray, Stephen D. (d. 1901)

• Cornwell, Bessie Belnet

• Cornwell, Clarence

• Corwin, Allen W. (d. 1969)

• Cowles, Benjamin F. (d.1899)

• Coyle, Stanley V.

• Crandall, Samuel B. (1960)

• Crawford, Dr. Finla G. (d. 4/13/1973)

• Crosby, Sr., J. Howard (d. 1985)

• Cumpston, Linda M.

• Dannheim, Mrs. Auguste Sophie Dorothee Witte (1937)

• Dannheim, Irene E. (1982)

• Dannheim, John Henry (1946)

• Davis, Alice J. "Allie" (d.6-6-1960)

• Davis, L. D. (d. 1885) ---Wellsville,NY Postmaster 1869-1883

• Day, Charles (d. about Feb 19, 1932)

• Dean, Charles N.(Florence)

• Dean, Florence H.(Charles)

• DeGroff, Hulda Gustafson (d. 1972)

• DeLong, Clara

• Dibble, Erma M. Jandrew (d. 6/25/2001)

• Dickerson, Phyllis M. (d.2004)

• Dobbins, Daniel (d. 1888)

• Dolph, Muriella V. (d.5-4-2003)

• Donaldson, Donald Guy

• Drabant, Lelia Snyder (d.1985)

• Dudley, Peter (d. 1918)

• Duffee, Ida G.

• Duke, Robert G. (d.1985)

• Dunn, Mrs. W. H. (d. 1895)

• Dyer, Sally Ann Stout (d. 1906)

• Eames, John W.

• Edwards, Harriet M.

• Elflein, Peter (d. 6/4/1901)

• Elliott, Simeon (d. 1/14/1883)

• Enos, Levi S. (d. 3/22/1889)

• Ervin, Frederick L. (d. 1/10/2001)

• Fagan, William R.

• Fanton, Jeremiah W. (d.3-11-1898)

• Farnum, Edward Judson (d. 7/12/1894)

• Farnum, Sarah Gaylord

• Ferrington, LeMur (d. 1972)

• Ferrington, Mrs. LeMur (d. 1970)

• Finch, Helen M. (Holiday) (d.1913)

• Field, Donna Lou (Bailey) (d.11-23-05)

• Field, Maurice L. (d.5-7-2003)

• Fish, Kenneth R. (d. 1991)

• Fish, Marshall C. (d. 1964)

• Fish, Julia Sophia Peterson (d. 1932)

• Franklin, Noah (d.4/23/1860-aged 93)

• Freeman, Ralph H.

• Fulboam, Esther G.

• Fullam, Jr., Rex S."Buddy", (d.2004)

• Fuller, Fred E. (d. 1983)

• Garner, Hilda

• Garthwait, Alice

• Garthwait, Blanca  (Fred S.) (d.11/21/2005)

• Garthwait, Clara L. Wight (Frederick E.) (d. 1952)

• Garthwait, Fred S. (Blanca) (d.1955)

• Garwood, Lt. Robert (d. 1918)

• Garwood Family Obituaries: James Garwood, 1875; James Garwood, 1939; Bertha (James) Garwood, 1967; Jonathan Garwood, 1905; Elizabeth (Jonathan) Miller Garwood, 1905; Pauline E. "Polly" Garwood  Baker, 1991;  

• Gates, Abel (d. 1905)

• Gavitt, Harold

• Gelser, Sara Brandes Ingersoll (Mrs. Lorenzo)

• Gillette, Ethelin M. (d.1975)

• Gillette, Mildred (d.1964)

• Glover, James Lee -  Family Obituaries

• Glover, William & Descendents

• Goodridge, Clair L. (d.2007)

• Graves, Olney

• Green, Charles A. (1884-1966)

• Green, Clifford C. (d.5-11-2003)

• Green, Riley G. (1967)

• Greene, Joshua (d. 11/24/1925)

• Greene, Milo (d. Jan 17, 1927)

• Gridley, Cynthia F. (d.1999)

• Gustafson, Anna Johnson (d. 1942)

• Gustafson, August (d. 1938)

• Gustafson, Charles (12/10/1925)

• Gustafson, E. Charles "Gus" (d. 6/5/1996)

• Gustafson, Irvin (d. 1957)

• Hakes, Adaline (Mrs. Wheeler) (d.1892)

• Hakes, Capt. Wheeler

• Hall, Laura

• Hamilton, Angie M. (Guy) (d.1983)

• Hamilton, Guy (d.1968)

• Harris, Mary L.

• Harris, Virginia L. (d.5-8-2003)

• Hartman, Hattie Hoffman (d.5-16-1956)

• Hartman, William Henry (d.1940)

• Hasard, Raymond C. (b. 7/21/1925 - d. 4/12/2007)

• Haxton, Ilah (b. 1/1/1925; d. unknown)

• Herrick, John P. (b. 1868, d. 1961)

• Hilligas, Raymond

• Hills, Samuel (d. 2/21/1885)

• Hodnet, Shirley W.

• Hoffman, Christopher (d.1939)-Civil War Vet (Next to last living veteran of Allegany County)

• Hollis, Herbert (1894)

• Hopkins, Ellis J. (d.1987)

• Hopkins, Ward M. (d. 1970)

• Howard, Richard Allan (d.4-23-2003)

• Howden, Betty J. (Erwin) (d.1979)

• Howden, Erwin C. (d.1994)

• Howden, Ethel M. (Leon) (d.1972)

• Howe, Albert (d.2-7-1966)

• Howe, Elston J. (d.1941)

• Howe, George (10/12/1891)

• Hunt, Eva

• Hunt, Roxie

• Hunt, Victor

• Hunt, William

• Hurlburt, Elizabeth Lynn "Ferraro" (d.5-11-2003)

• Hyde, Mary L. (George) (d.1978)

• Jackson, James H (d. 12/15/2005)

• Jandrew, Argie M. (d. 11/21/2001)

• Johnson, Martha (William) (d.1915)

• Johnson, Nathaniel (Uncle Nat) (d. 8-18-1874)

• Johnson, Sally (Mrs. Nathaniel) (d.7/24/1892)

• Jones, Amasa Lewis  (1800-1876)

• Jones, Dr. John A. (d. 1941) (Last Living Civil War Veteran of Allegany County)

• Jones, Lucy Stillman (d. 5/20/1882)

• Kenyon, Elder Jared (d.1908)

• Ketcham, Jean B.

• King, Emma Lou Cleveland

• Kleinspehn, Ralph Jr.

• Knight, William (4/18/1882)

• Krizan, Clara Jeanette

• La Wall, Albert (1915)

• Lampe, Luna

• Layfield, Wilson F. "Bill" (d.11/13/2005)

• LeBar, Cornell (d. 1932)

• Lee, John W. (d.6-10-1871)

• Leonard, Gerald E.  (d.4-30-2003)

• Leonard, Violet G.

• Lucas, Marion McCarthy (d. 2/25/2007)

• Lynch, Patricia G.

• Mabie, William (1840-1922)

• Maddren, Betty Jean (Hilligas) (d.11/24/2005)

• Mariotti, Ruth E.

• Massey, Jeanne Marie DeVoe

• Matison, Ardean William aka/Matty (d.2000)

• Matison, Betty (d.7/4/2004)

• Mattison, George Henry (d.2/17/1932)

• Mattison, Rose (Coats) (d.5/12/1942)

• Maxson, Lintner "Bus"

• McCarty, Dr. Frederick Eugene "Mac"(d.1942)

• McGibney, Hopy (d.1900)

• McLean, Charles, Mrs.

• McLean, Leon W.

• McMurtry, Frank E. (d. 12-30-1946)

• McMurtry, Mary Rice (d. 12-31-1946)

• McMurtry, Walter Rice (d. 6-24-1978)

• McQueen, Marlyn (d.10-10-1949)

• McQueen, William F. (d.6-12-1969)

• Meek, John (d. 1886)

• Meek, Sidney J. (d. 1936)

• Middaugh, William (d.8/22/1881)

• Miller, Henry (d. 1900)

• Moag, Sandra M. (d.5-7-2003)

• Moore, Reuben Delos (1898) Town of Hume

• Morris, Richard M. (d.1979)

• Moses, Jean

• Muisiner, Frances M.

• Nichols, Emma Holdridge (d. 1888)

• Norris, Archibald R. (d. 1902)

• Norton, Homer G. (d.2005)

• O'Sullivan, Cornelius (d.1911)

• Ordway, Lael (d. 1982)

• Palmer, Laura A. Campbell Day (d. 5/14/1902)

• Parish, Cordelia Burr (d. 1893)

• Parker, Elizabeth Silvernail (d. 1890) - Another Victim of the Cars; Caught by a Wild Cat Freight and Instantly Killed

• Perry-Bundy, Athelene G. (d. 9/17/2006)

• Peterson, Charlotte (d. 1902)

• Peterson, Mahlon (1817 - 1909)

• Phelan, Helene Coogan (Linn L.) (d.3/21/2004)

• Phelps, Julia Frances (d. 1902)

• Phillips, Jesse S. (d. 11-6-1954) formerly Andover, Independence

• Phillips, Mary Oviatt (David) (d. 12/31/1884)

• Pomeroy, Myrtle A.

• Purdy, Elbert A. (1857-1959) Last Living Boat Pilot, Genesee Valley Canal

• Purgold, Homer Jay (d.1993)

• Quick, Benjamin H. (d.1908)

• Quick, Clara J.

• Quick, John A.

• Quimby Lydia A. Daniels (d.1/2/1881)

• Rahr, Rae Ann

• Randolph, Mary Yale Fitz (d.1/25/1930)

• Redgate, Eveline D. (d. 8/6/1868) Alma,NY

• Redanz, Fern C. (Forrest) (d.1975)

• Redanz, Forest C. (d.1979)

• Reedy, George W. (d.1931-Civil War Vet)

• Rems, Michael (d. 12/9/2006) Coast Guard, Lt. Com., Ret.

• Renwick, Harriet (d.3/12/1860-age48)

• Reynolds, L. Agnes (d.1/3/2006)

• Richmond, Catherine B.

• Rifle, Melinda (Mrs. Amos - d. 1898)

• Robinson, Julius Fayette (Maranda)

• Robinson, Maranda (Julius)

• Roeske, Leon H. (d.5-6-2003)

• Rogers, Thomas Lane

• Root, Fred (d. 3/8/2001)

• Root, Marie L. "Maude" (d. 10/1/2001)

• Sanford Family Obituaries INCLUDING: SANFORD, VANVRANKEN, BROWN, VANSKIVER, MARVIN, KELLOGG, LACY, SAXTON, FREY, PIERCE, BAILEY, HARVEY, REYNOLDS, THOMPSON, CRANE, DODGE, WEIR

• Saunders, Joshua (d. 1930)

• Sawyer, Hattie (1893)

• Schneider, Wilfred "Bill" J. (d.3-18-2003)

• Seamans, Donald R.

• Seely, Jennie Watrous

• Sherwood, Rita (d.8/13/2006)

• Shields, C. Lawrence (d.2007)

• Shields, Fanny A. (Woodard) (d. 1951)

• Shields, Lucilla Foland (d. 1915)

• Shine, J. Charles (d.2004)

• Sizer, Evelyn B. (d. 5/12/2001)

• Skiff, Jessie (William) (d.1973)

• Smith, Dale F.

• Snedeker, Clarence (d.1971)

• Spence, Fay O. (d.1998)

• Speta, Violet E.

• Stephens, Sara E. Cleveland (d. 6/7/2001)

• Stewart, Dr. Edith W. (d. 1920)

• Stout, R. Wells (d.2004)

• Strittmather, Frances E. Lynch

• Studer, Elvina Chandlers (d. 1956)

• Swain, Samuel (d. 2/7/1885)

• Swarthout, Elton D. (d.11-5-1967)

• Sylor, Gladys L. Smith (Mrs.Wayne C.)

• Sylor, Kenneth J.

• Sylor, Miona L. Bennett (Mrs. Kenneth)

• Tadder, William W. (1907)

• Tarbell, Bruce - Train Accident - 1905

• Tarr, Luther E.

• Taylor, Alfred Melvin (1853-1915)

• Taylor, Alta Oriana Mesler (1955)

• Taylor, Bessie E. Harrington (d.3/10/2005)

• Taylor, Caroline Quick (d.1974)

• Taylor, Gilbert M., Jr. (d. 1997)

• Taylor, Gilbert M., Sr. (d. 1961)

• Taylor, Isaac S. (1982)

• Taylor, John Osborne (d. 1885) Father of O.P. Taylor

• Taylor, John W. (1952)

• Thompson, Charles D. (1944)

• Thompson, May L. Sanford (1946)

• Thorp, Gen. Thomas (1915)

• Torrey, F. Nina (d.5-11-2003)

• VanNostrand, Everitt (1840 - 1935)

• Vincent, Benjamin M. (d. 1896)

• Vosburg, Wellington L. (1902-1996)

• Wakeman, John (d. March 2, 1906) Oilfield Accident

• Ward, Harry E. (d. 1960)

• Ward, Julia Sanford (d. 4/1/1914)

• Ward, Katherine Shields (d.1959)

• Warfield, Josiah J. (d. 7-17-1912)

• Warfield, Mary A. Wright (d. 3/26/1924)

• Waterbury, Viola Storms (d. 1956)

• Watkins, Cyrus G. (d. 1905)

• Way, Sylvanus M. (d. 4/2/1936)

• Whitford, Langford C. (d.10-12-1937

• Wilcox, Virginia M. Emerson

• Wilder, Kendall (obit. 2/4/1886)

• Wiles, Arthur R. (d.1972)

• Wiles, Emma J. (Arthur) (d.1965)

• Wiles, Frances A. (Elon) (d.1977)

• Willis, Glenn (d. 9/29/1946)

• Willis, Harriet Shafer (b. Dec 17/1860 d. 1937)

• Willis, Martin G. (d.10/24/1927)

• Willis, Miss Mitty M. (d. 1955)

• Willis, Miscl-Willis List from Angelica Collectanea

• Wilson, James W. (1894)

• Windus, Leland T. (d. 11/4/2001)

• Withey, C. A. ( d. 1904)

• Wittie, Karl R. "Knubby" (d.1/2/2007)

• Wright, Robert (d.3-5-1898)

• Wyvell, Mary A. (1819 - 1901)

• Yale, Jennie M. Lyman (d.Oct. 1901)

• Yale, Louisa A. (d.1/8/1881)

• Yale, Ozias (d.May 18, 1893)

• Yannie, Emilio (d.8/27/1971)

• York, Hiram (d. 4/22/1893)

• Young, Dan (d.1952)