Yates Co. News Articles
for the town of Potter
1900's
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Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser Rochester, NY, Sat Jan 2, 1900 contributed by: G. Subyak
Final meetings of the creditors of Frank J. WELLS of Penn Yan and Mortimer J. HOYT of Potter, bankrupts, will be held before United States Judge John R. HAZEL at Elmira on the 12th inst.
Yates County Chronicle Wednesday April 16, 1902 contributed by Cathy Coon
MARRIED - LANE - TOSEY At the Potter Place, Yates county, N. Y., March 19, 1902, by the Rev. F. Ray Andrews, Ernest J. Lane and Clara E. Tosey, both of Potter
DEATHS - TINNEY - At his residence in Vine Valley, Wednesday, April 9, 1902, C. W. Tinney, aged 78 years.
Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY Tuesday Apr 28, 1903 by: GSubyak@aol.com
ALICE FITCH vs HENRY CONWAY
Les pendens have been filed with County Clerk Henry REED, at Penn Yan, in the
following Supreme Court action: Alice FITCH vs Henry CONWAY and others.
The property on which it is sought to foreclose is situated in the town of
Potter, and consists of about twenty-one acres of land. The mortgage bears
the date of March 10, 1897.
AWARDS WILL SOON BE ANNOUNCED
Five bids have been received by Postmaster George R. CORNWELL, of Penn
Yan, for the service of carrying the United States mails to and from the
Penn Yan, Keuka Park & Branchport Electric Railway and the Northern
Central Railway, in Penn Yan. The award will be announced from Washington
within a short time.
Penn Yan Democrat, Penn Yan, NY July 31,1908 contributed by M. Kelly
Thomas Robeson/Robinson
Died at his home near Rossberg, Allegany County, NY ,June 23,1908 of cancer of the stomach. He was born Oct 21, 1833,son of Abram and Anna Robinson. On 11/4/1860 he married Augusta Oakley and had one son, Miles, who was killed in a railroad wreck. Mrs. Robeson died 3/9/1866, of consumption. He married for his second wife, Philana Bentley 1/1/1868 and had six children, Mary, Cynthia, Bertha, Charles, Pheobe and James. He is survived by his wife and three children. For many years he resided in Potter, NY and was well known and respected by all. About 22 years since he removed to Allegany County, where he resided until his death. He was a great sufferer for many months but was cheerful and patient until the last and was conscious that his end was near. His funeral service were held on Thursday, June 21.
Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY Tuesday, January 12, 1915 contributed by: G. Subyak
MRS. JOSEPH FARNSWORTH - Blood Poisoning from Needle Causes
Death of Rushville Woman
Rushville, Jan. 10 - The death of Mrs. Ella VAN EPPS FARNSWORTH occurred early
Sunday morning in her late home in North Main street this village, aged 59 years.
Death resulted from blood poisoning, which started about two weeks ago when she
pricked herself with a needle.
She was a daughter of John and Anna VAN EPPS and had always lived in this
vicinity. Besides her husband, Joseph FARNSWORTH, she leaves a son and
daughter, John FARNSWORTH and Mrs. Ella GOODRICH all of Rushville, and a
sister, Mrs. Hiram FERGUSON, of Ferguson Corners. The funeral will be held
from the home Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. R. C. SPEER officiating.
Interment in Rushville cemetery.
DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE Rochester, Monroe Co, NY JUNE 28, 1917 by Sylvia Olson
DeWICK - BATES
Rushville, June 27. - The marriage of Miss Alice BATES,
elder daughter of Mrs. Nellie BATES, of this
village, and Floyd F. DeWICK of Middlesex, took
place at the home of the bride's mother at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev.
G. F. CRAWFORD, pastor of Middlesex M. E. Church, performing the
ceremony. The only witnesses were the bride's mother and sister, Miss
Edith BATES. The bride is a daughter of L. R. BATES,
former sheriff of Yates, county, who died a few months ago. Mr.
and Mrs. DeWICK will go in a few days to his farm in West Italy where
they will make their home.
Ontario Co. Journal, Canandaigua, NY Friday, April 20, 1923 pg 4 by Dianne Thomas
John B. SCHWEICKHARD died on Tuesday morning (Apr 17th) of neuralgia of the heart after an illness of three weeks. He was born on Dec 21, 1847, on the farm in the town of Potter where he had always lived and where his death occurred. He was a son of Benjamin and Salome Hoeltzel SCHWEICKHARD and was the last of the family. His wife died in 1917 and since then his daughter, Miss Ida SCHWEICKHARD, has lived with and cared for her father on the homestead.
He is survived by 6 daughters and 3 sons, Mrs. Albert OSWALD and Miss Ida SCHWEICKHARD of Potter; Mrs. E. J. HERSHEY of Gorham; Mrs. Dora PIERSON, Miss Grace and Miss Hazel SCHWEICKHARD, of Rochester; Frank SCHWEICKHARD of Potter; William SCHWEICKHARD of Benton and Dewey SCHWEICKHARD of Geneva.
He was one of the oldest members of Rushville Lodge, F & A M. The funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon from St. John's Lutheran Church, Rev. C. W. FLEISCHER officiating. There will be a Masonic burial service in Schuman cemetery.
Ontario Co. Times, Canandaigua, NY Wednesday July 31, 1929 by: Dianne Thomas
The funeral of Mrs. Sylvia A. CRISS, who died last week Sunday (July 21), was held at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Carl GREEN on Tuesday, July 23rd. Burial was name in Nettle Valley cemetery (Yates county).
Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY Sunday, January 3, 1937 (repeated Mon. Jan 4th) contributed by: G. Subyak
RAPP - Clarence R. RAPP entered into rest suddenly Jan. 1, 1937.
He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, Hazel L. RAPP; one daughter,
Genevieve; one son,
Clarence Jr.; his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Peter RAPP and five brothers,
Percy, Ira, Floyd and Howard of Rush, N. Y., and Hazen RAPP of Rochester,
N. Y. The remains will rest at his home in Rush, N. Y., where the
funeral will take place Monday afternoon Jan. 4, 1937, at 2:30 o'clock.
Burial in Pine Hill Cemetery, Rush, N. Y.
Unknown Newspaper October 1953 contributed by Cathy Coon
(from the scrapbook of Clara Starr Denison)
MRS. ALICE M. BALDWIN
Mrs. Alice M. Baldwin, 76, died Sunday evening, Oct. 11, 1953, in Thompson Memorial hospital, Canandaigua, of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered about 10:30 that morning in her home at Baldwin’s Corners, a short distance east of Rushville. She had seemed in her usual health that morning as she did her work and dressed to attend church. Her daughter, Mrs. William Fisher, found her unconscious when she came to take her to church. She was taken to the hospital where she died about seven o’clock without regaining consciousness.
Mrs. Baldwin was born in the Town of Italy, Yates county, Nov. 20, 1876, the daughter of George and Nancy Griswold Pulver, and lived there until her marriage in 1898 to Alfred D. Baldwin. The next spring they took up their residence in Rushville and later moved to the farm of his uncle, George Baldwin, which has since been her home. Her husband died in March, 1927.
She was a tireless worker in the Methodist churches if Italy Hill and Rushville of which she has been a member since girlhood. She was also a member of the Evergreen class of the Methodist Sunday school and the WSCS of that church. She has been president of Rushville grange and Rushville Tuesday club.
Mrs. Baldwin is survived by one daughter, Mrs. William Fisher of Rushville; two sons George Baldwin of Rushville, and Leslie Baldwin of Waterloo; one brother, John M. Pulver of Prattsburg; one granddaughter, Phyllis Baldwin of Waterloo; and several nieces and nephews.
A prayer service for the family was held in the home Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 1:15 p. m., followed by funeral services in Rushville Methodist church at 2 p. m. Rev. D. D. Cronk, pastor of the church, officiated. Burial was in Rushville cemetery. (located in Ontario Co., NY) The family has requested that donations be made to the Cancer or Heart fund in lieu of flowers.
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