MANY AGED PEOPLE GONE
Record of Burials in Forest Park Cemetery Made by L.D. Ward -- 38 over 50 years --
57 interments in All.
Sexton L. Dana Ward of Forest Park Cemetery makes a report of the burials under his charge
during the year 1904. The list is perhaps the most remarkable in years. The total number
of interments is 57, against 52 in 1903. Thirty-eight of the persons interred were over
50 years of age at the time of their death. Of these 38 four were over 50, 6 over 60, 20
over 70, 5 over 80, 2 over 90 and 1 over 95. In looking over the record one is quickly
brought to realize that the town has suffered the loss of many of its oldest citizens during
the year. Wihout further comment, Mr. Ward's record is as follows:
JANUARY
3, Charles Kelley, 72 years
5, Henry Hayes, 70 years
13, Mrs. Mary Hawley, 65 years
15, Flossie Goodrich, 2 years 2 months
FEBRUARY
14, Mrs. Lois Snow Kendall, 51 years
14, Richard Price, 85 years 5 months
17, Mrs. Lucinda B. Lambie, 83 years 6 months
17, William Holmes, brought from Cleveland, 78 years
20, Ella May McLellan, 5 years 6 months
22, Orissa Ransom Mix, 87 years
MARCH
11, Mrs. Sarah Osborne Allen, 71 years 7 months
14, Brainard Nelson, brought from Oswego, 70 years
19, Mary Elisa Conant, 19 years 6 months
21, Mrs. Elizabeth Price, 78 years 4 months
APRIL
3, Irma, infant daughter of B.H. Stone, 11 months
12, Robert Robertson, 84 years
28, Mrs. Frances L. Perry, 78 years
MAY
4, Wilson Paddock, 62 years
10, DeForest Eben Wells, 44 years
21, Mrs. Eliza Monroe, 39 years
28, James Grossart, 75 years
JUNE
15, Orson C. Woods, 72 years
19, Charlotte R. Babcock, 74 years
25, Bertha Newman, 2 months
JULY
6, E.P. Cleveland, 44 years
7, Alexander Black, 83 years 6 months
10, James H. Edick, infant brought from Rome
22, Jerome B. Seeley, 79 years
25, Levi Smith Wetmore, 56 years
31, Mrs. Archibald Wilson, 71 years 5 months
AUGUST
4, Mrs. Helen M. Mann, 60 years
9, Mrs. Minnie Croucher Williams, 24 years
19, Chester Mills, brought from Rome, 7 months
19, William W. Borst, 65 years
23, Robert Noxon, brought from Poughkeepsie, 90 years
27, Josiah Newell, brought from North Bay, 78 years 8 months
31, Cordelia Drum, 73 years
SEPTEMBER
6, Arthur, infant son of A.M. Farnsworth
7, Clara Scoville Babcock, 25 years
24, Elizabeth McKillip, 59 years
28, Mrs. Lucy Cook Wood, 65 years
OCTOBER
2, Mrs. Alice Dale, 19 years
14, George Webb, 72 years
13, Lillian Raut, 27 years
15, Robert P. Lewis, 54 years
22, Julia Godfrey Reynolds, brought from Utica, 60 years 3 months
NOVEMBER
3, Clarence Scoville, 28 years
4, Ida R. Burgdorff, 27 years 6 months
24, Alfred Stevens, brought from Rome, 95 years 4 months
30, Mary A. A. Smith, brought from New York, 79 years
DECEMBER
4, Lottie Loraine, 10 years
6, Mrs. Daniel Paddock, 70 years
8, Mrs. Mary Baldwin, 90 years
13, John Hart, 70 years
13, Infant son of Frank Lingenfelter
15, Amanda Howd Phelps, brought from Baltimore, 72 years
24, William Swanson, 77 years
29, Lena Rowell, 17 years 8 months
Interments in St. John's Cemetery
Jan. 29, Martin O'Connor, 80 years
Feb. 15, Mrs. Peter Malooley, 47 years
Mar. 15, Mrs. Mary O'Brien, 66 years
May 2, Mrs. D.E. Kennedy, 42 years
May 12, Mrs. M.G. Ronan, 52 years
Dec. 2, M.G. Ronan, 58 years
Dec. 11, Miss Teresa Hayes, 25 years
Remains Buried Elsewhere
Feb. 6, Mrs. Lillian C. Watson, taken to Maine, 32 years
Feb. 9, Mrs. Eliza Sturgeon, to Florence, 58 years
Feb. 10, Laura Green Pratt, to West Camden, 25 years
Mar. 17, Anna Belle Cooper, to Brownville, 28 years
Oct. 1, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, to Utica, 59 years
Oct. 4, Joseph Thorn, to McConnellsville, 66 years
Town Clerk's Record
According to the records of Town Clerk Arthur C. Phelps there have been 54 births (equally divided as to sex), 29 marriages and 61 deaths.