Camden Advance Journal: January 2, 1908
Camden Cemetery Record for 1907

SEXTON WARD'S ANNUAL REPORT

FIFTY-FIVE INTERMENTS.

Mostly Ederly People, Thirty-three Ranging Between the Ages of 60 and 91 -- List of the Year's Dead.

Sexton L. D. Ward of the Camden Cemetery Association has compiled his annual report of the burials made in Forest Park cemetery for the year 1907, and today the Advance Journal submits the same to its readers. The dead of the year, whose names appear below, represent many well known and old-time citizens of this vicinity. In looking over the list of departed it is found a total of 55 has been added to the great number now resting in the "city of the dead," and of these but one, Harry A. Goodyear, attained the nonegenarian period. He was 91 years of age. Of the others seven were over 80 years, fifteen over 70, ten over 60, seven over 50, five over 40, three over 30 and but one in the 20s. Of the fifty-five burials, twenty-one are those of former residents, all of which is designated in the following table, which will be perused with interest:

JANUARY

13, Salome D. Lane, 74 years 9 months
17, Marian Burnham, Rome, 76 years 4 months
22, Geo. H. Seeley, 53 years
28, Louise Scoville, N. Britain, 56 years
28, Seth Wilson, Annsville, 44 years

FEBRUARY

2, Catherine V. Noxon, Poughkeepsie, 83 years
3, Julia May Cleveland, 34 years
5, Jehial Scoville, Rome, 68 years
6, Elizabeth Roberts, 72 years
14, Elnora McCullouch, Utica, 64 years 11 months
16, Daniel Janes, W. Monroe, 68 years

MARCH

2, Mary Johnson, Utica, 73 years
4, Mary C. Walker, 88 years
17, Leander Tiffany, 77 years
18, Thomas Audas, 76 years
28, Harry A. Goodyear, Mich., 91 years

APRIL

1, Frances Josephine Phelps, Detroit, Mich., 59 years 6 months
3, Rozeltha Scoville, L. Falls, 59 years 9 months
3, Edmond R. Magee, 67 years
10, Nellie Case, 46 years
10, Lottie M. Skinner, 33 years 6 months
11, Clarissa Woods Park, 82 years
15, William M. Allen, Florence, 75 years
17, Stephen W. Adsit, 72 years

MAY

4, Cora May Perrigy, 3 months
4, Horace C. Smith, 81 years
6, Peter Redden, 69 years
6, Nina F. Harris, 18 years 6 months
12, Theresa Frasier, 79 years
27, Elizabeth S. Robertson, 40 years

JUNE

1, Jennie E. Fyvie, 38 years
5, Elizabeth VanDeWalker, Florence, 78 years
19, Susan I. Suits, 72 years
26, Luella Baldwin, 48 years 8 months
27, John Swanson, 74 years

JULY

3, Chas. Iram, Rome, 47 years 2 months
3, Newton Phelps, 61 years 4 months
25, Nancy H. Davis, 62 years

AUGUST

6, Warren M. Fifield, 78 years
17, Fred Elmer Widrig, Cazenovia, 47 years
21, Sylvester Williams, 83 years

SEPTEMBER

30, Geo. W. Foster, 58 years
30, Unknown Man, Suicide

OCTOBER

2, Clara E. Boehler, 24 years
9, Helen Frisbie, Utica, 4 years 1 month
12, Mrs. M. Finch, Williamstown, 78 years
29, Louisa S. Secor, 59 years
30, Orson Morse, 65 years

NOVEMBER

26, Alice S. Alden, Syracuse, 87 years 2 months
27, Nicholas Salladin, 87 years

DECEMBER

7, Geo. Wesley Cook, 73 years
7, Wm. H. Albright D.D., Boston, Mass., 58 years
21, Siburn Smart, Canastota, In vault, 73 years
24, Abiah W. Babcock, 64 years
24, Orlando E. Mabie, 62 years 8 months

Vital Statistics

According to the records kept by Town clerk Joseph Stark there have been 48 births in the town during the past year -- 25 males and 23 females. Marriages 32 and deaths 52.

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