Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Countryman
Susan
1920
English
1920
1920
1920
79
1/1/1920
1/2/1920
Flora C.
63
1/1/1920
1/2/1920
Jaroli
McAdams
White
Antonio
James
Mary E.
82
1/1/1920
1/1/1920
1/1/1920
1/2/1920
1/2/1920
1/2/1920
1920
Crouch
Harold H.
21
1/2/1920
1/2/1920 Lung abscess Died at Cornell Infirmary. Son of Mr./Mrs. Ralph
Crouch of Mohawk, NY. Burial at Mohawk.
1920
Mosher
Celia A.
72
1/2/1920
1/5/1920
1920
Ribble
Charles W.
1/2/1920
1/3/1920
1920
Sheldon
Daniel
50
1/2/1920
1/5/1920
1920
1920
Shutte
Mangang
Ruth Maynard
Frederick A.
56
1/2/1920
1/3/1920
1/5/1920
1/3/1920
1920 Mrs.
Wright
Cornelius
1/3/1920 (notice)
1/3/1920
1920
Bates
Dora S.
71
1/5/1920
1/6/1920
1920
Harvey
Charles J.
75
1/6/1920
1/7/1920
1920 Mrs.
Smith
Frank B.
55
1/7/1920
1/8/1920
1920
Wagner
J. Paul
62
1/7/1920
1/9/1920
1920
Butts
Charles E.
61
1/8/1920
1/8/1920
Page 1 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Danby. Widow of Gideon Countryman.
Burial Pleasant Grove Cem.
Had lived on Coddington Rd. Burial Snyder Hill
Cem.
Father of Joseph Jaroli. Burial Calvary Cem.
Died at Mecklenburg.
Sister of Harriet White. Burial Lake View Cem.
Wife of Adelbert S. Mosher of Trumansburg.
Burial Grove Cem.
Member of cigar makers union, and Unitarian
Church.
Died at Rochester. Former employee at Ithaca
Gun Company.
Grip
Died at Staten Island home; former Ithacan.
Prominent violinist and piano tuner. Born and
buried at Ilion, NY. See p. 5.
Buried at Enfield Center Cem. (p. 9, Enfield
Valley News.)
Wife of Seymour Bates of Searsburg Rd.,
Trumansburg. Burial Grove Cem.
Died at Catawissa, PA; formerly of Odessa. Civil
War Veteran. Burial Laurel Hills Cem., Montour
Falls.
Heart disease Died at Spencer home. Burial at Spencer.
Died at Charlottesville, W. VA home; former
Ithacan. Burial City Cem.
Burial at Spencer.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Leslie
George D.
1920
Roe
Emory D.
1920
Evans
Maria
1920 Mrs.
Updike
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1/8/1920
2/16/1920
Died at San Francisco; had lived in Ithaca where
he worked as a Government Chief Statistician on
the 1900 census with Prof. Walter F. Wilcox.
1/8/1920 (notice)
1/8/1920
95
1/9/1920
1/9/1920
Harvey
62
1/10/1920
1/10/1920
Atwood
Hermon N.
70
1/11/1920
1/13/1920
1920
Brogan
Sophia G.
84
1/11/1920
1/12/1920
1920
Townley
Claude
18
1/11/1920
1/12/1920
Died at Rochester. Brother of E. F. Roe. (p.11,
South Danby News.)
Widow of William Evans. Mother of DeForest,
Alonzo, David and Fred Evans. Burial Inlet Valley
Cem.
Died at Jacksonville home. Burial Grove Cem.
See also 1/12/1920.
Died at Holland, MI; formerly of Ithaca where he
conducted a laundry business. Brother of Laura
Atwood and Dr. Charles Atwood. Burial City Cem.
See also 1/15/1920.
Died at Cortland; formerly of Ithaca. Burial Lake
View Cem.
Son of Mrs. Eva Edwards. Was a junior at
Ludlowville High School. Burial North Lansing
Cem. See also p. 9, Ludlowville News, 1/16/1920.
1920
Fairchild
Clara
89
1/13/1920
1/13/1920
1920
Harrison
James
73
1/13/1920
1/16/1920
1920
1920
Mason
Messenger
Jennie
Henry
75
1/13/1920
1/13/1920 (notice)
1/14/1920
1/13/1920
1920
Collins
Caroline
54
1/14/1920
1/14/1920
1920
1920 Mrs.
O'Connell
Parsons
Martin
Timothy
65
76
1/14/1920
1/14/1920
1/24/1920
1/15/1920
42
Page 2 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at home near Esty's. Burial in Michigan. See
also 1/14/1920.
Died at Flora, IL; formerly of Ithaca. Burial
LaPorte, IL.
Died at Geneva
Had lived at West Danby. Uncle of Walter
Messenger. (p.9, Newfield News.)
Mother of Frank, Gertrude, Dorothy, Grace and
Marion. Burial at Wellsville. See also 1/15/1920.
Died at Buffalo; formerly of Trumansburg.
Died at home near Newfield.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Baldwin
Mina I.
1920
Campbell
1920
57
1/15/1920
1/16/1920
Wife of Albert Baldwin. Burial Hughesville, PA.
Martha J.
88
1/15/1920
1/16/1920
Ribble
Orlena M.
45
1/15/1920
1/17/1920
1920
Roberts
Mary A.
77
1/15/1920
1/16/1920
1920
Shangle
Harry J.
30
1/15/1920
1/16/1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
Teeter
Freese
Harvey
Stephen M.
45
74
1/15/1920
1/16/1920
1/17/1920 Pneumonia
2/7/1920
1920
1920
Butts
Detrick
Maria S.
Elias
87
91
1/17/1920
1/17/1920
1/19/1920
1/19/1920
1920
King
Harriet G.
66
1/17/1920
2/24/1920 Progressive
paralysis
1920 Mrs.
Parsons
(not listed)
1/17/1920 (notice)
1/17/1920
1920
Donahue
Jennie E.
1/18/1920
1/19/1920
1920 Jr.
Dwight
John W.
1/18/1920
1/19/1920 Pneumonia
Widow of George Campbell. Born at Glasgow,
Scotland; lived in Ithaca for 70 years. Oldest
member of First Presbyterian Church. Burial City
Cem.
Died at Hornell; formerly of Newfield. Wife of
Charles F. Ribble.
Wife of William H. B. Roberts. Mother to 5
daughters and 2 sons. Born in England. Burial
Lake View Cem.
Son of Mr./Mrs. William Shangle. Husband of
Alta Dorn. Burial Lake View Cem. See also p. 7,
1/31/1920, South Danby News.
Burial North Lansing Cem.
Died at Englewood, FL at home of his son,
Elmer. Also leaves sons Frank J. and Royce W.
Born and lived most of his life in Newfield.
Burial Spencer Cem.
Died at Peruville; formerly of Ithaca. Burial
Coddington Cem.
Died at Hinsdale, IL. Sister of Henry King of
Lansing Station . Was a lifelong educator. See p.
7.
Died at Newfield. Aunt of Nina Hughes. (p. 9,
Newfield News.)
Member of Ithaca High School Class of 1885.
Burial Mount Olivet Cem. See also 1/21/1920.
Died at Washington, DC. Son of former
Congressman and Mrs. John Dwight; formerly of
Dryden. See p. 6; also p. 2, 1/22/1920.
1920 Mrs.
Fish
Myron P.
1/19/1920
1/19/1920 Pneumonia
53
Page 3 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Member of Eastern Star. Born in Mecklenburg.
See also 1/20/1920.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
1920
Heisey
Jamieson
Francis
Martha M.
1920
1920 Mrs.
McLean
Lewis
Joseph
Frank D.
1920
1920 Dr.
Williams
Bristol
1920
1920
Age
62
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
1/19/1920
1/19/1920
1/20/1920 Pneumonia
1/20/1920
75
1/19/1920
1/20/1920
1/22/1920
1/22/1920
LeGrand O.
Miles Clinton
75
53
1/20/1920
1/21/1920
Brown
King
Nancy A.
Harriet
83
1/21/1920
1/21/1920 (notice)
1/20/1920
2/7/1920 Larynx
disease
1/22/1920
1/21/1920
1920
Shutts
Mary
1/21/1920
1/26/1920
1920
1920
Sincebaugh
Hall
Mary
Harriet E.
89
90
1/21/1920
1/22/1920
1/21/1920
1/23/1920
1920
Pearson
Raymond Allen
Infant
1/22/1920
1/30/1920
1920
Cole
Elizabeth A.
87
1/23/1920
1/24/1920
1920
Hall
Isaac
79
1/23/1920
1/30/1920
1920 Prof.
Harris
Clarence C.
1/24/1920
1/28/1920
1920
1920
Mills
Moore
Robert Slater
Charles H.
73
1/24/1920
1/24/1920
1/26/1920
1/24/1920
1920
Meier
Elizabeth A.
81
1/25/1920
1/26/1920
Page 4 of 54
Notes
Had lived in Danby. Burial Lake View Cem.
Widow of John M. Jamieson. Burial East Lawn
Cem.
Had lived at Candor.
Died at Knoxville, TN home of her daughter, Mrs.
J. A. Switzer. Formerly of Ithaca-Trumansburg
area.
Burial City Cem.
Died at Bay City, MI. where he was a prominent
physician. Born in Ithaca. See p. 5.
Burial at Trumansburg.
Sister of Henry King of Ludlowville. She resided
in Chicago, and was a teacher. (p. ll, Ludlowville
News.)
Had lived near Virgil. Burial at Dryden. (p. 9,
Dryden News.)
Burial King's Cem.
Died at Danby. Mother of Willis Hall. Burial
Danby Rural Cem.
Son of Dr. Raymond A. and Fanny Alice
Dunsford of Ames, Iowa, former Head of the
College of Agriculture Dairy Department.
Widow of Isaiah Cole; mother of Grant and Irving
Cole. Burial at Trumansburg.
Died at Scranton, PA; formerly of Ludlowville.
(p.9, Ludlowville News.)
Had lived at State College, PA.; received Ph.D. at
Cornell, 1906. Burial at family plot at Moravia.
Burial Evergreen Cem., Owego.
Oldest member of Henry Hyland Garnett Lodge
F. & A.M. Burial Lake View Cem.
Died and buried at Caroline. She was born in
Germany.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
1920
Turner
McGrail
Lewis W.
Ellen
1920
Watson
Carlton Smith
1920
Stanion
George H.
1920
Scofield
Henry W.
1920
VanKirk
LeRoy H.
1920
Zinberg
Sol
1920 Mrs.
Miller
Frank
1920
Denaro (girl)
1920
1920
Ganoung
Landon
1920
1920
1920
Eggleston
Hoffman
Hart
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
87
1/25/1920
1/26/1920
2/2/1920
1/27/1920
7 mos.
1/26/1920
1/26/1920
1/27/1920 (notice)
1/27/1920 Pneumonia
84
1/28/1920
1/28/1920
71
1/28/1920
1/28/1920
1/28/1920
1/29/1920 Coronary
Sclerosis
Died at Clifton Springs Sanitarium where he had
gone for rest. He was proprietor of University
Smoke Shop in the Ithaca Hotel. See p. 5.
1/29/1920 (notice)
1/29/1920
Burial at Trumansburg. (p. 9, Enfield Center
News.) See also 2/2/1920.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Nick Denaro. (p.9, Freeville
News)
Died at Covert. Burial Grove Cem.
Brother of George Landon, Mrs. S. B. Covert, and
Mrs. Mary Hill. Burial City Cem.
Burial King's Cem.
Burial Millerton, PA.
(p. 9, Taughannock Falls News.)
59
Infant
1/30/1920
2/3/1920
Dorintha
John
89
78
1/30/1920
1/30/1920
1/31/1920
1/31/1920
Ora
Sarah
Eliza
39
75
90
1/31/1920
1/31/1920
2/1/1920
Page 5 of 54
Cause of
Death
2/2/1920 Pneumonia
2/2/1920
2/7/1920
Notes
Had lived at Danby. (p. 9, Danby News.)
Died at Groton; mother of Mary, Sarah and Peter
McGrail. Burial Groton Rural Cem.
Son of J.M. Watson. Burial Woodlawn Cem.,
Newfield.
Died at Pittsburgh. Son of late James H. Stanion.
1895 Cornell grad in Electrical Engineering.
Recently worked for Standard Underground Cable
Co. of Pittsburgh. Brother of Charles, D. Curtis,
and Ralph Stanion and Mrs. LaVerne Wright.
Died in Dryden where he was a retired farmer.
Burial Willow Glen Cem.
Former Ithaca Postmaster and County Clerk.
Born in Enfield; son of Mr./Mrs. Lewis H. VanKirk.
He was a prominent member of Republican
Party. See story on p. 5; also see 1/31/1920.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Trotter
Millie Carpenter
78
2/1/1920
2/12/1920
1920
Whipple
George H.
76
2/1/1920
2/2/1920
1920
Cole
Chester Glen
2/2/1920
2/3/1920 Suicide
1920 Mrs.
1920 Lt.
Hammon
Newman
Frederick A.
Gyndell
2/2/1920
2/2/1920
2/2/1920
2/19/1920 Injuries
1920
1920
Watson
Urband
Ellen C.
Isaac
57
2/2/1920
2/3/1920
1920
1920
Cleary
Farrington
John J.
David
85
2/5/1920 (notice)
2/5/1920
2/5/1920 Pneumonia
2/12/1920
1920
Montgomery
Helen
Infant
2/5/1920
2/10/1920
1920
St. John
Helen A.
72
2/5/1920
2/6/1920
1920
Walsworth
Ann
2/5/1920 (notice)
2/5/1920
1920
Andrews
Hazel M.
2/6/1920
2/7/1920 Pneumonia
62
21
Page 6 of 54
Cause of
Death
2/2/1920
2/3/1920 Pneumonia
Notes
Died at Lewis, Kansas. Widow of Benjamin W.
Trotter of Enfield; daughter of Mr./Mrs. Reuben
Carpenter of Trumbull's Corners.
Died at Trumansburg; Civil War Veteran, Co. G.,
148th Reg't., NY Infantry. Burial Grove Cem.
Despondent over ill health and the death of his
son in war. He was a prominent businessman in
Corning, a Cornell grad, and son of Captain
Chester Cole, former Chairman of NY State
Republican State Comm. See p. 5.
Died at McLean.
Died at Washington Naval Hospital; injured in
December 1919 Florida plane crash. Was 1915
Cornell Grad. See story on p. 5.
Born in England. Burial Clyde, NY
Was a prominent tailor, member of Elks and
I.O.O.F., father of Joseph, Harold, Edward,
David, and Selma. Burial Lake View Cem. See p.
5. Also see 2/4/1920.
Died at Buffalo; former Ithacan.
Died at Mecklenburg. Burial Mecklenburg Cem.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Ralph Montgomery. (p. 9,
Groton City News.)
Widow of Seymour St. John. Burial Riverside
Cem., Rochester.
Had lived at Bennettsburg; burial Rolfe Cem. (p.
9, Enfield Center News).
Died at Cornell Infirmary; was a junior in Ag
College, daughter of Mr./Mrs. Dana Andrews of
Newark Valley. Burial Wiltonville Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Norton
Daniel Bristol
1920
Tompkins
Wendell D.
1920
Farrell
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
2/6/1920
1/12/1920 Pneumonia
21
2/6/1920
2/7/1920 Pneumonia
Mary E.
16
2/7/1920
2/7/1920 Spinal
meningitis
Marshall
Jefferson B.
68
2/7/1920
2/7/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Mettler
Filana
1920
1920
Brown
Clarke
Ida E.
Charlotte Wiggins
1920
Goodwin
John
1920
1920
Hitchcock
Kenyon
Emeline
(boy)
1920
Rundell
Maria
1920
Schuyler
Sage White
1920
Swan
Gayton H.
1920
Brownell
C. D.
2/9/1920
62
2/17/1920
2/10/1920
2/10/1920
2/11/1920
2/12/1920 Pneumonia
2/10/1920
2/13/1920 Pneumonia
7 mos.
2/10/1920
2/10/1920
2/10/1920
2/14/1920
70
2/10/1920
2/12/1920
2/10/1920
2/11/1920 Pneumonia
60
2/10/1920 (notice)
2/10/1920
40
2/11/1920
2/16/1920
Page 7 of 54
Notes
Died at Syracuse; husband of Laura F. Norton.
Temporarily interred in vault at City Cem.
Died at Cornell Infirmary; was a junior in
Mechanical Engineering, son of Mr./Mrs. Harry
Tompkins of Rochester.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Martin Farrell of Asbury;
sister of Lee, John and Robert. Burial Mount
Olivet Cem. See also 2/9/1920.
Survived by his wife, 3 sons, 3 daughters. Burial
Lake View Cem.
Widow of George Mettler; mother of Fred and
Frank. (p. 9, West Danby News.)
Wife of Ellis Brown. Burial at Valois.
Died at Portland, ME home; wife of Chester A.
Clarke. Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Fred A. Wiggins of
Auburn. Burial at Auburn.
Died at Baltimore, MD; had lived in Ithaca. See
story on p. 2.
Also see 2/11/1920.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Frank Kenyon. (p. 7, Groton
News.)
Widow of Hiram Rundell of Candor. Burial at
Catatonk.
Was second Vice-President of Dodge Mfg. Co. in
Mishawaka, IN; son of Henry T. B. and Sarah
White Schuyler. Formerly lived in Ithaca. Burial at
Summit, NJ.
Died at Niagara Falls home; former
superintendent of the salt plant at Myers.
Died at Newark, NJ; had attended Cornell
Summer School in1906.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Johnson
Hattie I.
45
1920
McCoy
Chester
1920
Miller (girl)
1920
Carpenter
1920
2/11/1920
2/11/1920
2/11/1920 (notice)
2/11/1920
11 mos.
2/11/1920
2/16/1920 Pneumonia
Lee
38
2/12/1920
Casano
Rose
75
2/12/1920
2/12/1920 Bright's
disease
2/13/1920
1920
Chambers
Julius
2/12/1920
2/14/1920
1920
Kulp
Lucile Maxine
2/12/1920
2/12/1920 Pneumonia
1920
McNitt
Martha
2/12/1920
2/13/1920 Pneumonia
1920 Mrs.
1920
Cook
Knapp
Eugene
George W.
2/13/1920
2/13/1920
2/16/1920 Heart failure
2/14/1920
1920
Macomber
William
2/13/1920
2/18/1920
1920
Smith
Gladys
27
2/13/1920
2/13/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Green
Hugh D.
21
2/14/1920
2/16/1920 Lobar
pneumonia
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. F. P. Smith; was an
instructor in Cornell Dept. of Home Economics,
working toward a Masters degree at Columbia
University. Burial Lake View Cem. See also
2/14/1920.
Died at Cornell Infirmary; son of Mr./Mrs. Elmer
L. Green of Glen Castle. Burial at Glen Castle.
1920
Gudmundsen
Laura
2/14/1920
2/14/1920 Bronchial
pneumonia
Widow of Gerhart Gudmundsen. Burial Lake
View Cem. See also 2/16/1920.
20 mos.
65
Page 8 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Wife of George S. Johnson, daughter of Mr./Mrs.
Charles Ballschmitr of LaPorte, IN. Burial Lake
View Cem,.
Died at Spokane, WA. (p. 22, Black Oak Corners
News.)
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Floyd Miller of West Enfield.
See p. 7.
Died at Dryden. Burial Green Hills Cem
Mother of Antonio and Gannaro. Burial Calvary
Cem.
Died at New York City; 1870 Cornell grad,,
author, editor, explorer. See story on p. 2.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Dana S. Kulp. Burial Lake
View Cem.
Died at Cornell Infirmary; daughter of Mr./Mrs. E.
S. McNitt of Pulaski.
Died at Pleasant Valley. Burial Cobb Cem.
Died at Cortland; formerly of West Groton. Burial
Groton Rural Cem. (p. 9, 2/17/1920.)
Died at Buffalo home; well-known patent lawyer.
Had been a non-resident lecturer at Cornell Law
School and Sibley College. See p.7.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Head
Mary Reed
1920
1920
1920
Myers
Pidcock
Volans
Maria
Howard
Mary
1920
Greenfield
1920 Mrs.
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
77
2/14/1920
2/16/1920
78
80
77
2/14/1920
2/14/1920
2/14/1920
2/16/1920
2/20/1920
2/16/1920
Susan
2/15/1920
2/18/1920 Pneumonia
Hasard
Frank
2/15/1920
2/20/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Luther
Mina M.
59
2/15/1920
2/17/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Rose
Caroline E.
34
2/15/1920
2/16/1920
1920 Dr.
Best
Sally Robinson C.
2/16/1920 (notice)
2/16/1920
1920
Bordner
Nellie
21
2/16/1920
2/17/1920 Disease
Died at home of her father, Louis A. Campora.
complications She, her husband Dominick and their son, Frank,
arrived in this country from Italy on 2/13/1917.
Burial Calvary Cam. See also 2/18/1920.
1920
Maloney
Patrick
82
2/16/1920
2/16/1920
1920
Maloney
Patrick
82
2/16/1920
2/16/1920
1920
1920
1920 Mrs.
McMasters
McMasters
Taylor
Melissa
Melissa
Alfred
71
71
2/16/1920
2/16/1920
2/16/1920
2/17/1920
2/17/1920
2/17/1920 Pneumonia
Page 9 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Mother of Clarence E., and Henry R.Head, and
Mrs. Sanford Lyon.
Burial East Lawn Cem.
Died and buried at King Ferry.
Died in Conklin Sanitarium. Burial at
Ogdensburg.
Died at Cortland; formerly of Richford; daughter
of Mr.Mrs. James Hadsell Glezon. Burial Maple
Grove Cem., Caroline.
Formerly of Interlaken; died at Auburn, 3 days
prior to death of her sister, Mrs. Earl Rappleye.
See story on p. 7.
Wife of Charles Luther of Groton. Burial Groton
Rural Cem.
Wife of Ernest Rose; mother of Ernest G.,
George H., Hilda, Ivy and Elsie Rose. Burial Lake
View Cem.
Died in New York City where she had a medical
practice. Cornell Medical School grad 1899.
One of Ithaca's earliest Catholic settlers. Burial
Mt. Olivet Cem. See also 2/18/1920.
One of Ithaca's earliest Catholic settlers. Burial
Mt. Olivet Cem. See also 2/18/1920.
Wife of James McMasters. Burial Ellis Cem.
Wife of James McMasters. Burial Ellis Cem.
Died at Skaneateles; wife of Alfred Taylor, former
Pastor of Varna Methodist Episcopal Church.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
1920
1920
Hemingway
Herman
Levi A.
Covert
74
2/17/1920
2/17/1920 (notice)
2/18/1920
2/17/1920
1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
Hover
Leary
Lowe
Walter
Patrick
Silas
2 mos.
84
85
2/17/1920
2/17/1920
2/17/1920 (notice)
2/18/1920
2/18/1920
2/17/1920
1920
Taylor
Wilber Force
22
2/17/1920
2/18/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Branch
Edwin D.
72
2/18/1920
2/20/1920 Pneumonia
1920 Mrs.
Foster
J. W.
64
2/18/1920
2/21/1920
1920 Mrs.
Rappleye
Earl
35
2/18/1920
2/20/1920 Pneumonia
1920 Mrs.
Klinko
Julia
67
2/19/1920
1920
McWhorter
Katharine M.
1920
Robinson
Ida Holden
70
2/19/1920
1920
Pickens
John G.
34
2/20/1920
2/21/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Rennyson
Marietta
2/20/1920
2/27/1920
1920 Dr.
Seaman
Edgar D.
2/20/1920
3/3/1920
2/19/1920
65
Page 10 of 54
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
2/220/1920
2/21/1920 Pneumonia
3/4/1920
Notes
Died at Dusenbery. Burial Willow Glen Cem.
Died at Wilkes-Barre,PA; son of Avery Herman.
(p. 9 Kennedy's Corners News.) See also
2/18/1920.
Died at Cortland; son of Mr./Mrs. Harry Hover.
Died at Cohoes; formerly of Ithaca.
Died at Delevan, WI; had lived at West Groton.
(p. 9, West Groton News.)
Died at Cornell Infirmary. Known as "Babe"
Taylor, son of Judge Thomas Taylor of Illinois.
Member of several Cornell sports teams. Burial at
Graceland Cem., Chicago. See story on p. 7. See
also 2/19/1920.
Died at Cortland; formerly of Dryden. Burial
Green Hills.
Widow of Dr. Miles Goodyear, who left the
Goodyear Library to the Town of Groton. Burial
Groton Rural Cem.
Died at Interlaken, 3 days after death of her
sister, Mrs. Frank Hasard. See story on p. 7.
Wife of Stephen Klinko; mother of 4 sons, 2
daughters. Burial Calvary Cem.
Daughter of Mrs. Emma McWhorter. Burial City
Cem.
Died near North Lansing; wife of C. Downing
Robinson. Burial N. Lansing Rural Cem. (p. 9,
West Groton News.)
Died at Groton; son of Mr./Mrs. George Pickens.
Died at home near King Ferry. Placed in King
Ferry Cem. Vault.
Died at Los Angeles where he has practiced
medicine for 35 years. Born in Ithaca; brother of
James.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
1920
Wilson
Emory M.
2/20/1920
2/26/1920 Pneumonia
Died at Garfield Hospital at Washington.
Received Ph.D. at Cornell; later became principal
at Washington Central High School. See p. 7.
1920
Boyd
Clair
2/21/1920 (notice)
2/21/1920
1920
Canfield
Fred
2/21/1920
2/28/1920
Died at Detroit, where he was visiting friends. (p.
9, Trumansburg News.)
Died at Powell, PA, formerly of Spencer. Was
employee of Morse Chain Co. Burial at Spencer.
1920
Ho
Yun Huang
2/21/1920
2/25/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Morris
Florence A.
2/21/1920
3/1/1920
1920
Parker
Lillie Lydia
40
2/21/1920
2/23/1920
1920
Parker
Lillie Lydia
40
2/21/1920
2/23/1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
Youngs
King
Smith
Sutliff
Earl
Willie A.
Abigail
Benjamin
Henry
Buel Monroe
31
90
43
74
14
2/21/1920
2/22/1920
2/22/1920
2/22/1920
2/23/1920
2/23/1920 Flu
2/23/1920
2/23/1920
2/24/1920
2/28/1920 Pneumonia
1920
1920 Mrs.
Edwards
Springer
David
Delbert
63
2/23/1920
2/23/1920
2/25/1920 Pneumonia
2/26/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Vaughn
Emily R.
80
2/23/1920
2/24/1920 Pneumonia
Page 11 of 54
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Cornell Infirmary. Was a Cornell grad
student from China.
Died at Buffalo; former Florence A. Dowe of
Ithaca, wife of Henry B. Morris of Michigan City,
IN; mother of Hilda, Edmund and Harold Morris.
Burial Michigan City, IN
Wife of George W. Parker; mother of John,
Janice, Jessie, and Joseph. Burial Lake View
Cem.
Wife of George W. Parker; mother of John,
Janice, Jessie, and Joseph. Burial Lake View
Cem.
Died at Groton. Burial Groton Rural Cem.
Temporarily placed in Lake View Cem. Vault.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Freeville.
Died at Canandaugua; son of Mr./Mrs. Vernon H.
Earl, brother of Marie. Burial at Erin.
Died at Syracuse; formerly of Dryden.
Died the day before her husband died. Burial
Tioga Point Cem. See p. 7.
Died at Cortland; former Ithaca resident; widow of
John Vaughn. Burial Willow Glen Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
1920
1920
Young
Norton
Mary L.
George P.
53
40
2/23/1920
2/24/1920
2/23/1920
2/26/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Springer
Delbert
63
2/24/1920
2/26/1920
1920
Sutton
Mary Elizabeth
2 days
2/24/1920
3/3/1920
1920
Tift
Adelaide A.
2/24/1920
2/25/1920
1920
Waite
Arthur R.
64
2/24/1920
2/24/1920
1920
Benedict
Jay Wilsey
38
2/25/1920
2/27/1920
1920
Champion
Betty Lou
Infant
2/25/1920
2/27/1920
1920
Marion
James
77
2/25/1920
2/25/1920
1920
Rolfe
Squire B.
85
2/25/1920
2/26/1920
1920
Thompson
Smith
3
2/25/1920
2/25/1920 Sledding
accident
1920 Mrs.
Ward
Sidney
47
2/26/1920
3/4/1920
1920
Drake
Olia
31
2/28/1920
3/11/1920
Page 12 of 54
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
Burial City Cem.
Died at Cortland, former Ithacan, husband of
Lillian Douglas of Trumansburg. Son of Mr./Mrs.
Willian Norton. He was owner of a photo studio.
Burial Pine Grove Cem.
Pneumonia
Died the day after his wife died. Burial Tioga
Point Cem. See p. 7.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Seymour Sutton of Kansas
City. Mother was former Clara Boxheimer of
Ithaca.
Died at Little River, CT. Widow of Albert Knettles.
Burial Pleasant Grove Cem.
Heart disease Well-known Ithaca printer. Burial Lake View Cem.
See story on p. 5. Also see 2/25/1920.
Bronchial
Died at Willseyville; had been a mail carrier,
asthma
father of Archibald, Bernice, and Helen. Burial at
Candor.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. George W. Champion;
sister of Robert. Placed in Lake View Cem. Vault.
Had lived near Slaterville Springs. Burial Maple
Grove Cem.
Grandson of Jonathan Rolfe, a pioneer settler of
the Town of Enfield, where four generations were
born at the family homestead. Burial at the family
plot at that homestead. See story on p. 5.
Accident happened on Eddy Street. Son of Prof.
and Mrs. Homer C. Thompson. See story onp. 7.
(p. 9, Taughannock Falls News.) See also p. 5,
3/6/1920.
Died at Groton; wife of Samuel H. Drake;
daughter of Mr./Mrs. W. H. Kostenbader.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Drake
Oscar
73
1920
Stein
1920
Cause of
Death
2/28/1920
2/28/1920
Adrian
2/28/1920 (notice)
2/28/1920 Pneumonia
Stein
Robert
2/28/1920 (notice)
2/28/1920 Pneumonia
1920 Mrs.
Clark
William
73
2/29/1920
3/2/1920
1920
Hodge
Katherine V.
65
2/29/1920
3/1/1920
1920
McWhorter
Emma T.
68
2/29/1920
3/1/1920
1920
1920
Slaght
Stivers (boy)
Leona J.
77
Infant
2/29/1920
3/1/1920
3/1/1920
3/6/1920
1920
VanMarter
Enos
1920
Hall
Harry Sinclair
1920
Murphy
P, J.
1920
1920
1920
Schuler
Schuler
Trethaway
Lottie Townsend
Lottie Townsend
John Harold
1920
Atwood
Earl M.
1920
Burge
Katherine V.
3/1/1920 (notice)
3/1/1920
3/2/1920
3/8/1920
3/2/1920
3/5/1920
87
87
3/2/1920
3/2/1920
3/2/1920 (notice)
3/5/1920
3/5/1920
3/2/1920 Pneumonia
34
3/3/1920
3/4/1920 Pneumonia
3/3/1920
3/5/1920
7
Page 13 of 54
Notes
Had lived in Town of Newfield. Burial Trumbull's
Corners Cem.
Died at Genoa, within 2 hours of his dad, Robert.
Burial of both at Genoa.
Died at Genoa, within 2 hours of his son, Adrian.
Had lived at Pony Hollow. Burial Laurel Hill Cem.,
near Cayuta Lake.
Wife of George W. Hodge. Placed in Lake View
Cem. Vault.
Died one week after her daughter, Katherine.
Burial City Cem.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Henry Stivers of Syracuse.
Mother former Regina McMahon of Interlaken. (p.
7, Interlaken News.)
Died at Waverly; formerly of Etna. (p. 11, Etna
News.)
Died at Petaluma, CA; son of Mr./Mrs. Harry S.
Hall. Mr. Hall is brother of Mrs. David B. Perry of
Ithaca,.
Died at New York City; brother-in-law of Mrs.
Glenn McDaniels of Varna.
Died at Mecklenburg; wife of John G. Schuler.
Died at Mecklenburg; wifeof John G. Schuler.
Died at Wilkes-Barre, PA. where he had gone for
a visit. Was a Cornell student, Class of 1923, and
on the basketball team.
Died at Groton. Son of Mr./Mrs. Fred Atwood,
descendents of Groton pioneer Abner Atwood.
Husband of Edna Howard, father of Betsey Eliza.
See story on p. 7.
Died at Elmira; well-known in Ithaca.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Cheeseman
Mary Atwater
1920
Crane
1920
Age
67
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
3/3/1920
3/4/1920 Pneumonia
Had lived near King Ferry; wife of George
Cheeseman. She was a practical nurse, caring
for her sister-in-law when she became ill.
T. R.
3/3/1920 (notice)
3/3/1920
Died at Watkins Glen. (p. 11, Cayutaville News.)
McCarthy
Patrick
3/3/1920 (notice)
3/3/1920
1920
Rood
Harold
3/3/1920
1920
Brink
Ray
28
3/4/1920
3/5/1920
1920
Dodge
Hazel B.
19
3/4/1920
3/4/1920 Flu
1920
Newman
Clarinda
70
3/4/1920
3/5/1920
1920
Griggs
Sadie Korts
35
3/5/1920
3/8/1920
1920
1920
Griggs
Cobb
Sadie Korts
Augusta
35
3/5/1920
3/7/1920
3/8/1920
3/10/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Davenport
Elizabeth
32
3/7/1920
3/11/1920
1920
Davenport
Elizabeth
3/7/1920
3/13/1920 Pneumonia
Died at Boston; formerly of Ithaca. Father of
John, Charles, Patrick, Thomas. See also
3/8/1920.
Died at Binghamton. 1917 Cornell Grad., College
of Agriculture.
Died at County tuberculosis hospital at
Taughannock Falls. He had lived at Newfield';
was taken ill while in the Army at Camp Upton.
Brother of Charles and Dollie Brink. Burial at
Woodlawn Cem.
Wife of Loren N. Dodge; daughter of Mr./Mrs.
Joseph T. Fisher. Burial at Spencer.
Wife of Henry L. Newman. Burial Lake View
Cem.
Died at Rose, NY; wife of Raymond L. Griggs;
daughter of Mr./Mrs. J. A. Korts.
Died at Rose, NY; wife of Raymond L. Griggs.
Placed in vault at King Ferry Cem. (p. 11, King
Ferry News.)
Died at Sayre, PA; wife of J. W. Davenport,
formerly of Ithaca. Burial at Sayre.
Died at Sayre, PA home. Wife of J. W.
Davenport.
1920
1920
King
Medrow
Harriet Robinson
Jonathan H. C.
3/7/1920
3/7/1920
3/8/1920
3/13/1920
70
43
Page 14 of 54
3/12/1920 Pneumonia
Died at Rochester home. Well-known cellist.
Interred at Mt. Hope Cem. vault.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
1920
Sager
Albert
71
3/7/1920
3/9/1920 Pneumonia
1920 Mrs.
Batsford
Frank
49
3/8/1920
3/8/1920 Heart disease Died at Moravia. Burial at McLean.
1920
Dennis
Stanley S.
4 mos.
3/8/1920
3/9/1920
1920
Gleason
Katherine
71
3/8/1920
1920
Cogswell
Frank C.
20
3/9/1920
3/9/1920 Cerebral
hemorrhage
3/10/1920 Diabetes
1920
Dennis
William G.
32
3/9/1920
3/16/1920 Appendicitis
1920
Frister
Lucy
88
3/9/1920 (notice)
1920
Tompkins
Bessie
1920
Conley
Michael C.
1920
Goldman
Louis
1920
Wiggins
Phyllis
1920
Greenfield
Fred
3/9/1920
Died at Etna; former Town of Dryden Assessor;
husband of former Marilla Root. They celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary on 2/22/1920.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Roger F. Dennis. Burial Lake
View Cem.
Died at Oxford; wife of LeRoy Gleason. Burial
Kline Cem. See also 3/10/1920.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Arthur Cogswell of Etna. He had
been employed by Treman, King & Co. Hardware.
Burial Willow Glen Cem.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Abram Dennis of Brookton;
husband of Susie Putnam of Corning. He was on
the Corning Police Force. Burial Quick Cem. See
story on p. 5; also p. 5, 4/13/1920.
Died at the County home. Buirial Lake View Cem.
Vault.
Died at Speedsville; daughter of Mr./Mrs. Leonard
Tompkins. Burial Speedsville Cem.
Died suddenly at work at Thomas-Morse Aircraft
Corp.; husband of Mathilda Conley. Burial
Calvary Cem. See also 3/13/1920.
Died at Ann Arbor, MI. Formerly owned a secondhand clothing store in Ithaca. Burial at Detroit, MI.
16 mos.
3/9/1920
60
3/10/1920
3/11/1920
3/10/1920
3/18/1920
7 mos.
3/10/1920
40
3/12/1920
3/11/1920 Acute
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Maynard Wiggins of
indigestion
Interlaken. Burial Lake View Cem.
3/13/1920 Heart disease Had also been in treatment for tuberculosis.
Burial Willow Glen.
Page 15 of 54
3/12/1920 Pneumonia
Notes
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Hastings
Mary Amelia
1920
Tompkins
(girl)
1920
Rupert
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
65
3/12/1920
3/12/1920 Stroke
Died at Groton; wife of John Hastings; mother of
8 children. Burial Catholic Cem., Groton.
8 mos
3/12/1920
3/16/1920
Martha Arnold
21
3/13/1920
3/13/1920 Flu
McCoy
Jane
65
3/14/1920
3/15/1920
1920
Darling
Charles
58
3/15/1920
3/16/1920
1920
Armstrong
Louisa Newman
90
3/16/1920
3/17/1920
1920
Baird
Lewis
3/16/1920 (notice)
3/16/1920
1920
Bishop
Alanson
3/16/1920
3/17/1920
1920
Gallow
Floyhd
3/16/1920
3/16/1920
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Leonard Tompkins. Burial
Speedsville. (p.9, Jenksville News.)
Wife of Phillip Douglas Rupert; daughter of Mrs.
Harriett J. Arnold of Geneva.
Died at Covert. Sister of Morris McCoy. Burial
Grove Cem.
Died suddenly while harnessing his horse; had
lived near Freeville.
Died near Groton; widow of Albert Armstrong.
Burial Groton Rural Cem.
(p. 9, Jenksville News 3/16/1920) See also
3/18/1920.
Died at Killawog; formerly of Ithaca. Well-known
physician and member of St. Augustine
Commandery, Knights Templar since 1868.
Burial at Killawog.
Died at Lansingville home; father of Ray, Jay,
and Bessie. Burial Lansingville Cem.
1920
1920
Kelley
Vunk
Dennis
Carson
90
67
3/16/1920
3/16/1920
3/17/1920
3/16/1920 Heart disease Died at Dryden. Burial Green Hills Cem.
1920
Welch
Burton John
2
3/16/1920
1920
Williams
Louise J. R.
82
3/16/1920
3/16/1920 Acute
indigestion
3/17/1920
1920
Stratton
Wilbur
73
3/17/1920
3/22/1920
1920
Donovan
William
75
3/18/1920
3/18/1920
1920 Mrs.
Horton
Fred E.
3/18/1920
3/22/1920
95
Page 16 of 54
Son of Mr./Mrs. John Welch of N. Danby. Burial
South Hill Cem.
Widow of John J. Williams. Burial Lake View
Cem. See also 3/18/1920.
Died at Owego; formerly of Newfield. Burial at
Newfield.
Brother of Mary, John, and Randles. Burial
Calvary Cem.
Died at Binghamton. Burial Lake View Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Morehouse
Albert
1920
Sears
1920
65
3/20/1920
3/20/1920
Ella Powers
61
3/20/1920
3/22/1920 Heart disease
Bull
Frances Carolyn
77
3/22/1920
3/23/1920
1920
Colton
Rachel Ann
84
3/22/1920
3/27/1920
1920
Howe
Lawrence
4
3/22/1920
1920
1920
Symonds
Thorpe
John A.
Clifford E.
65
20
3/22/1920
3/22/1920
3/22/1920 Purpura
hemorragica
3/22/1920
3/22/1920 Work
accident
1920
1920
Covert
Boynton
Christopher
Fitz
48
76
3/23/1920
3/24/1920
3/23/1920
3/26/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Dawes
Sarah B.
79
3/24/1920
3/25/1920
1920
1920
Price
Reniff
Cornelius
Isabelle B.
82
65
3/24/1920
3/25/1920
3/24/1920
3/25/1920 Heart disease
1920
Davey
Frank H.
3/26/1920 (notice)
3/26/1920 Heart disease
1920
Lamkin
Alfred
3/26/1920
3/26/1920
1920
Maynard
Charles B.
3/26/1920
3/26/1920 Wound
complications
62
Page 17 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Interlaken; father of Claude, Seth, and
Charles. Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Groton. Mother of Frank, Lee, and
Walter. Burial Groton Rural Cem.
Died at Slaterville Springs. Widow of Matthew
Bull. Burial Weat Slaterville Cem.
Died at daughter's home at Kansas City.
Formerly of Ithaca.
Died of unusual disease; son of Mr./Mrs.
Clarence Howe.
Died at Interlaken. Burial Lake View Cem.
Killed when he fell through an elevator shaft while
at work. Son of Mr./Mrs. Thomas S. Thorpe.
Burial Lake View Cem. See story on p. 5; also p.
5, 3/25/1920.
Burial Lake View Cem. See also 3/24/1920.
Died at Cortland; formerly of McLean; son of the
late John Boynton. He was a former bank
president, was an active Masonic member.
Died at Danby. She is survived by 4 brothers and
3 sisters.
Burial East Lawn Cem.
Died at McLean. Widow of Solomon Reniff. Burial
at McLean
Died at Syracuse. Brother-in-law of Mrs. A. L.
Wertz of Ludlowville.
Died suddenly while driving his car on College
Ave. He was a well-known Varna farmer;leaves
his wife and 5 brothers. Story on p. 5. Burial
Pleasant Grove Cem.
Wounded in the World War. Had lived at Caroline
Center. See p. 5. Burial at Central Chapel. See
also 3/27/1920.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
McClellan
John E.
1920
1920 Mrs.
McCoy
Perkins
1920
75
3/26/1920
3/27/1920
Katherine E.
77
3/26/1920
3/26/1920
3/27/1920
4/2/1920
Fenner
Elizabeth
92
3/27/1920
3/27/1920
1920
1920
1920
Hager
Heath
Houghton
William
Cyrus
Peter A.
70
3/27/1920
3/27/1920
3/27/1920
3/30/1920
4/9/1920
3/29/1920
1920
Morgan
Frances
44
3/27/1920
3/29/1920
1920
Todd
Alice May
53
3/27/1920
3/26/1920 Surgery
Died at Conklin Sanitarium following thyroid
complications surgery. Had lived at Binghamton.
1920
1920
Willard
Atwater
Charles B.
Joachin Elmendorm
60
67
3/27/1920
3/29/1920
3/27/1920 Pneumonia
3/30/1920
1920
Beatty
Caroline
76
3/29/1920
4/10/1920
1920
Kish
Rosa
32
3/29/1920
3/30/1920
1920
Thomas
Georgeina
33
3/29/1920
3/29/1920 Heart failure
1920
Chapman
Albert
93
3/30/1920
3/31/1920
1920
Cook
Susan Augusta
79
3/30/1920
3/30/1920
Page 18 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Had lived at Trumansburg. Burial Grove Cem.
Burial at Mecklenburg Cem.
Died at home of her son, Orange Perkins, in
Michigan. (p. 11, Groton City News.)
Widow of Casper Fenner; mother of
Assemblyman Casper Fenner. Had lived at Lake
Ridge. See p. 2. Also see 4/17/1920.
Died at Mecklenburg.
Died at McGraw. (p. 11, Locke News.)
Well-known carpenter who helped form the
Carpenter's Union #603. Burial Lake View Cem.
See story on p. 5.
Heart disease Wife of John F. Morgan. Burial Lake View Cem.
Had lived at Slaterville.
Died at Willard State Hospital. Son of Benjamin
Avery and Sarah A. Atwater; brother of Agnes
and Ledyard. Burial City Cem.
Died at Pittsburgh; formerly of Dryden. (p.7,
Dryden News.)
Wife of Lewis Kish; mother of Lewis Kish, Jr.
Burial Calvary Cem.
Wife of B. Douglass Thomas; mother of Nigel
and Malcolm. Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Groton where he was a well-known
farmer. Survived by his wife, 5 sons and 1
daughter. Burial Groton Rural Cem.
Died at Cayuga Heights. Burial at Whitney Point.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
McKeel
Lydia
87
1920
Kenney
Clara
1920
Adams
Catherine
1920
Banfield
1920
3/31/1920
4/1/1920
4/1/1920
4/3/1920
65
4/2/1920
4/2/1920
Clarence
35
4/2/1920
4/3/1920
Cameron
Anna M.
86
4/2/1920
4/3/1920
Died at Jacksonville; widow of Aaron McKeal;
mother o fEmma and William E. She was former
Lydia Bridget Hallock;a member of Friend's
Society. Burial at Friend's Cem.
Died at Dubois, PA; wife of M.C. Kenney; they
were former Ithacans. See also 4/13/1920.
Wife of George W. Adams. Burial Calvary Cem.
See also 4/5/1920.
Died at tuberculosis hospital. Was member of
Plumber's Union. Burial City Cem.
Widow of Alexander Cameron. Burial City Cem.
1920
Myers
Frank H.
59
4/2/1920
4/2/1920
Had lived at Ludlowville. Burial Pine Grove Cem.
1920
Reed
David
84
4/2/1920
4/7/1920
1920
1920
Sellen
Oliver
Willis B.
Elizabeth
68
69
4/2/1920
4/3/1920
4/5/1920
4/5/1920
1920
Mahar
John H.
4/5/1920
4/6/1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
Wetz
Camp
Darragh
Davies
Ella Shea
Elizabeth Francis
George K.
Nan M.
62
86
66
4/5/1920
4/6/1920
4/6/1920
4/6/1920
4/7/1920 Pneumonia
4/6/1920
4/7/1920 Heart failure
4/9/1920
Died at Cortland. Burial Green Hills Cem. (p. 11,
Dryden News.)
Died at Pomona, CA; formerly of Groton.
Died near Frontenac; leaves 4 sons and 4
daughters. Burial Grove Cem.
Originally from Cortland. Burial at St. Mary's
Cem., Cortland. See also 4/9/1920.
Died at Trumansburg. Burial St. James Cem.
1920
Rockefeller
Henry
66
4/6/1920
4/7/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Thurston
Susan
38
4/6/1920
4/7/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Worsell
Ella E.
67
4/6/1920
4/9/1920
Page 19 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Enfield Center. Burial Rolfe Cem.
Had lived at Athens, PA. Sister of Mrs. O. P.
Hyde of Ithaca.
Died at Dryden; brother of Simeon, William,
Allen, and Mrs. Roe. Burial Willow Glen Cem.
Wife of Elbert Thurston; daughterofMr./Mrs.
Normal L.Klseof Owasco. Burial at Oweaswco.
Died at Ludlowville; wife if James Worsell. Burial
Lansingville Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
1920
Allen
Alanson J.
71
4/7/1920
4/7/1920 Injuries
1920
Loughrain
Mary A.
71
4/7/1920
4/7/1920
1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
Rappleye
Smith
Thomas
Hudson
James T.
Pearl
92
3 mos.
4/7/1920
4/7/1920
4/7/1920
4/7/1920
4/7/1920
4/8/1920
1920
Hall
Mary Rappleye
72
4/8/1920
4/9/1920 Injuries
1920
Cornelius
Mary D.
71
4/9/1920
1920
Dempsey
John E.
72
4/9/1920
1920
Edmonds
Hazel
16
4/9/1920
1920
Patterson
John
1920
Stout
Vera
1920
Alden
Esther McClure
1920
1920
Carman
Cavanaugh
Eliza V.
Mary E.
1920
Knight
Elizabeth
1920
Krum
Lottie S.
4/9/1920 (notice)
18
90
43
44
4/9/1920
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
4/10/1920
4/9/1920 Stroke
4/15/1920
4/9/1920
4/13/1920
4/10/1920 (notice)
4/10/1920
4/10/1920
4/10/1920
4/10/1920
4/10/1920
4/10/1920
4/13/1920
4/10/1920
4/12/1920 Sleeping
sickness
Page 20 of 54
Notes
Hit by a car near his Inlet Valley home. Burial
Inlet Valley Cem. Story on p. 2.
No known relatives; born in Montreal. Burial Lake
View Cem.
Died at Interlaken.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Charles Thomas. Burial
Hayt's Cem.
Fell downstairs at her home;wifeof Edwin M. Hall.
Burial City Cem.
Wife of Orrin Cornelius. Burial Snyder Hill Cem.
Died of complications at Elmira home. Wellknown contractor and builder who built many
Ithaca buildings. See story on p. 7.
Died at Harford; daughter of Mr./Mrs. F. J.
Edmonds; sister of Charles. Burial Willow Glen
Cem.
Had lived at Chenango Forks. Burial at
Willseyville. (p. 11, Willseyville News.)
Died at Rochester; formerly of Interlaken.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Bert Stout. Burial at Ithaca.
(p. 9, Interlaken News.)
Died at Gorham, NY; formerly of Trumansburg.
Burial Grove Cem. (p. 7, Trumansburg News.)
Burial Hayt's Cem.
Burial at Catholic Cem., Aurora. See also
4/12/1920.
Died at Philadelphia; formerly of Ithaca. Wife of
John Knight.
Wife of Asa H. Krum. Burial Lake View Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Farley
Harriet L.
1920
Schutt
Gilbert
1920
Stevens
1920 Mrs.
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
4/12/1920
4/17/1920
84
4/13/1920
4/14/1920
Sloma
54
4/13/1920
4/13/1920
Alberger
Frank J.
65
4/14/1920
4/14/1920 Uremic
poisoning
1920
Darragh
George
4/15/1920 (notice)
4/15/1920
1920
Lathrop
Joseph A.
67
4/15/1920
1920
Parsell
Charles V.
69
4/15/1920
1920
Woolever
Jesse May
33
4/15/1920
4/16/1920 Heart disease Was well-known farmer near West Dryden. Burial
Willow Glen Cem. See also 4/19/1920.
4/16/1920
Principal of Cascadilola School from 1892-1915.
Member of first class to enter Cornell. See story
on p. 7. Burial Camden, NY.
4/16/1920 Typhoid fever Wife of Floyd Woolever; had lived near Freeville.
Burial Willow Glen Cem. See also 5/3/1920.
1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
1920
1920
Sherwood
Dawson
Edmonds
McLallen
Rumsey
Wallace C.
Ernest M.
Charles V.
David H.
Darwin
78
29
72
83
73
4/16/1920
4/17/1920
4/17/1920
4/17/1920
4/17/1920
4/17/1920
4/19/1920 Pneumonia
4/17/1920
4/19/1920
4/17/1920 Stroke
1920
Ahola
William
8 mos.
4/18/1920
4/22/1920 Brain
paralysis
Page 21 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at nephew's home at Hyattville, MD. Had
lived most of her life at Union Springs and at
Farley's Point. Body taken to Rochester for
cremation.
Died at home of his niece at Burdett. Burial at
Central Chapel.
Died of Brookton home; wife of Wilbur Stevens.
Survived by 6 sons, 6 daughters, 5 brothers, 6
sisters.
Died at Philadelphia; formerly of Ithaca. Was a
membeer of Ithaca Women's Club, D.A.R., and
Presbyterian Church. Burial at Scottsburg NY.
Burial Rolfe Cem. (p. 11, Enfield Valley News.)
Died at Lansing. Burial Pleasant Grove Cem.
Died at Spencer; former Elizabeth Dunker.
Burial Willow Glen Cem.
Burial Grove Cem.
Died at Enfield home. Was a well-known farmer;
father of Fred and Samuel. Burial Trumbull's
Corners Cem. See p. 7.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Jacob Ahola of Spencer. (p. 9,
South Danby News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920 Mrs.
Smith
Leon
1920
Burdick
Henry C.
1920
Conger
Jennie E.
1920
Tarbell
Janette M.
1920
1920
Mahoney
Hilligus
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
27
4/18/1920
4/19/1920
81
4/21/1920
4/24/1920
4/21/1920
4/22/1920 Stroke
76
4/22/1920
4/23/1920
Vincent
Joshua O.
29
83
4/23/1920
4/24/1920
4/24/1920
4/24/1920
Northrop
Mary Ann
93
4/24/1920
4/26/1920
1920
1920
Murphy
Baker
Charles V.
Hyatt
72
4/25/1920
4/26/1920 (notice)
4/26/1920 Stroke
4/26/1920
1920
Menzie
John J.
32
4/26/1920
4/30/1920
1920
Morton
Alice
58
4/26/1920
4/28/1920
1920 Mrs.
Dean
O. L.
4/27/1920
4/28/1920
1920 Mrs.
Fisher
Willis R.
4/27/1920 (notice)
4/27/1920
1920 Mrs.
Greenfield
Samuel
4/27/1920 (notice)
4/27/1920
1920
Hungerford
Nye
4/27/1920
4/28/1920
61
Page 22 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Canandaigua; daughter of Mr./Mrs.
George Parish of Ovid Center. sister of Dudley
and Mary Parish. Burial Lake View Cem.,
Interlaken.
Died at Trumansburg; father of Albert G. Burdick.
Burial Grove Cem.
Died at Groton; widow of Frank Conger. See also
4/23/1920.
Died at Groton; widow of Charles Tarbell. Burial
Peruville Cem.
Died at Trumansburg. Burial St. James Cem.
Died at Newfield. Burial at Corning. See also
4/26/1920.
Died near Jacksonville. She was one of
Compkins County's oldest residents. See story on
p. 5. Burial Grove Cem.
Died in Trumansburg. Burial Grove Cem.
Died at Owasco. Burial at Lansingville. (p. 9,
Lansingville News.)
Died at Phoenix, AZ; son of Mr./Mrs. Orson H.
Menzie. Burial Calvary Cem. See also 5/3/1920.
Was a teacher at Newark Valley School. Burial
Groton Rural Cem.
Active member of First Presbyterian Church, and
Cayuga Chapter, Daughters of American
Revolution. Born in Danby.
Ithaca resident. Funeral held at brother's
Caledonia NY home.
Died at Cortland. Burial at Caroline. (p.
9,Caroline News.)
Conducted a milk route in Ithaca; well-known in
Ithaca area. Father of Roy, Jay, Clark, and
William.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
1920
Osburn
Palmer
Angie
Nancy Snyder
1920
1920
Northrop
Hopkins
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
80
4/27/1920
4/27/1920
4/28/1920
5/3/1920
Emmett
Don Cole
59
7
4/28/1920
4/29/1920
4/29/1920 Pneumonia
4/29/1920
Palmer
Elizabeth T.
52
4/29/1920
4/30/1920
1920
Bates
Russell
9
4/30/1920
1920
1920
Hale
Hill
Lillian T.
Flora Genelda
1920
Jones
Edna Lyle
1920
Munsey
John
1920
Noble
1920
1920
1920
1 month
4/30/1920 (notice)
4/30/1920
Cause of
Death
5/1/1920 Accident
4/30/1920
5/9/1920
4/30/1920
5/1/1920 Pneumonia
71
4/30/1920
5/1/1920 Pneumonia
Ossian G.
56
4/30/1920
4/30/1920
Perce
Mary A.
65
4/30/1920
5/1/1920
VanOrder
Hall
Mary F.
Carrie
73
76
4/30/1920
5/1/1920
4/30/1920
5/3/1920
Page 23 of 54
Notes
Member of First Methodist Episcopal Church.
Died at Detroit, MI;l widow of Earlman Palmer,
formerly of Cortland. Burial Woodmere Cem.,
Detroit.
Died at Sheldrake.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Don A. Hopkins, brother of
George H. Hopkins. Burial Hayt's Cem.
Wife of James Palmer; mother of Arthur W. and
Weldon Palmer. Burial Inlet Valley Cem.
Killed when struck by auto at Rochester; son of
Mr./Mrs. Leland E.Bates; formerly of Ithaca.
Burial at Cortland. See story on p. 2.
Died at Nottoway, WVA; formerly of Ithaca.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Siebert Hill. (p. 7,
Trumansburg News.)
Wife of Cornell Prof. Horace L. Jones. Burial at
Radford, VA.
Died at Dryden; born at Grieves, Endland and
had lived at Dryden for 45 years. Husband of
former Marion Steele of Dryden. Burial Willow
Glen Cen.
Died in New York City; resident of Trumansburg;
President of Board of Education, Graduate of
Cornell Law School. See p. 7.
Wife of William A. Perce; mother of Ruth A. and
Charles C. Perce. Burial at Rose Valley, NY.
Died at Trumansburg.
Died at Interlaken; widow of Ira C. Hall. Burial
Lake View Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Cashen
Peter
1920
Darragh
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
83
5/3/1920
5/7/1920
Charles W.
72
5/3/1920
5/4/1920
Flynn
Walter J.
38
5/4/1920
5/4/1920
1920
1920
1920
Smith
Bagley
Halsey
Arthur
Sarah C.
Elizabeth
78
85
5/4/1920 (notice)
5/5/1920
5/5/1920
5/4/1920
5/6/1920
5/8/1920
Died at Hinsdale, NY; grandfather of Mrs. D. L.
Gamble of Ithaca. He was born in London,
England and baptized in the Old Calender Church
in England. He was a Civil War Veteran. See
obituary, p. 7.
Died at Enfield Center two weeks after death of
his brother, George. Burial Rolfe Cem.
Son of James Flynn;survived by 5 brothers and 3
sisters. Burial Five Corners Cem.
(p. 7, McLean News.)
Widow of Austin Bagley. Burial Jones Cem.
Burial at Macon, IL. (p. 7, Trumansburg News.)
1920
1920
McGrade
Raycroft
Mary
Agnes
76
5/6/1920
5/6/1920
5/7/1920
5/6/1920
Burial Mount Olivet Cem.
Survived by 6 sisters. Burial Mount Olivet Cem.
1920
Allison
Jessie
38
5/8/1920
5/13/1920
1920 Mrs.
1920 Mrs.
Barr
Courtright
86
5/8/1920
5/8/1920
5/14/1920
5/15/1920
1920
Stephens
Eva A.
67
5/8/1920
5/10/1920
1920
Godfrey
Francis F.
82
5/9/1920
5/14/1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
Higginson
Hulbert
Irving
Prime
35
5/9/1920
5/9/1920
5/10/1920 Convulsions
5/10/1920 Accident
1920
McNamara
Margaret S.
5/9/1920
5/10/1920
Died in Spencer at home of her mother, Mrs.
Cornelia Emmons. Graduate of Ithaca High
School; had lived at Denver, CO.
(p. 9, Locke News.)
Died at Candor. Burial Maple Grove Cem. (p. 7,
Candor News.)
Mother of Ralph K. and George R. Stephens.
Burial City Cem.
Died at Covert; formerly of Waterloo. Burial at
Waterloo.
Died at Willseyville home.
Killed when struck by auto in Owego; had been
an employee at Morse Chain Co.; son ofMr./Mrs.
Henry Hulbert of Owego. See p. 2.See also
5/25/1920.
Widow of John S. McNamara. Burial Calvary
Cem. See also 5/12/1920.
Page 24 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
1920
Dean
David M.
1920
Jones
Marcus
1920
1920
McCutcheon
Hazlik (girl)
Lucy Whitlock
1920
1920
1920
Smith
Cross
Hoose
Sarah
Helen B.
Harrison H.
81
1920
1920
Salisbury
Bergen
1920
67
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
5/10/1920
5/10/1920 Bronchial
ailment
5/10/1920
6/10/1920
5/10/1920
5/11/1920
5/10/1920
5/12/1920
80
5/11/1920
5/12/1920 (notice)
5/12/1920
5/12/1920
5/12/1920
5/13/1920
William W.
Veeder
86
26
5/12/1920
5/13/1920
5/15/1920
5/14/1920
Goff
Gustavus A.
72
5/13/1920
5/13/1920
1920
1920
Allen
Goodband
Soloma B.
Annie Eliza
83
47
5/14/1920
5/14/1920
5/14/1920
5/15/1920
1920
Bentley
Viola
68
5/15/1920
1920
John
Zareef
2 mos.
5/15/1920 (notice)
5/17/1920 Stroke of
apoplexy
5/15/1920
1920
1920
Newman
Pierce
Edith Chaffee
Samuel
76
5/15/1920 (notice)
5/15/1920
5/15/1920
5/19/1920
93
1/2/1900
Page 25 of 54
Notes
Son of Jefferson and Matilda Dean; born in
Newfield. He was a criminal lawyer and legal
authority. See story on p. 5. Burial Woodlawn
Cem.
Drowning
Died at :Portsmouth, NH; son of Mr./Mrs. J. A.
Jones of Locke. Burial Bird Cem. (p. 11, Locke
News.)
Widow of Miles McCutcheon. Burial City Cem.
Scarlet fever Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Frank Hazlik of Newfield.
Burial Woodlawn Cem.
Widow of Eli Smith. Burial City Cem.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Willseyville. See also p. 7., 5/22/1920,
White Church News.
Funeral and burial at Preble.
Suicide
Shot himself at his father's farm, north of
Taughannock Falls. Burial Grove Cem. See story
on p. 5.
Meningites
Died at Elmira home; father of Mrs. C. Tracey
Stagg of Ithaca. He was a well-known leaftobacco dealer and prominent Mason. Burial
Woodlawn Cem., Elmira.
Mother of Elmer Allen. Burial at Cardine.
Heart disease Died at her home between Dryden and Slaterville;
wife of George Goodband, mother of Ralph.
Burial Willow Glen Cem. See also 5/21/1920.
Wife of John Bentley. Burial Trumbull's Corners
Cem.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Frank John. Burial Pine
Grove Cem. (p. 7, Ludlowville News.)
Died at Pottersville, PA. (p. 7, Etna News.)
Died near Trumansburg. Burial St. James Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Jones
Sarah J.
1920
Banfield
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
90
5/17/1920
5/24/1920
Calista
91
5/18/1920
5/19/1920
Jones
Juliett Warner
74
5/18/1920
5/20/2020
1920
Rolfe
Sidney Elan
90
5/18/1920
5/18/1920
1920
Davenport
Celestia
82
5/19/1920
5/21/1920
1920
Lormore
Jackson
88
5/19/1920
1920
Patterson
Ruth Sarah
7 mos
5/19/1920
5/20/1920 Heart disease Died near Dryden. Father of Z. B. Lormore. Burial
Green Hills Cem.
5/20/1920
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Henry Patterson; survived
by 7 brothers and sisters. Burial Inlet Valley Cem.
1920
Treman
Orlin
1920
Blauvelt
Sarah Wilson
1920
1920
1920
Snyder
Tayleure
Havens
1920 Mrs.
Kelly
Died at Springfield, MA;lived most of her life in
Ithaca; survived by one daughter and four sons.
She had authored a widely read booklet, "A Story,
Vision and Prayer."
Died near Dryden; widow of John Banfield. See
also Dusenberry News, 5/26/1920.
Died at home of her niece at Rockaway Beach;
had lived most of her life at Van Etten. Widow of
Forbes H. Hugg; also Wilson A. Jones. Daughter
of late William Warner. Burial Mount Hope Cem.,
Van Etten.
Died near Jacksonville. Well-known farmer;
charter member of Ulysses Grange. Burial Rolfe
Cem.
Widow of Charles Davenport; mother of Albert.
Had lived at Dryden. Burial Willow Glen Cem.
5/19/1920 (notice)
5/19/1920
53
5/20/1920
5/21/1920
George
Charles
Nettie
68
81
5/20/1920
5/21/1920
5/21/1920 (notice)
5/22/1920
5/21/1920
5/21/1920
John
70
5/21/1920
5/22/1920 Heart disease Died at Lansingville; wife of John Kelly. Burial at
King Ferry.
Page 26 of 54
One of Trumansburg's oldest residents. Burial
Grove Cem.
Died at Interlaken; widow of John Blauvelt;
daughter of Oscar Wilson. See also 5/22/1920.
Died at Varna. Burial Snyder Hill Cem.
Burial East Lawn Cem.
Died at Rome, NY; formerly of Mecklenburg.
Burial at Mecklenburg. (p. 9, Mecklenburg News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920 Mrs.
O'Connell
William
1920
Suto
Gazel
1920
1920
1920
Brown
Nelson
Starr
1920
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
5/21/1920
5/25/1920
14 mos.
5/21/1920
5/22/1920 Choked
George T.
C. Dora
Ellen Hudson
76
75
78
5/22/1920
5/22/1920
5/22/1920
5/24/1920
5/22/1920
5/24/1920
Killean
Caslick
Patrick
Albert Bruce
89
6 mos.
5/23/1920
5/25/1920
5/26/1920
5/26/1920
1920
1920
Mack
Cornelius
Henry B.
Caroline
65
85
5/25/1920
5/26/1920
5/25/1920
5/27/1920
1920
Smith
Harriet
45
5/26/1920
5/27/1920
1920
Van Riper
Jackson
70
5/26/1920
5/28/1920
1920 Mrs.
Brady
Arthur
57
5/27/1920
5/29/1920
1920
Houck
Anna
5/28/1920
6/9/1920
1920 Mrs.
Howell
Ebenezer
1920
1920
Kinney
Sincebaugh
Samuel F.
Marjorie E.
1920
Steinburg
1920
McClintock
5/28/1920
(notice)
5/28/1920
85
18 mos.
5/29/1920
5/29/1920
6/1/1920
6/1/1920
Mary J.
77
5/29/1920
5/29/1920
Robert
55
5/30/1920
Page 27 of 54
Cause of
Death
6/1/1920 Suicide
Notes
Died at Grand Rapids MI. (p. 9, Trumansburg
News.)
Choked while eating an apple while on the Black
Diamond Train en route to Ithaca. Son of
Mr./Mrs. Frank Suto of South Bend, IN.
Died at Lansing. Burial Pleasant Grove Cem.
Died near Etna. Burial Willow Glen Cem.
Died at Seneca Falls; Widow of Samuel F. Starr.
Lived most of her life in Jacksonville and Ithaca.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Cortland. (p. 11, McLean News.)
Son of Mr.Mrs. Robert Bruce Caslick of Newfield.
Burial Woodlawn Cem.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Widow of Hiram Cornelius. Burial Snyder Hill
Cem.
Died at Tompkins County Tuberculosis Hospital;
wife of William J. Amith of Groton. Burial at
Manlius, NY.
Died at Spencer; born at Newfield; lived in Ithaca
for 20 years. Burial at Spencer.
Died at daughter's home at Trumansburg; had
lived at Victor, NY. Burial Grove Cem.
Died at Denver, CO; widow of F. G. Houck; both
former residents of Enfield.
Burial Groton Rural Cem. (p. 11, Groton News.)
Burial City Cem.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Maynard Sincebaugh. Burial
Hayt's Cem.
Died at North Lansing; widow of Charles H.
Steinburg. Burial North Lansing Cem.
Died by hanging; well-known Dryden farmer.
Burial Green Hills Cem. See p.7.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Brown
Irving
1920
Wilcox
Dorothy R.
1920 Prof.
Burdick
Francis M.
1920 Mrs.
Bridgman
CharlesH.
1920
Creedon
Mary
1920
1920
Percy
Teeter
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
5/31/1920
6/1/1920 Heart attack
10
5/31/1920
74
6/3/1920
6/1/1920 Surgery
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Charles E. Wilcox. Survived
complications by 5 brothers and 3 sisters. Burial Lake View
Cem.
6/4/1920
Died at summer home at DeRuyter; former
Cornell Professor; author of law books. See p. 7.
6/4/1920
6/8/1920
80
6/5/1920
6/7/1920
Webster
Catherine
95
6/5/1920
6/5/1920
Ward
Amber
18
6/5/1920
6/7/1920
1920
1920
Wilson
Babcock
Ellen M.
Edwin
79
2
6/5/1920
6/6/1920
6/5/1920
6/7/1920
1920
1920
Linderbery
Swartwood
Horace J.
Harvey Paul
84
2
6/7/1920
6/7/1920
1920
1920
Terwilliger
Wilson
Emma
Dewitt
69
84
6/7/1920
6/7/1920
1920 Mrs.
Bowne
Watson H.
6/9/1920
Page 28 of 54
6/10/1920 Pneumonia
6/10/1920
6/8/1920
6/8/1920 Bronchial
peumonia
7/8/1920
6/16/1920
6/10/1920 Train
accident
Died at Dryden. Burial Green Hills Cem. See p. 5.
Died at Penn's Grove, NJ; formerly of Ithaca.
Burial at Penn Yan, NY.
Had lived at Newfield for 45 years. Burial Calvary
Cem.
(p. 7, Taughannock Falls News.)
Died at South Lansing. (p. 11, Ludlowville News.)
Died at Slaterville; daughter of Mr./Mrs. C. M.
Ward. (p. 7, Slaterville News.) See also p. 9,
6/8/1920.
Widow of W. H. Bilson. Burial City Cem.
Died at Interlaken; son of Mr./Mrs. Sarepta J.
Babcock; brother to Ella. Burial Lake View Cem.
Burial City Cem.
Sonof Mr./Mrs. Paul Swartwood of Dusenbery.
Burial Willow Glen Cem.
Wife of Charles Terwilliger. Burial City Cem.
Burial Groton Rural Cem. (p. 15, Pleasant Valley
News.)
Train wreck near Schenectady; was mother-inlaw of Nellis Crouse, Cornell Grad student whose
two children, Daniel and Marian Crouse were also
killed. See story on p. 7.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
1920
Crouse
Daniel
12
6/9/1920
6/10/1920 Train
accident
Train wreck near Schenectady; son of Cornell
Grad student, Nellis Crouse. See story on p. 7.
1920
Crouse
Marion
20 mos.
6/9/1920
6/10/1920 Train
accident
1920
Kennell
Lester S.
28
6/10/1920
6/11/1920 Drowning
1920
1920
1920
Mandeville
Adamy
Baker
Mary E.
Marietta
Anna E.
73
91
72
6/10/1920
6/11/1920
6/11/1920
6/11/1920
6/14/1920
6/12/1920
1920
1920
1920
Morse
Severy
Baker
Robert
Amos
Frances T.
74
6/12/1920
6/12/1920 (notice)
6/13/1920
6/12/1920
6/12/1920
6/21/1920
1920
Fuller
Sarah
72
6/13/1920
6/14/1920
1920
Holcomb
Ruth
82
6/13/1920
6/14/1920
Train wreck near Schenectady; daughter of
Cornell Grad student, Nellis Crouse. See story on
p. 7.
Drowned at Enfield Glen while fishing; was a
Cornell instructor. Had lived and was buried at
Rochester.
Widow of Calvin Mandeville. Burial City Cem.
Died near Dryden. Burial at Camden, NY.
Died at Elmira following recent surgery; wife of
John Baker. Burial Curtis Cem., Danby.
Burial South Hill Cem.
Died at Syracuse. (p. 7, Dryden News.)
Died at Candor. Burial at Catatonk. (p. 6, Candor
News.)
Died at Jacksonville; widow of Frank Fuller.
Burial Grove Cem.
Died at Trumansburg; widow of Escha Holcomb.
1920
1920
1920 Mrs.
Tanner
Gray
Sawyer
Delos
William
Sanford
81
75
62
6/13/1920
6/14/1920
6/14/1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
Evans
Jenks
Kenney
Middaugh
Daly
French
Stephen
Anna L.
Anna E.
Lucy
John T.
E. C.
6/14/1920
6/15/1920
6/15/1920 Stroke of
paralysis
6/21/1920
6/16/1920
6/15/1920
6/17/1920
6/16/1920
6/16/1920
81
82
65
Death Date
6/15/1920
6/15/1920
6/15/1920
6/15/1920
6/16/1920
6/16/1920 (notice)
Page 29 of 54
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Groton. Burial Groton Rural Cem.
Burial West Danby Cem.
Burial Grove Cem.
Burial at Lounsbery. (p. 6., Candor News.
Died at Dryden; wife of I. D. Jenks.
Burial Catholic Cem., Trumansburg.
Widow of Benjamin Middaugh.
Burial South Hill Cem.
Died at Waverly; born in Dryden; son of late
Syrus French, husband of Jenny Sperry. Burial at
Waverly. (p. 15, Dryden News; also p. 2,
6/19/1920, Dryden News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
1920 Jr.
Sanford
Herbert L.
Infant
1920
Marsh
Robert
1920
Mitchell
Louise Harris
1920
Hunt
1920
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
6/16/1920 (notice)
6/16/1920
6/17/1920 (notice)
6/17/1920
37
6/17/1920
6/23/1920
George W.
76
6/18/1920
6/18/1920
Prager
Edwin W.
62
6/18/1920
6/18/1920
1920
Lord
Elmira Albright
87
6/19/1920 (notice)
6/19/1920
1920
Givens
Allen
29
6/20/1920
1920
Bangs
Edgar
18
6/21/1920
6/22/1920 Motorcycle
accident
7/2/1920
1920 Sr.
1920
1920
King
McWhorter
O'Brien
T. H.
Eliza
Daniel S.
79
67
56
6/21/1920
6/22/1920
6/22/1920
6/21/1920
6/23/1920
6/22/1920
1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
1920
Donohue
Duntz
Frith
Hubbard
Helen Acton
87
69
6/23/1920
6/23/1920 (notice)
6/23/1920
6/23/1920
6/24/1920
6/23/1920
6/23/1920
6/24/1920
Sarah
Ida
Page 30 of 54
Notes
Died at Washington; mother was former Ithacan,
Nellie L. Dougherty.
Burial South Hill Cem. (p. 2, Morris Chapel
News.)
Died at Shelburne, VT where she and her
husband conducted a private sanitarium.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Charles Harris of Sheldrake.
Burial at Sheldrake Springs Cem. See p. 2.
Civil War Veteran, postal employee for 40 years,
50-year member of I.O.O.F., and long-time
member of B.P.O. Elks. Burial Lake View Cem.
Story on p. 5.
Prominent dance instructor and proprietor of the
Frontenac Hotel at Cayuga Lake. Burial Grove
Cem. Story on p. 5.
Died at McGrawville; sister of late George
Albright. (p. 2., Dryden News.)
Accident occurred 3 weeks prior near Dryden;
had lived at Elmira. Burial Green Hills Cem.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Charles Bangs. Burial Maple
Grove Cem. (p. 9, Candor News.)
Died at Kingtown, near Trumansburg.
Died at Trumansburg. Burial Grove Cem.
Well-known businessman, owned meat markets
in Ithaca; member of Knights of Columbus, Elks,
and other organizations. Burial Calvary Cem.
Story on p. 2; also 6/24/1920.
Died at Syracuse. See also 6/26/1920.
(p. 9, McLean News.)
Burial Hayt's Cem.
Died at Dryden; widow of Howard Hubbard, a
Civil War Veteran. Burial Berkshire Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Merrow
Samuel
1920 Mrs.
1920
Millard
Perella
Willis H.
John T.
1920
Stevens
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
6/23/1920 (notice)
6/23/1920
Burial Indian Mound Cem. (p. 9, Locke News.)
40
6/23/1920
6/23/1920
6/24/1920
7/2/1920
Died at Dundee; formerly of Ithaca.
Burial Maple Grove Cem. (p. 9, Candor News)
Frank
65
6/23/1920 (notice)
Phillips
Laverne S.
30
6/24/1920
6/23/1920 Heart disease Died at Prospect Valley. A special casket was
and dropsy
made to support his weight of 500 lbs. Burial
Candor Cem. See story on p. 7.
6/25/1920 Bright's
Died at Cornell Infirmary; was an Agriculture
disease
College Instructor and Cornell graduate. Son of
Mr./Mrs. William S. Phillips of Mayville. Burial at
Mount Mariah Cem., Philadelphia. See p. 7.
1920
1920
Wegman
Fritts
Ulrich
Edward M.
71
6/24/1920
6/25/1920
6/24/1920
6/26/1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
Kelly
Short
Warren B.
George E.
49
6/25/1920
6/26/1920
7/1/1920
6/28/1920
1920
Thornburg
Scott
22
6/26/1920
6/26/1920 Suicide
1920
White
Henry T.
84
6/26/1920
6/28/1920
1920 Mrs.
Ward
Peter
66
7/1/1920
1920
Avery
Marcus A.
88
7/2/1920
Member of carpenter's union. Burial Lake View
Cem.
7/2/1920
Died at Interlaken; mother of John, James and
George Ward.
7/3/1920 Heart disease Died at Groton. Burial Groton Rural Cem.
1920
Allen
William
87
7/3/1920
7/6/1920
1920
Foote
Sophia
80
7/3/1920
7/3/1920
Page 31 of 54
Burial City Cem.
Died at Scranton, PA; husband of former Minnie
Clark of Ithaca. Burial Grove Cem. See also
6/28/1920.
(p. 11, Mecklenburg News.)
Member of Knights Templar Lodge. Burial New
Berlin, NY.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Frank Thornburg of San
Francisco, CA; was a Cornell Law School junior.
He had been despondent and ill. See p. 5.
Died at Jacksonville; was a Civil War Veteran
and oldest resident of Jacksonville. Burial Grove
Cem.
Died on her 80th birthday.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
1920
Grant
Kelley
Frances
Louise
1920
Beach
1920
1920
77
89
7/3/1920
7/3/1920
7/3/1920
7/15/1920
Florence A.
22
7/5/1920
7/6/1920
Masters
Pelham
Livingston
Nancy Jane
71
82
7/6/1920
7/6/1920
7/7/1920
7/6/1920
1920
1920
Shelton
Egbert
Jean Louise
Elizabeth
9 days
84
7/6/1920
7/7/1920
7/6/1920
7/8/1920
1920
Fribig
John P.
62
7/7/1920
7/17/1920
1920
1920
Murphy
Gibbs
Jennie
Andrew I.
52
7/7/1920
7/8/1920
7/7/1920
7/8/1920
1920
Johnson
Norman C.
74
7/9/1920
7/9/1920 Stroke of
paralysis
1920 Mrs.
Richie
James
1920
Halsey
Martha
1920
Brewer
William E.
1920
1920
Cantine
Tarbell
Mary
Lula Hare
7/10/1920 (notice)
7/10/1920
80
7/13/1920
7/17/1920
64
7/14/1920
7/14/1920
31
7/14/1920 (notice)
7/14/1920
7/14/1920
7/23/1920
Page 32 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Newfield. Burial Woodlawn Cem.
Burial Grove Cem. (p. 9, Trumansburg News.)
Wife of Claude Beach; daughter of Mr./Mrs.
Addison Green. Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Dryden. Burial Fisher's Cem.
Widow of David Pelham. Burial East Lawn Cem.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Harry B. Shelton.
Died at Lansing; widow of Peter V. Egbert. Burial
North Lansing Cem.
Died at Clifton Springs Sanitarium. Burial Maple
Grove Cem. (p. 7,Candor News.)
Burial at Ludlowville.
Well-known farmer; secretary of Enfield Grange;
Ass't. Secretary of Tompkins County Pomona
Grange. Burial Hayt's Cem.
Was a Civil War Veteran, boat builder and
carpenter. He was known as "Pop;" survived by
son Anson and 4 daughters. Burial Lake View
Cem. See story on p. 7.
Had lived at Geneva; sister of Mrs. R. J. Hunt.
Burial Grove Cem. (p.9, Trumansburg News.)
Widow of Eleazer B. Halsey of Trumansburg.
Burial Grove Cem. (p. 7, Trumansburg News.)
Member of Knights of Pythias. Burial Lake View
Cem.
Burial E. Homer Cem. (p. 11, Locke News.)
Died a few hours after giving birth to Genevieve
Ruth Tarbell. Wife of Howard Tarbell;daughter of
Mr./Mrs. Lloyd Hare; mother also of Randall
Tarbell. Burial North Lansing Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
1920
Pinckney
D. Jay
67
7/15/1920
7/15/1920 Heart attack
Well-known farmer; recently sold his Glenwood
area farm. See p. 7; Also see 7/19/1920.
1920
Bassett
Mary
8
7/16/1920
7/17/1920 Crysipelas
1920
1920
Shurter
Courtney
Surtis
Charles E.
7/16/1920
7/17/1920
7/17/1920
7/19/1920 Apoplexy
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Myron W. Bassett of
Interlaken. Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Syracuse; formerly of Ithaca.
Former Cornell Rowing Coach. Burial Lake View
Cem. See stories on p. 3; also see 7/20/1920.
1920
Smith
Emily Nye
80
7/18/1920
7/19/1920
Died at Speedsville; widow of Frederick Smith.
1920
1920
Foster
Gaydos
Ira
Lazzlo
68
73
7/19/1920
7/19/1920
7/20/1920
7/19/1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
Wilson
Austin
Bradford
72
7/20/1920
7/21/1920
7/15/1920
7/22/1920
1920
Main
Deville
7/23/1920 (notice)
7/23/1920
1920
Sellen
Mary Elizabeth
7/23/1920 (notice)
7/23/1920
1920
George (boy)
7/24/1920 (notice)
7/24/1920
Died at Interlaken. Burial at Rushville, NY.
Died at Danby at home of daughter, Mrs. Joseph
Lissick. He had formerly lived, and was buried, at
Perth Amboy, NJ.
(p. 9, Mecklenburg News.)
Had lived all of his life at Lansing. Burial Asbury
Cem.
Burial Groton Cem. (p. 9, East Hill, Groton
News.)
Died at Auburn;widow of Moses Sellen; formerly
of West Groton. (p. 9, West Groton News., also
7/14/1920, p. 11, Locke News.)
Son of Mr./Mrs. John Georgel (p. 7, Myers News.)
1920
Swan
Byron
46
7/24/1920
7/24/1920
1920
1920
Barr
Beverly
Jane B.
Lillian Eleanor
82
39
7/25/1920
7/26/1920
7/26/1920
7/27/1920
1920
Cleary
Martin
25
7/28/1920
7/29/1920 Typhoid fever Died at Chicago; son of Mr./Mrs. Martin M.
Cleary. He was a 1916 Cornell Grad, Army
veteran. Burial Calvary Cem. See p. 6,
7/29/1920; also 8/2/1920.
Infant
Death Date
Page 33 of 54
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
Son of Mrs. Mary Swan; survived by 5 sisters, 1
brother. Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Ludlowville; widow of Dr. D. T. Barr.
Wife of Edson Beverly. Burial Lake View Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
1920
1920
Bradford
Francis
Harrington
Julia
Axcia
Eugene
82
72
1920
Middaugh
Lillian
1920
Sage
Herbert M.
1920
Jones
Fred
1920 Mrs.
1920
Clesky
Rafferty
1920
7/29/1920
7/29/1920
7/29/1920
7/30/1920
8/3/1920
7/29/1920
8/1/1920
8/7/1920
40
8/1/1920
7/2/1920 Injuries
65
8/2/1920
8/2/1920 Accident
John Grover
8/3/1920 (notice)
8/3/1920
8/3/1920
8/7/1920
McLallen
John Grover
8/5/1920 (notice)
8/5/1920 Drowning
1920
Finn
Clyde Turner
16 mos.
8/6/1920
8/6/1920 Burns
1920
Mandeville
Charles C.
82
8/6/1920
8/7/1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
Henry
Tucker
Claude
1920
Cartwright
Eleanor Dey
89
8/8/1920
1920
1920
Reed
Maynard
Emma
Lloyd
18
8/8/1920
8/10/1920
8/7/1920
8/7/1920 (notice)
Page 34 of 54
Cause of
Death
8/11/1920
8/7/1920 Choked
8/9/1920
8/9/1920 Apoplexy
8/10/1920 Drowning
Notes
Widow of John K. Bradford.
(p. 7, McLean News.)
Had lived, and was buried, at Syracuse. Had
relatives in the Ithaca area.
Died at Candor. Burial Maple Grove Cem. (p. 7,
Candor News.)
Fell from a freight train while working at the train
station at Painted Post; nephew of C. A. Sage of
Ithaca.
Killed when he fell 24 feet from his barn roof at
Waterburg. Story on p. 5. Burial at Trumansburg.
(p. 7, Locke News.)
Died at King Ferry; survived by his wife, 10 sons,
3 daughters. (p. 7, King Ferry News.)
Drowned at Richfield Park, NJ. (p. 7,
Trumansburg News.)
Died from scalding water burns; son of Mr./Mrs.
Pern Finn of Danby. Burial Danby Rural Cem.
See p. 5.
Retired farmer; Civil War Veteran, Co. G, NY
Cavalry. Interred at Lake View Cem. Mauseleum.
Died at South Cortland. (p. 7, McLean News.)
Died at Hornell; choked while suffering from
quinsy; son of Mr./Mrs. Eugene Tucker of
Willseyville.
Died at Rochester home; widow of Robert
Cartwright, daughter of late Ebenezer and
Eleanor Dey Mack. Last survivor of her family.
Widow of Robert Reed.
Drowned at Vanatta Dam; son of Edward
Maynard. Story on p. 2; see alwo 8/11/1920.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
1920
Mattison
Cecile
1920
Hine
Barbara
7
8/12/1920
1920
Gunderman
Frank D.
61
8/13/1920
8/13/1920 Stroke
Well-known Danby farmer. See also 8/14/1920.
complications
1920
Miller
Amelia
8/13/1920 (notice)
8/13/1920
Died at Harford. (p. 7, Washington District News.)
1920
Trickett
Richard Stuart
18 mos.
8/13/1920
Son of Mr./Mrs. Alfred J. Trickett of Newfield.
1920 Prof.
Bothwell
James L.
85
8/15/1920
8/13/1920 Digestive
problems
8/16/1920
1920
Knight
Mary A.
72
8/15/1920
8/16/1920
1920
Randolph
William I.
62
8/15/1920
8/16/1920
1920
Sheridan
Michael
59
8/15/1920
8/16/1920 Accident
1920
Davidson
Martha
65
8/17/1920
8/25/1920 Heart failure
1920
Strait
Henry
62
8/17/1920
1920 Mrs.
DeBall
William I.
24
8/21/1920
8/11/1920 (notice)
Page 35 of 54
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
8/11/1920
Died at Binghamton. Burial Caroline Cem. (p. 7,
Etna News.)
8/13/1920 Diabetes
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. George Hine of Newfield.
complications Burial Woodlawn Cem.
Born at W. Groton; principal of an Albany high
school for 51 years. Burial at Albany.
Died while visiting daughter at Dryden. Burial
South Lyons, MI.
Son of David Randolph. Burial City Cem. See
also 8/17/1920.
Fractured his skull in falll from scaffolding when
he and his son-in-law, Chester Rogers, were
shingling a roof. Burial St. Leo's Cem., at Tully.
See story on p. 5; also 8/18/1920.
Died while visiting friends at Binghamton. Had
lived at McLean.
8/27/1920
Died at Spencer. Burial at Candor. (p. 7, Spencer
News.)]
8/27/1920 Surgery
Died following surgery for appendicitis while
complications visiting her sister at Cleveland. Had worked at
Ithaca Gun Co. Burial at Cleveland.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Houghton
Louise Seymour
1920
Sheridan
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
82
8/22/1920
9/7/1920
Died at Huntington, LI; widow of Elihu R.
Houghton. Former Ithaca residents. She was a
charter member of the first religeous settlement
in America, "The King's Daughters Settlement,"
and was an editor and contributor to many
magazines and newspapers.
John
59
8/22/1920
8/23/1920
Died at Willard. Brother of Mrs. John Harkness,
Thomas, William, and Michael Sheridan (who
died on 8/15/1920). Burial Calvary Cem.
Hillick
Frances Buck
84
8/23/1920
8/23/1920
Widow of John J. Hillick. Burial East Lawn Cem.
1920
1920
O'Brien
Chamberlain
Amelia
Mary E. Jones
79
8/24/1920
8/26/1920
8/25/1920
8/26/1920
1920
Overbaugh
John Caldwell
1920
Rhodes
G. Dana
1920
Popplewell
Robert James
1920
Dunlavey
Helen Louise B.
1920
Reynolds
1920
1920
1920
Burial City Cem.
Widow of Lewis H. Chamberlain. Burial at
Susquehanna, PA.
Husband of Dorothy Snyder, former student at
Ithaca Conservatory of Music. Well-known in
Ithaca, they resided at Saugerties, NY.
Died at Groton home. Burial West Danby Baptist
Cem. See also 8/28/1920
Died at Kirksville, MO; son of Mr./Mrs. James H.
Popplewell, former Ithacans.
Poisoning occurred after a tooth extraction, 12
days after her marriage to Dennis A. Dunlavey,
formerly of Ithaca. Funeral and burial at Bay City,
MI, her former home.
Widow of Samuel Clark Reynolds; had lived at
Groton. Burial Groton Rural Cem. (See also p. 7,
Groton News, 9/4/1920.)
Died at Chipman's Corners, near Groton. Burial
Groton Rural Cem.
Burial City Cem.
Burial City Cem.
8/26/1920
67
Cause of
Death
9/9/1920 Brain
hemorrhage.
8/26/1920
8/26/1920
8/27/1920
9/7/1920
29
8/28/1920
9/7/1920 Blood
poisoning
Mary A.
81
8/28/1920
8/30/1920 Stroke
Stewart
Ellen
95
8/29/1920
8/30/1920
Thayer
Fleming
Louise
Andrew J.
80
8/29/1920
8/30/1920
8/30/1920
8/31/1920
Page 36 of 54
Notes
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
1920
Hart
Sharpe
Alfonso E.
James M.
1920
Butler
1920
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
62
72
8/30/1920
8/30/1920
8/30/1920
8/31/1920
Henry Willis
70
8/31/1920
8/31/1920
Fosburg
McDonald
Alice C.
Caroline W.
55
58
9/1/1920
9/1/1920
9/2/1920
9/3/1920
1920
Brown
Lavinia Rockwell
79
9/2/1920
9/3/1920
1920
Mintz
Ben
65
9/2/1920
9/3/1920
1920
Clarke
Charles Francis
9/3/1920
9/18/1920
1920
Kiff
Charles Stanley
75
9/3/1920
9/7/1920
1920
1920
Piper
Field
Tamar
Amelia
94
65
9/3/1920
9/4/1920
9/4/1920
9/4/1920
1920
1920
Earls
Burch
Susan
Chester D.
87
76
9/6/1920
9/7/1920
9/15/1920
9/8/1920
1920
McCoy
Raymond
9/8/1920
9/15/1920
1920
Olmstead
Charles C.
58
9/9/1920
9/10/1920
1920
1920
Smith
Walker
Frank
Eliza
65
83
9/10/1920
9/10/1920
Page 37 of 54
Cause of
Death
9/11/1920
9/15/1920 Cancer
Notes
Died near Groton. Burial at Peruville.
Died at Skinner Sanitorium at Genoa; was a Civil
War Veteran, Union Army, Co. E, 51st Indiana
Vols. Burial at Spencer.
Died while visiting at Hartford, CT; long-time
employee of Morse Chain Co.; active Masonic
member. See story on p. 2; also 9/1/1920.
Wife of Joy Fosburg. Burial at Leroy.
Widow of James B. McDonald. Burial East Lawn
Cem.
Widow of August Brown. Burial Woodlawn Cem.
Well-known merchant in clothing business for 44
years. Burial at Syracuse. See story on p. 5; also
see 9/7/1920.
Died at San Francisco home; formerly of
Ludlowville. (p. 7, Ludlowville News.)
Died at daughter's Elmira home. Burial Grove
Cem.'
Died at Newfield.
Wife of O. L. Field. Burial Fort Hill Cem., Auburn.
See also 9/7/1920.
(p. 7, Mecklenburg News.)
Died at Cortland hospital; was a prominent
Dryden farmer, always lived in the house in which
he was born. Burial Green Hills Cem.
Had lived, and died, at Endicott; formerly of Black
Oak Corners. (p. 7, Black Oak Corners News.)
Recently purchased a farm at Trumbull's
Corners; originally from Appleton, WI.
Died near Newfield. Burial Seabring Cem,
(p.7, McLean News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Sutliff
Lintford
1920 Mrs.
McGraw
James S.
1920
1920
Wallace
Poelzoorde
Mary A.
Eugene
1920
Winne
Leland J.
1920
Haas
Pearl Austin
1920
1920 Dr.
Hollister
Miller
James B.
C. D.
1920 Mrs.
1920
Slaght
Bogart
1920 Mrs.
1920
70
9/11/1920
9/11/1920
Died near West Dryden. Burial Willow Glen Cem.
46
9/12/1920
9/13/1920
77
13 mos.
9/12/1920
9/13/1920
9/13/1920
9/14/1920
33
9/13/1920
9/13/1920
9/14/1920
9/25/1920
Survived by husband, 4 daughters and 2 sons.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Caroline. Burial at Borodino, NY.
Died near Newfield; son of Mr./Mrs. Paul
Poelzoorde; originally from Belgium.
Well-known Interlaken grocer, son of Mr./Mrs.
Cary Winne.
Died at St. Joseph Sanitarium at Dearborn, MI;
formerly of Trumansburg; wife of Frederick H.
Haas; sister of Mary Ogden of Ithaca. Burial at
Chaumont, NY. (p. 7, Trumansburg News.)
78
74
9/14/1920
9/14/1920
9/15/1920
9/15/1920 Pneumonia
Luther
William
72
62
9/14/1920
9/15/1920
9/15/1920
9/16/1920
Gray
Tompkins
Luther
Edda
70
9/15/1920
9/15/1920 (notice)
9/15/1920
9/15/1920
1920
Welch
Carlton S.
50
9/15/1920
9/16/1920
1920
Barger
J. C.
53
9/16/1920
9/16/1920 Accident
1920
Cook
Harvey
9/16/1920 (notice)
9/16/1920
Page 38 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Burial East Lawn Cem.
Died at Poughkeepsie;originally from Ithaca.
Brother of H. G. Miller of Ithaca.
Died at Interlaken. Burial at Lodi.
Died at Interlaken. Burial Lake View Cem.,
Interlaken.
Had lived, and was buried, at McLean.
Died at Willard. Burial at Trumbull's Corners. (p.
2, Trumbull's Corners News.)
Died in a New York City hospital; son of Colonel
and Mrs. Welch, former proprietors of the Ithaca
Hotel. Husband of former Ithacan, Lucy Farrar.
Burial City Cem.
Killed in trolley car accident on Eddy Street; was
a druggist from Springville, NY visiting his
daughter, Mrs. H. L. VanValkenburg. See p. 2
9/16/1920,and also p. 5, 9/17/1920.
Burial Bird Cem. (p. 7, Locke News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Adsitt
Mary A.
1920
Moe
1920 Mrs.
1920
79
9/17/1920
9/18/1920
Mary A.
29
9/17/1920
9/17/1920 Injuries
Taft
Tarbell
Johnson M.
86
87
9/18/1920
9/18/1920
1920
Weed
Augusta
83
9/18/1920
1920
Ballard
Eleanor
7 mos.
9/19/1920
1920
Wood
Mildred Bowen
1920 Dr.
Nasmyth
George W.
38
9/20/1920
1920
Norton
William J.
70
9/20/1920
9/21/1920 Broken neck
1920
Sears
Frank Levi
80
9/20/1920
9/20/1920
9/19/1920
Page 39 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Pioneer business woman; managerof Wyckoff
Phonographic Inst. For 33 years. She brought the
first typewriter ever to Ithaca, and trained many at
her school. Burial Lake View Cem. See p.5.
Injuries were sustained in trolley car accident on
Eddy Street on 9/16/1920. Burial at Peruville. See
stories on p. 2, 9/16/1920, and on p. 5,
9/17/1920.
9/21/1920
(p. 9, Spencer News.)
9/20/1920 Stroke
Died at Genoa; born near Groton, one of 13
complications children. Survived by brothers Silas, C. Burr, and
Frank of Groton. Burial N. Lansing Cem.
9/20/1920
Died at daughter's Cortland home; had lived at
Danby and West Danby, where she was married
to H. Chester Weed on July 4, 1865. Burial
Evergreen Cem., Spencer.
9/20/1920
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. W. C. Ballard; sister of
Grace, Ruth, and Evelyn. Burial Lake View Cem.
9/22/1920 Brief illness
Died near Alpine; wife of Francis Wood; married
only 4 weeks. Formerly of Black Oak Corners.
See p. 11.
9/21/1920 Typhoid fever Died at Geneva, Switzerland; well-known
sociologist, Cornell graduate, son of Mr./Mrs. W.
H. Nasmyth; resident of Ithaca. See story on p. 7.
Fell 20 feet from a straw stack at farm near
Lansing; well-known farmer and former Town
Constable. Burial North Lansing Cem. Story on p.
5. See also 9/22/1920.
Died at Hammondsport; was born, and buried, at
Wellsboro, PA.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Armstrong
Frances I.
1920
Hurley
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
72
9/21/1920
9/22/1920
Nora Purcell
68
9/21/1920
9/22/1920
Judson
Joseph E.
85
9/21/1920
9/21/1920
1920
Peck
George W.
76
9/21/1920
9/22/1920
1920
Carpenter
Claude
41
9/22/1920
9/27/1920 Addident
1920 Mrs.
Fowler
William
9/22/1920 (notice)
9/22/1920
1920
Hood
Sarah L. Baker
78
9/22/1920
9/29/1920
1920
Stowell
Edward Esty
40
9/22/1920
9/23/1920 Apoplexy
1920
1920
Utter
Dolph
Jennie
Freda L.
26
9/23/1920
9/24/1920
9/23/1920
10/1/1920
1920
Fellows
Mary Ellen
77
9/24/1920
1920
Killean
Johnson
57
9/24/1920
Page 40 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Wife of Joseph Armstrong. Burial at Grass Lake,
MI.
Died while visiting family in Ithaca; had lived at
Scranton, PA. Burial St. Mary's Cem., WilkesBarre, PA.
Died at Danby home. Burial Danby Rural Cem.
Died at Newfield; Civil War Veteran; active in
public and civivc affairs; widower of Harriet
Adelaide Howland of Danby. Burial Woodlawn
Cem. See p. 5; also see p. 7, 9/27/1920, Newfield
News.
Killed in a fall from a scaffold while working on a
Rochester building. He was a painter; son of
Mr./Mrs. Frank Carpenter of Ithaca. See p. 3.
Died at Elmira; formerly of Mecklenburg. (p. 11,
Mecklenburg News.)
Died at Auburn; widow of William H. Hood,
former Ithacans. Burial Seneca Falls.
Died at a swimming pool at a New York City
University club; husband of former Alice Fellowes
of Cornwall; son of Mr./Mrs. Calvin D. Stowell of
Ithaca. He was a prominent lawyer. See p. 5.
No known relatives.
Died at Willard State Hospital; wife of Herry J.
Dolph, mother of Emma and Frederick. Daughter
of Mr./Mrs. N. C. Barto. Burial Maple Grove
Cem., Gainesville, NY.
9/25/1920 Stroke
Died at Dryden; widow of Dr. R. S. Fellows. Burial
complications Newark Valley Cem.
9/28/1920
Died at McLean. (p. 9, McLean News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Vilano
Salvatore
1920
Chaffee
1920
Age
25
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
9/24/1920
9/24/1920 Burns
Oliver F.
9/25/1920
9/27/1920
Hyde
Mary Ellis
9/25/1920
10/1/1920
1920
Wood
Frances
84
9/25/1920
9/27/1920
1920
Eastman
Ruth
19
9/27/1920
9/27/1920
1920
Woodin
Mina May
29
9/27/1920
9/28/1920
1920 Rev.
Annable
S.
9/29/1920 (notice)
9/29/1920
1920
Mitchell
Sarah E.
69
9/30/1920
10/1/1920
1920
Worsell
James
68
9/30/1920
10/1/1920 Gangrene
1920
Rankin
Peter
2
9/15/1920
10/8/1920
1920
Brown
Minnie A.
42
10/1/1920
10/2/1920
1920
Hollister
Lucy R.
74
10/2/1920
10/2/1920
1920
1920
Moore
Smith
Calla L.
Anna Tyler
33
10/2/1920
10/2/1920
10/9/1920
10/4/1920
Page 41 of 54
Notes
Suffered burns at work at Morse Chain Co.;
husband of Rosa Vilano. Burial Calvary Cem.
See p. 7.
Brother of Norman Chaffee; father of Mrs.
William Banfield.
Died at Elmira; wife of Frank D. Hyde, former
Ithaca residents. Burial Woodlawn Cem.
Died at Willard Hospital; had lived at Ludlowville,
the last of 7 children of David Wood. Burial Pine
Grove Cem.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Gilbert C. Chappell of
Caroline, sister of Grace. Burial Hayt's Cem.
Wife of Ray Woodin; mother of Lawrence, Fred,
and Lena May. Daughter of Mrs. Nettie
Casterline. Burial Pleasant Grove Cem.
Died at Shortsville, NY; was Pastor at Methodist
Episcopal Church at Newfield 15 years ago.
Burial Woodlawn Cem.
Died at Brookton; wife of Eugene H. Mitchell.
Burial East Lawn.
Died of disease in his foot at his Lansing Station
home; leaves 5 children.
Died at Peking, China; son of Mr/Mrs. Robert
Rankin, grandson of Mrs. George S. Rankin of
Ithaca.
Died at Aurora; wife of William H. Brown,
daughter of Mrs. John Considine. Employed at
Rothschild's Dept. Store.
Widow of Holmes Hollister. Burial East Lawn
Cem.
Mother of William. Burial Mainesburg, PA.
Wife of Harold Smith, mother of 10-day old son,
Stuart Tyler. Had lived at Groton; former school
teacher. Burial Groton Rural Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
1920
Onan
Bogart
Martha A.
Delephine
1920
Gillett
Frances S.
1920
Gilmor
1920
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
84
69
10/3/1920
10/5/1920
10/4/1920
10/6/1920
89
10/5/1920
10/6/1920
Sarah Weed
10/5/1920
10/12/1920
Hollister
Mitchell
James
Amelia
10/5/1920 (notice)
10/5/1920
10/5/1920
10/5/1920
1920
Letts
Gladys May
4 mos.
10/6/1920
10/7/1920
1920
McAllister
Anne C.
80
10/6/1920
10/7/1920
1920
Blackman
Walter
54
10/8/1920
10/14/1920
1920
Cole
George
75
10/8/1920
10/9/1920
1920
Fisher
(boy)
10/8/1920 (notice)
10/8/1920
1920
1920
Lamm
Reed
Sophronia
Frederick George
94
66
10/8/1920
10/8/1920
1920
Allen
F. R.
41
10/9/1920
1920
Hotchkiss
Earl
21
10/9/1920
Infant
Page 42 of 54
Cause of
Death
10/15/1920
10/9/1920
10/9/1920 Pneumonia
Notes
Burial East Lawn Cem.
Died at Newfield; wife of William Bogart. Burial
Woodlawn Cem.
Widow of Nathaniel M. Gillett, formerly of
Newfield and Ithaca. Burial Newfield Cem.
Died and buried at Pittsburgh. Mother of Mrs.
Vladimir Karapetoff of Ithaca.
(p. 7, Besemer News.)
Widow of James Mitchell; sister of Mrs. William
F. McDaniels. See also 10/6/1920.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Willard Letts, sister of
Minnie, Lillian, Marjorie, Willard and Harry. Burial
City Cem.
Widow of Michael McAllister. Burial Calvary Cem.
See also 10/9/1920.
Died at Orange, NJ. Born at Rawson Hollow.
Burial Berkshire Cem. (p. 9, Rawson Hollow
News.)
Died at Dryden. Well-known farmer, later a
businessman; President of Dryden National Bank.
Burial Green Hills Cem.
Son of Mr./Mrs. E. J. C. Fisher of Wilkes-Barre,
PA. (p. 7, Trumansburg News.)
Burial at Stephentown, NY, her former home.
Well-known book binder; owner of Reed Bindery.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Inlet Valley where he was a prominent
farmer of 350 acres and several outlying farms.
Husband of Susie, father of Virginia and James.
Burial Inlet Valley Cem. See story on p. 5.
10/11/1920 Heart disease He died near Dryden; son of Mr./Mrs. Charles
Hotchkiss, brother of Pauline, Glenn and Harvey.
Burial Green Hills Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Hazen
Frederick Eugene
1920
Redner
Leartus
1920
Lormore
James C.
1920
Tyler
Adelbert Lester
1920
1920
Brown
Consalvie
Rhoda A.
Eugene
1920
Hopkins
1920
Age
2
Death Date
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
10/10/1920
10/11/1920 Accident
10/10/1920
10/11/1920
78
10/11/1920
10/11/1920
1 month
10/11/1920
10/11/1920
80
5 mos
10/12/1920
10/12/1920
10/13/1920
10/13/1920
Mary
86
10/12/1920
10/15/1920
Burial Grove Cem. (p. 9, Trumansburg News.)
Smith
Camilla
93
10/13/1920
10/14/1920
1920
1920
Savercool
Seelye
Harrison
Elwyn
73
72
10/14/1920
10/14/1920
10/19/1920 Pneumonia
10/21/1920 Apoplexy
Died at Jacksonville; widow of Elias Smith. Burial
Hayt's Cem.
Burial at Groton. (p. 9, McLean News.)
One of the founders of New York State Historical
Association, an Ithaca resident since 1898.
Bjurial at Dunham's Bay Family Cem.
1920 Mrs.
Lovell
Hiram
10/15/1920 (notice)
10/15/1920
1920
Macell
Frank
10/15/1920
10/20/1920
1920
Marcelle
Frank
10/15/1920
10/16/1920
91
Page 43 of 54
Fell from a truck driven by his father, Leon A.
Hazen. Burial East Lawn Cem. See story on p. 5;
also 10/15/1920.
Civil War Veteran; father of Clarence and
Rexford. Burial City Cem.
Heart disease Died at Dryden. He was a Civil War Veteran, Co.
R, 103rd Regiment; member of Dryden Lodge
472 F.&A.M.; son of late Dryden pioneers,
Thomas and Nancy Lormore. Burial Green Hills
Cem.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Leslie Tyler. Burial Lake View
Cem.
Buried at Leicester, NY.
Broken neck Fell from his crib at the hospital where his mother
was a patient. Son of Mrs. Nellie Consalvie of
Caroline Center. See story on p. 5.
Died at daughter's home at Miami, FL. Burial
Grove Cem. (p. 9, Trumansburg News.)
Died at Willard State Hospital; former Lansing
resident. Burial Asbury Cem. (p. 11, Asbury
News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Surname
Name
1920
Parker
John
10/15/1920 (notice)
10/15/1920
1920
1920
1920
1920
Crawford
Relyea
Fenner
Grant
DeWitt
Carrie C.
Sarah A.
Susan
10/16/1920
10/16/1920
10/17/1920
10/17/1920
10/18/1920
10/18/1920
10/18/1920
10/18/1920
1920
McGreavy
Alvah
10/17/1920
10/20/1920
1920
McRavy
Alvah
30
10/17/1920
10/18/1920
1920
1920
Seaman
Acker
Jeanette S.
Charles Ernest
59
10/17/1920
10/18/1920
10/18/1920
10/22/1920
1920
Hare
Emil
10/18/1920
10/23/1920
1920
1920
LaBarr
Emmons
Jacob
(boy)
87
7 mos.
10/18/1920
10/20/1920
10/19/1920
10/25/1920
Huntley
Smith
Margaret
Reuben L.
74
10/20/1920
10/20/1920
10/21/1920
10/21/1920
1920
Fox
Charles Lewis
9 mos.
10/21/1920
10/21/1920
1920
Rolfe
Alphonsine
81
10/21/1920
10/22/1920
1920
1920
Title
Dr.
Age
85
Death Date
Page 44 of 54
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Willseyville. Burial Green Hills Cem. (p.
9, Slaterville News. Also p. 11, Willseyville News,
10/10/1920.)
Died at Swartwood; formerly of Newfield.
Wife of Louis Relyea. Burial Lake View Cem.
Widow of John M. Grant. Burial Lansingville
Cem.
See p. 11, Enfield Falls News. Possibly the same
individual as McRavy, Alvah. Death date not
given but presumed 10/17/1920.
Leaves his wife, 4 children, parents - Mr./Mrs.
George McRavy of Genoa. Possibly the same
individual as McGreavy, Alvah.
Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Ossining, NY home. Received Cornell
Ph.D. in 1888; well-known manufacturer and
inventor, engaged in chemistry and electrochemistry.
Burial Miller Cem. (p. 7, West Groton News; also
p. 7 West Groton News 10/25/1920.)
Burial Lansingville Cem.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Emmons; grandson of Noyce
Sobers. Burial Groton Rural Cem. (p. 7, West
Groton News.)
Widow of Walter Huntley. Burial Groton Cem.
Died at Trumansburg, well-known doctor who
practiced in Trumansburg and in Ithaca. Burial
Grove Cem. See also p. 9, Trumansburg News,
10/28/1920, and p. ll, 11/12/1920.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Charles Fox of Caroline. Burial
Maple Grove Cem.
Widow of Warren Rolfe. Burial Rolfe Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Sherwood
Edwin E.
1920
Tozer
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
58
10/21/1920
10/22/1920
Samuel L.
75
10/21/1920
10/22/1920
Baldwin
Florence
24
10/22/1920
10/22/1920
1920
Shaffer
Cora
10/23/1920
10/28/1920
1920
Baker
John B.
70
10/25/1920
10/26/1920
1920
Ford
Josephine
92
10/25/1920
10/27/1920
1920
1920
Billings
Hiles
Charles B.
Adelaide
82
75
10/26/1920
10/26/1920
10/27/1920
10/27/1920
1920
Whitlock
Mary M.
68
10/26/1920
10/27/1920
1920 Mrs.
Berry
William
1920
Burton
Emanuel L.
65
10/27/1920
1920
Williams
Euretta (Loretta)
77
10/27/1920
1920
Durling
Alice M.
75
10/28/1920
10/27/1920
Page 45 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Member of Odd Fellows Lodge. Burial Willow
Glen Cem. See also 10/26/1920.
Stroke of
Member of South Bristol Grange. Burial South
apoplexy
Hill Cem.
Suicide
Inhaled chloroform; daughter of Former
Supervisor William D. Baldwin of Groton. She
was an accomplished musician and member of
Eastern Star. Burial Groton Rural Cem. Story on
p. 5.
Died at home of her sister, Mrs. Merton Taylor, at
Flemingville. (p. 9, Freeville News.)
Died while visiting his sister, Mrs. Emma Atwater
at Asbury. Burial Curtis Cem., Danby.
Survived by 8 children, 22 grandchildren, 21
great-grandchildren. Burial at Nanticoke. (p. 9,
McLean News.)
Burial Hayt's Cem.
Stroke
Died at Dryden; widow of Harrison Hiles. Burial
complications Green Hills Cem.
Wife of Edson Whitlock, daughter of Mrs. Susan
Sherwood. Burial East Lawn Cem. See also
10/28/1920.
10/28/1920
Died at Baltimore, mother of Romeyn Berry;
daughter of Cornell Prof. John Stanton Gould
(1869-1874).
10/28/1920
Died at Alpina, formerly of Ithaca. Burial City
Cem.
10/27/1920 Heart disease Died at South Lansing home of her grandson,
Bert Jewell; widow of Oliver Williams. Burial
Asbury Cem. See story on p. 2.
10/28/1920
Burial Grove Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Dassance
Mary Ann
1920
Hazlitt
1920
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
78
10/29/1920
10/30/1920
Rachel
89
10/29/1920
11/6/1920
Gay
Hendricks
Jennie
Flora
69
10/30/1920 (notice)
10/30/1920
1920
Brown
George
68
11/1/1920
11/1/1920
1920
Chamberlain
Rachel
78
11/2/1920
11/6/1920
1920
1920
Horton
Sperry
Ida S.
Alva
60
11/2/1920
11/2/1920
11/2/1920
11/3/1920 Heart disease Well-known Lansing farmer. Burial Pine Grove
Cem. See story on p. 5; also p. 6, 11/6/1920.
1920
Travis
William H.
69
11/2/1920
11/3/1920
1920
Tuell
William
44
11/2/1920
11/3/1920 Accident
1920 Mrs.
Walker
John
19
11/2/1920 (notice)
11/2/1920
1920 Pvt.
Morey
Harry E.
33
11/5/1920 (notice)
11/5/1920
1920 Mrs.
Leach
Lorenzo
76
11/7/1920
Page 46 of 54
10/30/1920
10/30/1920
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at relative's home at Cortland. Had lived,
and was buried, at Newfield.
Died at Montour Falls. Burial Grove Cem. (p. 7,
Trumansburg News.) See also 11/8/1920.
(p.7, Myers News.)
Died at Slaterville; wife of William H. Hendricks.
Burial Mulk's Cem.
Heart disease Former engineer on Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Burial City Cem.
Died at Wayne, MI; widow of William
Chamberlain. Family formerly lived at Forest
Home. Burial Pleasant Grove Cem. See also p. 9,
11/11/1920.
Father of Bessie, and sons S. R. and H. F.
Travis. Burial East Lawn Cem.
Died in train wreck at Auburn,where he was a
locomotive engineer; formerly of Ithaca. See story
on p. 7.
Former Florence Westfall, daughter of Charles
Westfall of Caroline. She and her infant daughter
died at Athens, PA. (p. 7, Caroline News.)
Died while serving in the A.E.F. in France. Son of
Mrs. F. G. Harrington; leaves 2 sisters and 4
brothers. Burial North Lansing Cem. See story on
p. 5.
2/11/1921 Heart disease Died at Greene, NY. Formerly of Ludlowville.
Burial Pine Grove Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920 Rev.
Reed
Myron S.
1920
1920
Stephens
Browne
Celotus H.
Kate M.
1920
Brock
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
11/7/1920
12/10/1920
66
11/7/1920
11/8/1920
11/8/1920
11/8/1920
Chauncey
36
11/9/1920
McKeegan
Nancy Jane
82
11/9/1920
1920
Mott
Jay C.
67
11/9/1920
1920
Silcox
Adelbert M.
60
11/10/1920
Killed when car hit by freight train near Spencer.
See story on p. 2.
11/10/1920
Widow of Joseph McKeegan. Burial Mecklenburg
Cem.
11/10/1920
Died in Town of Ulysses; member of Ulysses
Grange. Burial Hayt's Cem. See also p. 7,
11/15/1920.; also p. 11, Krum's Corners News,
11/18/1920.
11/11/1920 Heart disease Died at Dryden.
1920
Judd
Frances Ward
88
11/11/1920
11/12/1920
1920
Banfield
Losetta
77
11/12/1920
11/13/1920
1920
Tacy
Henrietta
77
11/12/1920
11/13/1920
1920
1920
Townsend
Barnes
Andrew J.
Carmi
76
79
11/12/1920
11/13/1920
11/12/1920
11/15/1920
1920
Marsh
Ann
89
11/13/1920
11/15/1920
1920
Patterson
Mary E.
56
11/13/1920
11/15/1920
1920
Mahoney
Thomas
59
11/14/1920
11/15/1920
Page 47 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Fillmore, NY; former pastor of Newfield
Baptist Church. (p. 11, Newfield News.)
Died at West Slaterville. Burial City Cem.
Widow of Henry B. Browne; mother of Prof. A. B.
Browne. Burial Cypress Hills Cem., Brooklyn, NY.
11/10/1920 Accident
Widow of William J. Judd, D.D., of Candor. Burial
at Ocean Grove, NJ.
Died at Danby; widow of Charles Banfield. Burial
Curtis Cem.
Died at home of her son, John Rose, at Lansing.
Burial Pleasant Grove Cem.
Burial King Cem.
Died at Union Springs. Burial Lake View Cem.
Died at Caroline. Burial Dryden Cem. See also p.
9, 11/17/1920, Dryden News.
Died at Trumbull's Corners; wife of James
Patterson. Burial Grove Cem.
Father of John and Edward Mahoney. Burial
Mount Olivet Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920 Dr.
Day
J. W.
1920
Burling
David
1920
Thomas
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
11/15/1920
11/16/1920
Died at Waterloo home. He was a well-known
lung specialist, visited Ithaca many times. Also a
Civil War Veteran, Co. G, 109th Regiment. Burial
Maple Grove Cem., Waterloo. See story on p. 3.
84
11/16/1920
11/16/1920
Born in Aurora; lived in Ithaca before moving to
Syracuse where he was a master mechanic and a
well-known boat builder. See also 11/19/1920.
Sarah E.
72
11/16/1920
11/17/1920
Clancy
Philomena A.
38
11/17/1920
11/17/1920
1920
Jones
Chauncey
76
11/17/1920
11/26/1920
Died at Enfield; widow of James B. Thomas.
Burial Rolfe Cem.
Wife of T. Peter Clancy; prominent Red Cross
wiorker. Burial at Binghamton. See story on p. 5;
also 11/22/1920, p. 5.
Died at Rochester; formerlyof Ithaca, husband of
Josephine C. Jones. Burial at Binghamton
1920
1920 Mrs.
Marsh
Bogardus
Sarah C.
C. Harland
88
40
11/17/1920
11/19/1920
11/17/1920
2/19/1921
1920
Middaugh
Mildred Anna
21 mos.
11/19/1920
11/20/1920
1920
Pratt
Mary A.
93
11/19/1920
11/20/1920
1920
Puderbaugh
James
73
11/19/1920
11/26/1920
1920
Pyle
Frelove
86
11/20/1920
11/24/1920
1920 Mrs.
Ryno
John
84
11/20/1920
11/22/1920
1920
Whiton
Cynthia Marsh
92
11/20/1920
11/20/1920
Page 48 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Burial Marshland, PA.
Died at White Church. Survived by husband, and
daughter Gladys; daughter of Mr./Mrs. E. W.
Gregory. Burial Cooper's Cem., Brooktondale.
See also 2/21/21.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Charles Middaugh. Burial
City Cem.
Mother of Mrs. A. C. Clark. Burial at Center Lisle.
Died at West Dryden home; husband of Helen
Lumbard Puderbaugh. Burial Willow Glen Cem.
See p. 11.
Widow of Edward Pyle. Burial Friends Meeting
House Cem., near Jacksonville.
Died at Interlaken. Burial Lake View Cem.,
Interlaken.
Burial City Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Soule
Sarah M.
1920
Burling
Maria
1920
Smith
1920
1920 Mrs.
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
11/21/1920
12/4/1920
83
11/22/1920
11/23/1920
Mary
65
11/22/1920
11/22/1920
Linaberry
Caser
Smith
Eunice
Clinton
Edmund
86
49
77
11/23/1920
11/24/1920
11/24/1920
11/23/1920
11/26/1920
12/4/1920
1920
Casar
Lillian
45
11/25/1920
1920
Eke
Julia
17
11/25/1920
1920
Evans
David O.
69
11/25/1920
1920
Jackson
Minerva
1920
Stevens
George
87
11/25/1920
1920
Taber
Mary
54
11/25/1920
12/2/1920 Heart disease Died at Groton; wife of Clinton Casar. Burial at
Groton. (p.11, Groton News.)
11/26/1920
Died at County tuberculosis sanitarium. daughter
of John Eke, sister of Mrs. Elizabeth Comirs.
Burial Lake View Cem.
11/26/1920
Brother of Fred C., Alonzo, and DeForest Evans.
Burial Lake View Cem.
12/10/1920
Died at Oneonta. Her son-in-law, Frederick V.
Webster, was former principal at Newfield High
School. (p.11, Newfield News.)
11/27/1920
(p. 7, Willseyville News; also White Church
News.)
11/26/1920
Died at Newfield; wife of William Taber, member
of Methodist Chjurch and Eastern Star. Burial
Woodlawn Cem. See also p. 11, 11/30/1920.
1920
Yellen
Abraham
1920
Shoemaker
Charles A.
11/25/1920
11/25/1920
50
11/26/1920
Page 49 of 54
Cause of
Death
1/21/1921 Murder
11/27/1920
Notes
Died at Oneonta; former preceptress at Dryden
High School. (p. 7, Dryden News.)
Died at daughter's Elmira home; widow of Walter
Burling, daughter of late Thomas Bradbury. Burial
Hayt's Cem.
Died at home of her son, William Vrooman at
Dryden. Burial Mount Olivet Cem.
Burial Snyder Hill Cem.
Died at Groton. Burial Groton Rural Cem.
Died at DeLand, FL; formerly of Freeville and
Caroline. Burial at DeLand. See also 12/20/1920.
Died at Buffalo; father of M. And I. Yellen, Cornel
juniors. Murderers caught and sentenced to
death. See p.7; also 11/26/1920.
Died at Montour Falls; formerly of Newfield where
he operated the flour mill.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
1920
DeHart
Fairbanks
Edgar S.
Ellen E.
1920
Smith
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
63
11/27/1920
11/27/1920
12/14/1920
11/27/1920
Died at Lowell, MA; formerly of Lansing.
Wife of Herbert C. Fairbanks. Burial at Homer.
Maryh E.
71
11/27/1920
11/30/1920
Baker
Hattie Newman
68
11/28/1920
11/29/1920
1920 Mrs.
Hubbell
A. A.
11/28/1920
11/30/1920
1920
1920
Butters
Dayton
LeRoy
Merritt M.
11/29/1920
11/29/1920 (notice)
11/30/1920
11/29/1920
Widow of John P. Smith. Burial Lake View Cem.
See p. 2.
Widow of George W. Baker; mother of Loran N.
Baker. Burial Springville, NY.
Died at Buffalo; former Ithacan, mother of Mrs. E.
W. Olmstead.
Died near Newfield. Burial Woodloawn Cem.
Died at home in Grand Rapids, MI; formerly of
Ithaca. He was founder of The Ithaca Daily News.
Leaves his wife and 6 children. See story on p. 7.
1920
Egbert
Ella Kinne
11/29/1920
1920
Honess
Juliette M.
11/29/1920
1920
Kline
E. H.
11/29/1920
1920
Murtha
James
1920 Mrs.
Stanton
Elisha
11/29/1920 (notice)
11/29/1920
1920
Ganoung
Claude ("Midge")
11/30/1920 (notice)
11/30/1920
1920
MacGillivary
John
11/30/1920 (notice)
11/30/1920
70
78
11/29/1920
Page 50 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
12/8/1920
Died at Nampa, ID; wife of James Egbert, former
Ithacan. Burial at Nampa.
12/3/1920 Typhoid fever Died at Norman, OK; wife of Charles Honess;
daughter of Margaret M. Courant and the late
Jules Courant; niece of Andrew D. White.Burial
Greenwood Cem., New York.
11/30/1920 Heart disease Burial East Lawn Cem.
12/6/1920 Pneumonia
Died at Java, NY; formerly of Groton. He was a
Foreman at International Salt Co. at Myers. Burial
Java Center.
Died at Binghamton; formerly of Speedsville. (p.
11, Speedsville News.)
Died at Peoria, IL; formerly of Ithaca; member of
Fire Co. No. 5, and well-known clog dancer.
Died at Colton, CA, formerly of Enfield.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
1920
Prager
John H.
1920
1920
Ditmars
Dousek
J. Coleman
Wenzel J.
1920
Honiss
Lelia
1920 Mrs.
1920
Miller
VanDoren
Peter
1920
Brookman
Nettie E.
1920
Marsh
Sophia
1920
Moffatt
John Little VI
1920
1920
Coon
Gifford
1920
1920
83
12/1/1920
12/2/1920
60
12/2/1920
12/2/1920 (notice)
12/4/1920 Heart failure
12/2/1920
12/3/1920
12/7/1920
74
12/3/1920
12/3/1920
12/10/1920
12/10/1920
54
12/4/1920
12/6/1920
12/4/1920
12/4/1920
28
12/4/1920
12/6/1920 Tuberculosis
Kate
Mina
85
12/6/1920
12/6/1920
12/7/1920
12/9/1920
Crawford
Edward
55
12/8/1920
Anderson
Emily T.
83
12/9/1920
Page 51 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
An Ithaca resident for 50 years; taught dancing
and was also in the hotel business. For 10 years
he conducted a cigar store. Burial Grove Cem.
See story on p. 5.
Burial Ovid Cem. (p. 7, Trumansburg News.
Died at Hartford, CT; born in Austria, came to U.
S. at age of 17. He lived many years in Ithnaca,
was a violin teacher and orchestra conductor.
Burial at Auburn.
Died at Newark, NJ. (p. 9, Slaterville Springs
News.)
Mother of Ward Miller. (p. 11, Groton News.)
Burial Lakeview Cem., Interlaken. (p. 11, Covert
News.)
Wife of Charles N. Brookman. Burial Grove Cem.
Died at Homer hospital; had lived at Etna. Burial
Willow Glen Cem.
Died at Asheville, NC. Disease contracted while
in the service in France. Son of Mrs. John L.
Moffatt and the late Dr. John L. Moffatt. Burial at
Brooklyn. See also 12/9/1920.
Widow of Levi Coon. Burial City Cem.
Died at Cortland; widow of Theodore Gifford. (p.
11, Etna News.)
12/8/1920 Heart disease Contracted disease after being lost for 44 hours
in a snowstorm in Canada. He leaves 3 brothers
and 3 sisters. Burial East Lawn Cem.
12/16/1920
Died at Port Dover, Ontario; sister of W. J.
Tichenor of Trumansburg. (p. 11, Trumansburg
News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Greenleaf
Samuel Warner
1920
Russell
Ruth A.
1920 Mrs.
1920
Batsford
Conger
Jay
1920
Phillips
Charles W.
1920
Sweatland
Eli
1920
1920 Mrs.
Poole
Frost
1920
Age
Death Date
26
12/9/1920
1 month
12/9/1920
Notice Date
Cause of
Death
12.10/1920 Meningitis
12/9/1920
Notes
Died at Groton; leaves hiswife, 4 year old son,
and parents, Mr./Mrs. Day Greenleaf of Cortland.
Burial Bird Cem. See story on p. 5.
Daughter of Mr./Mrs. Vernon A. Russell. Burial
Hayt's Cem.
(p. 11, Groton News.)
Died at Groton, where he was a well-known
businessman. See p. 7.
Former Ithaca Journal employee for many years.
Burial East Lawn Cem. See story on p. 9.
12/10/1920 (notice)
12/10/1920
12/10/1920
12/10/1920
12/10/1920
12/14/1920
71
12/10/1920
12/11/1920
Mary E.
Stewart W.
71
12/11/1920
12/12/1920
12/13/1920
12/14/1920 Heart failure
Clapp
George L.
71
12/13/1920
12/15/1920
1920 Mrs.
VanKirk
Edwin S.
50
12/14/1920
12/14/1920
1920
English
Harriet Jane
87
12/15/1920
12/16/1920
1920
Thomas
Elizabeth
41
12/15/1920
12/16/1920
1920
Hiles
Percy
21
12/16/1920
12/16/1920 Surgery
Had surgery for appendicitis; son of Mr. Mrs. G.
complications Avery Hiles of Dryden. He was employed at
Thomas-Morse plant. Burial Green Hills Cem.
See also p. 7, Dryden News, 12/18/1920.
66
Page 52 of 54
Died at West Slaterviflle. Burial Mulks Cem. See
also 12/13/1920.
Died at Brookton home. Burial King Cem.
Died at Arendtsville, PA home; former Anna M.
Jenks of Ithaca, daughter of Anson Jenks of
Genoa. Burial East Lawn Cem.
Died at daughter's Waverly home. Civil War
Veteran, Co. M., NY Calvary. Burial Lake View
Cem.
Died at Sayre, PA hospital; wife of Edwin,
daughter of Clara Allen. Was a member of
Newfield Methodist Church. Burial Woodlawn
Cem. See also 12/15/1920, and p. 7 of
12/20/1920.
Widow of Lewis English. Leaves 5 daughters.
Burial Snyder Hill Cem.
Wife of Charles A. Thomas. Burial Hayt's Cem.
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920 Mrs.
Palmer
D. C.
1920
Woodworth
1920
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
92
12/16/1920
12/20/1920
Alfred B.
86
12/16/1920
12/18/1920
McKinney
Seymour
William
Horatio W.
64
66
12/17/1920
12/17/1920
12/20/1920
12/18/1920
(p. 7, Freeville News.)
Died at New York City; was Editorial Supervisor
of The New York World. Born in Cayuga County
in 1854 to Mr./Mrs. Andrew M. (Louisa Maria)
Seymore; well-known editor. See story on p. 2.\
1920
Draper
Janette
12/18/1920 (notice)
12/18/1920
1920
Haviland
Gertgrude M.
12/18/1920
1920 Mrs.
Tucker
William
12/19/1920
12/20/1920 Cerebral
hemorrhage
12/20/1920 Apoplexy
Died at Bloomfield, NJ. Burial Green Hills Cem.
(p. 7, Dryden News.)
Burial Lake View Cem.
1920
Heffron
John
12/20/1920
12/23/1920
1920
Bailor
Maude Hopkins
37
12/21/1920
12/23/1920 Pneumonia
1920
Dorn
Saloma E.
72
12/21/1920
12/23/1920
1920 Mr.
Vreeland
12/21/1920
12/30/1920
1920
Ackley
Albert N.
82
12/22/1920
12/23/1920
1920
Barr
David P.
72
12/22/1920
12/23/1920
1920
Campbell
Georgiana
85
12/23/1920
12/29/1920
78
Page 53 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
Died at Dover, NJ; formerly of Newfield. (p. 7,
Newfield News.)
Had lived, and died, at Trumansburg. (See also
p. 9, 12/23/1920, Krums Corners News.)
Died at Lansingville home. Burial Lansingville
Cem.
Had recently undergone surgery; lived and died
at Groton.
Died at Scranton home; formerly of Ithaca, wife
of Louis Bailor. Burial Lake View Cem.
Widow of Wesley Dorn. Burial Coddington Road
Cem.
Died while en route to Florida; had lived at
Robinson Hollow, father of Mrs. Harry Howden.
(p. 9, Robinson Hollow News.)
Sonof Julius and Mary Halsey Ackley, early
settlers of Ithaca. Burial Lake View Cem. See
story on p.7.
Well-known businessman; member of hardware
firm, Barr Brothers & Co., Burial East Lawn Cem.
See story on p. 7.
Died at Trumansburg. Burial Grove Cem. (p. 9,
Trumansburg News.)
Ithaca Journal
Obituaries and Death Notices
sorted by death date
Jan. 1, 1920 to Dec. 31, 1920
Year
Title
Surname
Name
1920
Dickens
Emmet Richard
1920
Earsley
1920
Age
Death Date
Notice Date
6 mos.
12/23/1920
12/24/1920
Son of Mr./Mrs. R. E. Dickens. Burial Hayt's Cem.
Alice H.
50
12/23/1920
12/24/1920
Daughter of James P. Rich. Burial Caroline Cem.
Gillett
Florence L.
20
12/23/1920
12/27/1920 Surgery
Was a schoolteacher, daughter of Mr./Mrs.
complications Marion Gillettof Hall, NY. Burial at Hall.
1920
1920
Vosbug
Johnson
George L.
Albert
80
12/23/1920 (notice)
12/25/1920
12//23/1920
12/30/1920
1920
Jones
Anna
80
12/26/1920
12/29/1920
1920
Baker
Stanley
12/27/1920 (notice)
12/27/1920
1920
Southwick
Albert
Infant
12/27/1920
12/29/1920
1920 Dr.
Nivison
Anna K.
85
12/29/1920
12/30/1920
1920
Lockwood
Hobart
23
12/31/1920
1/3/1921 Injuries
1920
Tucker
Mary A.
91
12/31/1920
1/6/1921
Page 54 of 54
Cause of
Death
Notes
(p. 9, Locke News.)
Died at Binghamton; formerly of Ithaca, husband
of the former Mary L. Williams. He was a Civil
War Veteran,89th Regiment, NY Volunteers;
also a well-known writer, newspape
correspondent, and President of Binghamton
Woolen Co. See p. 5.
Died at Minneapolis, MN; formerly of Ithaca,
widow of Hezekiah K. Jones, former Ithaca tailor.
Burial City Cem.
Typhoid fever Died at Philadelphia; formerly of Ithaca, nephew
of A. M. Baker. Burial at Lockwood.
Son of Mr./Mrs. Frank Southwick of Spencer. (p.
9, Spencer News.)
Died at Jacksonville. She and her sister, Dr. S. S.
Nivison, at one time conducted the Dryden
Springs Sanitarium. Burial at Mecklenburg.
Died as a result of a railroad accident at
Watertown; son of Mr./Mrs. Nathan Lockwood of
Etna. (p. 7, Etna News.)
Died at home of her daughter at Duluth, MN.
Burial Green Hills Cem. (p. 7, Dryden News.)