Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Agnes BURTCH

Obituary (from newspaper of Saturday, 9 June 1990):  ALEXANDRIA BAY---Agnes B. Miller, 82, wife of Carl E. Miller, 29 Bethune St., died Thursday night at the Madonna Home of Mercy Hospital, Watertown, where she had been a patient since Oct. 2,
1987.

    A memorial service will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Cyril's Catholic Church, with Rev. James L. Meehan, pastor, officiating.  The body will be cremated, and burial will be in St. Cyril's Cemetery.

    There will be no calling hours.  Arrangements are with the Frederick Bros. Funeral Home.  Donations may be made to the Madonna Home Memorial Fund.

    Surviving besides her husband, are two daughters, Mrs. Shirley R. Stoner, Kennesaw, Ga., and Mrs. Ann R. Cupernall, Madison, Wis.; two grandchildren; a brother, Donald Burtch, Huntington Beach, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Marjorie B. Burgess,
Clayton, and a nephew.

    A brother, William H. Burtch, died before her.

    Born at Alexandria Bay, Aug. 15, 1907, she was a daughter of William E. and Grace Hartman Burtch.

    She was graduated in 1925 from Alexandria Bay High School, attended the school of nursing at Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital, Syracuse, and was employed as an operator with New York Telephone Co.

    Her August 1928 marriage to Myron B. Rogers ended in divorce.  She married Carl E. Miller on May 15, 1952, in Norwich.

    She was a member of St. Cyril's Church and the John Lyman American Legion Post Auxiliary, a charter member of the Edward John Noble Hospital Auxiliary and a member of the Cornwall Historical Society of Alexandria Bay.


Agnes BURTCH

Obituary (from newspaper of Saturday, 9 June 1990):  ALEXANDRIA BAY---Agnes B. Miller, 82, wife of Carl E. Miller, 29 Bethune St., died Thursday night at the Madonna Home of Mercy Hospital, Watertown, where she had been a patient since Oct. 2,
1987.

    A memorial service will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Cyril's Catholic Church, with Rev. James L. Meehan, pastor, officiating.  The body will be cremated, and burial will be in St. Cyril's Cemetery.

    There will be no calling hours.  Arrangements are with the Frederick Bros. Funeral Home.  Donations may be made to the Madonna Home Memorial Fund.

    Surviving besides her husband, are two daughters, Mrs. Shirley R. Stoner, Kennesaw, Ga., and Mrs. Ann R. Cupernall, Madison, Wis.; two grandchildren; a brother, Donald Burtch, Huntington Beach, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Marjorie B. Burgess,
Clayton, and a nephew.

    A brother, William H. Burtch, died before her.

    Born at Alexandria Bay, Aug. 15, 1907, she was a daughter of William E. and Grace Hartman Burtch.

    She was graduated in 1925 from Alexandria Bay High School, attended the school of nursing at Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital, Syracuse, and was employed as an operator with New York Telephone Co.

    Her August 1928 marriage to Myron B. Rogers ended in divorce.  She married Carl E. Miller on May 15, 1952, in Norwich.

    She was a member of St. Cyril's Church and the John Lyman American Legion Post Auxiliary, a charter member of the Edward John Noble Hospital Auxiliary and a member of the Cornwall Historical Society of Alexandria Bay.


Joseph A. BLAKE Jr.

Obituary (from newspaper of 10 May 1966):  Joseph A. Blake, jr., 74, one-time partner in the firm of Blake & Curry Stoker Co., furnace stokers business, died unexpectedly, apparently of a heart attack, about 6:45 Monday night at his home, 140
TenEyck St.

    Although he had not been well for a year or more, Mr. Blake was able to be up and around as usual.  He was sitting in a chair in the living room, watching television, when he was fatally stricken.

    The funeral will be Wednesday morning at 11 in the chapel of the Trinity Episcopal Church, of which he was a member.  Rev. Lloyd W. Clarke, rector of the church, will officiate.  Burial will be in Brookside Cemetery.

    Members of the family have requested that those wishing to send tributes to donate instead to either the House of the Good Samaritan or the North Country Bird Club sanctuary in his name.

    Surviving Mr. Blake are his wife, Mrs. Agnes P. Lansing Blake; a son, Joseph A. Blake, 3d, a junior at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, and two nieces, Mrs. Robert T. (Nancy Blake) Newcomb, Chenango
Bridge, NY, and Mrs. John R. (Catherine Blake) Kellogg, Clayton.

    His brother, Francis H. Blake, 2d, of Clayton, died at his home in that village May 3, 1962, at the age of 61.

    Mr. Blake was born in New York City Oct. 29, 1891, a son of Dr. Joseph A. and Catherine Ketchum Blake.  His father, a prominent surgeon, died at his home in Litchfield, Conn., Aug. 12, 1937, at the age of 72.

    His mother, for about 35 years a resident of Clayton, died in a nursing home at Madrid at the age of 79 on April 26, 1946.  She resided in a large red brick house on John St., at the corner of Hugunin St., in Clayton.

    Mr. Blake was graduated from the Taft School of Watertown, Conn., in 1911, and Yake University in 1916, after which he did graduate work at Columbia University in biological sciences.

    During the first World War he was an officer in the army and served as a captain in the field artillery overseas.

    Later, he was associated with the Acme Steel Co. of Chicago for a number of years before moving to Clayton in the 1930s.  At Clayton he was associated with the Consaul-Hall Co. and in 1936 was elected persident of the village chamber of
commerce.

    He married Miss Agnes Phelps Lansing, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Addison Farwell Lansing of Watertown, in a ceremony performed July 22, 1939, at the residence of her cousin, the late Miss Emma S. Lansing, 143 Clinton St., by Rev.
Hubert S. Wood of Flushing, L.I., one-time rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of this city.

    Since his marriage he had resided in this city at the same residence, 140 TenEyck St., moving here from Clayton.

    At one time Mr. Blake was associated with the Northern New York Coal Co.  From 1949 until his retirement in 1960, he was a partner of the late W. Earl Curry in the business of Blake & Curry Stoker Co. of this city.

    Long interested in wildlife conservation, Mr. Blake was conservation chairman of the New York State Federation of Bird Clubs and a member and past president of the North Country Bird Club.  He was a director of the S.P.C.A. and was an avid
fisherman and woodsman.

    He was a member also of Clayton Lodge, 296, F. & A.M.; Clayton chapter, 96, R.A.M.; Watertown Commandery, 11, K.T.; the American Museum of Natural History in New York; the Crescent Yacht Club of Chaumont and the Lords of the Manors.


Agnes Phelps LANSING

Obituary (from newspaper of Monday, 14 April 1986):  A memorial service for Mrs. Agnes Phelps Blake, 78, a descendant of local pioneers, an avid local historian and widow of Joseph A. Blake, Jr., will be held at 11 a.m. April 29 at Trinity
Episcopal Church Chapel.  Private graveside services will be held in Brookside Cemetery.  Mrs. Blake died Friday at her home at 140 TenEyck St.

    There will be no calling hours.  Arrangements are with the Cleveland-Spink Funeral Home.  Donations may be made in her name to the Jefferson County Historical Society or the North Country Bird Club.

    Mrs. Blake is survived by a son, Joseph A. Blake, 3rd, Clayton, and three grandchildren, Frank L., Glenn J., and Sarah R., all of Clayton.

    Born in Watertown Aug. 9, 1907, a daughter of Addison F. and Agnes Phelps Van Ostrand Lansing, she attended local schools, the Master's School at Dobbs Ferry and the Fontaine School, Cannes, France.  She was a descendant of Noadiah
Hubbard, an early settler of the Town of Champion.

    As a young woman, she was employed by the Jefferson County National Bank and by her father's architectural firm of Lansing and Greene.

    She married Joseph A. Blake, Jr., July 22, 1939, at the residence of her cousin, the late Emma S. Lansing, 143 Clinton St.  Emma Lansing was a sister of Robert Lansing, secretary of state under President Woodrow Wilson.  Mr. Blake, a
former partner in the firm of Blake and Curry Stoker Co., died in May 1966.

     Mrs. Blake's interest in local architecture prompted her to compile an exhaustive list of buildings and private homes designed by her father's firm.  These buildings include the Memorial Health Building on Park Place, Case and North
Junior High Schools, the offices of Bagley and Sewall (Black Clawson), the former Clinton St. residence of Pauline Dillenbeck, the Bagley House on the corner of TenEyck and Sherman Sts., and the residence of Rev. Allen Macy Dulles which stood
on Mullin St.

    She also prepared an article on the history of Thompson Park and one on Lansingdorp, a housing development fronting Mill St. which was built during World War I to provide housing for New York Air Brake workers.

    Active is several organizations, she was a former president of the North Country Bird Club and was involved in the distribution of the organization's newsletter, "The Upland Plover."  With her husband, she helped organize the Joseph A.
Blake Jr. wildlife sanctuary in the Town of Rutland.

    A life member of the Jefferson County Historical Society, she was a former member of the Board of Trustees and had been active on the Costume Committee.

    She was a member of the House of the Good Samaritan Auxiliary, an officer on the board of the Visiting Nurses Association and was involved in the Red Cross blood bank.  She was active in the Watertown Little Theatre and the Crescent Yacht
Club, Chaumont.