Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Catherine BOUCHER

1  CMNT She Immigrated To The U.S. In 1894


George A. HUTCHINSON

Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of 16 July 1979):  CLAYTON---The funeral for George Hutchinson, 89, of 618 Union St., will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Cummings Funeral Home, Clayton, with Rev. Robert Nay, pastor, Clayton United Methodist
Church, officiating.  Burial will be in Clayton Cemetery.

    Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.  Donations may be made in his name to the Clayton American Legion.

    Members of the Clayton American Legion will meet at the funeral home at 8 this evening.

    Mr. Hutchinson died Friday evening at the Edward John Noble Hospital, Alexandria Bay.  He had been ill two years.

    His survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Reita Ann DeLaVergne, Poolsville, Md., and three grandchildren.

    Born Aug. 5, 1889, in Clayton a son of Lewis and Augusta Kendle Hutchinson, he was a noted marathon runner while in high school and was also active in football and baseball.  He married Fanny Slate in 1921.  She died April 19, 1977, at the
age of 81.

    He was employed many years at Hawn's Manufacturing and worked at the shipyards in Clayton.  He had also worked on many tour boats.  He retired as a maintenance man for the Village of Clayton.

    Mr. Hutchinson worked as a maintenance man for the Village of Clayton several years.

    He served in World War I.


Fannie Pearl SLATE

Obituary (from Town and Country News of 27 April 1977):  Mrs. Fanny Hurchinson of Clayton who wrote "Our Weekly Chat with Fanny" for the Town and Country News for several years, died in the Edward John Noble Hospital, Alexandria Bay, Tuesday,
April 19.  She had been a patient there since March 28.

    A private funeral was held at the family home Thursday.  The body was cremated.

    Survivors include her husband George A. Hutchinson; a daughter, Mrs. Reita Anne DeLaVergne, Poolesville, Md.; three grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. George P. (Ruth) Schafer, Clayton, Mrs. Sarah Emerson, Rochester, Mrs. Marion Patchin,
Samaritan-Keep Home, Watertown, and Mrs. William (Marjorie) Kebler, Rochester; and three brothers, Victor Slate, Binghamton, Thomas Slate, Clayton, and Eugene Slate, Rochester.

    A brother, Donald Slate, died in Rochester at the age of 54 and a sister, Dora died several years ago at the age of 14.

    Born Jan. 8, 1896, on Grindstone Island, daughter of Richard and Catherine Boucher Slate, she married George A. Hutchinson at Clayton in 1921.  A life resident of Clayton, she had resided at 618 Union St., for 50 years.

    She was a member of the Women's Army Corps in World War II and was discharged in 1946 from Fort Dix, N.J.

    Mrs. Hutchinson taught in rural schools around Clayton and for the last 18 years of her career she taught at the one-room Grindstone Island School.  Years ago she had worked at Hawn's Knitting Mill which later became the Clayton
Macnufacturing Co.

    She had worked as a stringer for the Watertown Daily Times years ago, submitting Clayton notes.

    Mrs. Hutchinson was a member of the Clayton United Methodist Church and its D.D. class, a member of the Thousand Islands Rebekah Lodge 109, Senior Citizens, Clayton American Legion, Women's Republican Club, Clayton Civic Club, and the 3 G
Class of the Baptist Church.

    Donations may be made in her name to the United Methodist Church of Clayton.


James W. MCFADDEN

James entered the port of Cape Vincent 20 March 1883 and was naturalized 2 July 1900, at age 36.


Cora U.

1  CMNT She Immigrated To U.S. In 1894 And Was Naturalized


Bessie M. BARRETT

Obituary:  Mrs. Bessie M. Barrett Holloway, 51, wife of Earl C. Holloway, 137 East Lynde Street, died suddenly of coronary thrombosis at the family home about 5 Tuesday afternoon.

    Mrs. Holloway was suddenly stricken ill while preparing supper in the kitchen of her home.  She summoned her husband and he, with the aid of a neighbor, carried her to a bed.  Dr. W. W. Hall, who was summoned, pronounced her dead when he
arrived.

   Although in poor health, Mrs. Holloway was able to be about her home and for the past few days she seemed to be feeling unusually well.  She had been afflicted with a heart ailment, however.

  She was born in the town of Ellisburg, April 19, 1890, daughter of Fred M. and Myra Finney Barrett.  She was educated at Ellisburg and in Union Academy at Belleville.  She spent her early life in the town of her birth and in Dexter.

    She was married twice.  She was married first to Brenton C. Parsons of the town of Hounsfield, the ceremony being performed in 1909 at Sackets Harbor.  They lived in the town of Hounsfield, where he died Dec. 1, 1919.

    After the death of her first husband, she came to Watertown, where she had lived continuously since with the exception of a short period spent at Clayton.  While at Clayton she met Earl C. Holloway of that village and they were married at
Black River Oct. 9, 1927.  Since their marriage they had lived here.

    Mrs. Holloway was a member of the Bethany Methodist Church.

    Surviving her, besides her husband, are a brother, Frank R. Barrett, Jamesville, and a nephew, Ross E. Barrett, 137 East Lynde St.

    Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 at the home.  Rev. Paul F. Ebberly, pastor of the Bethany Methodist Church, will officiate.  Burial will be made in North Watertown Cemetery.


John T. DANO

1  CMNT Served In Koren War, US Air Force.