Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Beulah SHAW

Obituary (from newspaper of Wednesday, 25 Aug. 1993):  CLAYTON---Beulah E. Ingerson, 86, of 912 Strawberry Lane, widow of Curtis Ingerson, died Tuesday morning in the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown, where she had been a patient since
Aug. 11.  She had been ill for a year.

   The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Frederick Bros. Funeral Home, Theresa, with the Rev. Carolyn Berry, pastor of the United Methodist Church, Philadelphia, officiating.  Burial will be in St. Lawrence Union Cemetery, Cape Vincent.

    Calling hours will be 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

    Surviving are two daughters, Elnora M. Durgin, Philadelphia, and Adelia "Dee" Collins, Clayton; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and three sisters, Myrtle Dano, Clayton, Clayton, and Arliuene Conant and Leola Wrape, both of
Watertown.

    A son, Harold M., died July 16, 1992.  Two other sons, Donald and Nelson, died as infants.  Two brothers, Roland and Roy Shaw, and Mabel Brown and Arsula Schmitte, died before her.

    Born in Worth on May 29, 1907, a daughter of Albert E. and Etta Joles Shaw, she moved to St. Lawrence Corners as a child, where she attended local schools.  She married Curtis Ingerson on Feb. 6, 1924, in Cape Vincent.  He died June 5,
1980.

    Mrs. Ingerson was employed with Clayton Knitting Mill during World War II and later with several area restaurants as a waitress.


Anna E. SLATE

Obituary:  Mrs. Anna E. Duffy, 64, formerly of the Johnnycake Road, near Carthage, widow of Thomas Duffy of this city, died at 5:30 this morning in the Jefferson County Hospital, where she had been a patient since Oct. 23.  Death resulted from
a spinal ailment.

    In poor health for the past few years, Mrs. Duffy underwent a major operation in the Edward John Noble Hospital of Gouverneur three years ago, was a patient in the Community Hospital of Carthage on various occasions thereafter, later
underwent treatment in Buffalo and finally entered the county hospital.

    Surviving her are three children, Thomas Duffy, Edwards, Arvilla, married and living in Rochester, and Mrs. William (Mary Jane) Larson, Carlsbad, Calif.; several grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Mildred V. Whittier, 123 Gale St., and Mrs.
Nancy B. Cole, Long Beach, Calif., and four brothers, Edwin D. Slate, Rome State Road, George Slate, Johnnycake Road, Carthage, and Kenneth C. Slate, Theresa.

    Her husband, a World War I veteran with the rank of a staff sergeant, died in May, 1924, in the Veteran's Hospital at Sunmount.

    She was born on a farm near Clayton Sept. 8, 1896, a daughter of the late Collon and Villa Steele Slate.  The early part of her life was spent in Clayton and Grindstone Island, where she attended school.  Later, she lived in Dexter, where
she was employed in a paper bag mill.

    Moving to Watertown as a young woman, she was employed in the Taggert Brothers paper mill on West Main St. until her marriage to Thomas Duffy, formerly of Madison Barracks, in Brooklyn in 1917.

    At the time of the marriage, Mr. Duffy was a soldier in the army on duty in Brooklyn.

    While her husband was in war service, Mrs. Duffy lived with her parents near Brownville.  After the war, they lived in Watertown, where he was employed as an electrician at the old City Opera House, later the Avon Theater.

    Following her husband's death, she lived on a farm in the town of Rutland and later at Russell.  When her health failed, she moved to the Johnnycake Road near Carthage, about two years ago.