Southworth, Della C. 1867-1958 Morris Obituary

Southworth, Della C. 1867-1958 Morris Obituary

Mrs. Della C. Southworth

MORRIS---Mrs. Della C. Southworth, 90, of Morris, died April 27 following an illness of several years.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Sloan Funeral Home, Morris, with the Rev. Arthur Clum, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Gilbertsville, officiating in the absence of the rector of Zion Church, the Rev. Carl Truesdale. Burial will be in Hillington Cemetery, Morris.

Mrs. Southworth was born Nov. 9, 1867 in Maple Grove, Town of Morris, daughter of Erastus and Sarahette (Bennett) Jakes Carr. She was married to William R. Southworth, New Lisbon, Sept. 21, 1885. He died Feb. 12, 1930.

She was a resident of New Lisbon until 1948 when she went to make her home with her son, Claude Robert Southworth, Endicott. He died Sept. 1, 1955, and she came to live with her niece, Mrs. Mary Edwards, Oneonta. For the past year she had been cared for by a cousin, Mrs. Florence Mallory of Morris.

She was a member of Zion Episcopal Church.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Nellie Jester, New Lisbon; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Nettie Southworth, Johnson City; two nieces, Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Lena Culver, Cannonsburg, Pa.; two nephews, Harry Pegg, Maple Grove, and Ira Pegg, Morris, and several cousins.

Pegg, Rose M. (Carr) 1864-1935 Morris Obituary

Pegg, Rose M. (Carr) 1864-1935 Morris Obituary

Mrs. Rose Pegg Dies at

Home of Morris Daughter

Always Resident of That Vicinity--

Survived by Four Children

And Many Grandchildren

Morris, March 17---Mrs. Rose M. Pegg, widow of John E. Pegg of the town of Morris, who had been seriously ill for the past three weeks, died at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Edwards, in Maple Grove Friday afternoon at 1:45. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Frederick Evenson of Gilbertsville, will be held at the Edwards home in Maple Grove Monday afternoon at 1:30. Interment will be in the family plot beside the husband and son in the new part of Hillington cemetery, Morris.

Rose M. Carr, oldest child of Erastus and Sarahette (Bennett) Carr, was born January 10, 1864, in the town of Butternuts. Later the family moved to the vicinity of Morris, where she spent her girlhood.

On September 14, 1880, she was united in marriage to John E. Pegg of Cherry Valley but nearly all their married life was passed in Morris township.

To them were born five children, Mrs. Lynn Edwards of Maple Grove, Harry Pegg of South Edmeston, Walter Pegg and Ira Pegg of Morris, and Maurice Pegg, who was killed in 1914.

After the death of Mr. Pegg on January 30, 1922, Mrs. Pegg went to Maple Grove to reside with her daughter, where she was tenderly cared for during her many weeks of invalidism.

The deceased was a consistent member of St. Stephen's church in Maple Grove and attended services as long as her health permitted. Mrs. Pegg was a woman of unfailing sympathy and kindness of heart. In the neighborhood of her home she was especially esteemed as she was ever ministering to the wants of others as long as her health permitted.

The immediate surviving relatives are the daughter and three sons mentioned, four grandsons, two granddaughters, one great-granddaughter, two brothers, William H. Carr of Herkimer and George W. Carr of New Lisbon; and two sisters, Mrs. Della Southworth of New Lisbon and Mrs. Nellie Jester of Unadilla, to all of whom sincere sympathy is extended.

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