Wyoming Reporter (Wyoming Co., NY) - Obituaries

"Dr. Bleeker Lansing Hovey, one [of] the oldest and best known physicians of Rochester, died at his home on North Fitzhugh Street on Saturday, May 5th in his 89th year. Dr. Hovey was born in Warsaw, his father, Eliphalet Hovey, being a farmer of that town. His grandfather, Josiah Hovey, settled in Warsaw in 1798. Dr. Hovey's mother, Sally Knapp, was a daughter of William Knapp who came from Vermont to Warsaw in 1802. After having attended the common school, Dr. Hovey took a course of study at Middlebury Academy in this village and later took an academic course in Lima Seminary. In 1838, he began the study of medicine with Dr. Thomas Spencer of the Geneva Medical School. He was graduated in the class of 1843, and began the practice of his profession in Dansville, where he remained for 16 years. During the Civil War he served as surgeon of the 136th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry and was also surgeon of the United States Volunteers and Eleventh Army Corp. He was in many of the important battles of the war. His wife was Marilla Danforth, who assisted in caring for the wounded during the war and who was one of the few women afterwards pensioned by the government. She died in 1899. Dr. Hovey, who always took an interest in the scenes of his boyhood, was a guest of Col. Mc Clure during the Warsaw Centennial."

"Mrs. Mary Lathrop
"Mrs. Mary Lathrop, 84, widow of the late Glenn S. Lathrop, passed away at the Cook Nursing Home in Lamont on Tuesday, April 3rd. She had been in ill health for a long time. She was born in Gainesville in 1867 and had spent most of her life in that vicinity. She is survived by two step-children, Adelbert Lathrop of East Koy and Mrs. Walter Wallace of Perry; also several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services were conducted in the Harmon Funeral Home of this village, at 2 o'clock, Friday afternoon, the Rev. R. E. Strong, pastor of the Pike United Baptist church, officiated. Burial was in Gainesville cemetery."

"MRS. FENTON TAYLOR
Mary Emma Morris Taylor (Mrs. Fenton J.) died at Trinidad Colorado, on Monday, June 10, after a brief illness. She had resided in that community since 1943, where she and her husband, the late Fenton J. Taylor moved when he retired as postmaster at Warsaw. Mr. Taylor died in Denver, Colo., in 1953.
Mrs. Taylor was born in Warsaw on March 8, 1886, the daughter of Charles L. and Emma Truesdell Morris. She graduated from Warsaw High School in 1904 and from Buffalo State Teachers College in 1908. On December 23, 1911, she was married to Fenton J. Taylor. Their only child Morris F. Taylor, who is instructor in history and political science at the Trinidad State Junior College, survives. Mrs. Taylor also leaves two grand daughters, Mary Bess and Rebecca Bell Taylor."

"Howard Russell, 66, former resident of Gainesville now of Corfu, passed away Saturday from a heart attack.
He leaves four sisters, Ethel Russell, Mrs. Willis Steele, both of Gainesville, Mrs. Charles Barton of Frewsburg, Beulah Baldeck of Rochester; a brother, Clifford of Gainesville; several nieces and nephews. The funeral held on Saturday with burial in Maple Grove Cemetery, Gainesville."