OBITS: Dickerson, Cleantra M. Park; Lee Center, Oneida co., NY

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Roman Citizen April 12, 1878
DICKERSON - Lee Center, New York, April 9, 1878. The funeral of the late Mrs. 
Cleantra M. Dickerson was held at the residence of her aged father, Mr. William 
Park. Rev. J. Stanton preached on the occasion. The deceased was in the 50th 
year of her age. She married Mr. Lysander Dickerson of Prophetstown, Illinois 
some 20 years ago, and went to Illinois where they secured to themselves a 
comfortable home and a competance. One year ago last fall, they visited the 
Centennial, and spent several weeks in Oneida County among their friends. Soon 
after returning to their home in Illinois, sister D. noticed a tumor coming on 
her neck, just below the left ear, but she did not become alarmed supposing it 
a scrofulous swelling until the next spring, or about February. She consulted 
doctors at Chicago and they called it a rose cancer, and several months she was 
under the care and treatment of Dr. Reed, of Illinois, for a cancer. Last 
November she and her husband came to Lee, NY, to her father's house, and she 
was in such a weak, nervous condition that her friends had but faint hopes of 
her recovery. She could not swallow substances, and all the nourishment she 
could receive from food was in fluids. The affectionate husband, for the last 
16 months, devoted his whole time to be with his companion while she was under 
the doctors' care, to the neglect of his business, and all that skill and 
medical aid could do for the late wife and friend, was done by him; and he has 
the respect of the entire circle of friends, who deeply sympathize with him in 
his irrepairable loss and hour of affliction.