Delaware Co. PAGenWeb Archives Vitals – Chester Times Listing of Notable Deaths in 1884

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Chester Times, January 1, 1885

THE REAPER DEATH

Many a Chester home has been saddened by the presence of Death in the household 
during the past year. Every day one or more funeral corteges were seen slowly 
wending their way to the great Republics of the Dead, on Edgemont avenue, in 
North Chester, and the number of newly made graves tell of desolation in the 
home circle. A noticeabl feature has been the large number of aged persons who 
during the year have gone to that bourne from whence no weary traveler returns, 
while many a little boy or girl has joined the great host of the redemed during 
the same period of time. Among the noticeable deaths were the following:

January 14, Susan McALDON, 76 years; 
January 17, Maggie S. McCLURE; 
January 28, S. Lousia DESHONG, 69 years; 
February 3, Mrs. Margaret FARRADAY, 88 years; 
February 4, Charles W. ANSTEY, 26 years; 
February 18, Anna B. WILLIAMS, 72 years; 
February 23, Mary A. MITCHELL, 68 years; 
February 25, Elizabeth WILLIAMS, 80 years; 
March 8, Jacob LADOMUS, 65 years; 
March 11, Mattie M. VANHORN, 20 years; 
March 17, Sarah WATERS, 84 years; 
March 18, Thompson HUNTER, 27 years; 
March 26 Mattie BOOTH; 
April 2, Jennine IRVING, 31 years; 
April 19, Bessie M. CHEETHAM, 62 years; 
April 24, Janet STRAHAN, 67 years; 
May 9, Thomas EARNSHAW, 83 years; 
May 12, John DOLAN 23 years; 
May 19, Duncan McDONALD, 63 years; 
May 21, Mary E. ANDERSON, 18 years; 
May 27, Robert BEAUMONT, 95 years; 
May 30, Henry HIBBERT, 83 years; 
May 23, Captain Thomas KEEN, 79 years; 
June 5, John MALCOM, 76 years; 
Ann WETHERILL, 82 years; 
Abbie J. NELLING, 33 years; 
August 16, Mary DOBSON, 85 years; 
August 22, John B. VERNON, 64 years; 
August 22, Ellen MALLOY, 70 years; 
August 23, Sarah J. CALDWELL; 
August 24, Cadwalader EVANS, 65 years; 
August 29, Alfred COLLIER, 61 years; 
August 22, Mary A. HINKSON, 71 years; 
August 31, Sarah A. MOSELY, 79 years; 
September 1, Thomas SIMPSON, 41 years; 
September 13, Chandler MARSHMAN, killed on the railroad; 
September 16, William H. RUTH, 42 years; 
September 18, Lydia W. SHEPPARD, 72 years; 
September 28, Lydia HANLEY, widow of John HANLEY, the patron of the Hanley Hose Company, 82 years; 
September 29, John BREWSTER, 70 years; 
September 29, Matilda ELLIS, 78 years; 
October 5, Sarah GREENWOOD, 80 years; 
October 13, John GARDNER 51 years; 
October 25, Jane STOTT, 61 years; 
November 10, Ann HOLLAND, 64 years; 
November 11, James HALDEN, 33 years; 
November 16, James KNOTT, 75 years; 
November 23, Will PHILLIPS, 28 years; 
November 27, Colonel Simon LITZENBERG; 
November 29, Robert HOWARTH, 72 years; 
December 21, James S. CONNOLLY, 36 years; 
December 21, Catherine D. WHITE, 61 years; 
December 22, Jane RILEY, 52 years; 
December 23, Patrick O'DONNELL, 63 years; 
December 25, Edmund ESREY, 69 years; 
December 27, George TURNER, 60 years.

It is noticeable that a large number of the aged people who died during the past 
twelve months are women.