Phillips - Rogers

Caroline Rogers was the daughter of Laban Rogers & Jane E Sincerbox. She was born in 1836 at Beekman, NY and she married Joseph White Phillips who hailed from East Fishkill, NY.

courtsey of the Fishkill Historical Society

Joseph was the only son of Elias Phillips and Elizabeth Northrup and he was a farmer who got into the dairy business before he retired comfortably.

The Putnam County Courier, Fri, 17 Mar 1905
Joseph Phillips died in East Fishkill on Thursday of last week of bronchitis and heart trouble in his seventieth year. He was buried on Monday in the Hopewell Cemetery. His mother was Betsey Northup, an aunt of the late W D Northup, Mrs J T Barrett and of the Misses Elizabeth and Jennie Nichols, this village.
 

courtesy of Alan - Find A Grave

Unknown Paper, New York, 1909

Mrs Caroline Phillips died on Sunday, Nov 28th, at her home in Poughkeepsie, aged 73 years. She was born in Beekman, Dutchess Co, and was a daughter of Laban and Jane (Sincerbox) Rogers. On 6 Nov 1856, she was married to Joseph W Phillips, of East Fishkill, and her married life was spent on a farm in that town. After her husband's death, she moved to Poughkeepsie, where she had resided four years. Her husband was the only child of Elias and Elizabeth Northrup Phillips, and he was a cousin of the Misses Elizabeth and Jennie Nichols, and Mrs John T Barrett of Carmel, and of the late J Frank Nichols; also of the late W D Northrup, of Kent. She is survived by one brother, Charles E Rogers, the real estate dealer, of Poughkeepsie, and one sister, Mrs Thomas Wright of LaGrange. Funeral at Reformed Church, Hopewell.

Owen - Rogers

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Phebe Rogers, the daughter of John Rogers & Mary Skidmore, married Merritt Owen and had 2 children - Ranson & Mary.

Mary married  William Van Amburgh & they had one son who died in infancy.

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Ranson, a fruit farmer, married Mary Wurts, the daughter of Cornelius Wurts & Margaret Lefevre, and they had 3 children who never married - Nellie, Ida & Allan.

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Middletown Times Press, 4 Jan 1919
Aged Resident of the Town of Goshen Passes Away on Jan 3
Goshen, Jan 4 - Mary Wurts Owen, aged 75 years, six months and 16 days, died of paralysis, on Jan 3, at her late residence in the town of Goshen, after an illness of about [16] days.  The deceased was born in New Paltz, the daughter of Cornelius Wurts and Margaret LeFever, both of New Paltz.  On March 13, 1868 she was united in marriage to Ranson Own of Glenham, NY and [had] been a resident of Goshe for the past 20 years.  She was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Platz.  Surviving are two daughters, Miss Nellie LeFever Owen and Miss Ida May Owen; one son, Allen R Owen; three sisters, Misses Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret Owen, all of New Paltz.  Funeral services will be held at the late residence, Monday afternoon at [x] o'clock, conducted by Rev F [x] Haines.

Middletown Daily Herald, 18 Jun 1924
Miss Ida Owen Of Goshen Taken
Goshen, Jun 18 - The funeral of Miss Ida M Owen, whose demise occurred this morning at 7 o'clock at her home in the Town of Goshen, will take place Saturday at 2 pm, standard time. Miss Owen had been ill several months. She was born in New Paltz, the daughter of Ramson and Mary Wurtz Owen, and she had lived in Goshen for 30 years. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and is survived by a sister, Miss Nellie L Owen and a brother, Allen R Owen. The Rev George H Scofield will officiate at the funeral and interment will be in the Family plot at Slate Hill Cemetery.

Middletown Times Herald, 7 Aug 1939
Allan Owen, Noted Orchardist, Is Dead - Also Known for Ponies Named for Famous Men
Goshen - Allan R Owen, well-known fruit-grower and owner of Maplewood Farm stables, died yesterday of a heart attack in Horton Hospital, Middletown. Widely known for the Shetland ponies raised on his farm three miles north of Goshen, which had taken many prizes at county fair shows, Mr Own generally harvested one of the largest crops of apples in the vicinity. His farm also has a reputation for fine grapes and other fruits. Naming ponies after famous persons had been the custom at Maplewood Farm. Amount the most famous was Franklin D, named for the President with whom Mr Owen often corresponded. The President sent his namesake a harness after he had seen the pony take the grand prize at the Dutchess County Fair in 1937. Born at Stony Ford June fourteenth, 1884, a son of Ramson and Mary Wurtz Owen, Mr Owen had lived in the Town of Hamptonburg forty-five years. He lived with his sister, Miss Nellie L Owen in the spacious homestead on Maplewood Farm. Funeral services will be held at the farm tomorrow at three pm with the Rev Robert C Longaker of Campbell Hall officiating. Interment will be in Slate Hill Cemetery.

Suicide Pact

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Two Johnson kids killed themselves.

Clara A Johnson was the daughter of Peter Johnson & Mary A Woodhurst and she killed herself by drowning in  1902.

In 1912, her nephew took his life in a suicide pact with his best friend's wife. William Sanders Johnson was the only child of Walter A Johnson &  Alice Lucinda Lancaster.

 

The Evening Item, Richmond, IN, September 26, 1912

SUICIDE PACT BLAMED FOR DEATH OF YOUNG COUPLE

William Johnson and Mrs. Harriett Wyman Drink Carbolic Acid and Before Medical Assistance Can be Secured Breathe Their Last Under Extraordinary Circumstances With Mrs. Johnson and Wyman Present But Unaware

GREAT INTIMACY HAD EXISTED IN THEIR FAMILIES

Shocking Tragedy Featured by Series of Unusual Circumstances

MAN LONG DESPONDENT

No Further Explanation for Persistent Plans on His Own Life

SEEMED IN GOOD HUMOR

Two Victims Went to Kitchen Together and Returned to Fatal Sleep.

William Saunders Johnson, aged 31, 425 South Twelfth street, a clerk in the Peter Johnson Stove company, the only son of Walter Johnson, head of the firm, and Mrs. Harriett A. Wyman, aged 30, 139 Richmond avenue, wife of Roy C. Wyman drank carbolic acid last evening at the latter's home, in each other's company. Both died about 11 o'clock, within an hour after drinking the deadly poison. Neither made any statement before death. Circumstances surrounding the tragedy indicate a suicide pact. The double suicide was one of the most sensational, as well as the strangest that has ever occurred in this community. It makes a total of six suicides in Wayne county since August 6th.

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While sitting in the living room of the Wyman residence about 10 o'clock last evening, Mrs. Wyman and Johnson got up and left Wyman and Mrs. Johnson in the room. They went to the kitchen, probably remaining ten or fifteen minutes. Returning Mrs. Wyman went to the couch in the living room, in which her husband and Mrs. Johnson were seated, while Johnson went into the front room and sat down upon the davenport. Neither said anything as they entered the room, the survivors said. Within the next fifteen minutes the deep respiratory sounds from the front room brought Wyman and Mrs. Johnson to Johnson's side. They glanced at Johnson, whose breathing was unusually heavy but decided there was nothing wrong with him. They did not detect an odor of acid. Upon returning to the sitting room Wyman discovered that his wife, who had been sitting upright had fallen upon her side, laying on the couch. Her breathing too was unnatural. However, even then, Wyman said, he did not imagine the truth. It was probably two or three minutes before Mrs. Johnson detected the odor of acid. A more careful examination indicated the correctness of their suspicions. Picking his wife up in his arms, and calling, "Harriett, Harriett, what have you done," Wyman carried her into the yard for air he said, the then called for help. Neighbors summoned two physicians who worked hopelessly over the couple for about an hour. Johnson died first. It is thought that he drank a greater portion of the acid than Mrs. Wyman. There were no burns upon his lips. Evidently he placed the neck of the small bottle far back in his mouth and swallowed the contents. Mrs. Wyman's desperate effort was not carried out so successfully, burns disfiguring her lips. A small portion of the acid run in a stream down her neck and was blotted up by the clothing, covering her breast. Early last evening Wyman met Johnson uptown, the latter accompanying Wyman home. Wyman failed in an effort to persuade Johnson to return to the latter's home. Wyman then went to the Johnson's residence about 9 o'clock and informed Mrs. Johnson. She returned with Wyman, reaching his home about 9:20 o'clock. She endeavored to have Johnson return with her to their home, but failed. His gloomy spirits in the evening, however, had given away to a more cheerful aspect of life. Wyman says that during the evening, his wife and Johnson left the house and were gone possibly fifteen minutes. He said he and Mrs. Johnson talked during this time. When the two returned they sat down and the four talked for a few minutes upon subjects of no importance, and the text of which Wyman does not recall. After this short visit Johnson got up and followed Mrs. Wyman, they proceeded into the kitchen. The door was closed and Wyman and Mrs. Johnson did not hear what took place in that room. The occasion of their return, and the fact that Mrs. Wyman sat upon the couch in one room, while Johnson proceeded to the davenport in the other did not occasion any surprise.

After the two died Coroner Pierce was called, and he made a superficial examination. He found the two ounce bottle on the kitchen table. There was about a grain of acid still in it. The acid, the coroner said had evidently been purchased several days ago. It was secured from a north end druggist. The bottle bore his label, and the coroner judged from an examination of it that the acid had been purchased several days ago. The coroner did not begin to take testimony in the case until this afternoon. During the visit of the coroner, Walter Johnson, father of the deceased, arrived. He took charge of the Wyman residence and made arrangements for the removal of his son's body. Mrs. Walter Johnson, mother of the dead man, who was an only son, was prostrate and her condition today was regarded as serious. Johnson and Wyman and their wives have been very intimate friends for the past year. It was not unusual for either to pay long visits at the home of the other. This friendship was all the more unusual because of the serious differences which Wyman and Johnson had a few months ago, which led to a street fight between the two. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Wyman, who resembled each other to a degree that they were frequently mistaken for sisters, were often in each other's company. The relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and between Mr. and Mrs. Wyman according to the surviving wife and husband, was the most congenial. Mrs. Johnson said that her husband's despondency was hard to understand in view of the many things which he had to live for, the Johnsons having a very comfortable home. Mrs. Wyman had never expressed any dissatisfaction with her home, according to her husband. His mother and daughter lived with the Wymans. The latter two, and a nephew of the dead women were sleeping upstairs at the time the poison was taken.

Mrs. Wyman is a native of Oshkosh, Wis., and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Green, now live there. She has been a resident of this city, with her husband, since their marriage, twelve years ago. Johnson, who is survived by his widow, Gertrude, and three children, Roy, Robert, and Walter, aged 9, 4, and 2 respectively, had been despondent for some time, lately he had been drinking heavily. He had threatened to kill himself several times. Mrs. Wyman, according to information given her husband, had been in good health and he had never heard her threaten her own life. She was the mother of an eleven year old daughter Lorraine.

The funeral of Johnson will be held at the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson, 110 South Ninth street. It will be strictly private. The date has not been arranged. Burial will be in Earlham cemetery. He was well known and popular in Triumph lodge, Knights of Pythias and the Uniform Rank.

A Tinner & A Tobacco Man

The Peter Johnson Clan is a bit of a mystery and I wish I could get my hand on more records but given that they were Quakers, it's difficult. 

We start with Peter Johnson, the son of George 'Jeremiah' Johnson & Phebe Rogers. He married Mary C Velie, the daughter of Minard P Velie & Lovina Flagler and had 4 children - Jeremiah, Mary E, Abraham & Peter Jr.  Peter was a Tinner & after he died in 1934, Mary relocated to Ohio with her daughter Mary E and died some time after 1870.

Peter Jr married an English girl by the name of Mary Ann Woodhurst and they had 4 children - Arabella, Walter, Clara & Stella.

Arabella married Samuel M Buckley and had 2 children - Rex & Helen.   

Palladium-Item, Mon, 14 Dec 1925

Samuel M Buckley, Pioneer Tobacco Merchant, Is Dead

Samuel M Buckley, 77 years old, a retail and wholesale tobacco merchant here for 55 years, died at Reid Memorial Hospital Sunday morning at 6:30 o'clock from heart trouble. Mr Buckley had been in failing health for about a year, and was taken to Reid Memorial Hospital last Monday evening following an attack of heart trouble which he suffered while in his store. Mr Buckley had resided in Richmond since he was 19 years old, conducting first a retail cigar and tobacco store and later a wholesale store of these products in which he was actively engaged until a week ago. His first store in the retail business was opened in the old Tremont Hotel at Eight and Main streets where the Dickinson Trust Company is now located. Later, Mr Buckley moved his business across the street to the place now occupied by the Union National Bank. About 25 years ago, Mr Buckley opened his wholesale store at 515 Main Street, which he was operating just before his death. Born on Sept 2, 1848 in Lancashire, England, Mr Buckley had come to America when he was six years old settling in Philadelphia, Pa where he received his education in the public schools. Mr Buckley's career as a tobacconist began with his first occupation at Philadelphia where he became connected with the Pennsylvania railroad in the capacity as overseer of the 'news butchers' on the trains.

Opened Store Here

When he was 19 years old, he was sent in this capacity to Richmond where he was in charge of the news boys for the succeeding two years. AT the expiration of the two years, he went into business for himself opening a tobacco store at Eight and Main streets. Before coming to Richmond, he had enlisted in the Canadian Army when 16 years old and served in the army about a year. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church and a former member of the Knights of Pythias and the Light Guards. Surviving members of the family are the widow, Mrs Belle B Buckley; one daughter, Miss Helen Buckley; one son, Rex R Buckley; and two grandchildren, Muriel and Raymond Buckley. the funeral services will be held at the home, 200 South Eleventh Street, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Dr J J Rae, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will have charge of the services. Burial will be made at Earlham Cemetery. Friends may call any time.