Ameila Murgittroyd Stewart [John Bolton]

Obituary from the Oneida Democratic Union March 24, 1905:

Mrs. Amelia Stewart, one of the oldest inhabitants of this place, passed peacefully away Sunday morning at the home of her son, B.C. Stewart, where she had been so tenderly cared for. Her death was not unexpected; for the past two years she had been confined to her bed and had gradually failed until the end came. Mrs. Stewart was born in Eaton, Nov. 7, 1817, came to Stockbridge with her parents at the age of two years, and had since made this her home. Although she had arrived at the advanced age of 87 years her mind was remarkably clear and it was a pleasure for her to see the friends at her bedside. Being one of the oldest residents she distinctly remembered when everywhere was forest, and it was interesting indeed to hear her relate tales of the Indians and of the country as she first knew it. Her parents formerly came from Connecticut, and she was one of ten children. Two sisters and one brother survive her, all of whom are living in Michigan. One sister dying in infancy was the first body to be buried in 1822 in what is now our beautiful cemetery. Amelia Murgittroyd was married to Albert Steward in 1838 and in 1842 she was left a widow with three small children, the youngest a babe three months old, to provide for. She bravely faced her future and it can be truly said of her, "She hath done what she could." One son, who was a teacher in the school at Middletown, died in 1871, and only one son and one grandson, Myron Delos Stewart of this place, survive her. The funeral took place today (Wednesday) from her late home, Rev. A.W. Battery of the M.E. Church, of which Mrs. Stewart had always been a member, officiating. Burial was in the Stockbridge cemetery.

Henry W. Murgittroyd [Nicholas]

The following obituary is from the Jersey Journal, January, 1922: Funeral services for Henry W. Murgittroyd, (Photo) who died suddenly at his home, 365 Eighth Street, last Tuesday from a stroke of apoplexy, were conducted last night by Hiram Lodge, N0. 17F and A.M. and Rev. Harry W. Rosengrat, pastor of Centenary M.E. Church.
Mr. Murgittroyd was stricken on the front stoop of his home as he was leaving to go to work. He was 52 years old and was born in Athens, NY. He was a resident of the Second Ward for over fifteen years and was employed by the Phoenix Towing Company as a boss engineer. He was active in Masonic Lodge No. 87 Knights of Pythias. He was also a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. In addition to his widow, he is survived by 5 daughters and one son. He was a member of the Railroad Square Ass., an organization of the Masonic City. Interment was in New York Bay Cemetery.

Harry Carr Murgittroyd [Nicholas]

From the Jersey Journal of November 4, 1966:

Harry Murgittroyd: Believed in His Party

Harry C. Murgittroyd believed in his political party and for 17 years worked strenuously although unobtrusively in its behalf.
With no prior experience in political affairs he decided to support the Freedom Movement which, headed by John V. Kenny, upset the Hague-Eggers regime in 1949.
From that time until his death, he was the Regular Democratic committeeman in his district, first in the old 12th Ward and, more recently, the Hudson City ward.
Mr. Murgittroyd had no personal ambition to hold any major elective office. To him, however, work for his party was not something restricted to election campaigns; he believed in party support the year round.
In the past 17 years, Mr. Murgittroyd had no difficulty being reelected committeeman in his district. Once or twice, a fellow politico recalled, he had some opposition, "but it was never serious. He was too well known in his district and he had the reputation of always doing his utmost to help a constituent no matter how major or minor the problem.
Mr. Murgittroyd lived more than 22 years in his district and knew everyone by name. His residence was at 474 Central Avenue.
For many years, he was traffic manager at the Toller and Cooper Co., New York. For seven years, he was senior traffic maintenance man for the Boulevard police, supervising the operation of the traffic lights and working out of the old headquarters at the Boulevard and Newark Avenue. When the Boulevard and Hudson County police were combined he worked at the county garage on Hoboken Avenue.
Mr. Murgittroyd’s recreation tastes were simply. One outing was a fixture, however. Every Friday he would take his wife, Lorrayne, to dinner at a Hoboken restaurant. Once or twice a year there would be weekends or a brief vacation in Atlantic City.
After a brief illness Mr. Murgittroyd died Monday at St. Mary Hospital, Hoboken. He was buried today at Fairview Cemetery after services at the Beddiges and Seitz Funeral Home, conducted by Rev. Samuel Brosius of All Souls English Lutheran Church.

Frank Murgittroyd [Nicholas]

From the Jersey Journal of April 7, 1958:
Hoboken Man Was remembered for His Charity, Sympathy
Frank Murgittroyd: He Could be Depended Upon in Time of Trouble

Whenever an emergency arose in his native city of Hoboken, Frank Murgittroyd could be depended upon to give assistance.
Recently when a three-alarm fire broke out in the middle of a bitter cold night across the street form his home at 78 Bloomfield Street, he and his son Donald arose from their beds.
They helped get people out of the building and assisted firemen pulling the hose. Mrs. Murgittroyd opened her home and served coffee to the fire fighters.
A son, Richard, is a member of the Hoboken Fire Department.
Mr. Murgittroyd, who was employed four years by the maintenance department in the stereotype room of The Jersey Journal, died Friday in St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, at the age of 58. Two years preceding his affiliation with the newspaper, he served as sexton of the First Methodist Church, Hoboken, and before that was in the employ of the old Jersey Observer.
Taken suddenly ill early Wednesday morning, he was rushed to the hospital, where X-rays showed he had a triplicate rupture of the main artery to the heart. Specialists performed a rare operation, removing the entire artery and replacing it with a nylon tube.
Mr. Murgittroyd was a lover of outdoors, a member of the family said. He was a familiar figure, weather permitting, sitting on a bench on the Washington Street side of City Hall, where he reminisced with friends.
And he was, mourners recall, a man of deep and quiet charity and sympathies. It wasn't widely known that he helped many of his friends when they were in financial distress and that he could be depended upon to listen to a tale of personal woe and to the best of his ability console a suffered. He had, it was said, a host of friends who remember with gratitude the nice touch of his sincere sympathy in their troubles and his unfaltering help in their time of distress.
Married 40 years ago at the age of 17, Frank Murgittroyd was the father of 12 children, five sons and seven daughters. The sons are Arthur of Maplewood; Richard , Frank, Donald, and Lawrence all of Hoboken; Mrs. Daisy Apicella of Jersey City; Ruth of Albany, NY; Mrs. Virginia Rutledge of Lincoln Park; Constance and Drucilla of Hoboken; Mrs. Emma Hess and Mrs. Mary Kirchner, both of Jersey City.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs, Isabel Puncerelli, two brothers, Hubert and Harry Murgittroyd; 21 grandchildren and two great great children.
The funeral was held today from the Beddiges-Seitz Funeral Home, Jersey City. The Rev. Adelbert Q. Wettstein, pastor of the Reformed Church, Hoboken, preached the funeral service.

Daisy Carr Murgittroyd

From the Jersey Journal of October 4, 1929:

Mrs. Daisy Murgittroyd died at her home, 206 Webster Avenue, Wednesday night, after a lingering illness. Mrs. Murgittroyd, who was 51 years old, is survived by 11 grandchildren.
She was the wife of Frank Murgittroyd, Sr. a, and the mother of Frank, Jr., Herbert and Harry Murgittroyd, and Mrs. Isabel Puncerelli. She is survived by three brothers: Joseph and Walter Carr, and a sister, Mrs. Lillian Seitz, of Jersey City.
The deceased was born in Green Castle, Pa., and moved with her family to Hoboken when a girl. She resided the past 15 years in Jersey City.
Rev. G.N. Gehman, of the Gospel Mission will officiate at funeral services tonight, and funeral will be held at 3 P.M. with interment in Hoboken Cemetery.

May Murgittroyd Requa [Nicholas]

From the Athens, NY newspaper January, 1928:

May Murgittroyd, wife of John Requa, of New York City, died at the home of her mother, the late Mrs. Cornella Murgittroyd, in this village, last week Wednesday, after an illness of several months. Mrs. Requa was born in New York, forty-six years ago, the daughter of the late John H. and Cornella Spoor Murgittroyd. She passed most of her early girlhood in Athens, until marriage, when she and her husband took up their residence in New York, where he was a marine engineer, but coming here during Summers for their vacation. Early last year she returned to Athens, ill, and with her mother also ill, Mrs. Murgittroyd death occurred only a little more than a week ago, making a sad household indeed. Mrs. Requa had many friends here who extend their sympathy to the survivors in their double affliction - her husband, a niece (Miss Florence Murgittroyd of Rensselaer) and a brother (Mathew Davenport of Edgewater, NJ). The funeral was held on Saturday, at her late residence the Rev. Jerrald Potts of Coxsackie conducting the service; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.

From Athens, NY newspaper Jan, 1928:

Cornelia Spoor, widow of John H. Murgittroyd, died at her home on upper Franklin Street last Saturday, after long sickness, and the funeral on Monday was private, owing to the serious illness in the same house of her daughter, Mrs. John Requa of New York. The Rev. Hobart B. Whitney conducted the service; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. Mrs. Murgittroyd was the daughter of the late Jane and Abram Spoor of Coxsackie, in which village she was born eighty-one years ago, but most of her life was passed in Athens. She was a Christian gentlewoman; a devoted member of Trinity (Episcopal) Church: quiet and unassuming but friendly towards all; devoted to her home and family. Of late years she spent each Winter in New York with her daughter, Mrs. Requa, coming back here for several months in the Summer, as she did this year. But this time both came out of health, and had been ill ever since, Mrs. Murgittroyd getting gradually worse and Mrs. Requa being now in a critical condition. The deceased is survived by this daughter (who was Miss Mae Murgittroyd) by a granddaughter (Miss Florence Murgittroyd of Rensselaer) and by one son (Matthew Davenport of Edgewater, NJ by a former marriage to John Davenport).

Jean  M. Redding Apicella

From the Newburyport (MA) daily News, July 5, 1999:
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AMESBURY-Jean M. (Redding) Apicella, 54, 282 Main St., Formerly of Danvers,  died Sunday morning at home with her family. She was the wife of Louis F. Apicella.

Born in Peabody, July 13, 1944, she was the daughter of Marie L. (Willette) Redding of Danvers and the late Alfred J. Redding, and was a 1962 graduate of Danvers High School.   Mrs. Apicella had worked as a saleswoman in the jewelry department at Wal-Mart.

In addition to her mother and husband, she is survived by two sons and a daughter-in-law, Jeffrey D. Apicella of Amesbury, and Louis F. and Deborah (Trippett) Apicella of Topsfield; two sisters, Virginia Eveleth of Revere and Susan Griffin of Danvers; two grandsons, Matthew and Jameson of Topsfield;and several nieces and nephews.

Carolyn Murgittroyd Breed [Peter]

From Oswego Palladium, Oswego NY

Oct.1,1889- Mrs Henry C. Breed died at the family residence on Lock St, Sept. 28th, aged 29 years and nine months. She had been sick but three weeks and was considered out of danger until Thursday before she suffered a relapse and gradually failed until death came to her relief. she was surrounded by more than the ordinary comforts of life, had, apparently everything to live for and it seemed hard to think that death at this time in her life should claim her as victim. but "death loves a shining mark" and it is again verified in this case. She was a kind and loving wife, a gentle and affectionate mother, a dutiful daughter, and a loving and affectionate sister. A husband, three small children (one a babe three weeks old), an aged mother, a sister and two brothers survive her and they, with a large circle of sympathizing friends, mourn her untimely death and deeply feel their loss. Impressive funeral services were conducted at the house today at 2 P.M., the Rev. J.H. Butler officiating. Messrs. J.I. VanDoren, H.G.Vickery, C.F.Loomis, and F.A. Cartler were the pall bearers.

Edward B. Murgittroyd [John]

From the Pontiac Gizette, April, 1878

The funeral of Mr.Edward B. Murgittroyd was attended at the Brick Church on Tuesday, April 9th.  Mr. Murgittroyd was born in Stockbridge, Madison County, N.Y. in the year 1835.  He came to this state in 1857.  In the year 1862 was married to Miss Sarah Wright, daughter of the late David A. Wright, of Austin, where they live for four years, when he built him a fine residence, and moved to Davisburgh, since which time he has been engaged in manufacturing and repairing, wagons and carriages, and also as undertaker, and during which time, by strict attention to business, and fair and honorable dealing, he had won for himself the patronage, the confidence, and the esteem of a large circle of friends, and his death the community in which he lived feel to mourn the loss of an active, enterprising business man, and a kind and obliging citizen.  He leaves a wife and two lovely daughters to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate husband and father.  His remains were borne to their silent resting place by the lodge of F. &A. Masosn, of which he was and active member.  Services by Rev. Mr. Clemons, of Ann Arbor.

Geoffrie Murgittroyd Senior [Jeremiah]

Geoffrie E. Senior was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Murgittroyd of Phoenix, NY. and was born at Candhenoy, NY on March 3, 1870. She married on May 30, 1886 to Mr, Benjamin Senior, the family removing about eight years ago to Perry and with the exception of about a year this place has been their home since that time.

About three years ago a cancer developed near her breast and although of slow growth it affected her health to a considerable extent. She bore her affliction uncomplainingly and continued about her household duties until this spring, when she was taken to a hospital and underwent an operation for removal of the cancer. For a time afterward her health seemed to improve but later tuberculosis (quick consumption) developed and she gradually failed. Mrs. Senior was hopeful and cheerful until the end, and will power sustaining her for a number of weeks, and not until the day of her death did she become convinced that recovery was impossible. She was conscious to the last.

Mrs. Senior was a woman of sunny disposition and made many friends who share in the sorrow of the family, to whom sympathy is extended in their great bereavement.

Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Ollie, and one daughter, Pansy; also by her parents, Mr. Oscar Murgittroyd; one brother, Mace of Phoenix, NY.

Brief services were held at the Rowe cottage at 8 o'clock on Monday morning, conducted by Reb. Clara Morgan, pastor of the Universalist Church of which Mrs. Senior was a member. The remain were take on the 9:15 A.M. train to Phoenix where funeral services were held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

There was a profusion of floral offering, including pieces from Silver Lake Lodge I.O.O.F. , Canton Erie of Buffalo, employees of the Robeson cutlery factory and flowers from a large number of individual friends of the family.

William Murgittroyd [Nicholas]

From the Chatham Courier, October 24, 1894:
On Saturday, Oct 22nd, William Murgittroyd, after an illness of several months, passed away, at his home near this village. Deceased was a kind and pleasant man and a good neighbor. He was an army veteran and was buried from the M.E. church on Tuesday afternoon by the G. A.R. Interment in our village cemetery.

From the Chatham Republican:
Wm. Murgittroyd died at his home near this village on Saturday last, after an illness of several weeks. He was a veteran of the war, and a member of the G.A.R., and was always known as a staunch Republican. The Funeral was held at the Methodist church on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.

Margaret Murgittroyd Minkler [Nicholas]

From the Hudson Republic, Jan 3, 1906:

Mrs David S. Minkler, an aged resident of Claverack, passed away at her home on Main Street in that Village Tuesday. For some time past she had been in ill health, but the news of her death was a surprise to many friends in this vicinity. She is survived by her husband. The funeral will be held from her late residence Thursday at 3 o'clock.

Thomas Swift

From the Jersey Journal, October 4, 2001:

Jill Swift said she’s kept in contact with Thomas’ family regularly since the attack.