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Obituary (from newspaper of 8 Nov. 1941): CLAYTON---Funeral services for Mrs. Nina Sears Linnell,54, wife of J. Marshall Linnell, who died Friday afternoon, will be held Monday at 2 p.m. from her home at 328 Merrick St. in this village. Rev.
William Eddy, pastor of the Clayton Methodist Church, will officiate, and interment will be in the Omar Cemetery.Mrs. Linnell was born at Fishers Landing Oct. 30, 1887, the daughter of the late Eugene and Kizzie Britton Eddy and spent most of her life in the vicinity of LaFargeville and Omar.
She was the widow of Thomas A. Sears, Cardinal, Ont., whom she married Jan. 5, 1909. Mr. Sears died June 1, 1937, at their home near LaFargeville. She had married Mr. Linnell, former supervisor of the town of Clayton, on March 13, 1940,
and resided here since then.Mrs. Linnell was a member of the Thousand Island Grange, the Clayton Methodist Church, and the Martha Class of the Methodist Sunday School.
Survivors include her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Edgar (Lulu) Dewey, LaFargeville; a sister, Mrs. Harold (Martha) Glass, Watertown, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Jane Dewey.
Mrs. Linnell was the widow of Thomas A. Sears of the town of Clayton. She was married to Mr. Linnell at the home of his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Linnell, in Watertown in March, 1940, by Rev. Dr. Harold H. Niles, pastor
of the All Souls Universalist Church in that city.Mr. Linnel's first wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Schnauber Linnell, had died March 18, 1938. Thomas A. Sears died in 1937.
Jacob William Schnauber came to America in 1849. There was a revolution in Germany in 1848-1849, and thousands of German families fled to this country. He was a widower with 5 children. They stayed in Watertown a short time where he worked
as a harnessmaker, then they moved to Alexandria Center, where they bought or worked a farm.In 1851, they came to Clayton and bought the farm that we call today the Gus Schnauber Farm. J. William sold half of this (90 acres in the farm at that time) to his oldest son Augustus in 1858. In 1861, he bought what we call today the
Will Schnauber Homestead Farm consisting of 119 acres. He left the Homestead Farm to his son Lewis.The Schnauber family came from the small town of Bad Konig in Germany. It is located in the province of Hessen, in the southwestern part of Germany.
Obituary (from newspaper of Friday, 27 Nov. 1992): CLAYTON---Ruth E. "Betty" Turcotte, 70, of 623 John St., died at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday at her home after a long illness.
A funeral Mass was scheduled for 2 p.m. today at St. Mary's Church with the Rev. Daniel L. Chapin, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.
There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Cummings Funeral Home. Contributions may be made to the dialysis unit at the Mercy Center for Health Services, 218 Stone St., Watertown, N.Y. 13601.
Surviving are her husband, Donald I.; two sons, William D., Brownville, and Stephen J., Clayton; two daughters, Catherine F. "Kay" Yurack, Clayton, and Mrs. Claude C. (Donna A.) Williams, Watertown; seven grandchildren; a brother, Francis
W. Farrell, Clayton, and nieces, nephews and cousins.She was born Nov. 1, 1922, in Clayton, a daughter of Marshall E. and Ruth McKinley Farrell. She graduated from St. Mary's High School in 1939 and did post-graduate work at Clayton High School. She then graduated from Central City Business
Institute, Syracuse, which she attended on a scholarship.She married Donald I. Turcotte June 28, 1943, at St. Mary's parish with the Rev. George E. Racette officiating.
Mrs. Turcotte was business secretary for the principal at Clayton Central High School for 10 years. She was secretary and treasurer for the M.E. Farrell & Son plumbing and heating firm in Clayton for 40 years.
She was a communicant of St. Mary's Church, where she formerly served as treasurer and bookkeeper for many years. She was a member of Clayton American Legion Colon-Couch Post 821 auxiliary and a volunteer at the Thousand Islands Craft
School.