Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Lorenzo Harrison CAREY

Obituary (from newspaper of 20 July 1944):  Lorenzo H. Carey, 76, an Indian basketmaker and caretaker, died at his home here on Sunday, July 9, at 4:30 after an illness of about a year.  His condition was not considered to be serious and his
death was sudden.

    He was born June 7, 1868, at Brier Hill, son of Lorenzo and Caroline Sabitas Carey.  As an infant six days old, he was taken with his parents to the St. Regis Reservation where he lived for 30 years.

    He married Miss Mary House, of Delta, Canada, in 1899.  A son and a daughter were born to the couple before her death.  He married Miss Fanny Morrison, Cape Vincent, in 1924, and had since resided here.

    He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Miss Mildred Carey, Kentucky, and a son, Charles Carey, with the armed forces overseas, both children by his first wife, and Edward Carey, U.S.A., North Carolina; William Carey, U.S.A., Louisiana;
and John, Earl, Richard, George, and Mary, all of Cape Vincent, and a sister, Mrs. Mary White, Cape Vincent.

    Funeral services were held from the home at 10 on Wednesday of last week, with Rev. James N. Pauley, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating.  Burial was made in the family plot in Three Mile Bay Cemetery.


Fannie Harriet GOSLIN

Obituary:  CAPE VINCENT--Mrs. Fannie Harriet G. Carey, 72, widow of Lorenzo Carey, died Sunday in Mercy Hospital, Watertown, after a long illness.

    The funeral will be Wednesday at the King Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Three Mile Bay Cemetery.

    Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

    Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. John (Eliza) Whetmore, Three Mile Bay, Mrs. James (Arwilda) Perry, Belleville, and Mrs. William (Mary) Ellis, Rochester; five sons, Edward, William and Victor, all of Rochester, John, Sackets Harbor, and
George, Cape Vincent; two brothers, William Goslin, Adams and Ennis Goslin, Wolf Island; 25 grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

    She was born Sept. 22, 1897 in Clarendon Township, Ont., daughter of Richard & Emiline Lloyd Goslin and attended Wolf Island Schools.  After moving to the United States in 1916 she was married to Lorenzo Carey in 1919 in Cape Vincent.  He
died in 1944.


Mary Elizabeth HOWES

1  CMNT Of Delta, Canada


According to George Halladay, Mary Elizabeth "actually left Lorenzo for another man. They list her as dead in (Lorenzo's) the obituary. When she left she took their new born son (James Louis) with her. They list two out of three children in the
obituary."


Fannie Harriet GOSLIN

Obituary:  CAPE VINCENT--Mrs. Fannie Harriet G. Carey, 72, widow of Lorenzo Carey, died Sunday in Mercy Hospital, Watertown, after a long illness.

    The funeral will be Wednesday at the King Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Three Mile Bay Cemetery.

    Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

    Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. John (Eliza) Whetmore, Three Mile Bay, Mrs. James (Arwilda) Perry, Belleville, and Mrs. William (Mary) Ellis, Rochester; five sons, Edward, William and Victor, all of Rochester, John, Sackets Harbor, and
George, Cape Vincent; two brothers, William Goslin, Adams and Ennis Goslin, Wolf Island; 25 grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

    She was born Sept. 22, 1897 in Clarendon Township, Ont., daughter of Richard & Emiline Lloyd Goslin and attended Wolf Island Schools.  After moving to the United States in 1916 she was married to Lorenzo Carey in 1919 in Cape Vincent.  He
died in 1944.


Lyman D. LADD

Obituary:  CLAYTON, July 19.---Lyman D. Ladd, 71, former village street commissioner and at one time the proprietor of livery stables and hotels at LaFargeville, Hammond, Rossie, and Theresa, died at his home, 853 James St., at 8:45 this
morning.  He had been ill two months.

    Half a century ago he was one of the leading baseball players of this section and was said to have been the first man in this section of the state who could pitch a curve.

    Born at Theresa, Sept. 15, 1861, he was the son of Daniel and Maria Stearns Ladd.  His early life was spent at Theresa and in 1886 he went to LaFargeville where he ran a livery and stage line from LaFargeville to Omar and Fishers Landing.

    He removed to Hammond in 1890 and ran a hotel there.  Two years later he went to Rossie where he was engaged in the hotel business until 1895 when he moved to Theresa and engaged in running a livery stable.

    Two years later he came here and started a livery stable business.  He continued it until 1904 when he bought the Charlebois farm on the Clayton-Cape Vincent Road.  He remained on the farm until 1910.  He became street commissioner here,
an office which he held until 1930.  Since then he had owned and run a gasoline station at his home.

    He was twice married.  His first wife was the late Mrs. Mary R. Shoulette Ladd, a native of the town of Alexandria, to whom he was married June 5, 1880, at Philadelphia.  She died Aug. 13, 1928 here.  Mr. Ladd was married to Mrs. Lillian
Marie Jennings of Cortland June 26, 1931.

    Mr. Ladd was a member of Clayton Lodge, F. & A.M., No. 296; Clayton Lodge, No. 539, I.O.O.F.; the Clayton Grange, the Brotherhood of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the church.

    He is survived by his wife, who is now ill in the Cortland Hospital; one son, Fred E. Ladd, Watertown; two daughters, Mrs. Eva Graves, Cape Vincent; Mrs. Ethel Farr, Clayton.  Three other children born of his first marriage are dead.  They
were: Mrs. Edith Misslin; a son and daughter who died in infancy, Elmer Ladd, and Miss Lena Ladd.