Obituary (from newspaper of 2 Dec. 1958): CLAYTON---C. Elmer Hyde, 76, a life-long resident of the Clayton area, died yesterday at his home at 524 Franklin St., at 12:30 p.m. Death was attributed to a heart condition.
The body was taken to the Parker-Hoyt Funeral Home, LaFargeville. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at the family home at Clayton. Rev. Russell Little, pastor of the Clayton Methodist Church will officiate. Burial
will take place in St. Lawrence Cemetery. Friends may call this afternoon and evening.Surviving, besides his wife, are a daughter, Mrs. Ellwyn (Beulah) Flick, Clayton; and two sons, Lloyd, of Skaneateles, and Norris, of LaFargeville. Another son, Ross, was killed in an automobile accident in 1941. Also surviving are three
sisters, Mrs. Mina Longway, Clayton, Mrs. Bertha McNeil, Watertown, and Mrs. Roy Cuppernal, now living in Washington state. One brother, Volney, lives in Watertown. Mr. Hyde had eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren; also nieces
and nephews.Mr. Hyde was born in the town of Clayton June 9, 1882, son of John and Eliza Ely Hyde. He attended schools in the Clayton area.
He married the former Emma Oviatt in the Cape Vincent Episcopal Church on Dec. 7, 1907. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Walter Cook, who was then pastor.
The couple lived on farms in the LaFargeville area until moving to Clayton some 20 years ago. Mr. Hyde worked at the New York Air Brake Co., Watertown, for a short time during World War II. He retired in 1947.
Mr. and Mrs. Hyde celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1957. Next Sunday would have been their 51st anniversary.
Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of 21 Sept. 1951): REDWOOD---George Hartman, 94, retired farmer who lived in this area nearly all his life, died last night at 7 at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Percy E. Timerman of LaFargeville.
Despite his advanced age, he had been active until last July when he fell downstairs. Since then, his health had grown steadily worse.
One of the organizers of the Kirkland Grange here and a Golden Sheaf Granger, Mr. Hartman had lived with his daughter for about seven years. For about half a century before that, he had a farm near Browns Corners on the Alexandria
Bay-Redwood road.Funeral services will be Monday afternoon with a prayer at the Timerman home at 1:30 and regular service at 2 in the Lutheran Church at Orleans Four Corners. Rev. Teofil Bartnicki, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Browns Corners
Cemetery.Mr. Hartman was twice-married and twice-widowed. His first wife was the former Miss Elizabeth Cuffer who died March 15, 1890. He had one son by that marriage, Lawrence A. Hartman, who was superintendent of the Watertown public school
buildings at the time of his sudden death April 1, 1944, at the age of 63.On Oct. 28, 1890, he married the former Miss Sophie M. Vogt, who died Sept. 23, 1930. The had three children who survive: Mrs. Louise Timerman and her twin sister, Mrs. Charles (Lotha) Snell of Alexandria Bay, and Adam Hartman of Massena.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Kate Snell of Plessis, now past 85, and five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Hartman came from a long-lived family. His father, John Adam Hartman, lived to be 95. Two of his other three sisters lived until they were past 90 and one lived into her late 80's. A brother, John Hartman, died just before he became
80.His father came to this country by sailboat from Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in 1853, with the Hironemus Bickelhaupt family. Hironemus Bickelhaupt, father of the late Adam Bickelhaupt of this village, had married a Margaret Hartman in
Germany; so the two families were related by those ties.With the Hartmans was their grandfather who died before the ship reached the New York harbor and was buried at sea. Another sorrowful event of their coming was in Watertown when the family, none of whom could speak English, was crossing
the old Court Street bridge on the way to meet a German who lived on the north side. The elder Hartman's youngest son, a child in arms, had been ill and he died that night as his mother was carrying him across the bridge.The Hartmans settled at Redwood. But later, John Adam Hartman and his wife, Mrs. Anna Eva Hartman, thought their chances for higher pay would be better in Canada. Their son, George, was born there, in Waterloo, Ont., on Jan. 11, 1857.
When George was about a year old, the Hartmans moved back to this vicinity and stayed from then on. His father worked for one of the German settlers here for a while. Later, the family operated farms on the Redwood-Alexandria Bay road,
in the Calaboga section, and at English Settlement near Theresa. In the last place, they lived in a small log house near today's Morgan Cut.Soon after he was first married, Mr. Hartman rented the Adam Snell farm near LaFargeville and stayed there for 22 years. Then he bought the farm at Browns Corners and lived there until after his second wife's death.
At Browns Corners in those early days, he looked after the cemetery there on his own time.
He early became active in Grange affairs. He first joined the LaFargeville Grange in the 1890's and then transferred his membership to the Plessis group. He served as master at Plessis. He then became a charter member of the Kirkland
Grange here and long served as treasurer.One of those most interested in the G. L. F., Mr. Hartman helped get it organized here and he was the first agent the group had in Jefferson county. He brought the first carload of feed and seeds into Redwood for the G. L .F.
A faithful member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church here since he was 16, he had served as treasurer of the mission board and was 50 years one of the members of the church council. He belonged to the state Grange, having taken the sixth
degree at a state session in Watertown in 1910. He was also a member of the Jefferson Pomona Grange.He was a charter and continuous member of the Jefferson county farm bureau and several times held office in that group.
Even when he was in his late 80's, Mr. Hartman used to drive his own car. And on his 91st birthday, to demonstrate his agility, he got on a sled guided by his son and took a trip down a snow-covered hill at Orleans Four Corners.
Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of 21 Sept. 1951): REDWOOD---George Hartman, 94, retired farmer who lived in this area nearly all his life, died last night at 7 at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Percy E. Timerman of LaFargeville.
Despite his advanced age, he had been active until last July when he fell downstairs. Since then, his health had grown steadily worse.
One of the organizers of the Kirkland Grange here and a Golden Sheaf Granger, Mr. Hartman had lived with his daughter for about seven years. For about half a century before that, he had a farm near Browns Corners on the Alexandria
Bay-Redwood road.Funeral services will be Monday afternoon with a prayer at the Timerman home at 1:30 and regular service at 2 in the Lutheran Church at Orleans Four Corners. Rev. Teofil Bartnicki, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Browns Corners
Cemetery.Mr. Hartman was twice-married and twice-widowed. His first wife was the former Miss Elizabeth Cuffer who died March 15, 1890. He had one son by that marriage, Lawrence A. Hartman, who was superintendent of the Watertown public school
buildings at the time of his sudden death April 1, 1944, at the age of 63.On Oct. 28, 1890, he married the former Miss Sophie M. Vogt, who died Sept. 23, 1930. The had three children who survive: Mrs. Louise Timerman and her twin sister, Mrs. Charles (Lotha) Snell of Alexandria Bay, and Adam Hartman of Massena.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Kate Snell of Plessis, now past 85, and five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Hartman came from a long-lived family. His father, John Adam Hartman, lived to be 95. Two of his other three sisters lived until they were past 90 and one lived into her late 80's. A brother, John Hartman, died just before he became
80.His father came to this country by sailboat from Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in 1853, with the Hironemus Bickelhaupt family. Hironemus Bickelhaupt, father of the late Adam Bickelhaupt of this village, had married a Margaret Hartman in
Germany; so the two families were related by those ties.With the Hartmans was their grandfather who died before the ship reached the New York harbor and was buried at sea. Another sorrowful event of their coming was in Watertown when the family, none of whom could speak English, was crossing
the old Court Street bridge on the way to meet a German who lived on the north side. The elder Hartman's youngest son, a child in arms, had been ill and he died that night as his mother was carrying him across the bridge.The Hartmans settled at Redwood. But later, John Adam Hartman and his wife, Mrs. Anna Eva Hartman, thought their chances for higher pay would be better in Canada. Their son, George, was born there, in Waterloo, Ont., on Jan. 11, 1857.
When George was about a year old, the Hartmans moved back to this vicinity and stayed from then on. His father worked for one of the German settlers here for a while. Later, the family operated farms on the Redwood-Alexandria Bay road,
in the Calaboga section, and at English Settlement near Theresa. In the last place, they lived in a small log house near today's Morgan Cut.Soon after he was first married, Mr. Hartman rented the Adam Snell farm near LaFargeville and stayed there for 22 years. Then he bought the farm at Browns Corners and lived there until after his second wife's death.
At Browns Corners in those early days, he looked after the cemetery there on his own time.
He early became active in Grange affairs. He first joined the LaFargeville Grange in the 1890's and then transferred his membership to the Plessis group. He served as master at Plessis. He then became a charter member of the Kirkland
Grange here and long served as treasurer.One of those most interested in the G. L. F., Mr. Hartman helped get it organized here and he was the first agent the group had in Jefferson county. He brought the first carload of feed and seeds into Redwood for the G. L .F.
A faithful member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church here since he was 16, he had served as treasurer of the mission board and was 50 years one of the members of the church council. He belonged to the state Grange, having taken the sixth
degree at a state session in Watertown in 1910. He was also a member of the Jefferson Pomona Grange.He was a charter and continuous member of the Jefferson county farm bureau and several times held office in that group.
Even when he was in his late 80's, Mr. Hartman used to drive his own car. And on his 91st birthday, to demonstrate his agility, he got on a sled guided by his son and took a trip down a snow-covered hill at Orleans Four Corners.