Obituary (from newspaper of 30 Dec. 1966): ADAMS---Mrs. Clara C. Rusho, 81, widow of William A. Rusho, died about 7 this morning in the Hillcrest Nursing Home, where she had been a patient since July, 1962.
The funeral will be Monday at 1 p.m. at the Piddock funeral home with Rev. William R. Burton, pastor of the Adams Village Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Saturday afternoon and evening.
Mrs. Rusho is survived by five sons, Harold and Freeman, both of Watertown; Everson, Rochester, and Morland and Wilson, both of Adams; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth VanDuser, Adams, and a sister, Mrs. Milford Goodfriend, Three Mile Bay.
Mrs. Rusho was born at Clayton, Feb. 22, 1886, a daughter ofJjoshua and Imogene House Calhoun. She attended Clayton schools and in 1900 was married to Mr. Rusho at Clayton. The couple operated farms at Chaumont and Adams for years,
retiring in 1958. Mr. Rusho died in 1963.
1 CMNT Killed in gun accident
Obituary (from newspaper of 6 Feb. 1926): Joshua Calhoun, aged 78 years, Civil War veteran and well-known hunter and trapper, was instantly killed at about 9:30 Saturday morning when a gun in the car in which he had gone to hunting grounds
near here slid from the auto, discharging both barrels as it struck the running board. The shot took effect in Mr. Calhoun's left leg and arm, shattering both and causing his death almost immediately. The bullets also killed a big hound which
Arthur Calhoun, son of the dead man, was holding on his lap.An investigation of the circumstances of the fatal accident was made by Assistant District Attorney Melvin F. Kinkley, who came here from Watertown soon after.
Josh Calhoun, his two sons, Arthur and Claude, and his brother Emmett started Saturday morning about 9 for the vicinity of Cold Springs, where they planned to hunt for fox. They went in the car owned and driven by Emmett Calhoun and when
they reached a point about 3 miles from Depauville, on the Chaumont road, stopped the machine.Claude was sitting in front with his uncle and Arthur was seated in back with his father. He was holding their hound on his lap. The only weapon in the car which was loaded was that of Josh Calhoun and it was lying between the doors.
When Arthur leaned over to open the right hand door the loaded gun slid out, stock first, struck on the running board and with a roar, both barrels of the heavy ten guage shot gun were discharged.Mr. Calhoun did not utter a sound after being struck and breathed only a few times before he died. The hound which Arthur had on his lap was instantly killed but Arthur was not struck by any of the shot.
The three men immediately turned about and rushed back to Depauville arriving there about 10. Dr. R.J.F. Burton was called and after an examination of the body he notified the district attorney's office at Watertown.
Assistant District Attorney Melvin F. Kinkly questioned the two sons and the brother of the dead man, getting a detailed report of the fatality.
Josh Calhoun had always resided in the town of Clayton and was well known here. He lived on a farm about 3 and a half miles out of this village on the Clayton road at what is known at Three Mile Creek. He did very little farming,
however, turning most of his attention to hunting, fishing, and trapping.Surviving besides his wife, Mrs. Emogene Calhoun, the sons and the brother who were with him, are two other sons, Ernest and Elmer, and several daughters.
Funeral services were held from the Clayton M.E. Church Tuesday at 2 p.m., Rev. H.W. Markham officiating. Burial was made in Clayton Cemetery.
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Joshua was a Private in the Civil War, serving in Co. C of the 1st NY Volunteers. He enlisted 15 March 1965 and was discharged 20 June 1865, serving 4 months. His disability was listed as a rupture.
Obituary: Mrs. Emogene House Calhoun, 93, widow of Joshua Calhoun, died at her home in Brownville Saturday night at 8:45 of a coronary thrombosis. Mrs. Calhoun received serious injuries in a fall at her home on Feb. 10.
The body was removed to the Cummings Funeral Home, where funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2, with Rev. Pascal DeFlorio, pastor of the Brownville Methodist Church, officiating. The body will be placed in the vault at the
North Watertown Cemetery to await burial in Clayton in the spring.Mrs. Calhoun was born in the town of Clayton, Sept. 14, 1852, a daughter of the late Aaron and Charlotte Palmater House. She married Joshua House, who died many years ago.
Mrs. Calhoun is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Nathan (Ada) Walrath, Brownville; Mrs. William (Clara) Rusho, Adams; Mrs. Milford (Annie) Goodfriend, Three Mile Bay; two sons, Arthur Calhoun, Clayton, and Elmer Calhoun of Grindstone
Island.
Obituary (from newspaper of 1 Aug. 1983): Harold W. Rusho, 80, of 406 Hilltop Towers, died at 4 p.m. Saturday in the House of the Good Samaritan, where he had been a patient since June 15.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Cummings Funeral Home, with Rev. J. Paul Muller, pastor of the Bethany United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Dexter Cemetery.
There will be no calling hours.
Donations may be made to Brownville American Legion Post 588.
He is survived by his wife, Hazel; a daughter, Mrs. Phillip (Janet) Hunter, Watertown; four brothers, Freeman, Watertown, Everson, Rochester, Morland and Wilson, both of Adams; an aunt, Mrs. Amy Goodfriend, Adams; two grandchildren and a
great-grandson.Born on Grindstone Island April 25, 1903, son of William and Clara Calhoun Rusho, he was educated in Chaumont schools.
He married Hazel Wylie on Nov. 18, 1943, in Syracuse.
In 1931, he started the Northern Implement Company, which sold farm equipment.
In 1943 he served in the Air Force, was graduated from training school at Camp Grant, Ill., and was stationed in Arkansas.
After being discharged, Mr. Rusho returned to the area and purchased the George H. Baltz Company. He later sold the property to Sears and Roebuck, Inc., to be used for a parking lot.
He continued working in Calcium until his retirement in 1968.
He was a member and past commander of the Brownville American Legion Post 588, and was a former member of the Evans Mills Masonic Lodge and Media Temple Shrine.
Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of 1 April 1999): A graveside service for Hazel M. Rusho, 87, of 406 Hilltop Towers, will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Dexter Cemetery.
Mrs. Rusho died at 4:01 p.m. Tuesday at Samaritan Medical Center, where she had been a patient since March 21.
There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Cummings Funeral Home.
Mrs. Rusho was a bookkeeper at the Northern Implement Co., her husband's business, from 1931 to 1968. She was then an operating room stock clerk at the House of the
Good Samaritan, retiring in 1979.
Born May 2, 1910, on Grindstone Island, daughter of David S. and Maude Hutchinson Wylie, she attended Dexter High School and graduated from the Watertown School of Commerce in 1928.
She married Harold W. Rusho on Nov. 18, 1943, in East Syracuse Methodist Parsonage with the Rev. W. Carleton Stevens. Mr. Rusho died July 3, 1983.
Mrs. Rusho was a member of the Greater Watertown Senior Citizens, New Senior Citizens, American Association for Retired Persons, and Hilltop Towers Tenants Association.
She was a former member of the Evans Mills Order of the Eastern Star and Daughters of the Nile. She enjoyed bowling and dancing.
Surviving are a daughter, Janet M. Hunter, Glen Park; a sister, Erma L. Wilson, with whom she lived; two granddaughters; seven great-grandchildren, and nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Three brothers, Charles, John W., and George S. Wylie, and a sister, Mary E. McManaman, died before her.
Donations may be made to the Greater Watertown Senior Citizens, 95 Public Square, Room 201, Watertown, N.Y. 13601.
1 CMNT He Immigrated To The U.S. In 1890 & Was Naturalized
David renounced his allegiance to the King of England and was naturalized 18 July 1906, at the age of 39. He had entered the port of Grindstone Island 12 May 1890 and had since been a resident of the island.
Obituary (Watertown Daily Times of 26 July 1961): Mrs. A. Maude Hutchinson Wylie, 86, widow of David S. Wylie, died at 5:15 Tuesday afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Floyd W. (Erma L.) Wilson, 934 Gotham St., where she had resided for
the past year and eight months.The funeral will be Friday afternoon at 2 at the Cummings Funeral Home. Rev. Robert D. Jones, pastor of the Asbury Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Dexter Cemetery.
Surviving her, besides Mrs. Wilson, are two other daughters, Mrs. Michael (Mary E.) McManaman, Glen Park, and Mrs. Harold (Hazel M.) Rusho, Calcium; a son, John W. Wylie, Dexter; eight grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren, and a brother,
Claude Hutchinson, Clayton.Two other children are dead. They were Charles Wylie, who died in infancy, and George S. Wylie, who died in October, 1937, in Dexter. Two brothers and four sisters are also dead.
Mrs. Wylie had been in failing health for the past six years and had been confined to her bed for the past three months.
She was born Nov. 13, 1874, on Grindstone Island, a duaghter of Charles and Mary Colter Hutchinson. She was married to David S. Wylie of Grindstone Island on Oct. 6, 1896, in Clayton.
Mr. and Mrs. Wylie resided on Grindstone Island until moving to Reynolds Corners in 1914. There they resided until 1921 when they moved to Perch River, where they operated a general store until 1927. From 1927 until the death of Mr Wylie
on June 5, 1936, they lived at 611 Mary St., Clayton.Mr. Wylie, proprietor of a gasoline station at Baggs Corners on the Watertown-Sackets Harbor road, died in the House of the Good Samaritan of injuries received the afternoon before when he was struck by a ten-wheel freight truck from
Ogdensburg at Baggs Corners. He was 69 years old.After the death of her husband, Mrs. Wylie lived in Dexter until 1944 and subsequently lived at Calcium until taking up residence in Watertown.
She was a member of the Dexter Methodist Church and a past president of the Ladies' Aid society of the Perch River Methodist church and had been active in the Home Bureau of Perch River and Calcium.
1 CMNT Died In Infancy
Obituary (from newspaper of 15 June 1988): Freeman A. Rusho, 83, of 639 Gotham St., died at 8:20 a.m. Tuesday at the House of the Good Samaritan, where he had been admitted Monday.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Cummings Funeral Home, with Rev. Stewart E. Hild, pastor of All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chaumont.
Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home, with members of Watertown Lodge F & AM Post 49 conducting a memorial service at 7 p.m.
Memorial donations may be written to the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children, in care of media Temple, Box 261, Watertown, 13601.
Surviving are a son, John F., Fulton; a daughter, Mrs. Allen (Jeanne) Rhimes, Pennellville; four grandchildren; a brother, Everson, Rochester, and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
A sister and four brothers died before him.
Born on Grindstone Island Jan. 27, 1905, a son of William and Clara Calhoun Rusho, he married Cherri Solar July 16, 1934, in Chaumont. Mrs. Rusho died Aug. 17, 1976.
Mr. Rusho was employed as a mechanic and vice president of Northern Implement Co. He later laid pipes at various farms in the area for universal milking machines. Following his retirement, he was a self-employed painter.
He was a member of Watertown Masonic Lodge 49.
Obituary (from newspaper of 25 Aug. 1986): ADAMS---Morland K. Rusho Sr., 74, Wright St., died at 3 a.m. Saturday at the House of the Good Samaritan, where he had been admitted Aug. 15.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Adams United Methodist Church with Rev. Dean Hill, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Calling hours at the Piddock Funeral Home will be 7 to 9 this evening.
He is survived by his wife, Frances; three sons, Morland Jr., Woodville, Harold, Wichita Falls, Texas, and William, Adams; four daughters, Mrs. Roselyn Steele, Binghamton; Mrs. Thomas (Francine) Goodman, Adams, Mrs. David (Catherine)
Perry, Jacksonville, N.C., and Mrs. Patrick (Diane) Briggs, Adams Center; nine grandchildren; two brothers, Freeman, Watertown, and Everson, Rochester, and nieces and nephews. Three brothers and a sister died before him.Born in the Town of Lyme on Aug. 19, 1912, son of William and Clara Calhoun Rusho, he attended Chaumont and Wellesley Island schools. he married Frances Weaver on May 25, 1945, at Central Square.
Mr. Rusho Worked for the Dairyman's League for 26 years, retiring in 1963 due to ill health.
Obituary (from newspaper of 9 March 1997): ADAMS---Frances L. Rusho, 72, of 7 Wright St., died Friday night at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse.
Mrs. Rusho had owned and operated a beauty shop at her home since 1957. She enjoyed ceramics and for several years gave lessons in her home.
She was a member of Adams United Methodist Church and a volunteer in the genealogy department at Flower Memorial Library, Watertown.
Born Sept. 25, 1924, in the town of Worth, daughter of James and Mabel Howard Weaver, she graduated from Mannsville-Manor High School and attended beauticians school in Central Square.
She married Morland K. Rusho Sr. on May 25, 1945, at the Methodist parsonage in Central Square with the Rev. Roger F. Williams officiating.
The couple lived in Adams all their married lives. Mr. Rusho died Aug. 23, 1986.
Surviving are three sons, Morland K. Jr., Woodville, Harold J., Wichita Falls, Texas, and William A., Adams; four daughters, Roselyn Steel, Woodville, Mrs. David (Catherine) Perry, Henderson, and Mrs. Patrick (Diane) Briggs and Mrs. Thomas
(Francine) Goodman, both of Adams Center; a sister, Evelyn Yager, Bridgeport; 10 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.A brother, James Weaver, died in 1996.
The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Adams United Methodist Church with the Rev. Donald Easton officiating. Spring burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Piddock Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to a charity of one's choice.
1 CMNT Resoded On Woodville, NY
1 CMNT Resided In Wichita Falls, Texas
1 CMNT Resided In Adams
1 CMNT Came To Clayton In 1848
1 CMNT Of Cape Vincent, NY