P1ERREPONT MANOR - The community is saddened by the death of Mrs. Ada S. Tousley, 80, of Pierrepoint Manor. Mrs. Tousley has been in failing health for the past two years but went to the home of a niece, Mrs. Hazel
Tousley Hooker of Wardwell when taken seriously ill about four weeks ago. She died at the home of Mrs. Hooker at 6:30 o'clock Monday evening June 19, 1939.
Ada S. Cook was born at Wardwell, NY, December 21, 1858, a daughter of George and Nancy Stevens Cook. Her father was a veteran of the Civil War and her mother, going to see him away contracted a severe cold and died leaving two small daughters, Emma, 5 and Ada, 3, temporarily bereft of both parents. They were tenderly cared for by their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sophronia Porter Sherman of Wardwell.
Mrs. Tousley was twice happily married, in 1879 she was married to T. Jay DeVan of Hamilton, Canada, in the Methodist Church at Evans Mills. After two years spent in Boston, they removed to Howard St. in Utica where Mr. DeVan died in 1893. Later Mrs. DeVan built a home at 27 Grant Street, Utica, where she continued to live until March 26, 1910, when she was united in marriage to Winford E. Tousley of Wardwell by Rev. G. Woodvine Ball, pastor
of Park Baptist church in Utica and came back to the scenes of her early childhood to spend the remainder of her life.
During the years of her life in Utica she was very active in the work of the
Park Baptist Church but upon her return to the Manor she united with Zion Episcopal Church of which her husband was a member. She was also a member of the local Helping Hand Society.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, from the home of her niece, Mrs. Donald Hooker at Wardwell.
Surviving are two daughters by her first marriage, Mrs. Erwin L. Hockridge of Utica and Mrs. Mabel A. Sperry of New York City. Also surviving are
Leon Tousley of Richland and Mrs. Sarah Smith of Pierrepoint Manor, two granddaughters, Robert C. Cook of Providence, RI and Miss Marion Hockridge of Castleton-on-Hudson, a half sister and brother, Mrs. Henry Shear of Henderson and George Cook of Watertown.
Interment will be in the family plot at Utica. Sandy Creek News, June 21, 1939
Tousley Hooker of Wardwell when taken seriously ill about four weeks ago. She died at the home of Mrs. Hooker at 6:30 o'clock Monday evening June 19, 1939.
Ada S. Cook was born at Wardwell, NY, December 21, 1858, a daughter of George and Nancy Stevens Cook. Her father was a veteran of the Civil War and her mother, going to see him away contracted a severe cold and died leaving two small daughters, Emma, 5 and Ada, 3, temporarily bereft of both parents. They were tenderly cared for by their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sophronia Porter Sherman of Wardwell.
Mrs. Tousley was twice happily married, in 1879 she was married to T. Jay DeVan of Hamilton, Canada, in the Methodist Church at Evans Mills. After two years spent in Boston, they removed to Howard St. in Utica where Mr. DeVan died in 1893. Later Mrs. DeVan built a home at 27 Grant Street, Utica, where she continued to live until March 26, 1910, when she was united in marriage to Winford E. Tousley of Wardwell by Rev. G. Woodvine Ball, pastor
of Park Baptist church in Utica and came back to the scenes of her early childhood to spend the remainder of her life.
During the years of her life in Utica she was very active in the work of the
Park Baptist Church but upon her return to the Manor she united with Zion Episcopal Church of which her husband was a member. She was also a member of the local Helping Hand Society.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, from the home of her niece, Mrs. Donald Hooker at Wardwell.
Surviving are two daughters by her first marriage, Mrs. Erwin L. Hockridge of Utica and Mrs. Mabel A. Sperry of New York City. Also surviving are
Leon Tousley of Richland and Mrs. Sarah Smith of Pierrepoint Manor, two granddaughters, Robert C. Cook of Providence, RI and Miss Marion Hockridge of Castleton-on-Hudson, a half sister and brother, Mrs. Henry Shear of Henderson and George Cook of Watertown.
Interment will be in the family plot at Utica. Sandy Creek News, June 21, 1939
P1ERREPONT MANOR - The community is saddened by the death of Mrs. Ada S. Tousley, 80, of Pierrepoint Manor. Mrs. Tousley has been in failing health for the past two years but went to the home of a niece, Mrs. Hazel
Tousley Hooker of Wardwell when taken seriously ill about four weeks ago. She died at the home of Mrs. Hooker at 6:30 o'clock Monday evening June 19, 1939.
Ada S. Cook was born at Wardwell, NY, December 21, 1858, a daughter of George and Nancy Stevens Cook. Her father was a veteran of the Civil War and her mother, going to see him away contracted a severe cold and died leaving two small daughters, Emma, 5 and Ada, 3, temporarily bereft of both parents. They were tenderly cared for by their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sophronia Porter Sherman of Wardwell.
Mrs. Tousley was twice happily married, in 1879 she was married to T. Jay DeVan of Hamilton, Canada, in the Methodist Church at Evans Mills. After two years spent in Boston, they removed to Howard St. in Utica where Mr. DeVan died in 1893. Later Mrs. DeVan built a home at 27 Grant Street, Utica, where she continued to live until March 26, 1910, when she was united in marriage to Winford E. Tousley of Wardwell by Rev. G. Woodvine Ball, pastor
of Park Baptist church in Utica and came back to the scenes of her early childhood to spend the remainder of her life.
During the years of her life in Utica she was very active in the work of the
Park Baptist Church but upon her return to the Manor she united with Zion Episcopal Church of which her husband was a member. She was also a member of the local Helping Hand Society.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, from the home of her niece, Mrs. Donald Hooker at Wardwell.
Surviving are two daughters by her first marriage, Mrs. Erwin L. Hockridge of Utica and Mrs. Mabel A. Sperry of New York City. Also surviving are
Leon Tousley of Richland and Mrs. Sarah Smith of Pierrepoint Manor, two granddaughters, Robert C. Cook of Providence, RI and Miss Marion Hockridge of Castleton-on-Hudson, a half sister and brother, Mrs. Henry Shear of Henderson and George Cook of Watertown.
Interment will be in the family plot at Utica. Sandy Creek News, June 21, 1939
Tousley Hooker of Wardwell when taken seriously ill about four weeks ago. She died at the home of Mrs. Hooker at 6:30 o'clock Monday evening June 19, 1939.
Ada S. Cook was born at Wardwell, NY, December 21, 1858, a daughter of George and Nancy Stevens Cook. Her father was a veteran of the Civil War and her mother, going to see him away contracted a severe cold and died leaving two small daughters, Emma, 5 and Ada, 3, temporarily bereft of both parents. They were tenderly cared for by their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sophronia Porter Sherman of Wardwell.
Mrs. Tousley was twice happily married, in 1879 she was married to T. Jay DeVan of Hamilton, Canada, in the Methodist Church at Evans Mills. After two years spent in Boston, they removed to Howard St. in Utica where Mr. DeVan died in 1893. Later Mrs. DeVan built a home at 27 Grant Street, Utica, where she continued to live until March 26, 1910, when she was united in marriage to Winford E. Tousley of Wardwell by Rev. G. Woodvine Ball, pastor
of Park Baptist church in Utica and came back to the scenes of her early childhood to spend the remainder of her life.
During the years of her life in Utica she was very active in the work of the
Park Baptist Church but upon her return to the Manor she united with Zion Episcopal Church of which her husband was a member. She was also a member of the local Helping Hand Society.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, from the home of her niece, Mrs. Donald Hooker at Wardwell.
Surviving are two daughters by her first marriage, Mrs. Erwin L. Hockridge of Utica and Mrs. Mabel A. Sperry of New York City. Also surviving are
Leon Tousley of Richland and Mrs. Sarah Smith of Pierrepoint Manor, two granddaughters, Robert C. Cook of Providence, RI and Miss Marion Hockridge of Castleton-on-Hudson, a half sister and brother, Mrs. Henry Shear of Henderson and George Cook of Watertown.
Interment will be in the family plot at Utica. Sandy Creek News, June 21, 1939
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