The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-15
OBITUARY..
Death ofMrs. Lavlnia d, GorhOr

d. Gorham, who died at the old ladies'
home at Wards corner, West Haven
will take place this afternoon at the
residence of Mrs, Lydia M. Gorham, 445
George street, The deceased passed
away at the age of eighty-three years
and six months. For very many years
she was resident of Chestnut street,
this city, and was member of the
st. John street Methodist church, which
Is now the Epworth church. She was
the widow of Joseph Gorham, a we'll
known citizen for many years. Her
son, q business man Of Denver, Col,
arrived in town yesterday to attend the
funeral.
CHARLES w. SCRANTON, JR.
The funeral of Charles Woolsey
Scranton, jr., youngest son of Charles
w. and Marie Eta Scranton, who died
Of pneumonia on Saturday at his faith
ers residence, No. 80 Park street, in
the fourteenth year of his age will be
held at the residence this afternoon at
O'Clock The many friends of the
family deeply sympathize with them in
their sad bereavement.
MRS. MARTIN SMITH.
The death Of Mrs. Smith, which oc-
CURED in Plover Wis, January 81, re-
calls to the minds of some of our older
residents the fact that she was former
~ a New Haven resident. She mar
ried Martin Smith in 1887 and lived in
New Haven until 1874. They then went
to western New York and stayed there
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Wisconsin. They had two sons and
three daughters. The oldest son gave
his life in defence of his country early
in the late war. The other children
died in their youth.
LEAVES TWO SISTERS IN NEW
HAVEN.
Ansonia, Feb 14--Mrs Ellen Fox Lit
tie, wife of William d. Galpin, died at
the family home on Lester street yes
terday morning after an illness of sew
eral months duration.
Mrs. Galpin had resided in Ansonia
since her marriage, twenty-eight years
ago. and had gathered about her
large circle of friends. Her health had
always been delicate and for the last
few years she had been confined to- the
house a great share of the time. This
did not lessen the friendship Of those
about her, for her kind disposition and
Christian fellowship drew closer toward
her in her sufferings all who had previ-
ously known her.
A kind husband and two loving chill
dren, son, Robert S., and a daughter,
Miss Anna, mourn her death, together
with three sisters and two brothers.
Her brothers and one sister, Mrs. Tut
tie. reside in Sheffield, Mass, and the
other sisters, Mrs. w. C. WEIGH and
Mrs. w. H. Ely, in New Haven, both
being well known to Ansonia people.
MRS MARTHA A. TICKNOR.
One of Derby's aged residents has
been called to final rest in the demise
of Mrs. Martha A. Ticknor, at the age
of seventy eight years. She resided in
Burtville, where she had occupied the
old Burt homestead for more than sew
enty years. Her husband died several
years ago and since that time she had
kept house alone. She was a devoted
Christian lady, being one of the Oldest
members of ST. James church, Derby,
which she Joined more than fifty years
ago. 5r.
She was one Of the founders of the
Burtville Union chapel holding posi-
ton as trustee at the time of her death.
Until recently she could be seen regu-
larly, when the weather would permit,
at the Sunday services in the church
of her adoption At the time Of her
confirmation Rev. Stephen Jewett was
the rector. The rector was a, relative
of the deceased and his grandson, who
resides in New Haven has always felt
such a devotion for MIR. Ticknor that
he has gone to take charge Of the fun
eral arrangements.
Minerva Street was the daughter of
Horatio Gates Street who was named
after Gen. Gates. His grandfather,
Colonel Thadeus Cook of Wallingford,
was with Gates at the battle of Sara
toga. Miss Street was born in New Ha-
ven March 4th, 1872 Her father, Captain
Street, built the Planters Hotel at
Charleston, where several of the Street
families were living at the time early in
this century, and where he spent most
of his life and his family were reared.
He was son of Mr.. Jesse Street, who
was one of Connecticut's men who We're
in the battle of Bunker Hill. He owned
fulling and carding MILL one of the
first in the colonies, in the eastern part
of Wallingford, now called Northford.
He was a grandson of the Rev. Samuel
Street of Wallingford, who was pastor
of the only church there in those days
for nearly fifty years. During the Indi-
an wars his house was harricaded by
the town to protect him. He graduated
from Harvard college in one of it's ear
Hest classes, and was the only son of
the Rev. Nicholas Street, who was CORN
in Somerset county England, and grad
uated from Oxford college in 1924 and is
supposed to have been one of the four
hundred clergy who We're debarred
from preaching in the time of King
Charles /. He came to- America about
1880 and was the first settled pastor at
Taunton, Mass, and afterward was the
colleague and successor of Rev John
Davenport in New Haven colony. Mrs.
Minerva Streets mother was Louise
Holt of East Haven, who died on Edisto
Island South Carolina, and was buried
there beside her husband. They had
been living there few years previous
to the war. Miss Street was also on the
island when the war broke out, and one
day received notice that all the inhabi-