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- Sandy Creek News, 14 July 1960: MRS. McCHESNEY DIES JULY 7TH Mrs, Alice Gay McChesney, 78, widow of Alva C. McChesney, died Thursday, July 7, 1960 at the Evergreen Nursing Home in Williamstown. Her funeral was held Sunday... at her home in Pine Meadows. Rev. J. Martin Week, pastor of Altmar Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Orwell. Mrs. McChesney was born February 23, 1882 in the town of Orwell, daughter of William and Cholie Kinney Gay. She was married to Alva C. McChesney in 1904. In that year Mr. McChesney had organized the Salmon River Table Company, which he later sold but continued to work for the company as a cabinet maker. In 1927 the couple moved to Ricard and Mrs. McChesney worked at the Lattimer Chair Factory in Orwell. He died November 5, 1954. Mrs. McChesney is survived by two sons, Donald McChesney of Orwell and Leonard McChesney of Pine Meadows; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie March and Mrs. Harry (Ellen) Hines, both of California; a brother, Wylie Gay of Pine Meadows; and two grandchildren...
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