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- Charles L. Leroy - 1829 - January 22, 1917. Wife of Caroline Price Leroy. Married 1848. Section 2, Row 14.
Newspaper Obituary - January 31, 1917 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Charles LeRoy was born in Whitesboro, Oneida County, ninety-one years ago and died in the county home at Mexico, January 22, 1917. Mr. LeRoy came to this town nearly seventy years ago and has made his home in this town and Mexico for the years since he left Oneida county. When a young man he sailed on the lakes. He was married when a little past twenty-one. His wife died a year ago last month. He had lived on a farm in the south part of this town many years until last fall, when, by a combination of adverse circumstances, he was taken to the county home. He had longed to depart this life and be with the wife who had preceded, and was very hopeful of a reunion in the "Better Land." As no provision was made for a funeral the remains were brought to Daysville cemetery, Friday noon, where the burial service was conducted by Rev. B. G. Seamans of Pulaski, and the man whom God had seen fit to spare nearly a century was laid to rest beside the wife who had so shortly preceded him. A beautiful bouquet of roses was resting upon his breast, placed there by his granddaughter, Mrs. Claude Hardy, of this village. He was a member of Daysville Grange. He leaves one son, Clayton LeRoy of this village. Agreeable to the wishes of friends who were disappointed in not having the privilege of attending funeral services the editor gives a brief religious expression based upon a passage of scripture found in the 20th of Revelation. "And another book was opened." The "book of life" is the book that concerns us very much. The book which the records are kept is the book we keep our eyes on. We are anxious that the records be favorable and the accounts show a balance on the right side of the ledger. We think, many of us, we know pretty well what the records will show when the book is opened to show our record. We have a notion that we know how the records stand concerning the other fellow's conduct, but we may be fooled. We may expect credit on things that will not show a bit of merit in them when the recording angel is putting them down the report. We say, sometimes, we do not understand why this young life is nipped off just when it is promising so much. We say we do not see why some other life is spared many years beyond the allotted time of man. We are confronted with a great mystery in these things. We do not know nor will we ever know why these things are. The life of Mr. LeRoy was not epically conspicuous for the accomplishment of things we esteem important and great. He labored on in the ways of life. He did things he ought not to have done, so have all of us; he left undone many things he ought to have done, so have all of us; but the books were being kept and they have, we believe, been opened and his recorded reviewed. We do not know how much good he did back forty years ago when he was a member of the Oswego County Praying Band. The fact that he did not spend his whole life in the service as a member of some praying band does not necessarily prove that he entered the eternal hereafter without a star on his crown. We are not the judges, the books will be opened and they will tell the story, they will prove our rights in the peace or torments of the hereafter. Mr. LeRoy has gone to his reward. His last days were not his best days. He may have been in any measure, responsible for the way they ended and others may have a part in settling the matter. He may have been created with deficiencies we do not understand. He may have been weak and could not measure up to the standard of self control that many others boast of being able to do. It is all a matter of uncertainty and we have only to leave it all with the Great Judge of the universe. He will smooth out the wrinkles if they are made by mistakes and influences which we do not create and can not control. Let us believe that this old man, over ninety years of age. was spared for some great lesson to the world, if not to take any distinctive part in the things we esteem of highest importance.
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1826 - 1917 (90 years)