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- Watertown Daily Times Monday, August 19, 1968
Abraham Disotell Dead at 89
CARTHAGE - Abraham Disotell, 89, of 451 South Washington street, a native of Plattsburgh, who had been employed as a stationary engineer at the old Island Paper company, died Sunday at 4:30 a.m. in Carthage Area hospital, where he had been a patient one month.
The funeral will be Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in St. James church. Burial will be in St. James cemetery.
Friends may call at the McGraw funeral home this afternoon and evening. There will be a recitation of the rosary at 8 tonight.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Bigness Disotell; a son, Clarence, Natural Bridge; four daughters, Mrs. Marion Bigness. Natural Bridge. Mrs. Anna Farr. Mrs. Edward (Gertrude) Riley and Mrs. Frederick (Isabelle) Largett, all of Carthage; 12 grandchildren; a brother, Joseph, South Colton and three sisters, Mrs. Grace Gray, Hamburg, Pa.. Mrs. Mary Jane LaFlesh. Lowville and Mrs. Julia Benare: Copenhagen.
A son Abraham was killed in an automobile accident Oct. 14, 1962 at the age of 49.
Born at Plattsburgh. April 1. 1879, Mr. Disotell was a son of Abraham and Margaret Bigness Disotell. He attended schools in that community. He married Miss Mary Bigness in Notre Dame church, Malone, Feb. 23, 1908.
Mr. Di«otell suffered the loss of a leg at the age of 21 while working in the woods in Vermont, in 1900. The family moved to Carthage in 1931. He was employed as a stationary engineer at the Island Paper company until it closed and later was engaged in farm work.
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