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- Isaac J. Atkinson - April 25, 1857 - October 28, 1927. Son of John and Mary Varah Atkinson. Husband of Elizabeth Brown. Married December 25, 1884
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, November 10, 1927 Sandy Creek News - Sandy Creek, New York - Isaac Atkinson was born April 25, 1857, near Pulaski, the son of Jonathan and Mary Varah Atkinson, one of a family of nine children. When he was about four years old the family moved to the farm where he has lived ever since and where he died on Friday, October 28, aged 70 years. On December 25, 1884, he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Brown, who died November 28, 1912. One daughter, Bertha, now Mrs. Robert Larmon, was born to them. Mr. Atkinson stayed on the home place, caring for his parents as long as they lived, afterwards carrying on the farm so successfully that it became one of the best farm homes in the vicinity. After 66 years on the farm always with a large dairy, the T. B. test took every one of his cattle, leaving him with an empty barn, but a few days before his death. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Manwaring had lived with him and assisted him with the faint work for several years, but this spring his daughter, with her family had come to live with him and care for him, and their sorrow is very deep at this sudden passing of their beloved father and grandfather. Besides his' daughter, he leaves three grandsons, Leigh, Howard and Elroy Larmon, two brothers, William and Delano Atkinson, and four sisters, Mrs. F. E. Jamerson, Mrs. E. E. Carl, Mrs. John North, and Mrs. George Dyke_Funeral services were held at his late home on Sunday, October 30, at 2.00 p.m., Rev, H. C. Bradshaw and Rev. A. E. Lawrence officiating. Interment was made in the Willis cemetery. Friends were present from Newark Valley, Skaneateles, North Rose, Central Square, Syracuse, Ellisburg and Adams.
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1857 - 1927 (70 years)