Deacon of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Dominant personality - a teacher turned farmer. Peddled eggs and mil to support his family. He was a member of the school board. During the Depression years he withdrew school funds just ahead of the bank closure and NEVER banked again.
Married Eva in Cohocton June 10, 1903
His granddaughter calls him the "Worlds Worst Driver"
The following is added with much thanks to Jon Saunders.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 163, No 5, p 16, July 29, 1957.
Silas S. Whitford, son of Daniel and Huldah Stillman Whitford, was born July 7, 1875, in Almond, N. Y., and died June 1, 1957, at Bethesda Hospital, North Hornell, N. Y.
He lived most of his life on a farm on Hartsville Hill. He was a deacon in the Hartsville Hill Church until it closed and since then has been a deacon in the Second Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church at Alfred Station.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Theodore Dunn of Hornell, with whom he made his home recently, and Mrs. Jesse Clark of Andover; four sons: Robert and Frank of Almond, Harold of Dansville, and Max of Corning; two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Emerson of Newark and Mrs. Alta Pettibone of Hornell; 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted by Pastor J. Paul Green and Rev. Albert N. Rogers. Burial was in the Alfred Rural Cemetery.
J. P. G.
transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050
Dominant personality - a teacher turned farmer. Peddled eggs and mil to support his family. He was a member of the school board. During the Depression years he withdrew school funds just ahead of the bank closure and NEVER banked again.
Married Eva in Cohocton June 10, 1903
His granddaughter calls him the "Worlds Worst Driver"
The following is added with much thanks to Jon Saunders.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 163, No 5, p 16, July 29, 1957.
Silas S. Whitford, son of Daniel and Huldah Stillman Whitford, was born July 7, 1875, in Almond, N. Y., and died June 1, 1957, at Bethesda Hospital, North Hornell, N. Y.
He lived most of his life on a farm on Hartsville Hill. He was a deacon in the Hartsville Hill Church until it closed and since then has been a deacon in the Second Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church at Alfred Station.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Theodore Dunn of Hornell, with whom he made his home recently, and Mrs. Jesse Clark of Andover; four sons: Robert and Frank of Almond, Harold of Dansville, and Max of Corning; two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Emerson of Newark and Mrs. Alta Pettibone of Hornell; 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted by Pastor J. Paul Green and Rev. Albert N. Rogers. Burial was in the Alfred Rural Cemetery.
J. P. G.
transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050
Deacon of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Dominant personality - a teacher turned farmer. Peddled eggs and mil to support his family. He was a member of the school board. During the Depression years he withdrew school funds just ahead of the bank closure and NEVER banked again.
Married Eva in Cohocton June 10, 1903
His granddaughter calls him the "Worlds Worst Driver"
The following is added with much thanks to Jon Saunders.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 163, No 5, p 16, July 29, 1957.
Silas S. Whitford, son of Daniel and Huldah Stillman Whitford, was born July 7, 1875, in Almond, N. Y., and died June 1, 1957, at Bethesda Hospital, North Hornell, N. Y.
He lived most of his life on a farm on Hartsville Hill. He was a deacon in the Hartsville Hill Church until it closed and since then has been a deacon in the Second Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church at Alfred Station.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Theodore Dunn of Hornell, with whom he made his home recently, and Mrs. Jesse Clark of Andover; four sons: Robert and Frank of Almond, Harold of Dansville, and Max of Corning; two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Emerson of Newark and Mrs. Alta Pettibone of Hornell; 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted by Pastor J. Paul Green and Rev. Albert N. Rogers. Burial was in the Alfred Rural Cemetery.
J. P. G.
transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050
Dominant personality - a teacher turned farmer. Peddled eggs and mil to support his family. He was a member of the school board. During the Depression years he withdrew school funds just ahead of the bank closure and NEVER banked again.
Married Eva in Cohocton June 10, 1903
His granddaughter calls him the "Worlds Worst Driver"
The following is added with much thanks to Jon Saunders.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 163, No 5, p 16, July 29, 1957.
Silas S. Whitford, son of Daniel and Huldah Stillman Whitford, was born July 7, 1875, in Almond, N. Y., and died June 1, 1957, at Bethesda Hospital, North Hornell, N. Y.
He lived most of his life on a farm on Hartsville Hill. He was a deacon in the Hartsville Hill Church until it closed and since then has been a deacon in the Second Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church at Alfred Station.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Theodore Dunn of Hornell, with whom he made his home recently, and Mrs. Jesse Clark of Andover; four sons: Robert and Frank of Almond, Harold of Dansville, and Max of Corning; two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Emerson of Newark and Mrs. Alta Pettibone of Hornell; 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted by Pastor J. Paul Green and Rev. Albert N. Rogers. Burial was in the Alfred Rural Cemetery.
J. P. G.
transcribed by Jon Saunders, contributor 47674050
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