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Frank Makepeace

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Frank Makepeace

Birth
Death
1936 (aged 70–71)
Burial
Plessis, Jefferson County, New York, USA Add to Map
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JAUNDICE AND COMPLICATION FATAL TO MANFORMER MERCHANT OF PLESSISPostmaster of Plessis For 35 YearsRetired Three Years Ago be-cause of Ill Health. Frank S. Makepeace, 70, well known former general store proprietor of Plessis and postmaster of that village for 35 years, died at 111 Central street, this city, where he boarded, at 1:45 this morning after an illness of ten days with jaundice and complications. Mr. Makepeace had been in poor health for more than three years and had been a patient in Mercy hospital in 1933 but his last illness was of but short duration. He was born in Plessis on June 1, 1865, a son of Solomon and Lucinda Forbes Makepeace. As a young man he entered the general store business with his father in Plessis and was associated with him until the latter's retirement in 1902. He and his brother, Claude J. Makepeace then formed a partnership and continued the business until 1933 when he was forced to retire because of ill health. Mr. Makepeace was a stalwart Republican and for 35 years held the office of postmaster at Plessis, being one of the oldest fourth class postmasters of the state in terms of years of service when he resigned in 1933 because of his failing health. Besides his brother, Claude J. Makepeace of Plessis, he is survived by one sister, Mrs. Lydia J. Akins of Alexandria Bay, and several nephews and nieces. The funeral services will be held from the home of his brother, Claude J. Makepeace, in Plessis Tuesday at 2 p.m., Rev. W. H. Bradley of Burnham, N. Y. formerly pastor of the Plessis Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in Brookside cemetery at Plessis. The bearers will be H. N. Norton, M. W. Reed, Frank Schneider, William Hardy, Ernest Snell and Ronald Hunter.
JAUNDICE AND COMPLICATION FATAL TO MANFORMER MERCHANT OF PLESSISPostmaster of Plessis For 35 YearsRetired Three Years Ago be-cause of Ill Health. Frank S. Makepeace, 70, well known former general store proprietor of Plessis and postmaster of that village for 35 years, died at 111 Central street, this city, where he boarded, at 1:45 this morning after an illness of ten days with jaundice and complications. Mr. Makepeace had been in poor health for more than three years and had been a patient in Mercy hospital in 1933 but his last illness was of but short duration. He was born in Plessis on June 1, 1865, a son of Solomon and Lucinda Forbes Makepeace. As a young man he entered the general store business with his father in Plessis and was associated with him until the latter's retirement in 1902. He and his brother, Claude J. Makepeace then formed a partnership and continued the business until 1933 when he was forced to retire because of ill health. Mr. Makepeace was a stalwart Republican and for 35 years held the office of postmaster at Plessis, being one of the oldest fourth class postmasters of the state in terms of years of service when he resigned in 1933 because of his failing health. Besides his brother, Claude J. Makepeace of Plessis, he is survived by one sister, Mrs. Lydia J. Akins of Alexandria Bay, and several nephews and nieces. The funeral services will be held from the home of his brother, Claude J. Makepeace, in Plessis Tuesday at 2 p.m., Rev. W. H. Bradley of Burnham, N. Y. formerly pastor of the Plessis Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in Brookside cemetery at Plessis. The bearers will be H. N. Norton, M. W. Reed, Frank Schneider, William Hardy, Ernest Snell and Ronald Hunter.

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SN.SOLOMON & LUCINDA 1865-1936



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