Body of Joseph Umpleby
Found 1 1/2 Miles From Camp
Camping Party Searches All Night When
Umpleby Did Not Return to Camp;
Rangers Called Next Day
The body of Joseph Umpleby, jr., was found Friday only a mile and a half from the camp, where he had left last Tuesday morning, near Wanakena in the Adirondacks. Mr. Umpleby did not go out with the rest of the hunting party that morning, but later in the morning he decided to go only a short distance from camp. He probably became confused and wandered around until he became so muddled up that he did not know where he was. When the body was found on Friday, he had matches, candle, hatchet and everything to have helped himself. But his gun was gone, apparently thrown away.
When Mr. Umpleby did not return to camp Tuesday night, the other members of the party, Lewis Gray, Franklin Gray, Cecil Maycumber and George Bull of Homer and David Terwilliger of Cleveland, Ohio, fired a signal as had been previously arranged in case of a lost hunter. The shot was answered and the hunters thought by Umpleby. They immediately set out to find him, some members of the party searching all night, while others remained at the camp to receive and give signals. The next morning three forest rangers were summoned and the search was continued.
Joseph Frederick Umpleby, jr., was born in Watervliet, N.Y., on January 6, 1909, the son of Joseph F. and Pearl Brown Umpleby. He was a graduate of Cobbleskill Agricultural School and at the time of his death was laboratory technician at Sheffields in Homer, which position he had held for nearly eight years.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Victor Geertsen of Schenectady; a brother, Eugene Umpleby, who is in the United States Navy, his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Brown of North Troy and a half brother, Thomas Geertsen of Schenectady.
He was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church. He had lived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher in Clinton Street ever since he came to Homer.
The funeral will be held from the Briggs Brothers Memorial Home Tuesday morning at 10:30 with Rev. William Barnes, D.D., officiating, and burial will be made in Glenwood Cemetery, Homer. Briggs Brothers went to Tupper Lake for the body yesterday.
-Cortland Standard, 8 Nov 1937
Found 1 1/2 Miles From Camp
Camping Party Searches All Night When
Umpleby Did Not Return to Camp;
Rangers Called Next Day
The body of Joseph Umpleby, jr., was found Friday only a mile and a half from the camp, where he had left last Tuesday morning, near Wanakena in the Adirondacks. Mr. Umpleby did not go out with the rest of the hunting party that morning, but later in the morning he decided to go only a short distance from camp. He probably became confused and wandered around until he became so muddled up that he did not know where he was. When the body was found on Friday, he had matches, candle, hatchet and everything to have helped himself. But his gun was gone, apparently thrown away.
When Mr. Umpleby did not return to camp Tuesday night, the other members of the party, Lewis Gray, Franklin Gray, Cecil Maycumber and George Bull of Homer and David Terwilliger of Cleveland, Ohio, fired a signal as had been previously arranged in case of a lost hunter. The shot was answered and the hunters thought by Umpleby. They immediately set out to find him, some members of the party searching all night, while others remained at the camp to receive and give signals. The next morning three forest rangers were summoned and the search was continued.
Joseph Frederick Umpleby, jr., was born in Watervliet, N.Y., on January 6, 1909, the son of Joseph F. and Pearl Brown Umpleby. He was a graduate of Cobbleskill Agricultural School and at the time of his death was laboratory technician at Sheffields in Homer, which position he had held for nearly eight years.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Victor Geertsen of Schenectady; a brother, Eugene Umpleby, who is in the United States Navy, his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Brown of North Troy and a half brother, Thomas Geertsen of Schenectady.
He was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church. He had lived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher in Clinton Street ever since he came to Homer.
The funeral will be held from the Briggs Brothers Memorial Home Tuesday morning at 10:30 with Rev. William Barnes, D.D., officiating, and burial will be made in Glenwood Cemetery, Homer. Briggs Brothers went to Tupper Lake for the body yesterday.
-Cortland Standard, 8 Nov 1937
Body of Joseph Umpleby
Found 1 1/2 Miles From Camp
Camping Party Searches All Night When
Umpleby Did Not Return to Camp;
Rangers Called Next Day
The body of Joseph Umpleby, jr., was found Friday only a mile and a half from the camp, where he had left last Tuesday morning, near Wanakena in the Adirondacks. Mr. Umpleby did not go out with the rest of the hunting party that morning, but later in the morning he decided to go only a short distance from camp. He probably became confused and wandered around until he became so muddled up that he did not know where he was. When the body was found on Friday, he had matches, candle, hatchet and everything to have helped himself. But his gun was gone, apparently thrown away.
When Mr. Umpleby did not return to camp Tuesday night, the other members of the party, Lewis Gray, Franklin Gray, Cecil Maycumber and George Bull of Homer and David Terwilliger of Cleveland, Ohio, fired a signal as had been previously arranged in case of a lost hunter. The shot was answered and the hunters thought by Umpleby. They immediately set out to find him, some members of the party searching all night, while others remained at the camp to receive and give signals. The next morning three forest rangers were summoned and the search was continued.
Joseph Frederick Umpleby, jr., was born in Watervliet, N.Y., on January 6, 1909, the son of Joseph F. and Pearl Brown Umpleby. He was a graduate of Cobbleskill Agricultural School and at the time of his death was laboratory technician at Sheffields in Homer, which position he had held for nearly eight years.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Victor Geertsen of Schenectady; a brother, Eugene Umpleby, who is in the United States Navy, his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Brown of North Troy and a half brother, Thomas Geertsen of Schenectady.
He was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church. He had lived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher in Clinton Street ever since he came to Homer.
The funeral will be held from the Briggs Brothers Memorial Home Tuesday morning at 10:30 with Rev. William Barnes, D.D., officiating, and burial will be made in Glenwood Cemetery, Homer. Briggs Brothers went to Tupper Lake for the body yesterday.
-Cortland Standard, 8 Nov 1937
Found 1 1/2 Miles From Camp
Camping Party Searches All Night When
Umpleby Did Not Return to Camp;
Rangers Called Next Day
The body of Joseph Umpleby, jr., was found Friday only a mile and a half from the camp, where he had left last Tuesday morning, near Wanakena in the Adirondacks. Mr. Umpleby did not go out with the rest of the hunting party that morning, but later in the morning he decided to go only a short distance from camp. He probably became confused and wandered around until he became so muddled up that he did not know where he was. When the body was found on Friday, he had matches, candle, hatchet and everything to have helped himself. But his gun was gone, apparently thrown away.
When Mr. Umpleby did not return to camp Tuesday night, the other members of the party, Lewis Gray, Franklin Gray, Cecil Maycumber and George Bull of Homer and David Terwilliger of Cleveland, Ohio, fired a signal as had been previously arranged in case of a lost hunter. The shot was answered and the hunters thought by Umpleby. They immediately set out to find him, some members of the party searching all night, while others remained at the camp to receive and give signals. The next morning three forest rangers were summoned and the search was continued.
Joseph Frederick Umpleby, jr., was born in Watervliet, N.Y., on January 6, 1909, the son of Joseph F. and Pearl Brown Umpleby. He was a graduate of Cobbleskill Agricultural School and at the time of his death was laboratory technician at Sheffields in Homer, which position he had held for nearly eight years.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Victor Geertsen of Schenectady; a brother, Eugene Umpleby, who is in the United States Navy, his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Brown of North Troy and a half brother, Thomas Geertsen of Schenectady.
He was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church. He had lived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher in Clinton Street ever since he came to Homer.
The funeral will be held from the Briggs Brothers Memorial Home Tuesday morning at 10:30 with Rev. William Barnes, D.D., officiating, and burial will be made in Glenwood Cemetery, Homer. Briggs Brothers went to Tupper Lake for the body yesterday.
-Cortland Standard, 8 Nov 1937
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