PETER VAN ETTA DEAD
Would Have Celebrated His Ninetieth Birthday in April.
Canajoharie, Feb. 21.- Peter Van Etta, one of the oldest and best known residents of this village died at the home of his son Oscar on Mill street yesterday afternoon. Mr. Van Etta was born here on April 29th, 1826, and lived here all his life.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. John Landry, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be made in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
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Peter Van Etta,
Canajoharie, Feb. 21.—Peter Van Etta, one of tho oldest residents of this village, died Sunday, February 20th, at 1 p. m. at his home on Mill street. Mr. Van Etta was born in Canajoharie, April 29, 1828, and in two months would have been ninety years old. He has been feeble for a long time and death is due to natural infirmities.
Mr. Van Etta has been an honest, upright and industrious man. He was a good mechanic in his day, and for many years was a valued employe of L. B. Clark, who at one time was one of the leading business men of this village. Mr. Clark was engaged in an extensive way in the lumber and food business, and Mr. Van Etta was the engineer at the mill where the sawing and grinding was done. Mr. Clark was also at the head of a local water system that served a small portion of the town besides the business section, and Mr. Van Etta was the mechanical man in charge. He was reliable and always measured up to the confidence and trust his employer imposed in him.
Mr. Van Etta has been a widower for twenty-one years, his wife, Elizabeth Lattice Van Etta, dying at the home of her son in Utica in January, 1895.
Mr. Van Etta is survived by one son, Oscar Van Etta, of Canajoharie, and an aged sister, Nancy Jane, widow of Charles King, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Egbert Schoonmaker, on Wheelock street.
Tho funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home on Mill street. The Rev. John Landry, pastor of the Methodist church, will officiate. Burial in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Published in the Amsterdam Evening Recorder, Monday, February 21, 1916, Page 10, Column 2.
***Note: Newspapers give different birth dates for Mr. Van Etta. I used the birth date from Mr. Van Etta's headstone.
Would Have Celebrated His Ninetieth Birthday in April.
Canajoharie, Feb. 21.- Peter Van Etta, one of the oldest and best known residents of this village died at the home of his son Oscar on Mill street yesterday afternoon. Mr. Van Etta was born here on April 29th, 1826, and lived here all his life.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. John Landry, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be made in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
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Peter Van Etta,
Canajoharie, Feb. 21.—Peter Van Etta, one of tho oldest residents of this village, died Sunday, February 20th, at 1 p. m. at his home on Mill street. Mr. Van Etta was born in Canajoharie, April 29, 1828, and in two months would have been ninety years old. He has been feeble for a long time and death is due to natural infirmities.
Mr. Van Etta has been an honest, upright and industrious man. He was a good mechanic in his day, and for many years was a valued employe of L. B. Clark, who at one time was one of the leading business men of this village. Mr. Clark was engaged in an extensive way in the lumber and food business, and Mr. Van Etta was the engineer at the mill where the sawing and grinding was done. Mr. Clark was also at the head of a local water system that served a small portion of the town besides the business section, and Mr. Van Etta was the mechanical man in charge. He was reliable and always measured up to the confidence and trust his employer imposed in him.
Mr. Van Etta has been a widower for twenty-one years, his wife, Elizabeth Lattice Van Etta, dying at the home of her son in Utica in January, 1895.
Mr. Van Etta is survived by one son, Oscar Van Etta, of Canajoharie, and an aged sister, Nancy Jane, widow of Charles King, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Egbert Schoonmaker, on Wheelock street.
Tho funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home on Mill street. The Rev. John Landry, pastor of the Methodist church, will officiate. Burial in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Published in the Amsterdam Evening Recorder, Monday, February 21, 1916, Page 10, Column 2.
***Note: Newspapers give different birth dates for Mr. Van Etta. I used the birth date from Mr. Van Etta's headstone.
PETER VAN ETTA DEAD
Would Have Celebrated His Ninetieth Birthday in April.
Canajoharie, Feb. 21.- Peter Van Etta, one of the oldest and best known residents of this village died at the home of his son Oscar on Mill street yesterday afternoon. Mr. Van Etta was born here on April 29th, 1826, and lived here all his life.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. John Landry, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be made in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
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Peter Van Etta,
Canajoharie, Feb. 21.—Peter Van Etta, one of tho oldest residents of this village, died Sunday, February 20th, at 1 p. m. at his home on Mill street. Mr. Van Etta was born in Canajoharie, April 29, 1828, and in two months would have been ninety years old. He has been feeble for a long time and death is due to natural infirmities.
Mr. Van Etta has been an honest, upright and industrious man. He was a good mechanic in his day, and for many years was a valued employe of L. B. Clark, who at one time was one of the leading business men of this village. Mr. Clark was engaged in an extensive way in the lumber and food business, and Mr. Van Etta was the engineer at the mill where the sawing and grinding was done. Mr. Clark was also at the head of a local water system that served a small portion of the town besides the business section, and Mr. Van Etta was the mechanical man in charge. He was reliable and always measured up to the confidence and trust his employer imposed in him.
Mr. Van Etta has been a widower for twenty-one years, his wife, Elizabeth Lattice Van Etta, dying at the home of her son in Utica in January, 1895.
Mr. Van Etta is survived by one son, Oscar Van Etta, of Canajoharie, and an aged sister, Nancy Jane, widow of Charles King, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Egbert Schoonmaker, on Wheelock street.
Tho funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home on Mill street. The Rev. John Landry, pastor of the Methodist church, will officiate. Burial in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Published in the Amsterdam Evening Recorder, Monday, February 21, 1916, Page 10, Column 2.
***Note: Newspapers give different birth dates for Mr. Van Etta. I used the birth date from Mr. Van Etta's headstone.
Would Have Celebrated His Ninetieth Birthday in April.
Canajoharie, Feb. 21.- Peter Van Etta, one of the oldest and best known residents of this village died at the home of his son Oscar on Mill street yesterday afternoon. Mr. Van Etta was born here on April 29th, 1826, and lived here all his life.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. John Landry, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be made in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
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Peter Van Etta,
Canajoharie, Feb. 21.—Peter Van Etta, one of tho oldest residents of this village, died Sunday, February 20th, at 1 p. m. at his home on Mill street. Mr. Van Etta was born in Canajoharie, April 29, 1828, and in two months would have been ninety years old. He has been feeble for a long time and death is due to natural infirmities.
Mr. Van Etta has been an honest, upright and industrious man. He was a good mechanic in his day, and for many years was a valued employe of L. B. Clark, who at one time was one of the leading business men of this village. Mr. Clark was engaged in an extensive way in the lumber and food business, and Mr. Van Etta was the engineer at the mill where the sawing and grinding was done. Mr. Clark was also at the head of a local water system that served a small portion of the town besides the business section, and Mr. Van Etta was the mechanical man in charge. He was reliable and always measured up to the confidence and trust his employer imposed in him.
Mr. Van Etta has been a widower for twenty-one years, his wife, Elizabeth Lattice Van Etta, dying at the home of her son in Utica in January, 1895.
Mr. Van Etta is survived by one son, Oscar Van Etta, of Canajoharie, and an aged sister, Nancy Jane, widow of Charles King, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Egbert Schoonmaker, on Wheelock street.
Tho funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home on Mill street. The Rev. John Landry, pastor of the Methodist church, will officiate. Burial in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Published in the Amsterdam Evening Recorder, Monday, February 21, 1916, Page 10, Column 2.
***Note: Newspapers give different birth dates for Mr. Van Etta. I used the birth date from Mr. Van Etta's headstone.
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