RESPECTED RESIDENT PASSES
A remarkable life passed from time to eternity with the death of Miss May Forncrook.
She was born at Skaneateles Junction Aug. 21, 1858, the youngest daughter of the late Andrew B. and Viorna Buckland Forncrook. When eight years of age she moved with her parents to the Isaac Buckland farm, henceforth to be known as the Forncrook farm, where she lived until her death Oct. 27, 1925.
Owing to her mother's failing health, she left school at the Munroe Collegiate Institute at the age of fifteen. A large part of her life from this time was spent in the care of her family. She cared for an aged grandfather, her father and mother, an aged aunt, and lastly her only sister. Beside the care in her own home of all these dear ones, she operated very successfully a large dairy farm, ably assisted for 32 years by William Lawler. After the death of her sister she was very much alone in the world, save for the many friends she had attracted to herself, three nephews and a niece living in distant cities. She spent a good deal of time in travel after she was released from the care of her dear ones. A constant and discriminating reader, she acquired a vast amount of useful information. She possessed a very fair sized library, to which she constantly added. She was an eager student of nature, and was on familiar terms with the flowers and birds and trees of her neighborhood. She made a collection of native berries for one of the Flower Shows given in Elbridge. When complimented upon the wonderful collection, she said it was more remarkable for the ones she left out and could not find. An exquisite needlewoman, she won a prize at the World's Fair in Chicago for some beautiful pieces of linen decorated with her own designs. She sold exquisite needle work to the Art League of New York, and was at one time a valued contributor to the Ladies Home Journal.
Her home, with its quaint and beautiful furnishings, was a sort of mecca to her numerous cousins and friends, who did not deem a year complete without a visit to May.
The last three months of her life during her failing health she received the same tender care she had given others in the home of her dearest friends, Mr. and Mrs. William Lawler. About two weeks before her death, by the advice of her physician, she returned to her own home, where it was hoped that her own familiar surroundings would aid in her recovery. Such was not to be, and she failed very rapidly until her death, surrounded by devoted friends, as her nearest relatives were unable to be present.
Thus passed her simple and beautiful life, an inspiration and a sorrow to the entire community.
"No life can be pure in its purpose
And strong in its strife
And all life not be stronger and
better thereby." - A. A. C.
Wednesday, 4 November 1925
A remarkable life passed from time to eternity with the death of Miss May Forncrook.
She was born at Skaneateles Junction Aug. 21, 1858, the youngest daughter of the late Andrew B. and Viorna Buckland Forncrook. When eight years of age she moved with her parents to the Isaac Buckland farm, henceforth to be known as the Forncrook farm, where she lived until her death Oct. 27, 1925.
Owing to her mother's failing health, she left school at the Munroe Collegiate Institute at the age of fifteen. A large part of her life from this time was spent in the care of her family. She cared for an aged grandfather, her father and mother, an aged aunt, and lastly her only sister. Beside the care in her own home of all these dear ones, she operated very successfully a large dairy farm, ably assisted for 32 years by William Lawler. After the death of her sister she was very much alone in the world, save for the many friends she had attracted to herself, three nephews and a niece living in distant cities. She spent a good deal of time in travel after she was released from the care of her dear ones. A constant and discriminating reader, she acquired a vast amount of useful information. She possessed a very fair sized library, to which she constantly added. She was an eager student of nature, and was on familiar terms with the flowers and birds and trees of her neighborhood. She made a collection of native berries for one of the Flower Shows given in Elbridge. When complimented upon the wonderful collection, she said it was more remarkable for the ones she left out and could not find. An exquisite needlewoman, she won a prize at the World's Fair in Chicago for some beautiful pieces of linen decorated with her own designs. She sold exquisite needle work to the Art League of New York, and was at one time a valued contributor to the Ladies Home Journal.
Her home, with its quaint and beautiful furnishings, was a sort of mecca to her numerous cousins and friends, who did not deem a year complete without a visit to May.
The last three months of her life during her failing health she received the same tender care she had given others in the home of her dearest friends, Mr. and Mrs. William Lawler. About two weeks before her death, by the advice of her physician, she returned to her own home, where it was hoped that her own familiar surroundings would aid in her recovery. Such was not to be, and she failed very rapidly until her death, surrounded by devoted friends, as her nearest relatives were unable to be present.
Thus passed her simple and beautiful life, an inspiration and a sorrow to the entire community.
"No life can be pure in its purpose
And strong in its strife
And all life not be stronger and
better thereby." - A. A. C.
Wednesday, 4 November 1925
RESPECTED RESIDENT PASSES
A remarkable life passed from time to eternity with the death of Miss May Forncrook.
She was born at Skaneateles Junction Aug. 21, 1858, the youngest daughter of the late Andrew B. and Viorna Buckland Forncrook. When eight years of age she moved with her parents to the Isaac Buckland farm, henceforth to be known as the Forncrook farm, where she lived until her death Oct. 27, 1925.
Owing to her mother's failing health, she left school at the Munroe Collegiate Institute at the age of fifteen. A large part of her life from this time was spent in the care of her family. She cared for an aged grandfather, her father and mother, an aged aunt, and lastly her only sister. Beside the care in her own home of all these dear ones, she operated very successfully a large dairy farm, ably assisted for 32 years by William Lawler. After the death of her sister she was very much alone in the world, save for the many friends she had attracted to herself, three nephews and a niece living in distant cities. She spent a good deal of time in travel after she was released from the care of her dear ones. A constant and discriminating reader, she acquired a vast amount of useful information. She possessed a very fair sized library, to which she constantly added. She was an eager student of nature, and was on familiar terms with the flowers and birds and trees of her neighborhood. She made a collection of native berries for one of the Flower Shows given in Elbridge. When complimented upon the wonderful collection, she said it was more remarkable for the ones she left out and could not find. An exquisite needlewoman, she won a prize at the World's Fair in Chicago for some beautiful pieces of linen decorated with her own designs. She sold exquisite needle work to the Art League of New York, and was at one time a valued contributor to the Ladies Home Journal.
Her home, with its quaint and beautiful furnishings, was a sort of mecca to her numerous cousins and friends, who did not deem a year complete without a visit to May.
The last three months of her life during her failing health she received the same tender care she had given others in the home of her dearest friends, Mr. and Mrs. William Lawler. About two weeks before her death, by the advice of her physician, she returned to her own home, where it was hoped that her own familiar surroundings would aid in her recovery. Such was not to be, and she failed very rapidly until her death, surrounded by devoted friends, as her nearest relatives were unable to be present.
Thus passed her simple and beautiful life, an inspiration and a sorrow to the entire community.
"No life can be pure in its purpose
And strong in its strife
And all life not be stronger and
better thereby." - A. A. C.
Wednesday, 4 November 1925
A remarkable life passed from time to eternity with the death of Miss May Forncrook.
She was born at Skaneateles Junction Aug. 21, 1858, the youngest daughter of the late Andrew B. and Viorna Buckland Forncrook. When eight years of age she moved with her parents to the Isaac Buckland farm, henceforth to be known as the Forncrook farm, where she lived until her death Oct. 27, 1925.
Owing to her mother's failing health, she left school at the Munroe Collegiate Institute at the age of fifteen. A large part of her life from this time was spent in the care of her family. She cared for an aged grandfather, her father and mother, an aged aunt, and lastly her only sister. Beside the care in her own home of all these dear ones, she operated very successfully a large dairy farm, ably assisted for 32 years by William Lawler. After the death of her sister she was very much alone in the world, save for the many friends she had attracted to herself, three nephews and a niece living in distant cities. She spent a good deal of time in travel after she was released from the care of her dear ones. A constant and discriminating reader, she acquired a vast amount of useful information. She possessed a very fair sized library, to which she constantly added. She was an eager student of nature, and was on familiar terms with the flowers and birds and trees of her neighborhood. She made a collection of native berries for one of the Flower Shows given in Elbridge. When complimented upon the wonderful collection, she said it was more remarkable for the ones she left out and could not find. An exquisite needlewoman, she won a prize at the World's Fair in Chicago for some beautiful pieces of linen decorated with her own designs. She sold exquisite needle work to the Art League of New York, and was at one time a valued contributor to the Ladies Home Journal.
Her home, with its quaint and beautiful furnishings, was a sort of mecca to her numerous cousins and friends, who did not deem a year complete without a visit to May.
The last three months of her life during her failing health she received the same tender care she had given others in the home of her dearest friends, Mr. and Mrs. William Lawler. About two weeks before her death, by the advice of her physician, she returned to her own home, where it was hoped that her own familiar surroundings would aid in her recovery. Such was not to be, and she failed very rapidly until her death, surrounded by devoted friends, as her nearest relatives were unable to be present.
Thus passed her simple and beautiful life, an inspiration and a sorrow to the entire community.
"No life can be pure in its purpose
And strong in its strife
And all life not be stronger and
better thereby." - A. A. C.
Wednesday, 4 November 1925
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