“To the Editor of the Journal Sir: Few of our citizens are aware that at one time Ithaca was an important station on a great thoroughfare known as the underground railway. The efficient agent of this organization was the pastor of Zion’s church, a...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 22, 2026 18:36
“Daniel Jackson,” Ithaca Daily Journal, July 8, 1889, page 3, col 4, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj18890708-01.1.3
"Ithaca, N.Y.--Levi M. Spaulding, 58 years old, one of the oldest and most popular officers in the Ithaca Police Department, died in police headquarters on Thursday, September 11, as he was unlocking the handcuffs which had been placed on the ha...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 19, 2026 18:52
"Taking Handcuff from Prisoner, Ithaca Cop Dies: Levi Spaulding, Oldest and Only Negro Officer, Falls on Duty," New York Age (New York, NY), Septem...
"Mrs. Fannie Hudson, 80, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Wilson [Corrine Wilson], 701 W. Green St., today, June 2, 1948, following a long illness. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Carrie H. Ash of Havre de ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 25, 2026 17:51
"Deaths, Funerals: Mrs. Fannie Hudson," Ithaca journal, June 2, 1948, 5.
“ITHACA - Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Ithaca, for Mr. Angeline C. Petrillo, a former Ithacan who died in Doylestown, Pa. Services will be tomorrow at the Bachmann Funeral Home in Doylestown, with a high Mass of requiem in Our Lady of Mount...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 24, 2026 20:32
“Rites Tomorrow For Mrs. Petrillo,” Syracuse Herald-Journal, October 23, 1959, 2.
"Dr. Harold P. Denniston, 113 E. Seneca St., died Friday, July 8, 1960, at the Tompkins Conuty Hospital. Surviving are a son, Col. Robert N. Denniston, stationed in Korea; a daughter Mrs. Leonard M. Sheppard, Fort Washington, Pa., and a brothe...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 12, 2026 15:45
"Deaths, Fiunerals: Dr. Harold P. Denniston," Ithaca Journal, July 9, 1960, 2.
“John H. Sorrell died Jan. 13th, aged 55 years and 7 months. He was born at Baltimore, Md.; he enlisted in Co. B, 26thU.S. Infantry on Dec. 24th, 1863, and served until the close of the war. The funeral will be held Friday at two o’clock and t...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 29, 2026 00:45
Obituary of John H. Sorrell, Dryden Herald, January 14, 1903, 1.
"William Edward Payne, aged 49 years, for many years a waiter at the Ithaca Hotel, died this morning following an illness of complications. He is survived by two daughters--Naomi and Bernice Payne; one sister--Mrs. Elizabeth Patton of Ithaca; two ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 07, 2026 21:53
Obituary for "William E. Payne," Ithaca Journal, April 30, 1917, 3 .
"Benjamin F. (Tokyo) Belcher, 74, of 800 South Plain St., Ithaca died Wednesday, May 29, 1996 at the Reconstruction Home after an extended illness. Born December 4, 1921, Stanford, WV he was the son of the late Benjamin L. and Anna Brown Belch...
Submitted by Geoff Eddlestone on April 03, 2026 00:02
"Obituaries: Benjamin F. (Tokyo) Belcher," Ithaca Journal , May 31, 1996,
"Miss Minnie Grace Fletcher died in Waverly Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. She was 31 years old and was born in this city. Her education was received in the public schools of this city and for many years she was a loyal and faithful member of ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 03, 2026 15:31
"Obituary: Miss MInnie G. Fletcher Dies at Waverly," Ithaca Daily Journal, April 23, 1902, 6.
Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1960 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
"Norman Lee Hall, 54, of Atlanta, Ga., and a native of Ithaca died in Tompkins Community Hospital, Wednesday June 2, 2, 1982. Mr. Hall was a professor of Hotel Food Service Management at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Ga. Prior to that he was an...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 21, 2025 20:10
"Deaths: Norman Lee Hall," Ithaca Journal, June 3, 1982, 4.
"Funeral services for Mrs. Lottie Consalvi Tonks of 520 W. Buffalo St., who died Feb 9, 1953, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at her home. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. She is survived by her husband, Alvin Tonks; 2 sons, Rudy Consalv...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 25, 2026 17:13
Funeral notice for Lottie Consalvi Tonks, Ithaca Journal, February 10, 1953, 7.
“Mrs. Rowena Morse Mann, a native of Ithaca, died at the age of 88 on March 3, 1958, in Chicago, Ill. She became a Unitarian minister and at the time of her death the American Unitarian Assn. sent out a letter to its ministers stating that her...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 13, 2026 18:50
“Woman Minister, Native of Ithaca, Dies at 88,” Ithaca Journal, April 15, 1958, 2.
"Joan Elizabeth Murray, who in her extraordinary life was the first African American female television news reporter in the United States, as well as an entrepreneur, small plane pilot, and writer, died on December 18, 2021 in Ithaca, New York. ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 10, 2026 20:31
Joan E Murray (November 6, 1937 - November 18, 2021) Obituary, Herson Wagner Funeral Home, Ithaca, NY, accessed April 10, 2026, https://www.hersonw...
"Mrs. Sarah A. Graves, 44, died suddenly on Monday afternoon, July 4, at the Gamma Alpha fraternity house, 116 Oak Avenue, where she was employed. She leaves her husband, Jess; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Small of Ithaca, and Mrs, Mary E. Reddick of ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 13, 2026 16:58
Obituary of Sarah A. Graves, Ithaca Journal, July 5, 1927, 5.
"Mrs. Jones was born June 25, 1904 in College Park, Georgia daughter of the late Hamp & Lucy Battle Thomas. She had been a resident of Ithaca area from the early 1920s to 1942 when she moved to Inwood, Long Island, N.Y. ...She was a past member o...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 13, 2026 18:02
Obituary of Jennie T. Jones, Ithaca Journal, April 19, 1991, 4.
“Mrs. Rebecca Spencer, 90, of 440 N. Titus Ave., widow of Frank Spencer, died unexpectedly this morning, March 21, 1956, in Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. She is survived by a son, Garrett Singleton of Ithaca; a granddaughter, Miss Jean P...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 20, 2026 21:20
Obituary for Mrs. Rebecca Spencer, Ithaca Journal, March 22, 1956, 3.
"Mrs. Lovisa F. Cook, 86, widow of Henry H. Cook, died at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at her home, 100 Cleveland avenue. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the residence and internment will be made in Lake View Cemete...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 17, 2026 11:15
Obituary for Lovisa F Cook, Ithaca Journal, July 5, 1924, 5.
“The death of Nestor Lennon, actor, a former resident of this city, occurred in New York on October 14. Mr. Lennon’s family was well known here by the older residents. Mr. Lennon left here when about 17 years old, to go on the stage. He succeeded...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 09, 2026 00:00
“Well Known Actor, Former Ithaca, Dies In New York,” Ithaca Daily News, October 24, 1913, 2.