“Police captured George “Curley” Barnes, confessed murderer of his young wife with an axe; Levi M. Spaulding, 58, one of the oldest and most popular members of the Ithaca Police Department, dropped dead at Police Headquarters falling the capture o...
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Ithaca Journal, Dec. 31, 1930, page 8.
"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. Lillian Walker, 79, of 516 South Plain Street, died Saturday afternoon, August 1, at her home. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow at Calvary Baptist Church. Rev B.H. Payne officiating. Interment will be in Lake View Cemetery. ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 19, 2026 18:59
Obituary of Mrs. Lillian Walker, Ithaca Journal, August 3, 1931, 5.
"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.
“Mrs. Lucy C. Van Order, lifelong resident of this city, died at 4 o’clock this morning at her home, 314 North Albany street, following a year’s illness. She was the widow of Lynn Van Order. Surviving are her daughter, Mrs. M. L. Fahnestock of t...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 23, 2026 14:59
Death notice of Mrs. Lucy C. Van Order, Ithaca Journal-News, June 16, 1924, 7.
"Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, Norman L. and Hugh W. Hall Jr.; her mother, Mrs. Margaret E. Mann; a sister, Miss Edith Mann, and two brothers, Harmon and Sinclair Mann, all of Ithaca."
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 21, 2025 19:26
Obituary of Mrs. Helen M. Hall, Ithaca Journal, January 7, 1933, 3
“All relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend the funeral of Mrs. Moriah Woods who in her eighty seventh year departed this mortal life on Sunday the 6th October 1889 at the hour of 10 A.M. at the residence of her son in law, H. H. ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 26, 2026 20:41
Obituary of Moriah Woods, Ithaca Daily Journal, October 7, 1889, page 3.
"Mrs. Pearl Lorana Wilson, 78, of McGraw House, 221 S. Geneva St., Ithaca died Wednesday July 4, 1979 in Tompkins County Hospital after an extended illness. She was the daughter of the late William and Sarah Simpson Johnson. She was born in Ithaca...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 07, 2025 16:26
"Mrs. Pearl Lorana Wilson," Ithaca Journal, July 5, 1979, 4.
“Guilford Ruth F (nee Fahnestock), Oct. 16, 1977, at Suncoast Manor St. Petersburg, Fla., wife of the late Edward F. and beloved mother of Mrs. Otto C. Lee of So. Newtown Street Road, Newtown Square, Pa….”
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 23, 2026 15:51
Death Notices Ruth F Guilford, Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA), October 22, 1977, 5-C.
Agnes B Payne in the New York, U.S., Death Index, 1852-1956, Ancestry.com.
“John W. Collier of 526 West Green street, for 20 years janitor at the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity 720 University avenue, died at the Tompkins County Hospital at Taughannock Falls yesterday, after a long illness. He was a member of Herman Lodge, 30...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 21, 2025 15:16
"J.W. Collier, Janitor of Phi Sigma Kappa for 20 Years, Dead," Ithaca Journal, April 26, 1924, 5.
“Mrs. Florence Alston, 48, of 526 W. Green St., died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 1943, after a long illness. She was a member of the Daughters of Cayuga Temple 54 of the Colored Elks and of the Radio Council. She is survived by a son, Private John Alston of...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 21, 2025 14:54
“Deaths, Funerals,” Ithaca Journal, November 24, 1943, 3.
"Thomas Mahoney, an aged and much esteemed resident of this city, died this morning at his home, 619 Hudson Street. Mr. Mahoney was one of the early settlers of South Hill, and spent sixty years of his life there. He leaves five daughters, Miss Ne...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 04, 2026 15:49
Obituary of Thomas Mahoney, Ithaca Daily News, September 4, 1919, 5.
"Horace Dewey Belknap, aged 90 years, died Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock at the family residence at 416 North Cayuga street.... Mr. Belknap was born in Oswego county on April 6, 1820. He received his early schooling in that vicinity and moved to ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 29, 2025 23:46
Obituary of "Horace Dewey Belknap," Ithaca Daily Journal, September 19, 1910, 3
“The death of Mr. George Rankin, senior member of the firm Rankin & Son, occurred last evening at his residence on East Seneca street. Mr. Rankin was one of Ithaca’s oldest, best-known and most thoroughly respected merchants. He started a crockery...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on March 15, 2026 18:01
“Death of a Well Known Merchant,” Ithaca Daily Journal, December 27, 1888, 3, accessed March 15, 2026 https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=...
“Died…Frances Ann Criss, a respectable colored girl in the family of Dr. Rhoades died on Sunday morning [July 18], after an illness of only eight hours. A post mortem examination revealed the rupture of a blood vessel. This had doubtless been caus...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 05, 2026 20:49
Death notice of Frances Ann Criss, Ithaca Journal and Advertiser, June 21, 1865, 4, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=ija18650621-01.1.4
"A family was made homeless and another Tompkins County landmark wiped out by fire at Caroline early Sunday. The building destroyed was known as the old Nathanial Tobey tavern, built about 1804 and for many years one of the principal stopping...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on June 24, 2026 21:10
"Fire Destroys Caroline's Tobey Tavern," Ithaca Journal, February 21, 1938, 3.
"A Cornellian, Elsa Guerdrum Allen (1888-1969) was an ornithologist, lecturer, and writer. The Division of Rare and Manuscripts Collections at Cornell University holds a collection of her work: manuscripts, photographs, prints. Selected items from...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on July 30, 2026 17:23
J. M. Iacchei, Elsa Guerdrum Allen Papers, Cornell University Library Conservation, Janaury 27, 2014, https://blogs.cornell.edu/culconservation/20...