Notes:

Watertown NY Daily Timers - 6/27/1975

LORRAINE - George H.
Bilkey, 89, died Thursday
at the Ruth Brown Adult
Home, Adams Center!
where he had been a patient
for one year.
The funeral will be 1 p.m.
Sunday at the Piddock Funeral
Home with the Rev.
David Bergner, pastor of
the Lorraine and Mannsville
United Methodist
churches, officiating. Burial
will be in Rural Cemetery,
Adams. Calling hours
are Saturday at the funeral
home from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m.
Survivors include one
daughter, Mrs. Donald (Arlene)
Moore, Lorraine; four
stepsons, Gary Brown,
Adams Center; Allen
Brown, Watertown; Austin
Brown, Potsdam, and
Lewis Brown, Adams; 13
grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren.
Mr. Bilkey was born June
20,1886, in the Town of Lorraine,
son of Henry P. and
Anna Fee Bilkey. He married
Ethel Caulkins June
28, 1916. She died April 26,
1924. He and Mrs. Blanche
Brown were wed March 12,
1956. She died Aug. 5, 1963.
He operated farms in the
Lorraine area until his retirement
and was town supervisor
from 1921-1937. He
attended Lorraine United
Methodist Church and was
a 50-year member of the
Lorraine Grange.

George married CAULKINS, Ethel on 28 Jun 1916 in Jefferson County, NY. Ethel (daughter of CAULKINS, Everett N and MOORE, Martha) was born on 18 May 1892 in Lorraine, Jefferson County, NY; died on 26 Apr 1924 in Lorraine, Jefferson County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Adams NY Jefferson County Journal - 1916

-Married, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. E. N. Caulkins, June 28, their
daughter, Miss Ethel .Caulkins, to
George Bilkey of Lorraine. The
bride, after having four showers given
in her honor, was very quietly married,
attended by her cousin, Kiss
Laura Moore of Adams, and Ray W.
Moore of Lorraine. the impressive
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Frederick Maunder of the M. E.
church of Adams. The wedding sup-
per was served by Mrs. Maude Grim-
shaw of Watertown. The bride is
one of Lorraine's fair daughters. The
many gifts testified to their popu-
larity. the groom is a prosperous
farmer, living one-half mile from the
village. They are touring the state
in the Bilkey car for their wedding
journey. Congratulations and best
wishes attend them.

1. BILKEY, Arlene Jessie

George married Blanche on 12 Mar 1956. Blanche died on 5 Aug 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married FEE, Anna L on 28 Feb 1885 in Lorraine, Jefferson County, NY. Anna was born in May 1867 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Adams NY Jefferson County Journal - 3/17/1885

BILKEY-FEE-In Lorraine, Feb. 28, by Rev.
S. M. Crofoot, Henry P. Bilkey and Anna L.
Fee, all of Lorraine.

Notes:

Adams NY Jefferson County Journal - 1/29/1889

Mr. Eugene Bilkey, of the French Settlement
in Lorraine, was buried yesterday
by Undertaker Lester in the Lyman burying
ground, Lorraine.

Eugene + Clarissa. Clarissa was born about 1823 in France; died about 4 May 1892 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Oswego Daily Times - 1892

MAY 4.-Died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Silas Hall, at Syra-
cuse, Mrs. Clarissa Bilkey, widow of
he late Eugene Bilkey, aged 69 years,
she leaves two sons and two daughers,
Amelia and Eugene of Syracuse,
lenrv and Emma of Lorraine. She
had been a resident of Lorraine for
about twenty .six years till about one
year ago, when she went to reside
with her daughter. Her remains
were brought to Lorraine for burial.
The funeral was conducted by Rev.
Mr. Daily at the M. E. church; April
26.