Notes:

Cohocton NY Valley Times Index 1940-1942

Hiram Ketch, died at his farm
borne at Bath Monday, July 22, at
the age of 83. His funeral was
held at his late home Thursday, with
burial in Nondaga cemetery. The
Rev. P. E. Greenwalt, protestant
chaplain at the Veterans Facility,
conducted the funeral.
Hiram Ketch was born in Cohocton,
March 5, 1857, the son of Cyrus
and Mary VanHousen Ketch.
He attended the Naples High School
and after graduation taught for
some years. He was endowed with
a remarkable understanding of the
science of numbers, and retained an
almost unbelieveable memory of
dates. In arithmetic he was a prodigy,
especially in addition and multiplication.
Mr. Ketch was a member of the
Wesleyan Methodist church at Wallace.
In his younger years he was
a licensed "exhorter" and often conducted
church services. He was
married Dec. 11, 1878, to Miss Ada
Lyke, and two children were born of
the union, a son, Lewis Ketch, who
owns the farm in what was formerly
known as Long well's Lane, north of
the Veterans' Facility; and a daughter,
Maude, who became the wife of
Hibbard Brush, and who died March
1, 1936. He married for his second
wife, Jennie Shutts, of Gloversvllle
who died several years'ago.

Hiram married LYKE, Ada on 11 Dec 1878. Ada and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: WINCHELL, Jennie. Jennie was born about 1862 in Gloversville, Fulton County, NY; died on 9 Mar 1935 in Bath, Steuben County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bath NY Farmers Advocate - 3/6/1936

The Rev. Mable Johnson officiated
Wednesday at the funeral of
Mrs. Hibbard Brush, which was
held at the home of her brother,
Lewis Ketch of Bath

ALSO

Bath NY Steuben Courier - 3/6/1936

Kanona, Mar. 3- Death, which
has, visited this village - s o frequently
of l a t e , has a g a i n c o m e and
summoned Mrs. Maude Ketch
-Brush, wife of Hibbard Brush.
Mrs, Brush had b e e n i n ill h e a l th
for some time. However, s h e w a s
thought t o b e improving when s he
suddenly suffered a,relapse a n d was
returned to t h e Bath Memorial Hospital,
where s h e p a s s e d away late
Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Brush w a s
45 years of a g e . She w a s a woman
of s y m p a t h e t i c kind and gers
erous nature and while not affli-
ated with any church.she had often
expressed her f a i t h i n t h e , Chris-
tion religion. Surviving are her
h u b a n d , Hibbard Brush, of Ka-
nona, her father, Hiram Ketch, and
one brother, Lewis Ketch, b o t h of
Bath. The funeral service, which
was held at t h e home of the brother
Wednesday afternoon, w a s con-
ducted by the Rev. Mable Johnson,
pastor of the Kanona M. E.
Church and the buril was in
Nondaga Cemetery.

Maude married BRUSH, Hibbard Nichols on 2 Feb 1916 in Bath, Steuben County, NY. Hibbard (son of BRUSH, Edgar Charles and STRATTEN, Emma) was born on 24 Dec 1894 in Pulteney, Steuben County, NY; died on 26 Jul 2010 in Elmira, Chemung County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]