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- 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.
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1857 - 1940 (83 years)