Deaths
Reported by the "Long Islander" 1891-1900
Abstracted
by David Roberts
“N” Surnames
NASSR ED-DINE
Aassassinated last
week@; Shah
of Persia;
NEALIS Fanny
84 years
d.
NEAT John
d.
NEAT Mrs. John
d.
NEGLEY William Robert 8 yrs 6 mos
d.
NEIMEYER Mrs. F.
A.
funeral
31 March 1892; Athe
nervous strain to which she was subjected last summer, when a negro attempted
to assault her, weakened her system@; resident
of Great Neck
NELSON Edward 70 years
d. 3
July 1898 at Oyster Bay; funeral at St. Patrick=s R.
C. Church, Glen Cove; interment at Catholic Cemetery, Brookville; Afor
many years gardener for James K. Gracey at Cove
Neck@
NELSON Mrs. Edward
d.
NELSON James 84 years
d.
NEWMAN Amy
2 years
d.
NEWMAN Bishop John Philip 72 years
d. 5
July 1899 at Saratoga, New York; pneumonia; bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church; Aman
of rich and cultivated intellect@; delivered
address to the graduating class of Huntington High School in 1888
NEWMAN Mary Acentenarian@
d. 20
February 1897 at Locust Valley; daughter of James and Mary Needle; widow
of Eli Butler and Richard Newman (d. 1873); mother of 13 children, the eldest
of whom is 82 years old; (Mrs. Ellen Wansor of
Locust Valley is the only one of these children mentioned by name); grandmother
of 38; great-grandmother of 52; great-great-grandmother of 33; native of
Thenford, Northampton, England (b. 23 December
1794); resident of Locust Valley since 1857; Awas
in possession of all her faculties, being able to see quite well without
the aid of glasses@
NEWMAN Mary J.
63 y 2 m 24 d
d.
d. 11
August 1896 at Commack or Deer Park; Aovercome
by the extreme heat@; had
been visiting his sister in Moriches and took the train to Babylon; attempted
to walk home to Northport from Babylon; due to heat exhaustion, he died along
the way, at either Commack (Adied@ column)
or Deer Park (Northport column)
NEWTON Jacob about
60 years
d.
NEWTON Phebe 72 years
funeral
NICHOLAS Jacob A. 86 years
d.
NICHOLAUS Katherine Zeitler 84 years
d. 5
May 1892 at Hicksville; mother of Henry Nicholaus;
b. Rheinpfalz, Germany 1807; Aspent
over forty of these years in our village, coming here when Hicksville consisted
of a half dozen houses@
NICHOLS Benjamin
79 yrs 4 mos
d.
NICHOLS Edward
d.
NICHOLS Elizabeth
49 years
d.
NICHOLS Elizabeth 76 y 4 m 6
d
d.
NICHOLS George B.
d. at
NICHOLS Gideon 76 y 7
m 26 d
d.
NICHOLS Gideon A.
d.
NICHOLS Harvey B.
late of
NICHOLS Ida May
d.
NICHOLS Mrs. Isaac Aover
80 years@
funeral
NICHOLS Isaac W. 85 years
d.
NICHOLS J. Edward 55 years
suicide
3 June 1900 at Kings Park; shot himself; funeral at Kings Park, Alargely
attended@; father
of two children; one, a son, was his business partner; sewing machine agent;
trustee of Lucian Memorial M. E. Church, Kings Park
NICHOLS James S. 80 years
d. 19
April 1900 at Moosehead City, North Carolina;
heart trouble; father of H. Asa Nichols of Moosehead City, Charles Nichols and William Nichols;
native and former resident of Cold Spring; Aa very
wicked, swearing young man until the time of his conversion at a revival
meeting held in the Cold Spring Harbor M. E. Church. A wonderful change was
at once noticed in him and his life ever since had been that of an active
Christian@; crewman
on whaler Tuscarora out
of Cold Spring; went to Pacific Ocean and Okhotsk
Sea on whaling voyages; cooper and second mate on whaler Splendid
under Capt. Richard P. Smith, which left in 1853 for a 2 1/2 year voyage
to the Behring Sea; conducted religious services
aboard the Splendid; after his whaing career he took up farming at Uniondale and
recently moved to Freeport; a member of the Freeport M. E. Church; Aa great
believer in camp meetings and always attended the services at the Merrick
camp meeting; long biography in 27 April 1900 paper; Note: the place of his
death is probably Morehead City, North Carolina. A current atlas of the state
shows no Moosehead City.
NICHOLS John
d.
NICHOLS Lavinia 76 years
d.
NICHOLS Nebat 56 years
d. 10
March 1899 at Brooklyn; funeral by Rev. Estes of Oyster Bay; interment at
Aburial
ground near Charles Ost=s residence@; resident
of Woodbury; Cold Spring item
NICHOLS Phebe 81 years
d.
NICHOLS Samuel
63 years
d.
NICHOLS Stephen B. 34
years
d.
NICHOLS Thomas Benjamin 31 years
d. 26
November 1898 at Cold Spring; consumption; funeral at M. E. Church, Cold
Spring by Rev. Taft and Rev. Mitchell; interment at Memorial Cemetery, Cold
Spring Harbor; survived by his mother, two brothers and a sister; engaged
to marry an Aestimable
young lady@
NICHOLS William
28 y 3 m 17 d
d. 12
July 1893 at Hicksville; interment at Westbury; son of John Nichols; native
of England; former resident of Westbury; worked for L.I.R.R. for six years
and at the time of his death was employed as a brakeman on the New York Central
Railroad
NICHOLSON Sarah R.
d. 14
January 1899 at Huntington; invalid since a stroke 4 years ago; funeral at
Huntington by Rev. Seem; [page torn: it appears that she was buried at GreenWood, Brooklyn]; daughter of Cyrenius Beers; widow of Robert Nicholson, who Adied
a short time after their marriage@; native
and former resident of New York City; former summer resident of Huntington,
but following her stroke she moved to Huntington to live with Miss Lavinia Platt
NICKERSON Frank E.
d. Alast
week ... suddenly of heart disease@; interment
at Farmingham [
NICKOLAUS infant 6 months
d. Arecently@; daughter
of Henry J. Nickolaus, former resident of
NICKOLAUS Catherine 25 days
d.
NICOLL Edward 46 years
d. 9
October 1898 at Alpine, Colorado; consumption; son of William Nicoll; brother of William G. Nicoll; born at Nicoll
homestead, Great River; graduate of Huntington Union School - 1868; Aof late
years ... he had made his home principally in the West and the South@
NICOLL
Dr. S. B.
d.
NICOLL William
Aaged@
Arecent death@; resident
of
NICOLL William
d. 11
March 1900 at Babylon; funeral at Christ Church, West Islip, by Rev. Sparks;
son of William Nicoll; husband of Sarah Nicoll, who survives; father of William Greenly Nicoll of Babylon, Henry Nicoll
of Virginia, Mrs. Silas R. Corwith of Bridgehampton,
and Mrs. Lee Johnson of Garden City; uncle of Rear Admiral Nicoll Ludlow, U. S. N., and Major General William
H. Ludlow, U. S. A.; native of Islip (b. 13 May 1820); lived on Nicoll Patent Ain the
southern part of Islip town, a huge tract of land granted to Mr. Nicoll=s ancestors
by Queen Anne.... He was the seventh William Nicoll
in a direct line, the name being given to the eldest son of each successive
father@; country
gentleman who early in life assumed the management of the large family estate
at Great River; resided most of his life at Great River on the estate, except
for some time during the 1860=s when
he resided in Huntington; held various political offices in the Town of Islip;
organized Emmanuel Episcopal Church at Great River and served as warden of
its vestry; a leading layman in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and
the Suffolk Archdeaconry; served as school commissioner for Suffolk County;
Republican; he and wife worked with the U. S. Sanitary Commission during
the Civil War to send supplies to Union soldiers
NIMMO
Rev. Gershom
d. 24
February 1898 at Torresdale, Pennsylvania; interment
at Princeton, New Jersey; son of Rev. Joseph Nimmo,
Awho
resided in our village [Huntington] many years previous to his death@; brother
of Hon. Joseph Nimmo and Margaret Nimmo of Huntington; Aentered
the ministry in the Presbyterian church thirty-six years ago, first preaching
at Lew[e]s, Delaware@; former
resident of Huntington
NOBE[L] Alfred
d. Alast
week@ at
NOBLE Mrs. Andrew
37 years
found dead
in bed at
NOLAN Dollie
30 years
d.
NOLAN William 61
years
funeral
31 July 1896 St. Patrick=s R.
C. Church,
NOLES Mrs.
d.
d. Aabout
a year ago@; former hotel keeper in Farmingdale; will revoked by Queens
County Surrogate Weller; Farmingdale item 23 April 1892 paper
NORRIS Charley Wesley 7
months
d. at
NORRIS Sylvia V. 1 mo 21
days
d.
NORTON Eckstein
d.
NORTON Joel
ca. 82 years
d. 3
April 1896 at Patchogue; interment at Port Jefferson; Asuffered
from a very troubling cancer on the left nostril. For the last three years
or more this cancer has been growing upward until it finally reached the
eye@; survived
by second wife and several children from his first marriage who reside in
New Haven, Connecticut; resident of Mount Sinai
NORTON Kate
d. 23
April 1899 at Brookville; pneumonia; funeral at St. Patrick=s R.
C. Church, Glen Cove; sister of Mrs. John Newhoff
of Brookville and Senator James Norton
NOSTRAND Mrs.
33 years
d.
NOSTRAND Mrs. 68 years
d. 6
September 1898 at Port Eaton; dropsy and heart disease; funeral at Huntington;
mother of Jacob Nostrand of Huntington, Mrs. Frank Gardiner of Port Eaton
and Mrs. Charles Pettit of Roslyn; former resident of Greenvale
NYE Edgar William
d.