Newport Mercury
February 17, 1894
In Jamestown, 14th inst., Isaac W. Head, aged 53 years.
Newport Mercury
April 12, 1902Mrs. Mary E. Head of Jamestown was fatally burned at her home in that town on Sunday. Although it is not known just how the accident occurred it is supposed that her clothes caught fire from coming into contact with the kitchen stove. Neighbors were summoned by the frantic cries of her grandchildren and upon arriving at the scene found that Mrs. Head had attempted to extinguish the flames at the faucet in the kitchen sink. The clothing was burned from her body and she was terribly burned. A physician was hastily summoned but found that he could do nothing to save the women's life and she died within three hours.
Mrs. Head was the widow of the late Isaac Head. She leaves three sons, Alton, Vernon and Albert Head, and two daughters, Mrs. Maria Meigs and Susie Head.
Newport Mercury
October 22, 1927
Died
In Jamestown, Oct. 19th, George W. Peckham, aged 82 years.
Newport Mercury and Weekly News
May 17, 1946The funeral of Herbert H. Head was held Thursday noon at his Jamestown home, with the Rev. Myron Hertel, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, officiating.
Mr. Head's survivors included two nephews, Alton Meiggs of this city and Isaac Meiggs of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and a niece, Mrs. Louise Lawton of this city.
Newport Daily News
March 13, 1961A service for Mrs. Mary Ella Peckham Head, of Howland Avenue, Jamestown, widow of Herbert H. Head was held this afternoon at the George C. Cranston Funeral home in Wichford.
Newport Daily News
July 8, 1963Irving Allison Corey, 93, of 75 Green End Ave., Middletown, photagrapher, artist and musician, died suddenly yesterday in Newport Hospital.
He was born in Portsmouth March 5, 1970, youngest son of Edward P. and Maria Porter Coreyt and was the last survivor of that generation. He was married to Florence M. Potter of Newport in 1896, she died in 1929.
Mr. Corey had a photography studio on Green End Avenue for more than 50 years. He was also a musician, having played with the Newport Municipal Band and having been first violin in the orchestra at the Opera House years ago. He was a charter member of the Newport Art Association where he displayed many of his paintings.
Surviving are a son, Edward C. Corey of Del Ray Beach, Fla.; two daughters, Mrs. Lois C. Blick of Washington D.C., and Mrs. Eva C. Panunazio of Middltown; five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Burial will be in Portsmouth cemetery.
Newport Mercury and Weekly News
December 6, 1929The sudden and unexpected death in Washington of Mrs. Florence N. Corey, wife of Irving A. Corey of "Green End Hill" was a severe shock to all who knew her. She left here just before Thanksgiving to visit her elder daughter, Mrs. Earl Blick, and was taken ill in the early morning hours Tuesday with a severe heart attack from which she did not rally. Mrs. Corey was the oldest daughter and the second of six children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Potter, having been born in Newport January 13, 1877. Her early life had been spent in Newport, but since her marriage she had lived in Middletown, first on North Aquidneck avenue at the Corey homestead and for the the past ten years on Green End Hill, where her husband had a studio. While not in robust health for several years, she kept courageous and cheerful and accomplished much which would have seemed unsurmountable to others.
Mrs. Corey is survived by her husband, Mr. Irving A. Corey, a well known photagrapher, and by four children, Edward A. Corey of Newport, Lois (Mrs Earl Blick) of Washington, Miss Eva Corey, a trained nurse and Francis Corey, a pupil in the eighth of the Berkely school and two grandchildren. The deceased leaves three brothers, Arthur W. Potter Jr. and Herbert Potter of Newport, and Albert Potter, who has resided with Mrs. Corey, and two sisters, Mrs. Preery White and Mrs. Frank Sherman of Middletown.
Mrs, Corey had long been a member of the Middletown Christian Temperance Union.
Providence Journal (RI)
March 30, 1998LOIS COREY BLICK, 99, formerly of Union Street, died Saturday at the Grand Islander Health Care Center in Middletown. She was the wife of the late Roy E. Blick.
Born in Middletown, she was a daughter of the late Irving A. and Florence (Potter) Corey.
Mrs. Blick was a yeoman in the Navy, and an executive secretary to the Postmaster General in Washington, D.C., for 34 years, retiring in 1954. During her career with the postal service, she was responsible for the administration of the V-mail program during World War II.
She leaves four nieces, Lois Mass of Portsmouth, Rosemary Heitmann of Tjotta, Norway, Dorothy Curtis of Pawtucket, and Marcia Minton of Miami. She was the sister of the late Eva C. Heitmann, Edward and John Corey.
Newport Mercury and Weekly News
October 31, 1930Died
SHERMAN - In Middletown, R. I., Oct. 27th, 1930, Annie Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Lincoln Sherman, residence East Main Road, Middletown.
Newport Mercury and Weekly News
December 19, 1930Isaac Lincoln Sherman, who has been in failing health the past year and went to the Newport Hospital early in November, died there at 7 o'clock Wednesday unexpectantly, although he had an uncomfortable day Monday.
The older of the two children of Isaac Anthony and Cordella (Sherman) Sherman, he was born in Tiverton, near Westport, September 19, 1859. He came to Middletown with his parents when he was 14 years old, and had lived in that town since. He was educated in the public schools and was a graduate of East Greenwich Academy. In 1882 he married Miss Annie Cory of Portsmouth, who died last October.
Mr. Sherman was a man of of unceasing activities, having been especially interested in all matters pertaining to the agriculture and to banking and finance. He had traveled extensively.
A charter member of Portsmouth Grange, he continued in active membership not only in this organization, but in the ..., state and national granges, being a member of the executive committee of the state grange. He was long a member of the executive committee of Newport County Ponoma Grange, holding that office at his death. He had also been a member for 29 years of the State Board of Agriculture, and for several years its president. Since the re-organization of the board he had been chairman of its advisory committee. He was a charter member and chairman of the finance committee of the Farm Bureau, and a member of many special committees in connection with agriculturework throughout the state. He founded and has been president of the Patrons Fire Relief Association a Grange insurance organization, since its incorporation in 1900, holding this office at the time of his death.
He was director of the Aquidneck National Bank for many years, and of the combined Aquidneck National Exchange Bank and Savings Company. He was a member of the Newport Chamber of Commerce, and of the Miantonomi Club, a member of the Portsmouth Men's Club and deeply interested in the Church whist league, of which that club is a member. He had been for several years a member of the board of managers of Rhode Island State College.
Mr. Sherman was the founder of the Newport Agriculture Society, its president for 33 consecutive years, and always keenly interested in its advancement of its best interests. He was elected honorary president for life upon his retirement in 1930.
He is survived by a daughter, Miss Dorothy Sherman and a son I. Sherman, who live at the Middletown home on East Main road, near the Portsmouth line. Another daughter, Myrtle, died several years ago, Mr. Sherman is the last of his immediate line, his only sister, Gertrude, having died shortly after the family moved to Middletown in 1879. A cousin Fred Sherman, of Little Compton is his only other relative.
32056. Myrtle Etheline Sherman
Newport Mercury
June 12, 1915
Miss Myrtle Sherman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. Lincoln Sherman. a stude
nt at Glen Exlon Academy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is home for the summer vacation.
Newport Mercury and Weekly News
Febhruary 7, 1936Mrs.Ermine Ruggles, wife of the late Edward G. Ruggles, a resident of Portsmouth, died Wednesday at Manchester, Conn., where she was visiting. Mrs, Ruggles was born in Portsmouth, a daughter of the late Job and Lydia Sowle, and had lived for many years in the house on the West Main road where the the old mill, preserved and owned by the Newport Historical Society, is located. She was a mamber of the Driends' church from which the funeral will be held Saturday.
Mrs. Ruggles is survived by a son, Clarence Ruggles, and a brother, William T. H. Sowle, of Portsmouth and three grandchildren.
Newport Mercury
February 5, 1910
Died
In Portsmouth, 29th inst., Elmer C., son of Edward C. and Ermine E. Ruggle
s, in his 16th year.