Thursday’s “On This Day” post revealed an article in the
Lancaster Daily Intelligencer about Charles Deyo of Shawangunk , Ulster
County, NY. Deyo was shot by a “playfellow” on Tuesday, 12 October 1880,
according to the paper. This particular piece had caught my attention because
my husband is descended from the New York Deyo/Deyoe family.
Lancaster Daily Intelligencer. (Lancaster , PA ),
14 October 1880. Chronicling America :
Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
To clarify, the Evening Gazette out of Port Jervis, NY,
stated that the 14 year-old boy had been shot on Friday, which would have been
the 8th of October. He was shot in the abdomen and his recovery was
“doubtful.”
Charles Brodhead Deyo was born 30 May 1866 to Brodhead Deyo
and Sarah C. Bruyn. The 1870 Census shows four-year old Charles had three older
sisters. They were: Nelly (then 17), Anna (then 13), and Jennie (then six). The
family lived in Shawangunk and their post office was Tuthill. In 1878, his
sister Nellie married Alpheus R. Brigden, of Fleming , NY .
He is buried at the New Hurley Reformed Church Cemetery in
New Hurley, Ulster County , NY . Find A Grave includes his mother, Sarah
(1827 – 1870), as being buried there as well. It mentions that she is the wife
of Broadhead but does not reveal his resting place. It also lists two
additional children who would have preceded Charles in death. They were
Sylvanus B. (d. 1852) and Johannes (1854-1855).
Source
Ancestry.com. U.S. , Dutch Reformed
Church Records in Selected States, 1639-2000 [database on-line]. Provo , UT ,
USA :
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Evening
Gazette. (Port Jervis , NY ),
14 September 1878. Newspapers.com.
Evening
Gazette. (Port Jervis , NY ),
12 October 1880. Newspapers.com.
Find
A Grave, Charles Broadhead Deyo.
Find
A Grave, Sarah C. Deyo.
Year: 1870; Census Place : Shawangunk ,
Ulster , New York ; Roll: M593_1107;
Page: 358A; Image: 720; Family History Library Film: 552606
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Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2015
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