Notes for Fred Leslie MOTT
Watertown Daily Times
Watertown, NY
Friday, Feb. 28, 1964
FRED L. MOTT DEAD, AGED 61
North Gouverneur Native, Structural Steel Engineer, Rites To Be Monday
Gouverneur, Feb 28-Fred Leslie Mott, 61, native of North Gouverneur, graduate of Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam and Provicence, RI, structural steel engineer, died Thursday morning in a Boston, Mass. hospital where he had been admitted a week ago.
The funeral will be held Monday at 1 pm at Burr-Green funeral home, Rev. Stanley E. Brown, pastor, First Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.
Among his survivors are his wife, Mrs. Frances M. Griffith Mott; four cousins, Mrs. Myrtle Overacker Cassidy, North Gouverneur, Mrs. Jennie Overacker Neil, Edwards, and Mrs. Leslie Overacker Gould and John W. Overacker, both of Watertown.
Mr. Mott was born March 9, 1902 in North Gouverneur on the family farm, a son of Fred W. and Cora Nancy Overacker Mott.
His maternal grandparents, John W. and Deborah Zeller Augusbury Overacker, settled in North Gouverneur in the 1840’s.
In 1906 he moved to the village of Gouverneur with his parents when his father went into the livery business with Albert W. Overacker. The livery was at the corner of Park Street and Trinity Avenue.
He attended Gouverneur schools until 1911 when the family moved to the Robert Rutherford farm on the Somerville Road and he attended rural schools in one-room schoolhouse which still stands but has long since given way to the centralized system.
In 1915 Mr. Mott returned to Gouverneur with his family when his father became a furniture dealer and funeral director in a store adjoining the old grocery store of Hutton and Rugherford on East Main Street. The family then lived at 149 Rowley Street.
Mr. Mott was graduated from Gouverneur high school in 1922 and Clarkson when he was a member of Sigma Delta social fraternity.
Upon graduation he joined the structural engineering department of the Bethlehem Steel corporation at Bethlehem, Pa. In March, 1928, he became engaged to Miss Frances M. Griffith of Bethlehem, a daughter of Mrs. Frances B. Griffith. They were married in the summer of 1928.
He continued to work at the Bethlehem plant for a few years and then moved to New York and later to Boston, Mass. where he was employed for several years by a structural bridge firm. At the death of the owner of this firm, Mr. Mott and a partner took it over, operated it for a few years, and then dissolved it.
He had lived at Providence, RI for approximately four years.
Mr. and Mrs. Mott were frequent visitors to the north country during summers. Following a heart attack years ago in Boston, Mr. Mott enjoyed spending the summers at the camp of his cousin, the late Emory Tyler on Black Lake.
Mr. Mott was a former member of the Methodist church, Gouverneur, and a member of the Masons.
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