Notes for Eli S. PERSONS
Altamont Enterprise, Altamont, NY, Friday March 24, 1922
AUTOMOBILE INJURIES PROVED FATAL TO DR. E.S. PERSONS, SLINGERLANDS
DRIVER AND WOMAN ESCAPE AFTER RUNNING DOWN DR. PERSONS AND PARTY-STATE TROOPER FIRES SHOTS AFTER FLEEING CAR-FUGITIVE COUPLE HAD BEEN AT SLINGERLANDS HOTEL AND REPORTED DRINKING
Slingerlands, March 23-Gloom was cast over this community Wednesday, when our citizens were advised that Dr. Eli S. Persons had died at 4:50 o’clock that morning as a result of his having been run down by an automobile at about 11:30 o’clock Tuesday night while on his way home from a mission study meeting. He sustained a fractured of the skull.
The article goes on to describe the accident and injuries to the others walking with Dr. Persons. The short biographical included in the article is as follows:
Dr. Eli S. Persons was born May 7, 1867, at Prattsville, Greene county, and was a son of the late Hiram J. Sigsbee and Mrs. Salina Sigsbee. He graduated from the college of Physicians and Surgeons, at Baltimore, Md., in Aril 1892. In 1895 he graduated from the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and while there took a special course in physical diagnosis. He practiced in Gilboa since 1892, aside from the time he spent in college, coming to Slingerlands in October 1919. Since taking up their home in this village, the doctor and his family, have endeared themselves to the citizens of this community and have surrounded themselves with an exceptionally large circle of warm friends. The doctor was enjoying a large practice. He took an active and deep interest in the church, Sunday school, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and all social organizations in the village pertaining to the uplift of community affairs. His sudden demise means a great loss to our village.
Dr. Persons is survived by his wife and daughter, Miss Louise D. Persons; his mother, Mrs. Salina Sigsbee, of Laurens, Otsego county; three brothers, Albert S. Persons of Mount Vision, Otsego county, Frank G. Persons of Schenectady, Perry R. Persons, of Rogota, NJ and four sisters, Mrs. Cora Deyo of Mount Vision; Mrs. Orson Tilley, of Laurens, Mrs. James Woolhouse of Oneonta, and Mrs. L.A. Wyckoff, of Bainbridge, NY.
The funeral will be held from the home this Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, the Rev. Dr. J.H.E. Rickard, pastor of the Slingerlands ME church, officiating. Interment will be in the family plot at Stamford, NY where services will be conducted by Gilboa Lodge, No. 630 F. & A.M. of which organization Dr. Persons was master for a number of years.
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