Mrs. Maria Louse Cady Walrath died at her home in this village early Sunday morning. She had been seriously ill for about
a week. Mrs. Walrath was one of the oldest residents of Chittenango and was one of the few direct survivors of the families
which in the past made this village a place of importance and took an active part in affairs. Mrs.. Walrath was born at
Clockville, November 24, 1829. In 1848 she married Daniel Walrath, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. James Abell, a
former pastor of this place. M. Walrath was a man of importance in local business. He died February 2, 1886. Mrs. Walrath
had spent most of her life in Chittenango and vicinity. She was educated in the district school at Clockville and in the
Yates Polytechnic Institute, now Yates High School. She was a woman of unusual ability in business as well as in social and
other matters and was well known and highly espected by a wide and sincere circle of friends. Shortly before her death she
commented upon the fact that she was one of the few survivors of the older and more active times of Chittenango and said that
in a sense she had practically outlived the whole village.
Mrs. Walrath is survived by one son, Elgin D. Walrath, of this village, Justice of the Peace, by two sisters, Mrs. Burt
Olney of Rome and Mrs. Allen B. Wrisley of Chicago; one brother, George B. Cady of Lenox Furnace. Funeral services were held
at her late home Tuesday afternoon, Re.v Harris B. Stewart officiating and burial made in the family plot at Oakwood. The
following from out-of-town attended the funeral; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Walrath and family, A.G. Velasko and family, John
Walrath and family, Mrs. Charles Brooks and daughter and Mrs. Marcus Walrath of Syracuse, also Abram Walrath of Weedsport
and Mr. and Mrs. George Cady, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cady and Mrs. C.F. McConnell of Canastota, Mrs. Russell Parsons of Fulton,
Mrs. Burt Olney of Rome and the Misses Kate and Emma Taylor of Brooklyn and Miss Matilda Greminger of New York.
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