DIED
SUDDENLY
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Widely-Known
Market Gardener Was in Sackets Harbor
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Watertown, May
23. - Clay Holden, one of the best-known and oldest market gardeners and
truck farmers of the county, a familiar figure about the streets of this
city and between here and Sackets Harbor, died suddenly Saturday evening
in his wagon in Sackets Harbor. He had been to this city that day and on
the way home he complained several times of his stomach. He had driven
up in front of a store in Sackets Harbor and ordered some phosphate.
When the clerk came out with it a moment later he asked Mr. Holden to
back up a little, but there was no response. Investigation showed that
his customer was dead, of heart trouble. Mr. Holden was the son of Aaron
and Aurelia Root Holden, and was born 70 years ago in the same house
back of Campbell’s Point in Hounsfield where he had always made his
home. He was thrifty and had accumulated considerable property. He was
of the highest integrity, strictly temperate and had never used tobacco
in any form. There survive one son, Irving Holden; three daughters, Mrs.
David Crago, of Smithville; Mrs. Robert Holden and Mrs. Charles Westcott,
of Chestnut Ridge, Hounsfield; and seven brothers, Myron, Freeman and
Emmett Holden, of Tacoma, Wash.; Theodore, of Kansas; Walter and
Winfield, of Chestnut Ridge; and Seward, of Watertown Center. Mr. Holden
was a member of Star Grange No. 9 of Hounsfield; of the Pomona Grange
and of the Sackets Harbor Methodist Church. The remains were taken to
the home of Herbert Holden on Chestnut Ridge and the funeral was held
from his late home Tuesday. Burial was at Sackets Harbor. Mr. Holden
will be readily recognized by the accompanying picture, although it was
made some time ago.
Source:
Unknown Watertown newspaper, May 23, 1913
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