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Note: N131 The obit shows pg 12 of the newspaper, and is likely from a Phelps, NY paper. The only date is 1950, added in ink, likely by Sarah Painter, the last owner of the Bible before I offered to be it's custodian. Family surmises that it was in the possession of Merritt PARMELEE ALLEN, and that after his death, the Bible was kindly sent to his cousin, Sarah, a DRAKE descendant, and, along with her sister, Florence, a keeper of family history. John, and others mentioned in the Parmelee Drake Bible and elsewhere, appear in one of my family trees, harrietslines on www.rootsweb.com For further info, see: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=harrietslines&id=I34 Using a perpetual calendar, and knowing that the year is 1950, I was able to determine that John died on Saturday, Jan. 7. "John PARMALEE (sic), Phelps Lawyer, Leader, Passes. Phelps, Jan 9 - John Barnes PARMELEE, 65, Phelps lawyer, died Saturday in his home at 17 Ontario St., very suddenly of a heart attack. Friends may call at the home until tomorrow noon. A Masonic prayer service will be held in the home tonight at 8. Private funeral will be held in the home tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. Rev. Charles H. DAYTON, pastor of the Phelps Presbyterian chuch, will officiate. Burial will be in Resthaven cemetery. Mr. PARMELEE was the son of the late George Herbert and Mary POND PARMELEE of Phelps and was born in the Town of Phelps Nov. 5, 1884. On Dec. 5, 1912, he was married to Mrs. Carrie VAN NOSTRAND MINER in Phelps. Besides his wife, he leaves three children, Mrs. Herbert RATHBUN of Morrisville, Pa.; Herbert Van Nostrand PARMELEE and John Monroe PARMELEE, both of Phelps; seven grandchildren; a sister, Miss Grace PARMELEE of Phelps; two brothers, George Pond PARMELEE of Geneva, and Richard Hall PARMELEE of Pittsburg, Pa; five nephews and a niece. He was graduated from the Phelps Union and Classical school and from the Syracuse university law school in 1908. He began the practise of law in Phelps in 1912 at his office on Church St. He also conducted an insurance and real estate business here and was still active." He was very active in the Phelps Presbyterian churhch of which he wa a member. He had served as trustee, treasurer of benevolences; and for the past ten years as elder. He was a long time member of the Sincerity lodge, F. & A.M. serving as secretary and holding the office of treasurer at the time of his death. He served as president of the board of education of the old Phelps Union and Classical school for 15 years. He was treasurer of the Phelps Rotary club and also treasurer of the Phelps Cemetery Corp. He was active in countless civic affairs and a member of Wide Awake Grange."
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