The Family of Charles C. Sedgwick and Sarah A. Capron Sedgwick

The Parents of Charles C. Sedgwick

Joseph C. Sedgwick and Esther A. Woodruff Sedgwick

The Parents of Sarah A. Capron

Lewis R. Capron and Sarah A. Hyde Capron

Sedgwick Family Tree

Woodruff Family Tree

Capron Family Tree

Hyde Family Tree

Marriages of Charles C. Sedgwick

1st Marriage to Harriet C. Tyler in 1855.

2nd Marriage to Sarah A. Capron in 1861.

Marriages of Sarah A. Capron

1st Marriage to Charles C. Sedgwick in 1855.

An Obituary of Charles C. Sedgwick and Sarah A. Capron Sedgwick

From the Dansville Express, 21 December 1905.

An event which has caused sadness in many hearts in this vicinity and one which is so unusual as to be astonding, is the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Sedgwick, who died at the residence of their son-in-law, Charles Wilson McNair, three miles below this village, Mr. Sedgwick’s death occuring at two o’clock Monday afternoon and Mrs. Sedgwick passing away at seven o’clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Sedgwick had been troubled with an acute kidney difficulty which produced heart failure and Mrs. Sedgwick had been a sufferer for two years from valvular heart disease.

Charles Colton Sedgwick was the son of Joseph C. Sedgwick, who was at one time a prosperous merchant tailor in this village and who owned the strip of land from Main to Elizabeth streets on which stand the Breeze block, the Methodist church and G. G. Weidman’s house, which he purchased before Chestnut Avenue was opened as a street.

Charles Sedgwick was born in 1828 in a house that stood where the Breeze block now stands, and he had always lived here. He received a good education and when a young man he developed a taste for music and he was given instruction on the violin, then the fashionable musical instrument of the time, by the best tutors and he became an accomplished musician. As he became older he also imparted instruction on the violin and there are a number of talented performers who owe their efficiency to his thorough training.

He was anenthusiastic sportsman, a true disciple of Isak Walton and Seth Green, and much of his leisure time was spent on the trout streams of this section and in Pennsylvania and Canada.

Some years ago he suddenly developed a taste for painting, and it was evident that he possessed the true nature of the artist, for he produced some beautiful landscapes as well as studies from still life, the speckled trout being his favorite subject, and these he generously bestowed upon his friends who greatly appreciated his work.

He was an easy conversationalist, a pleasant companion, and a man whom old and young had great respect for. Mr. Sedgwick at one time in his early life entered the field of journalism, having edited for a few months in 1849 the Dansville Chronicle, then the only paper in the village. He was the last member of his father’s family.

Mrs. Sedgwick was born in Springwater in 1842, her maiden name being Sarah A. Capron, her father, Orlando Capron, being one of the earlier settlers of the town. She was a school teacher in her girlhood, and on being married she came to Dansville where she has since resided. As a member of the Presbyterian church she was a devout christian and a faithful church worker. She had for many years b een a member of the foreign missionary Society, doing what she could for the enlightening of the ignorant in foreign lands; and the Women’s Christian Temperence Union had no more earnest and faithfull worker than she. Her whole life was spent in doing food to others, and her reward came to her daily in the consciousness of knowing that she did it all in His name.

Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick were married in 1861, and they leave one daughter, Mrs. C. W. McNair, to mourn their departure. Mrs. Jennie Wiley of Springwater, a sister of Mrs. Sedgwick, in the last of her father’s family.

The funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick will be held at two o’clock this afternoon from the Presbyterian chapel and Rev. C. M. Herrick will officiate.

The Burial of Charles C. Sedgwick and Sarah A. Capron Sedgwick

Green Mount Cemetery in Dansville NY

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