(February 10, 1855-November 14, 1946)

Services for Mrs. Mary McCormick Caldwell, 91, widow of John Caldwell, who died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Earl Brownell, 10 Clinton St., were held at 9 a.m. Saturday in St. Andrew’s church, Norwood. Interment was in Calvary cemetery, Norwood.

Mrs. Caldwell received a fractured pelvic bone in a fall a year ago and was injured again in a fall three weeks ago. Despite her first fall, she was able to be about the house and enjoyed fair health.

Born in Norwood on Feb. 10, 1855, a daughter of Patrick and Catherine McCormick, she was married in 1878 to John Caldwell, Norwood. The couple always resided in West Potsdam where he was a woodworker and blacksmith. Mr. Caldwell died on March 5, 1941 and she had since resided in Potsdam.

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Elmer (Anna) Bacon, Rochester, and Mrs. Gerald (Mae) Brownell, Potsdam; a son, Edward Caldwell, West Potsdam; four brothers, Lawrence, Richard and Cornelius, all of Norwood and John McCormick, Watertown; 16 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

(From the Friday, November 22, 1946 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder, page four. Courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).