REV. BOTSFORD DIES AS RESULT OF BROKEN HIP
Rev. Dr. Chauncey R. Botsford, 88, of 611 Piedmont Avenue, retired Lutheran minister, died shortly before 7 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital where he was admitted as a patient last Saturday after suffering a broken hip in a fall as he got out of bed to close a window during the heavy storm that hit Cumberland that afternoon.
Born in New Canaan, Conn., April 8, 1868, the future minister's first work was as a proofreader in the Government Printing Office, Washington. There he was married in 1894. For a brief period before he entered Susquehanna Theological Seminary in 1895, he edited a paper in Jonesboro, Tenn. He was graduated and ordained in 1898.
Came Here In 1918
Beginning his ministerial career in Northumberland, Pa., he was successively at Berwick, Pa.; for three years was field secretary and assistant to the president of Susquehanna Seminary; and in 1918, came to Cumberland as pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church where he served 12 years.
Rev. Dr. Botsford helped to organize the Cumberland Community Chest and was chairman of the group that sponsored a summer chautauqua here for several years. Under his pastorate the debt on St. John's was paid off, the organ was installed, and the land purchased that is being used as the site of the memorial educational building of the church.
Following his pastorate here, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Botsford resided in Florida for 12 years where he served several churches as supply pastor.
In 1946 the Botsfords came to Cumberland for a visit with their two daughters, Misses Jane E. and Marian O. Botsford, 611 Piedmont Avenue, intending to return to Florida. A breakdown in health and his continued invalidism caused the Botsfords to remain here at their daughter's home.
Alarmed By Storm
Becoming alarmed at the violence of last Saturday's rain, wind and hail storm, and feeling he could get out of bed and shut an open window, without help, the 83 year old invalid fell as he left the bed and sustained a fractured hip. Members of the family were with him almost instantly and he was removed to the hospital.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Jane Agnes Botsford, Cumberland; a son, Robert Keith Botsford, Nescopeck, Pa., and four daughters, Marion O. and Jane Elinor Botsford, this city; Mrs. Essex B. Wagner, Front Royal, Va., and Mrs. Frances A. Roll, Fairfield, Calif.
Funeral services will be Monday at 2:30 p.m. in St. John's Lutheran Church and burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Originally Published in "The Sunday Times", Cumberland, Maryland, August 3, 1951
Rev. Dr. Chauncey R. Botsford, 88, of 611 Piedmont Avenue, retired Lutheran minister, died shortly before 7 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital where he was admitted as a patient last Saturday after suffering a broken hip in a fall as he got out of bed to close a window during the heavy storm that hit Cumberland that afternoon.
Born in New Canaan, Conn., April 8, 1868, the future minister's first work was as a proofreader in the Government Printing Office, Washington. There he was married in 1894. For a brief period before he entered Susquehanna Theological Seminary in 1895, he edited a paper in Jonesboro, Tenn. He was graduated and ordained in 1898.
Came Here In 1918
Beginning his ministerial career in Northumberland, Pa., he was successively at Berwick, Pa.; for three years was field secretary and assistant to the president of Susquehanna Seminary; and in 1918, came to Cumberland as pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church where he served 12 years.
Rev. Dr. Botsford helped to organize the Cumberland Community Chest and was chairman of the group that sponsored a summer chautauqua here for several years. Under his pastorate the debt on St. John's was paid off, the organ was installed, and the land purchased that is being used as the site of the memorial educational building of the church.
Following his pastorate here, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Botsford resided in Florida for 12 years where he served several churches as supply pastor.
In 1946 the Botsfords came to Cumberland for a visit with their two daughters, Misses Jane E. and Marian O. Botsford, 611 Piedmont Avenue, intending to return to Florida. A breakdown in health and his continued invalidism caused the Botsfords to remain here at their daughter's home.
Alarmed By Storm
Becoming alarmed at the violence of last Saturday's rain, wind and hail storm, and feeling he could get out of bed and shut an open window, without help, the 83 year old invalid fell as he left the bed and sustained a fractured hip. Members of the family were with him almost instantly and he was removed to the hospital.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Jane Agnes Botsford, Cumberland; a son, Robert Keith Botsford, Nescopeck, Pa., and four daughters, Marion O. and Jane Elinor Botsford, this city; Mrs. Essex B. Wagner, Front Royal, Va., and Mrs. Frances A. Roll, Fairfield, Calif.
Funeral services will be Monday at 2:30 p.m. in St. John's Lutheran Church and burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Originally Published in "The Sunday Times", Cumberland, Maryland, August 3, 1951
REV. BOTSFORD DIES AS RESULT OF BROKEN HIP
Rev. Dr. Chauncey R. Botsford, 88, of 611 Piedmont Avenue, retired Lutheran minister, died shortly before 7 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital where he was admitted as a patient last Saturday after suffering a broken hip in a fall as he got out of bed to close a window during the heavy storm that hit Cumberland that afternoon.
Born in New Canaan, Conn., April 8, 1868, the future minister's first work was as a proofreader in the Government Printing Office, Washington. There he was married in 1894. For a brief period before he entered Susquehanna Theological Seminary in 1895, he edited a paper in Jonesboro, Tenn. He was graduated and ordained in 1898.
Came Here In 1918
Beginning his ministerial career in Northumberland, Pa., he was successively at Berwick, Pa.; for three years was field secretary and assistant to the president of Susquehanna Seminary; and in 1918, came to Cumberland as pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church where he served 12 years.
Rev. Dr. Botsford helped to organize the Cumberland Community Chest and was chairman of the group that sponsored a summer chautauqua here for several years. Under his pastorate the debt on St. John's was paid off, the organ was installed, and the land purchased that is being used as the site of the memorial educational building of the church.
Following his pastorate here, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Botsford resided in Florida for 12 years where he served several churches as supply pastor.
In 1946 the Botsfords came to Cumberland for a visit with their two daughters, Misses Jane E. and Marian O. Botsford, 611 Piedmont Avenue, intending to return to Florida. A breakdown in health and his continued invalidism caused the Botsfords to remain here at their daughter's home.
Alarmed By Storm
Becoming alarmed at the violence of last Saturday's rain, wind and hail storm, and feeling he could get out of bed and shut an open window, without help, the 83 year old invalid fell as he left the bed and sustained a fractured hip. Members of the family were with him almost instantly and he was removed to the hospital.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Jane Agnes Botsford, Cumberland; a son, Robert Keith Botsford, Nescopeck, Pa., and four daughters, Marion O. and Jane Elinor Botsford, this city; Mrs. Essex B. Wagner, Front Royal, Va., and Mrs. Frances A. Roll, Fairfield, Calif.
Funeral services will be Monday at 2:30 p.m. in St. John's Lutheran Church and burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Originally Published in "The Sunday Times", Cumberland, Maryland, August 3, 1951
Rev. Dr. Chauncey R. Botsford, 88, of 611 Piedmont Avenue, retired Lutheran minister, died shortly before 7 a.m. today in Memorial Hospital where he was admitted as a patient last Saturday after suffering a broken hip in a fall as he got out of bed to close a window during the heavy storm that hit Cumberland that afternoon.
Born in New Canaan, Conn., April 8, 1868, the future minister's first work was as a proofreader in the Government Printing Office, Washington. There he was married in 1894. For a brief period before he entered Susquehanna Theological Seminary in 1895, he edited a paper in Jonesboro, Tenn. He was graduated and ordained in 1898.
Came Here In 1918
Beginning his ministerial career in Northumberland, Pa., he was successively at Berwick, Pa.; for three years was field secretary and assistant to the president of Susquehanna Seminary; and in 1918, came to Cumberland as pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church where he served 12 years.
Rev. Dr. Botsford helped to organize the Cumberland Community Chest and was chairman of the group that sponsored a summer chautauqua here for several years. Under his pastorate the debt on St. John's was paid off, the organ was installed, and the land purchased that is being used as the site of the memorial educational building of the church.
Following his pastorate here, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Botsford resided in Florida for 12 years where he served several churches as supply pastor.
In 1946 the Botsfords came to Cumberland for a visit with their two daughters, Misses Jane E. and Marian O. Botsford, 611 Piedmont Avenue, intending to return to Florida. A breakdown in health and his continued invalidism caused the Botsfords to remain here at their daughter's home.
Alarmed By Storm
Becoming alarmed at the violence of last Saturday's rain, wind and hail storm, and feeling he could get out of bed and shut an open window, without help, the 83 year old invalid fell as he left the bed and sustained a fractured hip. Members of the family were with him almost instantly and he was removed to the hospital.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Jane Agnes Botsford, Cumberland; a son, Robert Keith Botsford, Nescopeck, Pa., and four daughters, Marion O. and Jane Elinor Botsford, this city; Mrs. Essex B. Wagner, Front Royal, Va., and Mrs. Frances A. Roll, Fairfield, Calif.
Funeral services will be Monday at 2:30 p.m. in St. John's Lutheran Church and burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Originally Published in "The Sunday Times", Cumberland, Maryland, August 3, 1951
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