"After an illness of five months' duration, Mrs. Amelia (Edwards) Bowne, widow of the late Samuel S. Bowne, a former Cooperstown business man, passed away at 7:15 o'clock Sunday night at her home on Pioneer street at the advanced age of ninety-one years and five months. Mrs. Bowne had been in declining health for several years. Her death was ascribed to the infirmities of age. Amelia Edwards was the daughter of the late Edward and Lydia (King) Edwards and she was born in Hartwick, June 30, 1844. When she was five years of age her parents moved to Cooperstown and took up their home on Pioneer street which was her home throughout practically all her long and worthy life. A great tragedy occurred in Mrs. Bowne's young womanhood in the year 1873. On the morning of September 29th of that year the village was aroused by the ringing of the Court House bell to apprise the citizens of the fact that the Edwards home had been entered just before daybreak by three burglars who robbed Mr. Edwards of $210 and a watch, shot him twice in the breast and left him for dead. The alarm was rung by Amelia Edwards, daughter of the wounded man, who later became Mrs. Bowne. She was alone with him in the house and adopted this means of summoning assistance. Neighbors went at once to the house but by the time they arrived the robbers had escaped and were never apprehended. No reliable clue to their identity was ever obtained. Mr. Edwards died about three weeks later from the effects of the wounds, after enduring much suffering. As he was delirious the greater portion of the time he was not able to describe his assailants, and the crime remains to this day one of the unsolved local mysteries. Mr. Edwards was a cabinet maker by trade ... Three nieces survive, Mrs. Jacob Bridger of Cooperstown; Miss Marjorie Nichols of South Orange, N. J., and Mrs. F. E. Rummler of Rochester, together with two nephews, Howard Ely of Chicago and Edward Ely of Hollywood, Calif. Dr. Harry L. Cruttenden, a nephew of her husband, faithfully cared for Mrs. Bowne over a period of many years. The funeral services were held from the home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Father Jackson L. Cole, rector of Christ church, officiating. Burial was made in the family plot in Lakewood cemetery." [The Freeman's Journal (Cooperstown, NY), Dec. 11, 1935, Page 2]