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- [S375] Misc Newspaper Clippings - Lyme Heritage Center, Author: unknown, (Watertown Daily Times?) (Reliability: 3), 23 Nov 2005.
WIDOW OF GEO. FRALEY IS DEAD
Rosiere Native Was Seamstress in Number of City Stores
8/63 (hand written)
Mrs. Jane E. Fraley, 90, widow of George W. Fraley and a resident of Watertown for 64 years, died this morning shortly before 9 at her home, 655 Cooper Street, after a long illness. Death was attributed to hardening of the arteries and other infirmities of old age. She was a retired seamstress.
The funeral will be Tuesday morning at 8:30 from the Simpson funeral homeand at 9 in the Church of Our Lady ao the Sacred Heart. Burial will be in North Watertown cemetery. She was a member of Sacred Heart church.
Surviving her are a daughter, Mrs. Benjamin H. (Laurine G.) Bates, 655 Cooper Street; four grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Fraley, who came practically blind ten years ago, had been in failing health for the past two years. She was a patient in the Mercy hospital in May and for the past two months she had been declining rapidly.
She was born March 6, 1873 at Rosiere, a daughter of James and Mary Laillet Tuft and a descendant of early French settlers of that area.
She spent the early part of her life at Rosiere, where she was educated and where on Nov. 25, 1896, she was married to George W. Fraley, also of Rosiere, in St. Vincent de Paul's church.
After two years at Rosiere, Mr. and Mrs. Fraley moved to Watertown in 1899. Mr. Frlaey died at the Cooper Street home March 20, 1935.
Mrs. Fraley was employed at the old Hardiman-Woolworth company furniture store for about five years, sewing drapery. Later, she was a seamstress in the store of the Herr Fashion shop for 16 years. She was finally employed in the store of Lennon & Clarke, retiring at the age of 80 after six years of service as a fur finisher.
At one time she was employed in the store of Kallen's Furs, Inc.
- [S431] Watertown Daily Times, (Watertown, N.Y.), March 30, 1899, pg. 5? (Reliability: 3), 10 Jan 2007.
ROSIERE
March 27
On Tuesday evening of last week, at his late residence, occurred the death of James Tuft, at the age of 53 years. Mr. Tuft had been a patient suffering from cancer and had undergone 3 operations, but he gradually failed. The funeral which took place from St. John's church, was conducted by Rev. S. W. Strowger, the Masons conducting the services at Riverside Cemetery. Besides a wife, the deceased leaves four children, Anna, James? and Mrs. George Fraley, of Rosiere, and Lafayette, of Antwerp, who have the sympathy of the community in their great bereavement.
- [S431] Watertown Daily Times, (Watertown, N.Y.), March 30, 1899, pg. 5? (Reliability: 3), 10 Jan 2007.
ROSIERE
March 27
On Tuesday evening of last week, at his late residence, occurred the death of James Tuft, at the age of 53 years. Mr. Tuft had been a patient suffering from cancer and had undergone 3 operations, but he gradually failed. The funeral which took place from St. John's church, was conducted by Rev. S. W. Strowger, the Masons conducting the services at Riverside Cemetery. Besides a wife, the deceased leaves four children, Anna, James? and Mrs. George Fraley, of Rosiere, and Lafayette, of Antwerp, who have the sympathy of the community in their great bereavement.
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- 1899
, d. Aug 1963, Watertown, Jefferson County, New York 
