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Lakeshore News
August 12, 1920
As told in the second edition of the News last week, Dr. J. J. Tillapaugh of Wolcott died Thursday morning at 5 o'clock. He was the oldest son of a family of 16 children, 8 boys and 8 girls. he was born in Essex county, Wisconsin, March 8, 1857. When he was four years old his parents moved to a small farm at Mexico, NY. Here he attended the county school and after sacrificing much for an education graduated from Mexico Academy in 1877. He bought a small farm and in 1879 was married to Alice Tillapaugh. Five years later she died leaving a daughter, Golda Alice. The following year he sold the farm and taught penmanship at the Chaffee Business Institute, Oswego. in 1886 he married Jennie Rice. The same year he entered the New York Medical College which he attended for two years. He completed his course at the Baltimore School of Medicine, graduating in 1890, receiving an honary appointment at the Bay View Hospital, Baltimore. He began his career as a physician at Altmar, where he practiced until he moved to Wolcott in 1911, remaining here until his death. Those who knew Dr. Tillapaugh best loved him as a devoted father and husband, a genial, ernest doctor and sincere friend. He left a widow and four children, Mrs. R. E. Curtiss of Hartford, Conn., Mrs. L. R. Stillson of Plymouth, Mich., Mrs. A. J. Beebe of Fulton and Dr. Ralph Tillapaugh of Buffalo. There are four brothers and five sisters besides two grandchildren, Vivian Curtis and Jane Stillson. Interment in Glenside Cemetery.
Pulaski Democrat
August 11, 1920
Wolcott - Dr. James J. Tillapaugh, 68, native of Altmar, Oswego county, and for 19 yrs a practicing physician of this place died at his home here yesterday. Dr. Tillapaugh was one of the best known physicians in Wayne county and enjoyed a very large practice. Dr. Tillapaugh had been ill for a year or more with heart and kidney trouble. He is survived by his widow and four children, Mrs. Arnold Beebe of Fulton, Mrs. R. E. Curtis, H(illegible), Conn., Mrs. L. R. Stilson, Plymouth, Mich., and Dr. Ralph Tillapaugh of Buffalo. besides his bother Dr. Fred Tillpauagh of Oswego county he leaves three other brothers and five sisters.
Lake Shore News
April 26, 1956
Mrs. Jennie L. Tillapaugh, 86, died Thursday, April 19, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arnold J. Beebe of Unadilla. A former resident of Wolcott, she was the widow of Dr. J. J. Tillapaugh who died in 1920. A native of Sullivan County, Mrs. Tillapaugh was a member of Draper Chapter, OES, Wolcott, and Earnest Workers of Otego Presbyterian Church. Since her husband's death she had lived with the Beebes. Also surviving are a son, Dr. R. R. Tillapaugh of Astoria, two other daughters, Golda Curtis of Hartford, Conn, and Zaida Stillson of Denver, Colo., a grandson James J. Beebe of Unadilla, three granddaughters, Janet Cisnerous of Astoria, Irene Grefe of Woodside and Ruth Griffith of Denver, Colo., one great-grandchild, Jane Graves, of Syracuse, several nieces. Funeral was held at 2:30 pm Sunday at the Bailey Funeral Home, Otego, with the Rev. Clifford E. Webb of the Unadilla Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial service was held at 1 pm Monday at Glenside Cemetery, Wolcott.
