This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4Yk.2ACIB/1059 Message Board Post: GEORGE M. HYDE 1951 George M. HYDE, a resident of Wellsville for 34 years, died at his home there Saturday, May 19. He had been ill for about three weeks. Mr. HYDE was born on April 18, 1881, in Elmira, a son of Charles M. and Frances TYLEE HYDE. He spent his boyhood in Corning and was graduated from Corning Free Academy before taking a course in civil engineering at Ohio State University. On Dec. 28, 1910, he married Mary Lena MILLS at Fillmore. Mrs. HYDE survives. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. HYDE resided in Rochester for a short time before coming here. In 1917, Mr. HYDE accepted a position with the Kerr Turbine Co. He had been a civil engineer in this vicinity for many years and was Village engineer in Wellsville for some time. One daughter, Mrs. Richard RIGGS, two grandsons, William and Robert RIGGS, and one brother, Charles W. HYDE, of Interlaken, Mass., survive together with his wife. The following nephews also survive: John EVATT of Irvington, Charles EVATT of Chicago, Ill., Frank EVATT of Princeton, N.H., and Arthur BEAN of Richmond, Va. Mr. HYDE was a member of the Christian Temple Church and an active member of the church choir. He was a charter member of the Wellsville Music Club. The Rev. O. Blakely HILL, pastor of the Christian Temple Church, conducted a prayer service at the Frederick C. Mulholland Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon. Burial was made in Woodlawn Cemetery. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]