Notes for CARY ANDREW ROE:
Son of Rev. Andrew W and Roxa Lane (Padock) Roe.
Born: August 5, 1861 in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York.
Died: 1939 in Unknown.
Buried: August 6, 1930 in Glenside Cemetery, Wolcott, Wayne County, New York.
Married: (1) Jennie Maude Coats Unknown in Unknown. (From the gravestone. However, a country centennial book has her name as Mary L. Coats.)
(2) Ella Gardner Unknown in Unknown.
Cary A Roe, editor and publisher of the Marcellus Observer and Camillus enterprise is a son of Rev. Andrew Roe a prominent clergyman of the M.E. church and was born in Gouverneur N.Y., August 5, 1861...Mr. Roe came to Marcellus, Onondaga County in 1887 and in March of that year purchased of the late A. de L. Rogers the Marcellus Observer of which he has since been the editor and proprietor. On January 1, 1894 he start the Camillus Enterprise, printing it at the Observer office but issuing from the village of Camillus. Mr. Roe is one of the ablest country editors in the county and has made his two papers powerful factors in the communities which they represent. The Observer especially under his energetic and business-like management ranks high along the leading weeklies of Onondaga. He is a Republican in politics, takes an active interest in local affairs and all worthy movements and served the village of Marcellus in 1894 as president. In June 1886, Mr. Roe married Mary L. daughter of Joseph Coats of Watkins, N.Y. and they have one son, Ralph Coats Roe.
From Onondaga's Centennial Gleanings of a Century, edited by Dwight H. Bruce, Volume II. The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1896, p. 209
Obituary
Union-Sun and Journal
August 4 1930
Cary A.Roe died suddenly Sunday morning at his home, 67 Locust street. He is survived by his wife, Ella Gardner Roe, a son, Ralph Roe of Englewood, N.J., one brother, Willis P.Roe of Washington, D.C., two daughters, Mrs.R.F.See of Lockport,N.Y., and Mrs. Carl Levi of Lakewood, Ohio, also three grandchildren. Private funeral services will be held from the home Wednesday, August 6. Burial at Wolcott.