Jim Brewer
Special to the Ashland Times-Gazette
LOUDONVILLE - Ever since the Loudonville-Mohican Visitors Bureau built its visitors center on Ohio 3 across the road from Mohican State Park Class A Campground, Jan Seabold of rural Loudonville has volunteered to keep its flower beds and shrubs beautiful.
“And she does a fantastic job of it,” says Virginia Reynolds, former member of the Visitor’s Bureau Board of Directors who asked Seabold if she could “help” maintain the grounds.
Actually, the Gardner’s Guild club planted the original beds, but Seabold has exclusively worked to maintain them since.
“She does much more than that,” Reynolds said. “She takes care of everything, including transplanting plants from her own garden, moving plants around, weeding, mulching and trimming. She just does it, and it looks great. She is a wonderful, giving, caring person who works as hard on the Visitor Center flower beds as she does on her own.”
WATERTOWN â Fire Chief Matthew Timerman went down to see how Peyton Morse and a fellow recruit were doing with training at the New York State Academy of Fire Science on March 3.
He gave words of encouragement to Mr. Morse, wished the young recruit well and told him heâd see him back in Watertown over the weekend.
He and the small contingent of city firefighters left the academy at about 12:30 p.m. after the visit that day.
It was the last time the chief saw Mr. Morse alive.
A memorial honors fallen firefighters, where Peyton Morseâs name will soon be added, outside of the Emma Flower Taylor Fire Station on South Massey Street on Friday in Watertown. Kara Dry/Watertown Daily Times
Hundreds come together in LaFargeville to remember Peyton Morse
Peyton Morse Vigil By John Pirsos | March 14, 2021 at 10:28 PM EDT - Updated March 15 at 12:29 AM
LAFARGEVILLE, N.Y. (WWNY) - Nearly 200 people gathered in front of the LaFargeville Fire Department Sunday evening to celebrate the life and legacy of Watertown firefighter Peyton Morse, who died at 21 years old on Friday.
They lit candles, and sang âAmazing Grace.â
People who knew Peyton knew he was special.
âJust, his will to give,â said Jefferson County Deputy Fire Coordinator Bruce Reome.
Morse was hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency during a training exercise on March 3rd. He had been participating in an 11-week training course at the State Academy of Fire Science Training in Montour Falls.
Firefighters from Binghamton to Watertown gather on I-81 overpasses to pay tribute to fallen firefighter
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
Firefighters stand at attention on a bridge over Interstate 81 near North Syracuse on Monday, March 15, 2021 as a procession passes below with the body of a Watertown firefighter, Peyton Morse, who recently died from injuries he got training.Alaina Potrikus | abeckett@syracuse.com
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A procession of police and other emergency vehicles escorted the man’s body from Binghamton to Watertown, according to the New York State Police.
In Central New York, different fire departments gathered on overpasses with trucks and flags as the procession passed on the highway. Some departments raised ladders and displayed large U.S. flags.
Watertown firefighter who graduated from Siena mourned
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Peyton Morse, seen at far left.LORI WASHBURN/Shaker Road Loudonville Fire DepartmentShow MoreShow Less
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Peyton Morse, third from left,at the Shaker Road Loudonville fire station.Shaker Road Loudonville Fire DepartmentShow MoreShow Less
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Twenty-one year-old Peyton Morse was living out his lifelong dream of becoming a firefighter when tragedy struck earlier this month at a training academy.
Morse, a Siena College senior, died Friday afternoon in a Pennsylvania hospital, nine days after suffering a medical emergency while at a firefighter training program for recruits at the state Fire Academy of Fire Science at Montour Falls, near Watkins Glens in Schuyler County. He was taken to a local hospital before being transferred to Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Penn., according to published reports. Details of his death could not be learned Saturday.