Killed: John S. Hicks of Co. E, 61st N.Y. Volunteers, formerly of this place [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], was killed in battle during the engagement of Sunday, May 8. Previous to his death, through the influence of some of his friends in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], he had been commissioned a Second Lieutenant, but we doubt if the information of his promotion reached him. John has always been a faithful, daring soldier, as well as a true friend. He was taken prisoner at the second battle of Bull Run, and for a long time was incarcerated in the famous Libby Prison, suffering the indignities heaped upon him by the keepers. When released he at once [went] at them again, and fell fighting foremost in the heat of battle, with his harness on. Lieut. Hicks' noble record in some degree brightens the shade which his early decease casts over his many friends. [Chenango Telegraph, May 25 1863]
For fifty years or more Myron M. Holmes has lived on his farm in the southern part of the town of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], and is known by many of the older inhabitants for many miles around. Last Thursday morning he was found dead in his bed. He was eighty years old. He leaves a wife who is ninety years old, and two children. The funeral was held at his late home on Saturday. The burial was in the cemetery near the Baptist church in that part of the town. [1893]
Mrs. Emma Seacord, widow of Stephen Seacord, died at the home of her father, J.B. Sands, Monday morning about 9 o'clock. She had been a guest at the old home some weeks, and her son, Jerome S., who had come from their home in Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY] to spend Sunday with his mother, had not been gone from the house long when she was taken with convulsions an died in a few minutes as a result of heart disease. The train had left the depot before the messenger sent to summons the son reached there. Deceased was 53 years of age and was the oldest child of Jerome B. Sands. This loss is felt all the more keenly coming so soon after the death of the son, Orrin A. Sands, in Colorado. The funeral was held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the house, Rev. Dr. Parke of St. Matthew's church in Unadilla, officiating, assisted by Rev. Mr. Cresser of St. Peter's church. The interment was in Green Lawn cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]. [Apr. 12, 1897]
East Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]: The funeral of Mrs. Stone-Anderson occurred at the home of her son, C.M. Stone, April 27th. The services were conducted by Rev. C.B. Parsons of Oxford. Interment in East Oxford cemetery. Mrs. Anderson will be missed very much as she was known throughout the county as Mrs. Stone, the preacher of the Gospel. She was a true Christian lady and beloved and respected by everyone old and young.
Mrs. Frances A. Shapley: Died Monday, Oct. 11th, 1897 of dropsy at the home of her son, K.E. Shapley in the town of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 73 years. The funeral was held Thursday from the house at 1 o'clock. Rev. Sackett officiated. She leaves two sons.
Coroner E.L. Bennett has handed his verdict in the death of Arland Hine, sixteen-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hine of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] who died February 11th under what appeared to be suspicious injuries, caused by an injury at the back of the child's head, sustained, it was said, in a fall from his mother's arms as she was about to correct the child. Among physicians called at the inquest were Drs. F.E. Hill and L.L. Perry, who attended the baby prior to death and later performed an autopsy, and Dr. Thomas F. Manley. The physicians agreed that the head injury was not sufficient to cause death. Coroner Bennett could discover no evidence of criminal neglect and issued a certificate that death resulted form a natural cause, apex pneumonia and convulsions. [Bainbridge Republican, Mar. 21, 1929]
Norwich and county friends were shocked Wednesday upon receiving a message announcing the death of Mrs. H.J. Vander Linder, which occurred on Tuesday evening in a Brooklyn hospital She was suffering from an attack of pneumonia and was removed from her Brooklyn home to the hospital last Thursday. No other particulars are at hand. Mrs. Vander Linden was about 33 years of age. She went to Earlville [Madison Co., NY] about four years ago with her husband, the Rev. J.H. Vander Linden, pastor of the First Baptist church. Last April the family moved to Brooklyn where Mr. Vander Linden is pastor of the Strong Place Baptist church. During the three years of her residence in this county, Mrs. Vander Linden, made many warm friends who sincerely mourn her untimely death. Besides her husband she is survived by three little daughters, the youngest being only a few weeks old. [Norwich Sun, Feb. 5, 1925]
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