Obituaries (March 21)

Catharine (Eaton) Charters

Northern Christian Advocate, October 25, 1848

Catharine E. Charters, wife of Joseph Charters, and daughter of Josiah and Lydia Eaton, departed this life on the 4th of August, aged 37 years.  She experienced religion at the age of eighteen, under the labors of Rev. Henry Halsted, and soon united herself to the M.E. Church, and maintained the fellowship of her God and brethren through her whole Christian course.  her last sickness lasted about ten days, which was very distressing.  She manifested unshaken confidence in God while she enjoyed her reason.  A few of her last days she was not in possession of her reason, but we have every reason to believe that she now is associated with that company where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.    Jesse Pomeroy

Anna M. Juliand

Chenango American, Greene, NY, September 20, 1855

In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult., Miss Anna M. [Juliand], daughter of Col. J. Juliand, aged 20 years.  In the circumstances attending this sad bereavement, there is much to sooth the sorrows of those who have been smitten.  Dreaded as the Consumption usually is, from its deceptive character, and from the certainty, where it is deeply seated, of a fatal issue, there is yet the redeeming feature in connection with it that it does not, like many other diseases, burying its victims to the grave without time for looking the great facts of another world full in the face. Though debility and weakness and the exhausting cough, cause the heart at times to sink, yet there are large opportunities for calm meditation, devout exercises and patient obedience to the Divine will. And when these facilities are embraced, as in the case of the young friend who has left us, they were, the sick room becomes a consecrated spot, a bethel of the soul, where pious hopes gather great strength, and holy thoughts and affections reach their fullest development and scope.  And when the heart has become weaned from the work, when the Christian sees that it is God's purpose to cut the ties of life, and prepared calmly yet earnestly for the great change, there is then a grandeur and dignity encircling the sick room and the couch of wasting and death.  

The great Dr. Young in his brilliant Poem, the Night Thoughts has called "the deathbed the detector of the heart."  If this be so there are the memories that cluster around the closing life of the young Disciple of Christ, replete with all that is grateful and soothing. The sting is extracted from death when that last enemy is met as He was by her whose decease we are now noticing.  In her experience the Christian graces show out the more brightly, as flesh wasted, as exhaustion increased, as death grew near.  Though she was of nervous constitution of body, the hour of dissolution was shorn of its terrors.  While others wept she was tranquil.  No distraction of thoughts, no filmy discernment, no unworthy fears, distressed her mind.  She had thrown her soul upon the bleeding cross of a pardoning Savior and she felt safe, though with no undue confidence in thought that she could do in the task of Salvation.  Calmly and in frequent prayer and in the use of all prescribed ordinances, she awaited the final hour.  It came and found her watching.

Sweetly she bade adieu to the loved that pressed around her.  With unbroken voice she spoke the farewell words.  It was a hallowed scene such as Heaven gazes at with joy.  It seemed as though the world of spirits was very near us then, as though the spiritualized imagination could catch the rustling of angel wings as they waited to bear the parting spirit to the bosom of celestial peace. She has gone. The family circle is broken. The heart of youthful friendship is sad. The tear starts to the eye of loved companions as her name is breathed. But her record is on high, and her rest is sweet.  Soon many of those among us who knew and loved her in life,

"Shall meet her on that peaceful shore,

Where parting words and heard no more."

Death Notices

Chenango American, Greene, NY, September 20, 1855

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., J. Randolph [Crain], son of Gen. Hendrick Crain, aged 18 years.

At King's Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], on Monday, the 3d inst., Charlotte [Buell], wife of Elijah Buell, in the 64th year of her age.

In Ellington, Chau. Co., on the 17th ult., Julia Emeline [Mead], wife of Orvill L. Mead, and daughter of David P. Judson, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 32 years.

In South Ne3w Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], August 21st, Jane A. [Griswold], wife of Mathew C. Griswold, and daughter of Elbridge G. Owens, aged 16 years, 4 months.

In Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY], on the 24th ult, Jacob Walton Morris, aged 63 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Mr. Philip Cook, aged 78 years.

In Shoal Water Day, (Washington Territory)_ on the 21st of March last, by drowning, Mr. Oscar A. Hughston, eldest son of Mr. James Hughston, of East Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 26 years.

At Waterbury, Conn., on the 30th ult., Dea. Hector Porter, formerly of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY]

In Guilford Centre [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Samuel Kent, aged 81 years.

In Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Woodward Warren, Esq., aged 64 years.