Obituaries (April 25)

Martha Louisa (Brown) Booth

Northern Christian Advocate,  June 13, 1849

Martha Louisa Booth died in Millport, on the 23d of April, aged 38 years.  Sister Booth was the oldest daughter of Esquire and Martha Brown, was born in Madison Co., N.Y., July 29, 1811, and married to Mr. John Booth, Dec. 9, 1829, with whom she very pleasantly spent her remaining days.  She became a subject of converting grace in the village of Trumansburgh, under the labors of Rev. James Durham, and in the year 1841 connected herself with the Methodist Episcopal Chruch.  Some months before her death she gained the clear witness of the Spirit, that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.  In it she lived, and in it she expired.   A.E. Chrusuck, Millport, June 4, 1849

Jerusha Skillman

Northern Christian Advocate, April 3, 1850

Jerusha Skillman died in German [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 21, aged 79 years.  Mother Skillman was born March 1, 1771, in Huntington, Long Island, was converted to God, and became a member of the congregational Church when about 18, which relation she sustained first in Huntington, and afterward in Riverhead, until her death.  The Bible was her daily companion for many years, and its controlling power was evinced in the uniform piety of her life, and the triumph which attended her dissolution.  The victory was complete, and an unearthly "glory to God," as it was breathed from her dying lips, furnished to her family another proof of the Divinity of our holy religion.  Calling her son, F.M. Skillman, and his family to her bedside, she gave them a patriarchal farewell, then sweetly fell asleep in Jesus.  E.W. Breckenbridge.  McDonough, March 22, 1850

Mrs. George Wilcox 

Bainbridge Republican, July 16, 1880

On the 7th inst., Mrs. Geo. Wilcox, of Millard, Adair county, Mo., formerly of this town [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], together with a sister of her husband, Mrs. Denniston, formerly Mary Wilcox, also of this town, started after blackberries with a sixteen-year-old boy for driver  When about one mile from home, going through a new road where the timber had been lately cut off, the forward wheel of the wagon struck a stump, throwing the boy out, taking the lines with him.  The horse became frightened and ran about forty rods, when the ladies were both thrown out.  Mrs. Wilcox striking against some hard substance.  Mrs. Wilcox was breathing when help arrived, a few moments after the accident, but did not become conscious, and died a few moments after her husband got there.  Mrs. Denniston's left arm was broken, and she was otherwise bruised. Still she was able to write a long letter of particulars to friends here, on the 10th inst., from which this item was taken. The community for miles around was out to the funeral manifesting their regard for the deceased and the afflicted family--a husband and three children.  Mrs. Wilcox was 42 years old, and was the sister of Wm. H. Cannon, of this village.

Death Notices

Northern Christian Advocate, April 3, 1850

Sarah Louisa [Wilber], infant daughter of Abijah and Hannah Wilber, died in Veteran, Chemung Co., on the 18th inst., aged 2 months.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, December 27, 1855

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst., of typhoid fever, Mr. Willard Tracy, aged 33 years and 8 months.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th isn't., of dropsy, Mrs. Nancy Sexton, widow of Capt. Seth Sexton, aged 76 years.

In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 24th inst., Capt. Able DeForest, father of Gen. H. DeForest, of Norwich, aged 94 years and 8 months.

Bainbridge Republican, May 28, 1880

J.W. Seeley, formerly of this place [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], died at Waupun, Wisconsin, the 25th inst., aged 60 years.  Mr. Seeley was a brother-in-law of Nelson Humphrey, of this town.

Bainbridge Republican, June 11, 1880

We see noticed in the Avon (Ill) Sentinel, the death at that place, on the 26th of May, Abijah G. Andrews, aged 78 years.  Mr. Andrews was a brother-in-law of Giles Smith, of Bainbridge.