Obituaries (November 18)

Zeruah E. Jacobs
1834-1912

Miss Zeruah E. Jacobs, who has been ill four weeks with typhoid fever, died last evening at her home at South Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].  Her age was 78 years.  Miss Jacobs sat up about an hour before her death and a shock was the immediate cause of her demise.  She was the daughter of James H. and Sarah Miller Jacobs, and was born August 2, 1834, on the farm on which she had practically spent all her life.  She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Wheaton Race of Greene, and one brother, James Jacobs, with whom she resided.  She was also aunt of Supervisor Jesse Jacobs.  The funeral will be held Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the house, Rev. R.A. Gates officiating.  Burial will be made in Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Andrew J. Ackley

1836 - 1912

Andrew J. Ackley, a well known farmer of South Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], passed away Saturday, December 14, after a long and painful illness of nearly a year.  Mr. Ackley was born August 16, 1836, at Cambridge, Washington county, his parents were Hiram and Prudence Warner Ackley.  On the 16th of August 1876, he married Mrs. Sarah E. Jacobs, eldest daughter of Alanson Hull, and took up his residence on the Hull farm in South Oxford, remaining until his death. A quiet and unassuming man has passed from his home, and neighbors and those best acquainted with Mr. Ackley will miss his presence among them.  He is survived by his wife, and one sister, Mrs. VanBuren Crane of Norwich.  The funeral was held at the house at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, the services being read by Rev. Theodore Haydn, rector of St. Paul's Church.  Interment was in Riverview cemetery [Oxford, NY].  A large number of friends and relatives attended the funeral.

Alexander Daniels

Chenango Union, March 16, 1870

DANIELS:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], March 2d, 1870, Mr. Alexander Daniels, aged 85 years.

The deceased came from Vermont with his wife, and settled in the forest at McDonough in 1810.  Here he was subjected to many trials connected with pioneer life.  He zealously labored to establish a church and promote the cause of God in this newly settled town; was chairman of a delegation who met for that purpose in 1822, and its last surviving member; devoting more than seventy years to the cause of Christ.  His ready counsel was attended by an assisting hand.  Always a lover of harmony, boasting of having never spent a shilling at law in his life, his word being a bond in all transactions.  Unable to labor for twenty years past, yet surrounded by every comfort, his last were happy days.  former associates were gone, but he could review a life of Christian promptitude, and look beyond, "ever ready, only waiting."  Years pass, and still the old man is leaning on his staff "ever ready, only waiting."  On the 2d day of March, 1870, he calmly fell asleep.  We met to pay our final respects to the venerable departed, and after singing "Father thou art gone to rest," laid him beside his wife in the old cemetery of many graves, the first having been made long years ago, by his own hands.

Death Notices

Chenango Union,  March 9, 1870

MITCHELL:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Saturday evening, March 5th, Harriet [Mitchell], wife of George Mitchell, aged 39 years.

CLARKE:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], March 4th, Maria C. [Clarke], wife of Peter W. Clarke, and daughter of Dr. Wm. G. Sands.

BUSH:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 25th, Mr. Thomas A. Bush, aged 75 years.

HARRINGTON:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], March 1st, Mr. Joshua Harrington, aged 88 years.

McINTOSH:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], March 1st, Mary McIntosh, aged 89 years.

PLACE:  Near Mount Upton [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 23d, Mrs. Sally Place, aged 84 years.

BAKER:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 23d, Mr. John W. Baker, aged 57 years.

WIGHTMAN:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 1st,, Nancy [Wightman], wife of George Wightman, aged 66 years.

ROGERS:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 23d, Mr. Silas Rogers, aged 88 years.

FROST:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 13th, Mr. D. Valorous Frost, aged 53 years.

SABIN:  At the residence of D.D.W.C. Throop in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Oliver P. Sabin, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], in the 20th year of his age.