Vital Records - November 1851

 Oxford Times, November 5, 1851

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on the 28th ult., by Rev. E. Baldwin, Mr. Thomas Miller to Miss Susan M. Maine both of Oxford.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Mr. Gideon Mead, long known as a beloved citizen, and worthy member of the Baptist Church, aged 80 years.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., John N. [Purdy], youngest child of Nelson and Charlotte Purdy, aged 7 months.  Thus in the morning of its days, was this smiling babe taken to live in a brighter or holier sphere.  It was too fair and too beautiful for this world.  Hence the good Father sent a celestial Messenger, and called it home to the bosom of that Savior, who took little children in his arms, blessed them and said of such is the "Kingdom of Heaven."  May the richest consolations of the gospel, abide with the deeply afflicted parents and mourners all--and may they consider this infant a bud on earth, transplanted by Angel hands, into the paradise of God, to there bloom forever in unfailing beauty.

"I saw a flower in beauty drowned / Upon a vernal day; / It was a flower of May. / I looked again--the parent stem / Alone, then met my eye. / The flower, was in a brighter realm / Where Flowers can never die.

Services were attended by the writer.  J.M. Peebles.

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult. of consumption, Miss Amelia Bundy, aged 40 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on 29th ult., Sarah [Lee], wife of Mr. Thomas lee, aged 72 years.

Oxford Times, November 12, 1851

Married:  In South Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult., by Eld. J. M. Crandall, Mr. Burlington Button of Plymouth, to Mrs. Almira Barstow of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].

Oxford Times, November 19, 1851

Married:  In Butternuts, Otsego Co., on the 26th ult., by Rev. J. Soule, Mr. Andrew Burrell to Miss Eleanor Aylesworth, both of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult., by Rev. E.P. Beecher, Mr. Aaron Kenyon of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eleanor Chase of Pharsalia;  Mr. J.C. Weaver of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Diana Chase of Pharsalia.

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., by Rev. E. Cope, Mr. James O. Sturges of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Caroline B. Gibbs, of the former place.  

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult., by Rev. D.A. Wheedon, Mr. Augustus C. Aldrich of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Elizabeth A Scott of Preston.

Married:  At Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], on the 29th ult., by Rev. C.H. Force, Mr. Erastus Mills of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Adaline [Spencer], daughter of Dea. Ithamar A Spencer of the former place.  

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY] on the 6th inst., by Rev. A.G. Orton, Mr. Jefferson Kingman of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co., NY] to Miss Caroline A. Perkins of the former place.

Married:  In Lisle [Broome Co., NY], on the same day, by the same, Mr. William F. Lyon of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Maria L. Stoddard of the former place.

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., by Rev. N. Mumford, Mr. John West to Miss Abrina Tillotson, all of Sherburne.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., Mr. Andrew Mead, aged 49 years.  Thus, in about two weeks after he had buried his father, he was called away.  He is mourned for and missed by a numerous circle of acquaintances by whom he was beloved; especially by his many relatives who are so soon called again to mourning; but most of all by his bereaved companion and children, who feel that a kind husband and father is removed.  In all these sympathies, the Baptist Chruch has a large share.  His Christian deportment, his regular attendance at the Sanctuary, and his warm expressions of his Savior's love; all of which brightened his prospects, cause us to feel that our loss on earth, is his gain in Heaven.

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult. of dysentery, Susan [Morse], wife of Mr. Joel Morse, aged 61 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mr. Asa Barnes, aged 81 years;  on the same day, Henry C. [Sanford], son of Augustus Sanford, aged 9 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., William [Knickerbacker], son of Thomas and Ahial Knickerbacker, aged 4 years, 9 months and 9 days.

Died:  At Wellsborough, Penn., at the residence of Col. Levi Chubbuck, suddenly, on the 14th inst., Mr. Erastus Miller, aged 60 years, formerly and for many years a resident of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY].

Oxford Times, November 19, 1851

Painful Occurrence:  A most painful accident occurred in the town of Willet [Cortland Co., NY] on the 31st ult., which resulted in the death of one of the most estimable citizens of this county, Willard Rooks, Esq., The circumstances, as we learn them, are as follows:  Mr. Rooks, in company with Mr. H.N. Davis, were on a deer hunt in Willet. They had started one Deer, which Davis had shot.  Having reloaded his gun, he saw, at a distance of about fifteen rods, what he supposed to be another deer, but which unfortunately proved to be Mr. Rooks in a stooping position.  Davis had drawn up his gun to fire and Rooks, seeing him make preparations to shoot, called out not to shoot him, but the warning came too late, the gun being discharged simultaneous with the call--one buck shot taking effect on the jaw bone, a little back of the chin, passing down the neck between the breath and meat pipes, and lodging in the lungs.  He died from the effects of the wound on the 30th ult.  Cortland Democrat.

Oxford Times, November 26, 1851

Married:  In Hobart, Delaware Co., on the 12th inst., by Rev. W.A. Curtis, Mr. .Daniel D. Foote of New York to Miss Helen M. [Foote], daughter of Sherman Foote, Esq., of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst., Henriette [Wells], daughter of Eliza Wells, aged 15 months.