Vital Records - September 1863

 Oxford Times, September 16, 1863

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Miss C.E. Gilbert, daughter of Mr. O.S. Gilbert, recently of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 26 years.  Again the wing of the dark Angel Azrael has overshadowed the happy home circle, and the loved one, as followed her brave, and lamented brother to the land of rest.  Miss Gilbert was the idolized and petted member of the family, one of those ministering spirits whose whole life is spent in doing good; and her death leaves them desolate, but they sorrow not without hope, for her "to live was Christ, to died is gain."

"Alone unto our Father's will / One thought hath reconciled / That He whose love exceedeth ours / Hath taken home his child.

Fold her, oh Father, in thine arms, / And let her henceforth be / A messenger of love between / Our human hearts and thee."

Died: In This village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., Jennie E. [Rowley], daughter of Gilbert S. and Sarah A. Rowley, aged 13 mos. and 8 days.

Sweet Jennie's gone; shed not a tear / O'er death's cold billows, damp and drear; / A seraph band hath safely bore / Her spirit to that better shore.

God's ways to us are off denied; / Yet faith, the golden gates open wide, / It views her standing just within, / Free from every care and sin.

Heave not a sigh; her spirit's fled / Beyond the graveyard's molding dead,/ Close nestled by her savior's side; / She's safe from pain, from sorrow's tide.

Mourn not for her, fond mother, now / A shining crown adorns her brow, / A golden harp, a better song, / She sings amid the angel throng.

She's only just across the tide, / She's only on the other side; / She only waits for thee to come, / To bid thee welcome, welcome, home.

Died:  In Oxford, [Chenango Co., NY] on the 12th, suddenly, Mr. Benjamin Dudley, aged 78 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY] on the 5th inst., suddenly, Mr. John Upham, Sen., aged 65 years.

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] on the 4th ins.t, Amanda, [Packard], wife of Mr. Larking Packard, aged 65 years.

Died:  In Belvin Hospital, Washington, D.C., on the 30th ult. of fever, Mr. Wm. H. VanOstrand, of Co. C, 10th N.Y. Cavalry, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 32 yrs.

Died:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst.., Hattie Bell [Law], daughter of H.S. and Almira law, aged 15 months.

Died:  In the U.S. Hospital at Frederick City, Md., on the 30th ult., Myron H. [Dunn], of Co. H. 168th Reg. son of H.G. Dunn of Greene, aged 18 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Aug. 18th, Louise Marsh [Bradbury], daughter of George and Weltha Bradbury aged 2 years.

Died: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], July 20th, Arsalia A. [Beardsley], aged 8 years; and July 22d, Eliza L.,[Beardsley], aged 6 years, children of Russel B. and Roxena Beardsley.

Died: n Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], at the residence of Daniel Cornell on the 6th inst., Mr. Aaron C. Mosher, aged 47 years.

Died: At Camp Hubbard, near Thibodeaux, La., Aug. 16th, Franklin Boyce, of Co. C 114th Reg. of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  At the St. Louis  Hospital, New Orleans, Willard G. Finch, of Co. C, 114th Reg. of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In the Regimental Hospital, at Manassas Junction, on the 20th ult., Charles Barnes, of East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 40 years.

Died:  In the U.S. General Hospital, Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 25th, from the effects of a wound in his foot, received in action, and of a fever contracted in the army, Freeburn S. Young, of Co. A, 114th Reg., of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 44 years.  Mr. Y. was among the first who enlisted in the Regiment, and by his efforts many others were enrolled.  He was a true soldier, and whose death we deplore.  Vainly will comrades look for his coming, he has left them, and his wife and son to return no more.