Monday, November 23, 2020

Vital Records - December 1853 & January 1854

 Oxford Times, December 7, 1853

Married:  In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. Mr. Bridge, Mr. H.T. Willcox to Miss Helen M. Wilcox, all of that place.

Married:  In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. Mr. Perkins, Mr. W.H. Coulter of Hamilton, to Miss Jennie Hanley of Waterville [Oneida Co., NY].

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mr. Joseph Allen, aged 65 years.

Oxford Times, December 14, 1853

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. James E. Drown of Bristol, Ontario Co. [NY], to Miss Betsey E. Potter of Oxford.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., Mrs. Lydia [Bennett], wife of Mr. John M. Bennett, aged 73 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Mr. Lyman Ives aged 82 years.

Oxford Times, December 28, 1853

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. William L. Daniels to Miss Jane E. Gillman, all of this village.

Married:  On the 22d by the same, Mr. Marshall F. Berry to Miss Aruba F. Olds, all of Oxford.

Died:  At Waterville, Oneida County, [NY], on 14th instant, Eva [Tucker], infant daughter of James B. and Mary E. Tucker, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 1 month and 14 days.

Oxford Times, January 4, 1854

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst. by Rev. C.E. Hewes, Mr. Charles Rounds of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sarah M. Jones of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on New Year's Evening, by Rev. Wm. Reddy, Mr. John Ingraham to Miss Lucy D. Huntly, all of Oxford.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. by Rev. Geo. J. Kiercher, Mr. Edward A. Belcher of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Emujean Hotchkiss of Greene.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th Dec., Franklin E. Towslee, son of Gideon and Catharine Towslee, in the 25th year of his age.

Died:  In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 21st Dec., of consumption, Elizabeth [Burroughs], wife of Mr. Benjamin Burroughs, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 69 years.

Oxford Times, January 11, 1854

Death of James Clapp, Esq.:  It is with no ordinary emotions that we announce this sad event.  Mr. Clapp died on Sunday morning of the present week.  Having come to our village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] at an early day, his life was strongly identified with its history.  He came here in the pioneer days of the county, with a character peculiarly adapted to these early times, an independence at once marked and admirable, an ambition high and noble, and an ardor kindled by a conscious necessity of self dependence for whatever he should obtain of worldly fame and fortune.  Mr. Clapp was a lawyer by profession, and by sterling integrity, ability and independence, achieved in its exercise a fame worthy of emulation, and which deservedly placed him among its most influential and honored members.  He many years since withdrew from the active duties of his profession.  He ever declined public honors and offices.  Educated in the chivalrous period of American history, and mingling with the representatives of another generation, his views of strict accountability and integrity in places of public trust, and his contempt for the mean artifice and machinery of mere party strife would have rendered him unpopular in an age when success is everything.  Its proper use of little consequence.  Few men in private life were more extensively known.  Rare conversational powers united with a wide range and versatility of knowledge, rendered him ever attractive and entertaining in the social circle.  Most of the companions of his early life had already fallen, "weary with the march of life."  How appropriately and earnestly does the successive departure from our midst of each representative of another generation, admonish us of that beautiful exhortation of Cicero, to the friends of his old age, that they ought so to regard the world as the traveler the inn by the wayside, making it a place of sojourn only in the pilgrimage to a fairer country, gilded by an enduring sunlight.

Death of Benjamin S. Twitchell:  The truth of this appalling and tragic event comes to us confirmed by the testimony of the witnesses at the Coroner's Inquest.  It was but a few months since that Mr. T. left his family in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], and sailed for California.  Letters had been received but recently from him, expressing the determination to return and spent the remainder of his life among his friends in Chenango. The testimony fully explains the tragic end of his life ad his hopes.  It shows conclusively that he was the object of a heartless and cold blooded murder, of which he was an innocent victim, and every incident connected with which proves it to have been in no manner the result of his own wrong.  Mr. Twitchell was with a surveying party, and passing a disputed line was shot down by Samuel Gilmore who professed to have some interest in the disputed premises.  He survived by 30 minutes after receiving the shot.  Mr. T. was long and favorably known among us as a good citizen and a man of noble and generous impulses.  He leaves a widow to mourn this sad bereavement.

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] on the 4th inst., by Rev. C.E. Hewes, Mr. Warren Loomis of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Huldah Ann Bartle of Oxford. 

Married:  Also, by the same, on the 5th inst., Mr. Henry L. Bartle of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary Jane Church of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  At Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY], on the evening of the 5th inst., by Rev. W.H. Lockwood, Mr. Edward A. Bundy to Miss Esther F. Shapley, both of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. Wm. Reddy, Mr. J.B. Tinker to Miss Adaline Starr, youngest daughter of Rev. C. Starr.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the morning of the 8th inst., suddenly, James Clapp, Esq., aged 68 years.  The funeral will be attended from his late residence at 1 o'clock, P.M. on Thursday, the 12th inst.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th, Dec. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, wife of Mr. Ambrose Smith, aged 40 years.

Oxford Times, January 18, 1854

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. John R. Root to Miss Sarah Ann Wilbur, all of Oxford.

Married, in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th ult. by Rev. C.E. Hewes, Mr. William D Stratton to Miss Almira Willcox, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  At East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., by Rev. A. Gibson, Mr. James Lee of Chenango, Broome Co [NY], to Miss Martha Holmes(?) of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]

Married:  In South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d(?) inst., by Rev. Zetto Barnes, John L. Whitmore, M.D. of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sylvia Hill(?) of South Otselic.

Died:  At East Greene [Chenango Co., NY] on the -?-, Mr. Samuel Peck, aged 47(?) years.

Oxford Times, January 25, 1854

Married:  At Castle Creek [Broome Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. David Leach, Mr. Francis S. Fry of Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Marinda E. Thurstin of Whitney's Point [Broome Co., NY].

Married:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] on the 20th inst., by Daniel Hayes, Esq., Mr. Israel A. Hall to Mrs. Susan Stimpson.

Married:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] on the 1st inst., by Rev. R.S. Southworth, Mr. Wm. H. Ireland to Mrs. Lavina M. Green. 

Married:  [In Bainbridge] on the 2d, [by Rev. R.S. Southworth], Mr. Wm. R. Gould to Mrs. Mary Estabrooks.

Married:  At Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. H. Callahan, Rev. George J. Kercher(?) of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Cornelia Packer of Preston.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY] on the 10th inst. after a lingering illness, Maj. Chauncey Brown, aged 59 years.



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