Vital Records - February 1852

 Oxford Times, February 4, 1852

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult., by the Rev. J.C. Ranson, Mr. Charles E. Knickerbacker to Miss Mary Jane Smith, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult., by Rev. Mr. Parker, Mr. Addison B. Brooks of Norwich, to Miss Lydia A. Evans of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Mandeville [Warn], youngest son of Charles and Diantha Warn, aged 3 years.

Died:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th ult., Anna [Potter], relict of Willis Potter, aged 77 years.

Died:  In Dryden [Tompkins Co. NY], of dropsy, on the 25th ult., Elisha Westover, formerly of this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], aged 75 years.  He endured a long illness attended during the latter part of it with great bodily suffering, which he bore with patience, pious trust and resignation, retaining his mental faculties unimpaired.

Oxford Times, February 11, 1852

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on 28th ult., by C.E. Hewes, Mr. William D. Boyden to Miss Melissa D. Phetteplace.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult., by Rev. C. Darby, Mr. Harvey Hinman of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], to Mrs. T.B. Perry of New lisle, Otsego Co.

Married: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst. by the same, Mr. Barkibla Kent of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], to Miss Susan A. Day of Greene.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Mr. Eliakim Northrup aged 54 years.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst, Frederick [Furman], son of George W. and Almeda Furman, aged 14(?) years.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3th inst., Maria [Smith], daughter of Mr. Munson Smith, aged 8(?) years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., after 12 hours illness, Margaret Augusta [Moore], daughter of Mr. John Moore aged 13 months.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th ins.t, Mary S. McNeil, only daughter of Andrew McNeil, aged 10 years 7 months and 10 days.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on 26th ult., Mr. Edward Roberts, aged 43 years.

At Corning, Steuben Co., Jan. 25th, Mrs. Ximena Rigby, wife of Daniel Rigby, Esq., of Nanticoke Springs, Broome Co., aged 57 years.

Oxford Times, February 18, 1852

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., by the Rev. J.C. ransom, Mr. Morris J. Wilkins of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY] to Mrs. Margaret Jackson, of Oxford.

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by the Rev. J. C. Ransom, Mr. James A. Terrel to Miss Linda Crannell, all of Oxford.

Married:  At Windsor, Broome Co., on the 31st Jan. by the Rev. A. Eggleston, Mr. Abraham H. Searles of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Roxa A. Fowler of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In this village on the 8th inst., Andrew [Squires], son of David and Lucy Squires, aged 7 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th ult., Mrs. Prudence Gould, aged 47 years.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 13, 1852, Dr. Horatio Thomas McGeorge, aged 97 years.  Mr. McGeorge was born in London, England, and in early life had the advantages of a liberal education.  His attainments as a linguist were extensive and thorough.  He spoke with ease and fluency eight different languages. At the age of about twenty-five, having married the daughter of an eminent Scotch divine, his mind was directed to the Christian ministry, and was pastor of several dissenting congregations in Scotland.  At this period of his life he also studied medicine, and in connection with his clerical duties was to a considerable extent engaged in its practice.  About fifty years since, he emigrated to this country and settled at Hadley, Mass., where he resumed the work of the ministry, and was for several years pastor of the Congregational Church in that place.  Thence he removed to Oxford, Chenango Co., N.York, where the remaining part of his long life was spent, until death released him from his earthly tabernacle. The deceased was the father of twelve children, nine of whom are still living.  There have been seventy-five grandchildren and about fifty great-grandchildren.  His constitution was remarkable, his powers of body and mind being almost as vigorous at ninety, as at fifty.  But disease finally came, and death was superinduced by an affection of the lungs.  His soul is with God. The penitence and faith of his declining years afford his family and friends the cheering hope of rejoining his redeemed spirit in those mansions which the Savior has prepared for all who love him.

Oxford Times, February 25, 1852

Married:  At Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], on the 121th inst., by Rev. J.H. Beebe, Stephen Yale, Esq., to Miss Betsey Wood, all of that place.

Died:  At Mokelumne Hill, California, Henry Judson, son of the late Levi Judson, formerly Sheriff of Otsego Co., N.Y.