Vital Records - February 1854

 Oxford Times, February 1, 1854

Married:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 18, by Rev. W.H. Lockwood, Mr. Ira Scott of this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Laura A. Lewis of the former place.

Married:  On the 26th ult., at Grace Chruch, Brooklyn, by the Rev. Dr. Vinton, Mr. B.W. Bean of N. York, to Mrs. George H. Noble, daughter of the late Hon. Sherman Page, of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY].

Oxford Times, February 8, a854

An Ill-Fated Party.  One year this March, Messrs. Benj. B. Twitchell, John S. Bradbury, Caleb Winsor, and Cook D. Sill, sailed from New York for San Francisco.  About two weeks after their arrival they took passage on the unfortunate Steamer Jenny Lind, up the San Francisco Bay, with the view of selecting a location for business.  Among the killed by the explosion of the boiler of the Jenny Lind, were Winsor and Bradbury.  It is now but a few weeks since the startling intelligence has been received of the death of Mr. Twitchell by a murderer's hand.

The past week the friends of Cook D. Sill, have had the melancholy news of his death on the 23d of Dec. of Typhoid fever, after a sickness of six months at the age of 25 years.  The deceased had been a student of the Oxford Academy, and formerly resided in Burlington, Otsego County [NY], but for the last few years in Ohio.  Stopping with friends in this place, when on his way to New York, joined the company of the other persons mentioned of Guilford, and with them met an untimely death on the Pacific shore.

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. A.S. Graves, Mr. Edwin Douglas of Chautauqua Co. [NY], to Miss Mary J. Lewis of Preston.

Married:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Milo Webb of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], to Mrs. Eliza Perry of McDonough.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 1st, by Rev. C. Darby, Mr. Horace Wiswell to Mrs. Frances T. Pierpont.

Died:  In Preston, on the 29th ult., Mrs. Abigail Smith aged 90 years.

Oxford Times, February 15, 1854

Married:  In Hamilton [Madison Co. NY, on the 9th inst., by Rev. G.W. Eaton, Mr. Cole... S. S.... to Miss Lennie J. Benton.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th(?) inst., Almira Parker, wife of Mr. Hymen Parker, aged 68 years.

Oxford Times, February 22, 1854

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th inst., by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Willard Walker to Miss Hannah M. Main, all of Oxford.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., Angenette M. [Ingraham], daughter of Joel and Clarinda Ingraham, aged 2-1/2(?) years.

Died:  At her brother's residence in Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 25th Jan. of dropsy, Miss Calista Park, eldest daughter of Ebenezer and Philena Park, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].