Vital Records - June 1853

 Oxford Times, June 1, 1853

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult., Mr. John Cook, aged 82 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. Mary [Loomis], wife of Mr. Daniel Loomis, 2d, aged 45 years.

Oxford Times, June 8, 1853

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., by Rev. Wm. Reddy, Mr. John H. Bloom to Miss Mary Marsman, all of this place.

Married:  In Conklin, Broome Co., on the 25th ult., Mr. Nelson Coville of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Margarett Watrous, of the former place.

Died:  In this town [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mr. Thomas Root, aged 89 years.

Died:  In Hudson, N.Y. on 23d May, Mrs. Anna Folger, aged 91 years.

Died:  At Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Samuel Campbell, Esq., formerly Judge of this County, aged 79 years.

Oxford Times, June 15, 1853

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult., by Rev. S.W. Bush, Mr. James Bigelow Packer to Miss Achsar L. Turner of the same place.

Oxford Times, June 22, 1853

Found Dead:  Coroner A. Graves held an inquest on the 13th last on the body of Stephen Colgrove of Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY] who was found dead in the road on Saturday last.  Deceased was about 66 years of age and had been troubled at times with distressed feelings in the region of the heart.  On the day of his death he had two or three of those turns, but had been with his son to wash sheep in the afternoon.  His son left him to drive the sheep home, but when he did not come as soon as was expected, his son went to meet him and found him dead a short distance from his home. The Jury returned a verdict that his death termed Hypertrophic and a rupture of the artery at the bifurcation of the carotid arteries.  Otsego Republican.

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., by Rev. A.G. Burlingame, of Greene Rev. B.B. Carruth to Miss Hannah C. Leonard.

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by Rev. Mr. Southworth, Mr. Joseph Corker of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Jane Hartwell of Smyrna.

Died:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] on the 10th inst., at the residence of his father, Demas Hubbard, Jr. of consumption, Franklin Hubbard, aged 21 years.

Oxford Times, June 29, 1853

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst., Caroline Elizabeth [Folger], only daughter of Ebenezer Folger, aged 5 years, 2 months and 16 days.

Died:  At his residence in Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], May 26th, 1853, Ozias Yale, Esq., in the 87th year of his age.  The subject of this notice emigrated when 26 years of age with his aged father and mother, and settled in Coventry (then called Jones' settlement).  That section of country was then a wilderness, the stillness of the forest being broken only by the scream of the Panther, the howl of the wolf, and the more terrible whoop of the Red Man.

Mr. Yale's first wife, a most amiable and inestimable woman, bore him two sons, which were taken from him in their boyhood, and two daughters who are still living.  The loss of his sons, rendered to Mr. Yale more difficult the task of clearing and improving his new farm.  Oft has the writer of this heard him recount his sorrow with tears, for the loss of his children, and the still deeper grief for the loss of his excellent wife, who a few years after followed her sons to the silent grave. But he was a man of determined mind, a strong body and excellent constitution and the difficulties and hardships of a new country all vanished before him like the early dew.  By steady industry, economy and perseverance he worked out for himself an early competence, always providing abundantly the luxuries of good living for himself and family.  Soon after the death of his wife he married Agnes, eldest daughter of Rev. H.T. McGeorge, by whom he was blest with a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters, most of whom with other friends, stood around his death bed "to point the parting anguish."  Long will that family mourn the loss of a kind husband and affectionate father.  Long too, will a large circle of friends and neighbors mourn, that a man in every sense of the word, has passed from among them.  He ever evinced great fondness for reading and could even till late in life, converse fluently on matters of history and general intelligence. He was a man of correct morals and strict integrity, and was highly respected by the community in which he resided, who selected him as early as 1801, as a Justice of the Peace, and subsequently at different times he was elected to most of the various town offices.  Mr. Yale was among the few who first opened the road to the villages of Greene and Oxford, the latter at that time containing but one framed dwelling.

There is now but one man living in Coventry who settled in that town as early as Mr. Yale.  He always contributed cheerfully and largely to the support of the gospel, but it was not until about 20 years since, that he became hopefully converted to Christianity, and to use his own words "nothing but the power of God could have wrought so great and important a change in his mind."  Since that time he has been a regular and consistent member of the first Congregational Chruch, and he died as he lived, trusting in God for eternal salvation.

Died:  In Watertown, Jefferson Co., N.Y., June 17th, Mary F. Corey, niece of Henry Balcom of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], aged 25 years.  "There is no flock however watched and tended / But one dead lamb is there, / There is no fireside however soe'er defended / But has one vacant chair."