Vital Records - March 1854

Oxford Times, March 1, 1854

A melancholy and fatal accident occurred near Margaretville [Delaware Co., NY] on town meeting day.  Hiram B. Kelly, with a number of others, were on their way to town election with a team and wagon, when within fifty rods of Margaretville, where the election was held, they came to a dugway very icy; eight or ten rods long.  A part of the men got out of the wagon when they came to the ice, Kelly, Perry Sanford, and Clark Sanford remained in the wagon, and when about half way across the ice, the wagon, horses, Kelly and Perry Sanford went off the precipice ten feet high.  Clark Sanford, the father of Perry, saved himself by leaping from the wagon just before it went off.  One of the horses fell upon Perry Sanford; he was taken up insensible, and died two or three hours after.  He leaves a wife and four or five children to mourn his untimely end.  Kelly's right cheek bone was broken in and he was otherwise injured; he seems to be doing well, and is likely to recover.  This accident occurred on the road running from Margaretville to Roxbury.  Delhi Express.

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], in St. Paul's Church, on Sunday evening, 26th ult., by Rev. M. Van Rensselaer, Mr. Merit S. Pierpont to Miss Eliza Ann Brigham, both of this place.

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Lewis L. Phelps of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Eliza J. M. Burrows of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d(?) ult. by Rev. A. Gibson, Mr. James H. Padgett to Miss Lucy Ann Ingraham, both of Oxford.

Married:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. by Alanson Holl, Esq. Mr. Albert Japhet to Miss Susan Carr,  all of this place.

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th(?) ult. Mr. Moses Warren, Jr. aged 33(?) years.

Oxford Times, March 8, 1854

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. H. Callahan, Mr. Daniel H. McCall to Miss Mahala E. Seaman, both of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In this town on the 4th inst., Mr. John R. Rounds, aged 79 years.

Oxford Times,  March 15, 1854

Sudden Death:  A young lady named Ann Warn, formerly a resident of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] died at the house of Nathaniel Eccleston, Jr., in Norwich, on the night of the 5th inst.  She had attended church during the day, and went to bed without any indications of her approaching illness, but in the morning she was found a corpse.  An inquest was held, and the jury rendered a verdict of "death by a disease of the heart."

Oxford Times, March 22, 1854

Married:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. Mr. Southworth, Mr. Charles W. Gage of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Abigail Pearsall of Bainbridge.

Married:  In Poolville on the 6th inst., by Rev. Perry G. White, Mr. Robert T. Gibson of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Ellen L. Smith of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY]

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Mary Ann Evans, daughter of the late Rev. George Evans, aged 19 years.

Oxford Times, March 29, 1854

Married:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th inst., by Rev. A.S. Graves, Mr. Webster Graves of Preston [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Betsey Marsh of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] on the 23d inst., by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. John B. Root to Miss Martha C. Shapley, all of Oxford.

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th inst., Mr. David D. Holmes, aged 43 years.

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th inst., Miss Polly Tucker, aged 53 years.

Died:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Pheba A. [Carruth], wife of C. Carruth, aged 27 years.

Died:  At Sacramento City, California, on the 11th ult. Mr. Marcus P. Harrington of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] aged 23 years.