Vital Records - October 1853

 Oxford Times, October 5, 1863

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Sept. 22d, Virginia Rose [Cushman], aged 3 years and 9 months.

Oxford Times, October 12, 1853

Drowned:  The Cooperstown Freeman's Journal [Otsego Co., NY] says the body of Mr. Francis Warren, who resided near Three Mile Point was found in the lake on Sunday morning last.  He left his house about two o'clock Wednesday morning, in rather a deranged state of mind, which was the last time he was seen alive.  He was about 45 years of age and leaves a wife and several children.

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Solomon T. Bolles of Waukesha, Wisconsin, to Miss Maria Smith of this village.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., Miss Frances A. Read, daughter of Merrick Read, aged 23 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mr. Alpheus Dickinson, aged 84 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Lina F. [Lewis], daughter of Alonzo and Mary B. Lewis, aged 3 months.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mrs. Philura [Winchell], wife of Mr. David Winchell, aged 53 years.

Oxford Times, October 19, 1853

Married:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst., by Rev. C.E. Hewes, Mr. Wilder Pierce of Deposit [Delaware Co., NY] to Miss Lavina Fuller of Sandford [Broome Co., NY].

Married:  In Lee Centre, Illinois, on the 6th inst., by Rev. D.W. Clark of Ottawa, Illinois, Mr. F.R. Church to Miss M. Louise Noble, both of the former place, and formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Richard G. Lewis to Miss Mary Isabella Willard, daughter of Doct. A .Willard, all of that place.

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., by Rev. C.E. Hewes, Mr. George W. Tillotson of South Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Ann Elizabeth June of the former place.

Married:  In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by Rev. A. Gibson, Mr. O.S. Hollenbeck of Lisle, Broome Co. to Miss M.E. Barnes of Greene.

Died:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Mr. Stephen Gibson, aged 65 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., Mr. Sylvanus Parker, aged 68 years. 

Died:  In Hubbard's Ville, Madison Co., [NY], Sept. 10th, after a protracted illness, Mrs. Emily Hart [Hubbard], daughter of Calvin Hubbard, Esq., aged 44 years.

Died:  At his residence in Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], Sept. 25th, the Hon. Sherman Page, in the 75th year of his age.  When age, full of honors and head blossoming for the grave, is laid in the narrow house, we bow with reverence to the decree of Providence, and murmur not at the dispensation.  For it is the common lot.  Judge Page has occupied no inconsiderable place in the public mind, as a man of high intellectual powers, and extensive reading and intelligence.  His fine qualities of mind and heart were devoted to the service of his friends and to all who came within the sphere of his association; but that enterprising, restless and soaring intellect, which gave life and animation to everything around him, which always made him the master spirit of the social circle in which he moved, has fled, and nothing remains but a cold lump of clay.  He has suffered a long and painful sickness, and has gone to his reward "in the confidence of a certain faith, in the comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope; and in perfect charity with the whole world."

"In this misjudging world, they picture death / A fearful tyrant; O believe it not! / It is an angel, beautiful as light, / That watches o'er the sorrowing spirit here / And when weary of its pilgrimage, / Unbars the heavy gates of everlasting life, / And vanishes forever."  Cooperstown Journal

Oxford Times, October 26, 1853

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Daniel S. Smith to Miss Adde Eliza Godfrey, all of this village.

Married:  In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., by Rev. O. Ketchum, Mr. John Oysterbanks of German [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eveline S. Ketchum of Pharsalia.

Died:  In Troy [Rensselear Co., NY] on the 15th isn.t, at 9 o'clock and 15 minutes, P.M., Jenny Prindle Brigham, on the same day, at 10 o'clock and 40 minutes, P.M. Julia(?) Per Lee Brigham, twin daughter of Charles D. and Cornelia Brigham, and grandchildren of David Brigham of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], aged 1 year, 1 month and 3 days.

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