Vital Records - September 1852

 Oxford Times, September 1, 1852

Married:  In this village [ Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., by Rev. Mr. Graves, Mr. David C. Bronson of Roxbury, Ct., to Miss Emily Chapman, of this place.

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th Aug., Mr. C. Henry Miner, aged 31 years.

Died:  In Corning, Steuben Co., on the 14th of Aug., of cancer in the stomach, Mr. Samuel Baldwin, aged 41 years, formerly of this place [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY].

Oxford Times, September 15, 1852

Married:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Starks, Mr. Orlando Randall to Miss Sally Martin, all of that place.

Married:  At Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY] on the 6th inst., by Rev. R. Queal, Mr. J.B. Lewis, formerly of Madison, to Miss Mary Tarbell of the former place.

Married:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. L. Pomeroy, Mr. R.D. Race to Miss Jennette Wheeler both of East Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  Also at the same time and place, and by the same, Mr. Leroy Blatchly to Miss Mary J. Kelsey, both of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 31st ult., by Rev. Mr. Wooley, Mr. Norman S. Rogers to Miss Eliza Thomas of the former place.

Married:  At Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. R. Queal, Mr. Henry Hotchkiss to Miss Cornelia J. Read.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. Mr. Warner, Mr. Adam Irving to Miss Abagail Soules.

Died:  In Willet [Cortland Co., NY], on the 8th inst., at the house of his son, Mr. Samuel Miller of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], aged 81 years.

Died:  At Chittenango [Madison Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mrs. Laura G. [Abell] wife of the Rev. James Abell.

Died:  At McDonough, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], on Sunday morning last, the 12th inst. Elizabeth Sophia [Corbin], only daughter of E.L. Corbin, Esq., in the 9th year of her age.

At South Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Aug. 28th, Mr. George Clapper, aged 63 years.  Mr C. awoke on the morning of his death in usual health, rose up in bed, called some members of his family, fell back upon his pillow and died without a struggle.  How uncertain is life.  "Be ye also ready."

Oxford Times, September 22, 1852

Married:  At Binghamton, on the 10th inst. by Rev. A.B. Beach, Bennett W. Morse, Esq., of Plymouth, Ct., to Mary Ellen [Dickinson], daughter of Thomas Dickinson, Esq., of Guilford, N.Y. [Chenango Co.,]

Married:  At the Baptist Church, in McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th,by Rev. J.F. Stark, Mr. Charles E. Curtis to Miss Maria Gibson.

Married:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th, by Rev. E.D. Thurston, Mr. Jared Lyon to Miss Armenia Aylesworth.

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Mr. Harlow Andrews, aged 25 years.

Died:  In Chicago, Illinois on the 8th inst., of consumption, Frances Adell [Perkins], wife of Mr. Gordon Perkins, formerly of this village [Oxford Chenango Co., NY], aged 27 years.

Oxford Times, September 22, 1852

Mrs. Mary Gregg, wife of Rev. Hiram R. Gregg of Munnsville, Madison county, was shot through the body last evening about half past eight, while washing dishes before her pantry window, the shot coming from the outside and evidently from a distance of but a few feet.  The shot penetrated in the region of the stomach. She lived to about 3 o'clock this morning, when she expired.  No traces of the murderer have been found.  There is no assignable cause for the murder.

Oxford Times, September 29, 1852

The Madison Co. Whig gives the following additional particulars of the murder of Mrs. Gregg, and the arrest of the supposed perpetrator:  Mrs. Ephriam Gregg, of Stockbridge, was shot at her residence, a few rods east of the village of Munnsville.  She was standing in her pantry beside her sister-in-law, in front of a window, through which the shot came. entering her body in the region of the stomach.  The murderer was so near to the window that the smoke of his gun discolored the glass.  Her husband being absent at the village, her sister-in-law ran a few rods to a neighbor and gave the alarm, and in fifteen minutes Dr. Treat, the Coroner, arrived and remained until after her death, about three o'clock the following morning.  No search for the murderer was made that night, but the next morning, it was learned that a dissipated young man of the town named Hudcock, was seen to leave Knoxville about a mile from the scene of murder, with a gun, and pursuit being made, he was arrested in the woods that day with the gun still in his possession.  He was conveyed to Morrisville jail, whence he was taken back on Monday for examination.  His dislike of the deceased was no secret.  It arose in this wise.  Several months since and before her marriage to Mr. Greeg, Hadcock and the deceased were at a social party in the town, where in the spirit of pleasantry, it was proposed that they should be married for fun.  The sham ceremony was performed, and Hodcock either knave or fool, pretending to consider the ceremony legal, wished to assert his rights.  The proceeding was treated as a joke, and the lady last Spring was really married to Mr. Gregg.  Hadcock took advice as to the possibility of compelling her to acknowledge him as her legal husband, but the plan not succeeding he inquired her present residence and about three weeks ago was observed prowling about this house.  The marriage joke has now been ended by the violent death of one of the parties, and the arrest of the other for murder.

Married:  At Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], Sept. 6th, by Rev. S.M. Stimson, Mr. John Tucker to Miss Mary Jane Woodley, both of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on 27th ult. Miss Elizabeth R. West, daughter of Mr. Joseph P. West, aged 20 years.

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th inst. Mr. Abner Dickinson, aged 86 years.