Oxford Times, March 5, 1856
Bernard Casey for many years a resident of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], was buried at the Catholic cemetery in this village last week. He had attained the extraordinary age of 104 years. and retained his faculties and bodily vigor down to his last illness. At the fall election he attended the polls and voted the Republican ticket. His eye sight continued good, so as to enable him to read without glasses. He was born in the "Emerald Isle," but had adopted this country as his home many years since, and reared a numerous family, who are respectable citizens of several states of the Union.
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., by Rev. W. Bixby, Mr. Elias K. Fosgate to Miss Mary M. Fletcher of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. John E. Lewis to Miss Lucy E. Calvert both of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on Friday morning, Feb. 29th, Willie B. [Washburn], infant son of J.Y. and Sarah A. Washburn, aged 10 months. "folded then his hands of whiteness / O'er the marble lifeless breast, / While sweet strains from harps of brightness / Welcomed him to heavenly rest; / And the eyes of blue were closing / O'er the cheek where death damps fell, / While in dreamless sleep reposing / Was the child we loved so well."
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., Philinda L. [Bowers], daughter of Perry Bowers, aged 2 years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 6, 1856
Married: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday morning, the 25th last, by Rev. E.D. Thurston, Mr. Albert Stedman, to Miss Corinthia B. Beedle(?) all of this village.
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., by The Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Charles B. Waters to Miss Janette M. Lyons, both of North Norwich.
Married: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. by the Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Arvin C. Walsworth, to Miss Jane R. Kelsey, both of Preston.
Married: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] on the 26th ult., by the Rev. W. Bixby, Mr. Elias R. Fosgate of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary M. Fletcher of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. J.D. Webster, Mr. David Thomas to Miss Margaret Ramsey, both of the above place.
Married: In Millville, Wisconsin, by the Rev. A. McWright, Mr. Ira Phillips of New Berlin, N.Y. [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Octavia Wightman, of Columbus, N.Y. [Chenango Co.]
Married: At Sheboygan City, Wis., Feb. 10th, by Rev. C.W. Camp, Mr. J.H. Goodrich, junior editor of the Sterling (Ill.) Times to Miss Hattie S. Norwood of Sheboygan Falls.
Died: At the residence of his son, in Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Bernard Casey, in his 104th years. Mr. Casey emigrated to this County, in 1828, and since that time his deportment has been such that he was not only a credit to the land of his birth, but also won the affections of a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and edified all who knew him. Mr. Casey retained all his mental faculties to the last moment. At this own request he was brought from home, a distance of two miles, and voted at the last election. Up to the week before his death he was able to read the finest print. As he perceived his final dissolution approaching he resigned himself to the will of God, and enjoying such consolation that it really appeared as if he was experiencing a foretaste of heaven. He died apparently without the least pain. Smithville, March, 1856.
Died: At New Hudson, Oaklin Co., Mich., of Consumption, on the 22d ult., Smith Clark, formerly of Yates Co., N.Y. aged 79 years.
Died: In New York City, on Monday, Feb. 25th, of scarlet fever, Charles Augustus [Frost], the only son of Charles L. and Caroline A. Frost, aged 7 years and 7 months. Jesus said--"Suffer little children to come unto me."
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 0th ult., Charles [Lewis] infant son of Jason and Frances A. Lewis, aged 10 months.
In Kings Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mrs. C.R. Townsend, wife of Rev. Robert Townsend, aged 81 years.
In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mrs. Abigal Tower, aged 81 years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 13, 1856
Married: At Cincinnatus, Cortland Co., [NY] on the morning of the 10th inst., by Rev. Mr. Lee, Mr. B.B. Porter of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Electa A. Kellogg of the former place.
Married: At Earlville [Madison Co., NY], on the 26th ult. by the Rev. S.C. Ainsworth, Mr. James A. Land, of Atlas, Genesee Co., Michigan, to Miss Ira C. Land of the former place.
Died: In the town of Barker [Broome Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Miss Phebe C. Kinyon, daughter of Nathaniel Kinyon, aged 16 years and 6 months.
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Nathan Eaton, aged 40 years.
Died: In Sherburne, on the 10th inst., of typhoid fever, Elijah C. [Holmes], eldest son of Frederick N. and Betsey A. Holmes, aged 15 years.
Oxford Times, March 19, 1856
Married: in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Joseph A. Hopkins of White Rock, Ill., to Miss Sarah Jane Curtis of Oxford.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 20, 1856
Married: In Camden [Oneida Co., NY], on the 5th isn.t, by the Rev. J.L. Harrison, Mr. S.M. Tinkman, of Taunton, Mass. to Miss Margaret E. Bright, daughter of the late George Bright, of Hamilton, Madison County.
Died: In Syracuse [Onondaga Co., NY], on the 18th inst., of consumption Jedediah Randall son of Dec. Charles Randall, aged 26 years.
Died: in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on the 13th inst. of consumption, Mary E. Babcock, daughter of the late Gardner Babcock, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], aged 36 years.
Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst., Isaac Boyer, aged 87 years.
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. of pulmonary consumption, William T. Brown, in the 45th year of his age.
Died: In Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Andrew Baker, formerly of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], aged 56 years.
Oxford Times, March 26, 1856
Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th, Mr. Jeremiah White, aged 57 years.
Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st(?), Mrs. Ruth Ostrom, aged 90(?) years.
Died: In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Joel Parker Esq., aged 17years.,
Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 27, 1856
Married: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the evening of the 26th(?) inst., by Jeremiah Tillitson, Esq., Mr. John Burgess to Miss Abigail Atwater, all of this town.
Married: At the Baptist Parsonage in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. by the Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Andrew Young of Norwich to Miss Elizabeth Mon...r of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: At the Chenango Hotel in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. by the same, Mr. Levi Toby, of Davenport, Delaware Co [NY] to Miss D[-?-] Adelia Light of Morris Otsego Co. [NY].
Married: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] on the (?) inst., by Rev. R. Queal, Mr. (?) Reynolds to Miss Janette Davidson, all of the above place.
Married: Also on the 20th inst. by the same, Mr. Henry M. Swan to Miss Ph--- Ames, all of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the (?) inst., Mrs. Rebecca Decker, aged 89 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on the 18th inst. Sarah [Wentworth], wife of Gideon Wentworth, aged 88 years.
Died: In New York city, on the 1-th inst. Charles H., eldest son of S.S. (?), Esq., formerly of Norwich, aged 21 years and 6 months.
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. Sanford Greene, aged 55(?) years.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] on the 15th inst., Amy D. [Shaw], wife of Daniel Shaw, aged 35(?) years.
Died: In Dayton, Illinois, on the 3d ult., Martha [Beebe], wife of J.A. Beebe Esq.
Died: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst. of consumption, Mary [Reynolds], wife of Timothy Reynolds, aged 68 years.
Oxford Times, March 19, 1856
Murder in Nelson, Madison Co. [NY]: A Mr. Buck was murdered at his residence in Nelson, Friday night and was found on Saturday morning in his barn yard. He was awfully mangled by some person with an axe. The axe was found near him. He had a difficulty with his hired man, a Dutchman, who is arrested on suspicion. It is supposed that Buck had about $180 in money with him which is missing.
Cazenovia Republican, Cazenovia, NY, March 19, 1856
Murder
One of the most shocking murders we have any account of was committed last Friday, about three and a half miles from Nelson [Madison Co., NY], on the road leading to Morrisville [Madison Co., NY]. Mr. John Buck, 80 years old, was killed in his barn in broad daylight, by blows with an axe, and left lying on the barn floor, with the door partly open. He received a blow on the left side of his head, and the upper part of his skull was almost entirely crushed. A Dutchman named William Sidler has been arrested for the murder and was under an examination on Monday before Justice Kern, in Morrisville.
In order to obtain the particulars of the tragedy, we sent a messenger to the place, who has furnished us with several circumstances connected with the case. Mr. Buck's house was formerly a tavern, and he has lived in that place upwards of 60 years. He has two sons and two daughters, all of whom are married, and he has lived alone in his house for some time. About the first of last January, Sidler, with his wife and child came to live with him, and they were to stay until the first of April, but left about four or five weeks ago, and shortly after Sidler left, Mr. Buck missed about $30 in money. Since that time Sidler has been at his house frequently, and has been employed as a workman. On one evening he returned to the house twice after he left, and this circumstance being rather singular, caused Mr. Buck to mention it to others.
About two days previous to the murder, Mr. Buck made arrangements to board with the family of Mr. Alvin H. Howard, a neighbor living a short distance this side. On Friday morning, Mr. Buck felt more feeble than usual, but remarked that he expected Sidler to chop wood for him, and left between 9 and 10 o'clock. As he did not return, Mr. Howard sent his son, a lad of 12 years, to ascertain the reason. The was about 6 o'clock in the afternoon. He went to the barn and saw the deceased lying on the floor, and hastened back to give the alarm. Mr. Howard then went to the barn and finding him dead he procured the [..unreadable..] the body to the house of his son-in-law, Mr. Clark, where Coroner Sherman held an inquest on Saturday. The murder was probably committed between 11 and 1 o'clock, and the body had been left near the door of the barn, and the door was partly open--so that anyone passing in the road could have seen it. Yet it was not discovered until 6 o'clock. This was certainly the boldest murder ever committed. The barn is situated very near the road, and teams are passing at short intervals. Mr. Howard resides but a little way off, and men were chopping wood within hailing distance.
Sidler was seen to go to Mr. Buck's house on the day the murder was committed, although he denies being there at all; and persons passing the house in the forenoon saw Mr. Buck going from his house across the road to his barn, followed by a man answering the description of the prisoner, with an axe in his hand. Sidler was seen to leave the place at a later hour in the day, and went home by an unusual route, going through the fields part of the way. On his way home he stopped at a neighbor's house, and was asked if he had been at Mr. Buck's He denied being there. After reaching home he cut off the skirts of his coat, rolled them up and laid them away.
Upon the discovery of the body, a dispatch was sent to Sheriff Barnett at Morrisville and we understand that Mr. W.F. Bonney, Under-Sheriff, arrested Sidler at his house about 2 o'clock Saturday morning. Spots of blood were found upon his pantaloons, which he said were caused by killing a calf. He had killed a calf for Mr. Buck about the first of January. His house was subsequently thoroughly searched, but so far as we can learn, no money of any amount has been found. Sidler is about 25 years of age, and emigrated to this country about two years ago. He is described as an intelligent looking man, about medium height, and rather slight figure.
Whoever committed this atrocious deed evidently expected to obtain money. After he had brutally killed the old man, he carried the bloody axe across the road and left it in the house, where it was subsequently found with the stains of blood upon it. Our informant has examined the house throughout, and found that trunks, desks and doors had been broken open. The murderer searched the whole house for money with the blood of his victim fresh upon his hands. The print of a bloody hand is distinct upon one of the doors, and drops of blood may be found in different parts of the house. The barn in which the murder was committed presented an awful spectacle. Considerable blood was on the floor and the sides near the spot where he was found, and blood was spattered on the beams overhead. It was a deliberate, cold-blooded deed for the purpose of robbery, without a single palliating circumstance. It is earnestly hoped that the monster who committed this unparalleled outrage may be detected and punished as his crime deserves.
Mr. Buck had recently sold his farm containing 100 acres, but had not received the money for it. It is not probable that any large amount was found in the house, but what he had in the house and about his person was taken. His pocket book was found in his coat pocket, entirely empty.
We are indebted to Mr. Alvin H. Howard and family for most of the particulars contained in the above account, and for their courtesy and kindness we return our acknowledgments.
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