Vital Records - March 1857

Oxford Times, March 4, 1857

Married:  In the Universalist Church, at East Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 22d, by Rev. C.S. Brown, Rev. S.L. Rorapaugh, of Smithville to Miss Sarah E. Cary, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]. 

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 5, 1857

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., by Rev. H.W. Gilbert, Mr. Edwin F. Andrews, of Topeka, K.T. (formerly from Maine, Broome Co. [NY]) to Miss Lucy D. Wilson, of Franklin, Delaware Co. [NY].

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult., by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Cyrus L. Clarke, of Iowa, to Miss Adelia S. Evans, of Norwich.

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., by Eld. M.M. Everts, Frederick Palmer, Esq., of London, Michigan, to Miss Adelia Hall, of the former place.

Died:  At East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Mrs. Mary Sharp, in her 85th year.  Mrs. Sharp was born in 1772, in the town of Fishkill, Dutchess Co. [NY], where she resided until the close of the American revolution, when she married Bartholomew Sharp and removed to Greenbush, Rens. Co.  From thence she removed to Guilderland, Albany Co., and in 1812, she removed to Greene, Chenango Co., where she resided until her death.  Mrs. Sharp has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Chruch over 20 years, and until her death, which was one of peace, she manifested a firm hope in her Saviour. She was ready to assist the needy and comfort the afflicted.  She was an affectionate wife and mother, and has at length gone down to the grave full of years.

Died:  In Homer [Cortland Co., NY], on the 22d ult., Dollie A. [Bowen], daughter of Ira Bowen, Esq., and sister of Mrs. Nelson Pellet, of Norwich, aged 24 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., James Foote, aged 81 years.

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Eld. Latha, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], aged 86 years.

Died:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult., Dea. Gardiner J. Kenyon, in the 61st year of his age.

Oxford Times, March 11, 1857

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., by Rev. H. Gee, Mr. William T. Mandeville of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Adelia Thurber, of this village.

Married:  In the Baptist Church, in this village [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., by Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. George Bavin to Miss Almira N. Wade, both of Norwich.

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Daniel Holdredge, of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss P.A. Rhodes of Oxford.

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Joseph N. Rathbone of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Mrs. Hannah Hill of Preston.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d February, Mr. Isaac Preston, aged 34 years.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Mr. James Patterson, aged 56 years.

Died:  In Jackson, Miss, on the 12th Miss Louisa Merrill of Oxford, Chenango Co. [NY], aged 23 years.  The deceased came to this State, principally as a teacher about four years ago, since which time she lived in this city, and neighborhood, and was highly esteemed and beloved by all who knew her.  With naturally amiable and cheerful disposition and kind heart, she was not long a stranger in our midst, but soon won for herself many warm and devoted friends.  She made a profession of her faith in Christ Jan. 1853, and continued from that time a consistent, cheerful, growing Christian.  Distrustful at first of her own piety, she hesitated about making a public profession, and did not, until she had tested and had examined well the experience of her own heart.  Thus having given herself to the Saviour, when the dew and freshness of youth was upon her, she was made to realize the truth of that precious promise.  "Those that love me, I will love, and those that seek me early shall find me."  Admonished by disease months before her death, that her pilgrimage would probably be short, the world gradually lost for her its attractions, while she "looked for a city whose builder and maker was God."  She spoke freely and calmly of death, and was willing to be released from the pains and sufferings of earth and time, though she murmured not at her sufferings, which were at times severe.  When passing through the final struggle, conscious that death had come, she remarked: I am going; rapidly going; and in a few minutes fell asleep in Jesus. There was the impress of peace with God,  "Death without a sting, the grave without a victory."

"How blest the righteous when he dies, / When sinks a weary soul to rest, / How mildly beam the closing eyes. / How gently heaves the expiring breast, / Life's duty done as sinks the clay. / Light from its load the spirit flies, / While heaven and earth combine to say / How blest the righteous when he dies."

Jackson, Miss, Witness

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 12, 1857

Married:  In German [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Rev. E.D. Thurston, Mr. Alexander Lewis, to Miss Almira E. Birdlebough, all of the former place.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Rev. James Abercrombie, Dr. Andrew Baker, to Mrs. Sarah M. Fitch, both of Norwich.

Married:  In Christiana, Wis., on the 12th ult., by Elder Z. Campbell, Mr. J. DeMott Crandall, to Miss Annie Maria Crandall, of the former place.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult., Mrs. Margaret Bunnell, daughter of Mr. Wm. Winter, aged 31 years.  A lingering illness proceeded the departure of the friend above named.  Wasted in flesh and strength she lingered in the circle of home and kindred much longer than could have been expected. The disease through which she sank down to the grave was contracted during a residence at the West.  Watched over by tender, sisterly nursing and care, surrounded by family and friends by whom she was warmly loved, trusting to the hopes and consolations of Christ's Gospel she softly breathed out her soul to God.  She has left a bereaved husband and two young and lovely children to lament a loss that can never to them be filled.  Few things are more touching amid the sorrows of life than the bereavement sustained by tender children in the loss of a fond mother's love and watchful care. The more unconscious they are of their deprivation the more vividly we feel for their sad condition.  But "their Angels" in such care as the Saviour says, "do always behold the face of my father who is in Heaven."  From a family which numbered thirteen children to which the deceased belonged, the first severances that have occurred by death have been within two months past, a brother at the West having died only a few weeks preceding the wasting away of her whose decease we now notice.  But a short time previous to the departure of the deceased from life, she sought the comfort of the Holy Communion, knowing in very deed that it was to be the last partaking of that holy Supper until she should taste of that cup anew in the circle of a brighter world.  It was in fact the divine nourishment on which she was sustained and prepared for entrance into the valley of death.  May mourning hearts find in the pledges she had left and in the memory of her virtues, a balm to their sorrows.

Died:  In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., after a lingering illness, Naomi Jane [Haight], wife of Elihu Haight, aged 26 years.

Died:  In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Benjamin T. Stevens, aged 76 years.

Oxford Times, March 18, 1857

Died:  At the Branch Mills, Manitowoc County, Wis., on Tuesday, the 24th inst., Mrs. Lydia Lenneville, wife of Francis Lenneville, aged 56.  Mrs. Lenneville was born at Oxford, Chenango county, N.Y., and was granddaughter of Gen. Hovey, founder of that town.  She became a resident of this County long before its organization, and was the authoress of some very interesting reminiscences published several years ago in the Green Bay Advocate.  For some years past, she was in feeble health, and the disease which finally consumed her, made sure and fatal progress.  She was an intelligent and agreeable lady, esteemed for her kind and estimable qualities, and the loss to her family and friends, is severe, beyond description.  Manitowoc Herald.

Died:  In Higginsville, Oneida Co. [NY], on the 8th inst., Miss Sarah J. Barnard, in the 20th year of her age.  The sudden death of this young lady give a painful shock to a large circle of friends, by whom she was dearly beloved.  In society she was genial and warm hearted, drawing around her the love and esteem of her associates who are left with bursting hearts to lament her sudden and early death.  She was the picture of beauty and health, until about 14-hours previous to her departure from this world.  Thus are youth and beauty crushed, a parent's fondest hopes lost by the hand of Death.  This scene tells us loudly and with awful emphasis how vain and futile are our hopes of the future.  Father, Mother, Brothers and Sisters bowed down by grief and woe, this loss to you is like the sound of a mighty oak falling in the stillness of the forest, shattering every limb from its parent body. No language can describe the sorrow and anguish you now endure, although she was warm in your hearts. The King of Shadows was deaf to the cries of friends or the charms of beauty.  He has seized with his cold and icy grasp a loved one, and she has gone to the land of spirits.  It is heart rending to part with one so promising and lovely.  But the decree of God must be obeyed, and she now, like the drooping flower, rests among the unnumbered dead.  To her young friends, who associated with her so frequently, and were in her company almost daily, saw her enjoying life, health and happiness and in the short space of a few hours, behold her clothed in the habiliments of death, how pale! how silent! She now cannot rise to welcome you with that natural smiling face. Can you follow her to the open grave and stand among the habitations of the silent dead without there receiving an impression which shall sound in your ears for life?  You there see the narrow house appointed for all  living.  Fix your eyes on that last sad scene, and view life stripped of its beauty an ornaments.  You there must acknowledge the uncertainty of life and the power of death.  While you dropped the sympathetic tear over that friend, did you not think that you too must die.  Then let us improve this solemn warning. Engrave it upon our memories in a manner which will profit us hereafter.  To Miss Barnard's immediate relatives and friends who are most heart stricken at the loss so many deplore, we can sincerely, deeply and most affectionately sympathize with you in this afflictive bereavement and cheerfully leave the dead in the hands of that Being who has done all things well.

Sleep on gentle Lady, / And may the Angels of Heaven / Crown thee with flowers forever.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 19, 1857

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. E.D. Thurston, Mr. George W. Allen, of the former place to Miss Harriet O. Truesdell of Harpursville, Broome Co. [NY].

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., by Rev. Mr. Huntington, Mr. Clark S. Bradley to Miss Harriet Godfrey, all of the above place.

Died:  In King's Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. of consumption, Mrs. Maria P. [King], wife of Albert B. King, and daughter of the late Nathan Parker, Jr., of Norwich, aged 24 years.

Died:  In King's Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Bennie [King], infant son of Albert B. and Maria P. king, aged 1 year 3 months and 16 days.

Died:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] on the 12th inst., Mr. Matthew Griswold, aged 73 years.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on the 10th inst. Mr. James Patterson, aged 56 years.

Died:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] on the 3d inst. Mr. John Barnes, aged 76 years.

Died:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] on the 25th ult. at the residence of her son, Mrs. Lucy [Hewes] relict of the late Elijah Hewes, aged 82 years and 10 months.

Oxford Times, March 25, 1857

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst., by Rev.  H. Gee, Mr. Eli Willcox of this village, to Mrs. Mary Sawyer of Middlebury, Ohio.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. H. Gee, Mr. Lyman Elder of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Melinda Alexander of Norwich.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., Lucretia Maria Brooks, youngest daughter of Horace and Sally Brooks, aged 12 years.

Died:  In Buffalo on the 16th inst., at the residence of his son Charles E. Noble, Cyrenus Noble, Esq., in the eighty-first year of his age.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 26, 1857

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. by Rev. E. Hoag, Mr. Jacob Vosburgh, to Miss Hannah M. Minshin, both of Norwich.

Married:  In Lansing, Tompkins Co. [NY], on the 11th inst., by Rev. J.R. Burdick, Mr. Alfred W. Avery, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Amadella Head, of the former place.

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. J.W. Mitchell, Mr. Addison Taylor of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Emily C. [Dimmick], daughter of Ebner Dimmick, Esq., of the former place.

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. J.W. Mitchell, Mr. Benjamin P. Conkey, of Lebanon, Madison Co. [NY], to Miss Clarinda E. King of the former place.

Married:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst.by Rev. Mr. Row, Mr. Leonard A. Marble to Mrs. Rosetta Blackman, both of the above place.

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. by Rev. J. Chamberlin, Mr. James Foster, of Sherburne, to Miss Caroline Gorton, of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult., by Rev. L.G. Weaver, Mr. Lewis Coon, M.D., of Mount Upton [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Lucia Caragan, of Saratoga Springs [Saratoga Co., NY].

Married:  In Charleston, S.C., on the 5th inst., by the Rev. Wm. Bours, Daniel Gray, Esq., of New York, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eunice N. [Bours], only daughter of the late Luke Bours, Esq., of Charleston.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., of typhoid fever, Amos B. Packer, aged 46 years.

Died:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., Mrs. Betsey A. [Hickok], wife of Harlow Hickok, aged 36 years.

Died:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Doct. W.H. Wilbur, aged 42 years.