Vital Records - October 1856

 Oxford Times, October 1, 1856

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., by the Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Austin Hamilton to Miss Polly G. Smith, all of Oxford.

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], 24th ult., by Rev. W. Bixby, Mr. James E. Brooks of Oxford, to Miss Isabella S. Farrand of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY].

Died:  In Prarie Du Chien, Wis., Aug. 15th, John Cary [Bradley], infant son of E.A. and H.M. Bradley.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, October 2, 1856

Married:  In Bridgewater, Oneida Co. [NY], on the morning of the 23d ult. by Rev. Mr. Cutter, Mr. G.M. Cole, of Clinton [Oneida Co., NY], to Miss M. Eliza Denison, of the former place.

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], by Rev. E.D. Thurston, Mr. Cyrus W. Hamilton, of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary  Jane Dunning of the former place.

Died:  In Candis, N.H., on the 28th inst., Moses S. Emerson, Esq., of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], aged 51 years.

Died: In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY]  on the 30th ult., Mrs. Laura [Cushman], wife of Mr. Ugcnior Cushman, aged 51 years.  Most sudden and startling is the bereaving Providence embraced in this record.  But a few days since, this departed friend was among us in the seeming enjoyment of wonted health and it is most difficult to realize that she is gone.  The work of disease was indeed brief and rapid and compete.  Among the sad remembrances of their fearful bereavement is the fact that she was not conscious during the last two days of lingering life.  But her character in all the endearing relationships of life was too well [-?-] own to require the [-?-] of death bed [-?-] that she  was very ready to depart.  For many years she had been a communicant of the church to which her affections strongly clung, and she was a simple hearted, true and faithful disciple of her Lord and Saviour, kind and affectionate in the domestic circle, faithful and devoted in her friendships, beloved by many who so well knew her character and feel acutely her loss. There are features of this dark dispensation that make it gloomy to contemplate. A husband mourns the loss of a beloved and devoted wife.  Children just at the age to need a mother's counsel and care are stricken with orphanage.  An aged mother who was in a few days to make this departed daughter's house her abiding home during the remainder of her pilgrimage, is made most touchingly to feel her desolation and bereavement.  "But God's ways are not as our ways."  We have but to bow before Him and say, "thy will be done."  Among those who "through the chances and changes of life" will also miss her that is gone, are the sick and the needy. She was ever ready to minister as far as her power extended to those who need the kindly offices which these conditions and relations demand.  But she was too well known in our midst during a residence of many years to require extended notice here and her virtues are written imperfectly with the pen. They are traced more vividly and abidingly on the tender tablet of the heart  "Oh tis well with her; but who can tell, what the future, thick robed in darkness, may bring to us."

Oxford Times, October 8, 1856

Died:  In Preston, on the 24th ult., Mr. Asa Sheldon, aged 70 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on 22d ult., Col. Zadock Adams, of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], aged 76 years.

Died:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on 2d inst., Rosina T. Lamb, aged 15 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, October 9, 1856

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Diana A. [Dibble] wife of Roderick R. Dibble, aged 26 years.

Oxford Times, October 15, 1856

Married:  In Poughkeepsie, Oct. 9th, in the first Dutch Reformed Church, by A. Mann, D.D., Mr. Augustus Cole of Oconto, Wisconsin, to Miss Frances M. Davis of Poughkeepsie [Dutchess Co., NY].

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., nY], on the 7th inst., Mr. Stephen Turner, aged 54 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, October 16, 1856

Married:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. by Rv. E.D. Thurston, Jonathan C. Jones, of German [Chenango Co., NY] to Lucinda F. Emerson, of the former place.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by Rev. E.D. Thurston, Anthony H. Lloyd, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], to Jenette White, of Greene.

Married:  In Clarkville, Madison Co. [NY], on the 12th inst. by Rev. Eli S. Bailey, Mr. Paul Cheesebro, of  Leonardsville, N.Y. [Madison Co.], to Miss E. Jane Denison, of the former place.

Died:  In Willet [Cortland Co., NY], o the 18th inst., Parley Pember, aged 59 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, October 23, 1856

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst., by Rev. H.W. Gilbert, Mr. Lucius T. Darby, and Mrs. Mary S. Maynard.

Married:  At Morris, Otsego Co. [NY], on the 20th inst., by the Rev. Lyman Fisher, Alfred Borden, to Caroline Wiswell, both of South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst. by Rev. J. Chamberlin, Rufus Wells, to Eliza Tanner, both of Norwich.

Married:  In St. Peter's Church, Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. by Rev. John Bailey, Thomas Evans, of Wilmington, N.C. to Addie Ford, of the former place.

Married:  In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] on the 5th inst. by Rev. S.A. Douglas, Charles J. Biggs, to Cynthia E. Wilbur.

Married:  Also, on the 16th inst. by the same, Abner W. Burlingame to Hannah E. Gage, all of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst., by G.W. Edwards, Esq., John P. Taylor to Losetta Lant, all of Lebanon, Madison Co. [NY].

Married:  In German [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by G.H. Livermore, Esq., James Allen of Willet, Cortland Co. [NY] to Julia A Storing, daughter of  Hon. Adam Storing, of the above place.

Married:  In Cincinnatus, Cortland Co. [NY], on the 14th inst., by Rev. T.D. Wires, Levi Randall to Adelia L. Eddy, daughter of George W. Eddy, Esq., of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 14th inst., at the residence of Lewis Seymour, Esq., by Rev. Amos B. Beach, Lorenzo Seymour of Chicago (Ill), to Frances Seymour, of the former place.

Died:  In Cooperstown [Otsego Co., NY] on Thursday, the 2d inst., Cora Ann [Hewes], daughter of Patrick Hewes, aged 25 years.

 Oxford Times, October 29, 1856

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th inst., by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. James Palmer of Oxford to Miss Lucinda Ingram of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th inst., by the Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Isaac A. Simpson to Miss Sally F. Moore, all of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 20th, by Rev. J.B. Hoyt, Mr. Nathaniel V. Eastwood to Miss Mary Ann [Jossleyn], daughter of Mr. Charles Jossleyn, all of Coventry.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th inst., Clara [Willcox], wife of Mr. Eli Willcox, aged 46 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, October 30, 1856

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] Oct. 20th, by Rev. A.G. Burlingame, C.G. Whitcomb, to Betsey A. Church, both of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], Oct. 22d, by Rev. Chas. Stritt, Alonzo Scarritt, to Avis A. Card, both of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Lebanon, Madison county [NY], Oct. 21st, at the residence of O.B. Gilbert, by the Rev. Bela Palmer, Geo. P. Avery to Cornelia R. Pratt, both of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., Minnie C. [Tubbs], daughter of Moses Tubbs, aged 11 months and 3 days.

D.M. Holdredge, of Bainbridge, N.Y. [Chenango Co., NY] was taken very singularly ill at the Girard House, New York, where he was stopping.  He fell asleep on Wednesday night and has not since awoke, though electricity and other stimulants have been applied.  It is thought there is an effusion of blood in the brain.  P.S.  He died on Sunday the 19th int. His remains were brought home for burial.