Oxford Times, April 1, 1857
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], March 25th, by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Orrin D. Powers of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Celinda C. Steere, of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., by Rev. J.G. Bartholomew, Mr. John V. Frost, to Miss Maria H. Smith, both of Oxford.
Married: In Marathon, Cortland Co. [NY], Jan. 4th, by Rev. Mr. Smith, Mr. Ransom Fretts of Tompkins Co. [NY], to Miss Cynthia M. Allen of the former place.
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on Saturday, the 28th of March, Mary [VanDerLyn], only daughter of Gerardus and Jane VanDerLyn, aged 33 years. Miss VanDerLyn's health had been declining for some months, but as no marked disease could be detected, she and her friends were looking forward with hope to the bright and balmy Spring, with its thousand harmonies, which she with an ardent love for the beautiful, well knew how to appreciate, to recall the faded bloom to her cheek, and strength to her wasted and fragile form. She was anticipating with enthusiastic delight the awakening of her flowers to lite and beauty, for of all the lovely garniture of earth, they were to her the loveliest. It was not to be! The blossoms which we fondly hoped would welcome her back to returning health, will breathe their fragrance o'er her grave. But we rejoice to think of her in the paradise of God, where the sunshine is his smile, crowned with a garland of unfading flowers.
Miss VanDerLyn added to fine mental culture, the many graces conferred by the heavenly principles of Christianity. She was reserved and retiring to an unusual degree, seeming to shrink intuitively from the glare and tumult of life, so that strangers knew little of the treasures of knowledge and goodness, which she possessed; but in the charmed circle of home, where alone the character can be truly developed and understood, she was loved with deep devotion. Seldom has the destroying angel left a deeper gloom or sterner anguish to attest his inexorable sway; and her mother's broken heart speaks her eulogy more eloquently than words have power to do.
She has gone! Serenely and calmly as she had lived, her features radiant as if they caught the light of seraph faces bending o'er her, she folded her spirit's wing in death; but the memory of her gentle virtues and unobtrusive worth will long remain as the soft luster of the setting sun lingers lovingly round the glowing west.
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult. Louisa [Gleason], wife of the late Joel F. Gleason, aged 49 years.
Died: In Smithville [Chenango co., NY], March 3d, Mr. Andrew Rorapaugh, aged 52 years.
Died: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th Feb., Dr. W.H. Wilbur aged 42 years.
Oxford Times, April 8, 1857
Died: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on 31st ult., Amy Adell [Ketchum], only child of Egbert and Martha Ann Ketchum, aged 7 years.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Mr. Jesse Keech, aged 83 years.
Oxford Times, April 15, 1857
Married: In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday, April 12th, by Rev. J.W. Mitchell, Mr. Lester Smith of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Lura Brown, of the former place.
Died: Very suddenly, on Sabbath morning, the 12th inst., Mrs. Sara Chapman, aged 71 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral from the residence of her son-in-law, J.G. Thorp. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth, yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."
Died: In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], on the 4th inst., of Consumption, Rev. Perry G. White, aged 47 years.
Oxford Times, April 22, 1857
Married: At the residence of the bride's father, on Tuesday, Aril 14th, by the Rev. A. McDougall, Mr. David S. Miller, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Harriet L. Hall, daughter of Col. S.S. Hall, of Earlville.
Oxford Times, April 29, 1857
Married: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Elias G. Forbes, of Lane, Ill., to Miss Charlotte M. Carter, of the former place.
Married: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst., by Rev. Wm. M. Delong, Orlando F. Cowles, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Olive P. Hotchkiss, of the former place.
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., by the Rev. H. Duane, Mr. Charles T. Race of East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Laura A. Caton, of the former place.
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th, Ezekiel C. Willcox, aged 33 years.
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