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Vital Records - Oxford, NY - August 1857

 Oxford Times, August 5, 1857

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Charles E. Carmer of Oxford to  Miss Catharine Harvey, of Cortland [Cortland Co., NY].

Married:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult., by Rev. Wm. Bixby, Rev. Robert Townsend, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Abbey Jones, of the former place.

Married:  In Greene, Chenango Co., N.Y. on Tuesday, 28th July, by the Rev. Ferdinand Rogers, at the residence of Frederick Juliand, Esq., William H. Clarke of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Julia McMahon.

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., Mr. Israel Jacobs, aged 66 years.

Died:  In South Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., Doct. H.D. Spencer, aged 34 years.

Died:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult., Mr. Jarvis Rogers, aged 52 years.

Died:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult., Waity [Boss], wife of Mr. Benjamin Boss, aged 74 years.

Died:  At Rathboneville, Steuben Co., N.Y., on the 27th July, Mrs. Catharine Rathbone, wife of Gen. Ransom Rathbone, in the 67th year of her age.  She was the daughter of Capt. John Fisher, an Englishman, and when an infant, removed with her parents to the city of New York.  Miss Catharine Fisher was thoroughly educated to excel in all the departments of female life. And when a fair and graceful maiden, she visited in 1807 a female friend in Oxford.  Gen. Rathbone, a young and enterprising merchant of Oxford, had the good sense to discover and the good fortune to marry this inestimable treasure of love and goodness.  They commenced their married life in the beautiful valley, of the Chenango.  The graceful manners and varied accomplishments of Mrs. Rathbone, aided by a munificent husband, tendered her home the resort of the most refined society, where wit, genius and learning loved to assemble. She was the morning star of light and life and joy. The love of God was the pervading beauty of her life, and gave to her presence the charm that ever distinguished her.  At Oxford she passed her happiest days.  She was then in the bloom of youth, when Nature lays upon the lap of life her sweetest flowers.  With a husband, who never ceased to love and honor her, and surrounded by sons and daughters of beauty, this accomplished lady passed her long virtuous career, through the varied joys and sorrows of earth.  One of her earliest friends, who knew her well, and appreciated her surpassing goodness as a wife and as a mother, pays to her memory this sad tribute of affection and esteem.  The word of her Heavenly Father was the guide of her early life, and she has received the reward of immortality in the Paradise of God.

Oxford Times, August 12, 1857

Died:  At Preston Corners [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st July, Capt. Joseph Slater, aged 80 years.

Oxford Times, August 19, 1857

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Mr. George W. Godfrey, aged 44 years.

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., Diantha [Warn], wife of Mr. Charles Warn, aged 43 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Mr. Thomas Potter, aged 84 years.  

Died:  Also, on the 9th inst., Mr. Lyman Dudley, aged 71 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Mrs. Rodney Phelps, aged 70 years.

Died:  Also, on the 8th inst., Mrs. Rachel Gilliland, aged 63 years.

Oxford Times, August 26, 1857

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. Wm. Bixby, Mr. N.S. Browning of Larron, Wis., to Miss Mary J. Ames of the former place.

Died:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Mrs. Phebe Evans, aged 30 years.

Died:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] on the 4th inst. Mr. Sabin Warner, aged 54 years

Died:  Also, on the 13th, Mr. Barnabas Brown, aged 53 years.




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