Vital Records - Oxford, NY - January 1858

 Oxford Times, January 6, 1858

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult., by Rev. Wm. Bixby, Mr. D.L. Shepard to Miss Almeda Winsor, both of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], on the 20th ult. by Rev. H. Callahan, Mr. Robert T. Davidson to Miss Almira Haynes, both of Oxford.

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst. by Rev. J.G. Bartholomew, Mr. William L. Skinner to Miss Julia E. Spencer, both of Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Joseph Estabrooks of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Emily Fisk of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th ult. by Rev. D.C. Dutcher, Mr. Jerome Seymour of Triangle [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Kate Benedict of the former place.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. Adelbert Race, aged 18 years.

Oxford Times, January 13, 1858

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on 31st ult. by Rev. D. Macurdy, Mr. J.J. Hull to Miss Sarah M. Mead, all of this town.

Married:  in Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult. by Rev. H.W. Gilbert, Mr. Rufus Converse of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary L. Bingham of Greene.

Married:  In Owego [Tioga Co., NY], on the 25th ult. by Rev. H.W. Gorham, Mr. Raymond Adams of Owego to Miss Harriet Hull, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  in Guilford, on the 10th inst. Mrs. Meriam Carhart, aged 63? years.

Oxford Times, January 20, 1858

Death of William H. Hamilton:  A telegram received here on Saturday last announced the death of William H. Hamilton.  We have no information in regard to the details of this sad event.  Letters from Nebraska lately received by friends, spoke in flattering terms of the health and prospects of Mr. Hamilton.  The electric shock that announced his death came like a flash of lightning from the clear sky.  In the fall of 1856, Mr. Hamilton left us in the flush of health to join his brother, who had preceded him in Nebraska, lured by the golden vision with which the horizon of the West, so often like an "ignis fatuus," attracts youthful ambition, and enterprise to an untimely end.  Many will call to mind the narrow escape from the burning "Niagara," by which Mr. Hamilton was rescued from a watery grave, on his outward journey, and his gallant and manly bearing in that trying scene.  Strange to us seems the solemn dispensation, which permitted him to escape unharmed the fire and water, to die in the country of his adoption.  Mr. Hamilton, a short time before his death, had gone to Brownville in Nebraska, and was in a Land Office at that place, having previously been at Omaha City  He was for some time in trade with his brother here, and acquired many friends.  He leaves a mother in Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], where his remains will be brought today, who in her sad bereavement will have the sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends and acquaintances, who lament with her the loss of one gifted with much that was generous and manly.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co. NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. H.W. Gilbert, Mr. George H. Cone of Milford, Otsego Co. [NY], to Miss Margaret J. VanNess.

Married:  In Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY], on the 3d inst. by Rev. B. Stare, Mr. Lee Davis to Miss Cornelia E. Munn, both of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the -?- inst. Mr. Benjamin Hammond, aged 73? years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mrs. S.... Walker, aged 33 years.

Oxford Times, January 27, 1859

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst. by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Henry Race to Miss Jan E. Jacobs, both of Oxford.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst. by Rev. D.C. Dutcher, Mr. Elihu Haight, to Miss Mary Parker, all of Greene.

Married:  In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Samuel W. Rogers, Esq. Philander Bixby, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], to Betsey D. Randall, of Port Crane [Broome Co., NY].

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by Rev. R. Queal, Mr. James M. Ross to Miss Frances E. Mason, both of Preston.

Died:  In Triangle, Broome co. [NY], on the 15th inst., Jesse Williams, aged 52 years.

Died:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult., Mrs. Rebecca Angel, wife of Isaac m. Angel, aged 77 years.

Died:  in McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst. of consumption, Mrs. Cornelia H. [Hill], wife of Edwin Hill.

Died:  At Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. Mr. William Henry Brown, aged 41 years.  

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., Mr. Hiram Norris, aged 35 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., Phebe [Humphrey], wife of Mr. Sylvester Humphrey, aged 69 years.

Died:  In Concord, Ky., Aug. 1857, Edwin F. McFarland, Jr. aged 28 years. 

Died:  At the same place, Dec. 12th, Edwin F. McFarland, aged 49 years, both formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 15th ult. William Ingersoll, aged 33 years, formerly of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].