Vital Records - Oxford, NY - May 1861

 Oxford Times, May 6, 1857

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. John McNitt to Miss Eveline L. Crandall, both of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

A man name Marcenus, a mason by trade, was walking on the track of the Erie RR, near Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], Friday morning, when the train approached and he stepped off.  He was instantly seized with a fit, however, fell upon the track again, and was killed.

Oxford Times, May 13, 1857

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. A. Parker, Mr. Edwin V. Green to Miss Maria P. Carpenter, both of Oxford.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday, the 3d inst., Mrs. Persis Tracy, widow of the late Uri Tracy, deceased, aged 51 years.  Since early womanhood, Mrs. Tracy had been marked as the sure victim of that prevalent and unerring destroyer of human life, consumption.  With an energy and a buoyancy of spirit unsurpassed, she wrestled with her malady, maintaining an equanimity of temper rarely met with.  The grumbler, the fault finder, the rebel against the decrees of Providence under difficulties less trying, under sufferings less poignant, under trials much less burdensome, beheld or might have beheld in her and her life, an example of what native cheerfulness, energy, and a fixed purpose to discharge the whole duty of life, chastened and directed by the influences of religion, may accomplish under the severest trials.  For more than 20 years in appearance to the eye of her friends, and the world, she has travelled life's pathway upon the very verge of the tomb, yet she faltered not, nor did she repine, but combating disease, waring against adverse circumstances, she met boldly the duties of life, discharged them faithfully in all relations, as daughter, sister, wife and mother, and ready prepared for the last great change, put off the burden of the flesh, to be clothed in celestial garments.

Died:  In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 29th ult., Mrs. Ann Bradley, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 62 years.

Died:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Frances Jane [Redfield], daughter of Mr. Chester Redfield, aged 21 years.

Oxford Times, May 20, 1857

Married:  In Harford, Cortland Co. [NY], on the 9th inst., by Rev. W.G. Hubbard, Mr. Harry J. Wattles of Lisle [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Augusta P. Dodge, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  At Maple Grove, Otsego Co. [NY], on 27th ult. Zenas Washburn, Esq., father of the Rev. Daniel Washburn.

\Oxford Times, May 27, 1857

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] on the 14th inst., by Rev. J.G. Bartholomew, Mr. Augustus June to Miss Margaret A. Fitch, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst., Mrs. Susan Tracy, relict of Hial Tracy, Esq., aged 86 years.

Died:  In Dooly County, Georgia, on the 27th April, Mr. Silas Dewitt Read, aged 37 years, son of Silas and Malinda Read of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].