Chenango American, Greene, NY, November 4, 1858
Married: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 22th ult., by Rev. Jas. D. Webster, Mr. H.N. Furlow, to Miss Julia Springsten, all of the above place.
Married: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., by Rev. D.C. Dutcher, Mr. Wesley Warren, of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary A. Coles, of the former place.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., of Consumption, Miss Eliza A. Brown, daughter of Dudley Brown, aged 24 years.
Died: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Miss Sarah D. Nichols, aged 19 years.
Died: In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th ult., Mrs. Minewell [Storrs], wife of Dea. Benj. Storrs, aged 80 years.
Died: Suddenly, in consequence of an accident on the cars of the Buffalo, New York and Erie Rail Road, Oct. 28th, 1858, Silas M. [Read], son of Merick and Loly Read, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], of this village, aged 18 years. The death of this youth has crushed parental hearts and elicited the deepest sympathy throughout this community. He had just left home for the West to begin, in a measure, life for himself, when the tidings of his sudden and shocking death, by the cars being thrown from the track, came back to bow the hearts of the family circle in sorrow to the earth. Under this terrible calamity the voice of Divine chastisement seems to proclaim, "Be still and know that I am God." Surely His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. It is indeed difficult for the heart of yearning parental affection to say "Thy will be done." It is in events of clouded character, like these, so unfathomable by human penetration that we are compelled to look beyond this world, to the light of a higher state of knowledge and vision, to learn their full interpretation and significance. The funeral services were attended on Sunday last from the Episcopal Church, when a sermon was preached by the Pastor in connection with this thrilling dispensation of mystery and sorrow. The church was crowded to its utmost capacity, and the services participated in by the concourse of friends and neighbors, with evidences on their part of the deepest sympathy. The young especially in large numbers, sought in all possible ways to attest their sympathetic feelings, and their sense of personal grief for the loss of a companion whom they had known and loved. Fourteen of their number of about the age of the deceased, his former school fellows and mates, attended as pall-bearers, and dropped their twigs of evergreen, symbols of enduring affection and hope for the future, into his opened grave.
"On now, his requiem is done, / The Last deep prayer is said, / On to his burial, comrades, on. / With a friend and brother dead! / Slow, for it presses heavily / A manly form ye bear! / Slow, for our thoughts dwell wearily / On the youthful sleeper there.
"Rest now! his journeying is done / Your feet are on his sod / Death's blow has fell'd a noble one / He waiteth here his God. / Ah, turn and weep, tis manliness / To be heart broken here / For the grave of one, the best of us, / Is water's by the tear."
Death of Silas M. Read
It is with emotions of no ordinary character that we chronicle the sudden decease of Silas M. Read, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY]. The funeral knell often summons us to mourn departed friends, often reminds us that we are all traveling the great highway which leads to the portals of the tomb, yet rarely does it fall with such a heavy shock upon the ear, and seldom does it reveal so vividly and with such terrible distinctness the frail tenure of our hold upon this life, as it does when it warns us of the violent death of one who but a few hours previous we had known in the full enjoyment of perfect health, with a bright promise of many years of usefulness and happiness.
The youth whose sudden departure we are called upon to record, was a young man of rare qualities. All who knew him remember well his kind and amiable disposition, his modest and unassuming deportment. Friendly to all, unkind to none, his manly bearing won the respect and esteem of each of his associates. Possessed of a fair education, he had made business arrangements in the West, in which he was to commence the active duties of life. On Wednesday, the 27th ult. he left his parental roof on his journey thither In a few brief hours he had started upon that long, long voyage from which no traveler returns, and all that remained on this earth of Silas Read, was returned to his sorrowful, stricken family and friends, to be deposited in the cold grave. He who "Reaps the bearded grain at a breath, / And the flowers that grow between!" saw fit, in His mysterious Providence, to remove him from the scenes of earth, by a sudden and afflicting dispensation. The manner of his death may be learned from the painful particulars of the accident on the Buffalo, New York and Erie Railroad, which we publish.
His funeral, on Sabbath last, was largely attended, especially by the young, who were his companions and associates. The kindred of the deceased desire us to return their grateful thanks to the citizens and friends, for their kind and generous sympathy in this overwhelming bereavement, and for their efforts to pour the oil of consolation upon wounded and lacerated hearts. May it be long ere we are called upon to record a similar calamity.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, November 11, 1858
Married: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. by Rev. Jas. D. Webster, Mr. John C. Marcy, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eliza J. Carter, of the former place.
Married: In Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], on the 28th ult., by Rev. Mr. Early, Mr. A.S. Gaskin, of Utica [Oneida Co., NY], to Miss M. Louise Phelps, of the former place.
Married: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], September 29th, by Rev. C. Bennett, Mr. John Doing, to Miss Emily J. Taylor, both of Plymouth.
Married: In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult., by Rev. F.H. Hill, Mr. William Perry White of Pharsalia, to Miss Julia A. Bartlett, of Bethany, Genesee Co. [NY].
Married: At the Lewis House in Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], by Rev. T. Dwight Walker, Mr. J. Bailey Richardson of Lowell, Mass., to Miss Elizabeth J. Moulter of the former place, daughter of Michael Moulter, Esq.
Died: At Steamboat Rock, Iowa, October 25th, Mr. William H. Bennett, son of Hon. Harmon Bennett, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged 22 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Ella Jane [Lownsberry], daughter of Benj. F. and Charlotte Lownsberry, aged 4 months.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Orlin [Beardsley], son of Mr. Orlando Beardsley, aged 8 years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, November 18, 1858
Married: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., by Rev. A. McDougal, Mr. Dwight I. Boyce, to Miss Betsy Ann Adams, both of Sherburne.
Married: At the same time and place, and by the same, Albert Aldrich, of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sarah Ann Dimmick, formerly of Plymouth.
Married: In Homer [Cortland Co., NY], on the 11th inst., by Rev. Albert Bigelow, Mr. Nathan Randall, of Syracuse [Onondaga Co., NY] to Mrs. Emily Miller, of Homer.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th of Oct. Esther Kelso, in the 46th year of her age.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, November 25, 1858
Married: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult. by Rev. Mr. Holroyd, Mr. Hiram Hotchkiss of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Harriet M. Perkins, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. A. McDougall, Mr. J.C. Harrington, of Fulton [Oswego Co., NY], Miss Mary E Whitney, of Sherburne.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Mrs. Polly Davis, aged 94 years.
Frozen to Death: On Friday last, the body of a man named Eugene Riley, an Irishman, about 55 years of age, who for some time past has led a vagabond life, was found in the shed adjoining the school house, on the east side of the river, two miles above this village, frozen to death He had a jug by his side, partially filled with whiskey. He had been missing for nearly a week, and had undoubtedly lain there that length of time. The verdict of the Coroner's jury was death by intoxication and exposure.
Died, in Coventry, Chenango County [NY], on Monday the 15th inst., William Bush, aged 73 years and 8 months. Mr. Bush was born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., April 15th, 1785, and in the same Fall, came to what is now Chenango County, where he has ever since resided. He was the first white boy brought into Chenango County. He may well have been called the oldest inhabitant. He lived to a good and honorable old age, and died respected and lamented by a large circle of relatives and friends. Broome Rep.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, November 4, 1858
Death of Hon. Alvah Hunt: We have to record this week the death, suddenly, by apoplexy, of Hon. Alvah Hunt, on the 28th ultimo, aged about 60 years. Mr. H. was formerly for many years a resident of this village, having come here when quite a youth He was engaged through a long period, in mercantile pursuits, in which he became successful. He was at various times honored by offices of trust and prominence in the State. He was twice sent to the State Senate from this District, and twice consecutively was he elected as Treasurer of the State. Possessed as he was of decided executive ability, with a ready and extended knowledge of men and of the means of political advancement, he exerted at times large influence in the political organization with which he acted. During the few later years of his life he had withdrawn from the arena of politics, and residing in the city of New York, until the time of his death, was connected with the Desmoines Navigation and Improvement Company, as Treasurer. Mr. H. was a self made man, having arisen to the position he occupied, from a condition of poverty, by native force of talent and character.
Nor was he willing as too many men who have attained to competency of means, to settle down with indifference to the resources of knowledge which lay open around him in life. He was a diligent and careful reader, lingering often over his books till beyond the midnight hour. Thus was much of the leisure from the claims of business spent. In this way he gathered from the recorded thoughts of other minds a large stock of varied information and his sagacious and ready talent brought this knowledge to bear in the social interchanges of life. From these intellectual tastes and aptitudes he was an interesting talker; apt and copious in fact and anecdote, clear in his conception of a point under discussion, and vigorous in the expression of his thoughts in the play of conversational intercourse.
These very brief notices of one who sleeps in our midst, have been hastily thrown together by one who knew him as a neighbor, who had never aught but kindly intercourse with him, and who would breathe over his new made grave that sentiment which the kind heart will feel even towards an enemy gone, much more a friend, Requiescat in pace, "May he rest in peace."
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