Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 4, 1859
We learn that a man named Reed was killed in the town of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on Tuesday last under the following circumstances. He was engaged at Gelemore's saw mill in rolling logs down an embankment to a position where they would be handy for drawing on to the carriage, when a log behind him became loosened from its brace and rolled down against him prostrating him and passing over his body. His chest was crushed and various limbs broken. His injuries were so severe that death resulted almost instantly.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 11, 1859
Married: WHEELER - DOTY: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inat., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Nehemiah Wheeler Jr., to Miss Frances V. Doty, both of Oxford.
Married: PRESH - SULLIVAN: In Bath, Steuben Co. on the 13th ult., by Rev. George D. Stewart, John Presho, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Agnes Sullivan, of Bath.
Died: BRYANT: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Seneca V. Bryant, aged 52 years.
Died: WEBSTER: In Fort Plain [Montgomery Co., NY], April 28th, Katharine Abbie [Webster], only daughter of Charles W. and Julia P. Webster, aged 1 year, 2 months and 5 days.
Died: ABERCROMBIE:" In Erie Pa., on Sunday morning, April 16th, Mary Riddell [Abercrombie], daughter of Rev. James and Elizabeth A.B. Abercrombie, aged 12 years.
Died: WESTOVER: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], April 27th, Clarissa E Westover, aged 15 years.
Died: LEONARD: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], April 21st, Susan Leonard aged 13 months.
Died: GERE: At Table Rock, Nebraska Ter., April 14th, Julia M. Gere, aged 18 years, formerly a Student of Oxford Academy [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: BARBER: At Centre Point, Cayuga County, N.Y. April 18th, Diana [Barber], wife of V. Kinyon Barber, M.D., and daughter of Joseph Birdlebough, of German [Chenango Co., NY], aged 34 years.
Died: RUSSELL: At South Hampton, Madison County [NY], April 30th, Sarah M. Russell, daughter of Elijah H. Russell, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 16? years.
Died: PIKE: in Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], April 15th, Henry Pike, aged 73 years, 8 months.
Found Dead: We are indebted to Coroner Day, for the proceedings of an inquest held by him on the body of Samuel Crandall of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] who was found dead in his house on Thursday morning last. The deceased was a man of intemperate habits, and on Wednesday night was seen by the neighbors crawling upon his hands and knees into the back door of his house, where, being a bachelor, he lived alone. Not making his appearance the next morning, an entrance to the house was made through a window, and Crandall was found lying on his face at the foot of the hall stairs, dead, and with a bruise on the side of the head, beneath and around which bruise Dr. Beecher, who made an examination, found the brain considerably congested. Verdict of the jury in accordance with these facts. Deceased was fifty or fifty-five years old.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 18, 1859
Married: COLLINS - WILCOX: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst. by Rev. H. Doane, Joseph Collins to Miss Lydia Wilcox, all of this place.
Married: ANDREWS - MILLER: On the morning of the 11th inst. at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. A. McDougall, Edwin C. Andrews, of Homer [Cortland co., NY], to Miss Jennie A. Miller of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: HARTSHORN - WILLIAMS: In Bellaire, Ohio, by Rev. R.H. Holliday, Rev. T.C. Hartsboro of Cleveland, Ohio, State Agent of the American Bible Society, formerly of Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], to Miss Kittie Williams, daughter of the late Hon. James L. Williams, of Washignton City, D.C.
Died: MARBLE: In Milwaukee, Wednesday, May 11, of consumption, Miss Catharine M. Marble, of New Berlin, Chenango Co., N.Y., aged 19 years.
Died: FERRY: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], May 10, Paul Ferry, aged 79 years.
Died: BURLISON: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], April 17, Azor Burlison, aged 74 years.
Died: WARD: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 28, Mrs. Lurana Ward, aged 83 years.
Died: WELLS: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 30, Mrs. Sally Wells, aged 48 years.
Died: NEWTON: I Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY], March 17, Mrs. Lydia Newton, aged 51 years.
Died: KITTREDGE: In New Haven, Oswego Co., N.Y., May 2d, Charlotte Helena Kittridge.
Died: HEWIT: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Lewis Hewit, aged about 19 years.
Died: WINSLOW: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], May 4, Mrs. Hepsey Winslow, aged about 72 years.
The Boyce Family: The Worcester, Mass, Daily Spy of the 9th contains the following relative to the family of Mr. Boyce, who died in new Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], two or three weeks since.
The death of Mr. Thomas Boyce, formerly of Worcester County, in Chenango County, N.Y., at the advanced age of 93 years was noticed in the Spy of Saturday. He belonged to that branch of Scotch-Irish immigrants who early in the last century, settled in Worcester, and many of whose descendants now occupy that portion of the town of Rutland called "Dublin." They suffered much from the unreasonable and wicked prejudices of their neighbors. A church which they attempted to build, of the Presbyterian faith, was destroyed at night by a tumultuous mob, in which, ways Lincoln's History of Worcester, "persons of consideration and respectability" took a leading part. A portion of them, driven away by persecution, founded the town of Pellham in Hampshire County, the rest conquered the jealousy with which they were at first regarded by the influence of their simple virtues and sterling worth. Mr. Boyce left Worcester County nearly half a century ago, yet many of our older citizens still remember the family as they were at the time when all within a circuit of twenty miles were regarded as neighbors.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 26, 1859
Married: SPAFFORD - LORD: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst. at the residence of T.G. Card, by Rev. L.E. Spafford, H .G. Spafford, of Pittsfield, Otsego Co. [NY], to Miss Fidelia Lord, of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: BUTOLPH: In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., Mrs. David Butolph, aged 76 years.
Died: CARR: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. Robert Carr, aged 29 years.
Died: ANGELL: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th? of April, Mary Ann [Angell], wife of Israel Angell, aged 42 years.
Died: MEDBURY: In New Berlin village [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst., Charles Medbury, aged 79 years.
Died: ALLEN: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th? inst., Genevieve Green Allen, in the 7th year of her age.
Died: SIMONS: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th? inst. John l. Simons, aged 64? years.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 11, 1859
Strange Story: We have been requested to suppress the names in the following curious history, which has recently transpired, or rather, the last chapter of which recently occurred in this county [Madison Co. NY]. A farmer's son some twelve years ago, married a neighboring girl, the daughter of a very respectable family. They removed immediately to a distant place, where they had been living but a few days, when upon his return home one evening, the wife of a week was missing. She did not return that night, during which he felt, of course, the utmost anxiety, and in the morning he started in search of her. He could only learn that she had taken the stage alone, which led to a railroad station, some miles distant. He followed, but at the depot lost all trace of her. He wrote to her former home, and published notices in the newspapers, but could obtain no clue to her whereabouts. He grieved in loneliness at her supposed criminal act, and to escape the scene where his week of unsullied happiness had been followed by so great a grief, he removed to this then sparsely settled wilderness. He here settled upon a promising piece of land, and in its cultivation and the care of life, sought forgetfulness of the past. He succeeded measurably, has filled offices of trust, and grown wealthy. After a few years, his home requiring attention, he married, but his wife lived only long enough to bear him a son, and witness the first year of the little one's existence.
A few weeks since, as the well-to-do man of the world was sitting by his fireside, there entered the house a woman well clad of fuller form and twelve years older, but the picture of the long lost bride of a week, and she was accompanied by a girl of near a dozen years.
The sober man of forty was startled, but asked the stranger visitor to be seated. Then came her long and agonizing story. All was oblivious to her for the first ten years of their separation. She could tell nothing, except of one hour of returned reason, when the little girl beside her, his daughter, was brought into the world. After that long time, fitfully, and at periods remote from each other came back reason and memory. She had wandered to a distant city, in a state of mild insanity; there she fell among kind people, and was installed in an insane asylum. After the birth of the daughter and ten years more spent within its walls, thoughts of her youth, her home and her husband came back. She slowly recovered; then visited her parents, learned where her husband was, and flew to him. Be sure he clasped her in his arms, and they wept upon each other's necks. Again going before the altar, they were united and she now presides with careful dignity and ease over his household.
But little is said about it in the neighborhood, except expressions of wonder at Squire D.'s sudden and unexpected marriage to one whom they supposed to be a fair widow with whom he had recently become acquainted. Madison Argus, April 19.
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