Oxford Times, February 2, 1859
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th ult. Mr. Edward S. Clark of Preston [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Sarah Breed of Norwich.
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d Dec. last, by Rev. C.H. Blakeslee, Mr. Daniel H. Green to Miss Lovina Dibble, all of Norwich.
Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th ult. Mr. Levi Gridley, aged 80 years.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 27th, Mr. Andrew Yeomans, aged 51 years.
Died: At Waterville, Lucas Co., Ohio, on Jan. 21st, 1859, Julia A. Northrup, widow of Eliakim Northrup, formerly of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], aged 50 years.
Oxford Times, February 9, 1859
Married: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st Jan. 1859, by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Silas W. Nott of Chicago, Ill. to Miss Helen L. Ingersoll of Oxford.
Married: In DeRuyter [Madison Co., NY], Jan. 23d, by Rev. L.L. Gage, Mr. William Hayden to Miss Harriet M. Barnes, both of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th Jan., by Rev. Mr. Potter, Mr. Frank W. Comstock of Ligionier, Noble Co. Ind. to Miss Delia B. Osgood of Preston.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th Jan. Mrs. Sally Buel, aged 77 years.
Oxford Times, February 16, 1859
Married: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 26th, by Rev. A. Ketchum, Mr. Nelson C. Humphrey of Guilford [Chenango C., NY] to Miss Helen A. Williams of Bainbridge.
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., William James Brooks, son of Henry and Helen Brooks, aged 10 months.
Died: In Smithville Flats, [Chenango Co., NY] on the 9th inst. Mr. Andrew J. Harrison, aged 30 years.
Died: In German [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. Edwin [Saxton], son of Henry Saxton, aged 19 years.
In New York, suddenly of apoplexy, on the 3d of February inst., Mr. George Farnham, formerly of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], in the 59th year of his age.
In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Mary Jane Comstock, aged 23 years.
Oxford Times, February 23, 1859
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Charles E. Stratton of Miss Marion L. Bulkley all of Oxford.
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 16th, by Rev. W.T. Potter, Mr. James E Jacobs, to Miss Catharine V. Norris, both of Oxford.
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Martin Van Buren Bartle to Miss Mary Adelia Holmes, all of Oxford.
Married: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by Rev. J.D. Webster, Mr. John G. Lucas of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Nancy C. Haynes of the former place.
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst. by Rev. H. Doane, Mr. Orrin Miner of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Esther A. Wescott of Norwich.
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst. by Rev. O. Bennett, E.L. Ensign, M.D., of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], to Mrs. Alcinda Field, daughter of Benjamin Randall, of Norwich.
Died: At her residence, in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday afternoon, February 18th, Mrs. Sally Farnham, aged 78 years and nine months. Mrs. Farnham was the sister of Francis and Samuel Balcom, and the last of a large family. She came here with her parents in 1796, was therefore one of the first inhabitants, fully acquainted with all the incidents of this settlement, sharing in the privations and hardships of pioneer life, and learning to appreciate every step made toward the educational and religious advantages of the present day. She heard wolves howl in the wilderness which has since been converted into fertile fields and broad meadows, seen rocks and stumps vanish, and give place to pleasant homes. Spire after spire successively point heavenward, and the village she loved so well, grow from a few isolated dwellings, to its present dimensions. She came soon after her marriage to live in the home where she died, there buried her husband and reared to manhood, a family of six sons, two of whom have within a year preceded her to the grave. Devoted to the care and well being of her family, she has yet been a living example of what may be accomplished in spare moments in cultivating the intellectual faculties, becoming conversant with the literature of the day, at home upon all topics of interest, her companionship was sought by young and old, while her wise counsel, and ready sympathy, will never be forgotten by those who sought for them in perplexity or sorrow. She saw many whom she loved go before her, yet amid the pain and weariness of years, her faith remained unshaken, her mind unclouded, and unable to attend religious services in the Chruch to which she belonged, she could trust in "Him, who doeth all things well." Her departure leaves a painful void, not only in the family circle, but in the more extended one of friends and neighbors and the home where she lived, loved and died, is consecrated by sacred and pleasant associations.
"On a sick couch, at morn's first gleam / A dying sufferer lay-- / A weary pilgrim, whose life stream / was ebbing fast away. / The lines of age were written deep / Upon the once fair brow -- / The eye its beauty could not keep / Its light was fading now.
The Summer suns of seventy years / And more had o'er her shone, / And life--that scene of smiles and tears / No longer was her own; / A voice seemed speaking in each sigh / A wish to see the shore / Where she should never fear to die / But meet thee gone before."
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst. Mr. Josiah Ransford, aged 59 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst. Mr. William M. Leach, of the Noyes House, aged 49 years.
Died: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. James R. Norris, aged 17 years.
The Brooks Poisoning Case: The Anderson boy, who has been confined in the Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] jail for several months past charged with administering poison to his employer, Mr William Brooks, sometime last spring, has had his trial deferred till the September term, in consequence of the absence of the principal witness, the chemist, who pronounced the ingredient mingled with the tea grounds, to be arsenic. A bench warrant was dispatched by the hands of an officer to Albany, to bring the witness to Court, but he could not be found. The prisoner, who is pale and emaciated, a sad picture of haggard wretchedness, will hence be compelled to lie in jail all summer waiting for his trial, which he expressed an earnest wish to have come off at this term. New Berlin Pioneer
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