Vital Records, Greene, NY - February 2, 1860

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 2, 1860

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., by Rev. M.C. Bronson, Mr. Griffen Powell, of Lowville, Lewis Co. [NY], to Miss Sarah A. Gavit, of Smyrna.

Married:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., by Rev. John McLeish, Mr. Oliver Thurber, to Miss Mary Clark, both of that place.

Married:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Mr. Wm. M. Sabin, to Miss Mary G. Young, all of the above place.

Married:  In Scott, Cortland Co. [NY], on the 17th ult. by Rev. R.C. Fox, Rev. A.J. Kenyon, to Miss D. Augusta Fox, of the former place.

Died:  In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 27th ult. Frederick Theodore [Rogers], child of Thos. S. and H.N. Rogers, aged 2 years 9 months and 16 days.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. Mr. Joel Barber, aged 82 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. Mrs. Sophia Barnes, wife of the late Asa Barnes, aged 72 years.

We are pained to record a sad and heart-rending calamity, which occurred near Oneonta, Otsego Co. [NY]\ on Friday night last.  While Luther Briggs, and his wife, who is a sister of B.F. Cowan, of this village, and well-known to many of our citizens, who resided at the above named place, were on a visit to a neighbors, leaving at home six children, of ages varying from 3 to 17 years, the house caught fire, in the evening, while the children were in bed, and horrible to relate, only one of them, the oldest boy, escaped.  He jumped from the second story window, and endeavored to get the other children to do the same, but in their fright they failed to do so, and perished in the flames.  The house was burned to the ground, and when the agonized parents returned they found nothing remaining of their late happy home but a heap of blackened ruins, covering the bones of five of their children. The mother had her youngest child with her.  She is frantic and wild with grief, and requires constant attention  Two hearts and a few charred bones was all that could be found of the remains. The fire is supposed to have caught from a coal snapping from the fire place into some shavings.  

Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 9, 1860

Married:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. Charles H. Long to Miss Hattie Meachum, both of Willett, Cortland Co. [NY].

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. Harriet M. [Chalker], daughter of Orlando and Adelia Chalker, aged 18 months and 20 days.

Died:  In New Ohio [Broome Co., NY], on the 26th ult. Mrs. Polly Scoughton, aged 80 years.

Died:  In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mrs. Lovina Lowell, mother of Daniel Lowell, aged 86 years.

Died:  In Ketchum's Corners, on the 8th inst. Mr. Isaac Marshall, aged 80 years.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Sarah Jane [Tuttle], infant daughter of Moses and Jane Tuttle, aged 4 months.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mr. John Noyes, son of Daniel Noyes, aged 29 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 16, 1860

Married:  In  Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31s ult., by Rev. B.B. Bennett, Mr. Samuel F. May, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Angeline T. Phettyplace, of Norwich.

Married:  In the city of New York, on the 25th ult., by the Rev. A.A. Maple, of Wellsboro, Edwin R. Meade, Esq., of New York, to Miss Julia M. Baxter, of Tioga, Pa.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., Mr. Isaac Foote, aged 84 years.

Died:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mr. Elizur Anderson, aged 28 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 23, 1860

Married:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], on the 26th inst. by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. James Wilson, of Willet, Cortland Co. [NY], to Miss Julia Burger, of the former place.

Married:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., by Rev. John McLeish, Mr Sidney Olin, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Margaret Hubbard, of the former place.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. Mr. Martin V.B. Noyes, aged 26 years.

Died:  At the residence of her father-in-law, Amasa Clark, in Great Bend, Pa., on the 30th ult. of Consumption, Caroline S. [Clark], wife of D.D. Clark, U.S.N. and daughter of Mr. Oliver of Rome, Oneida Co., N.Y., in the 26th year of her age.  Thus has a circle of loving hearts been entered and a priceless jewel taken.  And though we mourn, deeply mourn our loss, yet we feel assured that her great attainments in personal piety, her devotedness and untiring activity in the cause of Christ, her living and triumphant faith, afford ample evidence, that through the merits of our Saviour, she is now a white-robed ransomed one in glory.  It seemed that we could not part with "our Carrie" yet, for a few years at least.  Her gentle and unassuming manners, her generous regard for the happiness of others, her amiable self-sacrificing and uncomplaining disposition; won the affection and esteem of all who made her acquaintance.  She possessed superior mental powers, and a poetic nature, but her extreme delicacy forbade her submitting many of her thoughts to the public,  The following little poem, published in the Advocate and Family Guardian about a year since, is one of the sweet effusions of her pen:

The Loom of Life:  We're sitting at the loom of life, / Our final garments weaving; / And when before Heaven's bar we stand, / For one last, dread revealing, / Within His holy presence there, / We then, this self-wrought robe must wear.

Time's busy, never-tiring hand, / How swiftly flings the shuttle! / And what the fabric it shall weave / Our course of life must settle. / Oh! what shall then the garment be / That robe us in eternity!

Shall selfish pleasure sway our hearts, / And govern every passion? / And worldly pride and hoarded wealth / Our final garments fashion? / While suffering sorrow pleads in vain / From our full hand one single grain?

Or Shall a deep heart-sympathy / And sacrifice of pleasure, / Weave in our robes their golden threads, / A never-failing treasure? / That noble deeds of love and care, / May weave their beauteous traces there?

Help us, "Great Author" of our lives, / To use the "warp" thou'st given, / And weave us garments that may deck / The imperial courts of heaven; / That when we at thy bar appear, / The "wedding garment" we may wear.

She has woven her "garment for Eternity," and purified in the Saviour's blood, it is a shining one.  Although she was yet young, and looking forward with joyous expectations to the time when her husband would return from his service in the Navy, and they should again be united, to be no more separated except by death--yet, when she learned her Father's will to take her home; the stronger attractions of a Saviour's love, and the anticipated rapture and bliss of Heaven outrivaled all earthly charms, and she cheerfully responded, "I come, my Father!"  When the heart-rending and unexpected tidings shall reach her husband, " Oh! in that bitter hour may he exercise in all its strength, that Christian faith and confidence in the wisdom and mercy of an over-ruling Hand, which will sustain him, beneath this crushing weight of grief.

Lost Wife and Children:  James Hoffman wants information of the whereabouts of his wife and two children.  Last October, aided by his wife, he packed up his furniture and goods at Billy Wheeler's at the lower aqueduct on the Erie Canal, near Troy [Rensselear Co., NY], with the intention of going to Durhamville, Oneida county [NY], to keep boarding house.  Having business at Albany, he told his wife to ship the things and start for the place of destination promising to overtake them at Schenectady.  On returning to Wheeler's his family and goods had departed on a boat, but to this day he has not been able to find them or obtain any information concerning them.  Jane Hoffman, the wife, is a woman advanced in years, tall in stature, with sandy complexion and light blue eyes. the oldest child is six years old; the other seven months old, both girls,  Any information concerning the above described persons, sent to James Hoffman, at Rome, Oneida county, will be most thankfully received.  

Our Bachelor Member:  Hon. Joseph Bush, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Member of Assembly from this District is unfortunately a pretty good looking bachelor, and as a matter of course, among the staid, demure fathers of families who make up our Legislature, is quite a rarity.  On Tuesday last several members of the House were arraigned for contempt in not appearing the day before.  Mr. Bush in offering his excuse said that "he had not the advantage enjoyed by most member of this House, that of having a wife; and having received a very pressing invitation to be present at a party in Kinderhook, where an unusual large number of beautiful ladies were invited, he could not resist the temptation to be present, and having arrived there he was unable to tear himself away from the fascinations thrown around him to return in season to attend the session on Monday."  Mr. Palmer said that he had been watching Bush for fear that the bewitching smiles of the fair ones of Kinderhook had turned his head, and that he might commit some desperate act if left alone with his shaving tools.  They were excused.