Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 6, 1859
COOLEY: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], June 26th, Ezra H. Cooley, infant son of Robert J. and Olive R. Cooley, aged six months.
The trial of Patrick McNamara took place at Cooperstown [Otsego Co., NY] on Wednesday for the murder of his wife, in Richfield [Otsego Co., NY], last December. The jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter in the first degree. In the whole catalogue of crime in this country, there cannot be found a more cruel murder than that committed by McNamara, and the jury must have forgotten their oaths in finding him guilty of any other crime. His wife was but sixteen years old and he got drunk one night and beat her to death. The proof of his guilt was positive.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 13, 1859
CRANDALL: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Willie A. [Crandall], son of Latham and Sophia Crandall, aged 3 months and 14 days.
A little girl, daughter of John R. Whitehouse of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], dropped her doll into a cistern last Thursday, and in endeavoring to recover it, lost her balance and fell into the water herself. Before the child was missed, she had drowned, although her body was taken out in a very few minutes.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 20, 1859
Married: TALBOT - LUTHER: In Cuyler [Cortland Co., NY] on the 14th inst. by James Burdick, Esq., Alvin Talbot, M.D. to Miss Annie I. Luther, both of DeRuyter [Madison Co., NY].
On Thursday last, a farmer named West, living in Franklin, Delaware County [NY] was instructing his son in the use of the scythe and while the boy was swinging the instrument, it struck the father on the inside of the leg near the thigh, cutting off the main blood vessels; and the unfortunate man bled to death within fifteen minutes.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 27, 1859
FIRMAN: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst. Jane E. [Firman], wife of Geo. Firman, aged 34 years.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 20, 1859
Death of Charles H. Wheeler. The telegraph on Saturday conveyed intelligence of this sadly anticipated event to the many relatives and friends of the deceased in this vicinity. His death occurred at the residence of his father in North Stonington, Conn., on Friday. Mr. Wheeler had been for several years a member of the mercantile firm of Wheeler & Co., was one of the original Directors of the Bank of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], an active and intelligent business man, and a much respected member of society. His health had for some time been failing under close and onerous business habits coupled with a predisposition to consumption, and about a year ago he retired from active duty with the hope of recovering it but this was not to be, and, although constantly followed by the watchful love and care of devoted friends, the progress of his disease was steady to the end. He spent the last winter in Florida without material benefit from its mild and healthful climate, and returned in the beginning of summer to Stonington. His last hours, though accompanied by acute physical suffering, were made endurable by the bright and cheering anticipations with which the Christian faith sustains its dying disciples. He was reverential in his feelings and habits, a regular attendant on the services of the sanctuary, and when our village, a year or two since, experienced a memorable religious revival, it was thought by his Christian friends that his heart had undergone a change, though his diffidence and uncomunicativeness on his own religious experience withheld him from making an open profession of religion. Those friends will now be happy to learn that two Sabbaths previous to his death, he united with the Congregational Church at Stonington and received the sacraments. Thus rests from his labors one of our most beloved and loving young men, and at such a time his many friends will not fail to tender their warmest sympathies to his afflicted sister and other relatives in our midst.
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