Vital Records, Oxford, NY, August 1859

 Oxford Times, August 3, 1859

Married:  At the Presbyterian Church in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday evening, July 27th, by the Rev. H. Callahan, Mr. Charles N. Hughston of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Josephine L. Fisk, of Oxford.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st ult., by Ed. A.B. Jones, Mr. Augustus Wordwell to Miss Adeline Jones, all of Greene.

Married:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult., by Rev. S.N. Westcott, Mr. Samuel A.H. Pease of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Jane Johnson of Pharsalia.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult., Doct. Levi Farr, aged 72 years.

Died:  In Preston, July 29th, Jemima [Rogers], wife of Mr. J. D. Rogers, aged 47 years.

Oxford Times, August 10, 1859

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Harriet [Brewer], daughter of Mr. Ira Brewer, aged 16 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mr. Thomas L. Leonard, aged 31 years.

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst. of congestion of the lungs, Albert A. Hough, aged 32 years.  A widowed mother mourns for thee; / Her dear, her only son, / Thy young wife's sorrowing face we see, / and hear a sister's moan.  / Thy kind and loving voice no more / Will friends and kindred cheer, / Oh God of mercy, we implore / Thine aid--to us draw near. / A mother's agonizing cry, / A young wife's sad low moan; / the sorrowing and lone. / God of unbounded love and might, / Thou dost but wound to heal, / Dispel the gloom of sorrow's night, / Thy love and truth reveal.

Died:  At the residence of his father in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Benjamin S. Miller, A.M. aged 32 years.  It is seldom that we have to record the death of one in whom blended so beautifully all that could make life desirable, with so much that makes death hopeful.  It was our privilege to have known him in the confidence of a friendship unmarred by a single recollection that could ruffle the serenity of its repose.  We knew him in his boyhood, pure, simple and sincere, at the Academy, where correct and graceful scholarship were united with a character so unassuming and earned that envy was disarmed before it, at College, where faithful performance of every duty, and cheerful submission to every rule, secured alike the respect and confidence of teachers, and the admiration of friends and classmates, and in the world, which strengthened and developed whatever was pure and noble in a nature which it could not harden or corrupt.  Having graduated with honor at Yale College, in the summer of 1847, Mr. Miller devoted himself to Teaching for several years, in his native State and at the South, a profession in which his character and acquirements made him justly successful. He had more recently and for some time been employed in the survey and construction of a Canal in North Carolina, and as was his wont, had returned to his native village for a change and rest, preparatory to resuming his labors.  A kind Providence ordered that the home of his youth should be but a way station in his journey to a better country, and compensated sorrowing friends by snatching a jewel from earth to make Heaven more attractive.  "Over the River they beckon to me, / Loved ones who've crossed to the otherside, / The gleam of their snowy robes I see; / But their voices are lost in the dashing tide, / Yet somewhere I know on the unseen shore, / They watch, and beckon, and wait for me.

Sudden Death:  Mr. Harmon Carpenter, an old resident of this town [New Berlin, Chenango Co., NY] aged 49 years, met with a sudden death on Thursday of this week.  He was on a load of bark, just the other side of the river, when by some means he fell off, got up and walked about ten feet, and fell.  He was brought to his residence in this village, and died in about five minutes after his arrival.  New Berlin Pioneer.

Oxford Times, August 17, 1859

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Rev. H. Callahan, Mr. Evander McNair of Washington, Arkansas, to Miss Hannah Merrill of this village.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Rounds, aged 80 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Andrew Elliott, aged 27 years.

Died:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. Hiram Wight, aged 22 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on 3d inst., of Mr. Joseph Marsh, aged 85 years.

Died:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Mrs. Charlotte Thompson, aged 73 years.

Oxford Times, August 24, 1859

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. Freelove [Hotchkiss], wife of Mr. Spencer Hotchkiss, aged 56 years.

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., Minnie Arrabella [Bulkley], daughter of George and Esther Bulkley, aged 2 years.

Died:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult. Isabella Nelson [McMinn], wife of Samuel McMinn, Esq., aged 73 years.

Died:  In Utica [Oneida Co., NY], Saturday evening, August 20th?, after a lingering illness, Mr. Willis Sherwood, formerly of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 58 years.

Died:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst. Azel Peck, aged 68 years.

Oxford Times, August 31, 1859

Married:  At the residence of Daniel Carpenter, Esq., in Afton [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst., by Rev. J.W. Mitchell, Mr. James J. Collins, to Miss Alletta Carpenter, all of Afton.

Died:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Mr. Erwin H. Clarke, aged 85 years.