Vital Records, Oxford, NY - December 1859

 Oxford Times, December 7, 1859

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. by Re.v J.C. Ransom, Mr. Julian B. Moore of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Isabel Anderson of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  At Houston, Texas, of yellow fever, on the 13th Nov. last, Eunice [Perkins], daughter of Alvin S. Perkins, formerly of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], aged 7 years.

Died:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th ult., Mr. Uri Tuttle, aged 84 years.

Oxford Times, December 14, 1859

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Jeremiah Calvert, Jr., to Miss Susan Simpson, both of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult. by Rev. J.W. Hills, Mr. Franklin E. Taylor to Miss Melissa Ann Knapp, both of Oxford.

Mrs. Betsy Jones of DeRuyter [Madison Co., NY], on the 29th ult., attained the good old age of one hundred years.  The Cazenovia Republican says:  "She has been the mother of thirteen children, nine of whom are living; the eldest, Dr. Jones of Homer, being now 77 years old.  She was born at Providence, Rhode Island; was married at the early age of fifteen, some two years before the date of the Declaration of independence, and about the commencement of the troubles between the colonies and the mother country.  Her husband was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and she yet retains a vivid recollection of many of the stirring scenes of that period.  She has possessed through life a sound constitution and yet enjoys a comfortable degree of health."

Oxford Times, December 21, 1859

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., by Rev. F.D. Thurston, Mr. Nelson Reynolds to Miss Maria Bush, all of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., Mr. John Hubbard, aged 51 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on 10th inst., Mr. Porter Wood, aged 58 years.

Died:  In Houston, Texas, on the 16th Nov. of yellow fever, Alvan D. [Robinson] , son of Daniel Robinson, Esq., of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 22 years.  No father stood by, no kind mother was nigh, / In the hour of anguish and strife; / No brother dear, or sister were near, / To soothe the last moments of life.

Oxford Times, December 28, 1859

Died:  In Amsterdam, Herkimer Co. [NY], Miss Sarah A. Stratton, youngest daughter of Mrs. Charlotte Stratton and the late John Stratton, aged 31 years.  "Blessed is the turf serenely blessed, / Where throbbing hearts may sink to rest, / Where life's long journey turns to sleep, / Nor ever pilgrim wakes to weep. / A little sod, a few sad flowers, / A tear for long departed hours, / Is all that feeling hearts request / To hush their weary thoughts to rest."

Died:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Mr. Sidney S. Barber, aged 24 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst., Mr. Peleg H. Smith, aged 25 years.

Died:  Mrs. Prosser, mother of Edward Prosser, residing in this town [New Berlin, Chenango Co., NY], was found dead in her bed, on Friday morning last.  She went to bed on the night previous to all appearances in good health.  She was nearly 77 years of age.  New Berlin Pioneer.