Oxford Times, May 2, 1860
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Kittie S. Bush, adopted daughter of Thos. A. and Martha E. Bush, aged 17 years.
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Mr. George D. Avery, aged 97 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on 23d ult. Harriet [Root], wife of Mr. George W. Root, aged 32 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], suddenly, of heart disease, on the 26th ult. Clarissa Quivey [Hills], wife of Rev. J.W. Hills, aged 35 years. A large circle of friends have been suddenly called to mourn the loss of a devoted wife and mother, a dutiful daughter, and an affectionate sister, one in whose life and character was represented to an unusual degree the varied virtues and Christian graces which memory so fondly cherishes.
Died: in Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult., Eva Estelle [Wheeler], daughter of Ephraim Wheeler, aged 6 years.
Died: in Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. Idelette L. [Rogers], daughter of Joseph and Catharine Rogers, aged 3 years.
I remembered how I loved her when a little guiltless child, / I saw her in the cradle,. As she looked on me and smil'd /My cup of happiness was full, my words cannot tell; / And I bless'd the glorious Giver who doeth all things well.
Months passed, that bud of promise was unfolding every hour, / I thought that earth had never smiled upon a fairer flower, / So beautiful, it well might grace the bowers where Angels dwell, / And waft its fragrance to His throne who doeth all things well.
Years fled, that little daughter the was dear as life to me, / And woke to my unconscious heart a wild idolatry, / I worshipped at an earthly shrine, lured by some magic spell, / Forgetful of the praise of Him who doeth all things well.
She was the lovely star, whose light around my pathway shone, / Amid it's darksome vale of tears, through which I journeyed on, / Its radiance had obscured the light which round His throne doth dwell, / And I wandered far away from Him who doeth all things well.
That star went down in beauty, yet it shineth sweetly now / In the bright and dazzling cornet that decks the Savior's brow, / She bowed to the Destroyer whose shaft none may repel, / But we knew, for God, hath told me, he doeth all things well.
I remember well my sorrow as I stayed beside her bed, / And my deep heartfelt anguish when they told me she was dead. / And oh! that cup of bitterness, let not my heart rebel, / God gave, He took, He will restore, He doeth all things well.
Oxford Times, May 9, 1860
Married: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th ult. by Rev. Mr. Cope, Mr. J.E. Truesdell to Miss Carrie L. Peck.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Dr. E.H. Parmelee, aged 50 years.
Died: In East McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. Mr. Ichabod Randall, aged 82 years.
Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Ann Maria [Juliand], wife of Col. Joseph Juliand, aged 53? years.
Oxford Times, May 16, 1860
Married: In St. Paul's Church, in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. by Rev. Mr. Costell, Mr. James B. Brown of New York, to Miss Catharine B. [Tuttle], daughter of Cyrus Tuttle, of Oxford.
Married: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. S.N. Wescott, Mr. A.C. Purple of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss M.E. Martin of McDonough.
In Masonville [Delaware Co., NY] on the 2d inst. by Eld. Jacobs, Mr. W.H. Pratt of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Susan Ertley of the former place.
Oxford Times, May 23, 1860
Married: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. by Rev. J.D. Webster, Mr. George W. Driscall of Greene to Miss Elsie C. Bostwick of Owego [Tioga Co., NY]. Both deaf mutes.
Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. Annie S. [Wheeler], wife of Thomas J. Wheeler, aged 69? years.
Oxford Times, May 29, 1860
In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst., Betsey [Gifford], wife of Mr. Joseph Gifford, aged 74 years.
Died: In Chilo, Ohio, on 9th inst., of lung fever, Mr. J. Hunt, Jr., aged 45 years, formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].
Oxford Times, May 2, 1860
Death of George D. Avery. The decease in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], of this venerable citizen, Thursday last, claims at our hands a passing notice. Mr. Avery was born at Groton, in the State of Connecticut, August 19th, 1768, and at his death had nearly completed his ninety-seventh year. He was a colonial subject of George the Fourth and a witness of some of the exciting scenes of the America Revolution. He witnessed the burning of New London by the British, and was a pupil of Nathan Daboll who with his arithmetic was long since numbered among the things that were. On the 8th day of August, 1796, Mr. Avery took up his residence at Bellville, on the Ohio River, in the State of Virginia, after a toilsome journey of 800 miles. He there undertook the arduous task of early settlement, against the disadvantages now unknown of building in a new country with limited facilities and difficult means of communication. He was familiar with many of the stirring events of the early settlement of that locality, prominent among which were the romantic incidents in the life of Herman Blennerhasset, and his island paradise in the Ohio, and the strange adventure of Aaron Burr connected therewith, of all of which he was personally cognizant. Adverse fortune at Bellville, induced Mr. Avery to remove to Georgetown in the State of Virginia, about 1812, and while there engaged in surveying during a period of nearly twenty years. He was an observer of the important political events and frequently in the society of the public men of that period. About the year 1830, through the kindness of Benjamin Butler, deceased, who married his sister, he was induced to remove to this place [Oxford, NY] where he has since resided. Mr. Avery was twice married, but had long survived his children, one of whom was a midshipman in the United States Navy with Commodores Rogers and Decatur and died in 1815. He retained his faculties to a remarkable degree, and until recently could read and write with great facility. He voted at every election for President since the formation of the Government, which act was performed by him with religious sense of duty. It is only when we crowd into a single life like that of Mr. Avery, the strange events of a century, and count by deeds instead of years, that we realize, in all its fullness the momentous value of existence. When his life journey began, Napoleon and Wellington were yet to be. During his career the leaders of the English Parliament and the leaders of the America Revolution, that race of Titans, have lived and gone, the wars of Napoleon and the war of independence have become historical and a new Republic with a network of railroads and a web work of wires has been extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific, embracing in its ample fold more than thirty million inhabitants. It is great to have lived in such an age, it is seldom that a single life bears witness to events so transcendent, progress so romantic, achievement so momentous. The sun sinking in his Western horizon irradiates with his parting beams, the Eastern hills leaving the intermediate valleys to rest in shadow, and so the sun of Mr. Avery's life as it hastened downward cast a peculiar light upon the hills of his youth; he seemed to wander out of the body and revisited boyhood's scenes, the brook that murmured down the hill, the familiar homes of friends long dead, and the chosen haunts of years long past. The latter years of Mr. Avery's life have passed serenely away, under the watchful care of a niece, who to the tender assiduity of a dutiful daughter, added the kind offices of an experienced mother, until like child weary with the sports of a long day, he rests in the sweet hope of a joyful immortality. [Buried Riverview Cemetery, Oxford, NY]
Oxford Times, May 23, 1860 - Happenings of the Day
Nomination of Abraham Lincoln for President
The Convention and the Candidates: We devote considerable space in our present issue to the proceedings of the Chicago Convention, those proceedings are the best argument which we can offer in favor of Republican principles, the Republican platform and the Republican candidates. The Convention which assembled at Chicago on Wednesday last, was the most numerously attended, the most enthusiastic and the most harmonious in its action, of any similar body assembled, for like purposes in many years. They adjourned on Friday, having fulfilled the trust committed ot them by the nomination of ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois for President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine, for Vice President of the united States. While there were several candidates before the convention, each urged by their respective friends with zeal and the ardor of intense friendship, there was not from first to last the first evidence of ill will, nor was there apparent the least tenacity which interfered with the entire harmony and enthusiasm of every State for the final nominee of the convention. Mr. Lincoln was nominated on the third ballot, the announcement was received with prolonged, deafening and repeated applause, and the several States, one by one rushed together like mountain streams, and mingled in one common sea of delightful harmony and joy.
It was because the convention represented the people and not the claims of rival politicians trained in intrigue and intent upon selfish and personal ends and aims, that they were thus harmonious and enthusiastic. In the nomination of Abraham Lincoln the Republican Convention have done honor to the popular head and the popular heart. He is emphatically one of the people. He is a man firm, inflexible, honest, self reliant and able, he has attained the first eminence in his adopted State, wrested by hard knocks, against fortune, limited means and humble birth, compelling enemies to admit his claims whether willing or not. Mr. Lincoln has not been made great by office, but by exhibiting he essential qualities of a man, of marked character and ability. in an age of corruption and extravagance, and against a party far gone in official dereliction and wickedness, the people required a man of strong will, honesty and private virtue, and in Mr. Lincoln they have found the man, in an age of political heresy and against a party which has deserted principles which are the foundation of Republican institutions, the people required a man of tried principals and ability to defend them, and they have found the man who bearded the Little Giant of West in his den, and exposed his sophistry, corruption and villainy.
Of Hannibal Hamlin, the Republican candidate for vice President, we need hardly speak in old Chenango, whose congregated thousands heard his able defense of their principles in 1856. He has been tried and found faithful, and when the Democratic party had gone far away from the compromises of the constitution and wandered blindly beneath the dark cloud of slavery, he headed the opposition in Maine and added that Star of the East to the glorious galaxy of Republican States. The Resolutions are brief, plain, pointed, and conservative. They do not lower the standard under which the battle of '56 was fought, and with them and the candidates the Republicans can achieve a victory if they only will.
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