Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 33, 1861
Married: At Page Brook [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. by Rev. E. Puffer, Albert M. Watrous, to Miss Sarah Salisbury, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. by Rev. A. Huntington, David H. Knapp, Esq., of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary A. Collins, of Smyrna.
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Sidney W. Smith, of North Norwich, to Miss Melissa Crandall, of Norwich.
Married: On the 30th ult. by the same, Mr. Volney Butts to Miss Lauraetta Wells, both of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. by Rev. W. H. Olin Mr. Horace Newell to Miss Phebe Cahoon.
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult., Delos Medbury, aged 29 years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 10, 1861
Married: At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 20th ult. by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Charles W. Jackson, of Triangle [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Loretta Copeland of the former place.
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th ult. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Deloss H. Towslee of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Hannah [Thackwray], only daughter of John Thackwray, Esq., of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Cortland [Cortland Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by P. Bacon Davis, Esq., Mr. Perry Bliss, to Miss Isabel Kinyon, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: in Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. L. Bowdish, Mr. David K. Shaw, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sophia Pixley, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst. by Rev. W.H. Olin, Mr. Henry B. Seeley, of Preston [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary E. Mundy, of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. by J.F. Hubbard, Jr., Esq. Mr. Wm. Graves of Norwich to Miss Mary Jones of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Edmeston, Otsego Co. [NY], on the 3d inst. by Rev. S.S. Cady, Mr. Orrin B. Denison of Clarkville, Madison Co. [NY], and Miss Althea Langworthy, of Edmeston.
Died: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Alice Adelia [Handy], adopted daughter of James H and Betsey A. Handy, aged 8 years and 6 months.
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., of Putrid Sore Throat, DeFrancy M. [Nusom], daughter of Samuel B. and Rhoda C. Nusom, aged 8 years 6 months and 13 days.
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], of Putrid Sore Throat, Electa Deyet [Beardsley], youngest daughter of Levi ad Olive Beardsley, aged 6 years and 3 months.
Died: In Smyrna [Chenanog Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Catharine Giles, aged 40 years.
Died: In Williamsport, Pa. on the 26th ult. Mr. James H. Kinyon, formerly of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], aged 22? years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 17, 1861
Married: In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. George H. Brown, of Norwich, to Miss Mary O. Wood of the former place.
Married: At the residence of the bride's father, on the 2d inst. by Rev. B.D. Marshall, Mr. J.V. Smith, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Lottie E. [Dougherty], daughter of Alexander Dougherty, Esq., of Buffalo.
Married: In Chenango [Broome Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. Geo. N. Boardman, Mr. Gilbert Davis, of Binghamton, to Miss Statira Clark of Chenango.
Married: In South Brookfield, Madison Co. [NY], on the 9th inst. by Rev. J.M. Tod, Mr. Morgan L. Brown, to Miss Amanda M. Crandall, both of South Brookfield.
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], after a short illness, on the morning of the 10th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth [Ness], wife of the late George Van Ness in the 67th year of her age.
Died: In Triangle [Broome Co., NY], of Putrid Sore Throat, on the 6th inst., Lola [Blanchard]; on the 9th inst. Betsey [Blanchard]; on the 11th inst. Lewis [Blanchard], only children of George and Maria Blanchard.
Died: In Triangle [Broome Co., NY], of Putrid Sore Throat, on the 15th ult. Mary [Nusom], daughter of Robert and Tirzah Nusom, aged 9 years.
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Mrs. Augusta Smith, aged 46 years.
Death of Mrs. Obadiah German: The Syracuse papers mention the death of Mrs. German, widow of the late Obadiah German, at that place, on Sunday morning of last week, in great destitution. She was buried at the public expense. The incident has attracted much attention from the fact that she was the widow of a former U.S. Senator, Gen. German having occupied that position from 1809 to 1815; and also from the fact that she made claim to a large amount of property, which she reported he left. A writer in the Syracuse Journal gives incidents in her early history; but all of our older citizens will recollect her well, for her course of life, during the latter years of her residence here [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], was such as to make her a public character. She married Gen. German in his dotage, and against the earnest protestations of his family. He at that time had a comfortable property, not nearly so large, however, as represented, but which between this woman, and her brother, was rapidly dissipated. Gen. German, himself, died in poverty, from this cause. The fate which overtook her, poverty and destitution in her old age, was the fruit of her own crimes and wickedness. Chenango Union.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, January 30, 1861
The Late Mrs. German: Mrs. Harmon, daughter of Obadiah German, as she signs herself addressed the following to the Editor of The Syracuse journal concerning the widow of Gen. German, whose death in Syracuse where she had been for some time a recipient of public charity, was recently announced.
Camillus, January 12, 1861: To the Editor of the Journal: I saw in last Monday's Journal a notice of the death of Mary Ann German. Being familiar with her particulars from early childhood, it may not be amiss for me to throw some light on the mystery that seems to surround her. Her father, Dr. Knight, was a physician in the town of Norwich, Chenango county [NY]. She was well educated by a rich uncle with whom she resided in her girlhood. For some cause she left him when she had grown up, and he took no further interest in her welfare. He died with no children, but left her none of his property. She supported herself with teaching until she became acquainted with and married General German. In her manner she was pleasing in her conversation, fascinating and withal rather good looking By her fine conversational powers, and artfulness she hoodwinked the old man into a matrimonial connection, although against the wishes of his children and the advice of his political friends. She soon began to use the influence she had gained oer him, and she thought to her own advantage. She enlisted her brother, who now resides in one of the Northern States, in a scheme to get the property of her husband, and thus deprive the heirs, his own children, of their rights. They succeeded in their design, but the "biter was bitten." By false representations they got the General 's signature to a large amount of paper, I think some sixty thousand dollars for which sum there are now judgments existing. Her brother got the money on the notes and absconded.
When the notes became due the old gentleman could not meet them and his property was sacrificed, and he died penniless. He saw when it was too late that he had been deceived and ruined by a wicked woman. He suffered under his affliction without murmur or complaint. His children had all left home, and at times he was in want of the comforts of life. His death was as mysterious as it was sudden. He died under the influence of opium, with no one present but his wife and colored servant. After his death, his wife collected all the valuables in the house secreted them from his creditors and went West in search of her brother, to demand his ill gotten gains. But to her astonishment, when she got there, she found him as base and unprincipled as herself, he refusing to give her the property he had so dishonestly become possessed of. A quarrel ensued. and he turned her out of doors. Since that time she has been traveling through the country, a miserable, abandoned woman, without friends save when she could bring her honorable husband's position to move the sympathies of the people, by making false statements about the great wrongs she had suffered. She reaped the reward of her own doings and that justly. Her statements in regard to her husband's having been United States Senator were correct. He was in the Senate about the time of the 1812 war.
Yours respectfully, Mrs. Harmon, Daughter of Obadiah German.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 24, 1861
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst. by Re. W.H. Olin, Mr Alfred Reynolds, of North Norwich to Miss Lovena Harris of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Henry M. Ashcraft to Miss Electa A. Day, both of Norwich.
Died: In Watertown, N.Y. [Jefferson Co.], on the 18th inst. Mrs. Lucretia Grannis, aged 70 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. John Calvin, son of E.D. and Eliza Ann Hollis, aged 18 months and 5 days.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 31, 1861
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on the 27th inst. after a brief illness, Sidney Elmore, Esq., in the 28th year of his age.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th inst. of Diptheria, Charley [Moak], aged 7 years and 10 days; and on the 25th inst. Katie [Moak], aged 4 years, 6 months and 10 days, children of Ephraim and Catharine Moak.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 17, 1861
Another Veteran Gone
We extract the following from the Tioga (Pa.) Agliator. The subject of this obituary was the father-in-law of Rev. C.F. Barney, of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], and was a resident of this town from 1808 to 1818. Few indeed survive to great age attained by this veteran:
Died: In Westfield, Tioga Co., Pa. Nov. 17, 1860, Mr. Nathan Whitmore, aged 107 years and 10 days.
Mr. Whitmore was born in Vermont, Nov. 7, 1853, and I am informed he made a profession of religion when but twelve years old and by what little information I could elicit (as I drove to the house only a few minutes before the time to repair to the church for the funeral services) he has lived a soldier of the cross since, or 95 years. He was also in the Revolutionary War a short time. Were I able to trace him through his long pilgrimage, many important and interesting incidents could be recorded, but I am not.
Throughout his long life he retained his mental faculties, also his bodily strength, in a wonderful manner. His conversation exhibited a strong and retentive mind. He was also enabled to labor at light mechanical business until very recently, and also to walk about the village with an activity surpassing many at the age of sixty. I could not but think of changes that had taken place and revolutions that had convulsed the world during his life. Empires and kingdoms have risen and fallen, our nation has burst from its connection with, and the oppression of, its mother country and has risen to what it is.
Many nations of ancient renown have falled to ruins; warriors have risen from infancy and drenched the earth in human gore and then away; improvements have advanced, the wilderness and solitary places have been converted into cities, and many spires now point heavenward where the lofty forests waved before the breeze, since more than half of his life was passed.
Where now are the companions of his childhood? Ah, they are gone, and their children have grown grey headed and passed away, and their children's children are now controlling the destinies of our nation. New countries have become old. Commerce has doubled an hundred fold, and every ocean and sea, and every navigable river and lake has been converted into highways of nations, developing the vast resources of the world. Generations have passed away; still he has lived on, and lived on amidst the dangers that have threatened him and the warnings that have reached him.
The brilliancy of youth had long since left his brow, his step had lost its elastic spring, until finally, worn down with cares and the wright of over five score and seven years, he peacefully fell asleep to awake no more till Gabriel's trumpet shall arouse the slumbering millions of the dead.
His funeral solemnities were attended in the village of West field on the 19th ult. at 10 o'clock, A.M. where remarks were made by the writer, from Luke 23 and 28, "weep not for me," to an attentive audience. Simeon Cleaveland
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