Vital Records, Oxford, NY - October 1860

 Oxford Times, October 3, 1860

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., by Rev. James Orton, Mr. Alson Smith to Mrs. Sarah Holdrich, all of Greene.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult. by Rev. B. Shove, Mr. Henry H. Bowen to Miss Agnes Mitchell, both of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Triangle [Broome Co., NY], on the 10th ult. by Rev. A. McGill, Mr. William Baldwin of Guilford, to Mrs. Carrie M. Blakeslee, only daughter of the late Dr. G.L. Spencer of Triangle.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th Sept. Mr. Joshua Emmes, aged 83 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst., Mrs. Catharine A. Bailey, aged 23 years.

Oxford Times, October 10, 1860

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., by Rev. J.W. Hills, Mr. Silas D. Wilkins of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Caroline A. Francisco of the former place.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Miss Eliza J. Boyd, aged 20 years.

Died:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. Mary C. [Burrell], wife of Mr. William W. Burrell, aged 40 years.

Died:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on 22d ult. Mr. George Taylor, aged 95 years.

Fatal Accident:  On Saturday last, a bright little lad, son of Dr. S.F. McFarland of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], aged between four and five years, was found in the barn near the house of the Doctor, unable to rise.  On being lifted from the floor a wound apparently from a pitch fork tine was found near the right ear.  The little fellow was unable to speak, although in full possession of his reason until Sunday afternoon, when death intervened.  There is nothing certain as to the manner of the accident.  It is supposed he fell upon the fork while attempting to get upon a wagon.  No one was with him save a sister younger.  The occurrence has cast a deep gloom over the family and neighborhood.

Drowned at the Ferry:  On Friday last Mrs. John Stevinson, an old lady who lived on the Appalachian creek, was coming in a wagon with her husband to Owego [Tioga Co., NY].  They came to the ferry at A. LaMont's and found two wagons already had the boat, and drove in against the remonstrance of the Ferryman. The old man instead of coming out and taking the horse by the head sat still in his wagon.  In the wagon.  Immediately before him was a sheaf of oats, which his horse attacked. The owner sitting in the wagon before, struck back at the horse with his hand to drive him from the oats.  The horse backed, and one of the wheels went over the end, throwing the woman out into the river backwards. The old man got out at the other side, and for some time no effort was made to save the drowning woman.  The wind was blowing fiercely, and the boat with three wagons could not in the deep water, be brought near to where the woman sank.  There were some five men, as we learn, in the boat, and yet the woman sank to a watery grave!  The body was recovered on Sabbath last. The river is from eight to twelve feet at this ferry and runs very slowly.  At this time the wind was blowing up stream.  Owego Times.

Oxford Times, October 17, 1860

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d Aug., by Rev. James D. Webster, Mr. Benjamin Rudolph of Greene, to Miss Lucinda Blivin, of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst. by Rev. J.D. Webster, Mr. Isaac H. Mosher to Miss Cerestia Ramsey, all of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on 9th inst., Mr. Zeri Yale, aged 77 years.

Died:  In Apponaug, R.I., 7th inst. Anna Ward [Clarke], daughter of Samuel W. Clarke, aged 2 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Mr. Augustus S. Brown, aged 32 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Mr. Thomas Johnson, late of Hartwick, Otsego Co [NY], aged 93 years.

Oxford Times, October 24, 1860

Married:  In the M.E. Church, in Afton [Chenango Co., NY], on 14th inst. by Rev. W.G. Queal, Mr. Arvine Searles, to Miss Sarahette Case, both of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. A. Huntington, Mr. David L. Buel of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Amelia Wood of Smyrna.

Married:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. by Rev Wm. Bixby, Mr. S.F. Burges of Hunter [Greene Co., NY], to Miss Leva Eggleston, of Bainbridge.

Oxford Times, October 31, 1860

Married:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th inst. by Rev. W.G. Queal, Mr. Francis T. Hall of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Sarah A. Benedict of Bainbridge.

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst., by Rev. H. Callahan, Mr. David P. Thurber to Miss Carrie Bailey, both of Walton, Delaware County [NY].

Married:  In Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY], on 27th inst. by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. A.G. Kaks to Miss Mary A. Musson, both of Butternuts.

Married:  Also, at the same place, by the same, on the 23d, Mr. T.G. Ingersoll, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary A. Wallis of Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY].

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th inst., Mrs. Sally Rogers, relict of Elisha Rogers, aged 88 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst. Mrs. Lydia Baily, aged 82 years.

Died:  in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday evening, Oct. 29th, Mrs. Susan M. Clarke, wife of the late Dr. S.R. Clarke, and daughter of the late Wm. M. Cheever, of New Haven, Oswego Co., N.Y., aged 52  years.  Words are too poor to tell the desolation which has within a few months enshrouded the home from which the surviving parent is now taken.  First, the niece whose thread of life was so swiftly snapped asunder; then the husband and father, after months of pain and weariness, bids his loved ones adieu, and goes to his dreamless rest; now the wife and mother, after weeks of struggling with agony too great for her feeble strength, has been summoned to meet her loved and lost in the better land.  "In the shadow of this great affliction, The soul sits down."

Friends who have often shared the hospitalities of the once cheerful fireside will look through tears for "the light that ne'er can shine again."  The poor, the sick, and the sorrowing, will miss one to whose bounty and sympathy they never appealed in vain.  The church has lost a member whose love for its solemn rituals and devotion to the interests grew stronger as -?- were away, and the large circle of relatives both here and elsewhere have been called to mourn for one whose place no other can fill.  How can we comfort the bereaved children upon whom this great sorrow has fallen?