Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 2, 1863
Married: At the residence of the bride's father, in Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday, Feb. 18th, by Rev. Mr. Merrell, Mr. John J. Stoddard, to Miss Lucelia Judd, both of Coventry.
Died: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Catharine Laurinda [Barnard], only daughter of Mr. Robert P. and Margaret H. Barnard, aged 4 years and 8 months.
Died: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., Martha Rosetta [Graham], eldest daughter of Alexander J. Graham, aged 9 years and 10 months.
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., Catharine [McMoran], youngest daughter of David McMoran, aged 1 year and 2 months.
Died: In Ninevah, Broome Co. [NY], on the 12th ult., Catharine M. [Lawton], aged 84 years and 11 months.
Died: In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 23d ult. Mr. Chas. O. Van Name, aged 17 years.
Another Soldier Gone: We learn as we go to press, of the death of Robert G. McMoran, of this town [Chenango Co., NY], who was connected with the 8th New York Cavalry. He died at the Division Hospital, Stafford Court House, Va., on the 27th ult.
Found Dead: On Wednesday morning of last week, Zachariah Bradley, one of the first settlers in this town, was found dead near the residence of Philo Webb. A Coroner's jury was summoned and rendered a verdict, that the deceased came to his death from fatigue and exposure. He was in his 84th year.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 9, 1863
Married: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th ult., by Rev. W. Peck, Mr. Charles Franklin, of Preston [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Melissa G. Franklin, of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult., Mr. George Peck to Miss Amelia L. Arms, both of Guilford.
Married: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. Mr. Ketchum. Mr. George W. Williams of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eliza A. Davis, of the former place.
Married: In Sherburne [Chenango co., NY], on the 5th inst. by Rev. W. Peck, Mr. George C. Thompson, of Augusta, Oneida Co. [NY], to Priscilla B. [Foster], daughter of C.C. Foster.
Married: In Sanford, Broome Co. [NY], on the 16th ult. by Rev. Levi Peck, Mr. Hiram C. Partridge of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Laura A. Humphrey, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult. by Rev. J.M. Crandall, Mr. Charles B. Lewis, to Miss Abbie R. Campbell, all of Otselic.
Died: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] suddenly, on the 3d inst., Florence A. [Davidson], only child of John W. and Elizabeth Davidson, aged 4 years, 3 months and 23 days.
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. Elmer C. [Bates], son of Melvin T. and Lovina Bates, aged 1 year and 6 months.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst. at the residence of his son-in-law, Isaac S. Newotn, Esq., Mr. Robert Dunlap, aged 76.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Mr. Prentice Grant, aged 79 years.
Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult. of diptheria, Lovisa [Morgan], aged 9 years and 10 months; on the 2d inst. Nettie E. [Morgan], aged 8 years, 11 months, children of N.T. and Antoinette Morgan.
Died: At the Regimental Hospital, Brasier city, La., on the 11th ult. of brain fever, Oscar Nichols, of Co. F, 114th N.Y.S.V., and son of John Nichols of Oxford, aged 19 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th ult. Sally [Rathbone], wife of Jonathan Rathbone, aged 59 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on the 21st ult. Esther [Holmes], widow of John Holmes, aged 86 years.
Died: Near Hall's landing, Acquia Creek, Va. of typhoid fever, William F. [Purdy], son of Charles and Orpha Purdy of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY] aged 19 years.
Died: At the General Hospital, Hilton Head, on the 18th ult. after a protracted illness, of typhoid fever, Elijah [Osborn], oldest son of Lieut. Edward M. Osborn, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 13 years.
Died: In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 21st, Adelia C. [Brown], aged 11 years, 11 months and 4 days; March 14th, Lydia [Brown], aged 14 years and 3 days; March 26th, Harriet E. [Brown], aged 8 years, 6 months and 1 day, daughters of Russel and Avis Brown, all of diptheria.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 7th, mr. Ethan Turner, aged 81 years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 16, 1863
Married: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult. by Rev. G. S. White, Mr. Lewis Senearb to Miss Mary E. Randall, all of this village.
Married: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. Jas. D. Webster, Mr. Oliver B. Grant to Miss Hannah J. Gates, all of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 7th, 1863, Mr. James G. Pearson, aged 73 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst. of consumption, Mr. Abram G. Lewis, aged 42 years.
Died: In Delhi, Michigan, on the 28th ult. of cancer in the stomach, Mr. Dexter Phillips, formerly of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] in the 58th year of his age.
Death of Benjamin Welch, Jr.: Commissary General Welch died at Clifton Springs on the 14th inst. aged 44 years. He was a resident of this county [Chenango Co., NY] where he commenced his Editorial career at Oxford, about 1840. He was soon transferred to the Oneida Democrat and subsequently to the Buffalo Reublicac. He was a vigorous political writer, and possessed much influence among his associates. Some years since he was elected State Treasurer, and for the last four years has held the office of Commissary General of the State. About a year since he entered active service in the Army as a member of Gen. Pope's Staff and was present at the engagements of that officer in Front of Washington. His health for some years past has been frail, his exposure in that campaign left his system a prey to typhoid disease from which he has never recovered. We learn that his funeral will take place from the residence of his father in this village on the 17th inst.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 23, 1863
Married: In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. by Rev. Charles S. Marvin, Mr. Francis G. Frink to Miss Eliza A. [Cooley], daughter of Mr. J. Cooley, all of Pharsalia.
Died: At Winsor, Broome Co. [NY], on the 15th inst., Mr. Theodore Bingham, formerly of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] aged 64? years.
Died: Near Whitney's Point [Broome Co., NY], on the 15th inst., Cornelia [Rogers], wife of Earlman Rogers, Jr., aged 34 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. Alice [Hill], daughter of Ransom Hill, aged 8 months.
Died: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. Sally [Tillotson], relict of David Tillotson, aged 76 years.
Died: In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] on the 8th? inst. of diptheria, Frank Hamilton [Griswold], aged 10 years and 6 months; on the 9th inst. Sarah Lilian [Griswold], aged 18 years and 4 months; and on the 13th inst. Georgian I. [Griswold], aged 15 years and 17 days. Children of George W. and Sarah L. Griswold.
Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. of erysipelas, Harriet C. Smith, daughter of Jonah and Jane Smith, aged 30 years, 2 months and 2 days.
Died: In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst. Mrs. Miranda Wood, wife of Ephraim Wood, Esq., aged 57 years, 8 months and 14 days.
Died: At Quarantine Station, La, 72 miles below New Orleans of typhoid fever, Daniel Nichols, a member of Co. C, 114th N.Y.S.V., from Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] aged 23 years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 30, 1863
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., by Rev. E.L. Spafford, Mr. G.L. McNeil, to Miss L. Miller, both of Oxford.
Married: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst. by Rev. O. Eastman, Mr. William H. Thompson to Miss Loranett E. Murdock, both of Plymouth.
Married: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. by Rev. A. Ketchum, D.A. Gilbert to Amelia H. Bixby, daughter of Charles Bixby, Esq.
Died: In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], on the 15th inst. Mary E. [Johnson], wife of Henry E. Johnson, aged 23 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst., suddenly, of diptheria, Anna M. [Field], and daughter of Asa Barnes, Esq., aged 25 years, 7 months, 16 days.
Died: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. Phebe [Bancroft], wife of Allen Bancroft, aged 47 years and 19 days.
Died: In Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst. Miss Harriet Van Horne, daughter of David Van Horne, Esq. On the 22d inst. David Van Horne, Esq. aged 59 years.
Died: On the battle field, from wounds received in the battle of South Mountain, Sept. 15th, 1862, Charles H. Sweet, a member of Co. E, Bucktail Regiment, Penn. Volunteers, and son of C.R. Sweet, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], aged 25 years.
Died: In Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the 23d inst., Julia M. [Vanderburgh], wife of Hon. Charles E. Vanderburgh, and youngest daughter of William Mygatt, Esq., of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult. Mrs. Sarah Church Gibson, wife of S.C. Gibson, M.D., aged 30 years, 10 months and 11 days.
Died: In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst. of scarlet fever, Emma Louisa [Baker], daughter of John B. and Betsey C.F. Baker, aged 4 years and 5 months.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 23, 1863
Death of General Welch
Benjamin Welch, Jr., was born in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y. in December, 1818, where he passed his youthful years. In 1837 his father removed to Oxford, Chenango County [NY] accompanied by all his family save the subject of this sketch. At the time of the father's removal to Oxford the General was a clerk in the city of New York, where he remained until some time in the year 1839, when he repaired to Canandaigua to aid a friend in closing business, which, after the lapse of a few months, being accomplished, he joined his family at Oxford. Very soon after Mr. Welch arrived at Oxford he entered the office of Henry R. Mygatt, Esq. to aid Mr. Mygatt as a clerk or copyist. While thus engaged, and but a brief time having passed thus employed, the editor and proprietor of the Oxford Republican, an old established and influential paper, failed, and the friends and patrons of that paper, and the active and influential men of the democratic party, observing and appreciating the ability, capacity and fitness of Mr. Welch for the place, urged him to become its editor and proprietor. With much diffidence as to his own ability and fitness he yielded to the solicitations of friends, and in January, 1841, entered upon the duties of an editor and issued a paper styled the Oxford Republican and Chenango County Democrat.
Mr. Welch was but little more than twenty-two years of age when he thus took upon himself the delicate and responsible duties of a party editor, yet he more than realized the sanguine expectations of his friends and advisers, and continued for about one and a half years to conduct the paper with a tact, energy and ability far beyond his years, and with the approval of his party and a discriminating public.
In October, 1843, Mr Welch removed to Utica [Oneida Co., NY], and became the editor of the Utica Democrat. The greater responsibility thrust upon him by this wider sphere and more extended field of action, was promptly met by him with an energy and capacity which developed itself as labor increased, and though still but a mere youth, he by his own unaided efforts soon won his way to, and took a position among the leading men of his party in Central New York. Immediately after his arrival at Utica he became a student at law in the office of the late Charles A. Mann, Esq., whose friendship he early gained, and he continued while at Utica to pursue his career as a student while he plied diligently and with telling effect the pen editorial. he was never, however, admitted to the bar.
It was while in charge of the Democrat that divisions and dissensions arose in the Democratic party, and Mr. Welch espoused with all the enthusiasm of his nature the radical cause. Amid those dissension and divisions he was a prominent actor, attending the various conventions which were held by the portion of the party to whose interest and policy he was devotedly attached; and in the fall of 1847, and about the period of the celebrated Herkimer convention he received and accepted a proposition to unite with another in the publication of the Buffalo Republic, and immediately thereafter took up his residence in that city. His connection with the Republic was at this time very short, terminating in the spring of 1848. Mr. Welch was in the canvass of 1848 an ardent, honest and able supporter of Mr. Van Buren, and with stern convictions of duty and conscientious regard for the best interest of this country sustained the principle upon which Mr Van Buren was nominated and the platform upon which he was run, readily, heartily and vigorously.
In 1851, Mr. Welch was nominated for State Treasurer by the Democratic party, and elected to that office. In his management of this important branch of our State Government he displayed that stern, unyielding integrity which had ever characterized his life, and brought to its administration that energy and capacity which ever rising with the circumstances surrounding him, and developing themselves as he advanced, made him ever and always equal to the occasion.
In March, 1853, he again took an interest in the Buffalo Republic, and became its editor. He continued in this position until 1859.
Those who knew the innate honesty and integrity of Mr. Welch, and his fixedness of purpose, could not have been surprised when, in 1856, discarding the party name under which he had previously been proud to rally and to act, he was found battling manfully as he believed for the principles of the Democratic party as handed down to him by the fathers, in which he had been taught and educated, and to which he lent his support in the campaign of 1848. Upon these principles he ever acted, in this political faith he lived, and he died adhering thereto.
In 1859 he was appointed by Gov. Morgan, Commissary General of this State. He found this department in a very loose and disordered condition, and immediately commenced a laborious and successful effort to bring order and system out of chaos and confusion. Labor and toil incessant have been the characteristics of the office since he assumed its duties and direction. the Rebellion found the military resources of the empire State upon a strict peace and not war footing, and to meet the urgent demands of the General Government, and the responsibilities resting upon her in the great and terrible emergency the labors of this important branch of the State government were constant and onerous and talent and capacity of a high order were required to manage its affairs. These requirements were fully met and answered; the necessities of the service were by him as fully complied with as under the circumstances it was possible, and toiling on early and late he again evinced the traits of no ordinary man by rising fully to the comprehension of the duties of his position and the necessities of the hour.
The arrangement of his department being reduced to a system, his ardent patriotism and unswerving loyalty prompted him to accept a post upon the staff of Gen. Pope, with the rank of Colonel tendered him by that officer in the summer 1862, still at the earnest request of Gov. Morgan, retaining his position as Commissary General. No piping loyalty, no sentimental patriotism found a lodgement in his breast, but relinquishing the labors of his then position, although still bearing its responsibilities, he, at the call of his country, exchanged those labors for the still more incessant labor and exhausting fatigues of the camp and active service. Despising and abhorring that system of peculation which sometimes leads men to prey upon the public Treasury without any excuse or palliation therefor, he received during his services in the army only the pay to which his rank therein entitled him, and declined to accept any pay from the State as Commissary General, though responsible for the fidelity with which its trusts were discharged.
It was while serving in the disastrous campaign of Gen. Pope in Virginia, and in undergoing sufferings and hardships which might have been averted, that Mr. Welch contracted disease which terminated in his early and lamented death. He returned from that campaign in September last, and was soon prostrated by a severe and almost immediately fatal attack of fever, from which he did not recover sufficiently to attend to any duties for more than three months. So violent was his disease that with his frame somewhat enfeebled by constant and wearing toil, and his constitution shattered by exposure and suffering he gradually declined until the flickering light of life went out forever. He died at Clifton Springs on the 14th inst. whither he had gone, hoping the medicinal effects of the water might resuscitate and revivify the decaying embers of life; but alas, "death loves a shining mark." His last moments were calm and peaceful, and he expressed a willingness to be taken hence.
Mr. Welch wielded a ready and vigorous pen, and while he wrote with urgency, maintained controversy with great ability and shrewdness, and was many times sharp and caustic in the expression of his views, and in the maintenance of his principles, his amiability, good nature and courtesy prevented his giving away to bitterness. As an antagonist in disputation he was formidable, yet courteous. He was true, sincere and unwavering in his friendships; affectionate and devoted in the family circle; an ornament to society; a good citizen; an upright and faithful public officer; an honest man. His best eulogy will be found in the love of his relatives and the high esteem of those who shared his friendship. He was buried at Greene [Chenango Co., NY] on the 17th inst. his remains attended to their last earthly resting place by a large and deeply afflicted circle of relatives and friends, and his body committed to the silence of the tomb under the solemn and impressive services of the Episcopal Church. "earth to earth, dust to dust, ashes to ashes, waiting for the general Resurrection on the last day."
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