Vital Records, Oxford, NY, May 1862

 Oxford Times, May 7, 1862

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th ult., Luia B. [Hotchkiss], infant son of George and Almeda Hotchkiss, aged 7 months.

Died:  In Mcdonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th ult., Mrs. J.L. Isbell, wife of Lyman Isbell, aged 45 years.

Died:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult., Jerusha [Kinney], wife of Mr. Stephen Kinney, aged 51 years.

Oxford Times, May 14, 1862

Died:  In Harrison, Potter co., Pa., March 7th, Mr. W.H. Holcomb, formerly of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], aged 34 years.

Arthur Brooks, son of Rev. W.R. Brooks, of Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], raised the third company of volunteers from Hamilton, and, at its head, joined the Sixty-first regiment.  His military skill and soldierly conduct secured his promotion to the position of  Major of the regiment, recently.  and his prospects for winning glory were as bright as the day.  But on Tuesday afternoon his father received a telegram announcing his serious illness, and in a few hours, a second dispatch announced his death at Yorktown.  Major Brooks death is said to be the first one in either of the three companies from Hamilton.

Back from the war:  Thursday last, R.L. Stevens, Henry Frazer, D.C. Bronson, Henry Knapp and George Stevens, returned to our village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], completing the entire list of the Oxford Band, who last fall went to the war and have returned. They all look hale and hearty, and wear the bronzed features which are the natural result of camp life.  They have seen the elephant, added largely to their life experiences, and laid up in store many things to tell their children and grandchildren. We are quite sure that most of them prefer the "Home Quickstep" to the martial airs to which they have so long listened, and in which they have joined.  Samuel H. Farnham and Selah H. Fish, of the Oxford Band, returned some time since, having been discharged on account of ill-health.

Oxford Times, May 28, 1862

Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst. Mrs. Susan J. [VanCott], wife of Mr. Harry H. VanCott, aged 44 years.

Died:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Mrs. Lucretia Merritt, aged 60 years.

Died:  At South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst., Mr. Jonathan Matthewson, aged 51 years.

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on 22d inst., Mr. E. Condo Chase, aged 42 years.

Died:  At Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst., Henry Davidson, Esq., recently of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY].

Oxford Times, March 12, 1862

Information Wanted:  Information is wanted of Asahel Thomas, a person about 65 years of age, who left Upper Lisle in Broome County [NY] on the 28th of November last, to visit his son at Collierville, Otsego Co. [NY]. The last heard from him was at Gilbertsville [Otsego Co., NY] on 30th Nov.  Any information respecting him, will be thankfully received by Alexander Thomas at Collierville, or Elisha Thurston at Louisville, Otsego Co.  

Oxford Times, May 7, 1862

Body Found:  We learn from reliable sources that the dead body of a man was found on Sunday about a mile below Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY], on the Genegantslet brook.  Appearances indicated that the body had been in the stream, and was washed ashore by the water and left after the same had subsided.  It was believed to be the body of Asahel Thomas, who has recently been advertised as missing in several papers, here and elsewhere.

 Oneida Weekly Herald, Utica, NY, May 1862

Chenango County, May 14, 1862:  To the Editor of the Utica Morning Herald:  Coroner Dr. Botsford Prindle held an inquest last week on a dead body found on the Genegantslet Creek in Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].  It proved to be a Mr. Asahel Thomas, of Lisle [Broome Co., NY], who has been missing since last fall.  He was an irregular man.