Vital Records, Oxford, NY, September 1862

 Oxford Times, September 3, 1862

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Carra L. [Elder], youngest child of Lyman and Melinda Elder, aged 5 months.

Died:  At Hebron, Penn., on the 26th August, 1862, Lucy Widger, aged 97 years and 6 months, widow of the late Eli Widger.  She was a pensioner of the war of the Revolution, and resided in Preston in this County [Chenango Co., NY]\, for nearly fifty years, subsequent to 1802, and leaves her surviving numerous grandsons and great-grandsons, who are marching on in the present army of the Republic.

Oxford Times, September 10, 1862

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., by Rev. Mr. Scoville, Mr. George Sherman to Miss Rosannah Dolan, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], August 29th, Mr. John Adams, aged 72 years.  Mr. Adams served with honor in the war of 1812, and has left two sons in the army of the Republic.

Died:  Departed this life in the village of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], early in the morning of Tuesday, the 19th of August, in the 34th year of her age.  Elizabeth Hallam Bacon, daughter of Cyrus Bacon.

In the death of this estimable young lady, society loses an interesting companion, a lone father, the last bond of his little household, the Church, an accomplished musician, who in former years hath contributed in no small degree to render the praises of the Sanctuary a meet offering for Him who would be worshipped in the beauty of holiness.  For more than two years before her decease, she was so much of an invalid as to be confined with a few and very brief intervals, to the house, and for the most part to her bed.  Yet so patient and cheerful was she throughout her protracted illness, that friends who visited her, sometimes found it difficult to realize her actual condition, when they looked upon her bright countenance, and saw her pleasant smiles, and listened to her hopeless words.  Unable to go to God's house to partake of His goodness, she received in her sick chamber, along with a few valued friends, the Holy Supper of the Lord a few months before her removal to a better world, and found it a means of much heavenly refreshment.  During the earlier stages of her illness, she naturally wished for recovery, full as much we are persuaded for her bereaved father's sake as for her own.  Yet it was a wish entertained with submission to His will, who chooseth for us more wisely than we can do for ourselves. Gradually her reluctance to die was overcome and she was enabled by grace at length to welcome her summons hence, and in the midst of much bodily sufferings, to maintain her tranquility of mind, and with the comfort of a reasonable religious and holy life to fall asleep, we trust, in Jesus.  "Tis sweet, as year by year we lose / Friends out of sight, in faith to muse, / How grows in Paradise our store."

Oxford Times, September 17, 1862

Married:  At Ancram [Columbia Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. LB. Andrus, Mr. Edward Parms of Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Anna E. Peck, of the former place.