Oxford Times, July 1, 1863
Married: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th ult. by Rev. . Robinson, Mr. H.H. Vancott to Miss Maryette Morse.
Died: In Eaton, madison Co. [NY], June 24th, Mrs. Ruth Payson, mother of Rev. E.H. Payson, of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] in the 8-th? year of her age.
Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult., Mrs. Betsey Slawson, aged 66 years.
Died: In German [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th ult., Mr. John Boylen, aged 80 years.
Died: In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th ult. Mr. Thomas Paul, aged 67? years.
Died: in Syracuse [Onondaga Co., NY], on the 4th ult. Mr. Ellsworth Phelps, formerly of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 66 years.
Died: In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th ult. of diptheria, Susan A. [Brown], aged 4 years 8 months; also on the 20th, William H. [Brown], aged 11 years, children of Henry M. and Emily L. Brown.
Died: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th ult. James Lazelle [Cole], youngest son of Morillo and Mary E. Cole, aged 9 years 4 months and 11 days.
Died: Killed in the battle of Magnolia Hill, Mississippi, Charles M. [Howe], second son of Rev. C.F. Howe, Chaplain of the late 14th Rev. N.Y. Vol. aged 24 years and 10 months.
Died: At Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th ult. Mr. Chauncey L. Schermerhorn, aged 20 years.
The friends of Lieut. Stafford of Company A, 114th regiment, received intelligence last week that he had been severely wounded at Port Hudson, during a reconnaissance on the 12th June. A letter states that a ball passed through diagonally from right to left just below his hip joint, and that he was doing well.
Oxford Times, July 8, 1863
Married: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], July 2d, by rev. W. T. Potter, Mr. Wm. S. Youngs to Miss Harriet A. Houghton, both of Oxford.
Married: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. James W Sackett to Miss Mary A. Harrington, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: At the Baptist Church, in East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on 28th ult. by Rev. B. A. Russell, Mr. John A. Benedict of East Greene, to Miss Theresa C. Brock, of Forest Lake, Susquehanna Co., Pa.
Marrieds: In San Francisco, Cal. June 24th, in St. John's Chruch, by Rev. Mr. Brutherton, Mr. William L. Perkins to Miss Sarah R. Peabody.
Married: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst. by Rev. D. Ballou, Mr. Charles L. Humphrey of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Prudence E. Lewis, of the former place.
Married: In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult. by Rev. O. Burton, Mr. Gilbert Manwarring of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Jennie Utter, of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult., Mrs. Lucy [Putnam], widow of the late Eli Putnam, aged 64 years.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th ult. Mrs. Eunice Balcom, aged 87 years.
Died: In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult. Mrs. Grace Hollenbeck, wife of Silas Hollenbeck, aged 20 years.
Died: In Edgewood, Effingham Co., Ill., June 19th Thomas M. [Balcom], son of the late Stephen Balcom, aged 5 years 2 months and 19 days.
Died: At Independence, Mo., June 3d, suddenly, Mrs. Ellen L. [Mericle], wife of P.D. Mericle, aged 32 years, formerly of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY].
Oxford Times, July 15, 1863
Married: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst. by Rv. J.D. Webster, Mr. Wm. Potter to Miss Sarah Barr, all of Greene.
Married: In Wet Boylston, Mass. on the 25th ult. by Rev. Wm. Murdock, Mr. Darwin Davis to Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Hattie A. Lovell of the former place.
Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], suddenly, on the 3d inst. F. Tracy Allen, a soldier in the War of 1812, aged 77 years.
Died: In Greene [Chenango co., NY], on the 3d inst. Miss Emma R. Birdsall, aged 13 years.
Died: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult. Mr. Joseph Nightingale, aged 25 years.
Died: At Ketchum's Corners, on the 22d ult. Laura L. [Culver], aged 17 years. Also, on the 4th inst., Alice [Culver], aged 8 years, children of Mr. Wilson Culver.
Oxford Times, July 22, 1863
Married: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. by Rev. D. Ballou, Mr. Amos F. Hall of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Frances A. Hackett of German [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In this town [Oxford, Chenango co., NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. L.F. Spafford, Mr. F. Russell Stork of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eliza A. Japhet of the former place.
Married: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., by Rev. J.W. Matterson, Mr. Zeal Paddleford to Miss Mary F. Loop, both of Colesville [Broome Co., NY].
Married: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. by Rev. T.M. Williams, Mr. Levi G. Stanbro to Miss Lucy Knowles, all of Smyrna.
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst. Thomas A. Barber, aged 20 years.
Died: In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., Mr. Harrington Willcox, aged 80 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., Susan B. [Ray], widow of Levi Ray, Jr., aged 71 years.
Died: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Mr. John Merrihew, aged 84 years.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. Mr. Jerial Smith, aged 49 years.
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. Mr. Joel W. Chandler, Jr., aged 24 years.
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., Mrs. Martha F. Crego, aged 31 years.
Died: In Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., Mr. Zadock Chamberlin, aged 76 years.
Death of Thomas A. Barber: Another of our brave Oxford boys, a well beloved and cherished member of the 89th Regiment, has been called to the better land. He was wounded last December at Fredericksburg, yet remained at his post until January, when Capt. Roome had him taken to the Hospital for medical treatment, but vain were all efforts to cure him, and eight weeks ago he came home to linger a patient sufferer, with loved ones around him, finally to close his eyes in death. Those who have shared the same duties, fought by his side, and been as brother soldiers, partakers of his joys and sorrows, will learn with regret that he has gone from among them, to return no more.
"Tread lightly, tread lightly, disturb not his sleep, / From his pains he's released, tho' friends o'er him weep. / Speak softly, speak softly, for he whom we love / Has gone to the regions of glory above."
Companion, beloved thy memory shall twine / As close round our heart, as some evergreen vine; / For sweetly and gently, thou sank to thy rest, / A spirit by Deity called to the blest.
Oxford Times, July 29, 1863
Died: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., Mr. James C. Warren, Master in the U.S. Navy, aged 45 years.
Died: In Brashear City, La. May 1st, Isaac H. Brewster of Co. H, 14th Reg., formerly of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], aged 20? years.
Died: At Vicksburg, Miss. on the 16th inst. of typhoid fever, Smith R. Wheeler, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 22 years.
Death of Smith R. Wheeler: This brief announcement has brought sorrow to a widowed mother, to an affectionate brother, to loving sisters, and sadness to a large circle of devoted friends. But that the usual formal notice of such an event be not the only tribute to the memory of a noble and heroic youth is the purpose of the writer of this, who sustained to the deceased the character of acquaintance and friend. It was four years ago this summer that two of our Oxford boys, Smith R. Wheeler and James F. Parsons, left our village and hied away to the distant West, to find their homes, as it were, in another land, and before the breaking out of the great rebellion, the subject of this sketch had gone to New Orleans, where at the beginning of the war, he narrowly escaped impressment by the Louisiana rebels, but made his escape, and hurried back to Illinois, where with his companion and friend, he at once volunteered for the defense of his country, and joined the first Regiment of Illinois Cavalry, which regiment was at once joined to the command of Gen. Grant, and moved onward in an unbroken path of victory, and never for one day was this brave soldier boy absent from his post, as those loyal conquering legions pressed onward and over the battlements of Fort Henry and Fort Donaldson, and were at Shiloh, Corinth, Clarksville, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, and at the fall of Vicksburg, and in all the bloody and terrific conflicts, he rode with his face to his country's foes, hurling back scorn for scorn, defiance for defiance, and paying back dead for dead. And when the long days of conflict were over, when victory after victory had brought relief and rest to the weary soldier, he writes affectionately to a dependent mother and other loved ones, "that now for home once more with my honest wages saved for you," when the last conqueror approached unseen, and in four days his lifeless body was being brought back to his early home, where attended by a very large concourse of sympathizing and sorrowing friends, he was gently laid to rest, to sleep beneath the clods of the valley, that never in their cold embrace pressed upon the bosom of a kinder son, of a more devoted friend or a more noble, brave and generous man.
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