Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 6, 1864
Married: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], March 13, by Rev. Wm. Burnside, Mr. Wm. M. Babee of King's Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], to Mrs. Jane M. Tyler, of New Berlin.
Married: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], March 27th, by Rev. Wm. W. Andrews, Mr. Charles H. Pope, to Miss Elizabeth H. Thomas, all of New Berlin.
Died: At the Noyes House, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], April 4th, 1864, Capt. Paul W. Latham, aged 70 years.
Died: In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], March 27th, Mr. Jacob Woolard, aged 77 years, 3 months and 3 days.
Died: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], March 24th, Homer Winner, aged 9 years 10 months and 9 days.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], April 3d, Mr. Marenus Gamet, aged 21 years.
Died: In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], March 14th, of consumption, Julia A. [Bosworth], wife of Jeremiah Bosworth, aged 31 years, 2 months, 2 days.
Died: In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], March 28th, Charles Rich, Esq., aged 83 years.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], March 22d, Sarah [Robinson] wife of J.O. Robinson, aged 23 years, 9 months and 9 days.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], march 21st, Mrs. Alvira Robinson, wife of Daniel Robinson, Esq., aged 60 years.
Died: Also March 23d, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. D Robinson, Mrs. Sally Robinson, aged 78 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], March 21st, of consumption, Melvin S. [Morse], son of Hezekiah B. and Clarissa Morse, aged 17 years and 10 months.
Died: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], March 21st, Mrs. Amy Dibble, aged 84 years.
Died: In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], March 21st, Mr. Charles Wilcox, aged 83 years.
Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], march 27th, Mr. Charles H. Barnard, aged 32 years.
Died: On board of transport, bound for Folly Island, S.C., March 15th, Ira S. [Atwater], son of John S. Atwater, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 15 years.
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 13, 1864
Died: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], April 7th, of consumption, Mrs. Mary Pellet, wife of Hezekiah Pellet, aged 34 years.
Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 3d, Sarah [Gray], wife of the late Enoch Gray, aged 73 years.
Died: In Franklinville, Cattaraugus Co [NY], on the 26th ult., Mr. Seth E. West, formerly of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 67 years.
Died: At the residence of her son, Youngs Stowell, near Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], April 5th, 1864, Mrs. Anna Stowell, aged 83 years.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] March 28th, Arthur [Knapp], of Dwight and Cornelia M. Knapp, aged 4 years and 9 months.
We regret to record the death of Alfred Nichols, Esq., a well-known lawyer of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], which occurred at that place on Sunday last of diptheria. He was last fall elected Special County Judge and the office becomes vacant by his death.
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 20, 1864
Married: In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], March 31st, by Rev. H.S. Hobbe, Mr. Ambrose R. Fenner, to Miss Ruth L. Gillmore, both of Columbus.
Married: In South Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY], April 11th, by the same, Mr. A. Gray Raymond, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Laura A. Phelps of the former place.
Married: In Brooklyn, April 6th, by Rev. M.R. Tompkins, George A. Truesdell, Esq., of Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss A. Louisa Hyall, of the former place.
Died: In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], April 18th, Harriet Ann [Johnson], daughter of Homer Johnson, aged 15 years.
Died: in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] April 18th, Mr. Ezra Gibbs, aged 67 years.
Died: At the residence of her son, Y.E. Stowell, near Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], April 5th, 1864, Mrs. Anna Stowell, formerly of Richfield, Otsego Co. [NY], aged 83 years.
Died: In King Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], April 10th, 1864, of scarlet fever, Horace G. [Buell], youngest son of Elijah K. and Susan B. Buell, aged 2 years, 2 months and 7 days.
Died: in North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], April 4th, Daniel F. Bissell, Jr., son of Daniel F. and Jane Bissell, aged 4 years, 1 month and 17 days.
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], April 6th, George Curtis, aged 18 years, 8 months and 4 days.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 10th, Mrs. Maria Baker, aged 66 years.
Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 6th, Jane [Harrison], wife of Andrew Harrison, aged 31 years.
Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 13th, Mr. Charles King, aged 22 years.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], April 4th, Eva Belle [Carpenter], daughter of Thomas and Ordelia Carpenter, aged 2 years, 8 mos.
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 27, 1864
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 17th, by Rev. J. Ransom, Mr. D. H. Van Antwerp of Afton, Wis., to Miss Adda Cooley of Oxford.
Married: In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], April 6th, by Rev. S.S. Goodman, Mr. Lucius Cumber, to Miss Louisa M. Gage, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], March 30th, by Rev. T.M. Williams, Mr. Robert B. Knowles to Miss Emily L. Rice.
Married: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], April 10th, by Rev. J.L. Jones, Mr. Charles R. Young, of Rutland Co., Vt., to Miss Sarah Ellen Roberts of the former place.
Married: At the residence of Col. E.W. Stratton, in Cortland, April 12th, by Rev. S. Crane, Mr. Richard T. Husted, of Marathon [Cortland Co., NY] to Miss Anglia P. Dodge, of Cortland [Cortland Co., NY], formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], April 13th, Mr. Thomas Sheldon, aged 83 years.
Died: In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], March 2, Halbert M. [Booth], son of E. and Philena Booth, aged 1 year and 8 months.
Died: In King Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], March 26th, Harriet A. [Follett], daughter of Marshall A. Follett, aged 6 months and 10 days.
Died: On board U.S. transport Helen Getty, near Folly Island, S.C., March 17th, Mr. Henry M. Follett, of the 89th N.Y.S.V., in the 22d year of his age.
Died: At Coventry, N.Y. [Chenango Co., NY], April 5th, 1864, Ruth Martin, daughter of the late Dea. William A. Martin, in the 27th year of her age. She was the youngest daughter of devoted Christian parents. The germ of divine grace seemed to have been early implanted in her heart. She appeared like one who had early caught the sweet cadence of heaven, and would soon be borne away. It is believed that she experienced a change of heart at the age of nineteen, and without delay joined the communion of her parents, the 2d Congregational Chruch in Coventry, of which she remained till her death a faithful and consistent member. As a Christian she did not exclude herself from the society of the young, but mingled freely in their harmless and innocent amusements. So unselfish was her disposition, so warmly affectionate, so full of good cheer, that she was a general favorite in the youthful circles. there was no one whose sunny face was more welcome, or whose genial presence was more anxiously sought. the happiness of others was her great delight. She was ever ready to do an act of kindness. She never failed to impress her associates with her religious spirit, and it may well be said of her that she always stood up for Jesus. For more than a year she had been fully impressed with the idea "that she had but a short time to live," but this she only confided to her most intimate friends. About two weeks previous to her death, her disease (of the brain) assumed an aggravated form, and much of the time she suffered the most intense pain in her head. she gave evidence of consciousness to the last, and finally she passed away without a struggle, triumphant, as we believe, in the Christian faith. She has left many sorrowing friends to mourn her loss, but the sweet consolation remains that she has gone to a brighter world, and there we may hope soon to meet her again.
Death of John P. Smith
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 6, 1864
We had barely time before putting our paper to press last week, to announce the death of John P. Smith, Esq., one of our most prominent citizens which occurred on Tuesday, the 29th ult., at his residence in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY]. Mr. Smith had been confined to his house some four or five weeks, with chronic inflammation of the liver, but was not supposed to be in an unusually dangerous condition, when suddenly the disease took an unfavorable turn, and a few days thereafter reached its fatal termination. He was buried on the Thursday following the day of his decease in accordance with the ceremonies of the Masonic order, of which fraternity he was an honored member, his remains being followed to the grave by our citizens generally, as well as by his brother Masons. Mr Smith was so widely known in this community and throughout the State, and so universally respected and esteemed for his generous and manly qualities, that the main events of his varied and interesting life will be acceptable to our reades.
He was born in Rome, this State [Oneida Co., NY], March 12th, 1798, which made him in his 66th year at the time of his death. At the age of 15 he went to Utica and served seven years as an apprentice to a tailor. Form there he removed to Philadelphia, where he remained two years, working at his trade; after which he traveled throughout the Southern States on business for several years. It was here that the aptitude which he possessed in a wonderful degree for large and speculative enterprises developed itself in his character. Before leaving the South he obtained a railroad contract in Georgia, which he successfully carried through. He was afterwards, we believe, deputy Sheriff at Rome, to which place he returned from Georgia. In 1838 he removed to Lockport, where he remained twenty years, and during that time was extensively engaged in the lumber business and interested in canal contracts. In 1852 he took a contract on the railroad across the Isthmus of Darlen, where he remained, however, only about a month, having been prostrated with the Isthmus fever, and being compelled to return home. While on the Isthmus, he lost a brother older than himself, Asa T. Smith, who had accompanied him there, and who fell a victim to the fever which so nearly proved fatal to him also.
In 1855, Mr. Smith came to Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to reside, having taken the contract to keep in repair the middle division of the Chenango Canal. previous to coming here he had a contract for grading on the double track of the Central Railroad through Batavia, Genesee County. His contract for repairs on the Canal has been once renewed, and does not finally expire until a year from next fall. How well he discharged his duties to the State under this contract is something, perhaps, upon which we are not called to express an opinion, but we cannot resist saying that we believe he consulted the interest of the State quite as much as his own, and that what he did will compare favorably with what has been done anywhere under the contract system for keeping the canals in repair.
In his political feelings and associations Mr. Smith was a thorough and devoted Democrat, a believer in the right of States under the Constitution to regulate and dispose of their internal and purely domestic affairs in their own way, unrestrained by outside interference or control; but he nevertheless gave sincere and earnest support to the Government in raising men for the war, on the ground, we suppose, of a choice of evils, that volunteering was better for the people than conscription, and that the perversions which had marked the progress of the war could thereafter be redressed and corrected, while the rebellion, if permitted to succeed, would be forever fatal to the Union and to all hopes of permanent peace. With these views, held in common with a large majority of his party, Mr. Smith last fall accepted an appointment from Gov. Seymour, as one of the War Committee of this Congressional District, and was elected Chairman of the committee. How faithfully and willingly he discharged the duties of this honorable position, will, we think, be attested by his associates.
In all the relations of life, public or private, as citizen, husband, father, friend, Mr. Smith bore the character of an upright, generous, large-hearted man. His ear was never closed to the cry of sorrow or distress, his heart was ever filled with compassion and tenderness for others' woes, and his hand and purse were always open to alleviate human suffering present in any of its Protean forms. His worth in this respect, conspicuous even among the most liberal and benevolent, can never be forgotten by those with whom he was associated in life. His place in the community is one which it will be difficult to supply.
Mr. Smith leaves a widow and a family of five children, mostly grown up, to cherish the recollection of his virtues and to deplore their irreparable loss. We quote from words of consolation tenderly laid by some unknown hand upon their new made sorrow:
Poor bleeding hearts; may God be with you, / In this your trial hour, / And gently on the wounds so painful / His pitying mercy shower.
One who notes the sparrow's fall, sees you / Bowed down beneath the rod; / He will raise you, cheer your weeping hearts; / He is a loving God.
The harvest time is coming, faint not; / Your labor's not in vain; / For those who sow in tears, God says, / Shall reap in joy again.
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