Chenango Union, July 6, 1864
Married: At the residence of the bride's father, in Cazenovia [Madison Co., NY], July 1st, 1864, by Rev. W.H. Olin, Rev. L.C. Queal, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co.] to Miss Sarah J. Hall.
Married: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], July 4th, by Rev. A. Bancroft, Mr. George W. Aldrich, to Miss Amelia Aldrich, all of Plymouth.
Married: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], May 26th, 1864, by Rev. E. Curtis, Mr. Albert Davis, to Miss Martha Gibbs, both of North Guilford, N.Y. [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], June 30th, by the same, Mr. Samuel Sexton, of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Almira E. Ryder, of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], June 22d, by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Chas. W. Knickerbocker of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary E. Beach, of Greene.
Married: In Montrose, Pa., June 15th, by Rev. S.G. Specs, D. D., Mr. Henry C. Tyler to Miss Frances K. [Willcox], only daughter of E.P. Willcox, Esq., all of Montrose.
Chenango Union, July 13, 1864
Married: In Oxford, [Chenango Co., NY], by Rev. E.H. Payson, Mr. Daniel Fisher, of Preston [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Augusta DeForest of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY], June 27th, by Rev. W.G. Queal, Rev. W.K. Haight of Oregon, Ill., to Miss Mary L. Wilde of Rockdale.
Died: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], July 6th, Mr. George W. Harkins, aged 21 years.
Died: At the Chenango House, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], July 11th, Mr. Peter Quackenbush, of Otego [Otsego Co., NY], aged 32 years.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], July 1st, Miss Mary Dewey, aged 36 years.
Died: Killed in battle, May 6th, Mr. Samuel Lenon, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY]; and May 13th, Mr. Edmund S. Burgess of Greene, members of the 8th N.Y. Cavalry.
Died: Killed by sunstroke, Mr. Bradley N. Moore, of Co. L, 22d N.Y. Cavalry, formerly employed in the office of the Chenango Telegraph.
Died: Killed in the battle of Resaca, in Georgia, May 15th, Corp. William H. Peck, of the 9th Indiana Vols., formerly of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], aged 33 years.
Died: At Morganzia, La., June 24th, of fever, Mr. Edward E. Crandall, of Co. C, 114th N.Y.S.V., formerly of Plymouth, Chenango Co., N.Y., aged 22 years. He was a soldier ever prompt and obedient in the execution of his duty; a friend always affable and obliging; and a man against whom the finger of reproach could not be lifted. We gave him all a soldier has to give, a grave hallowed by the last offerings of his sorrowing comrades. C.J.B.
Died: Passed to the summer land, in the town of Caledonia, Ill. on the 28th of June, of typhoid pneumonia, Mr. Monroe Graves, in the 45th year of his age. He was formerly a resident of norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co.]. He is the first of a large family that has passed over the river to the land of the blessed. His spirit is free, his form laid to rest.
Died: In San Francisco, June 3d, Mr. Jeremiah P. Wilber, a native of Mystic, Connecticut, aged 45 years.
Died: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], May 5th, 1864, of consumption, Mrs. Harriet A. Bantam, aged 32 years. The following beautiful lines were occasioned by the death of a dear sister, who departed this earthly tabernacle, May 5th, 1864. She died of that fell disease, consumption. In her quiet slumbers she saw her father, who had his "passport signed and was dismissed," some time since, standing on the other shore, who beckoned unto her to come unto him which she endeavored to do, and while in the act of going, she awoke from her dreams.
Our sister
She has left this earth of coldness, / And has severed every tie; / She has gone (but not forgotten) / To the land of pure delight, / To reign with her Redeemer, / Through the endless rounds of time.
Yet, we miss thee, dearest sister, / And we see thy vacant chair, / Which fills our hearts with sadness, / To think that thou art not here / But we remember our duty, unto God we owe, / And be resigned unto His will, / "For He gave, and He taketh, / Yet He doeth all things well."
In her dreams she saw her father, / On the long-wished shore. / Saying to her, "Come my daughter, / For I would embrace thee once more. / Thou, too, must leave that earth of sorrow, / to a land that's free from sin. / Where we are free from care and toil, / Through the endless ages of time.
"They Redeemer is now waiting, / With His outstretched arms, / Saying, 'Come to me, loved one, / And receive thy great reward, / For thou hast gained the crown of victory, / And hast triumphed over death. / Come to me, child of heaven, / And be forever blessed.' "
Chenango Union, July 20, 1864
Married: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], July 9th, by Warren Gray, Esq., Mr. D.S.H. Buck, to Miss Elida Benedict, all of Greene.
Died: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], July 14th, Mr. Hascall Ransford, aged 64 years.
Died: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], June 30th, Eloise [Miller], youngest child of Mrs. Lucy Miller, aged 2 years and 7 months.
Died: In King Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], June 28th, from the effects of choking with a bean lodged in the throat, Willie H. [Tiffany], son of Lewis and Maranda M. Tiffany, aged 4 years.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], July 13th, Mrs. Amie M. [Brooks], aged 32 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], July 9th, of diptheria, Mary [Schaurte], only child of Col. Frederick and Mary Schaurte, aged 3 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], July 9th, of diptheria, Henry [Grobert], only son of Andrew Brobert, aged 2 years.
Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], July 6th, Mrs. Betsy Peck, in her 85th years.
Died: In Liberty Township, Iowa, May 4th, Mr. George Manwarring, formelry of Chenango Co. [NY], aged 53 years.
Died: At the Regimental hospital manning's Plantation, La., June 22d, Mr. Niles E. Edwards, of Co G, 11th N.Y. Cavalry.
Death of Hascall Ransford
The death of Mr. Hascall Ransford, late U.S. Assessor for this Congressional district, occurred on Thursday, the 14th instant, at his residence in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY]. It was an event long looked for both by himself and his friends. Soon after his appointment as Assessor, in the fall of 1862, he became feeble through a cancerous disease of the intestines, and early in the winter thereafter was confined to his house. From that time he was a great sufferer up to the day of his death, never having left the cover of his roof except on a few occasions for a brief ride in the open air. During this long illness, which he, not less than those around him, knew could have but one termination, he bore himself with a patience, fortitude and resignation, that displayed the highest qualities of a moral and Christian character.
Mr. Ransford was well known to the people of this town and county, having always lived among them, and was universally regarded with respect and esteem. Throughout his active career, he was much devoted to politics, having been an ardent and zealous Whig and afterwards Republican, and always gave to his party his best and most disinterested efforts. For this, and the necessary fitness otherwise, he was appointed the first Assessor for this Congressional District under the U.S. Internal Revenue law. After it became evident to him that his sickness was to terminate fatally, he resigned his office as Assessor in favor of his son, Hascall Ransford, Jr., who, with the concurrence of political friends, was appointed by the President in his place. It was a graceful and appropriate recognition on the part of all concerned of the long and faithful service of Mr. Ransford, senior, to his party, and of the influential position that he occupied and enabled him to pass the remainder of his days in the consciousness that political parties are not always ungrateful. His age was 64, and he leaves to lament his loss a widow and three children.
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, July 27, 1864
Died: In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], July 25th, Abigail [Ives], wife of Dwight Ives, aged 59 years.
Died: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], July 19th, Irving T. [Harris], son of the late John C. Harris, aged 17 years, 6 months and 10 days.
Died: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], July 16th, Della [Terry], daughter of R.A. and Mary A. Terry, aged 3 years, 4 months, 5 days.
Killed or a Prisoner
The many friends of Lieut. James E. Spry, of the 26th Regiment of colored volunteers, will be pained to learn that in one of the recent battles or skirmishes on Johnson's Island, near Charleston, he was either killed or taken prisoner. He was seen to fall, and was reported killed, but subsequent information leads to the hope that he may, though wounded, be only a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. Lieut, Spry was a young gentleman of fine social feelings, of a good degree of literary acquirement, a soldier who took pride in the profession of arms, and one who, having won his way from the ranks, the path of distinction seemed open. Tho' the young men of the country who have gone to the war are falling like autumn leaves, few have been carried down in the fray who are more worthy than him of long and honorable remembrance. We shall watch with interest for any information decisive of his fate.
Chenango Union, June 12, 1872
Lieut. James E. Spry, son of James and Mary E. Spry, was born in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], April 23d, 1843. Learned the printer's trade in the office of the Chenango Union. About the first of September, 1859, Lieut. Spry, in connection with his brother, George H. and E.P. Pellet, started a small but spicy and ably conducted weekly, called "The Literary Independent." After a few numbers, the Spry boys became the sole editors and proprietors, and in an enlarged form continued the paper into the second volume. Lieut. Spry had decided literary ability and taste, and his letters home, published during the progress of the war, were sought for and read with interest. He enlisted as private in Company D, 44th N.Y.V., on the 5th of September, 1861. Served with the Regiment some two years and four months, during which time upwards of half the original number had been killed and wounded in battle, to say nothing of the losses by disease. Discharged by reason of special order for promotion, January 14th, 1864. The same month commissioned First lieutenant of Company H, 26th Regiment, U.S. Colored troops, Col. Wm. Guernsey commanding. Wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of John's island, South Carolina, July 7th, 1864, and supposed to have died in the hands of the enemy the day after. His brother, George H., also in the 44th, was twice struck with balls in battle before Richmond.
Oxford Times, March 23, 1864
Died: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on 15th inst., Julia M. [Clarke], widow of the late William H. Clarke, and the younger daughter of the late Henry C. McMahon of New Milford, Conn., aged 23? years, 6 months and 10 days. Our friend is no more! Death has been busy in our midst, [putting] his chill hand heavily here and there, till we have come to feel that his dark wing shadows us all. On Friday, March 11th, the only child of the deceased after a short illness of about two days, closed his blue eyes and crossed over the dark river, leaving desolate the mother, who was herself lying upon a bed of suffering, too ill even to look upon the dead face which for two weary years had been the sole light of her widowed breast. It was then she felt that the last link was broken in the chain which bound her to earth, and as she heard the loved ones calling her to come up higher, she rejoiced that the shackles which fettered the spirit were so rapidly giving way. She longed to lay aside the -?- and be clothed eternally in the shining garments of the Redeemed. More bitter grew her sufferings, but she bore them all with the sweet patience and resignation which had characterized her daily life. She was so near to the confines which separate us from the infinite, that she seemed to hear as she [unreadable] of the golden harps, and to catch glimpses of the loved ones who were standing by the pearly gates. In her intense pain which at times seemed too great to bear, she would murmur "Dear Father, take your suffering child to Heaven," but she strove to wait patiently the Lord's time, and when he came for her, she joyfully stepped into the cold dark waters, and leaning on His arm, passed through the foaming waves and the blinding spray up into the City with the Jasper walls and the Golden streets, "where the Lamb, which is in the midst of the Throne, shall feed her, and shall lead her unto living fountains of water and God shall wipe away all tears from her eyes." By her early decease, the Church has lost a true beautiful friend, [unreadable] and the sick and needy a friend whose loss will not be easily weighed. Possessed of a warm, affectionate heart, best of all tender sympathies and generous [-?-], it was her greatest delight to minister to the happiness of all with whom she came in contact and with the [unreadable]. She has passed from earth, but the memories of her winning ways, her gentle words, and kindly deeds will remain embalmed in the breasts of her friends, when the frail casket shall have moldered to ashes.
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