Vital Records, Home Sentinel, Afton, NY 1876/7

 Home Sentinel, Afton, NY, April 8, 1876

Married:  TERRY - SAUNDERS:  By L.S. Russell, Esq., at his residence in Sanford [Chenango Co., NY], May 22d, Orrin W. Terry to Hattie K. Saunders, both of Colesville [Broome Co., NY].

Died:  Infant son of John and Sarah Skelly, on Sunday, the 23th ult. aged 19 months.

Card of Thanks:  Mr. and Mrs. J. Skelly desire to tender their sincere and heartfelt thanks and prayer for Divine favor through our columns to their friends for their kind assistance rendered in the sickness and burial of their deceased child.

Died:  In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], May 29th inst., Daniel Bond aged 55 years, 4 months and 27 days. He has gone to his rest, / His labor is done. / He now dwells with the blest  / Through the Father and Son. /   A Relative

A Sad Accident:  About 8 o'clock last Monday, train 12 going east, struck and fatally injured Daniel Bond, a workman on this section of the road.  It seems the men were repairing the track about 2-1/2  miles of this place [Afton, Chenango Co., NY], and as the train came near, they all stepped off the track.  Mr. Bond, seeing some tool left behind reached for it just as the engine came up to them, when the cross beam or cylinder struck him on the side of the head, crushing the skull.  He lived probably 60 minutes and expired.  Dr. Hayes was summoned, and was prompt to attend the call, but the poor man breathed only a few moments after he arrived.  He was about fifty-two years of age, and leaves a family to mourn his loss.

Home Sentinel, Afton, NY, November 4, 1876

Joel Crofut, of Colesville [Broome Co., NY], died on Sunday last.  He was thrown from his wagon about three months ago, and has been failing ever since, probably from internal injuries.

Home Sentinel, Afton, NY, January 20, 1877

Died:  LANE:  In Bainbridge, on the 14th of January, 1877, L.M. Lane, aged 30 years.

Chenango [Broome Co., NY]:  We hear of a number of cases of scarlet fever in our midst.  Samuel Wheeler lost a son last week by this dread disease, and has other children sick with it.

Otsego [Otsego Co. NY], Mrs. S.P. Butler, of Deposit [Delaware Co., NY], mother of Mrs. A.J. Barlow, died very suddenly of heart disease last Saturday.