Oxford Times, October 4, 1865
Marriages
In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult., by Rev. W.C. Bowen, Mr. George B. Foote of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Katie A. Ford of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].
In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., by Rev. J.C. Foster, Mr. Palmer Rich of South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss G.P. Osgood of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].
In Guilford Center [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. by Rev. S. Keeler, Mr. Lanson S. Ferris to Miss Matilda Carhart of Guilford.
In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Charles A. Winsor to Miss Frances E. Anderson, both of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].
Deaths
In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. Randolph B. Chamberlin, aged 56 years.
In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on 23d ult. Mr. Horace Bard, aged 50 years.
In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on 21st ult. Abigail [Grant], widow of the late J.J. Grant, aged 42 years.
Strange Affair: A bright little girl of about six years was left at the house of Charles Willcox in this town, last Wednesday evening. The account which the little stranger gave of herself was not very satisfactory. She represented that she came from Iowa, or some Western state, and that a man brought her in a wagon to the house of Mr. Willcox, and went away immediately after leaving her. when Mr. Willcox first saw her, she was standing by the stove in the kitchen, and no clue has yet been obtained as to the person who left her or the circumstances. She displayed no particular emotion at being left, but on the contrary seemed quite satisfied if not contented with her lot. We understand that Mr. Willcox has reported the case to the Overseers of the Poor of the town. Altogether the affair is very strange.
Oxford Times, October 11, 1865
Marriages
In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on 21st Sept. by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. Samuel Daily of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] to Mrs. C. J. Benedict of Coventry.
In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th Sept. by the same, Mr. N.E. King of Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], to Miss A.E. Houghton of Oxford.
In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. by the same, Mr. Madison Sayles of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Elcy C. Nicholson of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].
In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst. by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Francis M. Harrington to Miss Julia E Potter both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].
In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. by the same, Mr. Seymour S. Taft of Triangle [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Lottie A. Mallory? of Smithville.
In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], on the 17th ult. by Rev. S .Smith, Mr. John G. Wheeler to Miss Sarah M. Lamphere, both of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].
In Pittsfield [Otsego Co., NY], on 24th ult. by Rev. E.D. Thurston, Mr. James R. Bartholomew of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Delila Persons of Pittsfield.
In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th? ult. by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. John R. Juliand to Miss Cecelia L. Read, all of Greene.
In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst. by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Lewis St. John of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Augusta C. Palmer of Greene.
Deaths
In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. Frances [Dimock], only daughter of Brown and Ursula Dimock, aged 20 years, late of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY]. Again from our midst the dark angel has taken one whose rare qualities of mind and heart endeared her to all who knew her in the intimate relations of daughter, sister and friend. Four weeks of painful agonizing illness at length terminated in death, leaving to those who loved her precious memories of the past, and of hopes of reunion in the land where sickness and sorrow are unknown.
"Oh heavy grief! whose palsying touch / Shatters the hopes that seemed so fair! / Oh hungry grave! that claims so much / Of love's best treasures, sweet and rare! / Look up sad hearts for lo! the child / So loved, so mourned, has found her rest, / A spirit pure and undefiled / safe sheltered in The Father's breast."
In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st ult. Miss Mary Tryon, aged 42 years.
Oxford Times, October 4, 1865
At his residence in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Henry VanDerLyn, Esq., aged 81 years, 5 months and 9 days.
Mr. VanDerLyn was born at Kingston, Ulster co., N.Y. on the 21st day of April, 1784. He graduated at Union College in May, 1802, and soon after commenced the study of the Law in his native place, where he remained for more than two years. Thence he repaired to New York, and entering there upon the study of his profession with that zeal and energy characteristic of the man, he prepared himself for grappling with the vexed questions which were afterwards to demand his attention in a new country, away from kindred and friends, and in an untried field of labor. Emigrating to the "far west" in 1806, in May or June of that year, he arrived at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], then a wilderness, where was to be the scenes of his early life and labors as an Attorney at Law, and where in the Providence of God, after a life of activity and labor of more than fifty-nine years, he was amid scenes so changed, after beholding the growth of a prosperous village, and the country about him changed from a wilderness to bright fields, and the abodes of a happy husbandry, to close his days, as he had hoped gently, with malice towards no one, with a heart filled with kindness and love to all.
Mr. VanDerLyn was among the few who in the early history of this State, received a liberal education, and finding in the place of his settlement an institution of Learning, he gave early attention to its welfare, and was for many years its zealous friend, trustee and supporter. Ever diligent and unwearied in the course which he had marked out for himself, he never wearied in doing well for that institution, and Oxford Academy owes to him and a few other early supporters, much of its present high standing and usefulness.
As a counsel he was studious and untiring, thorough in his examinations and uncompromising in his conviction of right. As an advocate clear and concise in his statements of law and fact, and eloquent in the presentation of his views to the minds of a jury.
Mr. VanDerLyn's best eulogy however may be found in the later years of his life. Retiring from the arduous and busy labor of his profession many years since, he devoted the remaining years of an already advanced age to the enjoyment of a competence early acquired, and to a desire and sincere effort to make all around him happy.
Early education and strictly correct habits had strengthened a naturally robust constitution to such a degree that while old in years, he was mentally and physically youthful, and brought to his declining years that cheerfulness of manner and temper, and that buoyant and hopeful disposition which robs age of all its terrors, and clothes it with the brightness and joyousness of the early spring of life.
At peace with the world, seeking forgiveness for the errors of the past, hopeful and confident of the future, with a youthfulness of feeling few have ever felt, he awaited the coming of death which comes once to all.
Thus, one by one of the landmarks of the past disappear, one after another of the living mementoes of a by-gone age pass away. To those like Mr. VanDerlyn we may well look for examples of that indomitable energy and perseverance which makes the man, for that kindness of heart which makes the Christian, that cultivated cheerfulness of mind which robs death of its sting, and those rare qualities of the heart and mind which triumphing over the weakness of the body enable their possessor to pass away from earth with well assured hopes of an immortality bright and blissful. Setting his house completely in order he awaited with fortitude and complacency His summons, who gives and taketh away, and on the 1st instant calmly entered upon that rest which remaineth for the people of God.
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