Vital Records, Oxford, NY, August 1866 continued

 Oxford Times, August 22, 1866

Marriages

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by Rev. F.B. Peck, Mr. Samuel Balcom of Campbelltown, Steuben Co., N.Y. to Mrs. Sarah L. Foote, daughter of Henry Balcom, of Oxford.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. Wm. Burnside, Mr. Joseph F. Hicks to Miss Emily Price, both of Guilford.

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., Miss Rachel Bundy, aged 63 years.

On the 16th inst., Sarah M. [Brabazon], wife of George Brabazon, aged 23 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on 13th inst., Almeda A. [Main], daughter of Thomas Main, aged 22 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., Miss Lydia A. Lewis, aged 47 years.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Betsey [Blackman], wife of Lester Blackman, aged 51 years.

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mrs. Mary Jane Hopkins, only daughter of Willis Walker, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], after a protracted illness. She sleeps her last sleep.

Come to my couch, draw quietly near, / Think of my soul in yonder bright sphere; / Check thy sorrows, death is a friend, / When to live longer secures no good end.

Bear me away friends to my last home, / Peacefully lay me down in the tomb; / Lightly, tread lightly round my low bed, / Sweetly, now sleeps the beautiful dead.

Sorrowful mourner weeping no more, / Meet me upon you beautiful shore.

Oxford Times, August 29, 1866

Marriages

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on 16th inst., by Rev. A.J. Buell, Mr. W.A. Cowley of Stamford [Delaware Co., NY], to Miss Anna B. Smith of Coventry.

In Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], July 29th, by Rev. W.W. Andrews, Mr. Thomas P. Jewell to Miss Julia Ackley, all of Mt. Upton.

By the same, Aug. 13th, Mr. Decklvus? Bowen to Miss Ida Burlingame, all of White Store [Chenango Co., NY].

In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on 12th inst. by Rev. A.E. Daniels, Mr. Silas A. Steere of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eliza j. Gorton, of North norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th inst., Austin Rouse, M.D., aged 70 years.

In East Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst. Esther [Wooster], wife of Moses Wooster, aged 68 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on 15th inst., Mrs. Selinda Keech, wife of the late Elisha Keech, aged 63 years.

In Fairview, Kowa, Mr. Amos Breed, formerly of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], aged 71 years.

We regret to learn that Emma Steere, a little daughter of Clark Steere of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], and between two and three years of age, was accidently killed on Monday morning last.  She had been down to her father's saw mill at play, and started back for the house alone.  In going she had to cross the bridge across a branch of the Canasawacta Creek, and it is supposed that in playing on the bridge, she fell of and was killed. She was found some three quarters of an hour after she was last seen, in the creek, a few rods below the bridge, on a rift, and dead.  Her neck was broken or severely injured, and it is supposed that in falling, she struck a timber just under the bridge, inflicting the wound, which must of itself have caused her death.  Chenango Telegraph.

Death of Austin Rouse, M.D.

It will be hard for many to realize that one, who perhaps has been connected with more hearths and homes than any other in our community, in the dear and tender relations of a beloved and faithful physician, sleeps in death.

Doctor Rouse died at noon on Monday, the 27th instant, aged 70 years.  He was born at Norwich, in this county [Chenango Co., NY], June 15, 1796, and was the oldest son of the late Casper M. Rouse, who was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas at a date anterior to the memory of the most now living.  He completed his medical studies with Doctor Perez Packer in this village, with whom he was for a time connected as a trusted assistant, having commenced the practice of his profession in 1822.  In the social and domestic relations of life, he was ever characterized by great purity of character, integrity of purpose, and an abiding kindness of heart, as uniform as it was admirable.  Doctor Rouse was a thorough student of his profession, and ever shared largely the confidence and respect of his professional brethren.

A marked trait in his practice, was the absence of that pride of opinion which insists upon its own course of treatment as an ultimatum, and refuses or chafes under the advice of associates.  Nor was that the result of any lack of research and knowledge of his profession, but rather of a native modesty united with a heart free from envy and a mind at once enlightened, and liberal.  In a profession, whose rivalries are frequently bitter, and its animosities sharp, and which is peculiarly liable to private judgment, uncharitable and erroneous, based as it often is upon ignorance and misapprehension, few men have secured a larger share of the love and confidence of the community in which they lived, few have died at whose loss there was a more generous tribute of grateful sorrow.