Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, September 6, 1871
Marriage
BROWN - SAULBURY: In McGrawville, Cortland County, [NY] August 27th, by Elder Day, Mr. James Brown to Miss Samantha Saulsbury, both of Deruyter [Madison Co. NY].
Deaths
WINSOR: In East Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], September 2d, Minnie V. [Winsor] adopted daughter of Henry V. and Eliza Winsor, aged 3 months.
ELDREDGE: In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], August 11th, DeFloy [Eldredge], son of Kittie and Harrison Eldredge, aged 1 year, 4 months and 17 days.
LEACH: In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], August 23d, Mrs. Zeurah Leach, aged 80 years.
WOODARD: In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], August 20th, Mr. Zael Woodard, aged 75 years, 6 months and 6 days. An honest upright man has gone to rest.
MAXSON: In DeRuyter, Madison County [NY], August 25th, very suddenly, Mr. John J. Maxson, of Preston [Chenango Co. NY], aged 70 years. The deceased was born in the State of Rhode Island but had been a resident of Preston about forty years. J.C.M.
MEDBURY: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], August 29th, Mr. Jeremiah Medbury, aged 87 years.
Another pioneer has gone to his rest. The subject of this brief notice, Jeremiah Medbury, of New Berlin, was born in Rhode Island about the year 1784. When a lad of eight years, seventy-nine years ago, he came with his father, Joseph Medbury to New Berlin township, then a dense forest in which roamed beasts of prey and containing scarcely half a dozen inhabitants. for a quarter of a century, Jeremiah lived with his father upon lands near Great Brook, changing the face of nature, rugged and sterile, into fruitful fields, making the wilderness places to bloom as the rose. The large portion of his days were spent upon a farm but a few rods distant from the homestead.
He lived an honest, industrious, useful life, rearing a family of six children, all of whom except one, are still living. Jeremiah Medbury of this village is the eldest son and next to the oldest of the family. Mr. Medbury retained his faculties and the vigor of manhood, in a remarkable degree, being seldom indisposed for a day, till his end drew nigh. On Saturday, Aug. 26th, he was attacked with a stroke of paralysis, soon became unconscious, and died on the Tuesday following, at the advanced age of 87. On Thursday last he was buried on the premises he had so long occupied. We are reminded how little we of this age of Railroads, Telegraphs, splendid equipages, and manifold comforts and luxuries, realize of the trials, hardships and deprivations of our fathers of three score and ten years ago.
It is sad to think the Pioneers of our own county are nearly all gone, and that we have no more reliable record of their services and lives. Tradition, always vague and uncertain, in a little while will constitute the only link upon which to depend, to connect the remote past with the present and future.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, September 6, 1871
Marriage
BROWNING - HOLMES: In West Eaton [Madison Co. NY], Aug. 23, by Rev. F.J. Whitney, Mr. Dwight Browning of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Livona N. Holmes, of Nelson [Madison Co. NY].
Deaths
SHERMAN: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], Aug. 23, Mrs. Eliza Sherman, aged 68 years.
ABBOTT: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], Aug. 26, Mr. Cyrus D. Abbott, aged 48 years.
HAYES: In Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY], Aug. 23, David Hayes in the 73d year of his age.
JOHNSON: Near Fort Gibson IT, July 30, Edmund LeRoy Johnson, formerly of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], and nephew of the late Hon. D.S. Dickinson.
Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY]: Little Willie [Collins], only son of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Collins, died on Saturday last at 2 o'clock P.M. aged 1 year 9 months and 19 days. The funeral took place at their residence at 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Tis but a little while since Willies was in the full vigor of health and activity. His relapse was sudden, lingering only three or four days when death put an end to his sufferings. We trust his spirit has returned to God, who gave it.
Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, September 6, 1871
Marriage
STORRS - ARNOLD: At Sandlake, N.Y. [Rensselaer Co.] Aug. 15th, by Rev. J.M. Allis, Prof. Henry E. Storrs Ph.D., of Jacksonville, Ill. to Miss Julia A. Arnold, of Sandlake.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, September 7, 1871
Marriages
In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], Sept. 5th, by Rev. Jas. C. Nightingale, Mr. Henry L. Moore of New York City to Miss Maggie R. Harrison, daughter of Mr. Richard Harrison of Smithville.
In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], Sept. 4th, by Rev. Jas. C. Nightingale, Mr. Ephraim Loomis to Miss Cornelia S. Pease, all of Smithville.
At the house of the bride's father, in Barker, N.Y. [Broome Co.], Sept. 5th, by Rev. C.E. Taylor, Mr. Stephen N. Stone of Whitney's Point [Broome Co. NY], to Miss Hannah E. Newman.
By the same, on the same day, at the house of the bride's father, in Barker [Broome Co. NY], Mr. Stephen D. Newman of Barker [Broome Co. NY], to Miss Emily A. [Beals], daughter of Mr. Wm. Beals.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, September 9, 1871
Death
In Chesterfield, Mass. Aug. 3d, of cholera infantum, Louise Manderville [Adams], aged 7 months and 10 days, daughter of G.W. & E.I. Adams, formerly of Otego [Otsego Co. NY].
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