Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, March 27, 1872
Deaths
HASTINGS: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], on 21st, Mrs. Catharine Hastings, aged 68 years.
MEAD: In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], on 14th, Allen Mead Esq. aged 74 years.
DIX: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], on 12th, Mr. Zephaniah Dix, aged 42 years.
HOUGHTON: In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], on the 19th inst., Jesse D. [Houghton], youngest child of Ansel and Eliza Houghton, aged 2 months.
I had a lovely Rose bud / Just opening beauteously, / I placed it on my bosom / And fair it was to see. / My heart was proudly swelling / When every passerby / Admired my beauteous flower / That blossomed but to die.
Awhile it gaily flourished / Nursed by affection's dew, / And every passing hour / More beautiful it grew / Each tender leaf unfolding / A brilliant hue displayed, / I thought a brighter flower / Was surely never made.
One day I saw it drooping, / It leaned upon my breast / With paleness and with trembling, / I saw it sink to rest, / I knew not it was dying, / Though paler still it grew, / I vainly sought to save it / By all that love can do.
At length I heard a whisper, / O suffer it to come / To me the only Saviour / And I will take it home, / There in my garden blooming, / Are many buds like thine, / In bright celestial beauty / Sweet flowers how they shine.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 21, 1872
Marriage
In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 20th, by Rev. R.I. Warriner, Mr. Wesley Merrill of Colesville [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Lucy Winston of Greene.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 28, 1872
Deaths
In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], March 16th, Georgianna M. [Hotchkiss], daughter of M.S. and Anola A. Hotchkiss, aged 9 years 10 months and 21 days.
In Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], March 20th, Martha C. [McMoran] daughter of David and Ann McMoran, of this town, aged 20 years and 2 months.
In this town, March 25th, Mr. David Bradley, aged 87 years. Mr. Bradley was one of the earliest settlers in Greene and was honored and respected by all his townsmen. The funeral will be attended from his late residence at Greene Corners, on Thursday, at 11 A.M.
In oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 21st, Mrs. Catharine Hastings, aged 68 years.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, March 30, 1872
Marriage
Tuesday, March 26th, was the sixtieth anniversary of the wedding day of Mr. and Mrs. Jared Clark, of Columbus [Chenango Co. NY]. Although childless, they have reared several children, all of whom, with the exception of one who died many years ago, are now honored and useful members of society. Their ages are respectively seventy-eight and seventy-five, the wife being married when she was but fifteen years old. The happiness of their wedded life has been commensurate with its extraordinary length. Mr. Clark often jocosely boasts to his friends that he has "One of the nicest little women in the world", a fact which all of her acquaintances will cheerfully corroborate. May they both live to become centenarians.
Deaths
CARPENTER: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], March 25, Mrs. Sarah Carpenter, wife of Rev. Henry Carpenter, aged 26 years.
YOUNGS: In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], March 24, of bilious pneumonia, Mr. Henry Youngs, aged 77 years.
MUNSON: In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], March 28, Mrs. Anna M. Munson, aged 86 years.
SISSON: In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], March 24, of consumption, Mr. Jonathan A. Sisson, aged 22 years.
THURSTON: At Sherburne Quarter, March 24, Miss Nellie Thurston, step-daughter of Mr. Storing, aged 16 years.
DIBBLE: In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], on the 27th inst. Mr. Ira Dibble.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, March 16, 1872
Deaths
In West Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY], Feb. 28, Mrs. Sarah Walter, aged 87 years.
At his residence, Hopbottom, Pa., Feb. 19, George E. [Caswell], oldest son of Henry and Lydia W. Caswell, aged 25 years.
In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], March 8, Olive Locke, aged 55 years.
In Sanford [Broome Co. NY], March 8, Ira Hyde, aged 12 years.
In Jonesville, Mich. Feb. 20, Mr. S.H. Humphrey, aged 57 years. The deceased was formerly a resident of the town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] where many of the friends still reside.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, March 23 1872
Marriages
In Schenevus [Otsego Co. NY], March 13th, by Rev. J.V. Newell, Thomas S. Bain, of Albany [Albany Co. NY], to Miss Jennie A. Wright, of Schenevus.
At the Universalist Church in Afton [Chenango Co. NY], by Rev. R.C. Lansing, James L. Hyde to Cretia A. Wildey, both of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
In Morris [Otsego Co. NY], March 5th, Martha Almira [Gifford], aged 35 years.
In Pittsfield [Otsego Co. NY], March 3d, Dr. E.S. Blackwell, aged 62.
In Schenevus [Otsego Co. NY], March 9th, Philor [Benedict], son of Philor Benedict, Esq., aged 11 years.
In Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY], March 5th, M. Richardson, aged 88 years.
In Schenevus [Otsego Co. NY], March 11th, Amanda [Carpenter], daughter of Ira E. Carpenter, aged 2 years and 5 months.
William Barrett, Esq., one of the oldest members of the Bar of Broome County [NY], died of rheumatism at his residence in Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], last Sunday afternoon. Mr. Barrett was born in Springfield, Otsego County [NY], and was nearly 60 years of age. His father was Dr. Barrett, well known in his day as a prominent physician, also as an extensive tanner and merchant later in life. The deceased graduated at Union College and read law with Hon. Joshua Spencer, at Utica. After being admitted to the bar he opened an office in Herkimer and was elected District Attorney of Herkimer County. He afterward practiced in his profession at Westville, Otsego County, and at Utica. At Utica he was a partner of Mr. Benton, for many years canal auditor. Mr. Barrett was twice married. His first wife was a sister of William R. Osborn, Esq., and his second wife, who is now living in Savannah, Georgia, is sister of Hon. Edward Tompkins, of California. Mr. Barrett had a son by his last wife, who is with her at Savannah. Mr. Barrett went to Binghamton from Utica, about twenty years ago, and for ten years was prominent in his profession, but for the past ten years he did little business on account of failing health. The deceased was a brother of George Barrett, Esq., a prominent lawyer in Otsego County, and also of Mrs. Dr. Cleveland, of Westville.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, March 30, 1872
Deaths
In Otadawa [Otsego Co. NY], March 23, Addison Jenks, aged 14 years.
In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], March 19, Widow Patchen, relic of John Patchen, aged 93 years.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 20, 1872
Obituary - Rev. Hezekiah C. Hall
Hezekiah C. Hall was born May 9th, 1810, in the town of Smyrna, Chenango County, N.Y., where his father, Mr. Luke Hall, had settled on the farm now occupied by his youngest son, Erastus G. Hall. His boyhood and youth were spent in the active labors of the farm. In early manhood he made several journeys through the opening west and southwest traversing the swamps of Southern Michigan on foot and spending some time chopping in Ohio where his feet were badly injured by accidental strokes of the axe, which was the occasion of much future suffering. At one time and another, he visited most of the States east of the Mississippi, spent one summer at sea hoping to recover from the ague and fever which he had contracted while helping chop one hundred acres of the heavy timber on the low shore of Lake Ontario, in Orleans County. At the age of twenty-four he was converted and became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was soon appointed class leader, and after much hesitation, and self-distrust received a license to preach, and after spending several years in preparatory studies at the conference Seminary at Cazenovia, was received into the Oneida (now Central New York) Conference, of which body he remained a member either as effective, or superannuated, until his death at Franklinville, Gloucester county, New Jersey, February 16th, 1872, to which place he had moved with his family five years before. As a traveling preacher he was stationed at East Homer, Lansing, Elbridge, Montezuma, Mentz, Owasco, McLean, Onondaga, South Onondaga, Nelson, Perryville, Clockville, and DeRuyter, where he preached his last sermon September 1865, went from the pulpit to his bed and never walked afterward without support. His labors as a minister were frequently interrupted by intervals of sickness, and sometimes he was helped into the pulpit and preached from a chair, and sometimes preached with his arm in a sling. For six years and a half he was mostly confined to the bed. For six weeks before his death his suffering was extreme, from such a complication of disease as defied the skill of his physician, and the assiduities of friends. From the first he understood that the end was at hand and though he often sighed for release he said, "the will of the Lord be done," I am almost home. He often said my agony is terrible, if the Lord would take me, entreat for me that I may go. The struggle is over, the warfare accomplished, may we follow him as he followed Christ.
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