Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 26, 1872
Marriages
HALL - McNITT: At the Baptist Church in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on Wednesday evening, Dec. 18th, by Rev. J.D. Pope, Mr. George W. Hall to Miss M. Libbie McNitt, both of North Norwich.
FORD - STOWELL: At the residence of the bride, in Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 18th, by Rev. J.L. Jones, Mr. Truman R. Ford to Miss Annie K. Stowell, all of Mt. Upton.
HITCHCOCK - HITCHCOCK: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY], Dec. 3d, Mr. Jerry Hitchcock to Miss Mary Hitchcock, of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY].
VANSICLEN - WHITE: In German [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 13th, by Oliver Griswold, Esq., Mr. Freer Vansiclen of Taylor [Cortland Co. NY] to Miss Ruth A. White, of German.
Deaths
FRANCOIS: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 19th, Victorine [Francois], wife of Alexander Francois, aged 47 years. Born in Les Agnans Department, Haute Soane, France.
LANSING: In Greene [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 16th, Miss Elcy Lansing, aged 70 years and 5 months.
SCRIBNER: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 12th, Mrs. Matilda Scribner, aged 72 years.
RECORD: In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 12th, Eliza [Record] wife of Franklin Record, aged 49 years.
SCOTT: In Chicago, Dec. 10th, Arthur Jay [Scott], son of Jay M. and Anna Scott, formerly of Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], aged 4 years.
Farewell sweet Arthur, thou art gone, / Life's few short years have fled; / We've laid thy childish little form / To slumber with the dead.
But on! how hard to give thee up / Our grief, O! who can speak! / Our anguish when the last fond kiss / We pressed upon thy cheek.
Oh, then, let's dry the falling tear; / It was His gracious will; / Twas he who took. Twas he who gave, / Oh, troubled heart, be still.
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WELLS: In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 22d, Mr Roger G. Wells, son of Mathew O. and Mary Wells, aged 23 years and 11 months.
I've often heard it said, / "The old must die; the young may die" and now alas / I think how truly this has come to pass, / As muse I on the dead.
How sad that he should die. / A father's pride, a mother's joy, a sister's, brothers' sweet delight; / That on such dawning should descend such sudden night / The spirit asks, "O why?"
The household joy is gone; / Fled with the hopes that faded with his fading hours. / And though we know he blooms in fair elysian bowers, / Our stricken hearts will mourn.
The flower from the mould; / The angel from the earth, O, read the lesson well, / And let it teach you, while on earth ye still must dwell / God's arms his own enfold.
Roger G. Wells, the young man who was so severely injured in Preston, on the 15th inst, of which we made mention in our last, died on Sunday last, having suffered from the effects his terrible wound for one week. The accident was caused by his slipping off a haymow, where he had been for the purpose of throwing down hay for the stock, impaling him upon the sharp end of a stick which had formerly been used in a rack over the manger, in the stables, but which at the time served as a handle for a "hod," or scraper, and was unfortunately standing against the mow. His body was penetrated near the anus, the stake passing through the rectum, puncturing and tearing the intestines. The deceased was a very worthy young man, in the twenty-fourth year of his age; son of Matthew O. Wells.
Mr. John Kelly proprietor of the Eagle Hotel in Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], dropped dead from his chair in the hotel on Monday morning of last week, about seven o'clock. He was sitting by the stove in the office of the hotel, smoking and conversing with his youngest son, and seemed in unusual good health and spirits, when without a moment's warning or the slightest struggle he fell a lifeless corpse. The cause of his death is attributed to disease of the heart. His age with fifty-five years.
A Blacksmith shop was burned at Oneida Castle [Oneida Co. NY], early on the morning of the 13th inst. and Charles McKee, a Frenchman, who occupied the shop, and lodged there, perished in the flames. He was an intemperate man and had spent the previous evening in a drinking saloon. It is supposed that in returning to the shop, he accidentally set fire to the kindlings about the stove, and falling asleep, was not awakened in time to extricate himself.
Dr. David Ransom of Buffalo [Erie Co. NY], we learn, died last week from the effect of an injury, the nature of which we have not learned. For many years he practiced medicine in our village, and here first engaged in the manufacture of Trask's Magnetic Ointment. After moving to Buffalo, he manufactured that and several other kinds of medicine to an extent that made him one of the most prominent patent medicine men in the country. Oneida Union.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 26, 1872
Marriages
RICHMOND - WOOD: At the parsonage in Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], December 11th, by Rev. J.B. Hyde; Mr. George A. Richmond, of Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY], to Miss Sarah A. Wood, of Guilford.
THORP - CLARK: In Masonville [Delaware Co. NY], December 19th, by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. H.M. Thorp of Masonville, to Miss Susan Clark, of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].
POWELL - BARROWS: At Sweeny's Hotel, in New York City, July 5th, 1872, by Rev. James L. Hodge, Henry R. Powell, Esq., and Julia Barrows, both of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
PHILLIPS: In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], on the18th, Gilbert D. Phillips, aged 81 years. He was the father of Edgar A. and James M. Phillips, and of Mrs. Amasa J. Hoyt of Coventry, and Mrs. Leroy F. Martin, of Chicago.
Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, December 25, 1872
Deaths
JACOBS: In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 21st, Mr. Cornelius Jacobs, aged 76 years.
Death of Harvey M. Greene
The death of Doctor Greene brings sorrow to a large circle of relatives and friends in this village, and our entire community will read the announcement with regretful sadness. The deceased on the 12th inst, left Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he had established himself in the practice of medicine and went to New York City, intending to replenish his stock, and expecting before his return to be joined in wedlock to an estimable young lady residing in Dutchess County, the day of their expected nuptials having been already arranged. His health had been precarious for some months, and he had suffered with muscular rheumatism. After his arrival in the city he was stricken with apoplexy, and died on the 17th inst. Doctor Green went from this place several years since to Grand Rapids, where he had already secured a large share of confidence and esteem in his profession, and also a most respectable standing in the medical and Surgical Society of which he was there a member. In this, the village of his birth [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY] and where, except when attending lectures, he pursued his studies, his life was that of a close and faithful student, and his habits and character such as to inspire confidence and esteem with all who knew him. His sudden death blights the promise of a life of success and usefulness to himself and others. His funeral was attended from St. Paul's Church in this village, on Thursday last.
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 26, 1872
Dr. Harvey M. Greene, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and formerly a resident of Oxford, died in New York on the 17th inst. He went to New York for the purpose of purchasing instruments, books, &c., to replace those of which he had been deprived by the burning of his office. On his return he was to stop at North East, Dutchess County, where he was to be married on the 17th, to a young lady to whom he had long been betrothed. Stopping at the Brandreth House in New York, it was noticed by the guests that he acted strangely, and he complained of a severe pain in his head. He would allow nothing to be done for him, declaring that those offering assistance "wanted to rob him." He was taken to the Centre Street Hospital, where he became delirious, and dangerously ill. His brother, Bradford G. Greene, of Oxford, was telegraphed for, as was also his betrothed, whose residence was ascertained from letters in his pocket, and who, with her mother, hastened to his bedside. The left side of the patient became paralyzed and he continued to sink, despite every exertion, until Tuesday, the 17th inst., when he expired at twenty minutes to eleven o'clock, the very hour at which he was to have been married, and also on the birthday of his affianced.
The brother left New York, that evening, with the remains, and arrived in Oxford with them, Wednesday evening. The Oxford lodge of Free Masons, of which deceased was a member, and a large body of citizens, met the corpse at the depot. The funeral took place the next day. The young girl whose wedding day had been transformed into one of mourning, was so completely prostrated by the shock that she was not able to be present.
No traces of a wedding ring purchased by Mr. Greene at Grand Rapids, can be found. He also started from that place with, at the least estimate, $300. His fare to New York was about $22. He made no purchases in the city, as no bills of goods can be found or heard form. His bills at the hotel were also unpaid. Only $95 was found upon his person. What has become of the rest of the money and the ring? is the question which has given rise to the grave suspicions that something must have happened to the young physician, the mystery of which, cannot as yet, perhaps never, be unraveled.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, December 26, 1872
Marriages
At Triangle village [Broome Co. NY], Dec. 18th, by Rev. Jas. H. Sage, James Youngs, Esq., of this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY] to Mrs. Eliza D. Page, of Triangle.
At the M.E. Parsonage, in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 24th, by Rev. A.F. Brown, Mr. Cyrus A. Whiting to Miss Emma J. Pangburn, all of Smithville [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
In New York City, suddenly, Dec. 19th, Albert Edwin [Meade], only child of Edwin R. and Julia M. Meade, aged 6 years.
In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Monday, Dec. 23d? after a severe illness, Dwight A. [Blair], son of Joslin and Jerusha C. Blair, aged 20 years and 10 months. The affectionate son and loving brother will be missed.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, December 28, 1872
Marriage
SMITH - NORTHROP: At West Hill, Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], on the 24th inst., Mr. Henry Smith and Miss Hattie Northrop.
Deaths
SMITH: In Chicago, Ill., Dec. 18, Hiram Smith, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], aged 69 years.
Mr. Hiram Smith, whose death is this week announced, was formerly a citizen of Norwich, and for nearly twenty years carried on the tanning business sin that village. He removed to Chicago in 1864, where he engaged in the boot and shoe business with his son-in-law. He will be remembered as a man of strict integrity, upright in character, and a valued citizen.
ALLEN: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 26, Mrs. Alonzo Allen, aged 25 years.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, December 28, 1972
Marriage
In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 14th? by Rev. E.H. -?-, Mr. Austin Hummel, of Davenport, N.Y. [Delaware Co.] to Miss Carrie McNutt of Bainbridge.
A very important event which fills up the cup of human happiness of at least two persons, to the brim, occurred at St. Thomas' Church, Armenia, N.Y. [Dutchess Co.] on Thursday, Dec. 19th. It is the old story repeated since the world began, and which finds ample justification (as if it should ever seek any) in the divine words, "It is not good for man to be alone." So certainly, must have thought Mr. C.B. Sumner, our townsman, and as to the excellence of his opinion none will question. It was a wedding and Mr. Sumner was the groom. The bride was the fair daughter of Mr. Samuel Bard Johnston, and the officiating clergyman was the Rev. S.R. Johnston, D.D., Uncle to the bride. No happier event ever occurred in the history of the two, who plighted their troth. Mr. Sumner returned to his home on Monday bringing with him his wife. On Tuesday night a reception was given by them to their friends, which was a very pleasant affair.
Death
The house of Mrs. J.W. Northup at Franklin, Delaware County [NY] was destroyed by fire on the night of the 19th inst. and Mrs. Northup perished in the flames. Her son and daughter were absent on a visit, and the fire was not discovered by the neighbors until the building and its contents nearly consumed. About four years ago the husband of Mrs. N., a most estimable citizen, ended his life by suicide and now another dark shadow falls on the survivors of a worthy family.
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