Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, July 24, 1873
Marriages
WIGHTMAN - GAGE: At the Baptist Church, in South New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], on Sunday evening, July 20th, in the presence of a crowded congregation of friends, by Rev. H.O. Rowlands, assisted by Rev. J.L. Ray, of New Berlin, Mr. Adelbert R. Wightman of Morris [Otsego Co. NY] to Miss Alice A. Gage, of South New Berlin, for years the popular organist of the Baptist Church.
GIBSON - BEARDSLEE: At St. Andrews B. Robinson, Mr. Kasson C. Gibson, of New York, to Miss Grace M. Beardslee, daughter of Cyril Beardslee, Esq., of New Berlin.
HASKINS - DOUGLASS: At the residence of John F. Carter in Greene [Chenango Co. NY], July 5th, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. Samuel W. Haskins, of Clearfield, Penn., to Miss Sarah E. Douglass, of Indiana, Penn.
The peaceful quietude of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] was somewhat disturbed on Thursday evening last by an elopement. The parties to the affair are Lucian D. Sherwood and the wife of a tinner by the name of McAllister of German lineage. Sherwood leaves an estimable wife behind. We learn that the parties started off on foot, and that a few pistol shots were fired by the enraged husband at some time previous to their departure, without doing any damage, however. The "tinker" has sold out, and we believe did not pursue the guilty couple. Oxford Times
WHITMORE - LIVERMORE: At the residence of Mr. Willey, in Willet [Cortland Co. NY], May 31st, by Rev. W. Johnson, Mr. Addison Whitmore, to Miss Fylena Livermore, all of Willet.
German [Chenango Co. NY]: On the last day of May "towards the shank of the evening," one of our town girls was wedded to a young man of Willett [Cortland Co. NY], very slyly. Their reason for being so sly was this: they said that people had had them married so many times they were bound to do the job up without their (the public's) help, or without the people knowing what was going on." Their object was carried out effectually. The first the ever-surmising public knew of the transaction it came to them through the columns of a Norwich paper, of July 3d. After they had been married two weeks or over, while some of the bridegroom's employees or shop mates were joking him about his "intentions," he made this remark: "I'll bet five dollars that when I get married, no one will find it out until two weeks have expired after I am married." One of the boys who took an active part in the conversation, "bit" at once and the bet was made. The Fourth being close at hand, the man who covered the stake thought he would celebrate at Norwich. So, to N. he goes and there sees a copy of the Union containing the marriage of the happy couple. So excited was he at the thought of winning the bet that he never noticed the date of the marriage, but started immediately for Willet, and drove hard for fear he would lose his bet, for the two weeks expired at a certain hour that evening. he reached home safe, but alas for him, had he been conveyed to Willet with the speed of lightning he would not have won the bet, for upon reaching home, to his great astonishment and chagrin, the date was pointed out to him. His feelings can better be imagined than described.
Deaths
DAVIS: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], July 22d, Mrs. Fanny H. Davis, aged 70 years.
McINTYRE: In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], July 14th, Mr. Stehen McIntyre, aged 48 years.
HOVEY: In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], July 20th, Betsey A. [Hovey], wife of Simon Hovey, aged 74 years.
WAITE: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], July 4th, Mr. Harvey Waite, in the 73d year of is age.
CASE: In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], July 15th, Jennie H. [Case], daughter of Truman and Mary E. Case, aged 5 years. Jennie was a beautiful and unusually promising child, and the loving Savior has transplanted the lovely bud to bloom in a better clime.
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FOGARTY: Killed by the cars, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], July 8th, Thomas Fogarty, aged about 13 y'rs.
We have another frightful railroad accident to record. On Friday evening last, a boy named Thomas Fogarty, about thirteen years old, met a shocking death by being run over on the Midland track just south of the village. It appears that he was employed as "water boy" on a gravel train, his business being to supply the hands with water while at work. On Friday evening as the engine was returning to town, with only a caboose attached to the tender, the boy, in trying to pass from the tender to the caboose, fell between the wheels and was literally cut to pieces. One arm was nearly severed, the hips were crushed in, and the body otherwise mangled. He was carried to the house of his parents on Sheldon Street, where he died about midnight, having retained consciousness to the last. He is said to have been an intelligent and industrious boy, always ready and willing to perform the duties devolving upon him. There is a report (probably untrue) that one of the hands on the train ordered him to carry his water pail from the tender to the caboose, and that it was while obeying this order that he met his death. We trust that there is no foundation for the report. The coroner visited the scene of the accident, but by request of the boy's friends did not hold an inquest.
The frequency of these accidents at this place shows that there must be gross carelessness somewhere. From what we can learn, in most instances it has been on the part of those who were injured. All should be careful while upon trains or around railroad tracks.
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The frequency of accidents on the railroads in and near this village is cause for at least attempting to enforce some regulations to prevent them. Since the first of January there has been about one in each month, and in none of them has there seemed to be any blame attached to the engineers or conductors of trains. Generally, the accidents have been the result of thoughtlessness on the part of those killed or injured, although in one or two cases, like the case of Mr. Mathews who was killed in the round house, no one has seemed to be in fault.
The last fatal accident happened about 7 o'clock on Friday evening last, on the Midland. The locomotive and caboose of a work train, when returning from the south, stopped at Oxford, where the water boy, Thomas Fogerty, son of Michael Fogerty, got upon the locomotive to ride to Norwich. The roadmaster, Mr. Keith, being there, directed the boy to return to the caboose, and he passed back upon the tender, and it was supposed he had obeyed Mr. Keith, but instead, he rode on the tender until within a few hundred feet of the round house, when he attempted to go to the deck of the caboose. In doing so he slipped and fell to the tracks, and the wheels passed over and crushed his left arm and hip, and cut open his side. The jar was noticed by those in the caboose, and a stop signal given. Fogerty was picked up and taken home, but the family, who reside only a few rods north of the depot, were notified and met the suffering boy before he reached home. The wailing and frantic grief of the mother excited the sympathy of all who were present. The boy was promptly attended, but no human and could avail, and he died about nine o'clock in the evening. His age was twelve and a half years.
We are told by railroad men that they have great trouble in keeping boys, small and large, out of danger when trains are moving, and they sometimes stop them in order to remove boys from the danger they thoughtlessly incur. It does seem, that in regard to employees there should be the most stringent rules, the penalty for the last violation of which should be dismissal. this would not avail in all cases but might save a few of the many lives that are almost daily put in jeopardy. Especially does this seem necessary when lads the age of the one just killed are employed upon freight work trains. [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 24, 1873]
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WARREN: In Waterville, July 14th, at the residence of his father-in-law, Marius Hubbard, of consumption, Mr. Andrew W. Warren, aged 30 years.
Mr. Warren was the son of Hon. Romeo Warren, of Coventry, in this county [Chenango Co. NY], and will be remembered by many of our citizens as a former student of Norwich Academy and later as a pupil of Hon. T.H. Matteson, the distinguished artist of Sherburne. His qualities of both mind and heart were of a high and noble order. He was endowed with accurate perception and possessed of great vigor and originality of thought. In his intercourse with those he loved he was the most genial of men. Possessing a vast fund of information and a brilliant and cultured intellect, he was always a welcome guest at the fireside of the refined and cultivated. In all his relations as a man and a citizen, he was fearless, frank, and upright; cheerfully approving whatever accorded with his convictions, and surely rebuking that which conflicted with his perceptions of truth and right. He was a positive man. There was no dissemblance in his nature. He had talent, genius, culture, a remarkable power of application, and his future seemed full of promise. He was passionately devoted to his profession, and many of the creations of his genius would find an appropriate place beside those of the great painters of the day. Some years ago, while residing in South America, he contracted a fever peculiar to that region, which impaired an originally vigorous constitution, and laid the foundation for the malady that resulted in his untimely death. During "the last year of the war" he was employed by the proprietors of Harper's Weekly as one of their corps of artists and accompanied the Army of the Potomac on its march "on to Richmond." In 1868 he received the appointment of Assistant Professor of Drawing in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He held the position till the spring of 1872, when by reason of failing health, he felt constrained to resign the place. Hoping that a sea voyage and a brief residence under the sunny skies of Southern Europe would reinvigorate his wasting energies, he sailed from New York soon after his resignation was accepted. The hope of regaining health was not realized. A few weeks since he started upon the return voyage. He reached home on Thursday the 10th inst., to die among his friends and kindred on the following Monday. Today his hand is cold and still, but the works it wrought endure to gladden our eyes and hearts and keep alive the memories that lie along the path his feet have trod.
Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, July 23, 1873
Death
CLARKE: In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], July 8th, Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke, widow of the late Wm. Clarke, aged 62 years.
The deceased was born in Preston and in the neighborhood where she spent her life. In her youth she made a profession of religion and united with the S.D.B. Church in this place of which she remained a worthy member, until summoned by death to take her place in the triumphant division of the Church across the River. she possessed in an eminent degree those elements and traits of character that make a good wife, a mother devoted and true, and a faithful friend. She leaves two sons, upon whom she has bestowed a mother's constant love and faithfulness during 21 years of lonely widowhood, one sister, and a large circle of remoter kindred and friends to mourn an irreparable loss. But having the undoubting assurance that the loss they sustain by this Providence, is the infinite gain of their departed loved one. "Absent from the body, present with the Lord."
Chenango American, Greene, NY, July 24, 1873
Marriage
On Wednesday, July 9th, at St. Stephen's Church, Brooklyn, Mr. William O. Avery to Mrs. Helen M. Upson, both of Washington, D.C.
Death
In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], July 17th, Mr. Ephraim Wheeler, aged 68 years, 10 months.
Conscious of the near approach of death, he set his house in order, arranging his worldly estate in such a way as seemed best for the welfare of those he should leave behind. Surrounded by his family, to whom he had been an endeared husband and an affectionate father, he gave to each a suitable exhortation to live in the loving fear of that God who had been with him so many years and was now giving him the hopeful assurance of a home in the better land. So, another of this Township's ablest sons has passed away, after having served his day and generation as a persevering laborer, an honest dealer, and a respected man.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, July 26, 1873
Death
LEUDDEN: In Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], july 15th, Mrs. Honora Leudden, wife of Mr. James Leudden, aged 70 years.
Mrs. Leudden died very suddenly at the residence of her son in this village, Father A.P. Leudden, where she had come on a visit. We learn that she was a lady of remarkable goodness, piety and kind heartedness. Her life was blessed by the devotion and love of her four sons, all of whom occupy positions of honor in life. Father John Leudden of Florence, Father James Leudden of little Falls, and Father Anthony Leudden of this place, are all her children, while the fourth is a member of the bar residing at Binghamton. Hamilton Volunteer.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, July 26, 1973
Marriage
In this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co. NY], on the 20th inst., by Rev. W.B. Thomas Mr. Kilmer to Miss Betsey Ford, all of Bainbridge.
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