Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 28, 1874
Marriages
WOOD - PENDELL: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 23d, by Rev. W.J. Judd, Mr. George W. Wood of Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY] to Miss Fannie E. Pendell, of Norwich.
PERRY - COOK: In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 27th, by Rev. W.J. Judd, Mr. Willia A. Perry to Miss Mary E. Cook.
BEATIE - McGINNESS: At St. Patrick's Church, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 126th, by Rev. D. O'Connell, Mr. Thomas J. Beatie to Miss Annie McGinness.
THOMPSON - OGDEN: At Chenango Forks [Broome Co. NY], May 21st, by Rev. J.D. Woodruff, Mr. William S. Thompson of East Mcdonough [Chenango Co. NY] to Mrs. Eliza J Ogden, of Etna, N.Y. [Tompkins Co.].
Deaths
GRADY: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 24th, Mr. John Grady, son of Thomas Grady, aged 25 years and 6 months.
SHERMAN: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 25th, Nellie Edee [Sherman], daughter of Emma Sherman, aged 1 year and 3 months.
HALE: At her residence, No. 179 Howe St., Chicago, Ill. on Thursday, May 14th, Hattie D. [Hale], wife of Charles N. Hale, formerly of this village.
POWERS: In South Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], May 9th, of paralysis, Mr. Myron Powers, aged 74 years.
ARNOLD: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] May 18th, Mrs. Lucretia Arnold, aged 68 years.
ARNOLD: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], May 18th, Mr. Harry Arnold, aged 71 years.
BLACKMAN: In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], May 22d, Cynthia [Blackman], wife of the late almon Blackman, aged 65 years.
HAMILTON: In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], April 28th, Miss Lucinda Hamilton, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], aged 58 years.
STAFFORD: In Gratiot Co. Mich., April 24th, Mr. Joseph Stafford, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], aged 73 years.
EDMONDS: In Bath, N.Y. [Steuben Co.] April 28th, Miss Rosa Edmonds, aged 18 years, formerly a student in Oxford Academy [Chenango Co. NY].
PATRICK: At Mountain Lake, Minn, May 15th, Carrie A. [Patrick] second daughter of W.W. and Lidorna E. Patrick and sister of Mrs. Walter B. Norton of this place [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], aged 19 years and 4 months.
It is not long since we laid her there. / Her white hands folded on her breast; / And on her forehead, cold and fair, / The seal of everlasting rest. / Oh, Death! thy withering hand is laid / Oft on earth's fairest, sweetest flowers; / O'er many a home doth fall a shade, / But none more deep than rests on ours.
William Kerns, formerly of Oneida [Madison Co. NY], and whose sister and widowed mother still reside here, was killed on the Midland near Hancock Station, Delaware County [NY], on Thursday of last week. He was employed as brakeman on a work train, and the accident which led to his death was caused by the train being thrown from the track by running over a cow. He was thrown by the collision between the cars, and his body was cut and mangled in a shocking manner causing instant death. The young man was well and favorably known in Oneida. He was 22 years of age, and leaves a wife in Walton, Delaware Co. [NY]. His funeral took place at Hancock on Saturday last, his mother and sister being present on the sad occasion. Oneida Union.
Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, May 29, 1874
Death
Dwight Henry Clarke
At his residence in the village of Oxford, Chenango County, N.Y., of typhoid pneumonia, on the evening of April 17, 1874, Dwight Henry Clarke, aged 55, second son of the late Ethan and Rachel Clarke.
The death of Judge Clarke makes the first break in a circle of nine children (three older and five younger than he), most of whom have lived nearly all their lives at Oxford, and all of whom have for several years met to hold Christmas-tide reunions in the hospitalities of the home of the oldest brother, James W. Clarke, Esq. They were all present at his funeral, and all but one in his dying chamber.
The occasion has seemed to justify a tribute to the power and recompenses of corporate life, knit by the ties filled with the vital force of Christian faith. For next to the strong ties of home which this circle had learned to cherish, both by the precept and example of parents and forefathers, was the inherited love and devotion for the Church, in which all had been numbered as communicants, and into whose fellowship the older once entered on a well-remembered day along with their exemplary mother, Mr. Ethan Clarke, the father, having sought this privilege earlier.
It is no exaggeration to say of this sentiment, as it was woven into their hometraining and grew into their lives, that it availed to the transplanting of home into the Church, and that it has made home and its memories and hopes imperishable.
It is this fruitful experience of hallowing the ties of life by the uses of religion and the Church, of grace flowing in the channels and perfecting the life of nature, which this notice is designed to commemorate - not, thank God, as exceptional and solitary, but as exemplary and imitable, and needed by these times.
Judge Clarke came of the stock of the brothers Clarke who in 1638 settled in Newport, R.I. His grandfather was one of a Rhode Island colony of Sabbatarians which emigrated in 1795 to Brookfield, Madison County, and its neighborhood, and he was its pastor until his death in 1831.
In the Oxford Academy and at Union College, Judge Clarke received his literary training, and in the office of the late James Clapp, Esq., at Oxford, he pursued his legal studies. He entered on the practice of his profession in Jackson, Mich., but after two years returned to Oxford, where he resided until his death.
In 1850, he was chosen Dist. Atty. of his county, which office he held for three years, and in 1855, was elected County Judge and Surrogate (untied in one in this county) and in 1859 re-elected, holding the office for eight years. After his retirement from the bench, Judge Clarke resumed the practice of the law, and continued it successfully to the close of his life.
I add the following testimonies from his professional peers and intimates: "Judge Clarke had eminently the legal mind, but the high rank in his profession which held for many years, he owed largely to the high standard set before him as a student, and to the longer and more thorough preparation which were then rigidly required. In his official trusts, everyone bore witness to his eminent ability and integrity. Of a kind and amiable temper, he drew around him devoted friends from all classes. Everyone found him at all times affable and cheerful, and prepared to be their friend and counsellor."
A professional friend of high standing gave to the present writer this deliberate eulogy: "I speak from eighteen years' close knowledge, and from intimate relations with judge Clarke for sixteen of those years, and I can say that he is the only man of my professional acquaintance of whom I can record that I never heard imputed to him the doing of a mean or dishonest or unworthy thing. Such imputations are often cast unjustly, in rashness and in passion, but I never heard one even cast on him."
Such testimonies do honor to their authors a well as to their subjects, and it is pleasant to record them.
But after all, those who best knew our departed friend and brother, and who cherish most his memory, will commend my closing witness as the highest lesson of all who knew him, viz: that three things combined to carry him through those perils on life's voyages in which so many have made utter shipwreck - the mutual ties of home and brotherhood, which no stress or strain could weaken; the hallowing force which Christian faith put into these; and sedulous devotion to work in an honorable calling, for which skill had been patiently acquired.
It is to these we owe the solace of an assurance that our friend died in favor with God, and in the good hope of a blessed resurrection.
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