Chenango American, Greene, NY, September 24, 1874
Marriages
The Congregational Church, on Tuesday evening, Sept. 22d, by Rev. George Porter, Hubert W. Frost, Esq., to Miss Cornelia E. [Peck] eldest daughter of Mr. Philo Peck, all of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY].
At Whitney's Point [Broome Co. NY], Sept. 15th, by Rev. W. Gates, Mr. Charles M. Mack to Miss Caroline E. Ticknor, all of Triangle [Broome Co. NY].
Deaths
In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], Sept. 16th, Mr. Cyrus Smith aged 53 years and 6 months.
At the residence of his son-in-law, Sherman Page in Triangle [Broome Co. NY], Sept. 17th, Mr. Z.D. Butts, aged 76 years.
In Knoxville, Pa., Sept. 19th, James Sherman [Sigston], infant son of Rev. W.H. Sigston, aged 8 months and 28 days.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, September 26, 1874
Death
BENTON: In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], on Saturday, Sept. 19th, 1874, of brain fever, John Winship [Benton], youngest son of J. Nevine and Christine Benton, aged 2 years 7 months and 18 days. "A father's pride and mother's joy" has thus suddenly been transplanted to that happy land where sorrow is unknown.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, September 26, 1874
Marriages
PATTENGILL - CANDEE: At Holland Patent, on the 16th ult. by Rev. J.B. Pattengill, Wm. H. Pattengill to Miss Nellie Candee.
SNYDER - HOLCOMB: At the parsonage, Coventryville, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], on the 22d inst. by Rev. George D. Horton, Mr. William A. Snyder, of Seneca Co. Ohio to Miss Maria L. Holcomb, of Coventry.
NOLTON - PATTENGILL: At Holland Patent [Oneida Co. NY], on the 16th inst. by Rev. J.S. Pattengill, Mr. Charles F. Nolton to Miss Mary Pattengill, daughter of the officiating clergyman.
Deaths
LAWTON: In Sidney [Delaware Co. NY], on the 2d inst. Mrs. Nellie Bailey [Lawton], wife of George Lawton, aged 28 years.
KELLOGG: In Sidney [Delaware Co. NY], on the 13th inst., Orville Kellogg, aged 24 years.
In the death of our esteemed fellow townsman, Mr. William L. Partridge, Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] loses a valuable citizen. He was ever to be found on the side of virtue, temperance and morality, and the village can illy afford to lose such a man. His untimely demise is universally deplored. His funeral took place on Sunday morning last from his late residence, and notwithstanding the inclement weather, was largely attended by our citizens generally and the civic societies of the village. The body was interred in the cemetery at Bennettsville with Masonic honors. Requiescat in pace.
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Died, in Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] on the afternoon of September 16th, 1874, Cyrus Smith, aged 53 years.
The deceased was the eighth child, and sixth son, of the late Clark Smith, one of the early settlers of Coventry. Cyrus was born on the farm where his father long lived, and he spent his whole life upon the old homestead, or within a few rods of it. Thus, he was in the strictest sense a native and citizen of that town.
Words seem inadequate to describe such a man as he was. He could be appreciated by those who knew him, but we cannot delineate his character. As a man he was of the noblest and purest type, strictly upright and conscientious in all his dealings. As a friend and neighbor, he was generous and faithful, careful not to offend, and ever ready to forgive, a peacemaker and conciliator among his associates. As a companion he was genial and happy, always having a kind, cheery word for those he met. As a brother, son, husband and father, he was most tender and affectionate. As a Christian he was sincere and earnest, his piety showing itself in everyday life. He had from youth been a member of the second Congregational Church of Coventry, and no one who knew him ever doubted the purity and sincerity of his piety. But he was so retiring and unassuming in his manner that he never made a show of his religion nor intruded his views on any subject upon others. On account of this peculiarity in him the community in which he lived was doubtless not conscious of his full worth and influence. He was like some of those great blessings which we often enjoy but do not fully realize their value until they have gone from us. Such was he.
His death has made a great void in the circle where he moved, and his loss will be long and sorely felt. the day of his burial was a sad one for the community. Although the day was stormy, yet a large concourse of people assembled to testify of their loss. His pastor spoke tender, comforting words, yet also words of sorrow and sadness, which showed that deep in his heart he felt that he had lost a strong friend and supporter.
Devout men carried him to his burial place in the beautiful cemetery on the hilltop.
Ten years before he was one of six sons who lowered the body of their honored father into his tomb, in this same beautiful spot. Now the four remaining brothers lowered his remains to their last resting place. It was a beautiful and touching scene, to witness those brothers, whose heads are well sprinkled with silver, preform this last office of affection to the companion of their childhood. But they can do no more for him; he has gone. And as the clods have covered his coffin many feel that they will miss him. All feel that a good man has gone to his grave, and to his reward. The Church of which he was so long a member will miss him; the neighborhood in which he lived will miss him; the large circle of relatives in which he was a ray of sunshine, will miss the cheery voice; his aged mother has received yet another sorrow to her heart, and misses another from her treasures upon earth. The house will feel that its great light has gone out.
But while he is missed so much here, the throng of the redeemed has gained one more of its number. Another soul is at rest. That mother can feel that another has been called to meet her on the evergreen shore, and the widow and the fatherless may trust the God who "doeth all things well."
"Bury the dead and weep / In stillness o'er the loss; / Bury the dead; in Christ they sleep, / Who bore on earth his cross."
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