Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, January 21, 1875
Marriages
TREMAINE - ROBINSON: At the residence of the bride's father, in South Oxford, Jan. 19th, by Rev. D.D. McLaurin, Mr. Albert Tremaine of Brisbin [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Mary J. Robinson of the former place.
BURCHARD - LOCK: In Lincklaen [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 10th, by Rev. Charles Steere, Mr. Benjamin Burchard of East Homer [Cortland Co. NY] to Miss Julia E. Lock of Lincklaen.
Silver Wedding: Rev. Luman Yale and wife celebrated their silver wedding in Yalesville on the 15th inst. This pleasant affair was a total surprise to them, arranged entirely by relatives and friends. They were made the recipients of many valuable gifts among them a cake basket, perverted for the time being from its destined use, and made the receptacle of numerous greenbacks and silver coin instead. The presentation speech was made by Chauncey Wade and Mr. Yale responded in words eloquent with emotion. A poem by Mrs. Henry Benedict of Coventry was a interesting feature of the evening.
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One of those happy and thoroughly enjoyable events which always make us feel more satisfied with life, and less disposed to dwell in single blessedness, occurred at the residence of Mr. Merritt Daniels, on Wednesday evening, January 14th. It was the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Galpin, and if cheerful, happy faces, agreeable company and abounding good humor, make up the elements of enjoyment, then none were wanting.
Relatives and friends, not only from this immediate vicinity, but also from Norwich, Oxford, Cortland and Pharsalia, filled two spacious rooms below, while upstairs, among the young,
"Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spoke again. / And all went merry as a marriage bell."
In the course of the evening, Dr. E.L. Ensign addressed the company in his usual felicitous style, alluding to the joys and sorrows of married life, and intimating that if all the doubts and fears, the timidity the soul sinkings and heart throbbings, which attend the first departure to that bourne from which no bachelor returns - if all these had got to be revived and re-experienced in celebrating the anniversary of a marriage, then it were a custom more honored in the breach than in the observance. He remembered the day, nearly seventeen years ago, when he laid his affections - and pocketbook - on the hymenal altar, and sorrowfully recounted his sad experience in the matrimonial state. It was the opinion of his hearers that he was looking remarkably well and cheerful for one who had suffered so much in this respect.
Rev. J.D. Webster very feelingly alluded to the absence of some who, five years ago, were gathered in the same rooms, but whose well-remembered faces we shall see no more on earth.
"Yet Hope will dream, and Faith will trust, / Since He who knows our need, is just, / That sometime, somewhere, meet we must."
This feast of reason and flow of soul was supplemented by a more substantial repast which everybody could appreciate and in which all heartily joined. We imagined we could detect a "sweet sorrow" in the eyes of the Doctor, as he witnessed the rapid disappearance of the cake, oysters, and other good things so bountifully provided, while visions of dyspepsia and indigestions passed before his professional view.
Numerous valuable, useful and ornamental presents, amounting in value to nearly ninety dollars, testified to the happy couple the sincerity and appreciation of their friends. Among the gifts one that attracted a good deal of attention was a neat wooden cradle, whose diminutive size and suggestive emptiness caused considerable merriment. They were assured that, small as it was, it would contain all their present children, and that, perhaps, before any further demands should be made upon its capacity, it would have time to grow larger.
The hands of the clock were passing over the "wee sina" hours of morning" when the company departed, wishing their kind and deservedly popular entertainers many happy returns of the day.
Deaths
BARBER: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], early on the morning of the 17th inst., after a very painful illness of thirty-six hours, Agnes [Barber], widow of the late Benjamin Barber, aged 80 years and 24 days.
BALDWIN: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 11th, Rebecca [Baldwin] wife of Thomas Baldwin, aged 59 years.
WILSON: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 21st, Mrs. Maria Wilson, aged 78 years.
ANDERSON: In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 8th, Mrs. Theodocia Anderson, aged 78 years.
YALE: At the residence of her son, Ransom Yale, Esq., at Whitney's Point, Broome Co., [NY], Jan. 9th, Mrs. Phebe Yale, widow of the late Zebedee Yale of Guilford [Chenango co. NY], aged 81 years. Deceased was one of the earliest settlers of Guilford, where she was widely known and respected as an exemplary Christian lady. Her remains were taken to that town for burial, the funeral being held on the 12th inst.
HOLMES: In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 3d, 1874, of scarlet fever, Merton J. Holmes, aged 2 years and 9 days.
Our home circle now is broken / Many hopes are crushed and fled; / Human hearts in pain have spoken / Of the loss felt for our dead.
While Mertie's form we no more see, / And care is no more wanted / The angel spirit it is free, / On glory bolds implanted.
To father's will we meekly bow, / And learn the lesson given, / To set our care on Jesus now, / When meet our child in heaven.
BROWN: In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 20th, 1874, Sarah A. [Brown] wife of Henry F. Brown, aged 29 years, 7 months and 23 days. Deceased was of excellent Christian character and was one who had the entire confidence and respect of the community in which she lived.
Her sufferings ended with the day / Yet lived she at its close / And breathed the long, long night away / In statue-like repose. / But when the sun in all his state /Illumed the eastern skies / She passed through glory's morning gate / And walked in paradise.
Elijah Wheeler, one of the oldest businessmen of Cortland [Cortland Co. NY], died at his residence in that place a few days since, of congestion of the lungs.
Mrs. Olive Draper died in Morris [Otsego Co. NY], on the 5th inst. in the ninety-fifth year of her age. She had resided in that town eight-one years. Her funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Mr. Chamberlain of South New Berlin.
David McClintock of Westford [Otsego Co. NY], was killed on the 5th inst., while in the woods cutting timber in company with his son and another. Stepping backward to avoid danger from the movement of a log which he had assisted in sawing from the body of a fallen tree, he fell backward, striking his neck across a root or limb a few inches from the ground and was instantly killed. His age was 48 years.
Milton H. Stewart aged 81 years, a superannuated minister of Troy Conference, M.E. Church, died at Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] on Sunday night, the 10th inst.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, January 21, 1875
Marriages
FLETCHER - HINSDALE: At the residence of the bride's parents at Greenpoint [Kings Co. NY], by the Rev. Mr. Francis, Charles H. Fletcher of New York and Miss Mary C. Hinsdale, formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY]
ROE - BROWN: At the residence of the bride's father in Macedon, N.Y. [Wayne Co.], January 12, by Rev. Andrew Roe of Moravia, Mr. Miles S. Roe of Wolcott, N.Y. [Wayne Co.] to Miss Mary E. Brown, of the former place.
Deaths
DIED: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Friday morning, Jan. 15, after a brief illness, Mrs. Mary R. [Johnson] wife of Ralph Johnson, aged 68 years.
Mrs. Johnson was the daughter of Chas. Randall and was born in the old homestead over the river, in the year eighteen hundred and six. She was married on the twenty-third of April eighteen hundred and twenty-nine and baptized by Elder Swan in November of 1833. Her two children Charles of this village and Mrs. Mary Bigelow of New York are still living. Mrs. Johnson's death being the first in her immediate family.
The funeral was attended Tuesday at her late residence by a large concourse of friends, the services were conducted by her Pastor and Rev. Mr. Scoville.
It is hardly necessary to add a word of eulogy. Mrs. Johnson's life was her own best record, with a full realization of all the Bible teaches respecting the future, she passed to her heavenly home without a doubt of her acceptance of God.
Our sister will be missed in her home, in the social gatherings of our village and not less in the church of which she was so long a devoted member. Thus, one by one the pioneer mothers of our beautiful valley are passing away. It remains for us their children to be equal to the legacy of love and piety they have left for our improvement.
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Dr. John Clark for many years a prominent member of this [Chenango County Medical] Society, died of gastric inflammation at his residence in Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] on the Fifteenth day of March 1874. He was born in Mayfield, Montgomery County, N.Y., December 10th, 1812. In his boyhood his parents removed to Fondasbush [Montgomery County, N.Y.], where he was educated to mercantile pursuits. After the death of his father in 1828 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. chambers of that place. He attended lectures at Fairfield medical College and graduated from that school in 1833. In April following, he located at Guilford in this county, where he continued in active practice till within a few weeks of his death. In 1843 he married a daughter of the late Hon. Samuel A. Smith, of Guilford. She survives him, as do also three sons, two of whom adopted his profession. Almost immediately upon his location at Guilford, he entered upon a large and lucrative business. Dr. Clark, possessed in a remarkable degree the elements of popularity. Of a kind and genial nature, always courteous and dignified in his deportment, he won the esteem and confidence of all who met him, either as a physician or citizen. In his daily administrations among the sick the poor as well as the rich, shared his kindly care and sympathy. He always manifested a deep interest in the welfare of this Society and in his earlier years was a constant attendant upon its regular meetings, and generally participated in its discussions. He was a skillful and accomplished physician - a large hearted and public-spirited citizen, generous in his impulses, and always ready to lend a helping hand in every good work. For many years he was the only practitioner in the village of Guilford. His field of practice was large, embracing an agricultural population abundantly able to reward him for his services. With his extensive practice, economical habits, and sound business capacity he was able to accumulate a competency at a time in life when most practitioners are only entering upon a career of prosperity. In his death this Society has sustained a loss which we greatly deplore. At our future meetings we shall miss his kindly smile and courtly presence and fraternal greeting - though dead, his memory survives in our hearts. His uniform kindness and amenity, his high moral and intellectual characteristics will be ever cherished by every member of the Society who had the pleasure of knowing him intimately.
News Item
Dr. H.H. Beecher returned on Monday evening from a visit to his mother in Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] where she resides, in her 91st year. She is suffering severely from a nervous affection of the face, yet she retains her intellectual faculties in a wonderful manner. There are now living of the old stock three sisters and a brother whose aggregate ages are 340, as follows: Margaret Beecher, 91; Minerva Adams of Hawleyville, Conn., 87; Thomas Porter of Binghamton, 82; Alma Miles of Coventry, 80.
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