Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 29, 1875
Deaths
FULLER: In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], April 25th, Thomas A. Fuller, aged 62 years.
BAILEY: In Earlville [Madison Co. NY], April 22d, Eunice V. Bailey, aged 58 years.
FREEMAN: At the residence of her son, in Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], April 17th, 1875, Betsey Freeman, wife of the late Wm. Freeman, aged 75 years.
NEWTON: In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], April 20, suddenly, Charles E. Newton, aged 31 years.
On Friday, April 16th, about noon, a little son of James H. Dean, of Bovina [Delaware Co. NY], together with one William Herkimer who has been at work for Mr. Dean for some time, went into the chamber of Mr. Dean's house to cut off a string from a piece of leather. While there, Herkimer was on his knees in the act of cutting the leather, when in some way the boy fell over onto the knife in Herkimer's hand. The blade of the knife penetrated the boy's left side immediately under the heart. He lived only fifteen minutes. The boy was in his 5th years.
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Hon. James W. Farr died suddenly in New York City on Sunday last, at the ripe age of sixty-three years. Mr. Farr was a son of Bela Farr; well known by our older citizen, and was born in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY]. His early youth was passed here, and in this office or that of Mr. Thurlow Weed, who was one of its early predecessors, we believe he was apprenticed to the printing business. At the expiration of apprenticeship, he went to New York City, where he worked for a number of years as a journeyman printer. He subsequently abandoned his trade for an appointment as Searcher in the Tax Office, which position he filled until his death. In 1860 he was chosen School Commissioner by the citizens of the ninth Ward and was repeatedly elected to the same office until the abolishment of the elective system of members of the Board of Education by the legislature. Mr. Farr, however, although not officially connected with the educational interests of the city did not cease to promote its welfare with commendable disinterestedness. In recognition of his ability and experience, the late Mayor Havemeyer appointed Mr. Farr to the Board of Education for the term ending December 31, 1876. He was Chairman of the Committee on Normal Schools, and a member of the Committees on Course of Studes, of By-Laws, Nomination of Trustees, and Salaries and Economy. He was remarkable for his energy in attending to the various details of his manifold duties and was very popular with the children attending the public schools in the vicinity of his residence.
During the late war he was appointed and held the office of Provost Marshal for the 9th district, and it was about his office that many of the desperate acts which attended the draft riots were committed. Capt. Farr, however, never for a moment faltered in his duty, and to his fearless promptness in official matters the administration was greatly indebted.
He was an honest man, an ardent Republican, cheerful and pleasant in social life, and always a welcome visitor to our sanctum upon the occasions of his semi-annual visits to the village of his nativity. He was buried on Tuesday from his residence in St. Luke's Place, at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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James W. Farr, father of Henry L. Farr, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], died suddenly, in New York City, at the residence of Senator Booth, on whom he was calling, on Saturday evening. Mr. Farr has long resided in New York, and for years has been connected with the educational interests of the city in an official capacity. He was born in Norwich, in this county, and in early life was connected with the printing business in this village and Norwich. Mr. Farr was a prominent and influential Republican, and a genial and well-informed gentleman. His sudden death will cause deep grief among his numerous friends in his native county. We, too, shall miss his annual visits to our sanctum where he was ever a welcome and much prized visitor. A good man has fallen by the way; one of God's noblest works, an honest man, has passed away, going out with his harness already on, and passing over to that unknown shore with a record of spotless integrity, and leaving behind a name and character worthy to be emulated by the young of our generation. peace to his ashes. [Chenango American, Greene, NY, Apr. 29, 1875]
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 29, 1875
Marriages
At the residence of the bride's father, April 21st, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. Albert H. Shapley, of Lebanon, Madison Co. [NY], to Miss Jennie A. [Harris] of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY].
At the house of the bride's father, April 13, by Rev. Jas. D. Webster, Mr. John Holl of Lincklaen [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Flora L. Marvin, of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY].
In Barker [Broome Co. NY], April 20th, by Rev. R.A. Clark, Mr. Amos F. Taft of Triangle [Broome Co. NY] to Mrs. Kate Hatch, of Barker.
Deaths
In Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co. [NY], April 17th, Mr. E.W. Benedict, aged 62 years, formerly of Smithville [Chenango Co. NY].
In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of J.C. Marcey, April 18th, after a long and painful illness, Mrs R.J. Marcey, aged 75 years.
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In this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 22d, Mrs. Rosetta Lyon, aged 74 years.
This aged communicant of Zion Church, has after a lingering illness, passed from a couch of suffering to that hallowed rest for which she had so earnestly longed. With a pulmonary disease of many year's continuance, she was called through the latter portion of her life to suffer from a harassing cough which prostrated her strength and involved continued weariness and exhaustion of body. With a firm trust in the divine dealings, she was submissive under her trying allotment, feeling that God's will must be fully done. By the death of a husband in the early vigor of manhood, she was left in the care of her three children, and by a wise government she was granted the blessing of seeing these children reaching positions of respectability and usefulness in life.
With strong attachments to her old home among us, and to the association of old friends and neighbors, she clung to the spot where her early years were passed. A devoted sister and a loving son were ever ready to minister to her relief and comfort. She was cheered in all the wastings of disease by strong Gospel hopes. Her memory ran back to the very earliest days of the formation of the Chruch, with which in this community, she was linked by the strongest ties of attachment. A large attendance of warm friends, numbers of whom were her equals in years, gathered at the funeral solemnities. "Blessed are the dead who die in the lord, their works do follow them."
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