Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 6, 1876
Marriage
PRINCE - HACKETT: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], March 23d, by Rev. A.B. Richardson, Mr. Eli Prince of Bainbridge to Miss Mary L. Hackett of Rockdale [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
CADY: In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], March 19th, Mrs. Susan Cady in the 74th year of her age.
ELLSWORTH: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], March 27th, Mr. Adoniram Ellsworth aged 64 years.
NEWTON: In North Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], March 14th, Kitty J. [Newton] daughter of Winslow and Sarah J. Newton aged 7 years 10 months and 8 days.
MOONEY: In German [Chenango Co. NY] March 6th, Mr. George A. Mooney, aged 72 years.
WESSELL: In Sayre, Pa., March 27th, Calista D. [Wessell] wife of George Wessell, aged 54 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
HINMAN: In New York, March 26th, Mrs. Julia M. Hinman aged 75 years, widow of James Hinman, formerly of Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY].
HAKES: In Gilbertsville [Otsego Co. NY], March 26th, Mrs. Nancy M. Hakes, wife of Thomas G. Hakes, aged 55 years.
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GIBBS: In this town of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], March 28th, Dea. William Gibbs aged 87 years.
Dea. Gibbs was born in Sterling, Worcester Co. Mass., in 1789. In 1816 he moved to the eastern line of this town, then nearly in its wilderness state, upon the farm on which he has resided for the last fifty-eight years. United to a most worthy woman, they with patient toil reared and beautified a home where the young loved to gather and the aged to linger. The unfortunate were sure of sympathy and the destitute of relief; the wayward were counseled with kindness, and the penitent were pointed the way to God; and all down these years agone, the morning song of praise was never forgotten nor the evening prayer unbreathed. The Congregational Church has lost a member that has stood in its ranks and borne unflinchingly its burdens for sixty years. The church triumphant welcomes home a soldier covered with the dust of a long and weary march; the scars of a thousand conflicts but with armor bright and girded on. From the aged wife, waiting for the gleaner to gather her home; from the sorrowing children, speaking their last adieus, the eye of faith looks upward to where the first born in her spotless robes with the glorified stands, her mission of daughter, wife, mother, Christian and friend so well fulfilled. She has welcomed home the father; she waits to welcome home the rest.
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On Wednesday morning of this week, a boy named George Ostrander in the employ of Gordon A. Wood, a farmer in the east part of this town, went into the woods with another hand, to assist in loading some wood upon a sleigh. The load was drawn out, the boy remaining in the woods. Upon his return, the man found the boy, dead, he having evidently fallen from a log in a fit, to which he was subject. At the time of our going to press, Coroner Hand is holding an inquest.
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Our North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] correspondent "Light" furnishes us with the following particulars of a sad and fatal accident which occurred near Sherburne [Chango Co. NY] on Monday last:
"I have just learned of a sad accident that occurred this afternoon to a man name Preston from Poolville [Madison Co. NY]. He was the son-in-law of Mrs. Dr. Palmer, of this town and was helping move her household goods to Earlville [Madison Co. NY]. When opposite Mr. Ames', near Sherburne, his team came running up to those ahead. The team was stopped and thinking some accident might have happened to him, parties went back in search of him. He was found in the road, with his face and skull badly crushed. He was carried into Mr. Ames' house, and Dr. Lyman was summoned. Though unconscious, he was still breathing when my informant came away, but there is no hope of his recovery."
We learn that the unfortunate man fell from a box upon which he was sitting, which fell with or upon him and that, with bruises from the feet of the horses, caused the injuries, which resulted in his death on Monday night.
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Fred Bresee a brakeman on the Syracuse and Binghamton road who fell from a train and crushed his foot under the wheels of the cars, recently died at his home in Whitney's Point [Broome Co. NY] on Tuesday of last week of lockjaw.
Mrs. Ann Murphy was found lying dead upon the floor of her residence in Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] on Friday afternoon last.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 6, 1876
Death
BROOKS: In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], March 27, Stewart Brooks, infant son of Sherman and Betsey Brooks, aged 7 months.
Stewart was a beautiful child, a precious bud of promise, not, however, to be developed in this withering clime of earth, but in Paradise, where it is now transplanted, and where it will bloom in beauty forever.
"As vernal flowers perfume the morn, / but wither in the rising day, / Thus lovely was this infant's dawn, / Thus swiftly fled its life away"
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On Friday morning last, the people of Marathon [Cortland Co. NY] were startled with the news of the very sudden death of Rev. Mr. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian church there, from heart disease. He had been out on Tuesday evening, at the residence of Mr. Geo. w. Webster to attend a wedding ceremony, and on his way home felt a certain dizziness, but not until 10:30 P.M. did he see fit to call a physician. Dr. Beebe and afterward Dr. Bradford were sent for, but it was too late, and although his mind was clear, he did not rally, but expired about 8:30 Friday morning.
News Item
That Old Powder Horn
"Washington ate of the ox from which this horn was taken sir," exclaimed our old friend Henry Rood, one day last week as he brandished before our eyes an immense powder horn, full twenty inches long. And so it was. the horn was form the celebrated "Golden" ox, which was presented to Washington's army at New Haven, when it was in great strait for meat, during the Revolution. The ox weighed 2,200 pounds and was a Godsend to the hungry soldiers. The horn which was shown us was a splendid "antler," and evidently proved the superior quality of the ox. It was adapted for use by Mr. Rood's grandfather Bishop, soon after the killing of the ox. Upon the large end was a pen knife engraving of the English floating prison, known as the "floating Hell," which at one time lay off New Haven in the sound, an exceedingly good picture. The horn was afterwards carried by Mr. Rood's father through the war of 1812-14, and had such implements been necessary, might have been carried by his son Perry who was a gallant Union soldier during the late war. Mr. Rood has owned this interesting relic for 40 years, it having been given him by his father. It seems to have been a sort of patriotic monitor in the family, for in addition to his son before mentioned, Mr. R. had five nephews and nineteen cousins in the army in the late war, and but for his age the old gentleman would have been there himself.
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