Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 20, 1876
Marriage
CARMAN - WINCHESTER: In Fenton [Broome Co. NY], April 2d, by Rev. A.C. Sperry, Mr. Augustus Carman of Preston [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Ella Winchester of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
BEALS: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] April 10th, Nathan E. Beals aged 62 years.
FITCH: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] April 12th of scarlet fever, Cora E. [Fitch], only daughter of Lucius H. and Almira G. Fitch, aged 9 years 1 month and 21 days.
WOOD: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 14th, at the residence of Martin Gilbert, John Henry [Wood] son of Henry Wood of Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], aged 1 year and 9 months.
INGRAHAM: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], April 11th, Mr. Job ingraham, aged 81 years.
MOORE: In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], April 8th, Martha [Moore] widow of the late Chester Moore, aged 65 years.
CRAIN: In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], April 12th, Dea. Ira Crain, aged 71 years.
THORP: In North Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], April 11th, Mr. David Thorp, aged 23 years.
A young man named David Thorp, while at work in the sawmill of his father-in-law, Hamilton Law, in North Pharsalia on the 30th of March last, was struck by a plank which slipped and rode on a circular saw and thrown some sixteen feet. He received the blow in his groin and in his fall a gash was cut in his head. He lived until the 11th last, when he died from internal injuries. probably the breaking of a blood vessel. He was twenty-three years of age and much respected in the community. His wife is a second time widowed, her first husband having been instantly killed by falling from a building which he was assisting in raising some five years since.
DANIELS: In New Boston, Mass., Feb. 10th, Mr. James L. Daniels aged 56 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
MAYHEW: in Chenango Forks [Broome Co. NY], April 11th, Sarah J. [Mayhew] wife of Henry W. Mayhew, aged 37 years. Tender care can do no more. / Love its all has given; / Gazing still a last farewell. / We trust she rests in Heaven.
Seth M. Miller, a merchant of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY], died suddenly of apoplexy, while milking his cow, on Saturday morning, the 8th inst. Mr. Miller was years ago a resident of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], and was one of the many peddlers at that time employed by the firm of R.I. Johnson & Co., of this place. Afterwards he resided for some time at Mount Upton [Chenango Co. NY]. He leaves a family.
Joseph S. DeWitt of Owego [Tioga Co. NY], widely known as "Old Joe" died suddenly on Monday morning while on his way from Owego to Nichols to attend the funeral of a Masonic brother. He was in his usual good spirits, and apparently excellent health, and was smoking with a party of friends, when his cigar dropped from his mouth, he gasped once or twice and was dead. His friends at once returned to Owego with the body. Mr. DeWitt was born in Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] in 1814, where he resided until 1841, when he removed to Owego. He had served forty-one years as a fireman and was a great favorite with his brother firemen. Nearly all their parades in the southern portion of the State, during the past forty years have been attended by him. For eight years he was Chief Engineer of the Owego fire Department, and at the time of his death was Captain of the Fire Police. He was also a prominent Mason. His funeral is attended this (Wednesday) afternoon by Firemen and Masons from Binghamton and other points.
Guilford, Chenango Co. NY: Mrs. Abijah Cornwell for many years a resident of our village, died recently after a protracted sickness at her home in Afton [Chenango Co. NY]. Mrs. C. was a sister of the late N.W. Cady, of our place and, like him, was universally respected for her kind and generous qualities. Her loss will be mourned by a large circle of sincere friends.
James Mead of Waverly, Pa fell from a train which was leaving Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] on Wednesday afternoon. The train was stopped. He was picked up and found much bruised, but no bones broken. He died at his home on the same evening.
Solomon Marsh of Gilbertsville [Otsego Co. NY] aged 85 years has died. He was the first white person born in the town.
PERKINS: In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], April 14th, of cancer, Mr. Thomas Perkins, aged 80 years.
It is the afflictment of man once to die. A venerable father has been stricken down from his long distress and suffering by an incomprehensible and inscrutable power. Thomas Perkins was born near Providence, R.I. August 28th, 1796. His parents left the place of their nativity the same year to try the rigorous realities of a new home of a frontier life. This was, at that date, trying to the stoutest hearts. To take a wife with small children from the comfortably improved region and ample comforts of life from the blessings of which they had long enjoyed with their friends and move with oxen and wagon into an unbroken wilderness was almost considered intolerable at that age of the world. None but those of the bravest heart and strongest energy and will dared to run the venture. But the brave hand after passing over rough and hilled roads, through -?- of mud with no other guide but marked trees in penetrating the deepening wilds with bears, catamounts and howling wolves to horrify and bear them company, they finally succeeded, rested form their hazardous journey and settled in the town of Columbus, Chenango County [NY]. Mr. T. Perkins married the daughter of Jonathan Brownell who was also one of the early settlers; lived in Columbus for thirty years; then moved to Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] were he has resided since. He has raised six children, one of whom died (Miles) in California; one daughter is living in California and four in Otselic. Mr. Perkins has resided with Charles G. his son for the past three years. He died of cancer the 14th inst. at the ripe age of eighty years. He has never failed to vote at every election since coming to his majority; has been a lifelong Democrat of the Jackson school, ever ready to place his shoulder to the wheel of the political car, to move it in the direction of the true democratic principles.
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Death of Nathan E. Beals
Another of our old and esteemed citizens has passed away. Mr. Nathan E. Beals for many years a resident of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], died at the residence of his son, Ebenezer Beals, on Saturday afternoon last, after a lingering illness in the sixty-third year of his age. Unassuming in his manner, genial and courteous in his intercourse with neighbors and friends and upright in his dealings with his fellow man, Mr. Beals leaves behind him a name without reproach, and the sympathies of the community go out to the stricken widow and family in their affliction.
His funeral was largely attended by the Masonic fraternity, of which he was an honored member on Tuesday afternoon. At a united meeting of the several Masonic bodies to which he was attached the following Tribute of Respect was unanimously adopted.
Our much loved and highly respected Brother, Nathan E. Beals, has been taken from the pilgrimage of earth. Recognizing his good works while among us, we have every confidence that it is the Master's voice that has called him hence and we bow in humble submission to the decree which has summoned him from ours to a more noble and glorious order where the imperfections of this life are unknown and whose members are in the full enjoyment of the rewards promised to those who are faithful to the trust imposed upon them here.
We are thankful that he was so long spared to walk the rugged paths with us. His death reminds us that we too, are mortal and that in such an hour as we think not, we may be called. Let us therefore emulate his virtues and apply ourselves with renewed zeal to the practice of the excellent principles alike inculcated by our Fraternity and the Christian religion to the end that when the summons comes to each of us, we too may not have labored in vain, nor spent our strength for naught, but rather that we be raised to the enjoyment of fadeless and immortal light in the kingdom where faith and hope end and love and joy in the smiles of the Master prevail throughout eternal ages.
Our hearts turn in their bereavement to the stricken widow and to the two sons of the deceased, our brothers. Our sympathies have mingled with them at the open sepulcher and will follow them to their homes. In their lonely hours we will bear them upon our hearts and commend them to the kind care of Him that doeth no wrong and who suffereth not a sparrow to fall without His notice. In his love and mercy, the wounded hearts will find the healing balm and the weary mourners rest.
We will bear our deceased brother ever in kind remembrance and grateful for his acts of kindness and of his noble virtues let this acknowledgment of them be recorded at length upon our minutes; our Lodges be draped in mourning for the usual time and a copy of this tribute properly engrossed, attested by the officers and furnished the friends of the deceased and published in our village papers.
News Item
The coroner's jury at the inquest on the bodies of those killed by the recent boiler explosion in Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] found that the boiler so exploded was both in workmanship and material unexceptional in every particular; that in their opinion the cause of the explosion was its being subjected to an unreasonable steam pressure and greater than it was intended to bear; and that Mr. Carter, the foreman, was mistaken in the amount of steam pressure he was using.
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