Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 27, 1876
Marriages
BEH - HOGAN: At Emmanuel Church in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on Tuesday afternoon April 25th, by Rev. D.E. Loveridge, Mr. Joseph Beh of Utica [Oneida Co. NY] to Miss Mary E. Hogan of Norwich.
CRANE - LEVEE: April 17th, by Rev. L.M.S. Haynes, Mr. A.O. Crane to Miss L.M. Levee of Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY].
RUGGLES - MEAD: At the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Allen Mead, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 18th, by Rev. L.M.S. Haynes, S.N. Ruggles, Esq. of Boston to Miss Ella Mead.
On Wednesday afternoon of last week, a very pleasant company assembled at the residence of Mrs. Allen Mead on Mitchell Street to witness the marriage of Miss Ella Mead to Mr. S.N. Ruggles, of Boston. The ceremony was performed by Rev. L.M.S. Haynes of the Baptist Church. The fair bride was elegantly attired and after the ceremony received the congratulations of her many friends with pleasing modesty and dignity. The bridal presents were numerous and beautiful. After the company had partaken of a choice collation the bridal party took carriages for the depot, where the happy couple took the train for Boston and other points of interest. They entered upon their wedded life with the best wishes of hosts of friends. We understand that they will make their home in Boston but we shall expect to see them often in Norwich. Mr. Ruggles is a native of Madison County [NY], and most of his relatives now reside there. He showed good taste in coming to Norwich to select a partner for life. May their pathway be strewn with flowers to the end.
Deaths
BALDWIN: In Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], on Monday, April 17th of congestion of the lungs, Mrs. Jane E. Baldwin of Harpursville [Broome Co. NY], widow of Allen Baldwin, late of Binghamton, aged 80? years. Mrs. B. was a sister of Mrs. Dr. Hand of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY]. she had lived in the family of Dr. H. since October last and left only about a week before her decease for a short visit, intending to return soon. Her sudden death is a source of deep regret to all who know her.
POWELL: In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], April 10th, Maj. Isaac T. Powell aged 65 years.
IRONS: In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], April 18th, Minnie [Irons], daughter of Jesse and Harriet Irons, aged 2 years and 6 months.
Holmesville [Chenango Co. NY]: The remains of George B. Post, brother-in-law of Mr. Elisha Simons, were brought here on Saturday from Meredeth [Delaware Co. NY] for interment in the South New Berlin Cemetery [Chenango Co. NY]. Mr. P. was a resident of California and was on a visit at his son's at the time of his death.
Holmesville {Chenango Co. NY]: Hattie Powers daughter of Damon Powers, died on Sunday morning, aged seventeen years. She had thirteen convulsions on Saturday and remained unconscious until her death.
Mrs. Altha Fitch Brooks died in Utica [Oneida Co. NY] on Wednesday of last week, in the one hundredth year of her age. She was a daughter of a soldier of the revolution and was born in Vermont, May 15th, 1776.
Paris O. Davis a well-known and respected farmer rn the east part of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], died on Wednesday morning of this week of pneumonia and inflammation of the liver, after an illness of about a week.
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Death of Ira Crain
The Earlville correspondent of the Oneida Dispatch gives the following particulars of the death of Dea. Ira Crain of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], a gentleman who was well known in the northern part of this county and universally respected.
"Deacon Ira Crain died very suddenly on the morning of the 12th inst. at his residence two miles south of here, aged 72 years. Mr. Crain had been suffering several weeks from a dropsical difficulty, which seemed to affect the heart, but at the time of his death was considered much better and was conversing freely with Mr. S. Smith in relation to the financial matters of the Earlville Baptist church, of which he has been a faithful member of the past 27 years. He was sitting in his bed at the time, when he was seized with a fit of coughing and an attempt to retch and his physician, Dr. Wilcox, who was called, placed him pack upon his pillow and he died in a moment after without a struggle. The church has lost a valued member and strong pillar, but while they deeply mourn their loss, they can only look to God for help who alone can raise up others to fill his place. The bereaved widow and family have the sympathy of the entire community in this their hour of affliction."
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In Memory
A number of gentlemen in Corning [Steuben Co. NY] and other villages, intimate personal friends of the late David Milne who died in that place upwards of a year since, have placed over his remains in the cemetery at Hornellsville [Steuben Co. NY], a beautiful monument at an expense of $350. This is a deserved tribute to the memory of a true friend, a genial companion and a gentleman of rare worth and intelligence. There are many of our Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] people who enjoyed his acquaintance and friendship during his residence of three years among us, who would gladly have contributed to this testimonial of esteem had an opportunity been offered. Peace to his ashes!
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Death of Charles Packer
We copy from the Corning [Steuben Co. NY] Independent the follow obituary of Mr. Charles Packer of that town who died April 2, aged sixty-eight years. Deceased was a native of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] son of the late Capt. James Packer and brother of Horace Packer, Esq. of Oxford.
"Mr. Packer was among the early settlers in this village [Corning, Steuben Co. NY], bringing with him from Chenango County, his youthful [enthusiasm for] industry, a lively and well-informed mind and strict business integrity; and was among the leading businessmen for many years in important worth, and in helping on the enterprises of the day. After a few years he removed back about two miles on the -?- road, on his farm [in] a dense forest thick with towering pines and majestic oaks. There, working many men and teams for years he prepared those for spare masts and keels and other ship carpentry and bridge work, and forwarded to the markets, himself working very hard and at the same time having upon him much care and great responsibility in rearing a large and growing family. After a time his small sinewy frame gradually yielded to the constant strain and his mind -?- with nothing but rest, sympathizing with the body, became fitful and erratic at long intervals; which facts were painfully perceived by his most intimate friends. Yet, as quick natures are too apt to be, he became impatient of advice, however good and well meant; and also more self-reliant, especially in some respects than may be good for a man; and was herein his own tutor and guide to his wounding. But in these, and after years, he managed his affairs an discharged the duties of a good citizen with commendable sense an public approbation, bringing in from year to year large and abundant harvests of wheat and other grains, and also of hops and tobacco, from his newly cleared and subdued fields, and also devoting much time and thought to reading and to the important and stirring events of the times He had a liberal share in the guidance and in the honors of all local politics and also in the discussions upon subjects of pith and importance to the public. He was a man of fine dialectic mind, slow, almost to obstinacy to confirm to the world, having his chief delight in the pleasures of thought and of meditation and in high argument and regarding the pleasures of sense and imitation as "poor things" supplemented by conventionals, which are "also poor things." Hence a man not generally understood or appreciated in "this round of becoming." He was always before this cloud of disease settled upon his mind, most kind and good in all the relations of life; but disease hovered around where reason holds her court and now and then obtaining the will or turning it awry, the man in charity and Divine philosophy at those times is not responsible. Of such they say, "forgive them, for they know not what they do." And surely no mortal can tell what they may do. After every means in reach of friends and kind neighbors were exhausted to avert the step and restore the man, he was placed at Willard Asylum about twenty-two months ago. There he remained in that abode of compassion and home of high medical art, yet without relief, until death, the sweet comer to the weary, freed the winged soul from the cares and crosses and clods of this low earth - dying, as certified, "of exhaustion from chronic mental disease."
"On Wednesday following, his funeral was largely attended, from his late residence, by friends and sympathizing neighbors, joining with the Rev. Mr. Wilson in pious regard for the deceased and for his six full orphaned children left in sorrow; the holy man assuaging their griefs by the healing balm that flows from sacred service of the Episcopal Church, feelingly administered. The brief story of the good man, recounting the pleasant and profitable interview he had enjoyed with the deceased, when the candle of the lord shone on him, and the gracious day he had in his visit with him at the Asylum, told a heart, liquid with the dews of Hermon, and that lifts to Heaven."
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