Chenango American, Greene, NY, August 30, 1876
Deaths
In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], August 25th, Maggie [Conkling] daughter of Mr. T.J. Conkling, aged 4 years.
At Chenango Forks [Broome Co. NY], Aug. 18th, Mary [Harrington], only child of Dr. S.H. and Maggie Harrington, aged 6 years.
In Conklin Forks, N.Y. [Broome County], Aug. 18th, Rev. A.P. Worden, aged 70 years.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, September 2, 1876
Marriages
BUTLER - LOCKE: At the First Presbyterian Church, in Utica [Oneida Co. NY], Wednesday, August 30th, by Rev. S.P Smecher, S. Milton Butler and Harriet A. Locke, all of Utica.
BAKER - DUNHAM: In Earlville [Madison Co. NY], August 22d, by Rev. G.R. Burnside, Mr. Sanford E. Baker of Lebanon [Madison Co. NY], and Miss Jennie A. Dunham of Earlville.
Deaths
DAVIS: At Washington Mills [Oneida Co. NY], August 29th, Mrs. Debora Davis, wife of Andrew Davis, aged 52 years. Deceased was formerly a resident of this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY] and her remains were brought here for interment.
AVERY: In Brooklyn, August 28th, Mrs. Carmelia R. [Avery], wife of George P. Avery, Esq., and eldest daughter of Joshua Pratt, Esq., of this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co., NY].
ANDREWS: In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Matilda Andrews, aged 77 years, 4 months 8 days. Services to be held at the house on Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, September 2, 1876
Deaths
BUSH: In Tioga, Pa., Aug. 23d, 1876, of typhoid fever, Alvah C. Bush, 2d, aged 24 years.
PORTER: The entire community were shocked last Tuesday afternoon by the announcement of the death of George R. Porter. Mr. Porter lives about two miles from the village, and after coming to town that afternoon was on his way home. He stopped a few moments at the door of H.O. Gregory, leaving his horse unhitched, when the horse started off up the road. Mr. Porter called to the horse and failing to stop he ran and got on the hind end of his low springboard wagon and managed to gain the seat and secure the reins. The horse continued to run, Mr. Porter being unable to check him until they reached the house of Mr. Redfield across the upper bridge, when the horse came to a halt. Mr. Porter called for help and Mrs. Redfield came out and asked if he wished the gate to the lane opened. He replied no and asked her to hold his horse. She stepped to the horse's head and Mr. Sands and others then coming up saw that something was the matter with Mr. Porter, and procuring a chair proceeded to help him out. As he was lifted from the wagon, he remarked that he was dying and as he was placed in the chair breathed his last. It is supposed that he died from heart disease, with which he has long been troubled, being aggravated by the excitement of his horse running. Mr. Porter was about 78 years of age, a member of the Baptist church, a consistent Christian man, beloved and respected by all who knew him. His son, Wm. Porter and wife, were at Philadelphia and were telegraphed for and returned immediately. Unadilla Times.
New Berlin Gazette, New Berlin, NY, September 2, 1876
Marriage
MOORE - WRENCH: In this village [New Berlin, Chenango Co. NY], Aug. 26th, by Rev. N.J. Hawley, Edwin Moore of Pittsfield [Otsego Co. NY] and Miss Ursula Wrench, of Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY].
Death
A sad accident occurred at Campville [Tioga Co. NY] yesterday morning. A boy named Bond, about twelve years of age, engaged in distributing advertising bills about the country, left the accommodation train at Campville on Saturday evening and remained in the place overnight. On Sunday morning he stopped at the residence of Mr. Haner, who lives on a farm belonging to Mr. E. Van Tuyl of this city, just west of Campville. Picking up a revolver which was lying near him, he began carelessly fooling with it, when it suddenly went off, the ball entering the head of Mr. Haner's little boy just below the eye. Mr. Haner telegraphed to Owego for a physician at once, but the child died in about twenty minutes after the accident. The deceased boy was two years of age and an only child. The boy at whose hands the accident occurred says that his father is a shoemaker living in Susquehanna. An account was telegraphed to the father, and the boy is under arrest. The affair caused great excitement at Campville, but was undoubtedly an accident.
News Item
Last Saturday forenoon, a very long funeral procession was on the valley road and the driver of the fourth or fifth carriage gave the side of a hay stack a cut with his whip. Immediately hundreds of hornets swarmed out of that stack and attacked the horses and men and women furiously. He had cut their nest. Many horses reared, plunged forward, pranced, tried to run, but the hill just before them soon tuckered them out. The men and women fought the hornets with fans, handkerchiefs, parasols, and hats, nearly all the distance to the cemetery. A few were stung and there was some screeching and would have been more but for the sense of decorum due the solemn occasion. It is a wonder to everybody in the procession that no accident occurred. With all the rearing and dashing of the horses not even a buggy tipped over. There is no doubt, however, that if the hill had not been so near, serious accidents would have occurred as it was, the driver had the good sense to let his team try the hill when they started off on being stung and the drivers behind him followed his example. No funeral procession ever went up a hill as that one did, we venture to say.
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