Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, November 16, 1876
Marriages
HALL - AVERY: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY], Oct. 26th, by Rev. Dr. Torry, Mr. Charles M. Hall, of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Mary L. Avery, of Cazenovia.
PAGE - TUCKEY: In Brookfield [Madison Co. NY], Nov. 1st by Rev. S. Salisbury, Mr. Wilson E. Page, of Brookfield to Miss Olive E. Tuckey of Coventry [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
DORCY: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 10th, Winnefred [Dorcy], wife of Peter E. Dorcy, aged 45 years.
HADCOX: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 12th, Mr. Wm. Hadcox, aged 41 years.
ARNOLD: n this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 9th, Mrs. Elcy Arnold, widow of William Arnold, aged 83 years 7 months and 10 days.
MINER: In Waterville [Oneida Co. NY], Nov. 12th, Mr. Henry P. Miner, aged 33 years and 5 months, son of Paul R. and Melissa Miner, and brother of Mrs. A.J. Beebe, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].
SEELYE: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 10th, at the residence of her father, J.Y. Washburn, Antoinette [Seelye], wife of Andrew Seelye, of Thomaston, Conn., aged 31 years.
BENEDICT: In Coventry [Chenango Co NY] Nov. 11th, Polly S. Benedict aged 85 years.
WARNER: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 2d, Mrs. Percilla Warner, aged 76 years.
FOSTER: In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 16th, Miss Electa Foster formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], aged 54 years and 8 months.
HUNT: In Plymouth [Chenango Co NY], Sept. 20th, Nettie J. [Hunt] daughter of Sylvester and Mary J. Hunt, aged 22 years.
MARTIN: In Hartford, Washington County, N.Y., November 7th, Lydia Clark [Martin], widow of Mason Martin, Late of Argyle, N.Y. [Washington Co.], aged 81 years, 2 months and 19 days.
SARLE: In Pittsfield [Otsego Co. NY], Oct. 28th, of cancer, Mr. Henry Sarle, in the 55th year of his age.
COVILLE: In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 12th, Minnie [Coville, daughter of George and Ellen coville, aged 1 year and 9 months.
A little two-year-old daughter of Mr. George Coville of Preston, sat down in a pail of hot water that stood on the floor of his residence on Saturday last, and was scalded terribly. Death put an end to the sufferings of the little one on Sunday.
GIBSON: Mr. S. Gibson died suddenly on the 28th. He had recently returned from a visit to the West, when he was Struchen down with paralysis which terminated in death. (Mt. Upton, Chenango co. NY]
BETSINGER: Peter Betsinger, Esq. a resident of Railroad Street, Oneida [Oneida Co. NY], aged 75 years, dropped dead on the walk, one day last week, when within two doors of his residence. He left the business streets of Oneida a few moments before apparently in his usual good health.
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EDSON: At Bayonne City, N.J. Nov. 11th, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Ada Wheeler [Edson] wife of Chauncey C. Edson and daughter of J.B. Wheeler, Jr., formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], aged 27 years. Her remains were brought to this place, and the funeral took place on Tuesday.
Chenango Telegraph, November 16, 1876: Mrs. Edson's remains were brought to this village and her funeral held at the residence of hir uncle B. Gage Berry, on Tuesday. The following letter from her pastor at Bayonne, to Rev S. Scoville of this village, will be read with interest by her many friends and acquaintances.
Dear Brother -- When this note is received by you there will be transmitted to you for the offices of Christian burial, the mortal remains of a cherished friend and member of your flock.
I have thought it fitting and due to the memory of the dear departed one, and to her friends and family as well, to leave a brief record of the sunset of a beautiful Christian life; and I know not into whose hands I can better entrust it than to her former pastor for whom she expressed so much regard and affection.
She came among us a few months ago, a stranger, to make the place and the church her permanent home, and she loved them both with a hearty enthusiasm. Just emerging from the shadow of great bereavement which she told me more than half bound her to Heaven, she began to find new life aims in beautifying her pleasant little home and putting forth her hands for Christian work. Her transparent cheerful piety and glowing earnestness at once drew loving hearts around her and led us all to count upon her as a future comfort. But we knew not, when she was all the while struggling against an insidious disease that God was fitting her for higher service. As she felt herself sinking under the pressure, she yearned to carry out her little schemes of usefulness in the church and her last walk was made to the Prayer meeting, from which she returned completely exhausted. When at length she saw the end approaching she dealt searchingly and almost with a morbid conscientiousness with her own heart. Her past life gave her uncertain consolation. Her only Refuge was Jesus and his Cross. Speaking of the necessity of practical Religion in her own case she said, "I don't want them to tell me what others have said and written, but what they have felt and experienced for themselves."
Her sufferings which were often excruciating never wrung from her lips a murmuring word, and as long as she could hear and speak, she hungered for the consolations of the minister's call and often, even when exhausted, chided him for shortening it. Although for a time her sky was overcast with clouds it was all light at evening time. Her closing life was a beautiful Evangel of Faith and Patience, Hope and love. The songs she so longed to hear, and which often composed her suffering mortality she has gone to warble in the upper sanctuary.
Farewell my sister! Thou hast won all hearts and now thou sleepest well and safely in the everlasting arms. "For so he giveth his Beloved sleep."
Yours, &C, C.B. Stitt, Bayonne, Nov. 1876
Her many friends and acquaintances here unite with those at Bayonne in heartfelt regrets at Mrs. Edson's early decease and in tender loving sympathy to her husband and father, and other relatives in their great loss.
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A Caton (Steuben County) Correspondent of the Corning Journal writes as follows of the death of Mrs. Patience B. Wescott of that town, mother of James C. Wescott, of East Norwich [Chenango Co. NY]:
"The community are again shocked to learn the death of one of our oldest settlers, Patience B. wife of George Wescott, Sr. of Caton, N.Y., and daughter of Daniel Cook, of Portsmouth, R.I., who departed this life on Tuesday, October 17th, at 8 o'clock PM. at the ripe old age of eighty-four years, surrounded by her children, one of whom having been telegraphed for from the east, arrived at the door of the house, just as his mother was breathing her last, but the spirit had departed before he entered the room - just too late for a last look in this life.
"She was born at Portsmouth, R.I., August 28, 1792, and was married to Mr. George Wescott, then of that place, in 1812, having now passed sixty-four years with her bereaved husband.
"Of the Wescotts, of whom there were five brothers, who moved to Norwich, Chenango County, in 1818; two, Horace and George, removed to Caton, Steuben County [NY], in 1838, with teams (for roads were poor and railroads unthought of in those days) finally stopping in the wilderness of Caton, where the tall pines overtopped their new home; and here raised a large family of children, death having never before visited their home during their residence here.
"The thick pine woods, with only here and there a rude opening have been opened by honest toil, have gradually disappeared until none of the younger generation can see in the fruit covered hills and grain clad valley, the shadow of their fathers' toil and mothers' early privation, in producing the change.
"It was aptly remarked by one of the neighbors at the funeral, "She was everybody's mother!" There was a social, good cheer, the "good old new England" hospitality, which might always have been found at the residence of this respected old couple, all callers being welcome and the needy never turned away empty. Their home was indeed a home to the whole circle of their acquaintance, and while thirty-nine descendants, children, grand and great-grandchildren lose a mother, Caton loses her oldest lady resident, and her husband suffers a loss which cannot be fully expressed in words. The remains were consigned to the grave at Caton Centre, after an interesting and impressive service by the Rev. Mr. Sharp, at the Baptist church of that place."
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, November 16, 1876
Marriage
HERMAN - FOSTER: In Earlville [Madison Co. NY], Sunday Nov. 5, Hervey Herman and Miss Minnie Foster, all of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
TAYLOR: Suddenly, at his home in Mason City, Iowa, Sept., 6th, Alfred Taylor, formerly of Plymouth, Chenango County, N.Y.
BUCHER: In Argon, Ind., Sept. 25th, 1876, Harry M. [Bucher], son of F. M. and Lucy J. Bucher, Granson of N. Chapman, aged 11 months and 14 days.
THOMPSON: George L. Thompson, an elderly single gentleman who has lived much of his time for several summers' past at the Lincklaen House in Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY], was drowned at Union Springs, Cayuga County [NY] on Tuesday of last week.
Sherburne News Sherburne, NY, November 11, 18767
An Oriskany Falls correspondent of the Utica Herald of the 8th inst, details the following shocking accident:
This afternoon, Nettie Hicks, aged nine years, youngest daughter of Warren D. Hicks was instantly killed by engine No. 61, drawing a wild cat train of twenty loaded cars. About 1:30 P.M., as Engineer Koon was rounding a curve, half a mile south of this village, he saw on a trestle fifty yards ahead, four young girls, Miss Julia Hazard, Lena Hazard, Helen and Nettie Hicks. He whistled "down brakes" and reversed his engine hoping to check the speed of the train sufficiently to allow the girls to get across but finding that impossible shouted to them to jump into the stream. Helen Hicks and Lena Hazard jumped and saved themselves. Miss Julia Hazard made a brave and desperate effort to save Nettie Hicks by pulling her off the trestle but failed. Julia then dropped through an opening into the stream, miraculously escaping death as the engine struck her head as she dropped, taking off her hat and comb and making a slight scalp wound. No possible blame can be attached to Engineer kroon or the train hands. It was through their prompt efforts that the three girls escaped death.
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