Chenango American, Greene, NY, November 16, 1876
Marriages
At the Baptist Parsonage in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 8th, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. Elmer C. Edwards of Maine, Broome Co., NJ.Y., to Miss Josephine A. Olds, of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of the bride's parents, Nov. 8th, by Rev. E.D. Loveridge, Mr. George H. Berry, of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss May L. [Sheldon] daughter of W.R. Sheldon, Esq.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, November 18, 1876
Marriages
TINKER - MEDBURY: At the residence of the bride's father, in this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY] on the 15th inst., by Rev. T.L. Randolph, Mr. Charles Tinker and Miss Lulu Medbury, all of this village.
HERRIMAN - FOSTER: In Earlville [Madison Co. NY], on the 8th inst., by Rev. Mr. Brown, Mr. Albert D. Herriman and Miss Minnie Foster, both of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
O'BRIEN: In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], October 31st, Frances E. [O'Brien] wife of John O'Brien, aged 22 years, 8 months and 10 days.
MORRIS: In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 11, Clarence Morris son of Elias Morris, aged 9 months.
DAVIS: In North Chili, Monroe Co. [NY], Nov. 8th, Norman Davis, aged 71 years and 5 dyas.
Mr. Davis was a son of the late Reuben Davis, one of the early residents of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] and passed his childhood and youth in this town. In his death his family are deprived of a kind and affectionate husband and father. May the God of the widow and fatherless by their support.
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Isaac Andrews
It has pleased Him who is the disposer of all human life to remove from our society and church one of its officers and devoted members. Ordinarily I am opposed to the custom of eulogizing the lives of men after they are closed, but there are reasons why special notice should be directed to the life and death of certain individuals. Very few men can afford to have their characters subjected to a close scrutiny. Lamentable evidence of such a fact is abundant in the late political records, but because such men are few, we should prize them the more. We should "grapple them to our souls with hooks of steel." It would appear that consistent characters were the exceptions. All the more therefore should they be held up to the public gaze that some stimulus may be given towards the "go thou and do likewise." Truth embodies and consistently expressed is always the most powerful. So, if a man's life will teach the living anything of life or death or things unseen by mortal vision it should be preserved. It may be easy, in a sense, to know duty, but then the doing of it "there's the rub." "I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching." This is the reason that truth dramatized in human life and action is so much more powerful and beneficial than as it is spoken or read from a book. The best way to set forth the gospel is "to bear about in our bodies the marks of the Lord Jesus." These thoughts come to me as I think of our good brother, Deacon Andrews. He was a man who was in no sense presuming or possessed with the desire to be prominent. Perhaps his qualifications were not so much those which fitted him for a leader as those which made him capable of being faithful in the position God had placed him. So far as I can judge, the aroma of his life was faithfulness. For example, whether able, actively to engage in the work of the church or not, he uniformly did his share in the way of its support. His judgment of such matters was not "how much do you want?", but "How much ought I to give?" He decided in the light of his obligations to Him "whose he was and whom he served;" this is worthy of distinct emphasis. I have unbounded admiration for a faithful, conscientious and humble man, no matter what he may be worth financially or what position he may occupy in society. The crown of life can only rest on the head of him who is faithful unto death, and he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much, let this lesson, emphasized in the life of Deacon Andrews be an exhortation to those who think that their duty is to get the most benefit at the smallest possible expense to themselves. It is to be remembered that he who giveth most, gaineth most not only in gold but in goodness. Deacon Andrews was the eldest of a family of six, consisting of four sons and two daughters. He was born in the town of Norton, Mass. on the 6th day of December 1802, and came to Sherburne in the winter of 1823. His father, Isaac Andrews, and his mother, Hannah Briggs, came soon after to his home and died, the latter in 1845 and the former in 1862. They were both natives of Massachusetts and died on the same farm on which their son first settled lived and died. There are left, now, four members of the family, two sons and two daughters. Seven years after his arrival in Sherburne (1830) he united with the 1st Congregational church on profession of his faith in Christ as his Saviour. Sixteen years later he was chosen to hold the office of deacon. which he faithfully and fully filled till cast aside by the infirmities of his physical constitution. For twelve years he was a weary sufferer and had to realize God's truth that "they also serve who only stand and wait." I feel that the church has lost an important member, the community an honest citizen and the friends one upon whom they could rely. Only ten weeks previous to his death he was called to part with his wife, and after that it seemed as though he was anxious to depart and be with Christ and with her who had been the sharer of his joys, and the partner of his sorrows upon earth. The last words I heard him utter were these, as nearly as I can remember: "My only hope is in God my Saviour." Blessed memory! Blessed hope! Blessed legacy to all who knew him. May the record of this good man and his faithful wife have the effect upon us to make us truer, purer, and more conscientious in the discharge of the obligations God has placed upon us. "The memory of the just is blessed." James Chambers
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, November 18, 1876
Marriage
JONES - IRELAND: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], at the home of the bride, by Rev. M.S. Reynolds, Nov. 14th, Charles Jones of Centerville, to Miss Augusta J. Ireland, of Oxford.
Death
The funeral services of Mrs. Daniel Benedict was held at the house of Mr. Horace Lyon, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], on Sunday last, the Rev. D.N. Grummon officiating. The remains were taken to Coventryville [Chenango Co. NY] for burial.
New Berlin Gazette, New Berlin, November 18, 1876
Marriages
CLARK - BIGGS: In Pittsfield [Otsego Co. NY], on the 1st inst. by John S. Woodard, Esq., Mr. Wm. H. Clark of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] and Miss Fanny C. Biggs of Riverhead, L.I. [Suffolk Co.].
ELLIS - BURR: In this village [New Berlin, Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 30th, by Rev. B.P. Williams, Mr. C.A. Ellis to Miss Angelia Burr, all of New Berlin.
SCOTT - BANCROFT: In Pittsfield [Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 11th, by the same, Mr. Henry Scott to Miss Jennie Bancroft, both of Pittsfield.
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