Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 1, 1877
Marriages
CRANDALL - TUCKER: In North Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 20th, by Horace L. Barnes, Esq., Mr. Robert C. Crandall of Beaver Meadow [Chenango Co. NY] to Mrs. Polly M. Tucker of North Pharsalia.
BECKWITH - PATTERSON: In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 21st, by Rev. L.A. Wild, Mr. Franklin L. Beckwith to Miss Louisa A. Patterson.
PERKINS - COATS: At the bride's home, Feb. 14th, by Rev. H.C. Leach, Mr. Myron M. Perkins of Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Eleann D. Coats of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY].
ROBINSON - ROBINSON: In South Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 22d by Rev. J.A. Robinson, of Cortland, Mr. Edwin S. Robinson of Greene [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Frankie A. Robinson of South Oxford.
CHAMBERLIN - MERRILL: In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 21st, by Rev. J. Jones, Mr. Hudson E. Chamberlin to Miss Louisa I. Merrill, all of Afton.
CORNING - MERRICLE: In Taylor [Cortland Co. NY], Feb. 21st, by Rev. D.W. Bigelow, Mr. Charles Corning to Mrs. Emily Merricle, all of Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY].
RATHBUN - HIBBARD: In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 19th, by Rev. J. Clements, Mr. J.A. Rathbun of East Pharsalia, to Miss Bessie M. Hibbard of Triangle [Broome Co. NY].
BASSETT - ANDRESS: In Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY], Feb. 18th, by Rev. Edson Rogers, Mr. Charles Bassett of Lisle [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Mary Andress of Cincinnatus.
Deaths
DONOVAN: In this village, Feb. 27th, Mr. John Donovan, aged 29 years.
FLOWERS: In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 15th, Mrs. Ann Flowers, wife of John Flowers, aged 67 years.
YALE: In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 23d, Dea. Uriah Yale aged 66 years.
CHANDLER: In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 17th, Mr. Hiram Chandler, aged 68 years.
ADAMS: In Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], Feb. 24th, Charles S. [Adams] son of Charles and Caroline Adams, formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], aged 6 months.
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KING: In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 20th, Adelia [King] wife of John W. King, aged 57 years and 8 months.
She has gone to rest, our darling Mother / Free from toil and pain; / In that heavenly home on high / She greets her child again.
Her child, who gone before, / Was calling mother to come, / And leave this world of care, / To join him in that bright home.
While we poor mourning ones, / Are waiting here below, / Waiting till the summons comes, / Bidding us to go.
L.B.S.
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BARNES: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 27th, Mr. Henry T. Barnes, aged 27 years and 11 months. Funeral services will be held at the residence of his mother on East Main Street on Friday at 2 o'clock P.M.
Another of our most promising young men has been called from among us and entered into his rest. Again, the rooms of the Alert Hose Company are draped in mourning and its members are called to pay the last sad rites to one of their beloved associates. When it was announced on Wednesday morning that Henry T. Barnes had died on the evening previous, there was a general feeling of surprise and sadness among our citizens. Something like three years since, Henry, who was than an active member of the Alerts, while running to a fire in the Griffing block, on East Main Street, near the canal, met with an injury in one of his feet which has resulted fatally. He having from that time been crippled and his health generally impaired. Energetic and active, he has most of the time been about on crutches, refusing to submit to an amputation upon the diseased limb, hoping that he would yet recover. But, after battling with all the vigor of youth against the steady approach of death, he was at last compelled to yield.
Deceased was the eldest son of the late Hon. Samuel H. Barnes and was a young man who stood high in the estimation of all. In his intercourse with the world, he was courteous and manly. In the social circle he was most genial, and his friendship lasting. In the family circle he was an affectionate son and a loved brother. To the widowed mother and family and to the many relatives who mourn his early death the sympathies of a sorrowing community are extended. His age was twenty-seven years and eleven months.
The funeral will be attended from the residence of his mother, on East Main Street, on Friday at two o'clock. Alert Hose Company of which he was an honorary member, will attend in a body.
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William Brushell Shoots John Donovan
While our citizens were discussing the highway robbery of Saturday evening, and hundreds were anxiously waiting for the examination to come off, on Monday morning, another sensation attracted their attention.
Between the hours of nine and ten o'clock on Monday morning, William Brushell, son of Amos Brushell, shot John Donovan (not the gardener) a tenant of his father's, residing in a house adjoining the family residence on Pleasant Street [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] which resulted in the death of Donovan on Tuesday morning. There had been bad blood existing between the parties for some time, and frequent quarrels growing out of the non-payment of rent on the part of Donovan. On Sunday the parties disgusted the neighborhood with one of these exhibitions.
Monday morning, Donovan commenced moving from the premises, when another quarrel ensued, the particulars of which are given in the evidence before the coroner's jury. Brickbats were exchanged and Donovan moved to the door of Brushell's house, when the latter went to an inner room, where he seized a gun loaded with buckshot, and fired across the room, the charge just missing the head of Brushell's aged father who was sitting near the door and entering the abdomen of Donovan. After being shot, Donovan walked back to his house and fell at the entrance.
Immediately after the shooting, Brushell rushed down the street, gun in hand, announcing that he had shot John Donovan and asked to be arrested. Officer Charles Hubbard accommodated him and conducted him to Justice Bosworth's office where he made his confession and was committed to jail. The excitement at this time was intense, a large crowd having collected in the street.
Dr. Avery was called to administer to the wounded man, who found that the wounds were of such a nature as to cause death and that he could live but a few hours. Coroner Hand having been notified proceeded to the bedside of the dying man where an anti-mortem statement was taken, which we publish. At an early hour on the following morning, the unfortunate victim of a foolish quarrel breathed his last.
Ante-Mortem Statement
I [John Donovan] reside in Norwich, on Pleasant Street. About eleven o'clock this morning I stood on the stoop on the east side of my house; William Brushell was at the same time standing in the west door of his father's house, about two and a half rods from me. He spoke to me and said, "You come down here, you, G-- D----- little Irish Pauper." I went halfway down. Brushell stepped back and got a gun and returned to the door and said, "I wish I had thought of this gun yesterday. I would have fixed you." We had had some difficulty yesterday. He said to me, "You had better go back home." I replied, "I am on my own premises and shall go when I get ready." Brushell threw a brick at me and hit me on the back of my head and knocked me down. I can't say where he got the brick, but from in the house somewhere. That made me mad and I went into the house (Brushell's) in a back room, a storeroom and through the same door which Brushell had been standing in. He ran into the dining room. I think he did not say anything to me. I told him to come outdoors and I would settle with him for that brick. He then raised the gun and shot me. I picked up the brick which Brushell threw at me and held it in my hand when I went into the house. I do not know what I did with the brick. I did not throw it at him and did not threaten to. I did not make any threats or demonstration against him, but said I should remember him. I do not remember that he said anything to me after I went into the house. After he shot me, I walked to my house. We had difficulty last fall, and Brushell then threatened to shoot me. He carried a revolver for that purpose. He told my wife too. When Brushell shot me he stood in the dining room, and I stood in the storeroom. We have not had any difficulty since last fall, when he threatened to shoot me, till yesterday. I have never, never, NEVER, made any threats of violence against him at any time. The subject of difficulty yesterday was about the rent of the house and last fall the subject of difficulty was about his intimacy with my woman. I have heard that he had told Titus that he would kill me.
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