Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 29, 1877
Marriages
THURBER - BOWDISH: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 21st, by Rev. J.C. Ward, Mr. Charles T. Thurber of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Delphine L. Bowdish, of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY].
ELLSWORTH - CONGER: In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], March 22d, by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. Oliver R. Ellsworth of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Alice W. Conger of Otselic [Chenango Co. NY].
LEWIS - COON: In Holmesville [Chenango Co. NY], March 18th, by Rev. J.H. Chamberlain, Mr. Thomas H . Lewis of White Store [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Hattie J. Coon of Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY].
WIRE - McLAUGHLIN: In Taylor [Cortland Co. NY], March 6th, by Rev. B.D. Snyder, Mr. Vernus Wire of Taylor to Miss M. Celia McLaughlin of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY].
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Garrison, respected people of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], celebrated the tenth anniversary of their marriage at their residence on Tuesday evening last. The elite of the town were in attendance and the happy couple received many valuable presents, both from those present and from, many who sent their regards in substantial tokens of remembrance.
Deaths
BALDWIN: In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], March 14th, Mrs. Elisha Baldwin, aged 84 years.
ROONEY: In Greene [Chenango Co. NY] March 10th, Jane [Rooney] wife of Samuel Rooney, aged 46 years.
RULAND: In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], March 21st, Mrs. melissa Ruland , aged 49 years.
DYE: In DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY], March 10th, Mrs. Esther Dye, widow of the late John Dye of Lincklaen [Chenango Co. NY], aged 76 years.
GRAHAM: In South Edmeston [Otsego Co. NY], March 22d, Mr. Erastus Graham, aged 70 years.
RORAPAUGH: In Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY], March 18th, Mr. Jeduthan Rorapaugh, aged 74 years.
BASSETT: In Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY], March 18th, Mrs. Charles Bassett.
JONES: In Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY], march30th, Mrs. Polly Jones, aged 77 years.
STRONG: In Elmwood, Kansas, Mrs. Catharine K. Strong, aged 46 years.
PENDLETON: Near Nebraska City, of scarlet fever, Minnie [Pendleton] aged 3 years and 6 months and Carrie [Pendleton] aged 1 year and 6 months, children of Henry and Helen Pendleton, brother of Stanton Pendleton, and sister of A. Cary of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].
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SMITH: In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], on Wednesday morning, March 21st, after a brief but severe illness, Annette Beecher [Smith] wife of Russel M. Smith, aged 62 years.
Deceased was a daughter of Parson and Margaret Beecher, who were among the earliest settlers of that town, the latter dying some two years ago, in her 91st year, and sister of the Doctor and Harry Beecher, of this village [Norwich, Chenanog Co. NY].
Mrs. Smith was an estimable Christian woman, ever ready to assist and encourage the needy and desponding in the hour of need. Unobtrusive and unassuming in her manners, she quietly filled her mission on earth, and many there are in the community in which she passed a long, useful and exemplary life, that will rise up and call her blessed. She leaves a sorely bereaved husband, one son, and a large circle of relatives and friends, to mourn their irreparable loss.
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WESTCOTT: At the residence of Nathan Field, her grandparents, in Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], March 26th, Alice F. Westcott only child of Albertus J. and Elpha A Westcott, aged 2 years 2 months and 3 days.
Another little lamb has gone / To dwell with Him who gave; / Another darling little babe / Is sheltered in the grave.
God needed one more angel child / Amid his shining band, / And so he bent with loving smile / And clasped our darling's hand.
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Our citizens were shocked on Saturday morning last by the announcement that Ruloff T. Beardslee was dead. the particulars as told us were that Ruloff, being unwell had sometime during the night of Friday, taken an overdose of laudanum and upon going to his bedside at or about five o'clock Saturday morning, he was discovered breathing hard and unnaturally. The doctor was immediately sent for, but Beardslee lived but about ten minutes after his arrival. A wife and son and many relatives are left to mourn their. loss.
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 28, 1877
Deaths
STEVENS: At Dansville, Livingston, Co. N.Y., on the 20th inst., after a lingering illness, Mrs. Sally [Stevens] widow of the late Archliana Stevens, aged 84 years and three months.
Mrs. S. was the eldest sister of Mrs. Ansel Berry of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY]. She was a most estimable Christian lady, beloved by many and respected by all who knew her. In addition to a number of brothers and sisters, she leaves two sons in the distant States of California and Nevada and two daughters at Dansville to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate mother. She has gone to her reward.
Earlville [Madison Co. NY]: Another of our aged citizens has passed off the stage of human life and gone to his everlasting reward. Foster Anderson who died at the aged of 86 years.
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LEONARD: At his residence in the town of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], on the 23d inst., Isaac Leonard, aged 91 years.
The deceased, of hardy Welsh stock, was born April 18th, 1786, in Hoosick, Rensselaer County N.Y. In the war o 1812 to '15 he served a short period on the Canada frontier, but when subsequently Congress made land grants and pensions for the so-called veterans, he never availed himself of the opportunity, satisfied with having done his duty and received his pay for the time, unlike our modern patriots who overwhelm Uncle Sam with petitions for bounties and other rewards to be held. He helped himself by work. Soon after his discharge, he emigrated to Chenango County, then almost a wilderness still visited by Indians, took up a piece of land on the present boundary line of Oxford and Coventry and commenced the toilsome life of a primitive agriculturist, living in a log cabin, clearing the woods and passing through all the hardships and privations generally endured by the early settlers, until he became to own a farm of 110 acres, which he occupied ever since, 63 years, to the hour of his death, and so attached was he to the old homestead that he could with difficulty be prevailed to be absent from it even only a few days. In 1814 he took to himself a helpmate in the person of Naomi Seely, a spruce comely lass from Connecticut, employed in the neighborhood, now his surviving widow 82 years old and they had a numerous family of children, six of whom are still alive, two only reside in this county, Mrs. Mary Bruchhausen of Norwich and Mrs. Matilda Maria Beecher of Coventry, three sons, Alfred, Janus G. and Riley K. Leonard and one daughter Mrs. Eleanor Squires living away west. "Uncle Isaac" as he was familiarly called, if not conspicuous by any shining qualities, bore a fair character for industry, truth and honesty, virtues, alas! becoming rarer every day. In religion he belonged to no sect, but his natural sense and disposition led him to observe the decalogue and the gold rule, and to believe in a higher power which doeth all things well. To ceremonial worship he was averse. In politics he started as a Whig and when that organization vanished, voted regularly the Republican ticket, being promptly at the polls at elections, until the two last years when bodily infirmities prevented. On Sunday March 18th, he had a shock of paralysis, the second since last Summer, and expired on Friday morning. His remains were followed by a respectable procession and buried in the cemetery of Coventry.
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