Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 15, 1877
Marriages
PUDNEY - RECORD: In Smyrna [Chenanog Co. NY], March 3d, by Rev. Mr. Jones, Mr. John Pudney to Miss Julia E. Record, both of Sherburne.
SHAPLEY - LYON: In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 16th, by Rev. L.A. Wild, Mr. Keeler E. Shapley of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Sarah Lyon of Coventry.
Deaths
THOMPSON: At the Residence of her son, B.L. Thompson, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on Monday morning, March 12th, Mrs. Achsa Thompson, formerly of Jefferson County [NY], aged 73 years.
Our citizens were startled on Monday morning last, by the announcement that Mrs. Achsa Thompson, mother of B.L. Thompson had died at his residence on Hayes Street of smallpox. But a few weeks since Mrs. Thompson came from Syracuse to visit her son and family and had been suffering from erysipelas and fever, but not until Sunday evening was it discovered that she was in the last stages of smallpox, and her death took place on the morning following. She was buried on Monday evening. It is supposed that she contracted the disease form sleeping upon a mattress which had been in her son's sick room and used by him during a mild attack of varioloid in December last. The mattress had for weeks after his recovery been buried in the snow and other precautions taken to prevent any exposure thereafter. Many friends, who had made the acquaintance of the deceased regret her death and sympathize with the surviving relatives. Her age was 73 years. No fears are entertained of the spread of the disease.
BULLIS: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], March 13th, Carrie [Bullis] wife of Albert Bullis, aged 26 years and 5 months. Her remains were taken to Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] for burial.
PRATT: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], March 11th, Mrs. Joshua Pratt, aged 83 years.
ROOT: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 5th, Betsey [Root] wife of the late Thomas Root, aged 74 years.
LAWTON: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 12th, Mr. Edward Lawton, aged 80 years.
WEST: In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], March 6th, Mr. William West, aged 77 years.
TAYLOR: In Saline, Mich., Feb. 27th, Rev. Orson Dwight Taylor, aged 60 years. Deceased was the father of Prof. O.D. Taylor, of Smyrna [Chenanog Co. NY] and a native of Chenanog County.
YOUNG: In Utica [Oneida Co. NY], March 5th, Mr. George A. Young, aged 37 years. Deceased was, until recently, a workman in Ashcraft's Marble Works, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].
ROWE: Utica papers [Oneida Co. NY] chronicle the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, widow of Amasa Rowe, at Elizabeth, N.J., last week. She was born at Deerfield Corners [Oneida Co. NY], or the hamlet which is now called by that name, March 13th, 1787, and was the first white child born in that section which subsequently became and now is Oneida County.
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ROBINSON: The Syracuse [Onondaga Co. NY] papers announce the sudden death on Wednesday of last week of William A. Robinson after a few hours' illness of heart disease. He will be remembered by many of our citizens, as a brother of the late Mrs. William C. Wait, and his genial countenance on his visits to our village was always welcome. His funeral was attended on Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. George Rider of this place.
Mr. Robinson was born in Devonshire, England, town of Chagford, October 16th, 1803, and came to this country in 1820. He was for many years in the dry goods and manufacturing business in Madison County [NY]. In 1826 he was married in Syracuse, on Church Street to Emeline Leach and removed to Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], where also for many years he was engaged in the dry goods business. In 1832, the year of the cholera excitement, he removed with his family to Syracuse, and opened the old Eagle Hotel, situated where now stands the Clinton Block, opposite the First Baptist church, of which latter for many years he was an active member. For many years he was proprietor of the Onondaga Temperance House and was universally respected. Six children survive him.
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SHELTON: In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], March 8th, of consumption, Mr. Samuel Abijah Shelton, son of Lucius Shelton, aged 35 years.
On Wednesday of last week, Samuel Abijah Shelton, second son of Lucius Shelton, Esq., died at the residence of his father, in Guilford, aged thirty-five years.
Five years ago, he was attacked with a bronchial difficulty which slowly but continually increased. Two years ago last October, he, in company with Merritt Shumway, of this village, who was also similarly afflicted, left for Santa Barbara, California, hoping to receive benefit from the mild climate of that country, but failing in this, he returned to his home in the following January. His traveling companion also returned to the home of his father Sylvenus Shumway, Esq., in this village, where he gave up his young life in February 1875.
After his return from California, Mr. Shelton's health continued to fail, until he too was compelled to yield to the destroyer. He was a gentleman of intelligence of high moral character and universally esteemed. No pains or expense had been spared by friends to alleviate his sufferings and his death is mourned by a large circle of relatives and friends. He was unmarried.
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We learn that Emil Timm, of Preusen, Germany, who was in the employ of White, Smith & Co., in this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], last summer, is supposed to have been murdered in Philadelphia. He left here the 16th of October with a view to visiting the Centennial, having about $60 with him, and intending to go to New York where he had money deposited with the German Consul, or was expecting to receive remittances. We do not learn that he visited the Consul, but that he proceeded to Philadelphia, and stopped at a house at which a murder is reported to have been committed at about that time. A body has recently been discovered near the Centennial Gounds, the description of which leads to the impression that it may have been the remains of Timm. His father has been in correspondence with Mr. Bickert of this village; also White, Smith & Co. and the consul, but no trace of Emil has been found since his arrival at Philadelphia, hence the conviction that he was murdered. He was a young man of unusual intelligence, courteous in his manners and very much esteemed by those who made his acquaintance. It is to be hoped that the mystery of his disappearance may yet be unraveled. News
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