Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, July 12, 1877
Marriages
TRUMAN - SHERMAN: In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] at the residence of Henry G. Sherman, July 4th, by Rev. O. Foster, Mr. Freeman Truman to Miss Tillie E. Sherman, both of Otselic.
THOMPSON - THORPE: In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], July 3d, by Rev. J. Clements, Mr. Charles A. Thompson of East Pharsalia to Miss Clara Thorpe of North Pharsalia.
MONROE - BUTTON: In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], July 4th, by Rev. J.H Barnard, Mr. Thomas S. Monroe to Miss Phebe J. Button both of North Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY].
HAND - ARMSTRONG: In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], July 4th by Rev. E.T. Jacobs, Mr. Horace Hand of Bennettsville [Chenango Co. NY] to Nancy Armstrong of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].
COOPER - MILLER: In Binghamton, July 3d, by Rev. L.C. Phillips, Mr. Charles F. Cooper of Greene [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Ida J. Miller of Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Deaths
MORSE: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], July 4th, Clarissa Ann [Morse] wife of H.B. Morse, aged 53 years.
PARKS: In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], June 30th, Mr. Nehemiah Parks, aged 73 years.
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 11, 1877
Marriage
The silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Taylor was lately celebrated in California. Mr. Taylor signaled its passage by a beautiful new poem. Mr. Taylor will be pleasantly remembered by hosts of friends in Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] as the first Principal of Norwich Academy.
Deaths
There's a lonely grave in Asa Pellett's pasture, east of his house and a few rods from the road, around which the roses are in full blossom. A rough headstone marks the place, on which is faintly cut the name "Lucy Culiums."
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 14, 1877
Marriages
STEVENS - FARNHAM: At the house of the bride's father in Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY], July 3d, 1877, by Rev. E.P. Kidridge, Mr. Geo. Stevens of Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Sarah Farnham of Mt. Upton, N.Y.
MILLER - SHOVE: At the M.E. Parsonage, Gilbertsville [Otsego Co. NY], July 11th, 1877, by Rev. B.B. Carruth, Mr. Samuel B. Miller, of Laurens, Otsego Co., N.Y., and Mrs. Charlotte M. Shove of Mt. Upton, Chenango Co. N.Y.
Deaths
BAKER: In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], July 6th, 1877, of Heart Disease, Abigail Baker, aged 73 years.
AMES: In Columbus [Chenango Co. NY], July 5th, of Typhoid pneumonia, James G Ames aged 77 years, 6 months and 18 days.
Under its appropriate heading will be found a notice of the death of the venerable James G. Ames, of Columbus, at the advanced age of seventy-seven years and upwards. Mr. Ames was one of the pioneers of Columbus and was highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him. Always an observant man, as he grew older and had more leisure upon his hands he became more so. He particularly noted the changes in politics and has often favored the Telegraph with reminiscences in political matters, that have at once been instructive and interesting. He was a Republican and always did what he could to advance the interests of that party, believing that through it liberty would come to the slave and salvation to the country. The good old man lived to see his belief in both particulars verified, and now he has passed to his reward.
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Intelligence has reached Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] of the death of Mr. John Waterman, formerly of that town, and no doubt exists but that he was murdered in Arkansas. The following letter received by the Postmaster at Plymouth explains itself:
Pierce City, Mo., July 5, 1877, Postmaster, Plymouth N.Y.: Dear Sir: I enclose a slip cut form the St. Louis Globe Democrat of yesterday, giving an account of the murder south of this place in Arkansas, of a Mr. Waterman, a few days since. I was well acquainted with Mr. Waterman and was very much pained to learn of his death. He told me he formally came from Plymouth and did not know but he might have some relatives there now. He left here a few weeks since to go down to the lower part of this State, and I have heard nothing from him until I heard of his death. If he had any relatives in your town, please show them this with the enclosed slip. Yours Truly, J.A. Purdy.
The following is a copy of the slip cut form the Democrat referred to by Mr. Purdy:
"Was He murdered? Special dispatch to the Globe Democrat, Pierce City, July 3. A man named Waterman, about fifty-five years old, was found hanging in a stable at Peel's store, Benton County, Arkansas, on Saturday morning last. His head was cut, and it was thought there was foul play. He had six hundred dollars when he left this city about ten days ago. When cut down he had twenty-nine dollars and fifteen cents in his pocketbook. Waterman formerly lived in Illinois, and was a native of Chenango County, N.Y., and was a gunsmith by trade."
Mr. John Waterman as we have said, formerly lived in Plymouth. He left there about ten years or more ago, with the intention of disposing of some property he had in Henry County, Ill. A few letters were received from him after his arrival in that State, but nothing has been heard from him for several years until now, and his friends in this section had given him up as dead. He was a single man, and had three sisters, two living in Plymouth and one in Sommerset, Mich, also one brother living in Hudson, Mich. He was a cool, quiet man, and one not likely to commit suicide. He was undoubtedly murdered for his money and then hung as described, and the small amount left in his pocketbook as described, as a cover to disarm suspicion of the crime or its perpetrators.
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