Morris Chronicle, Morris, NY, May 23, 1877
Deaths
Gilbertsville, Otsego Co. NY: Miss Mary Williams, died at the residence of her father, Asahel Williams, last Thursday evening. The funeral was attended form the M.E. Church on Saturday at 2 P.M.
Gilbertsville, Otsego Co. NY: After a lingering illness, Sidney Wood died last Wednesday evening about 6 o'clock. The funeral was attended on Friday, at 1 o'clock from the M.E. Church.
Gilbertsville, Otsego Co. NY: The funeral of Mrs. Ezra Brewer was largely attended last Wednesday afternoon from her late residence on Maple Street. The services were conducted by Rev. S.H. Moon, assisted by Revs. Sutherland and Carruth. The casket, the most beautiful one I ever saw in this part of the country was covered with fine black broadcloth, paneled with silver beading, the corners circling inward; the ornaments of the latest and most approved patterns, the name plate of solid silver, surmounted by a wreath and cross of white camelias.
Jacob Brown, who died recently near Decatur [Otsego Co. NY], at the advanced age of ninety-one, was almost the last of the early inhabitants of that portion of the county. Eighty years ago, he came with his father from Columbia County [NY] and settled upon the same farm where he resided at the time of the closing up of his long and useful life. Though he has never changed his residence since that time, he has lived in two different counties and three different towns. Formerly his nearest post office was Cherry Valley [Otsego Co. NY], and the nearest grist mill was Spencer's mill, Maryland [Otsego Co. NY], and between his home and the latter place, a distance of nearly a dozen miles, there were only two houses - the first above Worcester [Otsego Co. NY] and the second at what is now [in 1877] known as Chaseville, in the town of Maryland. In those early days, the only mode of reaching the mill or post office was on horseback, the ordinary road being a single trail through the woods. He voted at every Presidential election from the time of reaching his majority. For the past fifty years he had been a most exemplary Christian.
Oneonta Herald & Democrat, Oneonta, NY, May 25, 1877
Marriages
In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY], by Rev. James H. Robinson, Carl H. Schnickerman of Germany, and Miss Ju Lottie M. Harder of Delhi, N.Y.
In South Worcester [Otsego Co. NY], May 17, by Rev. J. Keogan, B.A. Olmstead of Victoria, Ill. and Miss Lizzie R. Robertson of Worcester.
Deaths
In Milford [Otsego Co. NY], John Shute, aged 62 years.
In Edmeston [Otsego Co. NY], Mrs. Sylvia Cutler, widow of Hiram Talbot, aged 66 years.
At Kortright [Delaware Co. NY], James T. Blakely, aged 25 years.
In Stamford [Delaware Co. NY], Mrs. Jane Kerr, widow of the late Wm. Kerr, aged 86 years.
In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY], on the 15th inst., Hannah E. [Atkin] youngest daughter of John M. Atkin, aged 19 years.
In Walton [Delaware Co. NY], May 15, Lawrence Bristol, aged 68 years.
In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY], on the 17th inst., infant child of Chas. Frisbee aged 15 months.
In Springfield [Otsego Co. NY], Willie [Palmer] son of William and Hannah Palmer aged 7 years.
In Davenport [Delaware Co. NY] May 18, Jane [Roe] daughter of William and Lucy Roe.
In Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY], May 18, Elias Alger, aged 66 years.
In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY], May 20, Mrs. Mary Pettengil, aged 75 years. She was found dead in bed Sunday morning. Her remains were taken to Laurens [Otsego Co. NY] Monday for interment.
In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY], May 22d, Mrs. Laura Moore, wife of Lewis Moore, aged 61 years.
In Meredith [Delaware Co. NY], 19th inst., John [McNaughton] son of John McNaughton, aged 7 years.
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The sudden death of Mrs. Carrie Figger, wife of William Figger and daughter of Benjamin Beach, which occurred the 14th of May, was severely afflicting to the immediate relatives and greatly awakened the sympathy of their neighbors and friends.
From childhood she had been in delicate health, which had caused her to be regarded with peculiar solicitude and affection by her parents. She was of an affectionate nature and strongly attached to her friends. For some weeks previous to her death, she had been ill at her father's house, but was thought to be improving, when death came with startling and overwhelming suddenness. But though sudden, she was not unprepared. She had full confidence in the Christian faith, in which she had been reared and so expressed herself to the writer but a short time before her demise. She greatly loved the songs of Zion which she delighted to sing and though her voice is now hushed in death, so far as earth is concerned it is the firm conviction and trust that a new voice is added to the multitude that sing praises to the Lamb around the throne of God.
It was a bright, beautiful day, May 16th, when her remains were deposited in the family plot in the Cemetery at Portlandville [Otsego Co. NY], in which village the most of her childhood days were spent.
The bereaved family gratefully acknowledge the sympathy and kind attentions which were shown them in the time of their affliction.
Oneonta, May 23, 1877, W.
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