Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, August 16, 1877
Deaths
TYLER: At the residence of his father, Colonel Tyler, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], August 14th of consumption, Willie Tyler, aged 24 years. Funeral services will be held at his father's residence on Division Street, Thursday at 11 o'clock A.M. The remains will be taken to South New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] for interment.
GEER: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], August 13th, Mr. B. Franklin Geer, aged 35 years and 7 months, brother of Mrs. Richard Roberts of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].
ALDRICH: In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], August 10th, John M. [Aldrich] son of the late Devolson Aldrich, aged 21 years.
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 15, 1877: The funeral services of John Aldrich were held at the M.E. church on Sunday. Rev. J.H. Barnard officiated.
BOSWORTH: In Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], August 8th, Mr. Josiah Bosworth, in his 81st year.
FISH: In Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY], August 1st, Mrs. Betsey Fish, aged 76 years.
POTTER: In Davenport, Iowa, August 5th, at the residence of her son, Waldo M. Potter, Mrs. Amanda Potter, aged 80 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
MEAD: In Quincy, ill., August 2d, Mrs. Betsey Mead widow of the late Dr. N.B. Mead, formerly of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], aged 86 years.
KENYON: In North Stonington, Conn., on Wednesday, August 8th, Mrs. Phebe E. Kenyon, wife of Maxson T. Kenyon, and sister of Dudley Brown, of Preston [Chenango Co. NY] in the 56th year of her age.
GORHAM: In Masonville, Delaware County [NY], April 27th, Mr. Oscar F. Gorham, aged 45 years. Mr. Gorham was formerly a resident of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] and his aged mother still resides near this village. He was a man of high moral worth and was universally esteemed and respected by all who knew him. He was for many years a member of the Masonic order and the beautiful funeral services of the Masons was recited at his grave where many of his brothers assembled to drop the evergreen over his remains.
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BARTLE: In Bristol, Ind., July 26th, Mr. William H. Bartle, aged 79 years and 4 months, father of G.M. Bartle, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], and a former resident of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
William H. Bartle, father of G.M. Bartle of this village died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. C.B. Hewlett in Bristol, Indiana, July 26th, 1877, aged seventy-nine years and four months.
About the year 1791, John Bartle, with six sons, of whom William H. was the youngest, settled in the town of Oxford, being among the earliest settlers of that town. the elder Bartle built and kept the first inn, near the mouth of Bowman's Creek. The family were frugal and industrious and became identified with the interests of their adopted town where many of their descendants now reside.
In 1836, deceased with his wife removed from Oxford, where he had lived for more than half a century to Indiana, where he quietly passed the remainder of a well spent life, among kindred and friends whose pleasure it was to administer to him as he approached the other shore. His end was peaceful and was unattended by disease.
Mr. Bartle was a man universally respected by the community in which he so long resided in this county and many an old friend will regret to learn of his death.
Mr. Bartle was a man universally respected by the community in which he so long resided in this county and many an old friend will regret to learn of his death. He was an obliging neighbor, a kind husband and father, devotedly attached to his family and a friend to all. He leaves surviving him a widow, four daughters and one son.
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 18, 1877
Marriages
JEWELL - PECK: At the M.E. Church in Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY], August 14, by Rev. T.P. Halsted, Mr. Hiram A. Jewell and Miss Amelia J. Peck, both of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].
Mt. Upton: Hiram P. Jewell and Miss Amelia Peck were united in matrimony at the M.E. Church in this village on Tuesday morning, Aug. 11th, at 10 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. T.P. Halsted. A host of friends and neighbors witnessed their union, all of whom, we think, wished the happy couple long life and unbounded happiness. On the same day, at 2 o'clock, the bridal party started on a visiting tour among friends. It is stated on good evidence that "Hi" looked as though the trying ordeal, through which he passed, did not remove the old habitual smile nor make it any less.
MARKS - TUTTLE: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], August 16, at the house of the bride's sister, by the Rev F.W. Townsend, Byron Marks of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] and Aletza C. Tuttle, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].
Mrs. A. Wilcox of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] received intelligence by telegram on Thursday evening, of the death of a brother and child of diphtheria, nearly at the same time. The child was a son of some fourteen years. They recently removed West from Chenango.
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Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], Aug. 13, 1877: A singular coincidence in the family of Mr. Abijah Lyon of Afton [Chenango Co. NY], occurred yesterday.
Mr. Lyon, who is well known in this vicinity, was until lately a resident of this town [Bainbridge] and is one of that peculiar class of individuals known as unfortunates, and whose misfortunes culminated in the death, five years ago this month of his only son (a mute) from injuries received by a tree felled by Mr. Lyon's own hand, leaving a wife, son and daughter, all mutes, dependent upon him for support. From that time Mr. Lyon, broken down in health and means has struggled on as best he could with this new burden laid upon him.
Last Friday the little grandson was taken away after a severe sickness of nearly three months, and ere night tidings was received of the death of another grandson at the same hour, and about the same age in the adjoining town of Colesville [Broome Co. NY]. Arrangements were then made to inter the two bodies in the same graveyard in the vicinity of Harpursville [Broome Co. NY] and on Sunday (yesterday) the two processions being fifteen miles apart were put in motion under such good management, that they met at the cemetery within five minutes of each other; but such a scene. The two little coffins first moved up the aisle into the yard and there as the members of the two processions alternately filed into line, brothers meeting brothers, sisters falling on each other's necks, meeting under solemn and affecting circumstances, moved every eye to tears. After a mutual interview of the little bodies, the coffins were lowered into their last resting place, and the Rev. E.T. Jacobs of Afton, standing on the little mound between the two graves improved the occasion as only Elder Jacobs could do, while the mute mother signified to those around her, her submission to and faith in that God who had taken her husband and son and her belief that their spirits were now joined in the grand brotherhood on high. It was altogether one of the most touching scenes one may meet on earth.
News Item
During the visit of our correspondent to Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY], he strayed into the cemetery of Christ's Church, where lies buried the famous novelist, J. Fennimore Cooper and his family. At one part of the yard, he found an aged stone, rough and black with age, but so quaint was the inscription upon it, that he copied it for our columns. It reads as follows:
In Memory of Scipio, an aged / Slave, a Native of Africa, / Who died Mch. 27, 1799. / Oft did he shivering call to bless the Hand / That would bestow a Cordial to his Wounds; / Oft have I dropped a tear to see his / furrowed face / cast smiles around / On those whose feeling hearts / Had for a minute / Made him forget / The hardness of his fate.
His venerable beard was thin and white, / His hoary head bespoke his length of days, / His piteous tales of woe, / While bending o'er his staff / He did relate, / Were heard in pensive mood by those / Who looked beyond his tattered garb / and saw his many sorrows.
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