Vital Records, Chenango County, NY January 1878 & June 1876

 Oxford Times, Oxford, NY,  January 23, 1878

Marriage

BROWN - ARCHER:  In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY Jan. 9th, by Rev. E.P. Eldredge, Mr. Elijah A. Brown to Miss Sarah Archer.

News Item

Oxford Academy was chartered by the Regents of the University Jan. 27th, 1791.  The present building [in 1878] is the fifth structure erected.  The first stood on Washington Square, near the present residence of W.H. VanWagenen and was the first frame building erected in Oxford.  In 1797 the second was in process of erection on the lot at the corner of Merchant's Row and Greene Street, which was destroyed by fire about two years after.  The third was built under the patronage of the State and stood upon the ruins of the second.  The fourth was erected on Fort Hill, near the residence of G.H. Perkins.  Afterwards it was removed and is the boarding hall now occupied by Rev. F.B. Lewis principal of the school.  The fifth and present building was erected in 1854.  For many years Oxford Academy bore the highest reputation of any Academy west of the Hudson River and its roll numbered many celebrated men of the present day.

In August 1854, the sixtieth anniversary of the institution was celebrated, which was known as the Oxford Jubilee.  It was a great occasion and the crowd and incidents are still fresh in the minds of many of our readers.  In sixteen years its one hundredth anniversary can be celebrated.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 24, 1878

Death

The death of Mrs. Martha S Bryan, who died on the 17th day of January 1878, is an event that is deserving of more than a passing notice.  Mrs. Bryan was a daughter of Jeremiah Gilman and born in New Hampshire. She came to Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] with her parents in her childhood.  She married to the late Chester Bryan and was the mother of four children, two of whom survive her - Edgar Bryan and Mrs. J.M. Gager - both of whom are well-known and much respected.  Mrs. Bryan was a woman of more than ordinary intelligence, of deep thought and generous action and her counsel was often sought by many who had confidence in her judgment or yearned for sympathy.  In her later years she embraced the harmonial philosophy and her upright and consistent life evidenced her sincerity of purpose and the correctness of her moral monitor.  Thoroughly devoted to family and friends she was ever ready to extend a helping hand to the needy and the benefit of her experience to the afflicted.  By all of her acquaintances she was beloved and is mourned by them as a loss irreparable.  Her last illness was long and painfully lingering but borne with a fortitude that attested her confidence in the faith she adopted, and she died in the full hope of a bright future beyond the grave.  Her funeral was attended by a large concourse of friends and an appropriate and impressive discourse preached by Rev. D. Ballou.

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, January 24, 1878

Marriage

WHITING - BUTLER:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] at the house of Elihu Bennett, Jan. 22d, 1878 by Rev. N.S. Reynolds, Mr. F.A. Whiting of Greene, N.Y. [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Dora G. Butler, of Guilford, N.Y. [Chenango Co.].

UTTER - PARSONS:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 22, 1878, by Rev. D.C. Haynes, Charles Utter of East Bainbridge and Miss Anna Parsons of East Guilford [Chenango Co. NY]

Deaths

NORTHRUP:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 22d of typhoid fever, Lena [Northrup] wife of John Northrup aged 19 years.

CARROLL:  Hon. G.R. Carroll of Camden [Oneida Co. NY] dropped dead at his residence 2d inst. and his brother, Kiron Carroll, of Rome [Oneida Co. NY], dropped dead 5th inst. on his way to his brother's funeral.  They were formerly of Springfield [Otsego Co. NY].

Home Sentinel, Afton, NY, June 3, 1876

Marriage

TERRY - SAUNDERS:  By L.S. Russell, Esq. at his residence in Sanford [Broome Co. NY], May 22d, Orrin W. Terry to Hattie K. Saunders, both of Colesville [Broome Co. NY].

Deaths

Infant son of john and Sarah Skelly on Sunday the 23d ult, aged 19 months.

Card of Thanks:  Mr. and Mrs. J. Skelly desire to tender their sincere and heartfelt thanks and prayer for Divine favor through our columns to their friends for their kind assistance rendered in the sickness and burial of their deceased child.

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In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], May 29th ult., Daniel Bond, aged 55 years, 4 months and 27 days.

He has gone to his rest, / His labor is done. / He now dwells with the blest / Through the Father and Son.

About 8 o'clock, last Monday, train 12 going east struck and fatally injured Daniel Bond, a workman on this section of the road.  It seems the men were repairing the track about 2-1/2 miles of this place and as the train came near, they all stepped off the track.  Mr. Bond seeing some tool left behind reached for it just as the engine came up to them, when the cross beam or cylinder struck him on the side of the head, crushing the skull.  He lived probably 60 minutes and expired.  Dr. Hayes was summoned and was prompt to attend the call, but the poor man breathed only a few moments after he arrived.  He was about fifty-five years of age and leaves a family to mourn his loss.