Democratic Union, Oneida, NY, March 28, 1872
Marriages
DERMOTT - KINGSLEY: In DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY] March 9, by Rev. Clark, Mr. John Dermott and Miss Susan Kingsley both of Otselic, N.Y. [Chenango Co.].
NEWTON - SMITH: In Poolville [Madison Co. NY], March 11?, by Rev. S. Miller, Mr. Parker Newton of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] and Miss Minnie A. Smith of Poolville.
BASHER - ANDREWS: In Madison [Madison Co. NY], March 17 by Rev. C.E. Babcock, Mr. Peter Basher of Augusta [Oneida Co. NY] and Miss Fannie Andrews of Remsen, N.Y. [Oneida Co. NY].
DURFEE - DEAN: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY], march 14, by Rev. A.P. Smith, Franklin W. Durfee and Kittie L. Dean, all of Cazenovia.
PEET - PHELPS: March 16, by Rev. Mr. Mar....., Mr. Edwin Peet of Bouckville [Madison Co. NY] and Miss Mary A. Phelps of Solsville [Madison Co. NY].
GROWER - PHILLIPS: [unreadable] by Rev. W.S. Titus, Mr. Wallace G Grower, Esq. and Miss Mary L. Phillips both of Vernon [Oneida Co. NY].
CARTER - TAYLOR: In Lincklean [Chenango Co. NY], March 10, by Rev. A. Lawton, Lieut. A. Lyman Carter of Pitcher N.Y. [Chenango Co.] and Miss Mary B. Taylor of DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY].
McGUINNESS - RAY: In Oneida [Madison Co. NY], March 19, by Rev. S. Ball, Harrison McGuinness of Utica [Oneida Co. NY] and Mary M. Ray of Oneida.
KNOX - SMITH: At the bride's residence in Nelson [Madison Co. NY] on Sunday morning, March 24, by Rev. L.A. Eddy, Mr. Lucius D. Knox, Esq., and Mrs. Helen M. Smith.
Deaths
SMITH: In Nelson? [Madison Co. NY] March 14, Miranda Smith, wife of S. Perry Smith, aged 42 years, 4 months and 14 days.
EASTMAN: In Peterboro [Madison Co. NY], Feb. 24, Mrs. F. Eastman wife of Phillip Eastman, aged 83 years.
EASTMAN: In Peterboro [Madison Co. NY], March 15, Phillip Eastman aged 86 years, 10 months and 18 days.
Mr. E. was born in Glastenbury, Mass. and at the age of 13 years removed to Washington county, in this State [NY], where he married, and when his only son, Neil Eastman was 14 years old, came to Nelson, where he resided for many years. The last twenty years of his life he spent in Peterboro. He was a member of the old Baptist church of Nelson. [Findagrave.com memorial #335890158]
ADAMS: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY], March 10, Amos Adams in the 89th year of his age.
ANNAS: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY], March 16, Mrs. Sarah L. Wellington [Annas] wife of George W. Annas, aged 23 years.
NEY: In Oneida Castle [Madison Co. NY], March 12?, Mrs. Cathrine Ney, aged 65 years.
KNOX: In Nelson [Madison Co. NY], March 15, Charles H. Knox aged 54 years.
KING: In Augusta [Oneida Co. NY], March 17, Phineas King aged 93 years, 11 months and 4 days.
COLSON: In Hubbardsville [Madison Co. NY], Feb. 28, Charles Colson, aged 14 years.
RISLEY: In Brookfield [Madison Co. NY], March 16, Nora A. Risley, aged 13 years.
PRIOR: In Chittenango [Madison Co. NY], March 16, Harriet E. Prior aged 41 years.
KNOWLES: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], March 15, William Knowles aged 23 years -?- months and 8 days.
BELLOWS: In Morrisville [Madison Co. NY], March 25, Mrs. Abigail Bellows aged 56 years, 2 months and 11 days.
TIDD: In Morrisville [Madison Co. NY], March 26, of pneumonia, Elbridge R. Tidd, aged 69 years.
MORRIS: In Nelson [Madison Co. NY], March 25, Mrs. Ellen E. Morris, aged 33 years. Mrs. Morris returned on Sunday evening in usual health, and about five o'clock in the morning she made some unusual noise which alarmed her husband who got up immediately and before he could procure such domestic remedies as were at hand, she was dead. Her husband and children who are yet quite young, will receive the sympathy of all who are acquainted with them.
WALRATH: In Syracuse [Onondaga Co. NY] March 22, at 8 o'clock, P.M. at the residence of her son-in-law, Doct. H.W. Plant, Mrs. Katura Walrath, aged about 75 years. Mrs. Walrath was the consort of the late Hon. John I. Walrath, of Chittenango [Madison Co. NY]. She was long a consistent member of the Reformed Dutch Church and to her womanly virtues added the graces of the Christian.
WALRATH: In Chittenango [Madison Co. NY] March 22, at 10 o'clock, Mr. William H. Walrath Esq. aged about 48 years. He was the son of the late Hon. John L. and Katura Walrath and was separated from his lamented mother but two hours upon earth. A civil engineer by profession and a splendid, cultivated mind, he added the powers of an expressive eloquence. A lifelong Democrat from principle, he honored the party which, if it had been in power, would have honored him. As a communicant of the Reformed Dutch Church, he let his light shine before men and as a worthy member of the "ancient orders of Free Masons," his loss will be severely felt, not only by his family, but by a large circle of friends throughout the county.
CARLISLE: In Clockville [Madison Co. NY], March 12, Mary Carlisle in the 17th year of her age.
Her presence was like sunshine, / Sent down to gladden earth; / To comfort parents in their grief, / And join in all their mirth.
Weep not mother for they child, / It is surely for the best, / To go where wicked cease from troubling / And the weary are at rest.
THOMPSON: On Friday afternoon of last week, a young man by the name of Thompson was instantly killed, and his limbs and body shockingly mangled by a train on the Central RR at Rome [Oneida Co. NY]. The young man was a stranger in town, and it seems was endeavoring to cross the trestle bridge in the midst of a snow squall at the time of the accident.
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Death of the Hon. John Snow
The Hon. John Snow was born in the town of Cazenovia, Madison County, N.Y., on the 9th day of November 1822. He departed this life on the 13th day of March 1872, being in the 50th year of his age.
Few young men had better advantages for education than the deceased. While yet a lad, he enjoyed the facilities for mental culture within his native town, at the select school and the seminary at Cazenovia. Early evincing an aptitude for learning and a love of books, his parents encouraged him in the pursuit of knowledge and having prepared himself while very young to enter College, before he had passed his 18th year he was graduated at Hamilton College with the highest honors on the 29th day of July 1840.
Subsequently and not long after his graduation, Mr. Snow commenced the study of law in the office of Hon. Chas. B. Sedgwick of Syracuse where he remained some one or two years, when he left Mr. Sedgwick's office and took charge of the Academy at Oneida Castle. His scholarly attainments and social nature fitted him for an instructor of the youth and in the capacity of teacher he excelled. No one ever gave better satisfaction to the trustees and patrons of an academic school than did Mr. Snow. In the meantime, while engaged in teaching, he prosecuted his study of law in the office of the late Hon. Timothy Jenkins of Oneida Castle, who was then standing in the first rank in the legal profession. The deceased was admitted to the practice of the law in 1846, remaining awhile thereafter with Mr. Jenkins and then moved to Canastota where, for several years as a partner of Judge Barlow, and then of Loring Fowler, Esq. he practiced his profession. In the month of Nov. 1853, he removed to Oneida, and formed a co-partnership with M.J. Shoecraft, with whom he continued for fourteen years in active practice. During which time he was considered one of the ablest men in the legal profession in Madison Co., cool, self-possessed with a mind at once logical and comprehensive. Possessing a fine physical appearance and a mind well stored with legal learning and trained to analytical investigation, he became successful and prominent in his profession.
On the formation of the Republican party in 1853, Mr. Snow was chosen delegate to the Saratoga Convention, took a leading part in its proceedings and exerted a commanding influence in shaping its policy. The formation of the Republican party brought a large portion of the Freesoil element of the Democratic party with it, and among the number who helped organize the party was the deceased who had been an ardent Freesoiler in the Democratic party.
In the fall of 1855, he was elected a member of the Assembly from the Second Assembly District of Madison County, in which body he at once became a leading member and perhaps no one during the session of 1865 possessed better legislative talent or had more influence with the members of the Assembly, than Mr. Snow. With the Republican party he continued to act until, as he frequently expressed himself, "the party had departed from the principles first proclaimed by it when it as organized." He then saw, what many conservative Republicans now see, that it was not only impolitic, but dangerous and subversive of constitutional liberty for the administration under any pretext, to usurp powers which are not contained in the federal compact.
From the fall of 1862, when he advocated the election of Gov. Seymour, to the time of his death, he acted with the Democratic party, taking an active part in all the primary meetings and conventions and was one of the party's able speakers in the last two Presidential campaigns.
The deceased was twice married. The first marriage was with Mrs. Elizabeth Eldridge, a highly educated lady, with whom he lived but a few brief years, when she was removed by death, leaving two children, a son and daughter, with her husband to mourn her loss, and a sad loss it was to both - the children and their father - whose death they now mourn. His second marriage, after living a widower some fifteen years, was with Miss Sarah Beckwith, of his native town of Cazenovia, who, like his former wife, is a highly educated and accomplished lady.
No one acquainted with our deceased friend (and his acquaintance was not confined to a narrow circle) will differ from him who pens this brief sketch of a professional brother and friend, in reference to the native kindness of his heart, his high intellectual endowment, his sterling integrity and common sense, his acquirements as a scholar, his legal ability and professional standing. And while we thus express ourselves in reference to the native goodness of his heart, and the great mental endowments of the deceased, as well as his great social qualities, candor and truth, impel us to state the fact - sad indeed, - and one which he himself confessed and deplored, and so well known to all his friends and acquaintances - that the poisoned makeup during several years of his past life, circumscribed his usefulness and influence and obscured the fame of him who might have left a brilliant name upon the page of history. The deceased had many warm friends who did not desert him in his waning fortunes and who manifested their kindness and friendship during his last illness.
Some three years since, Mr. Snow was stricken down with partial paralysis while attending the District Court of the United States at Albany from which he never fully recovered. Would to Heaven that all who knew our deceased brother would take warning from the misfortune which befell him, and do at once what he did, but a brief period before his death, when he resolved to conquer an appetite which had for several years obtained the mastery of him, and he had given proof that he had accomplished so great an undertaking. But his time had come. On the 22d day of February last he went to Morrisville where the Circuit Court was then in session and there for the last time beheld his professional brethren. Returning from court the same day, he came to Oneida and put up with his brother, and feeling fatigued he sent for a physician, who on seeing his patient, informed his friends and relatives that the work of the deceased was nearly done. His wife and kind brother and sister, with the aid of friendly neighbors, did all that could be done for the suffering patient.
We are glad to state that several days previous to this death he professed faith in the Redeemer and was baptized by the Rev. Mr. Perrino of the Episcopal Church. His mind failing with his body, after an illness of three weeks, the spirit took its flight at 1 P.M., March 13th, 1872, to the spirit land. On Friday, March 15th, the funeral was held at the residence of the deceased's brother at Oneida, Rev. Mr. Perrino officiating. And they deposited his mortal remains in the grave. "Earth to earth, dust to dust." Where, unheeded by the storm of life they will repose till the rising dead will be brought to life again in the resurrection morning.
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