Union News, Union, NY, March 4, 1858
Marriages
In Big Flatts, Chemung Co. N.Y., Feb. 18, by Rev. Mr. Harrington, C. Peebles, M.D. of Big Flatts to Miss Martha C. Wright formerly of Union {Broome Co. NY].
Our thanks to the above couple for that friendly call. May joy and prosperity attend them through life.
By Rev. S.P. Bacon on Wednesday evening, Feb. 24th, Joshua M. Bayles to Nancy Jane Robbins both of Union [Broome Co. NY].
Deaths
In Owego [Tioga Co. NY] Feb. 18th, Emma Grovenia Drake daughter of Caroline and Thomas Drake, aged 10 weeks.
Thus death, with unrelenting hand, / Severs the cords of life; / And those we love most pass from earth / Its turmoil and its strife.
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In Union, Broome County, N.Y. Feb. 26th, at the residence of her son-in-law, Charles E. Keeler, Anna Dawson [Malley], wife of Henry Maley in the 79th year of her age.
Mrs. M. was born in Southington, Conn. Aug. 10th, 1779. The following is an extract from the discourse preached at her funeral:
"Thus it is our blessed privilege to believe our aged sister, whose mortal remains are before us, about to be consigned to their mother dust, has fallen asleep. Although she was comparatively a stranger to me, yet I am informed that for most of her life, she has been a follower of Christ. In her early youth at the age of twenty, in the judgment of Christian Charity, she gave her heart to the Savior who died for her. Thus, for fifty-eight years in companionship with Jesus, she was prepared to go to her dear friend in Heaven and say to him in the words of the text, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
"There is something indescribably beautiful in a long life thus spent in the service of the Redeemer. For the first eighteen years of her connection with the family of the redeemed, her membership was with one of the churches in New Haven, Conn. Since then she has been in fellowship, successively with the churches in Greene, Union and Chenango Forks in this State [NY].
"A few weeks ago, with her husband, she removed to this village [Union, Broome Co. NY], expecting to spend her remaining days among us, in the family of her daughter, and when her pilgrimage should end, be buried in our fast-filling field of graves. These few weeks have been weeks of painful suffering. A kind Providence directed her here to die, surrounded her with all the comforts and alleviations in suffering which loving kindred and friends could administer.
"She expressed in my interviews with her a strong, unshaken hope in Jesus Christ as her Savior. she manifested a spirit of resignation to the will of God, feeling like a loved child in the hands of a loving father.
"Her cry was to Jesus as she felt the earthly house of her tabernacle giving way under the attacks of the disease which has now terminated her life."
Union News, Union, NY, March 11, 1858
Death
At South Dover [Dutchess Co. NY], Jan. 29th, Mrs. Maria L. [Dutcher] wife of Allen H. Dutcher and daughter of Clark Preston, aged 38 years.
Consumption closed her earthly career after an illness of some three months. The deceased made no public profession of religion, but long before her death she expressed to an intimate Christian friend her interest in Jesus Christ as the only Saviour. She enjoyed evangelical preaching, prized the bible as the word of God, and experienced real enjoyment in prayer, she hoped the crucifer Redeemer was her Saviour. The kind husband is thus compelled to give up an affectionate wife and henceforth upon the father must devolve the whole care of an only child and the little boy, though young, can but realize most painfully the sad loss of a dear mother. After partially enduring much suffering, calmly & peacefully she fell asleep. The funeral was attended by a large congregation, Monday, Feb. 1st in the Baptist Meeting House, Dover plains; sermon delivered by the Pastor from Acts VII; 69 "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."
Union News, Union, NY, March 18, 1858
Deaths
In this village [Union, Broome Co. NY], on Saturday March 13th, Charles Mersereau aged 51 years, second son of Peter, lately deceased and Sarah Layton Mersereau.
Mr. M. was born in Union, May 21, 1807. He has been extensively and favorably known, and his sudden departure, after a short and most distressing sickness, has cast a pall of gloom over our entire community. He was universally esteemed and beloved. He was an enterprising citizen, a kind neighbor, a reliable friend and a consistent and steadfast Christian. He became a follower of the Redeemer in his eighteenth year and for thirty-three years has honored his profession by a godly life and a well-ordered conversation. He was always in his place and ready to do promptly his duty. In the Church, therefore, in the community and in his family, his loss will be deeply felt. The great multitude who attended his funeral on Monday, notwithstanding the almost impassable traveling and threatening rain, attest the deep affection in which he was held. But while we mourn with hope and contemplate him as now inhabiting the "heavenly mansion which his Savior has prepared for him" let us "be also ready, for in such an hour as we think not, the Son of man commeth." "By their fruits shall ye know them." Let then the fruits of our lives, bear evidence as conclusive as in the case of him whom we now mourn, that we also are prepared to meet our Maker and judge.
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In Vestal [Broome Co. NY] on Thursday morning, March 11th, after an illness of only two days, Mr. John L. Grange in the 87th year of his age.
Mr. LaG. was one of the first settlers in this part of the country and consequently endured many hardships and privations in the then wilderness. He also, we believe, rendered efficient service in our independence. He was generally respected and beloved, and his sudden death has cast a gloom over the entire community. He leaves a very large circle of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
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In Union Centre [Broome Co. NY], March 6th, Clarisa [Thorn] wife of Josiah Thorn, aged 67 years.
"Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord."
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In this county [Broome Co. NY] on the 11tyh instant, Mr. Richard Vosbury father of Professor D.C. Vosbury of this village [Binghamton], of pulmonary difficulty in the 78th year of his age. The deceased was born in Rensselaer County in this State [NY]. He came, at the age of 18, into the Susquehanna valley, then a wilderness and has lived on the farm in which he died near Harpersville [Broome Co. NY] for 62 years, making improvements yearly. He has been for 68 years a firm and consistent Christian and had mainly through his efforts, succeeded in rearing a beautiful church on his farm. He was Land Agent of DeWitt Clinton, Ambrose Spencer and Wm. Stuart for many years, and when a boy we frequently visited at his kind and hospitable house. He commenced life without a cent, and having reared a respectable family, acquired a competence, reached a good old age and established an honored name. He died as he had lived in the full assurance of a blessed immortality beyond the grave Binghamton Republican.
Union News, Union, NY, March 25, 1858
Death
At the residence of Avery Mersereau in Union [Broome County, NY], Mr. Israel P. Mersereau aged 82 years.
Mr. M. was too widely and too favorably known to need any newspaper or pulpit eulogy. All who knew him knows he lived entirely above the reproach of those who are willing to find fault with the sun because of the few dark spots upon its otherwise shining surface. His father, John Mersereau, took an active part in the Revolutionary struggle and soon after the happy termination of that event, he left Elizabethtown, N.J. and settled in this place. Therefore, nearly all of the long and useful life of the deceased has been spent in Union. And all that time he always, not by his words, but by his acts, showed himself to be the poor man's friend and counselor, and like his honored father, he hated oppression in any and every form. His was a life of honest industry and he has left the priceless legacy of a spotless reputation, not only to a large number of relatives, but to the entire neighborhood and happy would it be for each relative and neighbor to strive to imitate those virtues which they had so long and so willingly accorded to him. His honest heart spurned with utter contempt the mantle of modern hypocrisy but always expressed himself a firm believer in the Bible's doctrine of salvation. During his last illness, his mind remained clear as in manhood's prime; and when questioned as to his hopes beyond the grave, he said death had no terror for him. That he put his entire trust in his Saviour whom he shortly expected to meet before eternities awful bar, but he feared not the sentence which would then be pronounced. In a word, he lived an honest life and died in the triumphs of faith. And as I stood by his open grave amid the tearful throng, the beautiful lines of the poet came uncalled across my mind,
"And, I am glad that he has lived thus long / and glad that he has gone to his reward / Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong / Softly to disengage the vital cord / When his weak hand grew palsied and his eye, / Dark with the mist of age, it was his time to die.
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