Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, March 6, 1822
Marriages
At Hamburgh, Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY], on the 21st ult. Mr. Mason W. Hughston of Sidney, Delaware County [NY] to Miss Ann Hunt daughter of Ransom Hunt, Esq. of the former place.
On the 27th ult at Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] Mr. Nathaniel Hughston of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Damres Morgan of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY].
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, April 3, 1822
Death
At Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] on Friday last, Mr. Ezra Hill of the firm of Hill & Juliand.
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, April 10, 1822
Elopement
Whereas as my wife Phebe Stoerk and children, has left my bed and board, I hereby forbid all persons harboring or trusting them on my account after this date, under penalty of the law. Luther Stoerk. Coventry, April 6th, 1822.
News Item
Molly Macauly has received a pension from the legislature of Pennsylvania for services rendered in the revolutionary war. She was a very brave soldier, and when under General Wayne, was accustomed to swing her sabre over her head and huzza for "Mad Anthony" as she called the general. She held the office of Sergeant and was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, which led to the discovery of her sex.
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, April 24, 1822
Death
Died in the village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY] on Saturday last, Capt. Samuel Farnham aged 46 years.
The deceased had long suffered under the pains attendant on a lingering consumption, and for nearly a year past, had been confined to his room. In health he became "reconciled to his God," and in sickness never shrunk from that dissolution which introduced his soul to a new and untried state of existence. During the most distressing and painful periods of his illness, his mind was ever calm and placid, and he met death with philosophic fortitude and Christian resignation.
As a member of society, the loss of the deceased is already felt and will be deeply lamented. Notwithstanding his indefatigable industry and attention to his own business, he was always ready to devote a portion of his time to the improvement and for the benefit of society. He has left an afflicted wife on whom devolves the responsibility of advising, admonishing and educating her children, who with herself have sustained a loss that is irreparable.
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, May 2, 1849
Marriages
In this village [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY] on the 25th inst. by Rev. Dr. Paddock, Mr. Oliver W. Loomis to Miss Eunice Henriette Rugg all of Binghamton.
By the same, on the 26th inst. Mr. Washington Davis to Miss Angeline E. Brown both of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY].
On the 29th ult by John Witham Esq. at the residence of Mr. Adam Yager in Conklin [Broome Co. NY] Mr. Jonathan Dean of Colesville [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Lana Edson of the former place.
At Sherburne [Chenango Co NY] on the 11th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Tompkins, Mr. Jeremiah Holt of Chenango Broome Co. N.Y. to Miss Ann Williams of Columbus, Chenango Co. N.Y.
Deaths
In this town [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY] at the residence of her father, Andrew Shaw, Esq. on Friday April 20th, Mrs. Elizabeth Hart wife of Charles G. Hart, Esq in the 24th year of her age.
This young and interesting woman cut down in the bloom of her being - "Ere decay's effacing fingers / Had swept the lines where beauty lingers." was the youngest of three sisters who, one after another, within as many years, have fallen victims to consumption. She was attacked by the insidious disease about a year ago and with Christian resignation and composure, she awaited it certain issue.
Though prostrated for many weeks with the fatal malady, her mind brightened as her body decayed and with a singular consciousness, she announced to her watching husband, an hour previously, the exact moment of her earthly dissolution.
Without an enemy while living, now dead, she leaves a large circle of relatives and friends to cherish the memory of her social and Christian virtues and to follow her in the "fullness of time," to her mansion in Heaven.
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On Sunday morning last, DeForrest Cary son of Sturges and Hannah Ann Cary, aged seven years.
At the residence of Matthew Ells, Esq. in Nanticoke [Broome Co. NY] on the 21st, Miss Frances C. [Hasbrouck] youngest daughter of Mathusalem Hasbrouck, formerly of this town [Binghamton, Broome co. NY] aged 18 years.
At the residence of her son, Cornelius Winans, in Conklin [Broome Co. NY] on Monday April 23d, Martha [Winans] widow of Abraham Winans, aged 87 years.
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It is our unpleasant duty to state that our county has been recently the scene of an appalling tragedy. On Friday last (April 27) a son of James Houghtaling of Yorkshire, in the town of Lisle, Broome County, [NY], a boy only eight years old, cut off his father's head with an Axe! The circumstances, as we have learned them, are as follows: The father had been ploughing his field, and in a state of intoxication, left his team and lay down in a furrow. The little boy took the -?- to the barn and while the father was thus lying, probably insensible, under the effects of liquor, literally severed his head from his body. We learn that an elder brother witnessed the fatal act. The boy, with blood on his person, immediately informed others of the deed and boasted that he had done it because the father had choked him the night before. We learn that the deceased, though addicted to intemperance, had accumulated considerable property which is thus suddenly left to his family. Some contradictory and suspicious rumors are afloat which we now forbear to mention. The facts as related are almost incredible and we await with much interest the development of the truth of the Coroner's jury which was to have assembled the next day (Saturday). The youthful and precocious destroyer of human life is probably too young to suffer the punishment awarded by the laws of the land to the murderer. He will, we presume, be sent to some corrective institution where his early, but dangerous, propensities will have a salutary treatment. The mother and son will be brought to our village today.
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