Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, May 22, 1822
Death
Died at Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] on the 16th inst. of a short illness, Col. Benjamin Throop, AEt. 80.
The deceased was one of the few remaining patriots who gave liberty and independence to his country. In 1776, he led a hundred warriors of the Mohegan tribe to Canada, who chiefly fell in that unfortunate campaign, victims to the enemy and the smallpox. Subsequently, he received a commission of Captain in the line and was eventually promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. he was present and fought in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Saratoga and Monmouth. He was also in many severe conflicts with the Indians.
Col. Throop in his last years preserved the gait and manners of a soldier. Age had partially deprived him of his faculties. His sight and hearing were impaired. His recollection of ordinary events had become imperfect, but the glorious events of the Revolution were too deeply engraved on his memory ever to be effaced. On these, to his last hour, he delighted to dwell. The name of Washington never failed to lighten a smile on the cheek of the deceased, whose eye for the moment would resume its original brightness.
He was buried with the honors due to his rank and services. An appropriate sermon was preached in St. Paul's Church by the Rev. Mr. Bush. The body was escorted to the grave by Capt. Wheeler's Company of Artillery and Capt. Smith's militia, with a great concourse of officers in uniform and strangers from the different towns of the county. During the procession, minute guns were fired by the Artillery and at the interment, six volleys were fired by Capt. Smith's company over the grave of the deceased.
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, May 29, 1822
Death
At Manchester, N.H. on the 8th inst. Major General John Stark, AEt 93 years, 8 months and 24 days. He was a native of New Hampshire and for nearly a century, resided on the banks of the Merimack, near Amoskeag Falls. When 21 years of age, he was captured by the Indians, carried a prisoner to Montreal and redeemed by Mr. Wheelwright of Boston. Soon after, he was at the head of a company of Rangers and by his courage, caution and vigilance, distinguished himself as a commander of one of those corps which were so highly distinguished in the French and Indian wars which proceeded that of the revolution. In this last war, the deeds of Gen. Stark fill up many of the brilliant and well-known pages of its history. He joined the army at Cambridge and continued in active service until the close of the contest. His achievement in 1777 at Bennington, in the capture of the British and German corpse d'armee, was one of the most intrepid, important, and cheering events of the revolution. Those only can appreciate its importance, who were witnesses of the gloom which was dissipated by this glorious event and the spirit it infused into hearts almost sinking into despondency. At the close of the war of Independence, he retired to his paternal residence and mingling with the hardy and industrious yeomanry of his native State, outlived all the General Officers of the army to which he belonged.
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, June 5, 1822
Death
At the residence of his father, near Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY], on the 6th inst. Mr. Justin Clark, aged 26, late editor of the Montrose (Pa.) Gazette. He was a younger brother of the editor of the Albany Register.
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, June 19, 1822
Marriages
Last evening by the Rev. Mr. Bush, Mr. Erastus Perkins to Miss Agnes Van Wagenen daughter of Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, Esq. both of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY].
In Kingston [Ulster Co. NY] on the 1st inst. by the Rev. Mr. Cosman, Mr. Garardus Vanderlyn of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] to Mrs. Jane Van Gaasbeek of the former place.
Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, June 26, 1822
Marriages
At Utica [Oneida Co. NY] on the 17th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Aikin, John H. Ostrom Esq. attorney and counsellor at law, to Miss Mary E. Walker daughter of Thomas Walker, Esq. all of that village.
At Newburgh on the 13th inst. by the Rev. John Johnson, Ward M. Gazlay esq. editor of the Index to Miss Elizabeth Carter of that village.
Elopement
Whereas my wife Polly Beckwith has left my bed and board, I hereby forbid all person harboring or trusting her on my account after this date. John D. Beckwith Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], June 22d, 1822.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, June 30, 1879
Marriage
COOK-RIDER: At the home of the groom's mother on Jan. 29th by Rev. D.N. Grummon, William B. Cook and Miss Anna F. Rider both of Afton [Chenango Co. NY].
SACKETT - OTTMAN: Afton, Chenango Co. NY: Our worthy friend, O. Eugene Sackett, on the present month, led to the hymenial alter the beautiful and accomplished Miss Mary E. Ottman of Carlisle, Schoharie County [NY]. "Gene," is one of our best young men and he has found a bride in every way worthy of him. May their life be a long and happy one.
Death
Yaleville, Chenango Co. NY: It is with painful feelings that we record the death of Mrs. Mary Lewis which occurred at her late residence in McDonough, N.Y. [Chenango Co. NY], January 15, 1879. She was formerly of this place [Yaleville] and her remains were brought here for burial. She had scarcely reached the prime of life, being only 36 years of age at the time of her death and was consequently cut down in the flower of womanhood. A contemporary honors her life, her departure, and her memory with a sketch of her many virtues and noble traits, in the following language: "She was a woman of much moral, industrious, provident, gentle, affable; a dutiful wife, an affectionate sister, and a faithful friend. Her memory will ever be cherished by the many who knew her but to love her." Her long illness was borne with calm resignation and Christian fortitude. Her attendants never heard a single word of impatience, or of complaint, or of murmur escape her lips; anxious for the sake of others to get well, yet perfectly willing to die if the Lord so willed, and for death she was not unprepared.
But she has gone from us to the beautiful summer land on the other shore, leaving us the example of her amiable qualities, her eminent virtues, a life of usefulness, and a triumphant departure on the long pathway of eternity. She has gone only a little in advance of admiring friends and sorrowing relatives in whose hearts and memories she still lvies and in whose affections she can never die. What we call death is only a brief separation - the bridge that spans the narrow gulf between time and eternity - and although time may not heal the wounded hearts of those who have taken the last look at the earthly remains of a daughter, friend, and companion, it will, it must hasten the period of reunion and mutual recognition. May we all exercise that living faith which gives abundant assurance that we will rejoin one who has gone before, and may we so order our lives that we may realize the sense of the poets words when her says:
There is no death; what seems so is transition, / This life of mental breath / Is but a suburb of the life elysian / Whose portals we call death.
J.S.M.
News Item
Our Beacon Lights - Martin B. Luther
M.B. Luther, Esq. one of our most active and prominent citizens, was born in Clarendon, Vermont, May 12, 1803. His father who was born in the year 1755, was not only a farmer but was also engaged in tanning and the manufacture of shoes and harness and during the revolutionary war was employed by the government as an artificer in making harness, &c. In 1812 he moved to Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY] and purchased a farm about 1-1/2 miles east of this village where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1846, at the venerable age of 91 years. His wife died many years previous. Martin B., who early evinced a taste for learning, acquired a good education and commenced school teaching before his 20th year, but his mind seemed directed in a channel for the investigation of natural laws and principles and becoming deeply impressed with the grandeur of mathematical and geometrical sciences, studied surveying and engineering and subsequently became distinguished as one of the most accurate surveyors in this section of the country.
In the year 1825, he engaged in the mercantile business at Sidney Plains [Delaware Co. NY] and in the year 1833, sold out his interest here and went to Sangersfield, Oneida County [NY], where he continued in the same business for a number of years and then closed up and returned home where he was married January 24, 1849, to an estimable lady, and by whom he has had one child, a daughter. Mr. Luther owns and occupies the old homestead where he conducts farming, not so much for profit as for experimental pleasure.
In April 1825, he joined the social lodge of F.&A.M. in Clarendon, Vermont, where he became an active and an energetic laborer for the craft, and his practical love for philosophy awakened in him a constant desire for the advancement of the order, wherein he perceived through its official emblems (square and compass) a key to a higher and more exalted character in manhood, where the rules of life were shorn of sects and dogmas. He has ever been an honor to the fraternity and was the moving spirit which led to the reorganization of the lodge at Unadilla, and subsequently the founder of the Chapter at that place. Never had the order a more devoted and self-sacrificing member than Martin B. Luther.
Of late years, Mr. Luther's attention has been largely engrossed in the study of medicine and microscopic observations of the human organisms and in regard to many intricate points connected with disease. His experimental knowledge is superior to many of the first-class physicians.
Socially, Mr. Luther has but few equals. He is strongly devoted to the interests of friends and often neglects his own personal affairs to aid those who may need his service or counsel. He warmly appreciates kindness, but at the same time is exacting in the honor and integrity of mankind and will hold no fellowship with vice or immorality. And being an admirer of free thought and opinions, seeks for the unfolding of those natural sequences which determines the motives by which human actions are measurably controlled and in his imagination does not permit his mind to become untrammeled by the errors of bigotry or superstition and though living in advance of the larger portion of mankind, from his constant study, he nevertheless feels charitable towards them, and we cherish a hope that in some future day his object and purpose may be more fully appreciated. In his personal appearance Mr. Luther is tall, erect and dignified and somewhat reserved in his manners toward strangers. In his habits he is regular and strictly temperate, using neither liquor nor tobacco. He rises early in the morning, usually at four o'clock, summer or winter, breakfasts at 6 o'clock, A.M., dines at 12 p.m. and takes his tea at 6 P.M. and is one whose examples are worthy of imitation and whose principles of honor and integrity will never die.
Obituary - Sidney Record, Sidney, NY, June 5, 1890
Mr. Martin B. Luther died at his residence near this village, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, June 4th, 1890. He was 87 years of age.
Mr. Luther was born in Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont, May 12, 1803, and therefore was quite a large boy when the war of 1812 was fought.
He moved to Unadilla sixty-one years ago in the year 1822 and taught school. In 1825 he entered into the mercantile business in Sidney [Delaware Co. NY]. In 1830 we find him in Sangerfield, Oneida County, N.Y., still engaged in the mercantile business. In the year 1833 he returned to Unadilla, where he has ever since resided on the farm which he had occupied.
Mr. Luther has been a life-long Freemason and by reason of his zeal and devotion in the interests of that ancient and highly honorable order, he was held in high esteem by his brethren of that mysterious craft.
Funeral - Sidney Record, Sidney, NY, June 12, 1890
The funeral of Mr. Martin B. Luther was held last Saturday from his residence near this village and the interment took place in the private cemetery opposite the residence of Norman D. Foster. The obsequies were attended by a large gathering of mourners, all of whom had long enjoyed the valued friendship of the deceased. Mr. Luther was a man of extraordinary intellectual powers, a calm., dispassionate reasoner, and a firm advocate of free thought and free speech. In his death our community has lost an excellent citizen, and his loss is felt keenly by many who are competent to judge true merit at its real value.
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