Vital Records, Chenango County, NY (1879)

 Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, March 5, 1879

Marriages

SCHOONOVER - LAMPHERE:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY] March 3d, by Rev. S.C. Folton, Mr. William H. Schoonover to Miss Martha E Lamphere both of Milford, N.Y. [Otsego Co. NY].

IRELAND - MINER:  In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 19th, by Rev. P. Griffin, Mr. Arvine L. Ireland of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Ettie F. Miner of Guilford.

WADE - SMITH:  At the Half-Way House on 25th Feb. by Rev. D.E. Loveridge Mr. Henry L. Wade to Miss Addie Smith both of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

WADE - BASSETT:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 25th by Rev. D.R. Loveridge, Mr. Harris Wade to Miss Anna E. Bassett both of Norwich

Deaths

LANDERS:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], March 1st, Mr. Benajah Landers aged 71 years.

Mr. Benajah Landers died at his residence in this village on Saturday evening after an illness of a week of the prevailing disease pneumonia.  His funeral will take place today at 10-1/2 o'clock a.m. at the house.

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PALMER:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], March 3d, Mr. Samuel M. Palmer aged 76 years.

Mr. Samuel Palmer, for many years a popular landlord at Oriskany Falls [Oneida Co. NY], and formerly proprietor of the Park hotel in this village, died at his residence on Albany Street, Monday afternoon. The remains are to be taken to Oriskany Falls for interment today.

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SCALLEN:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 27th, Mr. Nicholas Scallan aged 69 years.

Mr. Nicholas Scallan, who died on the 27th ult was a son of the late Laurence Scallan of Wexford City, Ireland, and came to America 24 years ago and for many years lived with his brother-in-law, Mr. John Redmond, but lately with his niece Mrs. Keyes.  He was by birth and by nature a gentleman, well educated and of refined tastes, perfectly unassuming in manner and courteous to all, gaining the esteem and sincere friendship of all who knew him.  He has had a full share of life's sunny as well as the darker hours, yet in all reverses of fortune "kept the faith" and maintained the dignity of a Christian.  In his last illness, short, but often marked by excruciating pain, he was patient and considerate for others.  His funeral was held in St. Joseph's Catholic Chruch and Rev. Father Harrigan, the celebrant, in well chosen words, bore testimony to the virtues and graces of his friend. The services were very impressive, the music instrumental and vocal of the choir from St. Patrick's Church, Norwich, touched all hearts with its solemn pathos, and was a fitting tribute to the deceased.

"Let the lifeless body rest; / He is gone who was its guest."

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DELAVAN:  In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 24th Abagail E. [Delavan] wife of Mr. Nathan Delavan, aged 67 years.

The startling news of the death of this estimable lady cast a sudden gloom over the entire community.  She was the second daughter of the late Samuel A. Smith and has always resided in the town of Guilford.  She was one of the first members of the Episcopal Church, which was organized upwards of forty years ago.  Her sunny, happy disposition made her home attractive to all around her, and many will remember her kind and friendly advice given from a true heart.  She lived to see a family of children grown, who were respectful and devoted to a Christian mother.

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MEAD:  In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 24th, Mr. Isleton Mead aged 85 years.

LEWIS:  In Preston [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 27th Permelia H. [Lewis] wife of W.B. Lewis and daughter of the late Peleg Ashcraft, aged 24 years.

SQUIRES:  In New York, Feb. 15th(?) Mr. Robert [Hobart?] Squires son of the late Charles Squires of Greene [Chenango Co. NY] aged 61 years.

SMITH:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 13th(?), Hannah L. [Smith] widow of Rufus C. Smith, formerly of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] aged 78 years.

TERRILL:  The first death at the Soldiers' Home in Bath [Steuben Co. NY], occurred on the 15th inst.  The veteran who has gone to his rest was William O.Terrill, formerly a member of the 32d New York Volunteers, who died of consumption, twenty-six days after his admission to the home.  He was by trade a printer and commences his apprenticeship in this office [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY] in 1846 working about two years.

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A singular and fatal accident occurred on Tuesday last week, near Lewis' mill, a mile east from East Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].  Nelson Snow, John Ryan and William Burdick were engaged in falling trees on the side of a ravine and wishing the trees to fall in a certain direction they used ropes and tackle block, attached to trees standing near.  In hauling upon a heavy tree, the rope broke, when Ryan and Burdick ran to escape the threatened danger, missing their companion, they returned to the spot, where they found him lying near a stump, some twenty feet from where he was standing when the accident occurred.  Whether the block struck him or whether he was caught by the rope and thrown against the stump is not known.  He was shockingly mangled, the left side of his head and face being crushed in, the left shoulder and arm broken and his body otherwise bruised.  Snow was unconscious and was at once conveyed to his home.  Physicians were summoned who found the unfortunate man past help.  He remained unconscious for about two hours, when he died.  all speak foo Mr. Snow as an industrious, honest man.  His age was about thirty years, and he leaves a wife, whom he married a few months since.

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Died at Newark Valley, Tioga Co. N.Y., Oct. 27th, 1878, Joel Smith, aged 96 years, 10 months and 18 days.  The subject of this notice was born in the town of Southington, Hartford Co. Conn. Dec. 9th, 1781. At the early age of seven years, his mother died, leaving him without that care which only a mother can bestow.  He left home at an early age to learn the trade of a cooper, serving three years without pay.  By this time he began to develop those traits of character for honesty and uprightness in his business relations with the world that he had and maintained through his more mature manhood and old age the confidence and respect of all who knew him.  Leaving his trade, he hired out to a Presbyterian minister to work on a farm; such was the service he rendered, that he continued in his employ five successive years.  

He was twice married.  Nov. 22, 1809, he married Miss Almira Bradley of Northampton, Mass.  By this marriage he had one child, a daughter, who still survives him, and is now the wife of Mr. Lambert Bradley, formerly of Guilford, but now of Newark Valley, N.Y.  His second marriage took place May 13th, 1812. Miss Sophia Andrews of Southington, Conn, being his second wife; by this marriage he had ten children - nine daughters and a son - two of the former having "fallen asleep."  

In the year 1818 he moved from his native State of Oxford, Chenango Co. N.Y., leaving his family in Connecticut.  He made the journey of nearly or quite 200 miles with a pair of oxen attached to a real Connecticut cart. He came in advance to look out a place for a home, and to build a house.  He located about six miles southeast of where the village of Oxford now stands and at once commenced to clear away the dense forests, preparatory to the erection of a house to shelter him from the cold blasts of a northern winter.  His family coming soon after, they took possession of their new home, and after undergoing privations known only to those who come to this country at that early day, he succeeded in converting the forest into fruitful fields.  Leaving Oxford, he moved to Coventry, then to Guilford; from Guilford to Newark Valley, Tioga Co. N.Y., where after living over twenty years, his eventful life has just closed.  

The best that can be said of him is that he was a Christian.  He joined the Presbyterian Church in Coventry at its formation, which is over fifty years ago, and through all these years his daily business has been to prepare for the event through which he has just passed.  And that Saviour which so wonderfully sustained him in some of the severest trials men are called to pass through in this life, forsook him not, but, said, "Tis enough, come up higher."