Morris Chronicle, Morris, NY, April 30, 1879
Marriages
YATES - McFARLANE: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] on the 22d inst. by Rev. W. Burnside, Alfred W. Yates to Miss Emma McFarlane both of Morris [Otsego Co. NY].
PIERRE - SHERMAN: In New Lisbon [Otsego Co. NY] April 22d by Rev. J.D. Webster, J. Pierre of Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] to Miss Velma M. Sherman of New Lisbon.
MEAD - MATTESON: In West Laurens [Otsego Co. NY], 17 inst., by James B. Galer, Esq. Nelson Mead of Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] and Miss Polly Matteson of Laurens.
Deaths
CRAWFORD: In Morris [Otsego Co. NY] April 22d, Lucy J. [Crawford] youngest daughter of Louis and Julia Ann Crawford, aged 7 years y months and 16 days.
TINKER: Mrs. Charles Tinker aged sixty-one years died at her residence in Pittsfield [Otsego Co. NY] April 21st.
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Death of General Dix
"I believe in God; I have an entire faith in my Redeemer; I am at enmity with no man."
These were among the last words of Gen. John A. Dix, who died at his residence in New York on Monday night, April 21. He was born in Boscawen, N.H. July 24,1798; was educated at Salisbury and Phillips Academies and early removed to this State [NY]. He served as a Lieutenant in the regular army in the war of 1812 and resigned his commission in 1826; was Adjutant-General of the State in 1831 and was chosen Secretary of State in 1832.
After serving in the Legislature of New York, he was elected to the United States Senate in 1844. A prominent member of the Democratic party, he took strong ground against the extension of slavery in the Territories. He subsequently practiced his profession as a lawyer in New York; was Assistant U.S. Treasurer for the city; was subsequently Postmaster for New York; was appointed Secretary of the Treasury on the resignation of Howell Cobb, just before the breaking out of the rebellion and on the 29th of January 1861, telegraphed his famous order to New Orleans: "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot!" He was appointed by Governor Morgan a Major-General of New York State militia May 6, 1861 and occupied important commands during the war. He was sent as United States minister to France in 1866 and in 1872 was elected Governor of this State [NY]. He had prepared and published a number of volumes and was a warm advocate of popular education and a friend of learning. He was long a prominent vestryman and controller of Trinity Church of which his son, Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, is the rector. N.Y. Observer
Gen. Dix was at one time, just before his appointment as Adjutant-General, a resident of Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] where he practiced law. The Journal says:
"There are a few of the oldest residents of Cooperstown who remember Gen. Dix, who left here in 1831 to become the Adjutant-General of the State. He was driven to Albany by the late Major Lewis, whose death we recently recorded. The general was very popular here as a young man, and that popularity followed him through his long, active and useful life."
General Dix's funeral was unattended by pomp or display in consequence of instructions by himself in a sealed paper left to be opened after his death, dated Oct. 15th,1877. His exact words are: "I wish all parade and all ceremony, except the regular church service for the dead, studiously avoided." He directed that the coffin be covered with the flag of the United States, also that after being placed in his coffin, no one should be permitted to look upon him.
Oneonta Herald & Democrat, Oneonta, NY, April 4, 1879
Deaths
In Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] April 1, Nicholas Schermerhorn aged 73 years. Interment at Milford [Otsego Co. NY] today.
Rev. Dr. Lyman Wright of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] pastor of the Baptist church died Wednesday evening [Apr. 2, 1879] after a protracted illness. Dr. Wright was born in Westville, Otsego Co. [NY] September 28, 1816, and commenced preaching when 22 years of age.
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In Memory of Minnie Reynolds
Mourn, yes mourn, / But not for her at rest, / She's happy with the blest, / Her cares and trials over / Her soul will rest in peace, / In perfect peace.
Pray, yes pray / But not for her in heaven, / Pray we may be forgiven / And at the last may stand, / With her in Glory land / A happy band.
Praise, yes praise, / That in the Crucified / She lived, and loved and died. / May grace our hopes refine / And may her hope divine / Be thine and mine.
East Branch [Delaware Co. NY] March 29, 1879
The funeral of Minnie Reynolds, last Friday, at the First Baptist church, was largely attended. Appropriate remarks were made by Rev. H . Brotherton. Young school friends of Minnie ordered from McGraw, of Binghamton, an assortment of beautiful flowers and others contributed for the funeral and burial decorations. Not in a long time has "dust to dust" been said in the presence of a sadder or more thoughtful assemblage. The death of no student since that of Dewie Maynard two years ago, has so affected the young people of our village.
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