Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, April 16, 1879
Marriage
WOOSTER - BEARDSLEY: In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] April 2d by Rev. F.A.M. Brown, Mr. Moses E. Wooster Jr. of Smithville [Chenango Co. NY] and Miss Alice E. Beardsley of Delhi.
Deaths
HUBBARD: In Greene [Chenango Co. NY] April 4th, Mr. Jehial C. Hubbard aged 65 years.
ALCOTT: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] April 3d, Lydia L. [Alcott] wife of Amon Alcott, aged 75 years.
STANBRO: In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] April 3d, James Stanbro, M.D. aged 51 years.
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In Memoriam
The following appeared in the Chenango Telegraph of April 5th, and by request is here republished:
The hour of Sunday School at the Congregational Church last Sabbath bore a deeper and holier significance to those assembled in as usual. It was occupied with most sad and touching exercises in commemoration of a former member, Charles A. Watson, who was lost by the overturning of a sailboat near the coast of Florida, March 19. His early youth was spent in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], during which he was a regular attendant upon the Academy and Sunday School. the members of the class to which he belonged have become widely scattered; one other has died; two links of the golden chain which bound the class together are now broken; two are in Kansas, one in this county, one in New Jersey and only two left.
Superintendent Dr. J.W. Thorp began with reference to this class as a remarkable one in many respects besides their early and distant separation. He then made some allusions to the boyhood of our friend as affording an example and a model for the young, marking the great importance of childhood's lessons as preparing one for the more serious duties of manhood. A comparison, drawn from the profusion of bright flowers gracing the platform, indicated the luster of a character in itself radiant. These emblems of purity were partly the offering of the young men's Bible class. It was delicately thoughtful on the part of the Lockport Mission School, for whose former superintendent these sad memories wore, to send a basket of flowers as a tender tribute to one so highly prized by them and of so great account through many years of religious intercourse and instruction. But now the hand which clasped theirs at the last parting is still forever. The voice which then so gayly spoke farewell is hushed. The features which eight long years of companionship had made dear, will soon be hidden away. Extracts were read from several papers published in Lockport, where Mr. Watson had passed the last eight years in the hardware business. These articles, besides a brief sketch, spoke with no uncertain sound of a business and social record marred by no blot. During these exercises a solemn stillness filled the church, and no words could be so impressive as the silent tributes which all knew were coming from every heart. We commit the dear departed to that grateful silence, recalling Lowell['s beautiful lines of consolation:
"Somewhere is comfort; somewhere faith; / They yet in outer dark remain, / One sad, sweet voice enobles death, / And still for eighteen centuries saith- / Softly! Ye meet again."
To those of us who were associated with Charles Watson during his boyhood and have followed him from academy to college and through the brief business career allotted him, the retrospect affords naught save such manifestations of principle and conduct as it is fitting to recognize to honor and to love. Faithful to every academic duty, steering safely between the Scylla and Charybdis of college life, and afterwards most diligent in business, his was a course where every talent seemed consecrated to the attainments of his own highest idea, his life lived uniformly with reference to a sense of religious obligation. With a frank, unpretentious nature and mind unusually clear and logical he possessed cultured tastes and courteous manners. In the intervals of business, it was his delight to read and study standard works. Much time too had been given to travel at home and abroad and his life was finally sacrificed to the charm he found in this pursuit.
Reviewing such precious memories and mourning with a bereaved father and mother, still, remembering that blessed hope which enabled him to meet death with a fortitude of a philosopher and the resignation of a Christian, we place the name of Charles A. Watson among our hallowed dead.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 3, 1879
Deaths
In Coventryville [Chenango Co. NY], March 26th, Mr. Joel Parker aged 69 years.
In Afton [Chenango Co. NY] March 18th, Mr. Henry A. Beatman, aged 26 years.
In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] March 23d, son of A.B. Milner, aged 3 years.
In Birley, Kansas, March 18th, at the residence of William Morris, of pneumonia, Mrs. William Birley, formerly of this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], aged 66 years.
Also, at the same place, March 18th, of the same disease, Miss Ida May [Morris] daughter of William Morris, aged 16 years, 9 months, formerly of this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY].
Chenango Forks, Broome Co. NY: While writing I have been informed of the sudden death of Thurston Kenyon which occurred this (Saturday) morning at his son's, Jonathan Kenyon.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, April 17, 1879
Marriage
Bennettsville, Chenango Co. NY: Mr. Herbert Matteson of this place and Miss Ida Beardslee of Franklin [Delaware Co. NY] intend committing matrimony ont hge 16 inst. May joy an dhappiness attend them through life. amen.
Deaths
Rev. Lyman Wright, D.D. well known to many of our readers, died at his residence in Binghamton, N.Y. [Broome Co.] on Wednesday, the 2d inst. aged 62-1/2 years. He was born and brought up in Westford [Otsego Co. NY]. His first pastorate was at Schuyler's lake when he was 22 years of age, at which place he said he "commenced scrambling up the hill." The last three churches he served were Trenton, Newburgh and Binghamton.
On Wednesday morning the death of Mrs. Walter Elliott, Jr. near Andes [Delaware Co. NY] was announced. She had been subject to aberration of mind for some time and recently declined to partake of food. For twenty-one days, up to Wednesday morning, she refused to take any nourishment except cold water, in spite of the efforts of her friends to induce her to do so and thus died from actual starvation. The deceased leaves a large circle of friends and relatives - Recorder
News Item
Mrs. Charles Parsons of Sidney Plains, Delaware Co. NY
Among the aged residents of our community we would mention the name of Mrs. Charles Parsons [Emeline Miller] daughter of William and Esther Miller, who was born at Glastonburg, Connecticut, June 22nd, 1799. Her father was a farmer and man of property, and who gave his children good advantages. She was married in April 1823, and commenced housekeeping at Endfield near Hartford, Conn. Her husband was a mechanic (Blacksmith) and a soldier in the war of 1812. After their marriage they resided at Endfield till the year of 1839 when they moved to Yaleville, Chenango Co., N.Y., where her husband worked at his trade until about 1852, when he purchased a farm in East Bainbridge, near the junction of the Unadilla River. Here he carried on blacksmithing and farming for nearly 13 years, when he sold out and moved to Sidney Plains, where he died July 24th, 1865.
They had 8 children, 5 of whom are now living. Mrs. Parsons, since the death of her husband, has lived with her children, 8 of whom were married and lived in the place. She now makes it her home with her son James, who is also a blacksmith by trade and is now carrying on that business.
Mrs. Parsons belonged to a family of eight children, only three of whom are now living. Her brother Mathew Miller moved to East Guilford in the year of 1821 and purchased the John Mersereau farm and still resides upon it [in 1879]. Her sister, Fannie, widow of the late Rev. Octavus Fitch, is living with a niece in Sidney Plains. Their father died in Connecticut, in the year 1814. Their mother died at East Guilford in 1847.
Mrs. Parsons has long been connected with the Congregational Church and is regarded as a devoted Christian and as one who strives to do right. She, at the present time, is in feeble health, but hopes when springtime has fully come and flowers bloom that she too will feel the invigorating influence of a genial atmosphere and will again be able to take her accustomed seat in the sanctuary where she enjoys the society and friendship of her Christian friends and neighbors.
Death Notice: At Unadilla Centre [Otsego Co. NY] last Thursday, Mrs. Emeline Parsons aged 92 years. she was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Sidney [Delaware Co. NY], Sunday afternoon. [Sidney Record, Sidney, NY, Dec. 4, 1870]
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