Morris Chronicle, Morris, NY, July 16, 1879
Marriages
WRIGHT - LENNON: At the Eagle Hotel in Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] July 4th, by W.H. Gunn, Esq. Melvin J. Wright and Catharine Lennon of Morris [Otsego Co. NY].
BENJAMIN - FIRMAN: At the residence of Charles Firman, Esq. Burlington [Otsego Co. NY] July 1st, by Rev. A.T. Wordon, Park G. Benjamin to Miss Carrie J. Firman all of Burlington, N.Y.
COMBERS - BATES: At the Lutheran parsonage, Maryland, N.Y. [Otsego Co.] July 4th, by Rev. E. Potter, James L. Combers of Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] to Jennie P. Bates of Laurens [Otsego Co. NY].
ELDRED - WESTCOTT: At Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY] July 3d by Rev. S.M. Cook, Harvey M. Eldred of Colesville, N.Y. [Broome Co. NY] and Melissa R. Westcott of Milford [Otsego Co. NY].
Deaths
BANKER: In Westford, July 6th, Nicholas Banker aged 46 years. during the rebellion he served in the 121st regiment.
POTTER: In New Lisbon [Otsego Co. NY] July 7th Harvey D. [Potter] son of E.D. and Emmer A. Potter in the 3d year of his age.
Mr. J.A. Sturgis died very suddenly last Thursday at 11 P.M. He had not felt well for a few days previous to his death. A postmortem examination of the body by Drs. Wickes and Thorpe disclosed a rupture of the arteries near the heart, the blood having assumed in the coatings of the artery the look and appearance of liver. His funeral services were observed from the M.E. church last Sunday at 1 o'clock and the remains were interred in Prentice cemetery.
Simon Turner of Preston [Chenango Co. NY], aged 90 years, was found dead Tuesday afternoon of last week in a small creek at the rear of his residence.
Within three months D.J. Truesdell of Holmesville [Chenango Co. NY], Harvey Truesdell of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY] and Nellie Truesdell Fish have buried their companions.
Last week, a three-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lenoard Horender of Frey's Bush, Montgomery Co., wandered from the mother while they were in a field picking strawberries, and the little one could not be found in five hours afterward. She was then traced only by footprints in some newly plowed land and found wedged between two rocks in a small creek and dead. the neck was dislocated.
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Last Wednesday morning between 5 and 6 o'clock, the news that Francis Blackman had hung himself, spread through our streets. The coroner being notified, proceeded to empanel a jury, before which the facts elicited were, that for some time Mr. B. had been in a desponding mood in consequence of ill health, and in a temporary aberration of mind had committed the rash act. His funeral obsequies were very largely attended last Saturday afternoon from his late residence, corner of Spring and Sylvan Streets. His pastor, Rev. Ernest A. Hartman and the Rev. Hobart Cooke of Morris, officiating. The entire community vied with each other in acts of kindness and expressions of sympathy for his almost heart-broken wife and bereaved children. His remains were enclosed in a very handsome velvet casket. The aroma of flowers through the house was plainly discernable. All that art could devise or beautiful flowers that nature could furnish, were diffused with a profuse hand on and around the casket, making it more like Eden's bower where one had lain down to pleasant dreams, than the silent chamber of him who had passed to the pale realms of shade. The remains were taken to the cemetery near White Store for interment by the side of his mother. As the mourners passed from the house to their carriages, there was a deep feeling of sympathy, but when his aged father sobbing and heart-broken, whose whitened locks told of the passing snows of 78 winters, many of them years of trial and suffering, there was not wanting kind words and sympathetic tears for Uncle John. And so, Frank has passed away; kindhearted and obliging in his business as undertaker, weeping with those who wept, always careful and considerate, his place in this community will be hard to fill.
Francis Blackman the well-known furniture dealer of Gilbertsville [Otsego Co. NY] hung himself July 9th in a fit of mental aberration. For some time past Mr. Blackman has been laboring under the hallucination that he was coming to poverty. He knew that this was a chimera, as no man in the community was doing a more flourishing business than he. He has at one time been an inmate of the insane asylum at Utica, but for several years has been entirely sane. The flow falls with crushing weight upon a large circle of friends [Chenango Union, Norwich, NY July 17, 1879]
The funeral of Francis Blackman of Gilbertsville, whose suicide by handing on Wednesday morning of last week we mentioned that day, took place on Saturday afternoon and was largely attended by Masons and others, deceased having been a highly respected citizen, a prominent Mason, and at the time of his death was Senior Warden of the Episcopal Church. The remains were interred in the cemetery at White Store in the east part of this town, where other members of the family are buried. He leaves a wife and two sons, and a large circle of relatives, who have the sympathies of all. [Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, July 17, 1879]
Tombstone inscription, Evergreen Cemetery, White Store, Chenango Co. NY
Francis, only son of John & Hellen Blackman died July 9, 1879, aged 49 years.
Commercial Advertiser, New York City, October 14, 1797
Weekly Account of Marriages
Married at Feedinghills (Mass.) Mr. Benjamin Booles to Miss Mary Morley
At Wilbraham [MA], Mr. Joel Penny to Miss Violet Bliss.
At Brooklyn (Con.) Mr. Pascal P. Tyler merchant, to Miss Bettey Baker.
At Kingston [NY], Mr. William Kiefer, Jun. to Miss Mary Jeswell(?).
At Boston [MA], Mr. Seth Kingman to Miss Polly Tate.
Mr. Daniel Badger to Miss Ann Jones daughter of Mr. David Jones.
At Scituate [MA], Rev. Robert Yalaley to Miss Betsey Hawkins.
At Little Compton [RI], Mr. Joshua Richmond to Miss Mary Balley.
At Providence [RI], Mr. Thomas Low to Miss Ruth Tolman.
At Roxbury(?) [NY], Mr. Nathan Watson to Miss Hannah Knower.
At Boston [MA], Mr. Walter Crosby to Miss Eliza Alcust.
At Lynckbury Mr. William Long to Mrs. Elizabeth Callway.
At Catskill [NY], Mr. Achbell Hubbard to Miss Lydia Rogers.
At Elkton [MD], John Gilpin, Esq. to Miss Polly Hollingsworth.
At New London [CT], Mr. James Beebe to Mrs. Catharine Sheldon.
At Charleston, R.I., Mr. Joseph Rose, merchant of New York to Miss Fanny Stanton of the former place.
At Boston [MA], Mr. Anthony Holbrook to Miss Polly Eaton
Mr. John G. Coller to Miss M. Catharina Hollman
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