Oneida Dispatch, Oneida, NY, March 16, 1867
Marriages
DAVIS - SMITH: In Lysander [Onondaga Co. NY], March 5, by Rev. W.R. Powers, Mr. William H. Davis, formerly of Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] to Miss Esther E. Smith of Lysander.
CARD - SPICER: In Morrisville [Madison Co. NY], March 4, by Rev. S.S. Utter, Mr. C.N. Card to Miss Cora C. Spicer, both of Erieville [Madison Co. NY].
CLOCK - PETRIE: Also, March 13, by the same, Mr. W.H. Clock of Oneida [Madison Co. NY] to Miss Alvira Petrie of Smithfield [Madison Co. NY].
HARRIS - CARD: In Nelson [Madison Co. NY] March 10, by Rev. J. Harris, Mr. Addison Harris to Miss Julia F. Card.
WOODRUFF - LINDSLEY: In Oneida [Madison Co. NY] March 13, by Rev. D. McFarland, Mr. Romanta Woodruff of Wisconsin, to Mrs. J.A. Lindsley of Vernon Centre [Oneida Co. NY].
JACKSON - MURDOCK: In Fayetteville [Onondaga Co. NY] Feb. 20 by Rev. F.W. Tooke, Mr. Henry W. Jackson of Nelson [Madison Co. NY] to Miss Laura A. Murdock of Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY].
FULKERSON - RANSOM: In Hamiliton [Madison Col. NY] Feb. 26, by Rev. W.R. Brooks, Mr. William Fulkerson to Miss Rebecca Ransom of Hamilton.
ELLIS - EVANS: In Georgetown [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 25 by Rev. W.M. Morrey Mr. Elnathan Ellis of Georgetown to Mrs. Diana Evans of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
TILLOTSON: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] March 8, of consumption, Addie [Tillotson] daughter of Ephriam and Harriet A. Tillotson, aged 26 years.
DEWEY: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] March 8, Martha [Dewey] daughter of Joseph R. and Elizabeth Dewey, aged 21 years.
BREWSTER: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] March 10, Edwin Burr [Brewster] son of W.G. and Phebe Ann Brewster, aged 1 year and 9 months.
GAGE: In New Woodstock [Madison Co. NY], March 9, Lucian Hart [Gage] son of Sylvanius and Samantha Gage, aged 8 years.
PERRY: In Georgetown [Madison Co. NY] March 6, Hiram Perry aged 50 years.
GRAY: In Perryville [Madison Co. NY], March 8, Fannie M. [Gray] daughter of B.G. Kinney and wife of Lieut. C.P. Gray, deceased, aged 29 years, 9 months and 24 days.
SMITH: In DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 28, Mrs. Abigail Smith wife of the late Sylvester Smith, aged 90 years, 2 months and 7 days.
KNAPP: In Georgetown [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 27 of dropsy, Mrs. Sally Knapp aged about 70 years.
WILLIAMS: In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 23, Malinda [Williams] wife of E.S. Williams, aged 65 years.
FOOT: In North East, Pa., July 21, David Y. Foot, M.D. only son of the late Noah B. Foot, M.D. of East Hamilton [Madison Col NY], aged 64 years.
LAMPMAN: In Durhamville, Feb. 25, suddenly, Elijah [Lampman] infant son of Jacob Lampman aged 3 months.
MILES: Edwin Miles Esq. who for a number of years has been connected with the Syracuse Journal as proprietor and manager, died in Syracuse [Onondaga Co. NY] on Thursday. Mr. Miles was widely known in Onondaga County and universally esteemed.
INGLES: The funeral of the venerable James Ingles, (father of Mr. G. Ingles of this vicinity) was held at his late residence, four miles north of Peterboro [Madison Co. NY], on Friday of last week. A large concourse of friends and relatives assembled to pay respect to his memory and accompanied the remains to the cemetery at Wampsville [Madison Co. NY]. Mr. Ingles was one of the early settlers of Lenox [Madison Co. NY], having lived nearly fifty years on the same farm. He leaves an aged wife with whom he has dwelt sixty-two years and five sons, in Lenox and Smithfield, all of whom are highly respectable and influential citizens and staunch patriots. Rev. C.A. Hammond of this village conducted the funeral exercises.
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A sad and afflicting accident occurred at this place [Oneida, Madison Co. NY] on Monday last, under the following circumstances. Mr. Van Rensselaer Walrath who lived at old Canaseraga [Allegany Co. NY], took the Buffalo Express at Chittenango on that day for Oneida. His acquaintance with the running of trains doubtless enabled him to know that the train did not stop here but is presumed he hoped to jump off and transact his business in time to return by the mail train.
As the express passed the Oneida depot he was seen standing on the lower step on the north side of one of the cars, holding to the guard rail and swinging out his left foot as though preparing to jump from the train. He did not jump, however, until he had been carried about forty rods east of the depot, when the fearful leap was made. The train was going at not less than 35 miles an hour, and as Mr. Walrath jumped therefrom and between the main tracks of the road, his feet no sooner touched the ground than he was thrown forward with great violence, his head striking the end of a cross tie on the north track. The left side of the head, back of the ear, was crushed in, the left shoulder broken and the neck was thought to have been dislocated. A gentleman who was on the railroad at the time and but a few rods off, ran to the spot and found Mr. Walrath gasping in the agonies of death. He was entirely unconscious and expired within four minutes from the time of the accident. The remains were taken to the undertakers' rooms of Messrs. Jones & Thompson.
A Messenger was at once sent to notify Mr. Nelson Cobb, the coroner, and to bear the sad tidings to the family of the deceased at Canaseraga. In the afternoon, Coroner Cobb summoned a jury when an inquest was held, and a verdict rendered in accordance with the foregoing facts. The body was enclosed in a metallic coffin and sent to Chittenango on Tuesday morning. The remains were followed to their last resting place in Oak Wood Cemetery by a large concourse of relatives and friends.
The deceased was the son of Daniel J. Walrath of Chittenango [Madison Co. NY] and was 33 years old. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade and had been in business in the Pennsylvania Oil regions for a number of years. He returned from there quite recently and was contemplating selling out his property in that locality and settling either in Chittenango or Oneida. He had been quite successful in Pennsylvania, having accumulated some $20,000 within the last few years. He married the daughter of Mr. Timothy Gridley of Cazenovia and was the father of two children, one, a son, who died about one year since. It was for the purpose of procuring a set of grave stones for this little son, and to take a look over our village with a view of settling here that called Mr. Walrath to Oneida on Monday.
He was a thorough businessman, accurate and prompt in all his dealings. His great physical activity, together with the fact that he had been in the habit of jumping from trains in the oil regions where the rate of speed is much less than on the Central, doubtless led him to try the same thing here on Monday. He leaves a wife, a little child, a father, and numerous relatives and friends to mourn his untimely death.
