Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 18, 1878
Deaths
In Barker [Broome Co. NY], April 13th, Miss Getty Ann Terwilliger, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], aged 57 years.
In Smithville [Chenango Co. NYT], April 14th, Miss Alice M. [Harrison] youngest daughter of Arthur Harrison, aged 18 years.
In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], March 27th, Mrs. Sarah Congdon, aged 76 years.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, April 20, 1878
Deaths
MILLER: In Earlville [Madison Co. NY], on the 17th inst., Mrs. Maria D. Miller widow of Linus Miller, aged 61 years.
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HAVELY: In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] March 30th, 1878, Mrs. Sarah R. Havely, in the 71st year of her age.
Mrs. Havely's maiden name was Rexford. She was born in Sherburne in 1807; was married in 1826; moved to Pittsford, N.Y. [Otsego Co. NY] in 1836, where, in 1863, she buried her husband. Two years later she returned to Sherburne with her family, consisting of two sons and three daughters. Of these one son, Benjamin R. Havely, died of consumption in Sherburne, and her other son, Jacob R. Havely, was killed at the storming of Port Hudson. Her three daughters, still living in Sherburne, were present to minister to their mother in her last sickness and to follow her to the grave.
These facts of her history are soon stated. But it is impossible in any mere obituary notice to do justice to her character. It was the remark of one of her neighbors, well qualified to judge, "that in Mrs. Havely's death Sherburne had lost one of its strongest characters." Any yet, with her strong common sense, her wholesome conservatism, her loyalty to the Word of God, her strength was not strong mindedness, as that phrase is now used, but rather constancy and efficiency in things good. Indeed, words must be well chosen, they need to be emphasized by the meaning that an acquaintance with the deceased could alone put into them; to speak in any degree her energy and fortitude, in doing and enduring, her affection for her family and friends, her kindness to the poor, her services to the church of which she was many years a member, and to the Sabbath School, in which to the last, she was a teacher; and last, but not least, her reverence for the Word of God. In her is illustrated these words of Scripture: "The memory of the just is blessed." "Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord shall be praised."
Freeman's Journal, Cooperstown, NY, April 25, 1878
Deaths
In Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY], April 16th, William Gregory aged 98 years.
In Otego [Otsego Co. NY], Mrs. Betsy Graves, aged 87 years and 5 months.
In Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY], April 13th, '78, Isaiah Maynard aged 86 years.
At Rockdale [Chenango Co. NY], April 14th, George Lamphere, aged 75 years.
In South Worcester [Otsego Co. NY], April 10th, Rachel [Wilbur] relict of the late Robert S. Wilbur, aged 79 years.
At the residence of his grandparents at Milford Center [Otsego Co. NY], Feb. 2d, 1878, Edward J. Mumford in the 20th year of his age.
In the town of Warren [Otsego Co. NY], April 9th, Nancy L. [Sitts] wife of Menzo W. Sitts and daughter of the late Henry Eckler aged 36 years, 7 months and 22 days.
In Edmeston [Otsego Co. NY] April 8th, Nancy [Ackerman] wife of Ed S. Ackerman. Mrs. A. had assisted in doing her washing during the day and was taken in a fit of apoplexy about 10 o'clock and died at 8 in the evening.
Hon. E. Delafield Smith who died at Shrewsbury, N.J., April 12th, was a native of Otego [Otsego Co. NY]
It is a sad affliction that Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weaver have sustained. Within one week, three children, aged from sixteen months to five years, all they had, died of diphtheria. Mrs. Weaver has been very sick since last Friday when the last child was buried.
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At Springfield Center [Otsego Co. NY], April 22d, 1878, Hiram R. Wood aged 52 years. In the death of Mr. Wood a gloom is cast over our entire community. A resident of this village from his birth, an upright, honest man, a pillar in the church of which he was a regular attendant, a man of remarkable energy and executive ability. Few men would be missed in this community in business as much as he. He was ever ready to assist in all good works, religious or social, with his influence and means. As a neighbor and friend he was cheerful, social and obliging, and many of his acquaintances have reason to remember a friendly act, or favor done with unassuming tact, which showed a kind and generous heart. To his relatives he was more than generous, and his surviving brother and sisters will remember him as a kind, indulgent brother. A man of usefulness, taken in his prime, but at rest we trust "on the other shore," where all of his own family except one child have gone before.
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We very much regret to learn that Hiram R. Wood, long the leading businessman at Springfield centre, died on Sunday last, after an illness of several weeks. He was about 52 years of age and held in high esteem by a wide circle of friends. He will be greatly missed by his fellow townsmen and others as he was a very useful and energetic man.
News Item
The congregation of Christ Church [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY] were agreeably surprised on Easter morning to find in addition to the profuse floral decorations, a beautiful memorial window, the gift of Mrs. J.P. Sill, which had been placed in position the day previous. The window is from the decorative art establishment of William Gibson's Sons, New York and represents Christ talking with the woman of Samaria at the well. Underneath the central figures are the words "Whosoever drinketh of the wateer that I shall give him shall never thirst" and near the bottom of the window the inscription: "In Memoriam Jedidiah Peck Sill" with the dates of his birth and death.
The design has been fully carried out by the artist and beautifully executed in rich crystalline cathedral glass and it is pronounced by good judges to be one of the finest windows in the Chruch.
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