Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, NY, August 14, 1847
Marriage
In Cherry Valley [Otsego Co. NY] on the 28th ult. by Rev. C.H. Harvey, Mr. Douw Beekman of Ft. Plain [Montgomery Co. NY], to Miss Hellen Gray of the former place.
Death
In Laurens [Otsego Co. NY], on the 30th ult. Mr. Brown Winsor, brother of ex-Sheriff Winsor, aged 36 years. Mr. Winsor possessed those qualities which render his death peculiarly afflicting. Strong and ardent in his attachments, those immediately connected, together with an extensive and numerous acquaintance [...unreadable...] in his intercourse with many [he gained] their confidence and secured their esteem and from his kindness and liberality it has been said and may here be repeated that the poor have lost a friend. [-?-], the profession of Christian religion, through a short but useful life was honorably sustained.
Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, NY, August 21, 1847
Marriages
In Burlington [Otsego Co. NY], on the 8th inst. Mr. Thomas H. Porter, of Paris, Oneida Co. [NY] to Miss Martha Ann Conkling of Burlington.
In Oaksville [Otsego Co. NY] on the 12th inst. by Wm. P. Johnson Esq., Mr. James Thompson to Mrs. Helen Carter, both of Warren, Herkimer County [NY].
Deaths
In Cherry Valley [Otsego Co. NY], on the 3d inst. Rev. S. Gilbert aged 65 years.
In this town [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY] on the 27th ult., Miss Betsey Maria Peabody aged 22 years.
Two More Jersey Veterans Gone: Colonel Daniel Kemper, a veteran officer of the war of the Revolution, expired at his residence in New Brunswick on the 6th inst. at the age of 98, having been born in August 1749. He served the cause of independence faithfully and lived the life of a Christian patriot. The next day Death claimed another of the old worthies in taking off Captain Lewis Johnson, a soldier of the Revolution, who had nearly reached the 88th anniversary of his birth. They were entombed on Sunday. Newark Adv.
Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, July 18, 1849
Marriage
In Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] on the 10th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Loomis, Marshal W. Parker of Clinton, Oneida Co. [NY] to Louisa [McLean] daughter of the late Wm. McLean of this village [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY].
Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, July 25, 1849
Marriage
In this village [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY] on the 23d inst. by Jefferson N. Clyde Esq., Mr. Henry Crary of Chenango Co. [NY] to Miss lucy Ann Lewis of Rhode Island.
Deaths
In Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] on the 14th inst. Mrs. Susan Beadle in the 63d year of her age, a member of the Presbyterian Church.
In Milford [Otsego co. NY] on the 16th inst., Captain William Russell a soldier of the Revolution, aged 93 years.
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In this village [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY] on the 18th inst., Mrs. Sarah Boardman, Consort of the Rev. Geo. Boardman aged 45 years.
In the account contained in this paper of the mortality which has occurred in our village during the last week, will be found the record of Mrs. Sarah Boardman, consort of the Rev. George Boardman, Pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this town. Mrs. Boardman was the daughter of the Hon. George Brayton, of Oneida County, new deceased, who was extensively known and highly esteemed for his virtues as a citizen and his useful and patriotic services as a member of the Assembly and Senate of this State.
The disease which occasioned the sudden and lamented death of Mrs. B. in the meridian of her life and in the midst of her usefulness was undoubtedly produced by the anxious and laborious attention her mind and tender heart prompted her to bestow on a dying stranger, who was taken ill at her house. On Wednesday morning she was in her usual health, and before seven o'clock in the evening of that day she was a corpse. The tremendous shock, the deep-toned sensation caused in this Village by the announcement of that sad event was undoubtedly produced by the apprehension that the dreaded Cholera was among us. It was the appalling news that an invaluable friend had bid us an eternal farewell whose soul was benevolence itself; whose charities assuaged the distresses and diffused the balm of comfort among all the poor and unfortunate around her; whose presence brought peace and quiet and joy into every social circle which she entered; whose mind was highly cultivated and richly endowed with all that can enliven human nature and chastened and purified by the most devoted and ardent, but unostentatious, and humble piety; and whom all admired and loved. Hence it was that every bosom, was thrilled with anguish and every heart was rived with grief. Her loss in the society in which she lived to the church and congregation of which she was a member and of which her husband was the Pastor and to the Christian community in this vicinity is irreparable. May a merciful god heal the bruised spirit and pour invigoration into the lacerated heart of her bereaved husband and preserve his only surviving child.
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We regret to learn that Mrs. Boardman, wife of the Rev. Mr. Boardman of Cherry Valley died of Cholera in that place on Wednesday, after an illness of nine hours. Mrs. B. contracted the disease while humanely attending a stranger who was sick of the same disease. Freeman's Journal, Cooperstown.
The facts of the above cases are these: A young gentleman came to this village nearly three weeks ago, from Troy [Rensselaer Co. NY], to visit a member of Rev. Mr. Boardman's family. For two weeks before coming here he had been afflicted with the diarrhea but had received only partial benefit. Upon his arrival here, by previously neglecting himself, he became worse. He remained here about two weeks, before he died, receiving the best medical attention and the kindest and most attentive care from Mrs. Boardman, to whom he was an entire stranger. Mrs. B. was untiring in her efforts to minister to his necessities and she unceasingly trespassed on tired nature to relieve the sufferings of the stranger. By thus exhibiting her disinterested friendship (which was a part of her nature) and being of a weakly constitution, she drooped under the weight of care and soon after the stranger's death, was taken dangerously ill and in about twelve hours died. These facts may be relied upon as true.
Our authority is unquestionable being that of the distinguished resident physician of this village who attended the deceased persons during their brief, but fatal illness.
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