Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, December 6, 1838
Marriages
On the 28th Nov. last at Silver Lake, Susquehanna County (Pa.) by the Rev. Charles E. Pleasants, William Main of this village [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY], to Ann [Rose] daughter of Robert H. Rose, Esq. of the former place.
At Ashfield, November 21, Mr. Chileab Smith in his ninety-seventy year, to widow Jerusha Ware, of Hebron, N.Y. [Washington Co.] in her eighty-second year. This makes Mr. Smith's fourth wife. He has labored on a farm ever since he was 5 years old, and up to last summer performed on the scythe through the season of haying equal to a man of 30 years. His love has evidently been universal, and ever on the march. He has living within three and a half miles of him, nine great-great grandchildren, who might have seen on the 21st of November, 1838, their great-great grandfather married. This is what we call handing down to posterity. Greenfield (Mass.) Courier
Death
At Peoria, Illinois, Nov. 14th, after a protracted and painful sickness, Mr. Aaron Russell, late of Windsor, Broome County [NY].
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, December 13, 1838
Marriage
In Windsor, Broome County, N.Y. on Thursday, Dec. 5th, by the Rev. James Keeier, of St. Paul's Church, Harpursville, Horatio S. Pierce, Esq. Merchant, of the firm of Gillespie & Pierce of Carbondal, Pa., to Miss Sophronia A. Rexford of Windsor.
A thousand blessings on the wedded pair, / Joy courts them on with all her mellow smiles; / May they be happy as the bride is fair, / And constant as old Ocean to her Isles.
Death
In Vestal [Broome Co. NY] on the 7th Dec. inst. Mrs. Hannah La Grange, wife of John La Grange, Esq. aged 64 years.
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, December 20, 1838
Deaths
In Harpursville [Broome Co. NY] on Tuesday morning last, Mr. Albert Adams, aged about 30 years.
In Homer, Cortland Co. [NY] Dec. 14, at the residence of her son, (J.C. Marvin) Mrs. Mary Marvin, aged 73 years.
Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, December 27, 1838
Deaths
In this village [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY] on the 23d instant, Mrs. Catharine Durkee wife of Mr. Joseph Durkee.
In this village [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY] on Sunday last, Miss Mary Jane Capron aged 20 years.
On the 2d November last, near Battle Creek, Calhoun Co. (Mich.) Mr. Giles Andrus formerly of this village [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY].
At Montgomery, Alabama, on the 12th inst. after a short illness, Mrs. Augusta [Fuller] wife of William Fuller, of Augusta, Georgia and youngest daughter of Gen. Erastus Root, of Delaware County, N.Y.
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From the Peoria Register, November 24.
"And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel."
It is proper to mourn for the dead; and especially when the church and society have lost one of their ablest pillars and brightest ornaments.
Aaron Russel was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, November 6, 1795. His mother being a woman of piety, he was early consecrated to God and when about the age of 20, he publicly acknowledged those vows which bound him to the Lord's.
Living in a new county -Broome County, N.Y. - his early advantages to obtain an education were very limited - consequently he was compelled to rise to a standard of mental culture, of more than ordinary attainment, by his own energy and perseverance. For some time, he was a successful schoolteacher, and, for more than eight years, he labored faithfully and successful in the tract cause. Ill health compelled him to relinquish the post of usefulness in this department, which he had sustained seven years in Boston, when he sought a home in the west. While in Boston, his integrity, activity and efficiency in doing good secured for him the confidence and affection of the Christian community. When afflicted, he also shared in their substantial sympathy.
On one occasion he was advised by his physician to take a journey, and while deliberating on the question of going alone, the following kind note came to hand:
"Knowing and valuing as I do the society and sympathies of an affectionate wife, the enclosed fifty dollars is an expression of my desire that your dear wife should accompany you on your contemplated journey for the restoration of your health. Your affectionate brother in Christ."
When on the eve of leaving Boston, another note was received signed by gentlemen whose praise is in all the churches, enclosing one hundred and fifty dollars, "as an expression of their sympathy and affection."
Such sympathy is worth more than floods of tears from those who feel everywhere but in their pockets. On coming to the west, he did not leave his religion behind him. He felt at liberty nowhere, under no circumstances, to lay aside the badge of his discipleship. He was a man of Christian decision.
Sometimes, perhaps, his manner left the impression that he was a man of iron rigidity and unbending obduracy; yet, if Christian decision implies a clear perception of truth and duty, and moral courage to perform duty, though the world should be against him - if it implies trust in God and a willingness to submit the accomplishment and results of every work to Him - Aaron Russell was a man of decision.
He was not, regardless of public opinion; yet the Bible was his standard of right and wrong - its precepts his directory, its principles his rule. As was said of the late lamented Dr. Bartlett, he also dared to do right.
When such men fall, where shall we look for those who will fill their places?
In the death of Mr. R., a wife is written a widow, a church is bereaved of one of its most active members and elders, A Sabbath school of its devoted superintendent, the cause of benevolence of a warm patron and friend, and society of one of its most efficient men. His end was peaceful, his life departing like the dying taper. "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."
Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, NY, October 7, 1848
Death
In Springfield [Otsego Co. NY] on the 28th ult. Mrs. Eunice Keyes, relict of Lester F. Keyes, deceased, aged 62 years.
Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, NY, October 14, 1848
Marriages
In Otego [Otsego Co. NY] on the 5th inst. by Harvey Hunt, Esq. Gilbert Datton to Mary Coon, both of Milford [Otsego Co. NY].
In Westford [Otsego Co. NY] on the 11th instant by the Rev. Mr. Wadsworth, Robert R. Jackson to Gracia []Skinney] daughter of George Skinney, Esq. both of Westford.
Death
At Fly Creek, Otsego County [NY] on the 25th ult. of inflammation of the lungs, Dr. E.B. Ingalls aged 37 years.
This last illness was of short duration, confining him only eight days, but his sufferings were extreme. This blow of a wise and good Providence is a heavy one, not only to the lone widow, the now fatherless children and surviving relations, but to the whole community in which he lived. The departed was an ornament and an honor to his profession; the kindness of his heart, with his untiring diligence in the discharge of the duties imposed upon him, has embalmed his name in the memory of those he was called to serve; and while they deplore their own severe loss they cannot fail to give a generous sympathy and affectionate attentions to those he left behind. While his early departure from the circle he adorned, cannot fail to remind all who survive him of the changeless truth that "in the midst of life we are in death."
Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, NY, October 21, 1848
Marriages
In this village [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY] on the 12th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Bristol, Charles W. Mason to Caroline Clarke, both of Cooperstown.
In Burlington [Otsego Co. NY] on the 1st inst. by H.G. Hardkin, Esq. Addison Byum to Eliza Smith, both of Burlington.
At Exeter [Otsego Co. NY] on the 17th inst. by the same, David Purple of Allegany county [NY] to Miss Lucy Baldwin of Exeter.
Death
In Middlefield [Otsego Co. NY] on the 25th ult. Mrs. Sally Ann [Still] wife of Mr. Joseph L. Still, aged 35 years. The deceased was a devoted member of the Baptist Church and died in the full faith of a happy immortality. She has left a large circle of friends to mourn her loss.
Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, NY, October 28, 1848
Marriage
In Burlington [Otsego Co. NY] on the 11th inst. by D. Fisk, Esq. Orson Benjamin to Caroline Gardner, both of Otsego [Otsego Co. NY].
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