Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, July 26, 1879
Marriage
CRUMB - ADAMS: At the residence of the bride's father, Giles Adams, Esq. July 22, by Rev. G. Foster, Mr. Simeon Crumb to Miss Alice S. Adams both of Beaver Meadow [Chenango County, NY]
Deaths
DARLING: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] July 19th, Nelson Darling aged 65 years.
ECCLESTON: In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY] July 2d, Mrs. Sally Eccleston aged 89 years.
FISHER: In Madison [Madison Co. NY] July 15th, Mrs. Abigal Fisher aged 86 years, mother of E.G. Fisher of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].
STURGES: In Gilbertsville [Otsego Co. NY] July 12th, Alexander Sturges formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].
DICKINSON: In Fon du Lac, Wis. July 4th, Mary A. [Dickinson] wife of Charles F. Dickinson, aged 58 years, formerly of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].
FINNELL: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] July 3d, Mrs. Margaret Finnell aged 74 years.
BANKS: Bainbridge, Chenango Co. NY: After a painful, lingering illness, Willie Banks eldest son of John and Sophia Banks, died on Wednesday evening. Deceased was about 16 years of age and an unusually bright and promising young man. The bereaved parents have the warmest sympathy of the entire community in this their sad affliction.
BOYCE: Mount Upton [Chenango Co., NY}: The remains of Mr. Russell Boyce were interred in our cemetery on the 22d at one o'clock. Mr. B. had gone on a visit to his sons at Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] which place he was in the habit of visiting every summer. Was there taken with paralysis which ended in death, on the 19th(?) inst. Mr. B. was the oldest member of the M.E. Church in this place and a most exemplary Christian.
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PECK: At South New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] On Monday July 14th, Mrs. Sallie M. Peck aged 80 years.
This estimable woman was born Feb. 13, 1800 at South New Berlin. Her maiden name was Phelps and she belonged to a family which was among the earlier settlers of the Unadilla Valley. Many of their descendants all reside in the county. She was twice married, her first husband being Mr. Paris Mowry of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] and her second husband, Mr. Soloman Peck of Mexico, N.Y. [Oswego Co. NY]. Between the two weddings there was an interval of thirty years. The first was in -?-, the later in -?-. Her married life was chiefly spent at Sherburne, Camden and Mexico in this state. during the last few years she has lived at her early home.
She was a woman of much vigor of body and mind. The closing years of her life have been devoted largely to others in caring for sick and aged ones among her kindred and most worthily has she filled her place. Her memory will be long and lovingly cherished by her surviving kindred and a large circle of friends will remember her as a valuable member of society and a consistent Christian. On Wednesday the 6th her body was laid in the village cemetery of south New Berlin. Her final illness was of only a few hours duration. She had been long ripening for the better life and illustrated the words of scripture, "Thou shalt come to the grave in a full age like a shock of corn cometh in its season."
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WING: At Oneonta, Otsego Co. N.Y. at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Minerva Whitney June 29th 1879, passed to a higher and brighter existence in the "better land," Rev. Amos Wing aged 82 years. The deceased was a father-in-law of A.D. Newman of this village.
A good man has gone home. One whose life fully exemplified the great principles of a true and genuine Christianity. For half a century, this noble and honest man was a faithful laborer in the vineyard of his master, as a Free Will Baptist minister.
Radically opposed to all wrong and oppression and remembering those in bonds as bound with them, he was one of the earliest to recognize an irrepressible conflict between freedom and slavery. earnestly desiring to see the day come when the enslavement of man by his brother should be wholly done away with, tempering his convictions by a just sense of the fitness of things, he submitted to the Higher Law and labored, prayed and waited for that end, which he scarce expected in his time, but lived and rejoiced to behold. By right of organization, he was a peace maker and to love mercy, deal justly and walk humbly was his consistent aim. Christian liberality and toleration of conscientious differences of opinion were distinguished and endearing traits in his character. While Christlike charity, without which the most vaunted piety is only "sounding brass and tinkling cymbal" walked with him hand in hand, enabling him to manifest in his life and conversation, the sublime truths embodied in that injunction, "therefore all things, whatsoever ye would that men do unto you, do ye even so to them." Pure in secret life, and invariably kind in all domestic relations, he was most highly esteemed by those who knew him best. Tender and loving memories of all his worth and goodness, will unfadingly bloom in the hearts of his children. and this tribute to his memory is offered by one who knew him long and well. Atlas, Monmouth, Ill.
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