Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 4, 1847
Death
Died in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on the 29th ult., Rufus A. [Utley] only son of Mr. Rufus Utley, aged 11 months and 18 days.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 11, 1847
Deaths
In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] on the 3d inst. Isaac Slater aged 82 years.
In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on Saturday last, Nelson Brooks, aged 9 years.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 18, 1847
Death
In Greene [Chenango Co. NY] on Thursday the 12th instant, Joseph Augustus [Lyon] infant child of Mr. S.V. Lyon of Greene.
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY August 25, 1847
Deaths
In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on the 19th inst. infant son of L.H. Clogston of Boston [MA] aged two months and fourteen days.
In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY] on the 19th inst. Mr. Gordon Weaver aged 61 years.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, January 3, 1880
Marriage
GIFFORD - STEVENSON: In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 31, 1879, by Rev. Mr. McAnulty, Mr. Alvah Gifford of Groton [Tompkins Co. NY] and Miss Annie Stevenson of this place.
Deaths
WYMAN: In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 30, 1879, Miss Susan Wyman aged 16 years.
BRIGGS: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 30, 1879, Mrs. Minnie E. [Briggs] wife of William P. Briggs, aged 19 years.
BROWN: In Earlville [Madison Co. NY] December 31, 1879, Mr. Frank Brown, son of N. Brown. [aged 22 years]
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BALCOM: Last week we copied a notice from an Elmira daily announcing the sudden death from heart disease of Rev. Benjamin F. Balcom near Corning, Steuben County, N.Y. A letter from his brother confirmed the sad intelligence and was followed in a few hours by a postal card announcing that on the next morning Rev George Balcom of Cawker City, Kansas, had died from hernia after a protracted illness, so that Dec. 20th and 21st, 1879, must be a day of sad memories to the relatives and friends.
Benjamin F Balcom was born at Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] Jan. 10th, 1810, and spent his early years in this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY] and Greene [Chenango Co. NY], but the great pine woods of Steuben County offered strong inducements to all lumbermen, and he with his family, left here to make a home in an almost unbroken section of that county, and his strong right arm and indomitable industry soon cleared the way, and he lived to see beautiful homesteads taking the place of the woods which fell swiftly before the axe of the pioneers, while the wolves and panthers were driven to seek safer localities out of range of unerring marksmen.
George Balcom, the youngest of nine children, was born at Oxford, in February 1822, and lived in this county most of the time until within the past fifteen years. Neither of these brothers in early life evinced any desire to enter the ministry, but both of them entered upon the work soon after conversion. Benjamin was not a settled pastor but widely and favorably known, was often called to attend funerals or officiate at weddings and kindred occasions among his townsmen and carried the same earnestness and will to do good to the service of his Master. George took a wider field and traversed a great portion of the North and West in his mission as an evangelist.
Hon. Ransom Balcom, late Justice of the Supreme Court, died Jan. 6th, 1879, in Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] and was brought to Oxford for interment. Mrs. Calvin Cole, sister of these three, died April 1st, 1879, in Oxford and is buried near her brother and Benjamin is buried in Steuben County, while George sleeps the last sleep in the historic soil of Kansas, where he leaves a widow and the three younger children, a son residing in New York.
Two brothers, Lyman of Painted Post, and Uri T. of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. Pearsall of Owego and Mrs. Rhodes of Fond du Lac, Wis. are the survivors of this family and may truthfully say:
"And we on divers shores now cast, / Shall meet when life's dark storm is passed / Safe in our Father's home at last."
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