Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 20, 1879
Deaths
Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY: Daniel Shaw of this village, who has long been a sufferer from a cancer, died on Wednesday last and the funeral was held on Sunday.
We last week published an account of the accident to John E. Minshull, Master Mechanic of the New York & Oswego Midland railroad at East Branch, on Wednesday last. At the time of the accident, it was not thought that his injuries were of a fatal character and until near midnight, Monday, he was thought to be improving, but at near that hour he began to grow worse and died at 4:30 Tuesday morning. Mr. Minshull had been in the employ of the Midland since the road was built, first being employed in the Oswego shops [Oswego Co. NY]. He then went on as a fireman and was soon promoted to engineer. From that he was promoted to foreman of the Middletown shops and some two years ago was made Master Mechanic of the entire road. He was very popular with the men under him and universally respected by his associates on and off the road. He leaves a wife but no children. His aged father and mother, who reside in Oswego, went down on the Midland, Monday, and reached him but a few hours before he died. His funeral will take place at Middletown [Delaware Co. NY], on Thursday at 2 P.M.
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 23, 1879
Marriages
WADSWORTH - COLBURN: At the residence of Mr. Amasa Colburn in Guilford, N.Y. [Chenango Co.] Aug. 21st, 1879, by Rev. T.P. Halsted, Mr. William M. Wadsworth of Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] and Miss Katherine M. Colburn of Guilford.
In our matrimonial column will be found a notice of the nuptials of William W. Wadsworth of Cazenovia and Miss Catherine M. Colburn of Guilford. A kind remembrance of the printer with a generous supply of the wedding cake, puts us in the mood to extend hearty congratulations and to wish the happy couple a smooth voyage on the matrimonial sea.
FORD - SEYMOUR: At the residence of the bride, Aug. 12th, by Rev. E.W. Lake, Mr. Edwin Ford of Morristown, N.J., to Mrs. Eliza Seymour of Whitney's Point [Broome Co. NY].
Deaths
BENEDICT: At the residence of John Benedict, in Greene [Chenango Co. NY] July 29th, Mrs. Mary [Benedict] widow of the late Ephraim W Benedict of Ogdensburg, N.Y. [St Lawrence Co.] aged 65 years.
STERLING: Bainbridge, Chenango Co. NY: Mrs. Isaac Sterling whose death occurred last Friday evening, was a most estimable lady. Deceased was about 38 years of age. Her funeral services took place Tuesday afternoon at St. Peter's Church of which the deceased was a devoted and consistent member. a large circle of friends and acquaintances are left to mourn her untimely death.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, September 6, 1879
Marriage
ALLEN - WHITE: At the M.E. parsonage, in Earlville [Madison Co., NY] Aug. 29, 1879, by Rev. J.L. Short, Mr. Wallace W. Allen and Celestia M. White both of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
Died in Columbus [Chenango Co. NY] on the 26th of August 1879, in the 87th year of her age, Mrs. Margaret Storrs. The deceased was the widow of Rev. Samuel Porter Storrs, for many years pastor of the Congregational Church in Exeter, Otsego County, N.Y. and afterwards pastor of the Congregational Church in Columbus, where he died in 1843. she has survived her husband some thirty-six years, much of which time she has spent in this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY] and in Columbus, in which places as well as at the east she leaves a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn her loss.
Chenango Lake, Chenango Co. NY: Mr. Conoerse, an aged man who resided with his son Herbert, was taken with a fit of apoplexy about one week ago and lingered at the point of death till Saturday morning when he died. The deceased was a native of Cortland Co. [NY] he having moved here four or five years ago. Although his stay among us has been short all nave learned to love and esteem him as a neighbor and friend. His remains were taken to Cortland for burial Sunday.
Greene, Chenango Co. NY: Mrs. William O. Barnard of Mason City, Iowa, who came here about two weeks since for the purpose of visiting friends, was taken sick with pneumonia a short time after her arrival and died Sunday forenoon at the residence of her brother-in-law, Mr. R.P. Barnard. Her husband who was in Kansas, was telegraphed to when it became apparent she could not live and arrived here Monday morning, a few hours after his wife's death. Her remains were taken to Cortland (her former home) on Tuesday, for burial. American
Fred Berray of Walton [Delaware Co. NY] a Midland brakeman, while switching cars at Sidney [Delaware Co. NY] on Saturday afternoon, caught his heal in the frog, and was unable to free himself before the car struck him, passing over his body near his hip. He was carried to his home in Walton, where he died on Monday evening.
Chenango Lake, Chenango Co. NY: On Friday morning, Nora [Pickens] daughter of George Pickens died, aged 1 year 8 months. I have learned that another of Mr. Pickens daughters is dangerously sick with the same disease.
