Vital Records, Oxford, NY - Oxford, NY

 Oxford Times, June 6, 1860

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], June 1st, Samuel R. Clarke, M.D., aged 50 years and 7 months.  One dear to very many hearts, a kind friend and physician, has gone to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns.  Many have watched with painful solicitude the insidious progress of disease; have seen the firm step falter, the cheek grow thin and pale, yet hoped almost against hope, that something would yet be found to restore health and strength, but all in vain.  The death of Dr. Clarke is a public loss.  He was a good citizen, generous, public spirited and hospitable.  His presence in the family circle, the skill which ministered to weakness and pain, the words of comfort and encouragement which lightened the burden of sorrow, will be held in faithful memory.  His willing hand in all which concerned the well being of his fellow man, is palsied in death, his place beside the altar and the hearth is vacant, but his name is linked with too many sad and tender associations to be soon forgotten.

Died:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on 27th ult., Mr. Hinsdale Rose, aged 60 years.

Oxford Times, June 13, 1860

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., b Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Nehemiah Barnes to Miss Phebe Ann Webb, both of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. by the same, Mr. Willard M. Bentley of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Laura Eggleston of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Portsmouth, Ohio, June 4th, by Rev. S.D. Tompkins, Mr. Henry F. Balcom to Miss Caroline Reeve, all of that city.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult., by Rev. J.D. Webster, Mr. Ben Brown of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Sarah A. Adams of Greene.

Died:  In this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., Eva [Hull], only child of Edwin A. and Martha B. Hull, aged 10 months and 22 days.

Died:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult., Mr. John Pike, aged 68 years.

Died:  At Cortland [Cortland Co., NY], on the 5th inst., suddenly of apoplexy, at the residence of Gen. R. Randall, Mrs. T. Runyan, relict of the late Stephen O. Runyan, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mrs. Ann Maria [Juliand], wife of Col. Joseph Juliand, and daughter of the late Erastus Perkins, deceased, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 56 years.  The removal from our midst, by the hand of death, of beloved friends, furnishes the occasion of retracing the treasured traits of character by which they were endeared to us, and increases the sense of our bereavement in the loss we have sustained.  And pre-eminently is this the fact, when to qualities of native excellence, there is added the power of Christian virtues and graces.  A most devoted Christian wife and mother has left a void in the home circle which none but they who suffer under this bereavement can understand and appreciate.  Warm and devoted in her attachment to the Church of her affections, consistent in her walk as a Christian disciple, delighted in every token that marked the prosperity of the Church, and constant and cordial in the manifestation of her interest in all that was involved in the fulfilment of her duty, she has left the testimony so full of comfort, that her life was hid with Christ in God.  In the Church's chastened services, her affections were deeply rooted, and year by year she found those services to embrace and embody the life of holy obedience.  With the earliest history of the Church in this community she was warmly identified, and in all ways by which in her sphere, its prosperity could be promoted, she was cordially devoted to the promotion of that end and object.  It is one of the special results of the Church's influence in developing the Christian character, that it is the quiet graces that are evolved under her hallowed teaching and culture.  And therefore it is that the very absence of one-sided forms of religious development is the highest commendation due to the influence by the Gospel through the Church.  In the remembrance of this thought we have the secret of that tranquil power by which the true believer in the Church is reared to the stature of the life of holiness.  Calmly and gently the Christian life flows on, with nothing obtrusive to mark it, because so well proportioned and just and true in its balance. And as the life of the true Christian wife and mother and friend is passed in quiet duties and gentle offices, so when the call from the Master cometh, the departure is gentle and sweet and peaceful.  The same humble, submissive spirit breathes forth, whether it be for life or death.  Hallowed by the memory of such, and gratefully do we remember that the Church of our love finds it her mission to unfold such forms of piety for duty here and for blessedness beyond the grave.  Gospel messenger.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., after a brief illness, Ward B. [Loomis], youngest child of Beniar and Sarah Loomis, aged 2 years.  "My Lord hath need of these flowerets gay, / The Reaper said and smiled, / Dear tokens of the earth are they, / Where he was once a child; / They all sha'l bloom in fields of light, / Transplanted by my care, / And saints upon their garments bright, / These sacred blossoms wear."

Oxford Times, June 20, 1860

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. Charles A. Johnson to Miss Hannah E. Ingersoll, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on the 7th inst. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Theodore Hill of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary Mead of Norwich.

Married:  In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst. by Rev. J.M. Crandall, Mr. Calvin L. King of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Annette L. Lewis, of the former place.

Died:  In Springfield, Mass. on the 2d inst. of consumption, Mr. W. Dwight Smith formerly of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] aged 23 years.

Oxford Times, June 27, 1860

Married:  in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by the Rev. S. R. Johnson, the Rev. N.A. Johnson to Miss Henrietta A. Chamberlin, daughter of the late J.P. Chamberlin of Afton [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. Mrs. Philley of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY] and widow of Remembrance Philley, aged 96 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. of consumption, Miss Sarah S. [Pendleton], daughter of Mr. Wm. Pendleton, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY, aged 28 years.

On Monday night of this week, some persons unknown assaulted the dwelling house occupied by Horace Burlison and his family, situated about a mile east of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] near the old turnpike gate, bursting in the doors and tearing off the roof from the house.  A man by the name of Samuel Robinson, one of the rioters was shot in the affray by the occupant of the house. the particulars of the affray are not yet known, but will be given as soon as ascertained by the Coroner's Jury which is about being summoned, and the matter is undergoing investigation as we go to press.

Vital Records, Norwich, NY - December 1840 & May 1860

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 2, 1840

Married:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the evening of the 29th inst., by the Rev. LA. Barrows, Col. Roswell Curtiss to Miss Polly M. Hale, all of Norwich.

Died:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday evening, the 19th ult., of Apoplexy, Micah Gross, Jr., aged 32 yrs.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 9, 1840

Died:  In Brockport, Monroe country, N.Y. on the 27th ult., Mrs. Caroline R. [Brewster], wife of Mr. F.W. Brewster, aged 32 years.  For months past, she had been in declining health which led her friends to fear that at no very distant day, they should be deprived of her very interesting society; and her husband and two interesting daughters, of an excellent wife and mother.  But a Hemorrhage of the lungs, that commenced seven days before her death, hastened on the parting hour.  She was of that class of wives and mothers, whose price is above rubles.  She was an exemplary Christian; and those who surrounded her dying couch, witnessed the covenant faithfulness of an unchanging God, who has promised never to forsake those who put their trust in Him.  And from her calm and affectionate exhortation to her husband and friends, to take Jesus Christ for their portion, and the confidence with which she committed her little daughters to her dear Savior, just as she was departing to her eternal rest, led them to believe of a truth "that blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."  Le Roy Gazette. Mrs. Brewster was a sister of Mrs. I. Milner of this village, and spent the year 1830 in this place  She was much endeared to that part of community with whom she was acquainted.

Died:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday, the 23d ult. Mr. Parker P. Phillips, aged 67 years.

Died:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday, Nov. 30th, of Scarlet Fever, William Waterman [Cahoon], son of Mr. Charles Cahoon, aged 4 years and 6 months.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 16, 1840

Died:  In Edmeston?, Otsego Co. on the 5th inst., Mr. Gideon DeForest, in the 76 year of his age.  He was born at Stratford, Conn in 1765, and was one of the band of four brothers, all Revolutionary Soldiers and pensioners who met five years since at the house of Henry DeForest in this village, after a lapse of half a century in all which time they had not been together.  He enjoyed throughout the reputation of  an honest man and exemplary citizen.  Thus, one by one are the relics of the Revolution passing away, and the grave will so enclose upon the last of the noble race of men to heroic sacrifices and sufferings we are indebted for the rich but now rightly proud blessing of liberty, which we now enjoy.

Died:  In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], of consumption on the 4th inst., Dexter Smith, aged 65 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mrs. Emeline [Monroe], wife of John Monroe, Jr., aged 24 years.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 23, 1840

Married:  In Chatham, Conn., on the 2d instant, by Rev. S.M. Emery, Mr. Lucius Smith, merchant of New York and Miss Elizabeth P. [Churchill], daughter of the late Capt. David Churchill of Chatham.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 30, 1840

Married:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst. by -?- Howard, Mr. William D. Gilbert, Merchant of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary P. [Packer], daughter of Mr. James Packer of the former place.  (Cake in profusion accompanied the above notice)

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 2, 1860

Died:  FRANK:  At Bennettsville N.Y. [Chenango Co.] April 16th Leonard Frank aged 33 years.

Died:  HAVENS:  At West Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], March 21st, Mrs. Polly Havens, aged 36 years.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 9, 1860

Married:  BECKAM -CRANDAL:  At the Parsonage in Madison [Madison Co., NY] by Rev. A. Button, Lewis Beckam to Miss Mary Crandal all of Madison.

Died:  PARMELEE:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday afternoon, the 2d inst., Dr. Edward H. Parmelee, aged 52 years.  The remains of the deceased were taken to Fly Creek, Otsego County [NY] where they were interred on Friday afternoon the 4th inst.  Dr. Parmelee was a  native of Killingworth Ct. came early to Springfield, Otsego County where he spent the greater period of his life.  He removed from Cooperstown to Norwich in 1845 commenced the business of dentistry, and became a practical physician in his own house, which has been the resort of numerous invalids and patients from various sections of the country.  As a dentist and physician, in his family, Dr. Parmelee is thought to have had few superiors or more successful ingenious affable, kind, and patient to a remarkable degree, he succeeded by these qualities in inspiring confidence in those about him, and will be remembered with grateful affection by many who are now enjoying health as the result of his untiring industry and skillful management, which, at the same time had much to do with confirming his own consumptive habit, and maturing the disease of which he died. The Doctor indulged a Christian hope and united with the Presbyterian Church at the early period of fifteen years of age but, through embarrassment in business, worldly cares and other influences which overbear the religious sentiment, since his settlement in Norwich until his last sickness, the subject of religion, as a personal matter had been measurably ignored.  Still we are not without satisfactory evidence that the Doctor died in the consolations of Christian hope.  His words as always on the subject of religion were few, but his few expressions to his family and pastor were full of comforting import, his prayers were earnest, his maternal education was called to mind and his assurance of pardon through atoning merit, certainly gave cheering evidence that his unusually quiet departure was the result of faith as well as of a subdued native disposition and temper. This to the widow and children remaining when they think of him as he was in health, in his sickness, as he is in the burial place of his earlier and later home, resting peacefully and quietly will prove a richer source of comfort than all kindly words of sympathizing friend.  When a true and, faithful husband, a kind and,patient father, and a generous friend has departed, it is something--more than all--to hope that he rests in Heaven.

Died:  WYCKOFF:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] April 29th, Ella Jane [Thomas], daughter of Thomas and Emily Wyckoff, aged 3 years and 8 months.  Peaceful be thy silent slumber / peaceful in the grave so low / Thou no more wilt join our number / Thou no  more our songs shalt know

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 16, 1860

Married:  PURPLE - MARTIN:  At the residence of the bride's father, on the 1st inst., by Rev. S.N. Westcott, A.C. Purple, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss M.E. Martin, of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  DUNLAP:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday morning last, after a lingering and painful illness, Miss Georgie M. [Dunlap] daughter of Robert Dunlap, Esq. formerly of Cherry Valley [Otsego Co., NY], and sister of Mrs. Isaac S. Newton, aged 28 years.

Sad Occurrence:  The wife of Rev. L. L. Gage of DeRuyter [Madison Co., NY] came to her death, on Sunday evening last, under circumstances peculiarly painful.  She had been subject to fits of insanity for a long time, and had been in the Asylum at Utica, whence she was taken some months since, in a condition apparently much improved, though occasionally showing unmistakable evidences of aberration of mind.  Attending a funeral on Sunday no doubt produced a sudden depression of feeling, and at about ten o'clock in the evening she was missed from her accustomed place in the house. After a long search, her bonnet was found on the banks of Mr. Simeon Rider's Tannery pond, and her body was finally recovered from the deep water below the dam, long after life had become perfectly extinct. This painful occurrence has cast a gloom over the whole community and has deprived a devoted husband of a young, interesting and lovely wife, and a small child of a fond mother.  

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 23, 1860

Married:  BROWN - TUTTLE:  In St. Paul's Church, Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], May 9 by Rev. Mr. Costell, James B. Brown of New York to Miss Catharine B. Tuttle of Oxford.

Died:  EDWARDS:  In Cincinnatus [Cortland Co., NY] on the 13th instant, Margaret [Edwards], wife of Elijah Edwards and sister of David Maydole of this village.

Died:  HUNT:  At Chilo, Clermont County, Ohio, May 9th, 1860, of lung fever, J. Hunt, Jr. aged 45 years.  Mr. Hunt was for a long time engaged in the publishing business and since his retirement has been a contributor to many of the prominent papers and periodicals of the county.  He was a man of decided literary attainments and his death will be generally and deeply regretted.  Cincinnati Daily Enquirer.  The deceased formerly resided in Bainbridge in this county [Chenango Co., NY].

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 30, 1860

Died:  ROSE:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th instant, Hinsdale Rose, aged 60 years.  In the death of Mr. Rose the community has lost one of its best citizens and the church to which he belonged one of its strongest pillars.

Died:  BURLINGAME:  In Fox Prairie, Oregon, Jan. 12th, 1860, of pleurisy, in the 61st year of her age, Mrs. Freelove Burlingame, wife of Joel Burlingame.  She was born in Rhode Island.  In 1819 she was married and resided at different periods of time in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, California and Oregon. She was the mother of eight children, six of whom live to mourn the loss of one of the most affectionate of mothers.  Her eldest son, Hon. Anson Burlingame, of Massachusetts is well known to the world.  In 1821 our lamented sister professed religion and united with the M.E. Chruch in which she lived a consistent member until she joined the church triumphant.  Soon after she was taken ill she remarked that it was her last sickness and added "It is better for me to depart and be with Christ."  Calmly and cheerfully she at once arranged her -?- and spoke affectionately of her children and [arranged] her final affairs. [...unreadable...] Not a murmur escaped her lips until after midnight, on the third day of her sickness, her patient, gentle spirit went to dwell in that bright world where "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away."  J. Ostrander

Vital Records, Greene, NY, May 3, 1860

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, May 3, 1860

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] on the 27th ult. Mrs. Mercy Burges, aged 74 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, May 10, 1860

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst. by Rev. Jas. D. Webster, Dr. M.M. Wood of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sarah M. Ramsey of the former place.

Married:  At Zion Church in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Jonas G. French, of Milford, Ct., to Mrs. Frances A. Matthews, of this village.

Married:  In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], at the residence of S.S. Dunton, on the 1st inst. by Pres. Geo. W. Eaton, Moses G. Fellows, Associate Editor of the New Jersey Standard of Red Bank, to Miss Helen McDonald of Hamilton [Madison Co., NY].

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] on the 5th inst. Lydia [Thomas], wife of Samuel Thomas, aged 69 years.

Mr. Charles Chubbuck, father of the lamented Mrs. Emily C. Jamson, ("Fanny Forrester") died in Hamilton [Madison Co., NY] on the 21st ult, aged 80 years.

Found:  The body of Mr. Lewis Dubois, of Port Crane [Broome Co., NY], was found below the dam of the paper mill in the Chenango.  It will be recollected that he was drowned four weeks ago while attempting to cross the river. An inquest was held by Coroner Brigham, and a verdict of accidental drowning rendered.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, May 17, 1860

Died:  In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] on the 9th inst. Mary L. [Fredenburg], daughter of John and Adelaide Fredenburg, aged 9 years.

Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. Georgie? M. Dunlap, daughter of Robert Dunlap and sister of Mrs. Isaac S. Newton, aged 23 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst. Mr. Timothy Dimock, aged 50 years.

Died:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst. Simon E. [Park], son of John F. and Lucy A. Park, aged 9 years and 8 months.

Died:  On the 8th inst., Lucy A. [Park], wife of John A. Park, aged 30 years.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. Mr. Stephen Waterman, aged 58 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, May 31, 1860

Married:  In Jersey City [NJ] at the residence of the bride's father, on Tuesday the 29th inst. by Rev. W. H. Parmley, Doct. J.J. Youlin to Miss Mary Hester Pell, daughter of Samuel Pell, Esq., all of Jersey City.

Married:  In Madison, Wis., by Rev. Dr. McWright, Mr. J. Mason Haight of Fort Atkinson, late publisher of the Chenango News in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Elvira E. Church of the former place.

Married:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. by Alfred Brown, Esq., Mr. Geo. Finch to Miss Lucy Weaver, all of Pitcher.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th inst., Mr. Isaac Rogers, aged 51 years.

Died:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th inst., Mr. Hinsdale Rose, aged 60 years.

Died:  In Triangle [Broome Co., NY], on the 28th inst. Eliza Ann [Clough], wife of Francis Clough, aged 41 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, May 17, 1860

Henry McVey, aged 33 years, died at the Chenango House, in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on Friday last.  This is the young man who we have heretofore mentioned as having come among us a total stranger and who was taken suddenly ill.  For nearly three months he has languished upon a bed of pain and suffering, supporting himself under his trying difficulties with remarkable fortitude.  His case was a very peculiar one, puzzling the most skillful physicians by the complicated nature of his disease.  He has been a young man of correct habits, as far as could be learned, but a very unfortunate one.  His last permanent residence was at Port Jervis in this State.  Circumstances connected with his marriage relation, which it is unnecessary to mention, caused him to divorce himself form his wife, leaving two small children behind him, and become an unfortunate wanderer.  The occasion of his visit here, was in connection with the sale of a patent right in which he was interested. His friends are in limited circumstances, so much so that one only, a brother, has been able to visit him during his illness. Though almost destitute of means he has been cared for in the kindest manner possible.  A skillful and patient nurse has been in constant attendance upon him, medical aid and religious consolation have been afforded him, his last hours were soothed by the presence of attentive and sympathizing friends, and his remains were escorted to their final resting place by a numerous concourse of our citizens.  Frequently, and with much emotion, did he pour out his gratitude to those who did so much to alleviate his sufferings and smooth his pathway to the grave. Tribulation was his lot here; let us hope that he has achieved a triumph in the great hereafter.

Vital Records, Oxford, NY - May 1860

 Oxford Times, May 2, 1860

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Kittie S. Bush, adopted daughter of Thos. A. and Martha E. Bush, aged 17 years.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., Mr. George D. Avery, aged 97 years.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on 23d ult. Harriet [Root], wife of Mr. George W. Root, aged 32 years.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], suddenly, of heart disease, on the 26th ult. Clarissa Quivey [Hills], wife of Rev. J.W. Hills, aged 35 years.  A large circle of friends have been suddenly called to mourn the loss of a devoted wife and mother, a dutiful daughter, and an affectionate sister, one in whose life and character was represented to an unusual degree the varied virtues and Christian graces which memory so fondly cherishes.

Died:  in Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult., Eva Estelle [Wheeler], daughter of Ephraim Wheeler, aged 6 years.

Died:  in Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. Idelette L. [Rogers], daughter of Joseph and Catharine Rogers, aged 3 years.

I remembered how I loved her when a little guiltless child, / I saw her in the cradle,. As she looked on me and smil'd /My cup of happiness was full, my words cannot tell; / And I bless'd the glorious Giver who doeth all things well.

Months passed, that bud of promise was unfolding every hour, / I thought that earth had never smiled upon a fairer flower, / So beautiful, it well might grace the bowers where Angels dwell, / And waft its fragrance to His throne who doeth all things well.

Years fled, that little daughter the was dear as life to me, / And woke to my unconscious heart a wild idolatry, / I worshipped at an earthly shrine, lured by some magic spell, / Forgetful of the praise of Him who doeth all things well.

She was the lovely star, whose light around my pathway shone, / Amid it's darksome vale of tears, through which I journeyed on, / Its radiance had obscured the light which round His throne doth dwell, / And I wandered far away from Him who doeth all things well.

That star went down in beauty, yet it shineth sweetly now / In the bright and dazzling cornet that decks the Savior's brow, / She bowed to the Destroyer whose shaft none may repel, / But we knew, for God, hath told me, he doeth all things well.

I remember well my sorrow as I stayed beside her bed, / And my deep heartfelt anguish when they told me she was dead. / And oh! that cup of bitterness, let not my heart rebel, / God gave, He took, He will restore, He doeth all things well.   

Oxford Times, May 9, 1860

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th ult. by Rev. Mr. Cope, Mr. J.E. Truesdell to  Miss Carrie L. Peck.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Dr. E.H. Parmelee, aged 50 years.

Died:  In East McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. Mr. Ichabod Randall, aged 82 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Ann Maria [Juliand], wife of Col. Joseph Juliand, aged 53? years.

Oxford Times, May 16, 1860

Married:  In St. Paul's Church, in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. by Rev. Mr. Costell, Mr. James B. Brown of New York, to Miss Catharine B. [Tuttle], daughter of Cyrus Tuttle, of Oxford.

Married:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. S.N. Wescott, Mr. A.C. Purple of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss M.E. Martin of McDonough.

In Masonville [Delaware Co., NY] on the 2d inst. by Eld. Jacobs, Mr. W.H. Pratt of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Susan Ertley of the former place.

Oxford Times, May 23, 1860

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. by Rev. J.D. Webster, Mr. George W. Driscall of Greene to Miss Elsie C. Bostwick of Owego [Tioga Co., NY].  Both deaf mutes.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. Annie S. [Wheeler], wife of Thomas J. Wheeler, aged 69? years.

Oxford Times, May 29, 1860

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst., Betsey [Gifford], wife of Mr. Joseph Gifford, aged 74 years.

Died:  In Chilo, Ohio, on 9th inst., of lung fever, Mr. J. Hunt, Jr., aged 45 years, formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

Oxford Times, May 2, 1860

Death of George D. Avery.  The decease in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], of this venerable citizen, Thursday last, claims at our hands a passing notice.  Mr. Avery was born at Groton, in the State of Connecticut, August 19th, 1768, and at his death had nearly completed his ninety-seventh year.  He was a colonial subject of George the Fourth and a witness of some of the exciting scenes of the America Revolution.  He witnessed the burning of New London by the British, and was a pupil of Nathan Daboll who with his arithmetic was long since numbered among the things that were.  On the 8th day of August, 1796, Mr. Avery took up his residence at Bellville, on the Ohio River, in the State of Virginia, after a toilsome journey of 800 miles.  He there undertook the arduous task of early settlement, against the disadvantages now unknown of building in a new country with limited facilities and difficult means of communication.  He was familiar with many of the stirring events of the early settlement of that locality, prominent among which were the romantic incidents in the life of Herman Blennerhasset, and his island paradise in the Ohio, and the strange adventure of Aaron Burr connected therewith, of all of which he was personally cognizant.  Adverse fortune at Bellville, induced Mr. Avery to remove to Georgetown in the State of Virginia, about 1812, and while there engaged in surveying during a period of nearly twenty years. He was an observer of the important political events and frequently in the society of the public men of that period.  About the year 1830, through the kindness of Benjamin Butler, deceased, who married his sister, he was induced to remove to this place [Oxford, NY] where he has since resided.  Mr. Avery was twice married, but had long survived his children, one of whom was a midshipman in the United States Navy with Commodores Rogers and Decatur and died in 1815.  He retained his faculties to a remarkable degree, and until recently could read and write with great facility.  He voted at every election for President since the formation of the Government, which act was performed by him with religious sense of duty.  It is only when we crowd into a single life like that of Mr. Avery, the strange events of a century, and count by deeds instead of years, that we realize, in all its fullness the momentous value of existence. When his life journey began, Napoleon and Wellington were yet to be.  During his career the leaders of the English Parliament and the leaders of the America Revolution, that race of Titans, have lived and gone, the wars of Napoleon and the war of independence have become historical and a new Republic with a network of railroads and a web work of wires has been extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific, embracing in its ample fold more than thirty million inhabitants.  It is great to have lived in such an age, it is seldom that a single life bears witness to events so transcendent, progress so romantic, achievement so momentous.  The sun sinking in his Western horizon irradiates with his parting beams, the Eastern hills leaving the intermediate valleys to rest in shadow, and so the sun of Mr. Avery's life as it hastened downward cast a peculiar light upon the hills of his youth; he seemed to wander out of the body and revisited boyhood's scenes, the brook that murmured down the hill, the familiar homes of friends long dead, and the chosen haunts of years long past.  The latter years of Mr. Avery's life have passed serenely away, under the watchful care of a niece, who to the tender assiduity of a dutiful daughter, added the kind offices of an experienced mother, until like  child weary with the sports of a long day, he rests in the sweet hope of a joyful immortality.  [Buried Riverview Cemetery, Oxford, NY]

Oxford Times, May 23, 1860 - Happenings of the Day

Nomination of Abraham Lincoln for President

The Convention and the Candidates:  We devote considerable space in our present issue to the proceedings of the Chicago Convention, those proceedings are the best argument which we can offer in favor of Republican principles, the Republican platform and the Republican candidates.  The Convention which assembled at Chicago on Wednesday last, was the most numerously attended, the most enthusiastic and the most harmonious in its action, of any similar body assembled, for like purposes in many years. They adjourned on Friday, having fulfilled the trust committed ot them by the nomination of ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois for President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine, for Vice President of the united States.  While there were several candidates before the convention, each urged by their respective friends with zeal and the ardor of intense friendship, there was not from first to last the first evidence of ill will, nor was there apparent the least tenacity which interfered with the entire harmony and enthusiasm of every State for the final nominee of the convention.  Mr. Lincoln was nominated on the third ballot, the announcement was received with prolonged, deafening and repeated applause, and the several States, one by one rushed together like mountain streams, and mingled in one common sea of delightful harmony and joy.  

It was because the convention represented the people and not the claims of rival politicians trained in intrigue and intent upon selfish and personal ends and aims, that they were thus harmonious and enthusiastic.  In the nomination of Abraham Lincoln the Republican Convention have done honor to the popular head and the popular heart.  He is emphatically one of the people.  He is a man firm, inflexible, honest, self reliant and able, he has attained the first eminence in his adopted State, wrested by hard knocks, against fortune, limited means and humble birth, compelling enemies to admit his claims whether willing or not.  Mr. Lincoln has not been made great by office, but by exhibiting he essential qualities of a man, of marked character and ability. in an age of corruption and extravagance, and against a party far gone in official dereliction and wickedness, the people required a man of strong will, honesty and private virtue, and in Mr. Lincoln they have found the man, in an age of political heresy and against a party which has deserted principles which are the foundation of Republican institutions, the people required a man of tried principals and ability to defend them, and they have found the man who bearded the Little Giant of West in his den, and exposed his sophistry, corruption and villainy.

Of Hannibal Hamlin, the Republican candidate for vice President, we need hardly speak in old Chenango, whose congregated thousands heard his able defense of their principles in 1856.  He has been tried and found faithful, and when the Democratic party had gone far away from the compromises of the constitution and wandered blindly beneath the dark cloud of slavery, he headed the opposition in Maine and added that Star of the East to the glorious galaxy of Republican States.  The Resolutions are brief, plain, pointed, and conservative.  They do not lower the standard under which the battle of '56 was fought, and with them and the candidates the Republicans can achieve a victory if they only will.

Vital Records, Norwich, NY - April 1860

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 4, 1860

Died:  MINOR:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] on the 24th ult., Mrs. Thankful Minor, wife of the late -?- Minor and mother of ... Ephraim Minor, aged 98 years and 4 months.  The deceased leaves behind her -?- children, 36 grandchildren, 44 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great-grandchildren.  ...the loss of one who, by her con... example has directed their attention to the path of his principles and piety. May her mantle fall on her entire offsprings.

Chenango American, April 11, 1860

Married:  CORNING - PECK:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] on the 27th ult. by Rev. Mr. White, Benjamin L. Corning of Taylor Cortland Co. [NY] to Miss Martha Peck of Pitcher.

Married:  ANDERSON - COLE:  At Morris [Otsego Co., NY], March 28th, Mr. A... Anderson of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Phebe E. Cole of -?-.

Married:  JOHNSON - GRISWOLD:  In -?- ... by Rev. W. Kingsley, William Johnson of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Henrietta Griswold of German [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  FRINK:  In North Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], April 5th, after suffering with patience a severe illness of seventeen days, Prentice Frink, in the 96th year of his age.  My uncle, was a bold soldier in the war of 1812, he was in the Battle of Sackett's Harbor and other battles.  But he has fought the last battle, and won the victory, we trust.  He leaves a large circle of friends to mourn his loss.  Ever blessed be his memory.  North Pharsalia, April 9th, 1860

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 18, 1860

HOAG:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mrs. Irene Hoag, aged 63 years, 3 months and 26 days.

SHELDEN:  In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., Mrs. Isabel Sheldon, relict of Dr. Ira Shelden, formerly of Plymouth, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], aged 72 years.  Mrs. Sheldon was a member of the Congregational Church, a mother in Israel, a woman of unwavering Christian principle of uniform and decided interest in the perspective of Zion at home and abroad, of strong personal attachments and friendships which gave in her life a more than ordinarily distinctive and positive characteristic.  What she felt to be right and true she heartily approved, defended, and sustained, but what she felt to be wrong she as heartily and unhesitatingly condemned and reproved.  To her friends she was ever true and faithful.  Few persons perhaps have possessed stronger friendly sympathies.  Her husband's thoughts, principles, wishes, though now eleven years dead, were nevertheless cherished with a sacredness amounting almost to reverence.  Her children, all of whom she had buried many years, seemed still to be living with her and that they had stepped out to a neighbors.  Her last great trouble seemed to be that perhaps she -?- her family in heaven more than her Savior and Redeemer.  In fact, she never could feel so positive as many... and stabiltiy of her hope.  Still, she said I must trust in Christ--in Christ alone.  The last of the family, we believe, and buried by friends of no con..., her body sleeps with her family at Plymouth and her spirit, we hope, joys with them in heaven.

Her husband, we believe, some time previous to his death, had signified his pleasure with reference to the disposition to be made of any property that might remain at the decease of Mrs. Shelden, and his pleasure, as in other things was law to her.  In this also and in accordance with it, aside from the demands of comfortable living, all funds were charity guarded and treasured in Bank or good securities. As the result we think that a trust society receives some $500.  The A.B. Society $500 and the A.B.C. I. missions some thousands of dollars.  Her friend, Warren Newton, Esq is understood to be her executor and no one perhaps would be more likely to make the most of the estate in the interest of the several objects to which it has been appropriated.  How much better to die knowing that the last dime has been in good faith consecrated to God than to leave all, not knowing whether he who shall possess it shall be a wise man or a fool.

Chenango Telegraph, April 25, 1860

Died:  HERRINGTON:  In Burlington [Otsego Co., NY], on the 14th inst. Mrs. Harriet Herrington, wife of G. Herrington, aged 70 years..  

Vital Records, Greene, NY - April 1860

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 5, 1860

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 5th, by Rev. Mr. Blakesley, Mr. James H. Marvin, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary Wilcox, of the former place.

Married:  In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], on the 29th ult. by Rev. Mr. Platt, Mr. Wilson Fox, of Broadalbin, Fulton Co. [NY], to Miss Carrie M. [Waldron], oldest daughter of G.R. Waldron.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult. by Rev. Hiram Doane, Mr. Henry Gartsee to Miss Rosa M. Parmelee, both of Norwich.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 12, 1860

Married:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. A. Parker, Mr. Robert Wilson, Jr., of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Abbey Jane Manning, of the former place.

Married:  At the Baptist Church, in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Reuben S. Aldrich, to Miss Nancy J. Hunt, both of Norwich.

Married:  At the same time and place, by the same, Mr. Willard F. Lewis, to Miss Betsey E. Edmonds, both of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Plymouth, on the 5th inst. by Rev. C. Blakesley, Mr. Timothy D Anthony to Miss Mary A. Hart, both of Plymouth.

Married:  At Slater's Hotel, Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. S. Johnson, of Center lisle, Mr. Merrick Hallenbeck of Lisle [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Antonette of Triangle [Broome Co., NY].

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. Mrs. Irena Hoad, aged 68 years, 3 months and 26 days.

A Man Supposed to be Drowned:  Yesterday (Monday) morning, Mr. DuBois, who is the miller in Sprague's Grist and Saw Mills, on the West side of the Chenango, about eight miles north of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], crossed over in a boat to Port Crane, but not returning at night, inquiries were made, and one person who was passing, in the afternoon, below Port Crane, said that he saw a boat floating down the river, near the shore, which he secured.  It was at once concluded that Mr. Dubois must have been drowned, in returning to the West side from Port Crane.  Search was immediately made and the hat belonging to Mr. DuBois was found.  Parties have been engaged all this (Tuesday) forenoon in searching for the body, which had not been found up to eleven o'clock.  Mr. DuBois, we are informed, in the father-in-law of Mr. Chas. Cafferty, of the Chenango House, Binghamton and is about 60 years old.  Binghamton Republican.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 19, 1860

Married:  In Corning [Steuben Co., NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. B. Balcom, Mr. John M. Tiffany, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Hannah M. [Herrick], eldest daughter of G.W. Harrick.

Married:  In Morris [Otsego Co., NY], on the 30th ult. by E. Hulbert, Mr. John M. Gartsee, 2d, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Nancy Reynolds, of South Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY].

Died:  In New York, on the 6th inst. James [Squires], infant son of Selah and Mary E. Squires, aged 8 months.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. Mrs. Isabel Sheldon, relict of Dr. Ira Sheldon, formerly of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], aged 72 years.

Died:  In Windsor [Broome Co., NY], on the 13th inst. of Consumption, Mr. James Y. Brown, aged 67? years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 26, 1860

Married:  In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 18th inst., by Rev. R.O. Williams, Mr. Norman P. Brown to Miss Helen S. Johnson, all of Binghamton.

Married:  In Utica [Oneida Co., NY], on the 17th inst. by Rev. G.A. Lintner, D.D., of Schoharie, Mr. Samuel R. Per Lee of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary Hutchinson, of Utica.

Married:  At the Noyes House, in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on Friday evening, the 20th inst. by Rev. . Wright, Mr. Orra M. Hughson to Miss Fannie Moloney, all of Norwich.

Married:  In Portage City, Wis., on the 9th inst. by Rev. Mr. Heckman, Mr. Alton Streeter of Milwaukee, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Ella Cornes of the former place.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th inst. Eva Estelle [Wheeler], daughter of Ephraim Wheeler, aged 6 years.

Died:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst. Miss Sabra Crosby, aged 60 years.

Died:  Also the same day, Mr. James Crosby, father of the above, aged 85 years.

Died:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mr. James Cole, aged 77 years.

Died:  Near Whitney's Point [Broome Co., NY] at the residence of his parents on the 12h inst. Mr. George F. Wheeler, aged 20 years.

Vital Records, Oxford, NY - April 1860

 Oxford Times, April 4 , 1860

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., by Rev. A.T. Matteson, Mr. William Boull of Oxford, to Miss Catharine Cassick, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In This village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Nathan C. Huntley, of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Maryette M. Steere of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  At East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY] on the 25th ult by Horace L. Barnes, Esq., Mr. William R. White to Miss Nancy S. White, both of East Pharsalia.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult., Charles A. Clark, son of Amos S. and Salome A. Clark, and adopted son of Ichabod and Harriet E. Seeley.

Oxford Times, April 11, 1860

Married:  At the Methodist Church in Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. by the Rev. W.T. Potter, Mr. Boughton C. Morse of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Ann Augusta Gleason of the former place.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult., by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Edwin Hill of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Cyntha Mann of the former place.

Married:  At Page Brook [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult. by Rev. E. Puffer, Mr. George Roberts of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss M.J. Watrous of Colesville [Broome Co., NY].

Married:  In Trinity Church, Toledo, March 15th, by the Rev. H.B. Walbridge, Doct. Isaac N. Hazlett to Miss Catharine R. Rush, daughter of the late Rev. Leverett Bush, D.D., all of Toledo.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the morning of April 6th, Miss Augusta Elizabeth Cheever, niece of Mrs. S. R. Clarke, and daughter of Mr. Wm. Cheever, of New Haven, Oswego Co., N.Y., aged 25 years and 2 months.  On Easter Sunday, the day whose coming she had so joyfully anticipated; before the altar where she had so often knelt, lay all that was earthly of our friend. The home she has so long gladdened by her ministries of love, is indeed desolate, but those so dear to her "sorrow not as those without hope," believing that she has entered into rest.

"Take them O Death! and bear away / Whatever thou canst call thine own! / Thine image stamped upon this clay, / Doth give thee that but that alone!"

"Take them O Death! O great Eternity! / Out little life is but a gust, / That bends the branches of thy tree, / And trails its blossoms of the dust."

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult., Mr. Richard Powers, aged 56 years.

Died:  Also, on the 1st inst., Mr. Samuel Peck, aged 80 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mr. Daniel Pierce, aged 60 years.

Died:  In Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. Mr. Ira Bennett, aged 42 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mrs. Eunice Yale, in the 100th year of her age.

Fatal Accident in Masonville [Delaware Co., NY]:  Mr. Russell Humphrey, met with a melancholy death on Thursday last.  The Franklin Visitor says he was, for many years a resident of the town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], where he has a large umber of friends and relatives.  Some years since he removed to Patterson, Steuben Co. Penn., where he left a fine property and a numerous family. The past winter he and his wife have been visiting their friends in this vicinity, and they were making their last visit at a brother-in-laws Mr. John VanCise of this place, where he had been staying longer than he designed, waiting for better traveling.  Last Wednesday he went into the woods with Mr. VanCise to chop.  They chopped  a large tree which in falling carried nearly down with it a small tree on which it finally rested.  They both stepped to the bent tree and Mr. VanCise raised his axe to strike it, saying as he did so "It can't hit you can it?"  Mr. Humphrey replied in the negative and the blow was struck. The tree flew diagonally striking Mr. H. with such force as to carry him several feet.  He recovered sufficiently to walk to the house and lived twenty-eight hours after the accident, retaining all of the time his reason.

Oxford Times, April 18, 1860

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult., after a brief illness, Robert A. [Wheeler], son of John B. and Caroline Wheeler, aged 16 years.  Robert A. Wheeler was endowed with an unusually even temperament, and being subjected from his earliest years to a Christian discipline, there was developed in his young life that circle of virtues which made him at once the dutiful son, the gentle and affectionate brother, the studious pupil, and the cheerful play fellow.  If one trait in his character predominated it was his devotion to his mother, evinced by the most assiduous attention to all that could minister to her comfort.  Always susceptible to religious impressions, Robert hopefully experienced some three years since that great change declared by our Lord necessary to fit one for a place in the kingdom if Heaven, since which time he has lived a consistent Christian life. Distrustful of his own strength, yet resolute in the discharge of duty, always eschewing evil, but never ashamed to do right, forgetful of his own, but always mindful of others pleasure, he has left us a pleasing, illustration of the truth, that wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., Mr. Thomas L. Day, aged 60 years.

Died:  In North Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Mr. Prentice Frink, a soldier of the war of 1812, in the 76th year of is age. 

In Coventry, Chenango Co. [NY] on Tuesday the 3d inst., a little girl of Mr. Thomas Graves, aged one year and a half, was scaled to death.  Her mother having occasion to use a dipper of hot water, placed it on a table and went to an adjoining room.  While there, the little girl entered the room, took hold of the dipper, pouring the whole of the contents upon her, which scaled her terribly.  She suffered amid excruciating pain until the next day in the afternoon, when death came to her relief.  Franklin Visitor. 

Oxford Times, April 25, 1860

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst., by David Fisk, Esq., Mr. Nathan Wheeler to Miss Susan C. Jackson, all of Oxford.

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th? inst. by Rev. B. Shove, Mr. Henry Bingham to Miss Louisa Shephard, all of Greene.

Vital Records, Norwich, NY - October 1840 & March 1860

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, October 7, 1840

Married:  In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] on the 4th inst., by Nathan Gray, Esq., Mr. Myron Prichard to Miss Mary Ward, both of the same town.

Married:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on Tuesday the 30th ult., by Sam'l Plumb, Esq., Mr. James Bowen, Jr. of Solon [Cortland Co., NY], to Miss Martha M. Barker of the former place.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, October 21, 1840

Married:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst., by the Rev. J.S. Swan, Mr. James Smith to Miss Betsey E. Webb.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, October 28, 1840

Married:  In Fredonia, Chautauqua Co. [NY], on the -?- inst. by Rev. Mr. Hequembourg, Francis S. Edwards Esq., Attorney of law, Sherburne in this Co. [Chenango Co., NY] and Miss Julia M. [White], daughter of Doct. S White of the former place.

Married:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th inst. by Rev. L.A. Barrows, Mr. Charles R. Breed to Miss Emeline Van Emeergh.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 7, 1860

Died:  GREEN:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 14, George Green, aged 1 years and 7 months.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 21, 1860

Died:  BLAKESLEE:  In Fenner, Madison county [NY], on the 8th inst. Asa Blakeslee, father of Rev. Charles Blakeslee of this village, aged 77 years.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich NY, March 28, 1860

Died:  McNITT:  On Saturday the 17th inst. George Byron [McNitt], son of George and Mary E. McNitt, aged 6 months and 15 days.

Painful Accident:  On Tuesday, Mar. 6th, a little girl of Harvey Gilbert, in Walton [Delaware Co., NY], was burned by her clothes taking fire. The accident occurred in the sugar bush where her father was boiling sap.  While asleep near the fire, and while her father was gathering sap, her clothes took fire, and before assistance could reach her she was was badly burned that she died in about twelve hours after.  The child was ten years old, and seemed not to suffer much after the first paroxysm was over.  Franklin Visitor.

Vital Records, Greene, NY - March 1860

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 1, 1860

Married:  In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult, by Rev. B. Shove, Mr. Madison Fitch to Miss Emily White, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th ult. by Rev. A.F. Harding, Mr. Alanson D. Bingham, to Miss Mary J. Merrell, all of this town.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., William R. [Thomas], son of Samuel P. and Maria Thomas, aged 13 months and 21 days.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult., Mr. Rufus Tyler, aged 39 years.

Died:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d ult., of the Spotted Fever, Jay E. [Bailey], son of Nathan M. and Caroline M. Bailey, aged 1 year, 11 months and 8 days.  Death sought a lovely victim, / When he bore away our flower / To the realms of spotless glory, / To Heaven's eternal bower; / To blossom in the garden / of the ever living God, / While the frail, fair little casket / Lies beneath the dark damp sod!

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 8, 1860

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., Miss Lodema Davis, aged 17 years.

Died:  In Port Crane [Broome Co., NY], on the 8th inst., Charles J. [Macomber] son of Thos. W. and Hannah Macomber, aged 10 years.

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Miss Almira Smith, aged 42 years.

Died:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] on the 27th ult. Mr. Edward P. Stoers, aged 26 years.

Died:  In Lisle, Broome Co. [NY], on the 14th ult. of Consumption, David F Edwards, aged 26 yrs.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 15, 1860

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. George W. Brown of North Norwich, to Miss Hattie F. Marsh? of Norwich.

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] on the 8th ult. by Rev. A. McDougall, Mr. John E. B.... to Miss Mary L. Paul, both of North Norwich.

Married:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] on the 6th inst, by Rev. J.B. Gilman, Mr. F.J. Spurk? to Miss Alma M. Tuttle, both of Columbus.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. Mrs. Hannah D. Latham, widow of John Latham, deceased, aged 69 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. Mrs. Hannah Miner, wife of Luther Miner, aged 72 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst. of putrid sore throat, Mary Eliza [Shifter], aged 9 years and 6 months; and on the 12th inst. Alice [Shifter] aged 5 years and 11 months, and on the 16th inst. Sarah Catharine [Shifter], aged 8 years and 17 days, daughters of John M. and Mary Shifter.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 22, 1860

Married:  In King Settlement [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th int. by Simon Buell, Esq., Mr. Andrew J. Tenbroeck of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Adaliza Heady of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. by Rev. L.M. Sackett, Mr. W.W. Sackett to Miss Mary J. Boyd, both of the above named place.

Married:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. A. A. Lason, Mr. Seldon E. Morgan to Miss Harriet N. Becker.

Died:  In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY] on the 8th inst. after a lingering illness.  Mr. William H. Woodman, only son of John Woodman, aged 22 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 29, 1860

Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th inst. Mary Ann Melissa Sturges, aged 20? years.

Vital Records, Oxford, NY - March 1860

 Oxford Times, March 14, 1860

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] on the 8th inst. by the Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Lyman Church, Jr. of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Annette Richmond of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Milwaukie, Wis, on 29th ult. by Rev. J.M. Walker, Mr. Smith E. Judson, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Kate G. Stresser, of the former place.

Died: In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., George H. [Race], son of Charles T. and M. Race, aged 9 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., of disease of the heart, Mary [Smith] wife of Erastus P. Smith, aged 52 years.

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] on 16th? ult. of putrid sore throat, Emogene Lovisa [Josslyn], aged 4 years and 7 months; and on 20th ult. of the same disease, Mattie Estelle [Josslyn] aged 2 years 4 months and 20 days, daughters of Charles and Lovisa Josslyn.

Oxford Times, March 21, 1860

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. B. Newton Norris to Miss O. Augusta Park, both of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., by the Rev. W.T. Potter, Mr. John Dana Gibbs of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Almira A. Root of Oxford.

Oxford Times, March 28, 1860

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th inst. by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Charles B. Smith to Miss Jane E. Blivin, both of Preston [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on the 20th inst. by Rev. B.L. Bennett, Mr. E.J. Fisk to Mrs. Maggie Brown, all of Oxford.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co.., NY], on the 14th inst. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Samuel Moore of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Laura J. Day of the former place.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Amy [Aldrich], wife of Mr. R. Aldrich, aged 62 years.

Died:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] on the 2d inst., Maj. Walter Clark, in the 89th year of his age.

Vital Records, Norwich, NY - February 1860

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, February 1, 1860

Married:  FORD - GRISWOLD:  In German [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 17, by Rev. E. Holroyd, Jesse Ford to Miss Lucy E. Griswold, both of German.

Married:  EICHLER - WILKS:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 29, by Re.v W. Peck, Donald Eichler of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Nancy S. Wilks of Plymouth.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, February 8, 1860

Married:  AVERY - GAZLAY:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] Jan. 19, by Rev. Mr. Whitingham, Zial A. Avery of Cross River, Westchester Co. [NY], to Miss Mary C. Gazlay of New Berlin.

Married:  MAIN - LEWIS:  In North Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 28, by Rev. O. Ketchum, D.E. Main of Walnut Grove, Ill, to Miss Chloe A. Lewis, of the former place.

Died:  CARPENTER:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] on the 27th ult. Nathan Carpenter, aged 69 years.

Died:  WARNER:  In Taylor, Cortland Co. [NY], on the 29th ult. Mrs. Lucy [Warner], wife of Dea. Sheldon Warner, aged 61 years.

Sudden Death:  We learn, that on Thursday the 31st ult. a boy name Geo. Couse, son of Fred Couse, who resides near Osterhoudt's Saw mill, on the Ouleont Creek in the town of Davenport [Delaware Co., NY], was crushed to death by a log rolling over him.  He was on the logs which were laying on a side hill, when the blocking gave way, and he fell between them, and they rolled over him, causing death immediately.  He was 15 years of age.  Oneonta Herald.

Died:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th instant, Isaac Foote, in the 84th year of his age.  Mr. Foote was one of the early settlers of the town of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], where he continued to reside until his removal to this village a few years since.  He held the office of High Sheriff of this County in 1809 and 1811, and again from 1813 to 1815 preceding and being succeeded in each appointment by the late Col William Monroe.  He has also been the frequent Supervisor of that town and was the holder of other places of trust.  He acted as the Land Agent of the Lawrence Estate in the towns of Smyrna, Plymouth and Otselic up to his death.  In every position he was able, honest diligent, methodical and accurate and secured by these qualities the unusual confidence of the community.  In his intercourse with his fellow men he was courteous and gentlemanly.  He was withal a Christian in all his works and the consolation of which were his stay in his life and at his death.

Since the above was written, a friend has handed in the following:  The deceased has been so well known in this region for the past fifty years in all his official and private relations, that the first impulse on the announcement of his death is the strongly marked character of his life.  His father is well remembered by many older inhabitants as an early representative of Chenango in both branches of our Legislature and as a County Judge. The deceased was appointed one of the early Sheriffs of this County.  In addition to other official employments he has been entrusted with an extensive land agency and in every condition of life and as an officer of the Chruch has sustained the position of a high minded gentleman and Christian.  From a thorough knowledge of his character for nearly half a century we can say we never knew an act or motive of his not favorably called in question.  Possessing the means of liberality, they were generously employed in promoting every truly spirited moral and religious object.  It is proper to state that he appropriated annually certain sums for particular moral and religious purposes making his benevolence one of the fixed principles of his life.  The obituary notices of such men need not be long. Their lives may be written on their tomb stones just as they lived them.  His memory will be cherished by all who knew him, and be justly dear to a highly respectable circle of relatives in Chenango, Madison and Delaware [Counties].

Died:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th instant, Joseph Henry Moore, in the 60th year of his age.  Mr. Moore was a native of Hillsboro County New Hampshire and had resided in this village for the last forty years.  He was many years since a magistrate of the town, and he possessed a mental capacity of much more than usual vigor and clearness.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, February 22, 1860

Married:  SEATON - CRUMB:  At Clark's Mills, Oneida Co. [NY], on the 16th and by Rev. S.R. Stone, John J. Seaton of Sauquoit [Oneida Co., NY] to Miss Jane A Crum of Clark's Mills.

Died:  BUELL"  In Windsor, Broome County [NY], Jan. 31, Mrs. Caroline [Buell], wife of Albert Buell, aged 41 years.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, February 29, 1860

Married:  BARRELL - FOWLER:  In Argyle, N.Y. [Washington Co.] on the 15th instant, by Rev. S.G Mathewson, Henry R. Barrell to Miss Rosanna Fowler, both of Hartford, Washington County, N.Y.

Died:  BROWN:  At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 18th inst. Eunice [Brown], wife of Maj. D.M. Brown, aged 45 years.

Died:  CROSBY:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on te 8th inst. B..u H, [Crosby], son of Jas. H. and Emeline Crosby, aged 8 months.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, February 8, 1860

To the Editors of The Chenango Telegraph:  The funeral exercises of Lathrop Rosbrook, Esq., deceased, a prominent citizen of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], were held in this place, at the Baptist Church, on Tuesday of last week.  The church was filled to its utmost capacity; the services being conducted by Rev. B.S. Williams, Pastor, who preached an appropriate discourse for the occasion. At the conclusion of the religious exercises, Dr. Beecher made some appropriate remarks, a sketch of which, by request of friends and citizens, I herewith enclose for publication.

Dr. Beecher's Remarks:  I don't know but it is out of my place and improper for me to say a single word upon this solemn occasion, amid the solemnities of this hour, in which we have so truthful and mournful an illustration of the frailty of man.  But before we go from this house to that narrow house appointed for all the living, I cannot do justice to my own feelings or the memory of the dead, in refraining from adding a few words in connection with what has already been so well said from the -?- in reference to the deceased.

For over forty years, for nearly half a century, Mr. Rosbrook has been a resident of this town, and for a large portion of this time has been engaged in active business amongst us, and is known probably to most of you as well as myself.  Of many of you certainly this is true. But during my residence here I have had an opportunity of seeing much of him in his family--much of him aside from his family--much of him in the various relations of domestic, social and business life, and in all of these relations, I can bear willing testimony to the trust that he has acted the part of an honest and an honorable man , an affection husband, a tender and indulgent parent, a loving brother, a worthy citizen, a kind and obliging neighbor, a well tried and faithful friend.  I have seen him under reverses of fortune, I have seen him in prosperity and adversity.  I have seen him when bound down like a bulrush beneath the well nigh overwhelming load of affliction and sorrow.  I have seen him when death has entered his dwelling and suddenly, almost without a moment a warning, snatched from his embrace a darling child, and presently almost as unexpectedly taken from him a beloved companion and consigned them almost together to the silence of the tomb.  Yet not a murmur nor a repining word escaped from his lips.

His fortitude, his patience, and his forbearance, considering the severity of the stroke, was to me at the time and ever has been truly remarkable.  Such, I am sure, as are exemplified nowhere else except in the life of the real Christian--those who amid the trials and conflicts of earth are comforted and sustained by the Christian's promise and the Christian's hope.

Mr. Rosbrook, as you well know, was free to express his opinions and possessed prominent and well marked traits of character peculiar to himself, well marked and strong in life, strong in sickness and strong in death.  Yet notwithstanding his peculiarities, which, without doubt were many times prejudiced to his worldly interests and produced an unfavorable impression against him, he possessed many excellent qualities and commendable virtues as any man it was ever my good fortune to know. and his somewhat irritable turn of mind more noticeable in the latter part of his life was the result I am satisfied, not so much of an unhappy temperament naturally, as those who were acquainted with him in early life and in health, will bear me witness, but was of painful and protracted disease which was undermining his constitution wasting his strength, rendering his life at best a burden, and bearing him steadily yet surely down to the grave.

Of his sufferings for years none of us knew.  And for the last few weeks of his life especially, even his faithful and ever watchful attendants and even his physician, who to gratify his wishes and afford all the relief in his power, remained with him as much as possible, day and night, cannot realize or describe that anguish of body worse than death itself which more than once led him to exclaim "I want to die.  Oh, let me die.  Why can't I die."  That malignant, insidious and sooner or later usually fatal malady, cancer, had completely destroyed the action and functions of the stomach, changed its fine and delicate tissues into a mass of corruption, rendering it almost impossible for him to receive into it either food or medicine for the space of nearly four weeks.  The liver likewise to a considerable extent had taken on the same diseased action, its functions became impaired and extensive adhesions formed between it and the stomach and the side.  The wonder is not that he died, but how with so much disease, he lived so long.  It was hard, indeed for him to give up and it was not till some time after others had abandoned all hope of his recovery that he came to the conclusion that he could not long survive.  While sufficient strength lasted he conversed freely in relation to his disease and seemed anxious to know the opinions of others and the probable result.  After becoming especially weak with a strong determination he managed to sit up sometimes for hours till within a very few days of his death, for a good deal of time in fact was obliged to keep an erect position either in his chair or on his bed for his distresses were too great to lie down.

But his sufferings are ended, his sands of life are run, he has gone and the places that have known him here will know him no more forever.  He will be sadly missed in this community--he will be missed in his place of business, he will be missed in the social and private walks of life, he will be missed in the benefactions of charity, he will be missed in this house of worship, he will be missed from among his kindred and friends, and over all and above all he will be missed and mourned in that little family, that little household, now made forever desolate.  Now that he is gone, and can no more return unto us, let us, my friends, cherish his good qualities and his many virtues, copy his example in as much and as far as it is worthy of imitation and bury with him his errors, for such doubtless he had as all of us have and his faults and foibles in the grave in which he will presently be forever hid from our sight.

Vital Records, Greene, NY - February 2, 1860

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 2, 1860

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., by Rev. M.C. Bronson, Mr. Griffen Powell, of Lowville, Lewis Co. [NY], to Miss Sarah A. Gavit, of Smyrna.

Married:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., by Rev. John McLeish, Mr. Oliver Thurber, to Miss Mary Clark, both of that place.

Married:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Mr. Wm. M. Sabin, to Miss Mary G. Young, all of the above place.

Married:  In Scott, Cortland Co. [NY], on the 17th ult. by Rev. R.C. Fox, Rev. A.J. Kenyon, to Miss D. Augusta Fox, of the former place.

Died:  In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 27th ult. Frederick Theodore [Rogers], child of Thos. S. and H.N. Rogers, aged 2 years 9 months and 16 days.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. Mr. Joel Barber, aged 82 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. Mrs. Sophia Barnes, wife of the late Asa Barnes, aged 72 years.

We are pained to record a sad and heart-rending calamity, which occurred near Oneonta, Otsego Co. [NY]\ on Friday night last.  While Luther Briggs, and his wife, who is a sister of B.F. Cowan, of this village, and well-known to many of our citizens, who resided at the above named place, were on a visit to a neighbors, leaving at home six children, of ages varying from 3 to 17 years, the house caught fire, in the evening, while the children were in bed, and horrible to relate, only one of them, the oldest boy, escaped.  He jumped from the second story window, and endeavored to get the other children to do the same, but in their fright they failed to do so, and perished in the flames.  The house was burned to the ground, and when the agonized parents returned they found nothing remaining of their late happy home but a heap of blackened ruins, covering the bones of five of their children. The mother had her youngest child with her.  She is frantic and wild with grief, and requires constant attention  Two hearts and a few charred bones was all that could be found of the remains. The fire is supposed to have caught from a coal snapping from the fire place into some shavings.  

Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 9, 1860

Married:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. Charles H. Long to Miss Hattie Meachum, both of Willett, Cortland Co. [NY].

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. Harriet M. [Chalker], daughter of Orlando and Adelia Chalker, aged 18 months and 20 days.

Died:  In New Ohio [Broome Co., NY], on the 26th ult. Mrs. Polly Scoughton, aged 80 years.

Died:  In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mrs. Lovina Lowell, mother of Daniel Lowell, aged 86 years.

Died:  In Ketchum's Corners, on the 8th inst. Mr. Isaac Marshall, aged 80 years.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Sarah Jane [Tuttle], infant daughter of Moses and Jane Tuttle, aged 4 months.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mr. John Noyes, son of Daniel Noyes, aged 29 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 16, 1860

Married:  In  Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31s ult., by Rev. B.B. Bennett, Mr. Samuel F. May, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Angeline T. Phettyplace, of Norwich.

Married:  In the city of New York, on the 25th ult., by the Rev. A.A. Maple, of Wellsboro, Edwin R. Meade, Esq., of New York, to Miss Julia M. Baxter, of Tioga, Pa.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., Mr. Isaac Foote, aged 84 years.

Died:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mr. Elizur Anderson, aged 28 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 23, 1860

Married:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], on the 26th inst. by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. James Wilson, of Willet, Cortland Co. [NY], to Miss Julia Burger, of the former place.

Married:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., by Rev. John McLeish, Mr Sidney Olin, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Margaret Hubbard, of the former place.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. Mr. Martin V.B. Noyes, aged 26 years.

Died:  At the residence of her father-in-law, Amasa Clark, in Great Bend, Pa., on the 30th ult. of Consumption, Caroline S. [Clark], wife of D.D. Clark, U.S.N. and daughter of Mr. Oliver of Rome, Oneida Co., N.Y., in the 26th year of her age.  Thus has a circle of loving hearts been entered and a priceless jewel taken.  And though we mourn, deeply mourn our loss, yet we feel assured that her great attainments in personal piety, her devotedness and untiring activity in the cause of Christ, her living and triumphant faith, afford ample evidence, that through the merits of our Saviour, she is now a white-robed ransomed one in glory.  It seemed that we could not part with "our Carrie" yet, for a few years at least.  Her gentle and unassuming manners, her generous regard for the happiness of others, her amiable self-sacrificing and uncomplaining disposition; won the affection and esteem of all who made her acquaintance.  She possessed superior mental powers, and a poetic nature, but her extreme delicacy forbade her submitting many of her thoughts to the public,  The following little poem, published in the Advocate and Family Guardian about a year since, is one of the sweet effusions of her pen:

The Loom of Life:  We're sitting at the loom of life, / Our final garments weaving; / And when before Heaven's bar we stand, / For one last, dread revealing, / Within His holy presence there, / We then, this self-wrought robe must wear.

Time's busy, never-tiring hand, / How swiftly flings the shuttle! / And what the fabric it shall weave / Our course of life must settle. / Oh! what shall then the garment be / That robe us in eternity!

Shall selfish pleasure sway our hearts, / And govern every passion? / And worldly pride and hoarded wealth / Our final garments fashion? / While suffering sorrow pleads in vain / From our full hand one single grain?

Or Shall a deep heart-sympathy / And sacrifice of pleasure, / Weave in our robes their golden threads, / A never-failing treasure? / That noble deeds of love and care, / May weave their beauteous traces there?

Help us, "Great Author" of our lives, / To use the "warp" thou'st given, / And weave us garments that may deck / The imperial courts of heaven; / That when we at thy bar appear, / The "wedding garment" we may wear.

She has woven her "garment for Eternity," and purified in the Saviour's blood, it is a shining one.  Although she was yet young, and looking forward with joyous expectations to the time when her husband would return from his service in the Navy, and they should again be united, to be no more separated except by death--yet, when she learned her Father's will to take her home; the stronger attractions of a Saviour's love, and the anticipated rapture and bliss of Heaven outrivaled all earthly charms, and she cheerfully responded, "I come, my Father!"  When the heart-rending and unexpected tidings shall reach her husband, " Oh! in that bitter hour may he exercise in all its strength, that Christian faith and confidence in the wisdom and mercy of an over-ruling Hand, which will sustain him, beneath this crushing weight of grief.

Lost Wife and Children:  James Hoffman wants information of the whereabouts of his wife and two children.  Last October, aided by his wife, he packed up his furniture and goods at Billy Wheeler's at the lower aqueduct on the Erie Canal, near Troy [Rensselear Co., NY], with the intention of going to Durhamville, Oneida county [NY], to keep boarding house.  Having business at Albany, he told his wife to ship the things and start for the place of destination promising to overtake them at Schenectady.  On returning to Wheeler's his family and goods had departed on a boat, but to this day he has not been able to find them or obtain any information concerning them.  Jane Hoffman, the wife, is a woman advanced in years, tall in stature, with sandy complexion and light blue eyes. the oldest child is six years old; the other seven months old, both girls,  Any information concerning the above described persons, sent to James Hoffman, at Rome, Oneida county, will be most thankfully received.  

Our Bachelor Member:  Hon. Joseph Bush, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Member of Assembly from this District is unfortunately a pretty good looking bachelor, and as a matter of course, among the staid, demure fathers of families who make up our Legislature, is quite a rarity.  On Tuesday last several members of the House were arraigned for contempt in not appearing the day before.  Mr. Bush in offering his excuse said that "he had not the advantage enjoyed by most member of this House, that of having a wife; and having received a very pressing invitation to be present at a party in Kinderhook, where an unusual large number of beautiful ladies were invited, he could not resist the temptation to be present, and having arrived there he was unable to tear himself away from the fascinations thrown around him to return in season to attend the session on Monday."  Mr. Palmer said that he had been watching Bush for fear that the bewitching smiles of the fair ones of Kinderhook had turned his head, and that he might commit some desperate act if left alone with his shaving tools.  They were excused.  

Vital Records, Oxford, NY, February 1860

 Oxford Times, February 1, 1860

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. by Rev. H. Callahan, Mr. Charles Day to Miss Betsey Wheeler, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th ult., by Rev. Mr. Capen, Mr. Henry Pendleton of Olde city, Nebraska, to Miss Helen Cady of Norwich.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21th ult. Charlotte [Monell], wife of Hon. Robert B. Monell, in the 59th year of her age.

Died:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th ult. Mr. Edmund Sanford, aged 79 years.

Died:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 17th ult. Mrs. Siley [Evans], wife of Riley Evans, aged 51 years.

Died:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult. Mr. Luke Wheeler, aged 41 years.

Died:  In East McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult. Mary [Steere], wife of William Steere, aged 75 years.

Oxford Times, February 8, 1860

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult. by Rev. R.L. Bennell, Mr. Samuel F. May of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Angeline T. Phetteplace of Norwich.

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] on the 1st inst., by Rev. E. Cade, Mr. Henry L. White to Miss Victoria C. Sheldon, both of Guilford.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d of January, Ella L. [Clarke], daughter of Amos S. and Salome A. Clarke, and adopted daughter of Ichabod and Harriet E. Seeley, aged 10 years and 5 months.

Died:  At Middlebury, Tioga Co., Pa., on the 22d Jan. Mr. Eben Sherwood, formerly of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], aged 63 years.

Died:  in Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 9, suddenly, Mr. Ephraim P. Eldridge, aged 68 years.

We learn from the Hamilton Union, that a little son of Mr. Black, landlord of the hotel at South's Valley, in the town of Lebanon [Madison Co., ,NY], was so badly burned on Sunday, the 22d instant, that he died on the following morning.  It seems that the mother was absent at a neighbor's leaving the child in charge of the father, At the time of the accident, the little fellow, who was only two years old, was sitting in a chair at the table, looking at the pictures in a book.  The father went out for the purpose of getting a pail of water and while absent heard the screams of the child.  He immediately returned to the house, and found the child almost entirely engulfed in flames, but before he could be extinguished the child was fatally burned.

On Friday evening last the dwelling (a log house) of Mr. Alvah Briggs, situated near what is called Briar Street, in the town of Davenport [Delaware Co., NY], took fire and burned to the ground, five of Mr. Brigg's children, the oldest 17 and the youngest 3 years of age, being burned to death.  One boy, aged 15 years, escaped, but so narrow was his escape that is hair was badly singed  Mr. Briggs and his wife were absent on a visit at the time, and reached home just as the house and its previous contents had burned up.  It is supposed that the fire took from some shingle shavings.  It seems that the lad who had been shaving shingles, throwing the shavings into the fire in an open fireplace and the shingles under a flight of stairs close by; it is supposed that after the children had retired the shingles took fire from the shavings and spread with such velocity as to render the rescue of the five unfortunates impossible.  The calamity is indeed a terrible one.  Delhi Express

Oxford Times, February 15, 1860

Died:  In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. Mr. Lathrop Rosebrook, aged 53 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Sarah Jane [Taylor], infant daughter of Moses and Jane Taylor, aged 4 months.

Died:  in Afton [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 5th, Mrs. Delight Easton, aged 85 years.

Oxford Times, February 22, 1860

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. by Rev. W.M. Delong, Mr. Samuel Cline to Miss Betsey M. Loomis, both of Smithville.

Married:  At the same time and place, by the same, Mr. Uri Rorapaugh of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary June of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. Hannah L. [Fish], wife of Mr. Seth H. Fish, aged 54 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., David [Tillotson], son of Perry and Clarissa Tillotson, aged 2 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Emma J. [Badger], daughter of Chester and Sarah Badger, aged 9 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. Stephen Elliott, aged 21 years.

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on 12th inst. Mr. Gordon Johnson, aged 71 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., Mr. Joseph H. Moore, aged 59 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. Mrs. Barbary [Cook], wife of the late John Cook, aged 77 years.

Died:  In Pilot Mound, Minnesota, Mr. Otis French, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged 71 years.

Death Loves a Shining Mark:  It is with a feeling of sadness we learn that a useful and well known citizen of Windsor , Broome county [NY] has been suddenly removed from earth.  Gideon Hotchkiss, Esq., died at Goldsboro, Wyoming Co., Pa. on the 11th inst. of a short illness.  He was traveling on business, and from exposure in a cold room, took a violent cold, which so prostrated him that he sent for his wife and friends. The messenger found Mrs. H. too ill to leave home, even to close the eyes of a beloved and worthy consort.  A friend, Mr. Guernsey, went on, and arrive in time to witness his decease.  Mr. H. was widely known and esteemed as an inventor, and his usefulness will live long after his ashes shall have mingled with earth.  At one time he worthily represented his county in the legislature.  In all the relations of life, as a citizen, a Christian a husband and father, he was a man without reproach, and his loss will be deeply felt and lamented not only in the domestic circle where he was most loved and appreciated, because best known, but also by a wide circle of friends, and acquaintances extending throughout many States of the Union. We can only express our heartfelt sympathy and condolence with the bereaved widow, children, relatives and friends, and with the church to which he has belonged for many years. The funeral took place at Windsor on Thursday, the 16th inst.  Deposit Dem.

Oxford Times, February 29, 1860

Married:  In Kenosha, Wis., on the 21st Jan. by Rev. Mr. McNamara, Nathan G. Backus, formerly of Oxford [Chenango co., NY] to Mary E. Smith of the former place.

Died:  In West Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on 23d inst. Mr. John K.S. Green, aged 70 years.

Oxford Times, February 8, 1860

A Mystery Unraveled - A Murder Not a Murder

Many of our readers will remember an excitement which prevailed in this vicinity, some fifteen years since, occasioned by a report that a man named Mix had been murdered, a short distance above Smithville Flatts [Chenango Co., NY].  The facts were that Mix had been to this village with a load of flour, which he sold, and started on his return home, which was in Locke, Cayuga Co.  Mix did not return home, but his wagon and horses were found in the road somewhere near Smithville Flatts.  Every circumstance conspired to convey the idea that he had been murdered for his money. The whole community turned out in a vain and fruitless search for the body of the supposed murdered man.  Woods and swamps were searched, ponds dragged, houses ransacked, but no trace could be found.  Several remarkable dreams were related, pretending to throw light upon the matter and suspicion pointed strongly at certain persons; suspicion which has not been removed from the minds of many to this day, and it has since been currently reported that one of the suspected parties made a confession of the murder on his death bed.  We have reliable and responsible information that Mix is now living in one of the interior towns of this State.  He has been to California, but has returned, and our informant knows his whereabouts. We will give the necessary information to any person desiring to investigate this matter for the purpose of clearing up character, or for any other legitimate purpose.  No doubt some of those people who spent days and weeks in the swamps of Smithville, endeavoring to find his body, would like to get a sight at it now.  Chenango American.