Newspapers: Indiana Register (April-August 1852), Indiana Co., PA
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Extracts for April and August of 1852 from the Indiana Register:
7 April 1852
REVEREND A.B. QUAY, the colonization agent, lately the Pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of this place, has removed to Rochester, Beaver County,
Pennsylvania, where he desires correspondents to address him.
14 April 1852
none
DIED. -At his residence in Washington township, Indiana county, Pennsylvania,
on the 20th of March last of Cancer in the face, JAMES LEWIS, in the
sixty-first year of his age.
Mr. Lewis was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, but while yet a
child came with his parents, to a part of Westmoreland, which is now Indiana
county. At the age of nineteen he was received into the Presbyterian Church,
under the pastoral care of the Rev. JOSEPH W. HENDERSON.
When he went in 1816 to reside at the place of his decease he connected
himself with the Church of Indiana, then in 1829 with the Church in Lower
Plumcreek, where he was introduced into the eldership. And when the Church of
Curries run was organized in 1838 still more convenient to his abode, he
became
in it a member and an elder.
Soon after this time the malady of which he died began to show itself.
All
prudent measures including two severe surgical operations were used for his
relief, which only availaed to check for brief periods, its wasting progress.
For more than a year prior to his decease it became evident that his life must
be consumed away, under its distressing influence. Still however he showed a
settled peaceful resignation to the disposing will of God, and encountered
without dismay the fiery trial which was to try him. He was never heard to
utter a repining or impatient word, not even to speak of his sufferings as
severe, though they must have at times amounted to anguish. --In the exercise
of 'a good hope through grace" he waited all the days of his appointed time
till his change came. "For he endured as seeing him who is invisible."
He was twice married, and as a husband and father was kind and well
beloved. By his former wife, he had six children, four of whom together with
his deeply afflicted relict survived to feel the loss of his sympathy and
counsel. He was distinguished as a aman of piety and peace, and on this
account effected much in the amicable adjustment of difficulties existing in
his neighborhood. In the church sessions also where his seat was very seldom
vacant, his influence was always in favor of gentleness of manner even towards
the wayward.
"Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is
peace." -D.
5 May 1852
MARRIED. On the 4th inst., by the Rev. C.J. Deininger, Mr. PETER LEVENGOOD,
of
Johnstown, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, to MRS. L.H. SHARRETTS, of this
place.
OBITUARY. "Death but entombs the body, life the soul."
We were again made to reflect on the uncertainty of life, and the
fallaciousness of that confidence we are too apt to repose in the healthful
vigor of youth, as almost certainly followed by long life and ripe old age;
while we moved in the slow procession which bore another of our fellows to his
valley home.
SAMUEL T. STEWART was a young man of high spirit and correct deportment:
he was much beloved by his friends, and esteemed by all his acquaintances. He
had determined on acquiring a liberal education; to which end he prosecuted
his
studies with unremitting ardor and industry: aiming at an education thorough
and complete, he no doubt looked forward to future usefulness, and that
eminence, to which his energetic perserverance would have entitled him.
But while he was bending over the glimmering page, in the still, dead hour
of night disease was ravaging the secret springs of life. While youthful
hopes
were flashing through his mind and stimulating efforts yet untried; the seeds
of death were rolling heavily through all his lifestreams. He struggled with
his malady with manly fortitude; at last he saw his doom; --he resigned to his
fate. On the 27th ult he slept the sleep of Death. To those who mourn his
loss we would say in the language of another:
"Smitten friends
Are angels sent on errands full of love;
For us they languish, and for us they die."
5 May 1852
DIED. --In Smicksburg, on the 22nd ult., in the twenty second year of her
age,
MRS. LENA ANNE L., consort of DR. SWEENY, and only child of THOMAS ARMSTRONG,
ESQ., of Elderton, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Sweeny endured her sufferings with meekness and christian
resignation.
She endeavored, often, to conceal from her husband the extent of her suffering
and danger, and to turn his sorrow into cheerfulness, but his skill as a
physician, soon disclosed these kind delusions and taught him, against hope.
That death was preying upon the vitals of the one he loved. In the morning of
life; the wedding day just past, and now in the tomb! Oh, Death! how couldst
thou rend a tie so sacred? But, --"Be still and know that I am GOD." MRS.
SWEENY was, by baptism, a member of the Seceder Church, but intended at the
first communion after marriage, to connect herself with her husband to the
Presbyterian church at Glade Run, but sickness, which soon terminated in her
death, deprived her of the privilege. During her illness she manifested much
anxiety about her future welfare. The write had the pleasure of speaking with
her on this subject the evening before she died. When speaking of the joys in
the upper world, she seemed delighted and expressed a desire to continue the
conversation; but her voice was scarecely audible and prudence forbade us to
grant her request. At the first of her illness the evidences of her salvation
were not so clear; and, with the eye of faith, she looked up steadfastly along
the clear shining way, which leads to Jesus and the sainted dead.--
"Where every severed wreath is bound;
And none have heard the knell
That smites the soul in that wild sound;
Farewell! Beloved, farewell." -G.M.P.
12 May 1852
MARRIED. On the 11th inst., by the Rev. C.J. Deininger, Mr. GEORGE W.
BOADENHAMMER to Miss M.A.E. THOMPSON, all of this place.
SIX CENTS REWARD. Ran away from the subscribed sometime about the first
inst., DAVID RICHESON, an indentured apprentice to learn the farming business,
he had on when he left a black cloth cap, and blue sack coat, is quite red-
headed, about five feet high. --All persons are hereby cautioned against
harboring or trusting the same, as I am determined to put the law in force
against such.
--THOMAS FLEMING.
19 MAY 1852
MARRIED. --On the 6th inst., by the Rev. D. Mills, Mr. JAMES BAUM, to Miss
CATHERINE, daughter of Mr. ATLEE W. JAMES, all of Montgomery township,
Indiana, Pa.
26 May 1852
none
2 June 1852
Married. --On Tuesday, May 25th by E.E. Lewis, Esq., Mr. JAMES McCASTLIN, of
Cowanshannock township, Armstrong county, to Miss CATHARINE WAGONER, of
Washington township, Indiana county.
--On Tuesday the 25th ult by the Rev. H. Kirkpatrick, Mr. ARCHIBALD STEWART to
Miss ELIZABETH JOHNSTON, both of Green township.
--On the 27th inst. by the Rev. A. Donaldson, Mr. WILLIAM ADAMS, of Rayne
township, to Miss JANE W. McGARY, of Washington.
Died. --On the 31st ult. in this borough, MRS. ELIZABETH BOUCHER, consort of
HENRY BOUCHER, aged 69 years and 4 months.
9 June 1852
none
16 June 1852
none
30 June 1852
REPORTED DEATH OF A. WOODWARD. A letter written here week before last,
written by Mr. WILLIAM HICKENLOOPER, and dated Salt Lake, Utah Territory,
April 29, brings the mournful intelligence of the death of MR. ABSOLOM
WOODWARD, who two years ago went from this place to California, to seek his
fortune in the land of hold. He there, in company with MR. CHORPENNING, of
Somerset, Pa., entered into a contract with the Government to carry the mail
between Sacramento city and Salt Lake, a distance of some eight hundred miles,
through an unbroken wilderness, inhabited by numerous tribes of Indians.
The mail was carried on mules and always accompanied by a guard. Mr.
WOODWARD had the mail safely through in the spring of last year, in doing
which he encountered many difficulties, not the least of which was the deep
snow on the mountains, which had not entirely disappeared as late as the
beginning of
June. Nothing daunted, however, he started again from Sacramento last
November, with the intention of bringing with him on his return from Salt
Lake,
in addition to the mail, a large lot of cattle, for the purchase of which he
carried the means with him.
Letters received here from Sacramento, dated April 26th, stated that Mr.
WOODWARD had not then returned, and that fears were entertained for his
safety.
Nothing further was heard of him until the arrival of Mr. HICKENLOOPER's
letter, which states that Mr. W. had not reached Salt Lake on his last trip,
but that he and four others had been murdered by the Digger Indians at a place
called Goose Creek, about two hundred miles from Salt Lake and fifty miles
from
the remotest Mormon settlement. One of the dead bodies, supposed to be that
of
Mr. W., from the fact that his watch and some letters were found on it, was
discovered some fifty miles from the others in the direction of the Mormon
city, near a stream by the name of Deep Creek.
The Pittsburgh Gazette of last Thursday has accounts up to May 1, from
which we take the following paragraph, confirming the above:--
"The November mail from Sacramento to Utah was lost, the carriers having
been killed by the Indians. The body of CAPTAIN WOODWARD, who was one of
them, was found at Deep Creek, by the carriers of the returning mail, who was
forced to come back by the great depth of snow. The Indians told him that the
four men who were with WOODWARD were killed, and he himself wounded by some of
another tribe, called Root-diggers, and that WOODWARD went on to the place
where he was found, and died there."
We hope there may be some mistake about this whole matter and that Mr. W.
is still alive; though we confess that, all the circumstances considered, the
probabilities seem to be the other way.
ACCIDENT. On Friday last, while MR. RHEY of Butler and his son-in-law, MR
ANDERSON, of Greene township, Indiana county, were descending a hill about a
mile west of this place, in a one horse buggy, one side of the shaft became
detached from the axle, which frightened the horse and started him to run. In
their endeavors to stop the horse, the buggy was upset, throwing out both
gentlemen with great force. MR. ANDERSON escaped without injury, but MR. RHEY
received a cut in the head and had one shoulder badly bruised. He was taken
to
the house of MR. R. FLEMING and his wounds dressed; and on Saturday morning he
had so far recovered as to be able to proceed on his way.
7 July 1852
MARRIED. On Thursday the 17th of June, by M. Shields, Esq., MR. SIMON KRATZER
to MISS ELIZA ANN WRIGHT, both of Derry township, Westmoreland county.
[NOTE: IT SEEMS THAT IN THIS COUNTY IN THIS TIME PERIOD, MOST PEOPLE MARRIED
ON A THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THERE IS ALSO A HIGHER INCIDENCE OF MARRIAGE AROUND
THE WINTER HOLIDAYS.]
14 July 1852
none
21 July 1852
DIED. In Conemaugh township, on Tuesday, the 13th inst., MR. MILTON COLEMAN,
aged twenty-one years.
4 August 1852
GREAT THUNDER STORM. On Thursday evening we were visited by a great
thunderstorm, accompanied by rain, which continued during the greater part of
the night. The grain standing on shock in the vicinity of town was in places
strewn over the fields and the growing corn suffered some damage. The flashes
of lightning were unusually vivid, and clap after clap followed each other in
rapid succession.--
One house was in town and one in the vicinity were struck, but neither
sustained much injury. The one in town is that occupied by GAWIN SUTTON,
Esq.,
where the fluid descended by chimney to the second floor, and then cutting
through the ceiling entered the basement, and running through the apartment
where a portion of the family slept, crossed another room, where Mr. Sutton
was
at the moment sitting on a bed, and then passed to the chimney hearth, from
whence no further traces were discovered. --It probably passed between the
bricks into the Earth or the cellar. None of the family were injured, though
Mr. SUTTON himself was considerably shocked.
The other is MR. JAMES M'LAIN'S brick house, a mile from town, which was
damaged some at the roof, the electricity having run down along the edge of
the
same from the chimney top to the eave and then descended to the ground.
MARRIED. On the 27th inst., by the Rev. D. Blair, MR. SAMUEL HILANDS to MRS.
ANNA STUCHEL, both of White township.
11 Aug 1852
none
18 August 1852
contains an article called "The Early History of Indiana county, chapter
one", which will be later extracted.
25 August 1852
contains chapter two of the above, to be extracted later
MARRIED. On the 12th inst., by A.L. McClosky, Esq., MR. JOHN McCURDY, to Mrs.
MARY (RALSTON) all of West Mahoning township, Indiana county.
[anything appearing in parenthesis indicates my best guess--some entries were
hard to read on the film.)