field, Mass., A. Austin.

æ. 29, wife of John

AUSTIN, Elijah, Madbury, N. H., Feb. 8, æ. 72, was repeatedly elected to offices of trust and honor by the citizens of his town and county, and was extensively known and esteemed for his probity and worth.

AUSTIN, Rev. James B., Logan, O., Sept. 27, æ. 51.

AUSTIN, Mrs. M. A., New Orleans, Feb. 16, æ.?. widow of the late Wm. Austin, formerly of Boston, Mass.

AUSTIN, Mrs. Rebecca, Boston, Mass., Feb. 6, æ. 90.

AVERY, Hon. Barton F., Chardon, N. Y., April 12, æ. 60, was born in Aurora, Cayuga Co., N. Y. He came to this county in 1818, and settled at Parkman, where he married the wife who now survives him, and resided until 1834, when he removed to Chardon, and continued a resident until his decease. Possessing more than ordinary intelligence, great integrity and uprightness of character, with a peculiarly mild, quiet, unassuming and unpretending disposition, he acquired the general esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens, which was manifested by conferring upon him several important offices, among which he was twice appointed an associate judge of the county, and discharged the duties of that office satisfactorily to the people, and creditably to himself.

AVERY, Henry C., Hudson, N. Y., Sept. 16, æ. 54, a member of the common council.

AVERY, George, Plainfield, N. H., Jan. 19, æ. 98. He was a soldier of the revolution, and it is said, cast his vote at every presidential election since the formation of the government. He went five miles to vote for Fremont and Dayton. AVERY, Joshua, Monument, Mass., July 11, æ. 97. Mr. A. was a revolutionary pensioner, and was, at the time of his decease, the oldest person in the town, and probably in the county.

AVERY, John S., Bridgeport, Ct., April 14, æ. 79.

AVERY, John J., Groton, Ct., Oct. 25, æ. 89. Mr. Avery was one of the interesting links which connect the present age with the stirring, trying times of the revolution, and it is proper that such should receive a passing notice as they leave us. The men who formed

their character and habits in those times were, many of them, distinguished for unyielding integrity and devoted patriotism. They held in just abhorrence the petty demagogueism and pandering of principle for place, spoils, and power, so common now. Mr. Avery was a man of most active and industrious habits. His characteristics were preeminently those of the men and of the age in which his early habits were formed. The father of Mr. Avery, Elijah Avery, with eight other family relatives of the name of Avery, fell in the massacre at Fort Griswold, on Groton Heights, Sept. 6, 1781, leaving him, at 12 years of age, to take his father's place upon the farm, and to provide for the family. Living near Fort Griswold, and directly opposite Fort Trumbull, through the revolutionary war, and the war of 1812, when New London and Groton suffered so much, and retaining distinctly in his mind the circumstances of that cruel and most shameful massacre at Fort Griswold, and of subsequent events in both wars, he learned to be earnest and decided. He took discriminating views of life. It was to him real and earnest. He was not one to float with the current. He had no patience with indecision, vacillation, indolence, shiftlessness, and the vicious habits so often associated with these characteristics. Those in his employ inclined to these things, found themselves in an uncomfortable position. His hopes for the future all rested upon the doctrines of an evangelical faith. With these characteristics, he trained up a large family of children, who have all become industrious, valuable, Christian citizens.

AXTON, Jeremiah, Grafton, Va., Feb. 10, æ. 85, was born in the eastern part of Va., and at an early day emigrated to Western Pennsylvania, where he resided about 50 years. He served in the army commanded by Gen. Harrison, in the last war with Great Britain. Mr. Axton was a plain, industrious, upright man, and a good citizen.

AYER, Eli, M. D., Palermo, Me., May 28, æ. 67. He was no ordinary man; he was strong in person, vigorous in mind, and strikingly exact in morals. For many years, he was an accomplished and successful farmer, an eminent practising physician, and a very

McConnellsburg in 1856, married on the 12th of May, and completed his earthly career at Markelsburg, Huntington Co., on the 7th day of July, 1857, at the age of twenty-eight years. Whilst we deplore the early and unexpected death of our beloved brother in the Lord, and humbly submit to the dispensation of divine Providence which has removed him from among us, and mourn his loss, we do it not as those who have no hope in his death. His death speaks to each of us in the language of inspiration, 'Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.'”

BACKENSTOS, Col. J. B., Portland, O. T., Sept. 26, æ. -, was drowned in the Willamette River. Col. Backenstos was formerly sheriff of Hancock Co., Ill., and as such officer, was prominent in the Mormon troubles in the state, in 1845. In the fall of that year, at the head of a posse, he gave an order to fire upon a body resisting his authority. A Capt. Morrell was killed. Col. B. was indicted for his murder, and tried in Peoria Co., and fully acquitted. In May, 1840, he was appointed captain in the Mounted Rifles by President Polk, and served in Mexico. He was breveted major "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco," and lieutenant colonel "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chepultepec," where he was wounded. In 1849, he went to Oregon with his regiment, and in 1851, resigned his commission.

BACKHOUSE, J. B., Alleghany Co., Pa., æ.. Mr. B. served as a member of the House of Representatives the winter previous to his death, to which office he was reëlected.

BACKUS, Samuel, Trenton, N. J.,æ., principal of the academy. BACON, Hon. Asa, New Haven, Conn., Feb. 5, æ. 86. Mr. Bacon was one of the most eminent survivors of the golden age of the Litchfield bar, and his name, and that of his family, has many pleasant associations in that village, to secure for it remembrance and perpetuity.

BACON, Clark, Somerville, Mass., March 2, æ. -.

BACON, Sarah, wife of J. V. Bacon, Brooklyn, May 18, æ. 72.

BADARAQUE, Dr. Thomas, at quaran

tine at Deer Island, Boston, Mass., Oct. 22, æ. - of Philadelphia. He was landed from the brig Ellen Jane, from Truxillo, on the 20th.

BADEAU, Mrs. Anna, Louisboro', Westchester Co., N. Y., June 6, æ. 52, widow of the late Benj. Badeau.

BADGER, Enoch, Eastford, Ct., March 1, æ. 83, formerly of Springfield, Mass. BADGER, Giles, Girard, Pa., Nov. 30, æ. 88. Mr. B. was a native of Conn., whence he early removed to Saratoga Co., N. Y., and thence to this county, where he arrived 60 years ago, and located himself in the neighborhood of Lexington. Upon the surrender of Hull, he entered the army, and served under Gen. Harrison. Through his long life, he enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellows, both as a member of the M. E. church and a citizen, and in peace and Christian hope he passed away.

BADGER, Mrs. Marilla, wife of Dr. Charles B. Badger, Mishawaka, Ind., June 23, æ. 44.

BADGER, Samuel, Kittery, Me., Sept. 27, æ. 63. Well known as an eminent ship-builder, an enterprising citizen, and Christian gentleman.

BAGGERLY, Mrs. Rebecca, Fayetteville, Tenn., Jan. 3, æ. 96. She was born Jan. 5, 1761, in Montgomery Co., Md., was married to David Baggerly, May 19, 1782, emigrated with her husband to North Carolina in 1805, and remained there until 1819, when she removed to Lincoln Co., Tenn. She embraced religion, and joined the Baptist church about the year 1822, and continued an acceptable member of that church until the day of her death. Possessed of a naturally vigorous mind, she enjoyed its full strength to the end. She recollected the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, as well as many incidents connected with the revolutionary war, her husband having been an active participant in that struggle, for which services she was in receipt of a regular pension from the government.

BAILEY, Mrs. Anna M., wife of Dr. E. P. Bailey, New York, Feb. 7, œ. BAILEY, Mrs. Betsey, Norwich, Ct., May 3, æ. 55.

BAILEY, Prof. Jacob Whitman, West Point, Feb. 26, æ. 45.

BAILEY, Jonathan, Burley's Springs,

Florence, Ala., Oct. 12, æ. 75. He was a native of Faquier Co., Va., removed to Lauderdale Co., Ala., in 1818, and settled at his late residence about the year 1821.

BAILEY, Rev. Kiah, Hardwick, Vt., Aug. 17, æ. 87. He was the second son of Charles and Abigail Bailey, and was born in Brookfield, Mass., West Parish, March 11, 1770, and was dedicated to God in infancy. He removed, with his parents, to Haverhill, N. H., in 1775, when the country was a wilderness. In 1783, his father removed, with his family, to Newbury, Vt., where he was favored with a common school education, and where he fitted for college, under the instruction of Rev. Jacob Wood, minister of the place. While pursuing his preparatory studies, he taught the first school ever kept in Ryegate, Vt., 1789. He entered Dartmouth College in the autumn of the same year, and graduated at that institution 1793, with the honor of delivering the Greek oration. It was during his sophomore year, in the autumn of 1790, that, after a long and painful law work, as he himself expressed it, "the rebellion of his heart was hopefully conquered, and grace-free, sovereign grace triumphed." From this moment, his whole soul was set on the work of the ministry, and in October, 1793, immediately after he graduated, he commenced the study of theology with Rev. Dr. Emmons, of Franklin, Mass., and was admitted into his church in May, 1794. The next month, June, 1794, he was licensed to preach by the Mendon Association, and delivered his first sermon at the West Parish, Taunton, Mass. He had calls to settle in Milford, Northampton, Cornish, and Ashby, Mass., but he chose his field of labor among the feeble and destitute churches of the then Province of Me. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Newcastle, Me., Oct. 7, 1797, at that time a church of three persons only, besides the pastor. The little vine, by God's blessing on his labors, was increased, not a hundred, but sixty fold, before the time of his dismission, which was at his own request, in 1824. Several revivals had been enjoyed, particularly one in 1816 and 1817, which was of special power and extent. After leaving Me., Mr. Bailey

preached two years and a half at Greensboro', Vt., three years and a half at Thornton, N. H., and returned in 1833, and settled on a farm in Hardwick, Vt., where his parents died, and where he chose to close his own earthly pilgrimage. From this time, he preached only occasionally, in vacant congregations, but kept up his interest in the enterprises of the church, and the objects of reform, till the very close of his earthly career. Few men in the state of Me. have been more extensively engaged in all the benevolent movements of the churches there than Mr. Bailey. He was a representative from Me. to the legislature of Mass. in 1819 and 1820; a member of the board of overseers of Bowdoin College eight or nine years; acted at the election of the first, second, and third presidents of the college. He was president of the Maine Missionary Society; was one of the board of trustees; was one of the trustees of the Maine Charity School, and also secretary of the same; he was a trustee of the Society for Theological Education in Maine, instituted June 27, 1811, incorporated Feb. 27, 1812, and was its secretary several years. This was the first education society in New England. Mr. Bailey labored hard, journeyed, wrote, prayed, and supplicated with God and man, and finally merged the society into the Bangor Institution, which was incorporated by the Massachusetts legislature Feb. 4, 1814. Mr. Bailey was named in the charter as one of the trustees was the secretary, for five or six years, of the board of trustees. He drew up the by-laws, and did what he could to make it a rich blessing to the church. The leading spirit in the concern, and one who corresponded more, and labored more abundantly, than any other man to build it up, lived at Newcastle. His wife, than whom few better or more devoted women have been found in her times, obtained over two thousand dollars, which she paid into the treasury as a female charity fund. The Lincoln and Kennebec Religious Tract Society was instituted May, 1802, and printed and distributed about 30,000 tracts. The work of selecting, preparing, printing, and distributing these tracts, rested very much on Mr. Bailey, as secretary. The Christian

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Monitor, a magazine published by the Maine Missionary Society six or seven years, and which did much to promote the cause, rested very much on Mr. Bailey, for matter and for distribution, though others were associated. For several years, Mr. Bailey was one of the sub-committee to aid in locating and directing the missionaries sent by the Massachusetts Missionary Society into Maine. About the year 1802, Mr. Bailey commenced an effort to establish an academy in Newcastle. As this was to be the academy for the county, they had powerful competitors. But Mr. Bailey succeeded, and secured an act of incorporation, and a fund of about thirteen thousand dollars, for the Lincoln County Academy. Rev. Daniel Haskel, subsequently president of Burlington College, was the first preceptor, and Rev. Dr. Beman, of Troy, was the second. Rev. Mr. Bailey was secretary, treasurer, and agent of this institution for about twenty years, and when he left Newcastle, it was prosperous school. In 1794, he married Abigail Goodhue, daughter of Hezekiah, of Newburyport, by whom he had two twin sons, born March 7, 1798; but they both died in their infancy. Mrs. Bailey was early bereft of both parents, but she enjoyed the parental attention and instruction of Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. D., and Rev. Dr. Spring, of whose church she was a member, and on the model of these men her mind was formed. She had a very retentive memory, a lively, chastened imagination, an ardent, unquenchable thirst for knowledge. She became a ready writer, and left at her death many volumes of manuscripts, diaries, &c. She loved and read her Bible much; was a strict observer of the Sabbath, always at meeting, if possible; loved to do good; was active in all benevolent movements; never tired. Her heart was always warm. Her last sickness was short, and she fell asleep in Jesus most peacefully, on the 18th of March, 1846, at Hardwick, Vt., æ. 89 years and 10 months- -a superior and very excellent woman. Rev. Mr. Bailey's published works were nine single sermons, two doctrinal sermons, and two ordination sermons.

BAILEY, Nathan, Haverhill, Ms.,
æ. 86.

BAILEY, Col. Stephen, West Amesbury, Mass., postmaster,

-,æ. 65. BAILHACHE, Hon. John, Alton, Ill., Sept. 1, æ. -. Judge Bailhache was of Norman descent, and a native of the Island of Guernsey; but at an early day he emigrated to the United States, and made his home in Ohio. Before the age of twenty-one years, we believe, he purchased and took charge of the Scioto (Ohio) Gazette, and conducted it most successfully during the troublous politics which then agitated the country. At that day, newspapers were scarce, and the Gazette was one of the leading papers of the west. When the state capitol was changed from Chillicothe, "the ancient metropolis," to Columbus, Judge Bailhache sold out the Gazette, and removing to the latter place, took charge of the Ohio State Journal, which he edited with distinguished ability, and hearty acceptance to the party of which it was the mouthpiece. He was a confidential friend of Henry Clay, with whom he kept up a constant correspondence, and he was, we believe, the first journalist to propose and hoist the distinguished statesman's name for the presidency. From Columbus, Judge Bailhache removed with his family to Alton, in 1837, where he has ever since resided. In that year, he assumed the proprietorship of the old Alton Telegraph, which was then one of the leading whig organs of the state, and he continued to be connected with it until 1855, when he retired from the tripod. As the editor of the Telegraph, he labored vigorously and with untiring perseverance for the advancement and prosperity of Illinois, and by his courteous address, his pleasing manners, his benevolent disposition, and intrinsic goodness of heart, made friends of all who were thrown in contact with him. Notwithstanding the sharp warfare of politics, in which he was frequently and unavoidably engaged, even his political opponents ever spoke well of his candor and sincerity, and held him in the highest personal esteem. As an editor and a journalist, he had few, if any, superiors among his contemporaries. Wielding a vigorous and ready pen, and honest and earnest in all his political convictions, he was yet distinguished for the careful avoidance of personalities, and of every