Friday, April 8, 1869
At her home (No. 101 Margaret Street) died Mrs. Mary Platt Mooers, daughter of Wm. Pitt Platt and wife of Dr. Benj. J. Mooers. "A lady of marked ability and cultured taste."
"Beautiful visions of home-land and sea!
I yield to the magic that binds me to thee.
I gaze with emotion as hither I'm led,
To thy rocky-bound banks, Old Cumberland Head!
It is
here treasured scenes of my childhood are laid,
It is here I now linger in memory 's shade,
And I think of the years that so quickly have flown,
To a region we know not - a home of their own.
Thy
nooks are all sacred, thy rocks are still dear,
As when in my childhood, I oft lingered there,
And visioned the future in innocent joy,
And fancied that happiness held no alloy.
Thine
air is perfumed with flowers of love,
Which strengthen and purify, oft as I rove,
O'er thy green-sloping fields, thy rocks, and they
shore,
And link thy blue waters with stories of yore.
Thy
beauty will not fade, nor glory depart,
In spirits I'm with thee, and beatings of heart,
Tell me truly, I ween, that the tears I now shed,
Are for thee, thee alone, dear Cumberland Head."
Written for Mrs. Mooers by her cousin, L, M. Kent.
Thursday, May 20, 1869
Dr. Benjamin John Mooers, a pioneer in the valley in 1793, passed away in his sleep, but six weeks after the loss of his wife. Dr. Mooers had practiced medicine in Plattsburgh through a long life, acting as surgeon at the battle in 1814. For years he was oftener called in consultation than any other physician in the country. He was a "careful, judicious, and successful practitioner, well calculated for the family physician-an honest man and christian gentleman." While pursuing his professional studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, he counted among his friends, the celebrated Dr. Valentine Mott. It was dui\ring his journeys through the lake to New York that he first made the acquaintance of Capt. John Boynton, whose daughter became the wife of his eldest son.
Thursday, May 27, 1869
The Roman Catholic Church re-incorporated under the name of "St. John the Baptist's Church of Plattsburgh", with the Right Rev. John J. Conroy, Bishop of the Diocese of Albany, the Very Rev. Edgar P. Wadhams, Vicar-General of the diocese, and Richard J. Maloney, Pastor of the Church, and two laymen as trustees, the first two appointed were Bernard McKeever and Patrick K. Delaney.
