1st Marriage Martha J. Ferrin
February 18th 1855
in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.

Ontario County Messenger
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
Wednesday, February 21, 1855

MARRIED - In this village, on the 18th inst., by the Rev. A. g. Bowles, Mr. Caleb Brocklebank to Miss Martha J. Ferrin, all of this village.

Father of one child born in this marriage:

Alton Brockelbank
b. 1856
in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
d.
in

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Disturbing article regarding Martha Brockelbank, wife of Caleb Brockelbank, after her death.

Republican Times
June 17, 1858

Grave Robbery in Bristol

THREE PERSONS ARRESTED

The citizens of the neighboring town of Bristol were thrown into a state of extraordinary excitement, on Monday, by the announcement that the burial ground a short distance from Muttonville had been visited by resurrectionist's. It appears that the grave in which were deposited the remains of Mrs. Caleb Brockelbank, who died some two weeks since at the residence of her husband in this village, had been opened and the body taken out. We are informed that indications were first observed about the grave on Wednesday or Thursday of last week, exciting suspicions that it had been disturbed. These suspicions being strengthened by other circumstances within the knowledge of the friends of the deceased, finally led to an examination and the discovery that the grave contained only an empty coffin, and some pieces of the shroud, which had apparently been torn from the body in getting it out of the coffin. A search for the missing corpse was then commenced and actively prosecuted until a collection of bones were found secreted near the burning springs, which were believed to have been those for which the search was instituted. Subsequent developments led to the arrest of a quack Doctor named WEED, together with A. R. Simmons and J. Judson H. Graves, both of whom we believe are medical students. It became known to the authorities, through the instrumentality of a member of the medical fraternity, who was called upon to assist in the operation, that the parties named had some days previously been engaged in dissecting a subject. This information, in connection with the fact that some hair was found in the building where the operation was performed, which closely resembled a sample from the head of Mrs. Brockelbank with which it was compared, seemed to point to them as the perpetrators of the crime in question. They were accordingly taken before Justice Canfield and Kent on Thursday, and waiving an examination, gave bonds in the sum of $500 each for their appearance at the next Oyer and Terminer. The offense for which they are thus held to answer is a serious one, and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding $500, or by both such fine and imprisonment. This sacrilegious outrage has excited the most intense feeling among those living in the vicinity of its occurrence, and its supposed authors are naturally subjected to the unmeasured, indignant condemnation of the public, and especially of the parties more immediately interested. Strenuous exertions will doubtless be made to find evidence that will serve to convict them, and if they have committed the offences alleged against them, they should certainly be punished as the law directs. But while we have no disposition to modify the abhorrence with which the outrage is so universally and so justly regarded, nor in any degree to screen those who shall be proved guilty from the consequences to admonish our readers of the injustice of prejudging the case. We feel warranted in saying also that the hitherto unstained character of at least one of the persons accused, should serve to shield him from reproach until some positive testimony shall be adduced to prove his guilt. Circumstantial evidence is always more or less unreliable, and should be regarded with extreme caution. Hearsay evidence Madame Rumor's unauthenticated reports, are still more unreliable, and should never be suffered for a moment to overbear the weight of a previous good character. It is to be hoped therefore that the public will be charitable enough and just enough to suspend judgment in this case, until fully advised of the facts.



Geneva Courier
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
Wednesday, December 14, 1859

COURT of SESSIONS. — Those cases mentioned in the last Courier as undecided, were disposed of as follows:

The grave robbing case of Judson Graves indicted with Dr.'s Weed and Simmons for disinterring and dissecting the body of Mrs. Caleb Brocklebank, was concluded on Thursday last, by a verdict of guilty on the fourth count of the Indictment, which is merely for receiving the body for dissection. A stay or all proceedings was granted by the Court, and the case will go on points of law to the General Term.

[Notation: ALL articles above posted EXACTLY as written.]

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2nd Marriage Maria Outhouse
December 21st 1859
in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.

Ontario County Messenger
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
Tuesday, December 27, 1859

MARRIED - On the 21st inst., by Rev. A. H. Lung, Mr. Caleb Brocklebank to Miss M. Outhouse, both of Canandaigua.

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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester, Monroe County, New York.
Tuesday, August 26, 1902

Caleb Brocklebank, a longtime citizen of Canandaigua, died at his home on Bristol street there, Saturday night, aged 76 years.

[Notation: Obituary posted EXACTLY as written.]

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Ontario County Chronicle
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
Friday, August 27, 1902

Died - In Canandaigua, August 23, Caleb Brocklebank, aged 76 years.

[Notation: Again, obituary posted EXACTLY as written.]

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