Monday, January 11, 2016

Marriages (January 11, 2016)

Fahy - Southerland
Utica Saturday Globe, October 1912
 

William & Harriet (Southerland) Fahy
 
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  At St. Paul's rectory on Sunday evening William Fahy and Miss Harriet Southerland were married by Rev. Father E.R. Prendergast.  They were accompanied at the ceremony by a sister-in-law of the bride, Mrs. Oscar Southerland, and by the brother of the groom, Walter Fahy.  The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reding Southerland of Penn Yan [Yates Co., NY].  For two years she has made her residence in Norwich while an employee of the Norwich Pharmacal Company. The groom, who is a popular machinist at the Ontario & Western railway shops is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fahy, of Norwich.  Mr. and Mrs. Fahy left on the late train Sunday night for a bridal journey that will include a visit to the bride's parents in Penn Yan and Rochester, Niagara Falls and Buffalo. Their many friends wish them much happiness.
 
Higley - Barnes
Chenango Union, May 12, 1898
John Higley, who lives about four miles northwest of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], at a little hamlet called Ayrshire, and Mrs. Philena Barnes of Middleburg, Pa., were united in marriage Sunday last at Afton, by Rev. B.B. Carruth.  Mr. Higley is 77 years old and the bride is 75.  This happy couple loved and were married over 57 years ago but the union proved an unhappy one and shortly after their marriage they decided to separate.  Both finally selected other partners for their joys and sorrows, and in the course of events drifted from each other's lives.  Last winter Mr. Higley's second wife died and shortly after Mrs. Barnes' husband passed away.  By accident they learned of each other's loneliness and a correspondence was opened between them.  Last week the couple met in Binghamton and decided to try once more the battle of life together.  Having learned life's lesson well, the balance of t heir mortal life will undoubtedly by "one grand, sweet song." ---Sun

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