Marriages (April 27)

Clark - Marshall

Bainbridge Republican, January 23, 1879

On Wednesday evening of this week, at the home of the bride, in this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], Mr. John l. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Emma M. Marshall only daughter of Hiram Marshall.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. D.N. Grummon. The bride was very nicely dressed, and we noticed at the reception one or two very elegant presents.  This couple, it seems have wooed since babyhood, and Cupid, who no doubt had an idea of his own, has, at last, consummated a union, which, we trust, will never be disturbed in its present harmonies--a union which the friends of both will unite in expressions of congratulation and wishes for their beatific prosperity through all their walk in life.  Among the invited guests were C.M. Priest, L.B. Clark, I.M. Curtis, S.S. Ehrich, Willard Hastings and yours truly.

 

Mr. & Mrs. A. Bradley

Chenango Union, October 20, 1867

Glass Wedding:  The fifteenth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. Bradley, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], was celebrated at their residence on the evening of October 19th.  Some eighty of their neighbors and friends assembled on the occasion each one bringing as a token of their regards a piece of glassware.  One of Guilford's happiest social evenings is said to have been realized.  The following impromptu liens were contributed ot the entertainment by one of the guests: 

 

The Crystal Wedding

I'd scarce believe the story true,

That I had heard aright,

Did not this festal gathering

Bespeak a wedding night. 

 

Yet fifteen years some changes make,--

Strange things have come to pass,

And 'mongst the types of mortal love

We number tin and glass

 

Time leaves the impress of his flight,

In more than snowy hair,

Steals from the cheek the bloom of youth,

And leaves the trace of care.

 

Yet counting up the vanished hours

A recompense appears

If children's faces at the board

Mark well the lapse of years.

 

What matters the lost loveliness

From the staid matron's brow,

When in some beauteous daughter's face

It shines reflected now?

 

Ah, Hush! 'tis all "Love's labor lost,"--

Our rhyme is quite destroyed,

For at the table, and the hearth,

There's a great, aching void!

 

We've done our best to make it right,

So let the subject pass--

This Crystal Wedding Harvest

Brings a Baby made of Glass!

                                                                                                      Bainbridge Ledger

 

Marriage Notices

Norwich Journal, December 13, 1820

 

Married on the 10th inst. by the Rev. J. Randall, Mr. Eleazer Brown to Mrs. Hannah Wales, daughter of Hascall Ransford, Esq., both of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY]

 

Norwich Journal, February 7, 1821

 

Married, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday the 31st ult. by John Randall, Esq. Mr. Isaac Thorn, to Miss Dorcas Spencer, both of this town.

 

Norwich Journal, February 14, 1821

 

Married, in Preston, on the 31st of December last, by Rev. Nathan Noyes, Mr. Merrick Scott, of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Sally Harvy of Preston [Chenango Co., NY]

 

Married, Jan. 17, 1821, by the same, Mr. Walter Brown, to Miss Elizabeth Smith.

 

On the 21st, by the same, Mr. Thomas Trlman to Miss Catharine Williams.

 

Feb 6th, by the same, Mr. Lyman Wilcox, to Miss Florinda Mills.

 

On the 8th, by the same, Mr. Joseph Chubb to Miss Hannah Daniels, all of Preston [Chenango Co., NY]