Marriages (June 1)

Anderson - Hollenback

Married September 15, 1937

Daniel E. Anderson, 56, a farmer, widower, of Norwich, and Miss Martha Caroline Hollenback, 55, of 507 West 11st street, New York, will be married here on September 15 in Riverside church.  The ceremony will be performed by the Rev. Eugene Carder. They procured a license to wed at the marriage bureau here Monday afternoon.  Mr. Anderson was born in Norwich, the son of Orrin L. and Alice Skinner Anderson.  Miss Hollenback, who is the daughter of William H. and Mary Hollenback, was born in C---, N.Y.

Wednesday, September 22, Miss Martha C. Hollenback of New York city, formerly of Owego [Tioga Co., NY], and Daniel E. Anderson of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], were married in Riverside church in New York city.  Mr. and Mrs. Anderson will reside in Norwich.

Cooper -Tingley

Married January 14, 1937

Mrs. James Silsbee of New York city announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Eva Cooper, to Earl W. Tingley of this city, which took place at the home of the bridegroom's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tuttle, 39 Linden street Thursday. The ceremony was performed at 2 o'clock by the Rev. Earl A Smeich, pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian church.  Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle were the attendants. The bride was dressed in navy blue crepe with matching accessories and a corsage of talisman roses with gypsophila. the matron of honor wore navy blue crepe with hat to harmonize and a shoulder spray of roses. A wedding luncheon was served at the Riverview tearoom.  Mr. and Mrs. Tingley will reside in Buffalo.

Cosen - Salisbury

Married June 28, 1927

New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY]:  A very pretty wedding occurred on Tuesday evening at 8:00 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Salisbury when their daughter, Miss Pearl A Salisbury was united in marriage to Walter Cosen, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Cosen of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].  To the strains of the Lohengrin wedding march, played by Miss Helen Salisbury of Norwich, cousin of the bride, the bridal party entered the living room between chains of daisies held by four small girls dressed in in white. The ceremony was performed beneath a bower of white peonies and ferns.  The bride wore a gown of white silk net over shell pink satin and carried a shower bouquet of white roses. The maid of honor, Miss Rose Cosen, sister of the groom wore a gown of pink crepe de chine and carried a bouquet of pink roses.  Erwin Salisbury, brother of the bride was best man.  After congratulations a wedding super was served to forty guests. The dining room was tastefully decorated in pink and white. The tables were lighted by pink candles. The favors were all in pink. The bridal table was decorated by a three tier wedding cake.  Small miniature wedding cakes were tied in white boxes.  The bride is a graduate of Norwich high school, class of 1921 and Norwich training class, 1922. For the past five years she has been a successful teacher, the past two in the South New Berlin high school.  Mr. Cosen is a valued employee of the Sheffield corporation.  Mr. and Mrs. Cosen left for a month's motor trip thru the west. For traveling Mrs. Cosen wore a navy blue suit with hat to match.  They will be at home after August 1 at 31 Silver street, Norwich.  They were recipients of many useful gifts including linen, cut glass, silver and money. They have a host of friends who wish them success.

Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Colegrove

50th Wedding Anniversary - 1941

Mr. and Mrs. J.W Colegrove of 60 Borden avenue [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday, June 28.  Open house was held at the Colegrove home from 2 to 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon when about 75 guests called to congratulate the couple on their golden anniversary.  The dining room, living room and sun porch of the house were filled with flowers, including an especially lovely basket form Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Brant of 22 Hickok avenue.  The occasion was planned and carried out by the couple's six married daughters, all of whom were present for the celebration:  Mrs. M.G. Salisbury of Dixon, Ill., Mrs. R.S. Freer of Utica, and Mrs. Ethel Cook, Mrs. Marjorie Fern, Mrs. Genevieve Townsend and Mrs. Evelyn Breed, all of Norwich. A son, Elmer Colegrove, who is a Borden Company employee in Centralia, Washington, was unable to be present for the anniversary.  Mr. and Mrs. Colegrove, who now have 14 grandchildren,, were married at Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] in the Methodist parsonage by the Rev. J.B Cook on June 28, 1891.  Mrs. Colegrove was Miss Mary E. Wood.  She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Wood and was born in Franklin [Delaware Co., NY].  Mr. Colegrove is the son of the late Rev. and Mrs. A.M. Colegrove of Smyrna and was born in that village.  After residing at Sidney and Edmeston, Mr. and Mrs. Colegrove came to Norwich, where they have made their home for the past 38 years.  Mr. Colegrove was a valued employee of the David Maydole Hammer Company for 28 years. For the past six years he has bene employed by the Welwood Ribbon Co.  Besides the couple's daughters who live away from Norwich, out of town guests were present at the golden anniversary from Dixon, Illinois; South New Berlin, Oneonta, Sidney, Vestal and Oxford.  At the dinner gathering Saturday night, attended by 19 members of the Colegrove family, Mr. and Mrs. Colegrove were presented with a purse of $50 from their daughters.  In addition to flowers, gifts and several cards, the couple received a beautiful chenille bedspread form the choir of the Broad Street Methodist church. The dinner table Saturday night was beautifully decorated with flowers and gold candles.  Three lovely wedding cakes were prepared.

Obituaries (May 30)

Dora Cole

Chenango Telegraph, June 23, 1939

Mrs. Dora Cole, 81, of Woods Corners [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], died Tuesday afternoon [June 20, 1939] after an extended illness.  She was a life long resident of this vicinity except for the past two winters which she spent with her daughter, Mrs. Ira Wall of Stockbridge, N.Y., where she was stricken about the first of March.  Besides the above mentioned daughter, Mrs. Cole is survived by three sons, Ervin S. of Woods Corners, Perry D. of North Norwich and Charles E. of Hickory, North Carolina, also several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m., daylight saving time, at the Breese Funeral Home.

Chancey Crandall

Died January 14, 1940

Chancey Crandall, 76, died at his home, 12 Academy street, at 9:30 Sunday night, after an illness of three weeks. The deceased had spent a greater part of his life in farming near Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY].  For the past six years he had resided in Norwich.  He leaves three sons and four daughters, Ivon Crandall of Fabius, Frank and James of Smyrna, Mrs. Joseph LoCantro of Norwich, Mrs. Helen Ford of Norwich. Mrs. Howard Tuttle of Otselic and Mrs. Eric Argen of Sherburne four Corners. Services are to be held at the Fahy Funeral Home on North Broad street at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Rev. George B. Callender will officiate and interment is to be made in the North Norwich cemetery [Chenango Co., NY].

Willian C. Coy

Died April 10, 1941

Will Coy who had been suffering from a severe cold was forced to stop work in Hile's grocery about a week or more ago and go home where he grew worse and on Monday and Tuesday suffered great pain in the region of his stomach. Tuesday night the ambulance was called and he was taken to the Chenango Memorial hospital at Norwich, where it was found necessary to operate on him.  It was found gangrene had formed in the intestines and his condition was pronounced very critical, with but little hopes of recovery.  His sister, Mrs. Edgar Wills of Walton has been staying at the Coy home for a few days, assisting in his care.  His son Kenneth and wife were notified and came at once. Will has many friends who are hoping there may be a change for the better.  He died Thursday afternoon. The funeral will occur Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock at the Baptist church.

William C. Coy of South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] died at the Chenango Memorial Hospital at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon.  He had been a hospital patient since Tuesday night.  Mr. Coy was born in New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] Aug. 3, 1876 and had been employed as clerk at the Edward Hile grocery in South New Berlin for several years.  Funeral services are to be held in the Baptist church at South New Berlin at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon with Rev. C.H. Skinner officiating. Burial will be made in South New Berlin. There survive the wife and one son.

Jennie Crandall & Adele Sutliff

Died August 10, 1931

Struck by the fast Buffalonian, crack express of the New York Central lines, two Norwich women were instantly killed early Monday morning, a few miles south of Schenectady, as they attempted to cross the tracks on foot.  The dead women, sisters, are Mrs. Jennie Crandall, 60, and Mrs. Adele Sutliff, 53, both of 108 Silver street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].  So quickly was the tragedy enacted that Mrs. Sutliff's husband, Wesley [Sutliff], and two sons, working on their car less than 50 feet from where the two women were struck, were unaware of the accident, as were members of the train crew, and the Buffalonian continued to its next stop, the Union station in Albany.  There, horrified spectators on the station platform saw the head of a woman on the pilot.  A work train was hastily requisitioned and sent back over the route of the Buffalonian.  At a road crossing about 17 miles from the Albany station, the decapitated body of Mrs. Sutliff and the body of Mrs. Crandall were found.  A short distance away, Mrs. Sutliff's husband and two sons were still working on the motor of their car, entirely ignorant of the horrible fate which had befallen two members of their family.  Mr. Sutliff and the two boys, Edward and Walter Taylor, sons of Mrs. Sutliff by a former marriage, were so overcome by grief and shock, that reconstruction of the story of the tragedy was difficult.  However, the party suffered motor trouble on a return trip from Saratoga to Norwich, and in addition, lost their way in the storm of Sunday night.  The men pushed the car to the side of the road and the party put up at a tourist cabin for the night.  Monday morning the men arose early and went to work repairing the car.  Mrs. Sutliff and Mrs. Crandall, probably finding time hanging heavily until the repairs were complete, must have decided to go for a walk.  It is said that neither had acute hearing. They could not have heard or seen the express train approaching, for no slightest unusual noise or cry was heard by any member of the party.  The Buffalonian, officially known as train 54, was eastbound from Buffalo to New York.  It was in charge of three Albany men, Engineer Harry Warren, Conductor J.R. Bradt and Fireman George E. Thorne.  The train is due in Albany at 6:06 a.m.  The Sutliff-Taylor family, accompanied by Mrs. Crandall, left their home on upper Silver street, near the Borden plant, at an early hour Sunday for a day's outing. They are little known in the neighborhood, having resided there for only a few months. Another son, Lynn Taylor, resides in King Settlement.  The William Breese company of this city was notified, and left Monday morning for Schenectady for the bodies.

Double funeral service for Mrs. Jennie Crandall and Mrs. Adele Sutliff, sisters, and victims of the accident near Schenectady Monday morning, will be held from the funeral parlors of The William Breese Company Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.  Burials will be made in the cemetery at Norwich quarter.  Hearses of The William Breese Company arrived in Norwich at 9 o'clock Monday night with the bodies.  Additional details of the accident which cost both women their lives have been received here.  It appears that the party left this city at an early hour Sunday morning for a trip, their destination being Saratoga Springs and Lake George.  On the return trip they lost their way, this during the hard storm which broke at about 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon. To add to their discomfiture the car in which they were riding broke down, and they were obliged to seek shelter in a tourist camp for the night.  The site of the camp was at Wyatt's crossing of the New York Central railroad, a few miles east of Schenectady.  Wesley Sutliff, husband of one of the dead women, and Edward and Walter Taylor, sons of Mrs. Sutliff by a former marriage, arose early for the purpose of completing repairs on the car for the return trip to this city.  Mrs. Sutliff and Mrs. Crandall were also up early and requested Mrs. William Swart nearby to prepare breakfast for the party. The two women then started out for a walk, but did not return for their breakfast. They were hit by the New York Central train 54, only a few minutes before Mrs. Swart announced to the men working on the car that breakfast was ready.  The train, according to the N.Y.C. schedule, is due past Wyatt's at 5:40 a.m., standard time, and in Albany at 6:06.  Yesterday the train was in charge of Harry Warren, engineer George E. Thorne, fireman, and J.R. Bradt, conductor, all of Albany.  A few minutes after 7 o'clock a work train, with a track gang aboard, arrived at the crossing eastbound, and William Carr of Albany, its brakeman, was the first to discover the bodies. That of Mrs. Sutliff had been thrown into the roadbed on the right side of the track, and then hurled 40 feet into a garden patch behind the Swart house.  Mrs. Crandall's body was carried 200 feet along the eastbound passenger track, which is the most southerly of the four, and then thrown in between that and the next one.  At the same time Carr sighted the bodies, the phone in the crossing shanty brought the news of the accident from the mystified yard workers at Albany, and the gruesome discovery of the head of Mrs. Sutliff on the pilot of the locomotive was explained.  Dr. John C. Younie, coroner's physician, who made the investigation on the scene in the absence of Coroner Treder, learned from Sutliff that both women were extremely deaf and said he thought it reasonable to believe that they walked on the tracks, discussing the accident to the car and watching the men and that they failed to hear the approaching train and were struck.  It is full daylight at Wyatt's at 5:430, standard time, Dr. Yonnie said, which prevented the women, both deaf, from being warned by the headlights beams.  In the dark, the locomotive headlight would have warned them of its approach. There is a whistling post 1,500 feet west of the crossing, where eastbound trains whistle, but this would have been useless to Mrs. Crandall and Mrs. Sutliff.  There is a crossing flagman daytimes at Wyatt's but he does not come on duty until 7 a.m.  Dr. Younie said he did not believe there would be an inquest, as there was no witness the authorities could examine.

Death Notices

Chenango Union, December 6, 1894

WHEELER:  Near East Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Henry M. Brown, Nov. 28, 1894, Mr George C. Wheeler, aged 71 years of Sheonk, L.I.

GIBSON:  In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 26, 1894, Dr. Stanford C. Gibson aged 84 years 10 months.

THOMAS:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 22, 1894 Mrs. Sophronia Thomas, widow of Edward Thomas, aged 68 years.

DONAGHE:  In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 25, 1894 Mrs. Eliza Donaghe, aged 85 years.

HEADY:  In Newark Valley, N.Y. [Tioga Co., NY] Nov. 22, 1894 Miss Clara Heady, age 90 years, formerly of Norwich, Burial King Settlement [Chenango Co., NY].

Obituaries (May 29)

Martha Baerthel

Died July 1942

Mrs. Martha Baerthel, 76, died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest R. Worden, 124 East Avenue, Minoa.  Also surviving are two brothers, Louis and Harry Mathews of Platteville, Wis., and several cousins.  Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

The funeral of Mrs. Martha Wood Baerthel, 76, who died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest R. Worden, 124 East Avenue, Minoa, will be conducted at 2 P.M. Sunday at the home and at 2:30 P.M. in Minoa Methodist Church, the Rev. Frank Boyd officiating.  Burial will be in Minoa Cemetery.

Mrs. Edwin Gage

Died November 9, 1923

Mrs. Edwin Gage:  Died Thursday, Oct. 25.  Deceased was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ery Camp on South New Berlin West Hill.  [Chenango Telegraph, Nov. 9, 1923]

Mrs. Edwin Gage passed away at her home Thursday evening at about 8 o'clock.  She had been ill and almost helpless for about seven years, but tenderly cared for during that time by her husband.  She is survived by the husband, Edwin Gage, her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Ery Camp, one brother and a sister. 

Rev. George B. Callender

Died October 10, 1942

Rev. George B. Callendar

1896-1942

Funeral services for Rev. George B. Callender, 46, superintendent of the Oneonta district, Wyoming conference of the Methodist church will be held in the Broad Street Methodist church, this city [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The body will lie in state form 12 o'clock noon until the hour of the services when the casket will be closed.  Rev. Callender died at 11:30 Saturday morning in Bassett hospital at Cooperstown. Death resulted from heart failure following a seven-month illness with rheumatic fever.  Rev. Dr. W. Gray Jones, pastor of the Broad Street church and a former superintendent of the Oneonta and Scranton districts will preside at the service in the absence of Bishop Ernest G. Richardson of Philadelphia who will be unable to attend.  Followng the scripture reading of the 163rd Psalm by Dr. Jones, prayer will be offered by Rev. Norman Clemens, pastor of the Kingston, Pa., church.  Rev. Harold Buckingham, pastor of the First church, Oneonta will speak for the churches of the district.  Franklin Callender, son of the former superintendent will sing "There is No Death," a hymn loved by his father and which he frequently sang for him.  The message of the service will be presented by Rev. Joseph H. Smith, superintendent of the Binghamton district of the Wyoming conference. At the request of the late Rev Callender the congregation will sing as the closing hymn of the service, "Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah," words of which are written to the music of "CWM Rhondda."

Rev. Callender came to the pastorate of the Broad Street Methodist church in April 1937, serving here for four years where he and his family endeared themselves to the congregation and the community.  He was appointed district superintendent in April 1941 and was nominated by Dr. Jones, present pastor here and the retiring Scranton superintendent at that time.  Of the third generation of Methodist pastors in his family, Rev. Callender before coming to Norwich previously served in Providence and Myrtle street churches in Scranton and at Forty Fort, Pa.  At the Providence church he succeeded his father as pastor, the late Rev. Clark Callendar. Rev. George B. Callender served the first 10 years of his ministry in the Vermont conference, including the principal church of that conference.  

Mr. Callender was born in West Naticoke, Pa., March 25, 1896, second of the children of Rev. Clark and Ida Callender. Not only was he a Methodist minister, but also were his four brothers.  He graduated from Syracuse university in 1919.  He graduated in 1923 from Boston University school of Theology, Boston, Mass.  Mr. Callender was a member of the Rotary club at Norwich, and of the American legion.  Surviving are:  Mrs. Callender; three sons, PFC George B. Callender, Jr., an instructor in the Marine corps radio school at San Diego, Cal., Franklin, a freshman at Syracuse University, and Stephen, a student in Camptown Pa., high school; four brohters, Rev Stephen J. Callender of Auburndale, Mass., Rev. Paul A. Callender of Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., Rev. Clark Callender of Nyack, and Rev. Edward Callender of Chatham, N.J.; his mother, who makes her home with her youngest son at Chatham, N.J.; several uncles and aunt, and a number of nieces and nephews.  Private committal services will take palce Wednesday with burial in the family plot at Berwick, Pa., where four generations of the Callender family rest.  Committal services will be conducted by the brothers of the deceased.

Death Notices -1860

Chenango American, Greene, NY, August 23, 1860

In Smithville Flatts [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst., Elizabeth [Crozier], infant daughter of Hugh G. and Nancy Crozier, of New York, aged about 15 months.

At Ketchum's Corners on the 8th inst., Rachel E. [Baldwin], wife of Norman Baldwin, aged 28 years.

At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 18th inst., William Hall, aged 57 years.

At Chenango Forks [Broome Co.., NY], on the 19th inst., Chas. L. [Knapp], son of Abram Knapp, aged 8 years.

In the city of New York, on the 12th inst., Herbert Bertine [Emmons], only child of Jennie L. and Hermon L. Emmons, Jr.

In Hornellsville [Steuben Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Franklin [Gray], infant son of Elijah R. and Mary B. Gray, aged 4 months and 15 days.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst., Mrs. Hoyt aged 62 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst., Bridget [Doyle], daughter of Patrick Doyle, aged 10 years.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Lewis Dimock, son of the late Timothy Dimock, aged 20 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst., Mr. Jas. Padgett, aged 62 years.

At Saratoga Springs [Saratoga Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Mr. Joel Chapin, formerly of Oxford, aged 52 years.

Marriages (May 28)

Cook-Bowers

Married December 16, 1939

Announcement was made today of the marriage, Saturday night, Dec. 16, of Ulricka Louise Bowers of this city to Lyman Albert Cook of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].  The nuptial service occurred at Montrose, Pa., with Rev. Marvin of the Presbyterian church officiating.  Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gibbs of North Norwich were the attending couple.  The groom is a well known cattle dealer.  The couple have many friends here who will extend them wishes for every happiness for the future.  Mr. Cook and his bride will make their home at 92 Mitchel street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].

Cooley - Pearsall

Married August 6, 1938

Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY]:  A very pretty wedding was solemnized at the Baptist church Saturday afternoon, August 6, at 2 o'clock when Miss Ruth Pearsall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Pearsall became the bride of Mr. Ansel Cooley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Cooley. The bridal party met at the altar while the wedding march was being played on the church organ by Ward Aldrich of Rockwells Mills and the ceremony was performed by Rev. Louis V.S. Hutton, pastor of the Baptist church assisted by Rev. Robert Wood, pastor of the Methodist church. The bride who wore a white crepe suit and white hat and carried a bouquet of garden flowers, was accompanied by Miss Ruth Fiske, maid of honor, who wore a light blue crepe dress, and Miss Florence Cooley, and Miss Jean Pearsall as bridesmaids. The best man was Everett Sargent of Gilbertsville, and the ushers were Glenn Pearsall, Floyd Cooley, Robert Davis and Donald Albrecht. After the ceremony at the church the bridal party were hurried to the home of the bride's parents where a reception was held at which about one hundred friends and relatives were present. Refreshments of ice cream, cakes and iced tea were served.  The happy couple left soon for a wedding trip to the Adirondacks. They expect to make their home in Mt. Upton.  The couple were the recipients of many beautiful and useful wedding gifts from friends and relatives which testify to the high esteem in which they are held. The whole community joins in wishing them a long and happy married life.

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Coe

60th Anniversary -1941

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mr. and Mrs. William C. Coe of Norwich, today celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a reception for friends and relatives at the home of their son, Supervisor Leroy B. Coe, on the Chenango Lake Road.  Mr. and Mrs. Coe were married on July 8, 1882, at the First Baptist church, Norwich, by the Rev. Henry Delano.  Both Mr and Mrs. Coe are in good health.  Mr. Coe was for 12 years a constable in the Town of Norwich, a former employee of the Ontario & Western Railroad and a former carrier of a Norwich R.F.D. Route.  Besides the son already  mentioned, there are two sons, Lester B. Coe of Norwich and Charles B. Coe of Malverne, L.I., and a daughter, Miss Marian L. Coe of Indiantown Gap, Pa.

Wedding Announcements

Coe - Cole:  Announcement of the marriage of Miss Catherine Cole of this city to Donald Coe, high school faculty member, January 28, 1938, was made Tuesday. The ceremony was performed in Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Coe is the daughter of Mrs. Letha Cole of this city while Mr. Coe is the son of Mrs. Carl Coe.

Slater - Follett:  Miss Grace Hilda Follett and Homer J. Slater were united in marriage at the First Baptist church parsonage at eight o'clock Monday night [May 21, 1928] by the Rev. W.A. Ashmore. The couple will reside on the Lake Road. 

Salisbury - Cook:  At Newark Valley, July 3 [1931] occurred the marriage of Carrie Cook and Emory Salisbury, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] 

Figary - Hadlock:  At the Morrisville [Madison Co., NY] Congregational manse on Saturday, Sept. 22 [1917], occurred the marriage of Clarence V. Figary and Miss Beryl Hadlock of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John R. Ellis.

Nicholson - Figary:  At two o'clock Saturday afternoon [Dec. 17, 1921] at the Calvary Baptist church parsonage occurred the wedding of Miss Edith Figary of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] and Otto Nicholson of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Chenango American, August 16, 1860

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., by Rev. Geo. Balcom, Mr. Elisha Keech, of New York, to Miss Nellie A. Swan, of the former place.

Chenango American, August 23, 1860

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], July 14th, by Rev. A.F. Harding, Mr. Nicholas H. Pierce of Colesville [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Carrie L. Elliott of the former place.

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by the same, Mr. James L. McCullor to Miss Harriet J. Judd, both of Colesville, Broome Co.

In Emmanuel Church, in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by Rev. R. Whittingham, Mr. Francis G. Clarke, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Clara M. Bockee, daughter of Isaac S. Bockee, deceased.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst., by Rev. D.A. Whedon, Mr. W.H. Pellet, to Miss Alice Wilson, all of Norwich.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by Rev. D.A. Whedon, Mr. Albert N. Dickinson, of Henry, Ill., to Miss Aruba A. Field, of Norwich, late Preceptress of the Ithaca Academy.

Memorial Day in Bainbridge - 1900

Memorial Day in Bainbridge

Bainbridge Republican, June 6, 1900

Last Wednesday, Memorial Day, was fittingly observed in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] by the H.H. Beecher Post of this village.  The day was partially cloudy, but at other times the sun shone brightly. The order of the exercises of the day began in the morning at 10 o'clock.  The veterans meeting at the Post room, headed by the drum corps, marched to the various cemeteries to decorate the graves of their dead comrades.  The veterans were in full Grand Army uniform and presented an imposing appearance.

At 12 o'clock the veterans again assembled at their Post rooms, and at this time accompanied by the Bainbridge band went in a body to the 12:13 train and escorted the speaker, Hon. Chas. Fuller of Sherburne, to the Central Hotel, after which the old soldiers broke ranks till 1:30 when they again were in marching order and escorted the speaker to Prince Hall, where the chief exercises of the day were held.

At the hall, music was furnished by the band and also by the Grand Army glee club lead by Daniel Banner. The singing was especially fine.  Hon. Chas. A. Fuller then addressed the veterans and the large audience of people who had assembled.

Mr. Fuller's speech was highly commented upon by all who listened to it.  He referred to past events in a touching and sympathizing manner.  He also dwelt upon all the national issues of the day pointing out the course that every honest citizen ought to pursue.  Mr. Fuller certainly pleased the Bainbridge people and there was a general desire that he might speak in Bainbridge again.  Mr. Fuller is a veteran and bears constantly a reminder of his active service in the civil war.  He was a member of the 61st N.Y. Regiment and lost a limb at the battle of Gettysburg.

The camp fire in the evening was also largely attended.  Short speeches were made by Rev.s Reed and Sachett, Hon. Chas. A. Fuller, comrades Perry Rood, A.J. Wilcox and John Fletcher.  All were spicy and well received by the audience.  Music was furnished by the G.A.R. glee club.