Vital Records - January 1857

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 1, 1857

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult. by Rev. E.D. Thurston, Mr. T.J. Lyon to Miss Helen E. Kelley, all of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  The same day, by the same, Mr. Washington A. Wa.. to Miss Cornelia A. Perkins, all of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult., by Elder A. Parker, Mr. Franklin A. Williams of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Susan Parker of the former place.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Thos. K. Terry of Norwich to Miss Mary M. Sisson of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., by Rev. E.L. Benedict, Mr. Stephen Hawley of Earlville [Madison Co., NY], to Miss Mary E. Weaver of the former place.

Died:  In German [Chenango Co., NY] on the 29th ult. Mr. Cornelius Mericle, aged 86 years.

Died:  In Clarkville, Madison Co. [NY], on the 23d ult. Hattie Adele [Clark], only child of Allen and Olivia Green, aged 10 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on the 14th ult. Mrs. Nancy Preston in the 75th year of her age.

Died:  In Chillicothe, Ill. on the 4th ult. David R. McMaster, formerly of South Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] aged 26 years.

Oxford Times, January 7, 1857

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. by the Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Francis E. Willoughby of Linnville, Ogle Co., Ill. to Miss Jennette E. Root of Oxford.

Married:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst. by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Charles A. Graves to Miss Laura Ann Holdredge, both of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Mr. L.J. Thayer, while dining yesterday at Harvey's Hotel, Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], grew suddenly ill, and died immediately after being removed from the room.  He was from Mohawk [Herkimer Co., NY], a carpenter, employed in getting timber for the Erie Canal and was somewhat dissipated.  His age was 43, and he leaves a wife and two children.  A Coroner's inquest held upon the body of Mr. Thayer found that he died from a piece of beef sticking in his wind pipe and choking him.  Norwich Reporter.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 8, 1857

Married:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th  inst., by Elder A. B. Jones at the house of Jared Page, Mr. Henry L. Jones to Miss Almira C. Page, both of this town.

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th(?) ult. by Rev. H.W. Gilbert, Mr. Lyman H. Hotchkiss to Miss Evelyne Ingersoll, both of Smithville.

Married:  In the Presbyterian Church, Guilford Centre [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst. by Rev. Mr. Huntington, Mr. William G. Mandeville, of Norwich to Miss Jane A. Kraft of the former place.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. Mrs. Audria Hotchkiss, wife of Hiram Hotchkiss, aged 47 years and 10 months.

Died:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Franklin Dwight [Aldrich], son of Smith and Rhoda A Aldrich, aged 4 months and 15 days.

Died:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. of apoplexy, Mrs. Tabitha [Benedict], wife of Daniel Benedict, aged 76 years.

In Willet, Cortland Co. [NY], after a short illness, on the 2d inst., Nelson Holmes, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], in the 52d year of his age.

Oxford Times, January 14, 1857

Mr. Elijah H. Mallery, formerly of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], in this county, was instantly killed at Clarksville, Allegany Co., N.Y. on the 31st of December last, by a log rolling upon him while engaged in loading and drawing saw logs.  His age was 30 years and he leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss.

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 6th, by Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Justus H. Green of West Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Juliette Woods of Oxford.

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th(?) inst. by Rev. Mr. Huntington, Mr. William C. Mandeville of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Jane A. Kane(?) of the former place.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 15, 1857

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. at the residence of [...?...] Mr. William Tracy of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss [?] H. Harrington of the former place.

Married:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] on the 4th inst., by Rev. H. F. Row, Mr. William W. Woodard of South New Berlin to Miss Sarah A. Thomson of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], on the 1st inst. by Rev. S.C. Ainsworth, Mr. S.A. Benton of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Ann Stoddard of Hamilton [Madison Co., NY].

Died:  Suddenly in Utica [Oneida Co., NY], on the 9th inst. of scarlet fever, Willie [Bristol], son of W.J. and Harriet Bristol, aged 11 months and 17 days.

Oxford Times, January 21, 1857

Married:  At St. Paul's Church [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday, 15th inst., by Rev. S. Hanson Coxe, Dr. L.P. Wagner, and Miss Julia E Sands both of Oxford.

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 18th, 1856, by L. Ingersoll, Esq., Mr. Ransom Hill to Miss Sarah A. Benedict, both of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Portsmouth, Ohio, Dec. 29th, Samuel Miles Tracy, aged 61 years, formerly of this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  At Cannonsville, Delaware Co [NY], on the 14th inst., Darius Maples, Esq., aged 72 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 22, 1857

Married:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. by Rev. J. Olney, Mr. George D. Button to Miss Mary A. Dalton, both of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst. by Rev. JW. Mitchell, Mr. Jerome Simone to Miss Phebe H. Williams, all of the above place.

Married:  in Chenango, Broome Co. [NY], on the 18th inst., by Rev. Mr. Roberts, George C. Rice of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Louise M. [Russell], eldest daughter of Calvin Russell, Esq., of the former place.

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by Rev. S. Hanson Coxe, Dr. L.P. Wagner, and Miss Julia E. Sands, both of Oxford.

Died:  In McDonough [Chenango co., NY], on the 15th inst. John Lamb, aged 76 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st ult. Frederick Salisbury, aged 72 years and 1 month.

Died:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. Daniel E. Hinsdale, in the 21st year of his age.

Died:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst. Emily Q. [Wightman], daughter of Wm. C. and Juliette Wightman, aged 5 years and 3 months.

Oxford Times, January 28, 1857

Married:  At the house of the bride's father, on the 26th inst., by Rev. .G. Bartholomew, Mr. Orrin Wheeler of Morrisville, N.Y. [Madison Co.], to Miss Olive A. Bassett of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. S.L. Roripaugh, Mr. James J. Noyes to Miss Eunice F. Clark, both of Preston.

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 31st, by Rev. J.G. Bartholomew, Mr. Hiram F. Purdy to Miss Abigail Willcox, both of Smithville.

Married:  In South Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult. by Rev. J.G. Bartholomew, Mr. Devilloi C. Church to Miss Ann Augusta Landers.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 30th, Mr. George W. Furman formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 80 years. 

Died:  At Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. Mrs. Mary J. [Yale], wife of Dr. John Yale, aged 30 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 29, 1857

Married:  [....] by Geo. W. Eaton, D.D. President of Madison University, Chas. A. Mott, Esq. of Lansingburgh [Rensselear Co. NY] to Fannie D. Eaton eldest daughter of the officiating clergyman.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst. at the Baptist Parsonage, by Rev. O. Wright, Chas. A. Rathbunn of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Antoinette Dexter of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  Also at the same time and place, by the same, Wm. Dexter to Cynthia A. Reynolds, both of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., at St. Andrew's Church, by Rev. R. Whittingham, S.L. Morgan of New York city to Sarah E. [Williams] only daughter of E.C. Williams, Esq., of the former place.

Died:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst. at the residence of his son-in-law, Lewis Juliand, Esq., Mr. Joseph Buttler aged 89 years.  The subject of this notice was for nearly sixty years a resident of New Hartford, Oneida Co. [NY], and was one of the pioneer settlers in that section of the State.  His memory is familiar to all the early residents of that portion of Oneida Co. where he so long dwelt.  For the last ten years he has made his home with the son-in-law, where he departed this life.  As long as his faculties of mind continued unimpaired, he was loved and honored for those kind, amiable and gentlemanly qualities of character which mark the mind of genuine refinement.  And even through the eclipse which gathered for some time past over his intellect there would be an occasional outgleaming of that spirit of elevated kindness and courtesy by which his character had been stamped.  It is a consolation to know that through his long residence in the family in the bosom of which his soul left the fleshly tabernacle, he was watched over and cared for by the tenderest filial solicitude and devotion. The remembrance of what he had been when reason held its throne made it a willing task to those in whose care he was thrown to minister to the comfort and relief of the aged parent, infirm and prostrate more in mind than body.  He was saved from the weariness of a protracted confinement to a sick bed.  having been characterized by regular and simple habits from early years the shrine of the spirit was free from marked ruin and decay even up to the day previous to death, although the light which once illumined it had burnt low in its socket.  He gently passed away from a world to which his vision had grown dim, to access we trust with an enclouded eye, the brightness of that land where the body can never more grow weak or weary, or the soul become darkened or dimmed.

Died:  In Belvidere, on the 15th inst. of consumption, Eliza A. [Stone], wife of Watts G. Stone, formerly of Norwich [Chenango co., NY], aged 21 years.

Died:  In Portsmouth, Ohio, on the 25th ult., Samuel M. Tracy, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 61 years.

Died:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Adine Aldrich, aged 78 years.

Oxford Times, January 28, 1857

Fires in Guilford:  Loss of Life: The house of an old lady by the name of Comstock, living about three-fourths of a mile north of Fayette, was consumed by fire together with its owner, on the night of the 24th.  It was not discovered by anyone until the following morning, when all that remained were a few smoking timbers and a charred and blackened mass of what was once a human being.  The fire is supposed to have originated from the stove while she was asleep, and in her attempt to escape she was probably suffocated and thus burned to death.  She lived alone, having no relatives living, and was supported by the town and through the generosity of individuals.  A few shillings of money, probably all she had, were found near her body.  The School-house at Fayette, was also burned on the 25th.  Owing to scarcity of water, &C. it was impossible to extinguish the flames.

Small Pox at Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY]: We learn from The Sherburne Transcript, that the Board of Health continue to take every suitable precaution against the spread of this disease, and that the citizens, without exception, have shown a commendable regard to the sanitary regulations which have been adopted.  From the first appearance of the disease, all the cases except three assumed a very mild form, and most of them are reported convalescent.  Of the three severe cases, two are progressing favorably, the third, a son of Gen Rowland, fell a victim to the disease, on Wednesday evening.  No new cases of the disease have occurred since tis first outbreak, and we have reason to hope that through the intervention of a kind Providence, its farther progress will be stayed.