Friday, January 8, 2021

Vital Records - Greene, NY - July 1857

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, July 9, 1857

Married:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst. by Mr. Jeremiah Tillotson, Esq., Mr. Nathan Gross to Miss Mercy A. Alexander, both of this town.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst. by Rev. L. Wright, Mr. Noah Wightman, of Preston [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Minerva A. Scott of Plymouth [Chenango  Co., NY].

Married:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst. by Rev. Wm. H. Lockwood, Mr. Schuyler D. Mudge, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Phebe A. Hancox, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], June 16th, by Rev. Geo. J. Kaercher, Charles T. Preston of Willet [Cortland Co., NY] to Miss Lydia M. Foster, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In South Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], June 16th, by Rev. Edwin Clement, Thomas G. Smith, of Oswego, Potter Co., Pa. to Miss Sophia A. Chase, of South Bainbridge.

Married:  In Eaton [Madison Co., NY], June 30th, at the residence of Alpheus Morse, Esq., by the Rev. M.S. Platt, Hon. Henry C. Goodwin, of Hamilton [Madison So., NY] member elect to Congress, and Miss Josephine Parker, of Eaton.

Married:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult., by Rev. E. Hoag, Doct. John Yale, of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], and Miss Emilie Hoag of Norwich.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Mr. Thomas Hall, aged 75 years.

Died:  At Quincy, ill., on the 12th ult., of consumption, Mr. I. LaFayette Cushman, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], aged 34 years.

Died:  In New Lisbon, Otsego Co. [NY], on the 21st ult., Mrs. Lydia D. [Sergeant], a wife of George M. Sergeant and sister of Wm. A. Raymond, of Norwich, aged 24 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, July 16, 1857

Married:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult. by Rev. M. Th..., Mr. L.T. Birdlebrough to Miss Hattie A.... All of Pitcher.

Married:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8d inst. by E. Fenton, Esq., Mr. Frank Sweet to Miss Ellen Bliss, both of Triangle, Broome Co. [NY].

Married:  In Newark, Broome co. [NY], on the 9th inst. by Rev. Willard M. Hoyt, Mr. Herman G. Burlingame, to Miss Ellen W. Wicks, both of Norwich.

Married:  In Grace Church, Sacramento, California, June 1st, by Rev. Wm. H. Hill, James W. Mandeville, Senator from  Tuolumn Co., formerly of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], to Helen P. Snell, of Sacramento, California, formerly of Saratoga.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., Sarah Ann [Rooney], infant daughter of Samuel and Jane Rooney.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, July 30, 1857

Died:  July 12th, 1857, of Onaemia, Mrs. H.E. Hitchcock, wife of Alonzo Hitchcock, Esq., of Chicago, aged 34 years and 10 months.

Mrs. H., born Miss Hannah E. Hallenbeck, was a native of Chenango Co., New York, and a graduate of the Oneida Conference Seminary, of the class of 1847.  Her superior natural abilities cultivated by a thorough and systematic course of education, fitted her for a prominent position in society, which by her rare talents and taste she might have won distinction as an artist. To a mind refined by culture, she added a heart warmed with every sentiment, and keenly alive to the joys and sorrows of those around her.  In her own family she had suffered much. the victim of disease herself she has twined the cypress and planted the rose bud on the graves of three of her children whose young days in the beautiful language of the poet,  "Have set as sets the morning star, / That goes not down behind the darkened / West, But fades away in the clear light of Heaven / Her own sun has set at noon.  Chicago Daily Press.

The above concise and beautiful tribute to one who a few years since was a resident of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], brings back vividly to the memory of the writer of these lines, the person and character of the lamented deceased. The tidings contained in this notice have spread a cloud of sadness over the circle of friendship, in this place, who have been called to mourn the departure of one so gifted and accomplished.

It seems but a brief period since, that she stood at the altar of wedded vows, and now death has dissolved the countless ties which bound together the clustering inmates of a happy home.  It is indeed difficult to realize that she is gone, separated as she was by distance from the many associations and friends of her youth, in the West.  Yet loving hearts gathered at her dying couch and a crushed and bereaved husband surveys a home, whose light is quenched in the darkness of the sepulcher.  

"She that with smiles lit up the hall, / And cheered with songs the hearth / Alas! for love, if thou wert all, / And naught beyond, oh earth!"



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