Vital Records, Greene, NY - August 4, 1859

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, August 4, 1859

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., by the Rev. H. Callahan, Mr. Chas. N. Hughston, of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], to Miss Josephine L. Fisk of Oxford.

Married:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult., by Rev. S.N. Westcott, Mr. Samuel A.H. Pease, of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Jane Johnson, of Pharsalia.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Harriett [Brewer], daughter of Ira Brewer, aged 16 years.

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult., Jemima [Rogers], wife of Mr. J.D. Rogers, aged 47 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, August 11, 1859

Died:  In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Andrew Elliott, aged 27 years.

Died:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., of Consumption, Hiram Wight, aged 22 years.

Died:  In New York city, on the 25th ult., Wm. Mudge, of Earlville, N.Y. [Madison Co.].

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Miss Julia Stanley.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Benjamin S. Miller, A.M. aged 32 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Julia Smith, daughter of the late Squire Smith, aged 8 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Joseph Marsh, aged 85 years.

Died:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., William D. Randall, aged 47 years.

Died:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Mrs. Charlotte Thompson, aged 73 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, August 18, 1859

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Rev. H. Callahan, Mr. Evander McNair, of Washington, Arkansas, to Miss Hannah Merrill, of Oxford.

Died:  In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst., Freelove [Hotchkiss], wife of Spencer Hotchkiss, aged 56 years.

Died:  In Ketchum's Corners [Saratoga Co., NY], on the 15th inst., S.V. McDonald, by poisoning, aged 27 years.

Died:  In Richfield, Otsego Co. [NY], on the 4th inst., James Markham, aged 98 years.

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], ont he 14th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Rounds, aged 90 years.

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., Minnie Arrabella [Bulkley], daughter of George and Esther Bulkley, aged 2 years.

Death of a Promising Young Man:  Lewis N. Burdick, son of J.L. Burdick, formerly a resident of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], in this county, died at the residence of his father, in New York, on the 7th inst., of consumption.  Mr. Burdick learned the printing business at the office of the Chenango Telegraph, in Norwich.  From thence he went to Utica, and while there was engaged in the publication of a literary paper.  He afterwards went to New York, where he acquired much celebrity as a promising and vigorous writer.   Many of the best told stories afloat in the papers, were the product of his pen.  His labors, however, were too severe for his frail constitution, and he has thus early yielded to the destroyer.  We were playmates in our youth, and though later years have separated us, we feel a bitter pang at his untimely end.  He was about 27 years of age.

Death of Rev. C. Starr Bailey:  Rev. C. Starr Bailey, a talented clergyman of the Universalist denomination, died in Morris, Otsego Co. [NY], on the 31st ult., aged 34 years.  He had the pastoral charge of the Columbus Universalist Society [Chenango Co., NY] at the time of his death.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, August 25, 1859

Married:  At the residence of Daniel Carpenter, Esq., in Afton [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst., by Rev. J.W. Mitchell, Mr. James J. Collins, to Miss Alletta Carpenter, all of Afton.

Died:  in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., Mary E. [Miner], daughter of S.W. miner, aged 2 months.

Died:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., after a severe illness of sixteen days, Mr Edwin H. Clark, aged 35 years.

Died:  In Utica [Oneida Co., NY], Saturday evening, the 20th inst., after a lingering illness, Mr. Willis Sherwood, formerly of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged 56 years.

Died:  in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., Joseph Wood, aged 87 years.

Quaint Epitaph:  We have seen, from time to time, various queer epitaphs in print, but the following, which now is, and has been for many a year, upon a tombstone in a grave yard at Cincinnatus, in Cortland Co. [NY], strikes us as being one of the most labored efforts in that line that we have ever witnessed:

"Anna Cruttenden was her name, / America was her nation, / Cincinnatus was her dwelling place / And Christ was her Salvation.

Now she is dead and in her grave, / Till all her bones are rotten, / If this you see, let her remembered be, / And never be forgotten.

The rose is red and grass is green; / And days are past which she has seen, / And days to come we all remember, / That Jesus Christ was her great redeemer."