Vital Records, Norwich, NY, October 1863

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, October 7, 1863

Married:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. A.N. Benedict, Mr. Joseph H. Latham to Miss Frances L. Randall, all of Norwich.

Married:  Also, on the 1st inst., at the Parsonage, by the same, Mr. John H. Currier to Miss Arvilla L. Sanford, of Georgetown, Madison Co. [NY].

Married:  At the Baptist Church in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Sept. 24, 1863, by Rev. A.N. Benedict, Mr. P. Simons of St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Emily Louisa [Breed]\, eldest daughter of Charles R. Breed of Norwich.

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] Sept. 30th, by Rev. W. Peck, Mr. Charles A. Rosebrook, to Miss Phebe E. Dixon, all of Sherburne.

Married:  Also, by the same, on the same day, Mr. Warren Catlin to Miss Cerintha M. Brunson, both of Hamilton, Madison Co. [NY].

Married:  In South new Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Sept. 2d, 1863, by Rev. J.C. Foster, Mr. A.Z. Thompson to Mrs. Susan Tyler all of the above place.

Married:  In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY]\, Sept. 24th,by Rev. S.F. Whitter, Mr. Nathan Thackwray, to Miss Eliza M. Smith, both of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  At West Farms [Westchester Co., NY], on the 17th ult. by Rev. Dr. Winters, Mr. Charles F. Mead, late of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Eva M. Clarke, of Wilmington, Delaware.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, October 14 1863

Died:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., of consumption, Mr. Leander B. Foote, aged 48 years.

Died:  in Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult., of apoplexy, Mrs. Thirza Baker, wife of Joseph Baker.

Died:  At Little Falls [Herkimer Co., NY], on the 1st inst. Mrs. Julia A. [Simonds], wife of John L. Simonds, and daughter of Nelson Deming, of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] in the 27th year of her age.

Died:  At University Hospital, New Orleans, Sept. 12th, of dropsy, Mr. Michael F. Coughlin, of Norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co.]a member of Co. K, 161st N.Y.S.V.  He had his discharge papers, and was on his way home.

Died:  At Court House Hospital, Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 11th, of chronic diarrhea, Mr. Samuel S. Sheldon, of East Guilford, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], a member of Co. K, 161st Regiment.

Died:  At the Regimental Hospital, Brashaer City, La, on the 3d ult., Mr. Oscar F. Root of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 27.

Died:  At Folly Island, near Charleston, recently, Mr. Nathan Blencoe, of the 141th Reg. N.Y.S.V., formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], aged 22 years.  he was a young man much respected, and his loss will be mourned by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

Died:  At Annapolis, Md., Sept. 25, Mr. Albertus Kenyon, aged 23 years, a member of Co. H 168th N.Y.S.V.

Died:  At Lincoln Hospital, Washington D.C., July 31st, of typhoid fever, George W. Ames, of North Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], a volunteer in Co. A, 89th N.Y. Cavalry, aged 19 years.  Few young men who give up their lives for their country will be missed and mourned as George is.  He was indeed a true and noble boy. Surrounded by all the obstacles that possibly could be thrown in his way, he had reached a position in society, upon which those on whom fortune had ever smiled, might well look with envy.  Frank, truthful, with intellectual abilities of the first order, he would, had he lived, have stood high on the list of fame.  His noble spirit would not allow him to stay with us, when traitors were striving against his dear country, and freely he gave his young life up at her altar.  "Mournfully, tenderly, solemn and slow, / Tears are bedewing the path as we go; / Kindred and strangers are weeping today, / A hero, a patriot, from earth passed away."  North Pharsalia, Oct. 14, 1863,  D. L.A.

Desertion and Elopement:  A correspondent writes to the Utica Herald that some three weeks ago, Daniel W. Dennis, of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], an enlisted volunteer in the McClellan Cavalry, deserted the service, and enticed the wife of Joseph Edmunds, of the same town (her husband being a member of the 8th N.Y. Cavalry, in Virginia) to desert two little children and elope with him. She took with her near two hundred dollars, including some money just received from her husband for the support of the family.  Where they went is not known, but on Saturday morning last they took the stage at Utica for Norwich.  They stopped however over Sunday at Earlville, keeping themselves much secluded in their room.  She, when noticed by the attendants, was observed to have been weeping.  On Monday they returned to Utica in private conveyance, stopping at the Central Hotel as privately as possible. Sergt. M.C. Griswold, of the McClellan Cavalry, got a clue to this lurking place, and employed an attache of the hotel to keep watch until he could procure needful aid from Provost Marshal Richardson to arrest and secure Dennis. Before Griswold returned, and he was not gone ten minutes, Dennis and woman were hurried into a carriage in the back yard of the Central (as has since been ascertained) and driven off, and no intelligence has since been heard of them.  Her money, doubtless, did the job. Dennis was a poor squirt, but Mrs. Edmunds was of a respectable family, and was a pleasant, fine-looking and a reputable young woman.  Her children are left to the charity of others..

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, October 28, 1863

Died:  In Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., of pneumonia, Erastus Agard, Esq., aged 76 years.

Died:  in Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. Mr. William H. Keech, aged 22 years.

Died:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. Emily D. [Steere], wife of Cyrus E. Steere, aged 38 years.

Died:  In Hospital at Beaufort, S.C., Oct. 6th, 1863, Mr. Bonaparte Tucker, of Pharsalia, N.Y. [Chenango Co. ], a member of Co. E, 89th N.Y.S.V.

Died:  In Philadelphia, Oct. 3ed, Mr. Ephraim Breed, Jr., formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged 49 years.