Note: Additional vital record postings for the issues of the Chenango American for December 1864 and January 1865 have been made in previous blog posts. If interested in seeing these data, do a search on the dates December 1, 8, 15, 22, or 29, 1864 and January 5, 12, 19, or 26, 1865. (search box, upper left corner of blog)
Chenango American, Greene, NY, December 8, 1864
Death of Henry Gartsee
News has been received, through Charles Gross, who is a detailed nurse on board the steamer George Leary, that Henry Gartsee, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], died some months ago in the rebel prison at Andersonville, of dropsy. He was taken prisoner near Fredericksburg, Va., during the first days of the fighting in the Wilderness, together with a number of others from this place. He enlisted last winter in the company formed here by Capt. Henry Vaughn for the 22d cavalry. He was a printer by trade, and had many friends among the young men of the county. Of a genial, kindly, cheerful disposition, his nature was of the sort to draw about him the pleasant hearted and the gay. He was one of the "laughing sons of mirth" whom nothing could make sour and gloomy and we are sure that the untold horrors of a Southern prison and the near approach of death therein did not shake the firm faith he cherished that "there is no darker fate before us than that we've left behind." He will be long remembered and regretted. Chenango Chronicle
Death of a Printer
De Witt C. Northrup, a printer who served his apprenticeship in this office, died in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], of consumption, on Monday last. We knew him as a faithful, upright, and industrious boy, and deeply regret that he has been thus called away in the prime of his youth. For the past few years he has been employed in responsible positions in a western State, and bid fair to attain prominence and usefulness. He returned with the seeds of disease firmly fixed upon him, to the home of his parents in this village, about four weeks since, where he rapidly declined and died. He was 24 years of age, and leaves a wife and child to mourn his untimely departure.
Soldier's Burial
The body of David W. Pettis, son of Ralph Pettis, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], a soldier in the 114th Regiment, who died in hospital some weeks since, was brought to this village for interment on Tuesday last. His remains were escorted to their last resting place, by Ocean Fire Co., of which he was a member, and a concourse of citizens. A funeral sermon was preached at the Congregational church by Rev. H. Garlick.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, December 29, 1864
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst., Miss Alida M. Rogers, aged 18 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., Mrs. Sally Leach, relict of the late Jonas Leach, aged 81 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst. of chronic diarrhea, Francis E. Phetteplace, a member of the 22d N.Y. Cavalry.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d inst., Mrs. Mary Ann [Ruthford], wife of Robert Ruthford, aged 24 years.
Died: In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., Ellsworth J. [Crandall], son of Elisha Crandall aged 8 years.
Died: At Baton Rouge Hospital, La., on the 16th ult. Mr. Nehemiah Wheeler, Jr., of Co. A, 11th N.Y. Cavalry, aged 30 years 5 months and 16 days, late of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: In Buffalo [Erie Co., NY], on the 8th inst., of typhoid fever, Jessie Percival [Clarke], youngest daughter of Rev. Ethan Ray and Mary E. Clarke, aged 15 years.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 12, 1865
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst., by Rev. Peck, Mr. George Van Dyke of Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Eliza Byers? of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst. by Rev. Woodmansee, Wm. E. Smith of Lisle [Broome Co., NY] to Mary E. Sanders of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Mr. John Gross, Jr., aged 35 years.
Died: In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Eliza Ann [Johnson], daughter of Rev. Samuel Johnson, aged 5 years.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult. Miss Anna M. Rogers, aged 18 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst. Mary [Bloom], wife of Henry Bloom, aged 38 years.
Died: In Triangle [Broome Co., NY], on the 25th ult. Gurdon Whitney, formerly of Preston [Chenango Co., NY], aged 74 years.
Died: In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st ult. George F. [Rider], aged 1 year, 8 months, and 21 days; on the 25th Willey H. [Rider], aged 3 years and 6 months; on the 28th, Henry E. [Rider], aged 8 years and 16 days; children of Lewis and Dorcus Rider.
Died: In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. Mr. Sidney D. Rexford, aged 23 years.
Death of Rev. A G. Orton, D.D.
In Lisle [Broome Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Rev. A.G. Orton, D.D., formerly of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged 75 years. [Chenango American, Jan. 5, 1865]
The death of the Rev. Dr. Orton, simply stated in the last issue of this paper, deserves more -?- than just mere announcement of the death. He lived and labored in the Congregational Society in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY] as its pastor for more than -?- years and was well known and greatly beloved in this community. Possessing as he did, great kindness of heart and force of intellect, he was still so quiet and unobtrusive in his manner that one needed to know him well to understand his worth. "He was a scholar and a ripe and good one." As a student he was unremitting in his reading of the various authors that his well selected library contained. His attainments in all the higher departments of solid learning were thorough and extensive. He read much outside the curriculum of theological inquiries and studies. He was exceedingly found of the physical sciences and in chemistry and its cognate branches of knowledge, he was thoroughly versed. But over all these acquirements there was visible the beautiful veil of a modesty so transparent that to those who knew him well lent an added charm to the possession of such valued intellectual treasures. He was liberal in his feeling towards those outside the pale of his pastoral efforts and many among us who did not symbolize with him in his theology, yet lament his departure in the remembrance of his many virtues. Though his intellect lost its vigor as years advanced, yet there were times even to the last when the fires of cultivated thought would kindle up afresh over a congenial theme of study and inquiry.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 19, 1864
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th inst. by Rev. Ransom, Mr. S.A. Cook of -?- to Miss Libbie Stackhouse of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the -?- inst by Rev. Bowdish, Mr. Henry D. Ives to Miss Emma Sheldon all of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].
Married: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., by Rev. C. Steere, John S. Thorp of Canton [St. Lawrence Co., NY] to Mrs. Mary Nicholson, of McDonough.
Married: In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. by Rev. J.H. Barnard, Mr. Francis Chapel to Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Emily Law of Pitcher.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, January 26, 1865
Married: In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY] on the 17th inst. by Rev. Mr. Holroyd, Mr. David B. Daily of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Amelia L. Martin of McDonough.
Married: In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY] on the 15th inst. by Rev. Bowdish Rev. A.S. Yale of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Lula F. Lyon of Elmira [Chemung Co., NY].
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