Vital Records, Norwich, NY, December 1865

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 20, 1865

Married:  In Emmanuel Church, Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 6th, 1865, by Rev. E.Z. Lewis, Mr. John McLean, to Miss Lydia Ann Bradbury, both of Guilford, N.Y. [Chenango Co.].

Married:  At the residence of Dr. A.A. Baker, in Howard, Steuben Co., N.Y., Dec. 13th, by Rev. Mr. Rork, Mr. Melvin W. Graves, to Miss Julia A. Baker, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  At the home of the bride, Dec. 13th, by Rev. J.H. Barnard, Mr. William W. Chapel, of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Alice G. Pritchard, of Cincinnatus, Cortland Co. [NY].

Married:  In Marshall, N.Y. [Oneida Co.], Dec. 13th, by Rev. C.C. Thorne, Mr. Augustus J. Beardslee of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Carrie A. Moore.

Married:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 14th, by Rev. J.L. Jones, Mr. Orson E. Lothridge of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Frances A. Bruce of South Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY].

Married:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 13th, by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Thos. L.B. Salisbury, to Miss Almeda Beach, all of Greene.

Married:  In Union Valley [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 26th, by Rev. B.H. Brown, Mr. Charles Clark, of Deposit [Delaware Co., NY], to Miss Mary Pierce, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 11th, Ann [Harrison], wife of James J. Harrison, aged 45 years.

Died:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 5th, Margaret [McEnaney], wife of Onan McEnaney, aged 40 years.

Died:  In German [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 23d, Almira Jane [Fosgate], wife of Wm. A. Fosgate, aged 29 years and 5 months.

Death of Abel Chandler

Died:  In Pepperell, Mass., Dec. 10th, 1865, Abel Chandler, Esq., formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], aged 69 years.

We learn that intelligence was received last week by his friends in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] of the death of Abel Chandler.  He died at Pepperell, near Boston, Massachusetts, where for some years past he has made his home, on Sunday, Dec. 10th.  When in this place, a short time since, he was observed to be much debilitated, and though none were prepared for so sudden a close to his career, few who saw him then will receive the information of his decease with surprise.  Mr. Chandler was in early life a resident, if not a native, of the town of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], in this county, and for many years was conspicuous in our local politics.  In 1835, or about that time, he removed to Norwich, and in 1837 was the Democratic candidate for county Clerk against Perez Randall, and defeated owing to a division in the party.  He had previously represented the county for one term in the legislature of the State. At the formation of the Chenango Mutual Insurance Company, Mr. Chandler was elected Secretary of that institution, a place which he held until near the time when it became insolvent.  From this period, though always actively engaged in speculations, political and pecuniary, he had no regular pursuit.  He was well known throughout this State, and also in the West, where many of his business operations were carried on.  He was a man of generous impulses, of a charitable disposition and of unusual resources of mind.  he leaves a wife and two children and numerous friends to mourn his loss. His age was about 69.

Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, December 27, 1865

Married:  ALLEN - MILLER:  At the First Congregational Church in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday, the 20th? inst., by Rev. Samuel Scoville, Mr A. Purdy Allen, of Bath, Steuben Co. [NY], and Miss Emma J. Miller, of this village.

Married:  OLIN - PARKER:  On Tuesday, ?th inst., at the house of Mrs. Spafford, Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Mr. Henry P. Olin of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary V. Parker of this village.

Married:  BECKWITH - SCOTT:  At the M.E. Parsonage in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], by the Rev. W. G. Queal, Mr. Franklin E. Beckwith to Miss Almira P. Scott, all of Rockdale, N.Y. [Chenango Co.].

Married:  BIRDLEBOUGH - STOKES:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 18, by Rev. W. C Bowen, Theodore Birdlebough to Mary E. Stokes, both of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  SANDERS - DRAKE:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 15, by Justice R.T Davidson, Thomas J. Sanders, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Laura A. Drake, of Oxford.

Married:  MATTESON - GAZALY: In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 20th, by Rev. J.L. Jones, Mr. George J. Matteson, and Miss Emma A. Gazlay, all of New Berlin. 

Died:  ALLEN:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on 21st inst. Louisa [Allen], wife of Isaac Allen, aged 68 years.

Died:  MUNN:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], 18th Dec., William Munn, aged -7? years.

Died:  SYMONDS:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 17, Mrs. Lucia Symonds, aged 78 years.

Died:  STEERE:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst. Mrs. Phoeba [Steere], wife of Smith Steere, aged 69 years.

Died:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday morning last, Mr. Stephen Steere, aged 80 years and 9 months.  Mr. Steere was a son of the late Judge Stephen Steere who removed from Gloucester, R.I. in 1797, upon the Unadilla River in the 15th Township, and to this village in the year 1800. Norwich then formed a part of Tioga County and there were but three framed houses in the village.  Mr. Steere lived here to see the little hamlet of that period become the shire town of a new county, with a population of 3000 souls, and to be himself the oldest inhabitant within the limits of the corporation.  He was one of a family of twelve children, of whom Asel Steere of Providence R.I., Mrs. James Birdsall and Smith Steere, Esq. of this village are the only survivors.  Mr. Steere was never married.  His manners were quiet and unobtrusive, and he possessed the good old Rhode Island virtues of industry and frugality being true to his word attached to friends and minding his own business.  His death is the removal of another ancient and well known landmark.