Vital Records, Norwich, NY, November 1865

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, November 1, 1865

Married:  In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 24th, 1865, by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. Hiram Rorapaugh, to Miss Frank Norris, both of Smithville.

Married:  In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 18th, by Rev. W.G. Queal, Mr. Harvey V. Schenk, of Cherry Ridge, Pa., to Miss Laura Smith, of Guilford.

Died:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 5th, 1865, Mr. Oliver P. Hall, aged 28 years, 10 months and 12 days.

Died:  At Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Oct. 23d, Dea. John F. Smith of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], aged 73 years.

Died:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 17th, Mr. Ira Manning, aged 58 years and 8 months.

Died:  In Versailles, Cattaraugus Co. [NY], Oct. 11th, Mr. Amos T. Mead, aged 73 years and 4 months.

Drowned:  Timothy Dowd of this town [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], met his death in the following manner, on Friday of last week.  He was steering a canal boat upon the Erie Canal, about three miles this side of Troy, and working heavily at the rudder the tiller broke, precipitating him into the canal.  It is supposed that he must have injured himself in falling, as he was dead before he could be rescued.  His remains were brought to Oxford for interment.  He was about 20 years of age.  Greene American.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, November 8, 1865

Married:  At the residence of Henry Hotchkiss, in Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 1st 1865, by Rev. Robert Scott, Mr. Charles S. Bakke of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Frank A. Hotchkiss of Smithville.

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 22d, by Rev. W. Burnside, Mr. James H. Davis, to Miss Mary G. Hamilton, both of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  At White Store, Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 29th, by Geo. Curtis, Esq., Mr. George M. Baxter, of Masonville, Del. Co. [NY], to Miss Rasu Ann Cash, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY].

Married:  At Gospel Hill, Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 20th, by Rev. P. McNulty Mr. Chauncey Wade, to Miss Mary Ann Barbazon, both of Guilford.

Married:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 29th, by Rev. L.A. Spafford, Mr. Gurdon E. Grannis, of Preston [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary E. Sackett of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 25th, by Rev. Samuel Scoville, Mr. Lorenzo W. Brown, of Cuyler, Cortland Co. [NY], to Miss Emily L. [Hall], daughter of Samuel Hall.

Married:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 24th, by Rev. W. Burnside, Mr. Alonzo Fausett to Cazenovia [Madison Co., NY] to Miss Arethusa C. Tefft of Smyrna.

Married:  In Cortlandville [Cortland Co., NY], Oct. 24th, by Rev. A. Wilkins, Mr. J.R. Birdlebough to Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Addie Rexford of Solon [Cortland Co., NY].

Married:  In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 6th, by C. Carrier, Esq., Mr. William Beatty, of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sarah E. Sherman of Columbus.

Married:  In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 18th, by Rev. I.B Hopwood, Mr. Adelbert V. Talman to Miss Eliza A. Kales.

Married:  At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], Oct. 22d, by Rev. P.S. Worden, Mr. Henry Winton to Miss Harriet Gross, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Married:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], by Rev. M.G. Wadsworth, Mr. William H. Jones, to Miss Phebe A. Foster, daughter of C.C. Foster, all of Sherburne.

Died:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 31st, 1865, of typhoid fever, Mr. Joel J. Bixby, formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].

Died:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 3d, of consumption, Mary E. [Brown], daughter of Dudley Brown, aged 18 years.

Died:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 26th, Mrs. Olive Briggs, aged 86 years.

Died:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 29th, Mr. George M. Lyon, aged 33 years, 8 months and 13 days.

Died:  In Portsmouth, Va., Sept. 26th, Mr. Daniel D. Clark, late of the U.S. Navy, aged 33 years.  He was formerly from Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, November 1, 1865

Death by Shooting:  We are very much pained to learn that a son of J.S. Ludington, Esq., of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], was instantly killed, on Wednesday, by the accidental discharge of a gun.  He was out gunning with a companion, and had stopped beside a log, leaning his gun upon or over the log, when by some movement the gun was discharged, the contents passing upward from the neck through his head, killing him instantly. The lad was about fifteen years of age.  Chronicle [Norwich, NY]

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, November 8, 1865

Death of Frank S. Ludington:  We learn that our account of the accident to Frank S., son of James S. Ludington, Esq., was not correct in every particular, and we accordingly, by the request of the father publish the following:  He was standing upon a log with his gun when another boy, Zadoc Adams, approached him and requested to see his gun. Frank handed it to him and Zadoc examined it for a few minutes, cocked it, and as he was handing it back, it was accidentally discharged, the whole charge entering the neck, cutting off the jugular vein and lodging in the back of the neck, near the spine and just at the base of the skull.  The report was at once circulated by the frightened boy that Frank had fallen from the log and in his fall had discharged his own piece.  But we understand on Saturday morning last, he went with Mr. L. to the place of the accident, and upon being assured that no one blamed him, confessed the fact as above stated.  Chronicle [Norwich, NY]