Vital Records, Norwich, NY, May 1867

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 1, 1867

Marriages

At the residence of A.C. Scott, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Tuesday morning, April 30th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Whitman Stratton, to Miss Maggie Shiffer, all of this place.

At the residence of C.J. Tucker, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], April 18th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Charles Williams Randall to Mrs. A. Maria Bow, all of Norwich.

At the residence of Dennis Phetteplace, in the town of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], by Rev. F.B Peck, Mr. John Smith, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary V. Burliston, of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY].

In Guilford Center [Chenango Co., NY], April 28th, by Rev. J.L. Jones, Mr. Aaron M. Wooster, to Miss Eliza Bennett, all of Guilford.

In New York, April 11th, by Mayor Hoffman, Mr. Giles Brown, of Pitcher, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], to Miss Rachel M. Borgardus, of Fabius, Onondaga Co., N.Y.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 23d, by Rev. F. Rogers, Mr. Cyrus J. Reynolds, of Addison, Steuben Co. [NY], to Miss Jennie E. Gray, daughter of Alvin Gray.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 23d, by the same, Mr. William H. Close of Indianapolis, Ind., to Miss Sarah Stevens, daughter of Charles A. Stevens, of Greene.

In East Greene, April 17th, by Rev. R.H. Spafford, Mr. Orange Leach, to Miss Frank Smith, both of Greene.

Deaths

In Howard, Steuben Co., N.Y., April 16th, of diptheria, Ruth M. Baker, aged 10 years 7 months and 3 days, daughter of the late Dr. Andrew Baker, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 15th, James Herbert [Dodge], son of James O. and Elizabeth Dodge, aged 8 months.

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], April 15th, Susan B. [Brown], wife of James Brown, aged 53 years.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], March 28th, Mr. John Davis, aged 72 years.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], April 19th, Mary B. [Davis], daughter of John and Fanny Davis, aged 24 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 14th, Ella Irene [Livermore], only child of DeForest and Mary Livermore, aged 7 months, 26 days.

In Masonville, Delaware Co. [NY], April 17th, Mr. Thos. W. Randall, aged 57 years.

Chenango Union, May 8, 1867

Marriages

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], May 1st, by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Henry J. Winsor, to Miss Celinda E. Hunt, both of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

At St. Paul's Church, Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 24th, by Rev. W. Ayrault, Mr. Rodney F. Smith, of Wolcottville, Ct., to Miss Sarah D. McGeorge, of Oxford.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 23d, by Rev. P. McNulty, Mr. George Down, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss M. Adelia Homan, of Oxford.

In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], April 19th, by Rev. J.W. Barr, Mr. Joel F. Bassett to Mrs. Dorcas B. Cross, both of Otselic.

In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], April 21st, by Rev. J.W. Barr, Mr. Richard A. Harrington, of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Lucinda L. Hemenway, of Smyrna.

In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], April 22d, by Rev. J.W. Barr, Mr. Alfred W. Steabns? of Otselic, to Miss Emma A. Olney, of Bushnell's Basin, Monroe Co. [NY].

In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], April 23d, by Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. J. W. Paul, of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY] to Miss Laura M. Smith, of Unadilla.

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], April 18th, by Rev. T. Thompson, Mr. Joseph Roberts? to Mrs. Susan Thayer.

In New Berlin Centre [Chenango Co., NY], by the same, Mr. Orrin Henry to Miss A.J. Bassett.

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], May 3d, Pulaski S. Wiswell, aged 17 years.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], May 5th, Jennie H. Wycoff, aged 5 years.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co.., NY], April 20th, Mr. John Gile, aged 73 years.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], may 3d, Mr. Richard Gorton, aged 88 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 29th, Grateful [Gould], wife of Thomas Gould, aged 84 years.

In Port Chester, Westchester co. [NY], April 8th, Mr. David Lyon, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 93 years.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 15, 1867

Marriages

In German [Chenango Co., NY], April 26th, by Rev. A.C. Smith, Mr. William Hiller, of McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Abigail Roe, of Wallkill [Orange Co., NY].

In Utica [Oneida Co., NY], April 29th, by Rev. D.C. Curry, Mr. E. Green Dow, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Sarah E. Phelps, of South Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY].

Deaths

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], May 12th, Mr. Elijah Buel, aged 79 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 9th, Lucy M. [Gray], wife of john Gray, aged 69 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], May 4th, Dea. Drury Morse, aged 51 years.

In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], April 24th, Mrs. L.C. Button, wife of Consider Button, aged 40 years.

In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], April 20th, Frances J. [Bixby], wife of Ira Bisby, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], aged 22 years.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], May 5th, 1867, after an illness of ten weeks, Mr. Caleb Cooper, aged 85 years and 7 months.  He came among the early settlers in the year 1807, and located in the south part of Guilford, where he since resided, and for more than half a century lived happily with his surviving widow, rearing a very respectable family, and accumulating a comfortable property.  He bore an irreproachable and estimable character, ever truthful and reliable; in his dealings upright and honest; always peaceable and obliging; politically a Democrat, ever loving the flag of the Union, as his service in the war of 1812 evidenced.  Last autumn he felt that human goodness or excellence alone could not prepare him for Heaven.  He sought and obtained a firm and precious hope of a glorious immortality through the atoning blood and righteousness of Christ, cheerfully saying the sting of death was taken away. During his illness, everything which his able physician, loving children and kind neighbors could do for him, was done.  He was buried on the 7th, with solemn and appropriate services.  His aged widow, brothers, sisters and children have the consoling sympathy of their many friends in their deep affliction.

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], May 1st, 1867, Mrs. Adalaide A. Johnston, wife of John Johnston, Esq., recently of Paterson, N.J., and youngest daughter of Horace and Betsey Jones, of Coventry.  This sad bereavement has sent a pang of grief and sorrow to the hearts of a large circle of relatives and friends.  The deceased was a young woman possessed of more than ordinary charms and attractions.  Her evident intelligence and cultivation of mind, and her pleasing manners, made a favorable impression at once upon all who met her; while her bright cheerfulness, gentleness and amiability of character, drew to her the warmest affections of all who knew her intimately.  But thus taken from us by a mysterious visitation of providence, we bow our sorrowful hearts in humble submission to the will of the Great Dispenser of all events, and find our consolation in the fact that she died in the communion of God's holy church; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope; and while looking forward in hope "to the general resurrection and the life of the world to come," we invoke God's mercies and blessings upon her bereaved husband and tender infant whom she leaves behind.