Vital Records, Norwich, NY, December 1867

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 4, 1867

Marriages

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 19th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Herbert Hunt to Miss Martha Jane Phettyplace, both of Norwich.

In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 20th, by Hiram Gritman, Esq., Mr. Charles T. Williams, to Miss Ruth E. Hewes, both of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY].

At the M.E. Parsonage, in Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 26th, by Rev. W.R. Cochrane, Mr. Daniel E. Stillman, of Deruyter [Madison Co., NY] to Miss Caroline M. Mowers, of Plymouth.

In Middleburgh, Vt., Nov. 20th, by Rev. Walker, Mr. D.T. Hiller, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss E.A. Seely, of the former place.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Sept. 26th, by Rev. A.M. Bennett, Mr. A.F. Barcock, Esq., to Mrs. C. Alesworth all of Sherburne.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 23d, by Rev. W.G. Queal, Mr. Erastus Scott, to Miss Eliza Surdam, both of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY]

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 27th, by Rev. John Cairns, Mr. Andrew Upham to Miss C.A. Wheeler, daughter of Silas T. Wheeler, all of Greene.

Deaths

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 13th, Mrs. Hannah T. Jones, wife of Dea. Hiram Jones aged 76 years.

In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 20th, Francis M. [White], son of Henry L. and Victoria C. White, aged 4 months.

In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 29th, Mrs. Laura Ann Smith, wife of Edwin Smith, aged 38 years and 8 months.  

Her hands are crossed on her peaceful breast, / Her soul is in Heaven above; / She is singing in Heaven the songs of the blest, / Where all is perfect love. 

The violets will bloom in the early spring, / Over that grass-grown mound, / Where lie the remains of my only friend, / Buried deep in the cold, cold ground.

She looks down now from her home in the skies, / On her infant, motherless child; / She whispers, "Look up to Heaven for help, / When the storms blow fierce and wild.

Though earthly friends depart from thy side, / And the storms of adversity rise, / Oh, then, in thy trouble and sorrow, my child, / Look aloft for help from the skies."

My dearest! my dearest! oh rest thou in peace, / in thy cold, cold earthly bed; / May thy child, by thy gentle spirit watch'd o'er, / In the paths of right be led.

East Greene, Nov. 30th

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 11, 1867

Marriages

At the Parsonage, in Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 3d, by Rev. J.L. Burows, Mr. T.W. Howard, of Sherburne, to Miss Alice Littlewood, of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY].

At the residence of the bride's father, in Georgetown, N.Y. [Madison Co.], Dec. 3d, by Rev. A.W. Coon, Mr. L. Palmer, of Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Jennie L. Nickols.

At the Lincklaen House, in Cazenovia [Madison Co., NY] Dec. 3d, by Rev. A.W. Coon, Mr. Mills G. Frisbie, of Scott [Cortland Co., NY], to Miss Mattie B. Crandall of Lincklaen.

Also, at the same time and place, and by the same, Mr. Ira S. Crandall, to Miss Emily E. Burdick, all of Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY].

At Dietz Hotel, in Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] Nov. 24th, by Rev. S.M. Keeler, Mr. Orrin A. Pierce, of South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Josephine Barnes, of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 24th, by Rev. M.G. Wadsworth, Mr. Albertus Langworthy, of Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Adie M. Spicer, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].

In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 28th, by Rev. M.G. Wadsworth, Mr. Henry V. Grant, of Darien [Genesee Co., NY] to Miss Deborah S. Purdie of Columbus.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY] Nov. 30th, by Rev. I.B. Hyde, Mr. Lorenzo Eggleston, of Triangle [Broome Co., NY], to Miss Esther Ann Sacket, of Greene.

Elopement from Unadilla

Mr. Perry Smith, an industrious clock and watch repairer of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], had occasion about eight months ago to employ one Wm. Thomas, a carpenter, in repairing his house, and for some time the latter boarded with his employer.  An improper intimacy sprang up between Thomas and Mrs. Smith, which resulted in an elopement of the guilty pair last Monday evening.  The woman took several valuable articles belonging to her husband and left a child three years old.  The pair were pursued, arrested and compelled to deliver over the property belonging to the injured husband, who then bade them pursue their road of dishonor and shame till their sin bring its own certain punishment.  Cooperstown Journal

Deaths

At his son's residence, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 8th, Mr. Peter Bartle, aged 74 years, 5 months and 4 days.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 3d? Mrs. Eunice Saley, in the 93d year of her age.

Death of Captain James Parker

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 7th, Capt. James Packer, aged 83 years.

Another of the Pioneer Fathers has passed to his rest.  On the 7th of December, about mid-day, Capt. James Packer departed this life, at Norwich, in the 84th year of his age, after an illness of seven weeks, borne with great fortitude. 

Sixty years ago, the deceased, with his youthful wife, Mary Billings, removed from Guilford, Vt., to this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], settling on the Gilmore Brook, three miles southwest of the Village, on the farm since called by his name, which was then, like most of the country, an unbroken wilderness. With energy and hope he entered upon the labors of Pioneer life, hand in hand with the bold and brave adventurers who drove back the savages and the wild beast and opened our fruitful County to the sun, earning in the effort a home, a competence, and an honorable name.  In that olden time, beneath low roofs and smoky rafters, kindness and hospitality kept open house, and friendship and affection were more than --"an empty sound, / The modern proud one' jest."

There were realities, assuaging the privations, and sweetening the labors of the early settlers, making strange places homelike, and all the ways paths of peace and pleasantness.  Nor were they passing guests with the deceased and his gentle wife, they abided like natural members of the household.

In June 1826, Mr. P. lost his intelligent and amiable consort, and was thus entrusted with the care and management of a large family of small children.  In this responsible duty it may be said of him that the stream of parental affection, swollen by his bereavement, continued to flow in their regard with rich and unabated fullness to the last.

Mr. Packer leaves a widow, Eunice Lewis, his companion and comforter for about 40 years, and six children, Charles Packer, of Corning, Dr. Nelson Packer, Wellsborough, Pa., Horace Packer, Oxford; Mrs. Wm. R. Bree, Norwich; Mrs. Nathan Pendleton, Oxford, and Mrs. D.M. Holmes, of Norwich, besides numerous grandchildren.

In his personal characteristics, he was good and kind in every relation of life.  He lived honorably, dealt justly, loved mercy, and, we humbly trust, partakes, in return, of the Rest and refreshment of the People of God.