Vital Records, Norwich, NY, March 18 & 25, 1868

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY,  March 18, 1868

Marriages

In the city of Barranquilla, United States of Colombia, South America, Feb. 2d, by Senor Francisco Angulo, judge of the 1st District, Brevet-Colonel Elias P. Pellet, late of 114th Regiment, New York Volunteers, Consul of the United States of America for Sahanilla and dependencies thereof, and Petrona P. Salcedo, daughter of Don Ignacio Salcedo, of Tubara.

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], March 11th, by Rev. W.M. Hiller, Mr. William Eber Jones of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary E. Burdick, of McDonough.

Deaths

At the residence of S.V. Lyon, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] March 11th, 1868, Eliza [Jackson], formerly of Ithaca [Tompkins Co., NY], aged 74 years.

Suddenly, at Ellicottville, N.Y. [Cattaraugus Co], March 12th, Augustus Willard, M.D., of Greene [Chenango Co. NY, aged 68 years.

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], March 6th, Mr. Paul R. Miner, aged 72 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 25th, Mr. Beecher Porter, aged 77 years.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 20th Mr. Josiah Benedict, aged 71 years.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], March 15th, Lucinda P. [Titus], wife of Smith Titus, aged 51 years and 9 months.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 25, 1868

Marriages

At the dwelling of the bride's father, in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on Tuesday, March 24th, 1868, by Rev. E.Z. Lewis, Mr. Franklin Williams, of New Berlin Centre [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Alice [Matthewson], daughter of Jason E. Mathewson, Esq.

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], March 11th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Egbert K. Cook to Miss Fanny L. Ransford, both of Norwich.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 25th, by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. Ansel Houghton to Miss Eliza Drake all of Oxford.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 25th, by the same, Mr. John Martin, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Delia White, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], March 9th, by Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Lewis Rowe, of Schoharie C.H., N.Y. to Miss Alice L. Dodge, of Guilford.

In Harrisville [Lewis Co., NY], March 4th, by Rev. S. Miller, Mr. Leonard Page, of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss M.E. Harris, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], March 16th, by Rev. A.M. Bennett, Mr. Wm. R. Walker to Miss Mary E. Gritman, all of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY].

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], March 10th, by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. E.L. Soule, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss N.L. Tucker of Oxford.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], March 12th, by the same, Mr. Roscoe Z. Arnold to Miss Emily E. Gibbs, all of Guilford.

In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 23d, by Rev. J.W. Barr, Mr. Leston Wolcott to Miss Mary Ette Babcock, both of Otselic.

In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], March 16th, by Rev. T.P. Halsted, Mr. Geo. W. Fisk of Colesville [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Susan M. Smith of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], March 6th, suddenly, Mrs. Fannie Manning, aged 81 years.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], March 14th, Daniel Fowler, aged 58 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 27th, Mr. Job Bly aged 77 years and 7 days.

At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], March 12th, Miss Mina [Fitch], daughter of Seymour Fitch of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], aged 21 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], March 14th, Mr. John Nichols, aged 65 years.

Death of Augustus Willard, M.D.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 18, 1868

A correspondent in Greene [Chenango Co., NY] has kindly furnished us with the following, relating to the death of Dr. Willard, of that town:

Died, suddenly at Ellicottville, N.Y., [Cattaraugus Co] on the 12th inst. Augustus Willard, M.D. of Greene, Chenango Co., N.Y., aged 68 years.

In announcing the above melancholy event, something more than the short, epitaph of "hix jacit" is required.  Dr. Willard was emphatically a strongly marked man.  His intellectual, professional and personal characteristics render essential a brief obituary notice at the hands of his contemporaries.  He was the eldest son of Samuel Willard, MD., who graduated at Harvard College in 1787.  He resided at Stafford, Ct..  The deceased was born in 1809.  He received a good school and academical education and entered the study of Medicine with Dr. Thomas of Cooperstown.  In 1821 he entered the office of Dr. Charles Joslyn, of Greene.  With him and the Professor of Harvard Medical College he completed his apprenticeship.  In 1823 he graduated at the above-named Medical College, and among some forty graduates received the prize for the best medical thesis of the class.  In 1824, at the written solicitation of a number of its citizens, he located in the village of Greene.

His sterling intellectual powers, their strong and undivided application to his professional duties soon gave him prominence among his professional brethren and inspired the confidence of his patrons.  It is enough to say that through a long life he has fully justified the confidence reposed in him by the entire community, as an honest, upright and skillful physician.  He had a strong desire to benefit and improve mankind.  He made an effort to combine intellectual power to attain that end, in every social organization having this end in view.  He was the nucleus from which radiated the greatest good to the greatest number.

In his professional associations, the County, State and National organizations have felt the influence of his talents, and his ardent devotion to their interests.  In the Masonic world,  iIn all its organizations, he has been ever faithful and eminently worthy.  In all those relations his merits have not been unrewarded.  He has been the recipient of their highest honors.  Hence his name and his fame is not local or ephemeral, but it extends over the State, and is enduring.

Dr. Willard has ever been a champion of popular education, and his convictions of duty embraced not the few, but the many.  Indeed, in all the relations of life, from the social circle to the whole brotherhood of man, his head and heart have been devoted to the welfare of his species.  Viewing him in all the relations of life, his survivors can point to few more worthy examples for imitation than that presented by the life and character of the deceased.

His funeral occurred at Greene, on the 15th inst., and was attended by a larger concourse of people than has ever been had there on a similar occasion.  The members of the Binghamton Commandry of Knight Templars formed the Guard of Honor; the members of Norwich, Oxford and Coventry lodges were present with full delegations. The burial service was enunciated by Past Grand master Clinton F. Page.

Peace peace to the departed!  May the influence of his example shed its light over our future pathway.