Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. by Rev. S. Sperry, Mr. Horace S. Beardsley, to Miss Clarissa D. Paine, all of this town. [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 4, 1840]
Married: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. by the Rev Luther P. Blodget, Mr. Alanson Crumb, of Otsego [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Finettes Problrt of the former place. [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 4, 1840]
Married: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on the 10th inst. by the Rev. A. Wheelock, Sherman A. McCullough to Miss Harriet Vanette Powers. [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 11, 1840]
Died: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Lafayette [York], youngest son of Charles York, Esq., aged 4 years and 5 months. [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 11, 1840]
Died: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday, the 19th inst., of Scarlet Fever and Canker Rash, Girard [Smith] the son and only child of James H. Smith, undersheriff of this county, aged 8 years and 6 months. There was an early determination of the disease to the head which deprived him of reason, except at short intervals, after throwing him into a state of frantic wildness. This rendered his sickness much of the time, heart-rending and agonizing. Of a sudden, nature sunk, the storm subsided, and he fell quickly into the peaceful slumbers of death, greatly to the relief of his agonizing parents and attendants. His funeral sermon was preached by Rev. A Wheelock, Pastor of the Baptist church in this village from Isa. 52, 7, "Thy God reineth". The speaker endeavored to illustrate the doctrine of the wisdom and goodness of God in the dispensation of the darkest and most mysterious Providences. Thus, has died among us another as lovely a child, probably as ever lived. Girard was comely in his person, possessing one of the sweetest dispositions, and in his manners was uncommonly graceful and attractive. He loved life sanctuary and was always cheerful and glad to accompany his pious parents to the house of God for their sabbath devotions. A smile of gladness was often seen lit up upon the countenances of the father and mother as they marked the sprightliness of their boy and observed the modesty and gracefulness of his manner in entering the church. He was one of the idols of the sabbath school, full of animation, imparting life and spirit to his class, and to the public examinations which are conducted by the Pastor during the sabbath intermission. What he was in the sabbath school room, he was also, in the domestic circle; constituting a kind of central attraction to all the family and giving a zeal to all their enjoyments, especially during the more leisure hours of their winter evenings, when they reckoned upon being enlivened by Girard and his books. He studiously avoided the company of wicked persons and was so shocked at the profanity he occasionally heard in the streets, that he could not be persuaded to repeat the oaths he had heard. He manifested a deep interest in pious persons and in religious devotions; often followed his pious stepmother to mingle his prayers with hers in secret. At times also he has unsolicited followed his father in prayer. Precious child. He lived long enough to win to himself many friends and died after three days' dreadful sickness bemoaned and bewept by the aged and the young. [Chenango Telegraph, March 25, 1840]
Died: William Burr Andrews, son of Burr B. and Lovina Andrews, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], departed this life on the 7th instant, of that painful disease the Scarlet Fever, after a sickness of five days, aged 1 year 7 months and 17 days. Too pure for Earth, he has left us for Heaven. [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 8, 1840]
Married: In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], on Wednesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Backus, Mr. Mathew O. Wells of Preston [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary S Taintor of Colchester, Connecticut. [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 15, 1840]
Married: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Sperry, Mr. William F. Chapman to Miss Sarah Livingston Lowe, all of that place. [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 29, 1840]
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