Vital Records, Norwich, NY, October 1867 continued

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, October 23, 1867

Marriages

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 6th, by Samuel Steere, Esq., Mr. Albert D. Tilyou of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sarah A. Gorton, of the former place.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 13th, by Rev. M.G. Wadsworth, Mr. Julius Beebe, of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Aiaelia? A. Haight, of North Norwich.

In Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY] Oct. 9th, by Rev. N. Ripley, Mr. Fred W. Smith of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Libbie A Cox of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].

In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], Oct. 15th, by Rev. Mr. Thackleberry, Mr. Charles Gross, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Cornelia Pierce, all of Earlville.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 13th, by Rev. L. Sperry, Mr. Arthur D. Vidler, to Miss Jennie R. Blanchard, all of Sherburne.

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 9th, by Rev. A.M. Bennett, Mr. Arnold M. Coats, to Miss Olivia E. Skinner.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Sept. 22d, by Rev. A.M. Bennett, Mr. Freeland B. Freeman to Miss Alice Rice, all of Sherburne.

In Waterloo, N.Y. [Seneca Co.] Oct. 14th, by Rev. R. Hogeboom, Mr. Wallace Kelley, of Greene [Chenango Co., nY], to Miss S. Louisa Townsend, of Waterloo.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 14th, by Rev. R. Scott, Mr. John Morrell to Miss Minnie R. McGee.

In Cortland [Cortland Co., NY], Oct. 9th, by Rev. S.F. Bacon, Benton B. Jones, Esq., to Miss Jennie C. Gurley, all of Cortland.

Deaths

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 20th, Mr. Morris Mead, aged 67 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 9th, George Burton [Westover], son of Burton and Amelia Westover, aged 2 years.

In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 7th, Charles E. West, Esq., in the 75th year of his age.

In Avoca, Ill. Oct. 3d, Emma May [Haynes], only child of John J. and Lucy A. Haynes, aged 2 months and 14 days.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, October 30, 1867

Marriages

In New Haven, Conn., in Church by Rev. D.S. Gregory, Mr. Josiah H. Chapin, of Troy [Rensselaer Co NY], Assistant Superintendent of the Boston and Albany Railroad, to Mrs. Hattie M. Allen, formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].

In Greene [Chenango Co. NY] Oct. 22d, by Rev. I.B. Hyde, Mr. Daniel Bly to Miss Josephine R. Wells, all of Greene.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 23d, by the same, Mr. Hugh Seillen, Jr., to Miss Addie E. Page, all of Greene.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 23d, by the same, Mr. George W. Prentice of Medina, Wis., to Miss Frankie Paddleford of Greene.

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 15th, by Rev. J.M. Todd, Mr. R. S. Langworthy of Brookfield, N.Y. [Madison Co.], to Miss Eveline Rogers, daughter of Clark T. Rogers, Esq.

In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 1st, by Rev. C. Barstow, Mr. Mott C. Dixon to Miss Ella C. Sprague, both of Smyrna.

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 16th, by Rev. A.C. Smith, Mr. Truman Aldrich to Miss Ann Miles, both of McDonough.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 17th, by Rev. W. Burnside, Mr. Martin M. Nash to Miss Lucinda R. Bentley, both of Guilford.

Deaths

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 15th, Lucell [Brasee], daughter of Francis an dElecta Brasee, aged 17 years and 13 days.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 15th, Catherine [Davidson], wife of Chauncey Davidson, aged 38 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 5th, Mr. Edward D. Bradly, aged 50? years.

In Brooklyn, Oct. 20th, of diptheria, Grace [Fisher], only daughter of Oscar M. and Susie Fisher, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged 3 years and 7 months.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 20th, Mrs. Currence Jackson aged 91 years.

In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 28th, Mr. Charles D. Gear? aged 90 years and 7 months.

In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], Oct. 17th, Betsey [Owen], widow of Elijah Owen, deceased, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], aged 84 yrs.

Glass Wedding

The fifteenth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. Bradley of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], was celebrated at their residence on the evening of October 19th.  Some eighty of their neighbors and friends assembled on the occasion, each one bringing as a token of their regards a piece of glassware.  One of Guilford's happiest social evenings is said to have been realized.  The following impromptus lines were contributed to the entertainment by one of the guests:

The Crystal Wedding

I'd scarce believe the story true, / That I had heard aright. / Did not this festal gathering / Bespeak a wedding night.

Yet fifteen years some changes make, / Strange things have come to pass, / And 'mongst the types of mortal love / We number tin and glass.

Time leaves the impress of his flight, / In more than snowy hair, / Steals from the cheek the bloom of youth, / And leaves the trace of care.

Yet counting up the vanished hours / A recompense appears. / If children's faces at the board / Mark well the lapse of years.

What matters the lost loveliness / From the staid matron's brow, / When in some beautious daughter's face / It shines reflected now?

Ah, hush! 'tis all 'Love's labor lost," / Our rhyme is quite destroyed, / For at the table, and the hearth, / There's a great, aching void!

We've done our best to make it right, / So let the subject pass. / This Crystal Wedding Harvest / Brings a Baby made of Glass!

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