Vital Records, Norwich, NY, January 1867

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, January 2, 1867

Marriages

At the residence of the bride's father, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Tuesday evening, Dec. 25th, by Rev. Sam. Scoville, Mr. Arthur H. Harris of Williamsport, Pa., to Miss Julia A. Williams, youngest daughter of Samuel W. Williams.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 20th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Henry C. Hall, of North Norwich to Miss Amelia Foote, daughter of Isaac Foote, Esq., of this village.  

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 24th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Herman J. Lewis, to Miss Helen D. Burlingame, all of Norwich.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 20th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Waterman Van Camp to Miss Jane E. Randall, all of Norwich.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 26th, by Rev. L.D. Turner, Mr. Jonathan Evans, to Miss Eveline Benedict.

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 11th, by the same, Mr. Philo B. Fosgate to Miss Mary K. Thompson, both of East McDonough.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 22d, by Rev. W.G Queal, Mr. Philander L. Paul to Miss Mary S. Backus, both of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].

On Wednesday, Dec. 19th, 1866, at the residence of the bride's mother in Cincinnatus, Cortland Co., N.Y., by Rev. R.H. Clark, Sanford T. Riddell, M.D.  of New Orleans, La., to Miss Josephine Bourne, daughter of the late R.K. Bourne, Attorney and Counsellor at Law.

At the residence of the bride's father, Dec. 18th, by Rev. J.H. Chamberlain, Mr. Hiram A. Reynolds, of Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Chattee A. Tobey, of Morris [Otsego Co., NY].

Deaths

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 12th, Mr. Phineas P. Yeomans, aged 61 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 23d, Mr. Silas W. Rosman, aged 25 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 2d, Mr. Lewis R. Foot, eldest son of Robert E. and Susan Foot, aged 25 years.

In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 21st?, at the residence of her son, Alvah Crandall, Mrs. Hannah Burdick, aged 102 years, 2 months and 7 days.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 11th, Sarah H. [Storing], wife of Lewis Storing, aged 27 years, 3 months and 3 days.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, January 9, 1867

Marriages

In Boston, Dec. 27th, at the residence of the bride's uncle, S.C. Coffin, Esq., by Rev. J.A.M. Chapman, Mr. Eugene A. Goodrich, to Miss Delia M. Barnas, daughter of the late Erastus W Barnes, both of Norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co., NY].

At the residence of C.G. Lee, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. Sam Scoville, Mr. Bradford B. Tanner, to Miss Ellen Augusta Willcox, all of Norwich.

At the Noyes House, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by the same, Mr. John W. Spicer to Miss Roxanna E. Ingraham, only daughter of Lyman H. Ingraham, Esq., both of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

At the residence of the bride's father, Jan. 2d by the same, Mr. William Henry Chapman, to Miss Mary E. Johnson, both of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

At the Noyes House, in this village [Norwich, Chenanog Co., NY], Jan. 2d, by the same, Mr. G.W. Bartlett of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eliza Pritchard, of Otselic [Chenango Co., NY].

At the residence of the bride's father, Dec. 31st, by the same, Mr. Augustus H. Nicholai tf Macon City, Missouri, to Miss Maggie Nagel, of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 31st, by the same, Mr. Lewis Brown, of Sidney Plains [Delaware Co., NY] to Miss Lucy Ann Robbins, of Norwich.

At Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. S. Moore, Mr. Tracy E. Angell, of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary A. Wait, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

At the residence of the bride, in Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 25th, by Rev. A. Knsign, Mr. W.W Adams, of Auburn [Cayuga Co., NY] to Miss Lillie J. Ensign, daughter of the officiating clergyman.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 20th, by Rev. L.B. Yale, Mr. Moses Stockwell, of Allegany Co., to Miss Aurie Cooper, of Guilford.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 25th, by Rev. L.E Spafford, Mr. J.L. Lloyd, of Groton [Tompkins Co. NY], to Miss S.D. Townsend, of Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY].

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 25th, by Rev. W.G. Queal, Mr. Oscar Burton, of Vestal [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Loretta M. Tiffney, of Oxford.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 25th, by Rv. E.H. Payson, Mr. Alexander O. Shepard, of Brooklyn, to Miss Esther L. Johnson, of Oxford.

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 26th, by Rev. W. G. Queal, Mr. John R. Norris, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Martha Seely, of Smithville.

In Etna Tompkins Co. [NY], Dec. 19th, By Rev. Wm. H. Bunnell, Mr. Wesley Warner, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary A. Merchant, of the former place.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. I.B. Hyde, Mr. Lyan Isbell of Mcdonough [Chenango Co., NY] to Mrs. Emma J. Bingham, of Greene.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by the same, Mr. Levi Randall, to Miss Amelia Lee, all of Greene.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. A. Parker, Mr. Orson Carpenter of Utica [Oneida Co., NY] to Miss Frank Tubbs, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].

At the same time, by the same, Mr. William H. Tubbs of Port Jervis [Orange Co., NY], to Miss Valentia Seymour of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].

In Willet [Cortland Co., NY], Dec. 9th, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. George R. Canfield, of Willet to Miss Rosa McEmary of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

In West Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. M.M. Everts, Mr. George J. Dewey, of Triangle [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Cornelia A. Everts, daughter of the officiating clergyman.

In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], Jan. 1st, by Rev. L.V. Ismond, Mr. Hiram G. Warner, of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Emma A. Thompson, of Otselic [Chenango Co., NY].

At the Parsonage in Earlville [Madison Co., NY], Dec. 6th, by Rev. L.V. Ismond, Mr. Charles Jones to Miss Nancy M Bellinger, both of North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] by Rev. D.D. Brown, Mr. Squire Bacon, of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary Steere, of Plymouth.

Deaths

In Syracuse [Onondaga Co., NY], Dec. 8th, Mr. James B. Tucker, son-in-law of Charles Walker, of Oxford, aged 38 years.

In Thompson, Conn. Dec. 9th, Mr. John Sayles, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged about 60 years.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 2d, Sarah A. [Foote], wife of Christopher Foote, aged 35 years, 3 months and 24 days.

In Painesville, Ohio, Nov. 10th, Minnie Augusta [Brayton], youngest daughter of Rev. J.A. Brayton, aged 18 years.

Her beautiful life, the childlike simplicity, the almost angelic purity of her character, her calm and perfect faith, were silent and fragrant witnesses to the truth of our religion.  She loved flowers, and little children; she yearned ever towards the beautiful in Art and Nature.  She is now where are the inconceivable realities shadowed forth on earth, by flowers and little children; where the beautiful is over all, through all, in all, is perfected.  What a precious privilege, what a touching proof of God's love, to have so rare and sweet a flower in the garden of your home--to have enjoyed its fragrance, to have watched and tended it, as it unfolded new beauty, day by day.  In all the freshness and purity of spring tide loveliness, her baptismal robes unsullied by the dust and grime of a wearisome, dangerous pilgrimage through the world, her ministering angel came and bore her away to another and more glorious mansion of her Father's home.  (From remarks by the Rector of St. James' Church, Painesville] Mr. Brayton will be rememered as having been in former years Rector of Emmanuel Church in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] and the Church and the community will sympathize deeply in his affliction.

Vital Records, Oxford, NY, September 1866

 Oxford Times, September 5, 1866

Marriages

In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], Aug. 22, by Rev. B.H. Brown, John Waterman to Mercy C. Tarble, both of Sanford, N.Y. [Broome Co.].

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th of August, , by the Rev. E. Curtis, Prof. Chas. C. Johnson, of Buffalo, N.Y., to Mary C. [Green], youngest daughter of Jeremiah Green.   

Deaths

Asahel C. Stone, Sheriff of Madison Co.[NY] died Sunday morning, Aug 26, 1866, of Typhoid Fever, aged 61 years.

Oxford Times, September 12, 1866

Marriages

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. E.R. Clarke, Mr. George W. Wells to Miss Lucy Sherwood, all of Oxford.

In Cuyler, Cortland Co. [NY], on the 30th ult. by Rev. S. Carver, Horace L. Barnes, Esq., of East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Sarah Angell of Cuyler.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. by Rev. F. Rogers, D.D., Mr. Harvey H. Gross, to Miss Caroline A. Fredenburgh, all of Greene.

In Greene, on the 22d ult. by Rev. H.W. Gilbert, Mr. Truman A. Southworth, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss M. Libbie Elliott, of the former place.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Hamilton Marsh, Jr.., to Miss Delia M. Denslow, all of Norwich.

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Miss Sarah V. Gleason, aged 21 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st Aug., George C. Booth, aged 26 years.  He was a member of Co. K, 10th N.Y. Cav. two years and ten months; discharged from the Hospital, came home sick with disease contracted in the service of his country.

In Utica [Oneida Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Mrs. Mary D. Lownsbery, aged 41 years.

At Albany, Kansas, on 23d ult. of cholera, Mrs. Eliza A. Whittenhall, in the 37th year of her age, daughter of the late Daniel Shumway, for many years a resident of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult., Eliza A. [Wells], wife of Aaron E. Wells, aged 42 years.

Oxford Times, September 19, 1866

Marriages

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., by Rev. E.Z. Lewis, Mr. John F. Hubbard, Jr., Editor of Chenango Union, to Miss Josephine H. Moore, all of Norwich.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., by Warren Gray, Esq., Mr. John H.H. Frisby to Miss Betsey A. Stoughton, both of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].

In Lisle [Broome Co., NY], on the 30th ult. by Rev. James Orton, Dr. Wm. J. Orton to Miss Helen E. McCall.

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. of diptheria, Miss Sarah V. Gleason, youngest daughter of the late Joel F. and Louisa Gleason, aged 21 yeas and 11 months.  Who shall tell the desolation of that home from whose charmed circel the youngest and well beloved was so suddenly removed?  Who can ever forget the grief and surprise of an entire community, when told that one so lovely, whose virtues and graces daily bound all hearts more closely to her own had vanished forever from mortal vision?  Calm and self-reliant, yet ever gentle and courteous to all; doing her own share of life's work well, yet having charity for the errors of others, this fair young girl was universally known and appreciated, and cannot be forgotten.

"Is it well, we sadly question, that the beautiful should go, / In her young life's precious promise from the hearts that loved her so? / Is it well that joy and gladness from that pleasant home have fled, / That sisters' hearts are breaking, as they mourn their darling dead? / And we hear a sweet voice answer, not in anger, but in love, / Hath the Heavenly Father called her, to the better world above, / There, secure from all life's sorrows, from its turmoil and alarms, / It is well that she is folded in the Everlasting Arms."

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., Ellen A. [Robinson], daughter of Wm. and Prudence Robinson, aged 4 months.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult., Ida B. [Smith], daughter of John L. and Lydia Ann Smith, aged 5 years.

Oxford Times, September 26, 1866

Marriages

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by Rev. Charles Chapman, Mr. W.P. Chapman, to Miss Mary F. Curtiss, daughter of Roswell Curtiss, Esq., all of Norwich.

In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by Rev. B.H. Brown, Mr. Lodell Post, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY]., to Miss Ormintha Merritt, of Masonville? [Delaware Co., NY].

At Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Sept. 12th, by Rev. F. Cu....., Mr. Lucius Thompson of Preston [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary Frink, of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY]

Deaths

Recently at his residence in Okolona, Mississippi, Rev. William B. Lacy, D.D., aged 85 years.  Mr. Lacy was the first minister of St. Paul's Church in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], if indeed he may not be remembered as its founder, his first connection with it dating back to its organization in 1814.  In 1818 he removed to Albany, and took charge of St. Peter's Church, and was subsequently connected with several institutions of learning, including one at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and now rests from his labors after a life of great usefulness extended to a vigorous and happy old age.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., Mr. James Kershaw, aged 65 years.

Found Drowned:  The body of an unknown man was found in the Genegantslet, just below the McMoran bridge, in this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday of last week, and nearby a horse and wagon.  Dr. M.M. Wood, of this village, Coroner, was immediately notified, and he promptly summoned a jury and held an inquest. The body was identified as that of Job Harrington of Barker, Broome County [NY].  No marks of violence were found upon the body.  Verdict, accidental drowning.  Late, the night before, he left this village to go home, and the night being dark he took the wrong road.  It is supposed that he got out of his wagon, on the bridge to find out where he was and fell off the bridge.  He leaves a family.  He age was about 65 years.  Chenango American.                                                      

Soldier's Letter, Civil War, 44th NY Regiment

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 19, 1863

Letter From the 44th NY Regiment

Camp Near Warrenton, VA., Tuesday, July 28, 1863

When the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps crossed the Pennsylvania line the troops were halted and eloquently addressed by some patriotic speaker, and that night I passed them on the road to Hanover and they were all singing or whistling.  At Gettysburg many of the Pennsylvania troops fought on their own farms--in sight of their father's houses, some fell there--their blood mingling with soil which they had tilled in their youth.  One boy fifteen years old, from near Gettysburg, went into the fight with his target rifle and fought until he was killed.  Such heroism put to shame the cowardly conduct of men, who at home are evading or resisting the draft.

Now, when our successes foreshadow immediate peace honorably made, every man should stand firm by the Government and, if needs be, come down and share with our country's defenders their perils and privations and their immortal honor.  The riots in New York City and State, are a disgrace which yet will be remembered with burning shame.  Blank cartridges should have [been] used after bullets, grape and canister had done their work and taught the rioters their just punishment and shown the danger of resisting the law.  I hope that hence forth the draft will meet with no opposition, but if it does, I wish that the 44th might be summoned to enforce it.  I know how well 'twould do its duty.  It would use no blank cartridges.  Every regiment in the army is anxious to see some of the illustrious homeguards in the field, and every one of them would rejoice at the chance of quelling the riots at home and enforcing the conscription law at the point of the bayonet.

I believe, however, that after a few timely lessons to the conscript opposers there will be no difficulty, and that soon our decimated regiments may be filled to their maximum number and our foreshadowed victories hastened, so the "olive branch" will suppress the sword, and the glorious "Stars and Stripes" brighter, purer and prouder than ever continue to float. "O'er the land of the free / And the Home of the brave".  God is on our side and sooner or later we shall triumph.

I learned with pain of the death of Col E.B. Smith.  Our County  [Chenango Co., NY] begins to feel itself in its heroes who have honorably fallen.  May their memory and good deeds be so cherished by the people of Chenango that the prestige she has already won shall not be lost by any disgraceful resistance of the draft or any reservation of her laudable support of soldiers now representing her in the field.

There are but few Norwich boys left in the 44th.  Billy Lamb is in Fairfax Seminary Hospital at Alexandrea.  Henry Dickson is in the Invalid Corps.  Bill Lane is at Annapolis in the Dispensary.  Henry Todd was wounded at Gettysburg, not dangerously, and is in some hospital, I know not what one.  Gideon Evans, P.S. Frink, Jeff Carr, George, James and myself still flourish. Everything looks most encouraging than ever before since the commencement of the war.  Already the curtain of peace has commenced dropping on this scene of carnage and its golden fingers shine brighter than ever.  In the army we feel -?- and sanguine of the speedy termination of the war, for we see ultimate victory close at hand. The rebellion is in its death throes and soon its epitaph will be written in letters of blood amongst the records of nations crimes and follies.

I should be glad to hear from you often, though I know my letters hardly interest you or recompense you for your time and trouble.  G.H.S.

P.S.  I saw Van Crain, James Emmonds, James Sheran, John Hopkins, and several other Chenango boys in the 8th N.Y. Cavalry a few days ago.  They were well.

The 44th lost 111 killed and wounded at Gettysburg.  [..unreadable..] Capt. ...bec of Company B and Lieut. Dunham of Company D, were killed on the field.  Lieut. Thomas of Company K and several men of the regiment have since died of their wounds.  Our Company also lost one sergeant and one private.  John Doing, of Plymouth, member of Company B, was killed; Todd, of Norwich, Barnaby and White, of Guilford, and William Beech, of Earlville, were slightly wounded.  G.H.S.

Vital Records, Afton, NY, May 1885

 Afton Enterprise, May 1, 1885

Where Are Wicked Folks Buried

"Tell me, gray-headed sexton," I said, / "Where in this field are the wicked folks laid?  I have wandered the quiet old graveyard through, / And studied the epitaphs, old and new; / But on monument, obelisk, pillar, or stone / I read of no evil that men have done."

The old sexton stood by a grave newly made, / With his chin on his hand, his hand on a spade; / I knew by the gleam of his eloquent eye / That his heart was instructing his lips to reply. / "Who is to judge when the soul takes its flight? / "Who is to judge 'twixt the wrong and the right? / Which of us mortals shall dare to say / That our neighbor was wicked who died today?

"In our journey through life, the further we speed, / The better we learn that humanity's need / Is charity's spirit, that prompts us to find / Rather virtue than vice in the lives of our kind.

"Therefore, good deeds we record on these stones; / The evil men do, let it die with their bones, / I have labored as sexton this many a year, / But I never have buried a bad man here."

Truth Seeker

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Mr. John L. Colburn, of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], and Miss Ester A. Maine, of Rockwell's Mills [Chenango Co., NY], were united in marriage by Rev. B.B. Carruth, of this place [Afton, Chenango Co., NY], at the home of the bride, April 22d.

Two young women, by name Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Merrill, and a four-year-old child were drowned two miles below Athens, in the Susquehanna River, on Tuesday.  They were out in a row boat.  The latter was found after having passed over a dam, but the circumstances of the accident will probably never be known.

HINMAN:  In Afton, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], April 11, 1885, Mrs. Mabel Hinman, widow of Moses Hinman, aged 91 years, 3 months and 22 days.

Sister Hinman was born at Fly Creek, Otsego County, N.Y.  Moved to Upper Lisle, and there married and lived till May 12, 1836, when she moved on the farm where she died.  Twelve children have blessed the home, nine now living.  She has thirty-two grandchildren, twenty-three great-grandchildren, making seventy-six in all.  She was a woman of fine taste and a cultured mind, stored with all the topics of the day, for she was a great reader; was a fine Bible student, and her loving, motherly nature with the truths of the Bible taught her that God is love, and no doubt passed through her mind but that every child of God would in the realms of the beyond forever remain in the presence of our Father in Heaven.  What a pleasure it must be to the children, as they think of the large number of friends who met to pay the last tribute of respect to one whom they loved, as their tears showed the respect they had for "Grandma," as they so familiarly called her. She was placed at rest in the Universalist cemetery in Afton, by the side of her husband, who passed on some twelve years ago.  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. O.K. Beardsley of Hopbottom, Pa.

Afton Enterprise, May 8, 1885

Geo. Woods, of this place [Afton, Chenango Co., NY], received a telegram from Minn. Monday, announcing that his brother, residing in that state, was dead.

Wilkins Settlement [Chenango Co., NY]:  The funeral of Edward Warren, of West Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], was observed on Saturday last.  He had been ill for several years.

Willkins Settlement [Chenango Co., NY]:  Mrs. Gilbert Phillips died last week.

Afton Enterprise, May 15, 1885

Albert Woods, of Minnesota, formerly of this place [Afton, Chenango Co., NY], was run over by the cars recently, cutting off one leg from the effects of which he died.

Philo Kirby, an old gentleman who resided between this place [Afton] and Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], was found dead near a spring on his premises, last Saturday.  He was 84 years of age and owned a valuable farm of 640 acres.  It is supposed he had a fit and died where he fell.

Afton Enterprise, May 29, 1885

Mrs. Ida M. Lyon, wife of Willard Lyon, aged 20 years, died last Thursday and was buried Saturday.

Vital Records, Norwich, NY, December 1866 continued

Chenango Union, December 19, 1866

Marriages

In Sharon [Schoharie Co., NY], Dec. 4th, by Rev. G.W. Humphrey, Mr. Silas N. Briggs, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Alvira Van Petten, of Sharon.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 5th, by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Henry Gibson, of Gilbertsville [Otsego Co., NY], to Miss Ann E. Shapley, of Coventryville [Chenango Co., NY].

In Canastota [Madison Co., NY], Nov. 1st, by Rev. J.T. Crippen, Mr. Truman H. Waters, of Canastota, to Miss Helen E. Brown, of Balston, N.Y. [Saratoga Co.].

In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 3d, by A. Shepardson, Esq., Mr. Almond Aldrich, to Miss Delia Case, all of Smyrna.

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 28th, by Rev. E. Holroyd, Mr. Merville E. Harrington, to Miss Sarah R. Rogers, both of McDonough.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], by Rev. P. Bartlett, Mr. Jas. E. Brown of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Hannah L. Horton, of Guilford.

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 11th, Mr. George H. Stanton, aged 47 years.

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 11th, Eunice [Walsworth], wife of Charles Walsworth, aged 79 years.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 11th, Harriet Neely [Hand], daughter of Dr. S.M. and L.C.N. Hand, aged 14 weeks.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 15th, Willie T. [Smith], son of Thomas and Hannah Smith, aged 10 days.

In Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY], Dec. 11th, Mr. Samuel B. Wait, father of Mrs. L.A. Rhodes, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], aged 78 years.

At the Insane Retreat, Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 7th, Mr. Martin Quinn, aged 45 years.

In Perry, Mich, Nov. 22d, Diantha [Purdy], wife of Joseph Purdy, formerly of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged 60 years.

At her residence, in Rutland, Jefferson Co., N.Y., suddenly, of congestion of the lungs, on Sabbath evening, Dec. 9th, 1866, Mrs. Martha B. Dunlap, second daughter of Henry Hopkins, of Rutland, aged 30 years.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 26, 1866

Marriages

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 8th, by Rev. R.A Paterson, Mr. Amander Chapman of Cooperstown [Otsego Co., NY], to Mrs. Kate Fitch, of this place.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 13th, by Rev. W. Ayrault, Samuel S. Stafford, Esq., to Miss Mary E. Gilbert, all of Oxford.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 13th, by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. John Church, to Mrs. Eliza A. Holmes, all of Oxford.

In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], Dec. 18th, by Rev. Dr. Tyler, Mr. L.R. Nash of Hamilton [Madison Co., NY] to Miss Louisa Heacox, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 12th, by Rev. E. Curtis, Mr. Wesley H. Shaw, of Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary A. Benedict of Sherburne.

In Linklaen [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 12th, by Rev. T. Fisher, Mr. LeGrand Phetteplace to Miss Louisa J. Wheelock, both of Lincklaen. 

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 17th, by Rev. H. Garlick, Mr. Edwin C. Adams, to Miss Susan L. Wells, all of Greene.

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 13th, by Rev. A.J. Buell, Mr. George F. Bennett, of Page Brook [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Calista C. Packard, of Coventry.

At the residence of the bride's father, Dec. 19th, by Rev. D.D. brown, Mr. J.L. Crencross? of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Minerva Davis, of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].

In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY] Nov. 20th, by Rev. F.S. Worden, Mr. Sidney A. Delamater of Greene [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary Underhill? of the former place.

Deaths

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 11th, Josephine [Nichols], daughter of john and margaret Nichols, aged 17 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 10th, Mary K. [Rogers], wife of Daniel Rogers, aged 50 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 14th, Daniel Jarvis, aged 74 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 17th, Freddie [Morris], son of Wm. Morris, aged 9 years.

Soldier's Letter, Civil War, From Port Hudson, November 1863

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 23, 1863

Letter from Port Hudson 

Port Hudson, La, Nov. 24th, 1863

My Dear -----, How I wish you could be here for a day or two!  I could take you around this old battle ground and show you graves of many of the noble dead whose memory rises in the mind like holy incense.  I could show you friend and foe stretched beside each other.  I could take you to spots made sacred with the sons of rich old Chenango whose bodies lie mingled with the common dust, yet whose memories rear a glorious monument to their praise.  I could accompany you over a line of works of defense stretching along for seven miles in a half circle, and stop at almost any point to witness a strange fact that so tremendous was our shower of lead that we could almost gather a handful of bullets at one sweep.  We could see the wonderful effects of our stupendous iron missiles in the cutting asunder of huge trees, the ploughing of the ground, and the blasting of the banks where they happened to locate, showing effects resembling those of some wonderful eruption from the regions below us.  Every sand bank was used as a covering from our shells, and as if to make security doubly secure, holes were dug down into them large enough to take in the body of a man.  Being without tents, and feeling insecure in log or bush huts, our foes took refuge in these dens, from whence they could draw some picture of the graves they began to dig for themselves when they conspired to break up this Government.  A curious fact comes to my knowledge in regard to these holes.  I visited one a day or two ago which contained the body of its occupant. Our fire was so deadly at that point that sooner than be blown to atoms by our shells, he remained and died of suffocation.  His friends, instead of removing him, just covered up the mouth of the den and left the poor fellow there just in the position he took when he entered.  The tremendous fire which necessitated such death, must have been awful in the extreme, and the endurance of our foes, illustrated by this incident suggests a determination worthy of a better cause. A monger in old iron could make money by a visit to these parts.  He could bring as many ships as composed the famous Spanish Armada and find fragments of shot and shell enough establishing an iron foundry here so great is the supply of the fragments of this metal, 

There is a remarkable feature about the few buildings comprising this town.  Whereas formerly ventilation was a subject not considered by the architects who planned them, and consequently the means for securing its benefits were few and imperfect, now, however, there exists no such fault.  "Yankee" soldiers remedied the evil.  A few shells blown from a few big guns made ventilation enough, and now they have windows in abundance, and some occupants say that in a cool night there is more than enough.  Not a building escaped; and when I convey the fact that there are no more than a half dozen in the town, except negro cabins, numbering thirty or over, you will not wonder.  considering that three hundred thousand bales of cotton were shipped here yearly, is it not a wonder that the place is so much smaller than Wood's Corners?  If Norwich had such a river as the Mississippi flowing through it, I am sure it would be many thousand times a greater place than it is.  But history is too plain on this point.  Therefore, I need not waste my ink.

I must now give you some idea of our colored troops.  It will interest you to learn that in the Corps d Afrique alone there are now thirty regiments fully organized. Gen. Thomas reviewed them here last week, and expressed himself wonderfully pleased at their proficiency.  Rebels at the North, like their friends in the South, dislike this fact exceedingly. We regret the very unpleasant sensations they must experience over the fact of such powerful accessions to our arms as is furnished by these plantations in the shape of stalwart black men; but we nevertheless feel ourselves highly favored and greatly encouraged on this point.  I would like you to see the work done by these men, not only in the matter of drill, but in the huge fortifications which rear themselves as high as the cedars all along our front.  Some would gladly see the poor boys who have left home and friends in the north to bear their share of the toils, now called for by their country do all this work, for by so doing -?- would remain untouched, and the enemy have the wider range for this artillery.  One of the most remarkable features connected with these troops is their anxiety for education.  Instructors are at work, and now after about two weeks labor, nearly all are spelling.  Soon they will read and write, and the brains pronounced by some incapable of education, will themselves be the witnesses on the subject. Thank God, where the American flag goes, their education must go, and though it be crushed to earth for a while, it will, like truth, rise again for nobler strides and greater victories.

As to slavery, that is like the steamer Mississippi sunk in front of us; it has "gone under," and the same may be said of the masters.  Their fate is like that of the Midianites, and not very unlike that of the Egyptians.  I must tell you of the Union element in this State at the present. At one time I had no confidence in the loyalty of any native Louisianian, no more than in any South Carolinian, but I have now.  The Unionism of these parts is like that of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware at the present time. The Union with Slavery anywhere in it is an idea which the great majority of the people thoroughly denounce.  In New Orleans today there are powerful organizations holding sessions every night, sparing no pains to sift the whole of society, and to brand every traitor so that he may be known and watched. Treason is becoming as unpopular now as loyalty was at one time. The good work is going on, and by some lessons in perseverance, we shall learn that the end is not far off.  T.W.C.

Vital Records, Norwich, NY, December 1866

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 5, 1866

Marriages

At the residence fo Dr. C.T. Baker, in Decatur, Mich., Nov. 26th, by Wm. H. moffett, Rector of Trinity Church, Niles, Mr. R.S. Van Keure, of Keokuk, Iowa to Miss Delia L. Baker of Baldwinsville, N.Y. [Onondaga Co.], daughter of the late Dr. A. Baker, of Norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co.]

At the residence fo Robert Gibson, Esq., in Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 29th, by Rev. W.R. Cochrane, Mr. Charles Williams to Miss Jennie Allen, both of Plymouth.

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 22d, by Rev. D.H. Brown, Mr. John A. Ireland, to Miss Elrada Herrick, both of Bainbridge.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], ov. 13th, by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. C. Simmons, of Smithville to Miss S.C. Wessels, of East Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

By the same, Nov. 21st, Mr. Henry B. Corbin to Miss J.E. Brown, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 22d, by the same, Mr. H.H. Seeley to Miss Mary T. Hull, both of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 22d, by the same, Mr. R.P. Yeomans of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss E.W. Norton of Preston.

In Walton [Delaware Co., NY], Nov. 11th, by Rev. J.S. Pattengill, Mr. Leroy Converse of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Frances A. Landfield, of Downsville [Delaware Co., NY].

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 30th, Miss Harriet Duryea, daughter of the late J.K. Duryea.

In Holmesville, nov. 27th, Mr. Daniel Sage, aged 78 years.

At Pitcher Springs [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 1st, of consumption, Mrs. Betsy M. Gregory, aged 26 years.

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], nov. 19th, Mrs. Betsy Pike, aged 85 years.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 12, 1866

Marriages

In New York, Nov. 14th, by Rev. Wm. Roberts, D.D., Herb? Mitchell, M.D., of Norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co.] to Lizzie M. [Roberts], only daughter of the foficiating clergyman.

At the parsonage in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], No.v 22d, by Rev. S. Scoville, Charles Hammer, M.D., to Miss Kitty J. Garner, of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY].

At the residence of the bride's father, Dec. 4th, by Rev. M.B. Cleveland, Mr. John N. Gault, of German. N.Y. [Chenango Co.], to Miss Nellie A. Dennis, of Sycamore, DeKalb Co., Illinois.

In East Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 13th, by Rev. E.W. Allen, Mr. Oscar Murray, to Mrs. Lucetta T. Pierce.

In East Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 15th, by Rev. E.W. Allen, Mr. Eli N. Cott, to Miss Ophelia Thompson, all of Lincklaen.

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 25th, by A.C. Crandall, Esq., Mr. George Tallett, of North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary Guile, of New Berlin.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Oct. 29th, by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. Wm. Caton, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Cloa Alexander, of Greene.

By the same, Dec. 1st, Mr. Geo. W. Chapman of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary L. Johnson, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 6th, of consumption, Mr. Francis C. Griffing, son of David Griffing, Esq., aged 43 years.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 7th, Alfreda [Bacon], wife of Charles Bacon, aged 47 years.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 14th, Mr. James Ludington, aged 71 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Nov. 25th, Mr. H.H. Tanner, aged about 70 years.

In Columbus [Chenango Co., NY], nov. 22d, Mr. Simon Hill, aged 83 years and 1 month.

At St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N.J., suddenly, Dec. 3d, Agnes Maria [Russell], eldest daughter of Wm. F. and C.J. Russell, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 16 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], nov. 24th, Clarissa A. [Tillotson], wife of Perry Tillotson, aged 30 years.

Burned to Death:  A correspondent form Upper lisle [Broome Co., NY], says that on the 5th of November, a daughter of Henry Orton, seven years of age, went to the field where her father was burning logs.  Her clothing accidentally took fire, and before help could reach her, was entirely burned off.  She lived but four hours after the accident.  Binghamton Republican.

Vital Records, Oxford, NY, August 1866 continued

 Oxford Times, August 22, 1866

Marriages

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., by Rev. F.B. Peck, Mr. Samuel Balcom of Campbelltown, Steuben Co., N.Y. to Mrs. Sarah L. Foote, daughter of Henry Balcom, of Oxford.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., by Rev. Wm. Burnside, Mr. Joseph F. Hicks to Miss Emily Price, both of Guilford.

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., Miss Rachel Bundy, aged 63 years.

On the 16th inst., Sarah M. [Brabazon], wife of George Brabazon, aged 23 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on 13th inst., Almeda A. [Main], daughter of Thomas Main, aged 22 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., Miss Lydia A. Lewis, aged 47 years.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Betsey [Blackman], wife of Lester Blackman, aged 51 years.

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mrs. Mary Jane Hopkins, only daughter of Willis Walker, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], after a protracted illness. She sleeps her last sleep.

Come to my couch, draw quietly near, / Think of my soul in yonder bright sphere; / Check thy sorrows, death is a friend, / When to live longer secures no good end.

Bear me away friends to my last home, / Peacefully lay me down in the tomb; / Lightly, tread lightly round my low bed, / Sweetly, now sleeps the beautiful dead.

Sorrowful mourner weeping no more, / Meet me upon you beautiful shore.

Oxford Times, August 29, 1866

Marriages

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on 16th inst., by Rev. A.J. Buell, Mr. W.A. Cowley of Stamford [Delaware Co., NY], to Miss Anna B. Smith of Coventry.

In Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], July 29th, by Rev. W.W. Andrews, Mr. Thomas P. Jewell to Miss Julia Ackley, all of Mt. Upton.

By the same, Aug. 13th, Mr. Decklvus? Bowen to Miss Ida Burlingame, all of White Store [Chenango Co., NY].

In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on 12th inst. by Rev. A.E. Daniels, Mr. Silas A. Steere of Columbus [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Eliza j. Gorton, of North norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th inst., Austin Rouse, M.D., aged 70 years.

In East Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d inst. Esther [Wooster], wife of Moses Wooster, aged 68 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on 15th inst., Mrs. Selinda Keech, wife of the late Elisha Keech, aged 63 years.

In Fairview, Kowa, Mr. Amos Breed, formerly of Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], aged 71 years.

We regret to learn that Emma Steere, a little daughter of Clark Steere of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], and between two and three years of age, was accidently killed on Monday morning last.  She had been down to her father's saw mill at play, and started back for the house alone.  In going she had to cross the bridge across a branch of the Canasawacta Creek, and it is supposed that in playing on the bridge, she fell of and was killed. She was found some three quarters of an hour after she was last seen, in the creek, a few rods below the bridge, on a rift, and dead.  Her neck was broken or severely injured, and it is supposed that in falling, she struck a timber just under the bridge, inflicting the wound, which must of itself have caused her death.  Chenango Telegraph.

Death of Austin Rouse, M.D.

It will be hard for many to realize that one, who perhaps has been connected with more hearths and homes than any other in our community, in the dear and tender relations of a beloved and faithful physician, sleeps in death.

Doctor Rouse died at noon on Monday, the 27th instant, aged 70 years.  He was born at Norwich, in this county [Chenango Co., NY], June 15, 1796, and was the oldest son of the late Casper M. Rouse, who was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas at a date anterior to the memory of the most now living.  He completed his medical studies with Doctor Perez Packer in this village, with whom he was for a time connected as a trusted assistant, having commenced the practice of his profession in 1822.  In the social and domestic relations of life, he was ever characterized by great purity of character, integrity of purpose, and an abiding kindness of heart, as uniform as it was admirable.  Doctor Rouse was a thorough student of his profession, and ever shared largely the confidence and respect of his professional brethren.

A marked trait in his practice, was the absence of that pride of opinion which insists upon its own course of treatment as an ultimatum, and refuses or chafes under the advice of associates.  Nor was that the result of any lack of research and knowledge of his profession, but rather of a native modesty united with a heart free from envy and a mind at once enlightened, and liberal.  In a profession, whose rivalries are frequently bitter, and its animosities sharp, and which is peculiarly liable to private judgment, uncharitable and erroneous, based as it often is upon ignorance and misapprehension, few men have secured a larger share of the love and confidence of the community in which they lived, few have died at whose loss there was a more generous tribute of grateful sorrow. 

Vital Records, Oxford, NY, August 1866

 Oxford Times, August 1, 1866

Marriages

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., by Rev. E.H Payson, Mr. Ephraim Hurlburt to Miss Mary Tucker, both of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].

Also, at the same time, by the same, Mr. Amos Franklin to Miss Mary E. Hurlburt, both of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult., by Rev. I.B. Hyde, Mr. Artemus J. Webb to Miss Ruth A. Bolt, all of Greene.

At the same time and place, Mr. Wm. A. Bolt, to Miss Jennie Durham, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY] on the 26th ult., Corp. Theron H. Robbins, son of the late Myron and Maria Robbins, aged 21 years.  Corp. Robbins enlisted in this town Nov. 4th, 1863, was mustered into the 11th Regiment U.S. Colored inf., discharged for sickness June 1865.  His record as a soldier was one of which any one might be proud, and his short but virtuous life, is an example for others to follow with profit to themselves and the world.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult. Mrs. Tamma [Church], wife of Mr. John Church, aged 48 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult. Mrs. Jane Ann Close, aged 81 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th, ult. Mr. Peleg Pendleton, aged 68 years.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th ult., Mrs. Welthy M. Waters, aged 70 years.

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., nY], on the 15th ult., Mrs. Eliza R. Purlington, aged 58 years.

Oxford Times, August 8, 1866

Marriages

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. E.H. Payson, Mr. Silas Lawton to Miss Clara E. Skillen, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], July 31st, by Rev. W. Russell, Mr. Hezekiah Harris to Mrs. Elmina Crumb, both of Sherburne.

In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], July 3d, by the Rev. J.H. Hall, Mr. John D. Frair of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary B. Hemingway of Smyrna.

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 31st ult. Mr. Aaron Newkirk, aged 47 years.

A sad causality occurred on Cooperstown Lake [Otsego Co., NY] on Tuesday of last week.  The youngest son of the Rev. Dr. Alfred Beach, of New York, and grandson of Judge Nelson, of Cooperstown, aged 10 years, was drowned while sailing.  The body was recovered after a search of twelve hours, and the funeral was held Thursday morning.

Oxford Times, August 15, 1866

Deaths

In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Mr. Daniel Norris, aged 75 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Mrs. Hannah Smith, aged 73 years.

In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Mr. William D. Wheeler, aged 78 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on 1st inst., Polly P. [Holdridge]\, wife of Amos D. Holdridge, aged 21 years.

In Nineveh [Broome Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mrs. W.S. Wedge, aged 33 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mr. Andrew J. Carpenter, aged 38 years and 7 months.