Vital Records, Norwich, NY, February 17 & 24, 1869

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, February 17, 1869

Marriages

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 6th, by Rev. T. Harroun, Doct. William S. Carruth, of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co., NY] to Miss Amelia A. Brooks, of this place.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 5th, by the same, Mr. Edsel Totman to Miss Lillie A. Clark, all of Norwich.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 15th?, by the same, Mr. Wilbur F. Rock to Miss Ellen Gartsie, all of Norwich.

In German [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 6th, by Rev. R.H. Clark, Mr. James Lewis, of Vienna, Kansas, to Miss Almira Lewis, of German.

In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 2d, by Rev. H.H. Clark, Mr. Geo. W. Crandall, of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sarah J. Warner, of Pitcher.

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 6th, by Rev. L. Sperry, Mr. John D. Shapley, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Mary J. Davis, of Bainbridge.

Deaths

Suddenly, at White Store, Norwich, [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 20th?, Mrs. lucy Reynolds, widow of Jacob Reynolds, aged 53 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 11, Mrs. Susan Foote, wife of Robert Foote, aged 54 years.

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 8th, Mrs. Ann E. Judd, wife of Joel L. Judd, aged 57 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 1st, Cynthia [Baldwin], wife of Amos S. Baldwin, aged 37 years.

At the County Poor House, in Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 29th, Daniel Barnes, aged 89 years, formerly of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].

In Montrose, Pa., Jan. 27th, Mr. E.P. Willcox, aged 60 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

Killed - Michael Harrington

About noon on Friday last, Michael Harrington, an employee on the Waupaunaukau quarry, in North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], excavating stone for the midland, was instantly killed by the falling or sliding of a quantity of earth, nearly burying the whole body.  His skull was terribly fractured, the bones driven in upon the substance of the brain; the entire head and face, in fact, being flattened and mangled.  One arm was also fractured in two or three places, and his person otherwise injured.

The deceased, as far as it is known, is without a friend or relation in the world.  He has followed the sea for a number of years, till shortly before he commenced work on the midland, and during the Rebellion was engaged on board a man of war.  He is spoken of by Mr. Tenbroeck and others as an industrious young man, with good habits, worthy of a better situation, which it was the intention of his employers to give him, when an opportunity offered.  His age was about 23 years.  

Coroner Avery held an inquest, the verdict of the jury being substantially as we have stated. The deceased was respectably buried by our Irish citizens, on Saturday.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, February 24, 1869

Marriages

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 17th, by Rev. D.J. Whiting, Mr. William L. Schut of Salisbury, Conn., to Miss Celia H. Lewis, of Norwich.

At the residence of the bride's father, in Cincinnatus [Cortland Co., NY], Feb. 17th, by Rev. E. Holroyd, Mr. Albert Pendleton, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Emma L. Fish, of Cincinnatus.

In Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], Feb. 9th, by Rev. G.O. Phelps, Mr. James Cassidy of West Greene [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss P.C. Roberts, of East Gainesville [Wyoming Co., NY].

In Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], Feb. 9th, by Rev. G.O. Phelps, Mr. Theodore Garrison to Miss Frances M. Woodward, both of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 16th, Mr. John Hicks, aged 79 years.  In February 1846, he united with the Baptist Church in this village, and, until the time of his death, had lived an humble, devoted follower of the precious Savior.  For the last twenty years he has been a great sufferer; but the hope of eternal life beyond the grave has sustained him to the last, and he has now passed away, to receive and wear that crown which his savior had prepared for him.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 10th, Mrs. Margaret Birdsall, aged 80 years.

In Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY], Feb. 10th, Mr. E.G. Potter, late of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], aged 28 years.

By a telegram on Monday evening, we learn that Mr. U.T. Harvey, for years a prominent citizen of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], died in that town on Monday.  He will be buried with Masonic honors this Wednesday afternoon at one o'clock.