Vital Records, Norwich, NY, July 29, Aug. 5 & 12, 1868

 Telegraph & Chronicle, Norwich, NY, July 29, 1868

Marriage

WOOD - ELDRED:  In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], July 20th, by Rev. McK. Shaw, Henry C. Wood, of Laurens [Otsego Co., NY], and Sarah M. Eldred, of Otsego [Otsego Co., NY].

Deaths

EATON:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], July 20th, Nelson Eaton, aged 51 years and 9 months.

TAFT:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], July 19th, Stephen Taft, aged 56 years.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, August 5, 1868

Marriages

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], July 30th, by Rev. D.D. Brown, Mr. William F. Russell, to Miss Judith A. Flowers, daughter of John M. Flowers, all of Plymouth.

At the parsonage, July 23d, by the Rev. Robert Scott, Mr. Myron Fitch to Miss Helen E. Wilks, all of Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], August 1st, Mr. Horace P. Hadlock, aged 78 years.

Suddenly in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], July 25th, Angeline [Westcott], wife of Cyrus Westcott, aged about 21 years.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], July 20th, Henry [Smith], son of Ersula Smith, aged 5 years.

We are pained to learn of the death, from typhoid fever, of Frederick Curtis, Esq., of the dry goods firm of Peck, Bradford & Curtis, which occurred at Sidney Plains [Delaware Co., NY] on the 26th ult.  Mr. Curtis formerly resided at Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., nY], where he prosecuted the mercantile business under the firm name of Truesdell & Curtis, subsequently that of Curtis Brothers.  He was a young man of excellent business qualities, agreeable and social in his private life, and highly esteemed by all.  His age was about 32 years.  He held an assurance [sic] policy on his life of $3,000, in the Mutual life, of New York.

Mr. J.H. Maydole (brother of David Maydole, Esq., of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY]) who has suffered for some years with partial paralysis, died at Eaton, Madison Co. [NY], Wednesday, July 23d.  His loss is felt very much throughout the village, especially by the Congregational church, of which he has been a member and deacon.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, August 12, 1868

Marriages

In Bloomington, Ill., July 30th, Mr. I.T. Merry, of Ogdensburg, N.Y. [St. Lawrence Co., NY], to Miss Ella A. Stackhouse, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].

In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], July 25th, by Rev. R.A. Clark, Mr. F.N. Eggleston, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Martha A. Redfield, of Unadilla.

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], August 7th, Addie M. [Weed], infant child of George O. and Electa Weed.

In Marietta, Ga., July 27th, David Buttolph, Esq., formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], aged 88 years.

In South Otselic [Chenango Co., NY], April 11th, 1868, Herbert Burdett Leach, eldest son of Horace and Mary Leach, aged 11 years.  Herbert was a kind, affectionate boy, and endeared himself to his parents and friends by his thoughtful care of a little lame brother, who misses him much.  The peculiar circumstances of his illness and death are painful in the extreme.  Yet we trust the afflicted parents will turn in their great sorrow to Him whose compassion never fails, and remember that of such as Herbert it is said, because they are pure in heart, they "shall see god."

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], August 6th, after a long and severe illness, Mr. Kevine Chase, aged 34 years.  In the full vigor of manhood has a kind and affectionate father and husband been stricken down.  Patiently he suffered awaiting his final dissolution with that composure of which to him was evident, retaining his faculties to near the last moment, as only those can who possess that firm hope in the "God of our salvation, which is an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast."  "May his ashes rest in peace."