Vital Records, Norwich, NY, June 2 & 9, 1869

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, June 2, 1869

Marriages

In Waterville [Oneida Co., NY], May 11th, by Rev. W. Clarke, Mr. Francis M. Sanders, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Ellen A. Hubbard, of Poolville [Madison Co., NY].

In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], May 1st, by Ira P. Rich, Esq., Mr. George Bice, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], to Mrs. Lydia Wrench, of the former place.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], May 25th, by Rev. J.L. Burrows, Mr. Frederick S. Gaylord, to Miss Harriet E. Upham.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], May 22d, by E. Ward Brown, Esq., Mr. George Doxey to Miss Adeline Springstien both of North Fenton [Broome Co., NY].

In Marshalltown, Iowa, May 27th, by Rev. J.K. Tuttle, Mr. S.H. Porter, to Miss Laura M. Orl, all of the above place.

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], May 31st, Mr. Davenport Parker, aged 58 years.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], May 29th, Anna S. [Bowers], daughter of Gurdon Bowers, aged 4 years and 5 months.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], May 21st, Benjamin H. Gorton, Esq., aged 61 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], May 23d, Mr. Abram Tillotson, aged 80 years.

In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], May 20th, Mrs. Abigail Safford, aged 79 years.

In DeRuyter, May 14th, of consumption, Miss Celia E. Miner, only daughter of H.C. Miner, Esq., aged 17 years, 4 months and 5 days.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, June 9, 1869

Marriages

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], June 2d, by Rev. H.S. Jones, Mr. Henry C. Holmes, of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Annie E. Rose, of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY].

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], May 12th, by Rev. J.L. Jones, Mr. John H. Brown, of Lewisburg, Ohio, to Miss Sarah Adaresta Johnson, of Guilford.

In East Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], May 30th, by Rev. C.W. Burt, Mr. Newton P. Wells, to Miss Desire Frink, all of Pharsalia.

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], May 30th, by Rev. LB. Yale, Caleb Batterson, Esq., of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Lydia A. Hall of the former place.

In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], May 27th, by Rev. R.H. Spafford, Mr. Hiram Leach to Mrs. Jane J. Sharp, both of Greene.

In Syracuse [Onondaga Co., NY], May 24th, by Rev. S.B. Shepherd, Mr. Daniel S.R. Buck, Jr., to Miss Emma L. Smith, all of Syracuse.

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], June 7th, after an illness of nearly five years, Doct. William C. Wait, in the 81st year of his age.  Funeral at his late residence on South Main Street, this (Wednesday) afternoon at 3 o'clock.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], June 3d, of consumption, Mr. J. Winslow Clarke, son of James W. Clarke, Esq., in the 21st year of his age.

In Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY], May 23d, Mr. Alexander Bailey, aged about 41 years.

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], May 27th, Walter H. [Cunningham], son of George W. and Adelia Cunningham, aged 17 years.

In Franklinville, N.J., May 23d, Mr. George Davidson, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 83 years.

At Bitter Creek, Wyoming Territory, May 29th, Mrs. Charlotte Cornelia Pond, formerly of Pitcher, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], aged 24 years.

Tombstone Inscription for Tabitha Agard (1750-1818)

Smithville Flats Cemetery

The following inscription was copied from a tombstone in the town of Smithville, in this County [Chenango Co., NY], and handed us for publication.

Tabitha Agard lies here. She was the wife of Joseph Agard Esquire who was one of the first settlers of this town A D 1798.  She died Sep 9 A D 1818 aged 68 years.  This woman, after many years of the greatest toil in this once howling wild in which she together with her family suffered much by hunger and nakedness, was taken with lingering illness which lasted several years.  She suffered much pain of body and depression of spirits, yet she knew in whom she had believed and waited with patience the coming of the Lord.  She was an obedient wife, a loving mother, chaste and a keeper at home.  She was a succorer of many in the settling of this county. Both Indians and white men have often received food from her hand.  She instructed her children to be always obedient to their father and to fear God every day. She was attentive to prayers bowing the knee to the Lord Jesus thus leaving a glorious example for all her sex to be obedient to their own husband's teachers of good things chaste keepers at home.  She had four sons that cleared the ground where she and all this great family of the dead lie."