Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 12, 1869
Marriages
At the residence of the bride's father in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Wednesday evening, May 5th, by Rev. E.Z. Lewis, Mr. Julius E. Dean, of New Milford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., to Miss Emma J. [Bartle], daughter of J.H. Bartle, of this place.
In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], April 29th, by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. J.R. Palmer, to Miss Helen Graham, all of Oxford.
Deaths
In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], May 7th, Mr. Abial Cook, aged 76 years.
In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], April 29th, Mr. Harvey Curtis, aged 49 years.
In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], May 2d, Mr. Charles Atherton, aged 36 years.
In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], April 23d, Georgianna E. [Tillotson], daughter of George W. and Ann E. Tillotson, aged 14 years and 9 months.
In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], April 25, Mr. Fred M. Robinson, aged 17 years.
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY May 19, 1869
Marriages
At the Baptist Church in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Tuesday morning, May 18th, 1869, by Rev. J.D. Pope, Mr. William H. Longwell, of Petroleum Centre, Penn., to Miss Rebecca W. Avery of this village.
Deaths
In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], May 11th, Mr. Truman Enos, aged 91 years.
Another of our pioneer fathers has gone to his rest. Dea. Truman Enos expired at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. Harvey Harris, in this village, on Tuesday evening of last week, at the advanced age of ninety-one years. Mr. Enos was born in Windsor, Hartford Co., Conn., in 1778, and moved to kingsborough, in this State in 1782. In 1804 he removed to Oxford, and to Norwich in 1806, since which time he has resided in this place, a period of sixty-three years. He was an active businessman, and has done much towards building up the village which was his adopted home. A man of rare physical development he retained in a remarkable degree his vigor, even in his advanced years, and with the exception of partial blindness, he enjoyed excellent health until within ten days of his death. An upright, courteous, Christian gentleman of the old school, his memory will be ever green in the hearts of those who knew and loved him.
In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], May 5th, Henry VanDerLyn, Esq., aged 44 years.
In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], May 9th, Isabella [Barber], wife of Joshua Barber, aged 83 years.
In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], April 29th, Mr. John Thackeray, a native of Ripon, England.
In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], April 10th, the widow of Isaac Dutcher.
In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY] April 29th, Mr. James H. Curtis, aged 49 years. He was a faithful member of the Baptist Church where he lived, has been Superintendent of the Sabbath School for a number of years, and was beloved by the church and the Sabbath School. His soul and body were engaged in the work. He died with his soul full of the promises of God, and faith in Christ. He has left a beloved wife, an only son, a large circle of friends, and the church to mourn the loss of one who was faithful, and always at his post in trying to do good.
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 26, 1869
Marriages
In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], May 18th, by Rev. J.D. Pope, Mr. Richard M. Sholes, to Miss Sarah Hall, all of Norwich.
In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], May 12th, by Rev. Wm. NJ. Cobb, Rev. Leroy C. Hayes of the Wyoming M.E. Conference, to Lydia A. Bowen.
In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], May 18th, by Rev. Dr. Rogers Mr. Lester G. Thompson, to Miss Lena P. Marvin, all of Greene.
Deaths
In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday morning, May 23d, suddenly, of congestion of the lungs, Mr. Eliab G. Ford, aged 56 years. The funeral will be attended this, Tuesday, afternoon at 2 o'clock, at his late residence on Birdsall Street, by Canasawacta Lodge of Odd Fellows.
In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], May 6th, Sophia [Field], wife of David Field, aged 43 years.
In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], April 13th, Samuel Merton [Babcock], only child of Edwin and Hannah Babcock, aged 1 year and 5 months.
In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], May 18th, Mr. Francis F. Brown, aged 63 years.
In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], May 14th, Mr. Curtis Thompson, aged 66 years.
In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], May 17th, Caroline [Hall], wife of Geo. W. Hall, aged 41 years.
In North Fenton [Broome Co., NY], May 17th, Mrs. Jemima Taylor, aged 75 years.
In Charleston, S.C. April 30th, Maud [Wagner], daughter of Dr. L.P. and Julia S. Wagner, aged 7 months.
Suddenly at Galesburg, Ill. April 12th, Mr. Harvey L.R. Harrington, aged 23 years.
He's gone from earth, while youth was bright and glowing, / And the young star of life was rising fair; / But death has come, the seeds of sorrow sowing, / And clothed the loving brow with sad despair, / And hopes, so fragrant once, are now dissolved in air.
Death of Abial Cook, Esq.
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 12, 1869
Abial Cook, Esq., after an illness which confined him to his bed only about one week, expired at his residence in this village on Friday evening last, at the age of 76 years. His disease, we understand, was what is known as Bright's disease of the kidneys.
Mr. Cook was born at Therman, Washington County (now Athol, Warren County), in this State, May 8, 1793, and in 1806, with his Father removed to Plymouth, in this County [Chenango Co., NY], where for a few years, like other pioneers, he devoted his energies to the clearing off and cultivating a farm, after which a desire to secure to himself a proper education, induced him to seek at Clinton the facilities which his own neighborhood was not yet prepared to furnish, where he pursued his studies, like many young men of that day, teaching school in the winter to provide means for supporting himself during the remainder of the year. During this period, he became somewhat noted for his ready with, and as a fine speaker and effective debater, in the Societies organized for that purpose, and his friends advised him to select the law as his profession, as the best means of developing his talents in this respect. This advice he followed, and entering the office of Judge Birdsall, in Norwich, as a student at law, was admitted to practice in 1819.
He practiced for a time in partnership with -?- Clarke, and afterward, with Judge Purdy as his partner, did a very successful business, being employed upon one side or the other of almost every important case that came before our Court; while his reputation as an advocate, and his power with a Jury led to his employment for the defense, in most of the important criminal prosecutions. [Particularly] one single case added so much to his reputation as an advocate, as his defense of G.C. Clarke who was tried for murder, to in -?- in 1832. In this case his eloquent appeal to the jury was said to have excelled anything of its kind ever before heard in this section of the State. He continued the practice of his profession until the new Constitution of 1846, and the Code of procedure which was adopted under it, made such radical changes in the practice, as to lay by as useless much of the science which the members of the profession had spent their lives in acquiring, when, as cases then on hand, one after another were terminated, he gradually withdrew, and has since lived a retired life, taking a deep interest in public affairs and always forming and freely expressing decided opinions upon public questions.
He never was a mere policy man, or what would have been termed a successful pleaser, who disguised those carefully drawn praises intended to disguise rather than expose opinion, and expressed his own freely, without much regard to whether they would be popular or not, so long as they were his honest convictions, and sustain what he believed to be the best interest of the people. His love for the beautiful things of nature and natural objects was renown, and in his speeches, he was able from this source to draw illustrations with telling effect.
He was a man of integrity, and seldom left any man in doubt as to his own intentions; and for his later years, by his voluntary withdrawal from the active pursuits of life, he had become less an element in the business life of the community, he had become more and more the main element in domestic circles, devoted to each other, and especially to him and in which his sudden death will leave a void which cannot be filled and which time alone can make appear as the wise ruling of Him who doeth all things well.
The funeral will be attended form his late residence this (Tuesday) afternoon at 2 o'clock.
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