Vital Records, Norwich, NY, March 16, 1870

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 16, 1870

Marriages

HICKS - RACE:  At the M.E. Church in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], March 15th, by Rev. W.A. Wadsworth, Mr. Charles Hicks to Miss Emma M. Race, all of Norwich.

LOVELAND - MONROE:  At the M.E. Parsonage in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], March 9th, by Rev. W.A. Wadsworth, Mr. Prince A. Loveland, of Hamilton [Madison Co., NY] to Miss Mary L. Monroe, of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].

OTIS - DOWD:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Feb. 28th, by Rev. Father O'Connel, Mr. John Otis, of Norwich, to Miss Ellen Dowd, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].

WESCOTT - DOING:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], March 12th, by Rev. J.L. Bennett, Mr. William J. Wescott, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Ann E. Doing.

MOFFET - COOLEY:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], March 3d, by Rev. T.P. Halsted, Mr. William H. Moffet of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Louisa H. Cooley, of Oxford.

BENEDICT - MYERS:  In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], march 6th, by Rev. T.P. Halsted, Mr. O....o Benedict of Butternuts [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Orelia E. Myers, of Oxford.

CARNCROSS - CRUMB:  In Otselic [Chenango Co., NY] Jan. 5th, by Rev. J.W. Barr, Mr. Jacob M. Carncross to Miss Louisa Crumb, both of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY].

BRAND - CARD:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], March 2d, by Rev. J.W. Barr, Mr. Daniel S. Brand to Miss Calphurna C. Card, both of Smyrna.

Golden Wedding:  Zira Smith and lady, of Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY], celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, at the homestead, on the 13th of December last.  It was a pleasant family reunion.

Deaths

MINER:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], March 9th, Mr. Sireno W. Miner, aged 43 years.

GREENMAN:  In Bridgewater, Oneida Co. [NY], March 8th, of dropsy and heart disease, Mr. Joseph P. Greenman, aged 37 years, formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY].

KENYON:  In German [Chenango Co., NY], March 8th, Lucy [Kenyon], wife of Manson Kenyon, aged 55 years and 8 months.

TERWILLIGER:  In Greene [Chenango Co., NY], March 7th, wife of Daniel Terwilliger, aged 18 years.

SMITH:  In Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY], March 7th, Mr. William T. Smith, aged 69 years.

MACOMBER:  In North Fenton [Chenango Co., NY], March 3d, Mr. Washington Macomber, aged 63 years.

WHEELER:  In Lisle [Broome Co., NY], Feb. 28th, Almira [Wheeler], wife of the late Jeremiah Wheeler, aged 80 years.

WALES:  In Geneva, Wis., January 20th, Mrs. Rachel Wales, formerly of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY]

DANIELS:  In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], March 2d, 1870, Mr. Alexander Daniels, aged 85 years.  The deceased came from Vermont with his wife, and settled in the forest at McDonough, in 1810.  Here he was subjected to many trials connected with pioneer life.  He zealously labored to establish a church, and promote the cause of God in this newly settled town; was chairman of a delegation who met for that purpose in 1822, and its last surviving member; devoting more than seventy years to the cause of Christ.  His ready counsel was attended by an assisting hand.  Always a lover of harmony, boasting of having never spent a shilling at law in his life, his word being a bond in all transactions.  Unable to labor for twenty years past, yet surrounded by every comfort, his last were happy days.  Former associates were gone, but he could review a life of Christian promptitude, and look beyond, "ever ready, only waiting."  Years pass and still the old man is leaning on his staff, "ever ready, only waiting."  On the 2d day of March, 1870, he calmly fell asleep.  We met to pay our final respects to the venerable departed, and after singing "Father, thou art gone to rest," laid him beside his wife in the old cemetery of many graves, the first having been made long years ago, by his own hands.