Vital Records, Greene, NY, June 1869

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, June 3, 1869

Marriages

In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on hte 27th ult., by Rev. R.H. Spafford, Mr. Hirach to Mrs. Jane J. Sharpe, both of this town.

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

Deaths

In Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ult., Alexander Bailey, aged about 41 years.

In Franklinville, N.J., on the 22d ult., Mr. George Davidson, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 83 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on the 31st ult., Mr. Davenport Parker, aged 58 years.

In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27 ult., Walter H. [Cunningham], son of Mr. Geo. W. Cunningham, aged 17 years, 7 months and 21 days.

A telegram, last Thursday night, to Prof. Wm. C. Bowen, brought us the sad intelligence that Walter H. Cunningham, for more than two years an apprentice in this office, was dead.  At the beginning of the new year, while working for us, he was seized with the inflammatory rheumatism in its most acute form, and after lying here several weeks, was taken to his home in Greene, Chenango County, with the hope that the early spring days would find his usual health restored and himself again at his work.  This hope, however, was not fulfilled, and though our last intelligence from him was rather cheering, it was evident that some time must elapse before he could resume his duties.  But we were wholly unprepared for the sudden news of his death, and it struck out heart strings keenly.

Only those who knew Walter intimately can comprehend the sorrow that it costs us to record his death.  As a workman, he was faithful in every particular, earnest, active, capable, giving rare promise of high attainments in his chosen profession.  As a friend, he could be trusted fully - deceit was wholly foreign to his nature, while he possessed a soundness of judgment uncommon in one so young, his age being only seventeen.  As a companion, his social qualities endeared him to all with whom he associated.  Combined with all these qualifications, was talent, ambition, and culture, which gave promise of a bright and useful future.  But he is gone!  The Stern Reaper makes no distinction, and he spared not our friend.  But thank God, there is a place where Death cannot enter - and there we confidently trust Walter rests now and shall forever.

The telegram to Prof. Bowen was a request that he should preach Walter's funeral sermon, that being his desire, expressed before his death.  The services were held last Sabbath in Greene.  Cazenovia Republisan, [Chenango American, Greene, NY, June 10, 1869]

Chenango American, Greene, NY, June 10, 1869

Marriages

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. A. Crocker, Mr. Charles O. Willcox, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss H. Vannetta Stratton, of Coventry.

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

Death

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., James Winslow Clarke, only son of James W. Clarke, aged 20 ears, 9 months and 20 days.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, June 17, 1869

Marriages

At the M.E. parsonage, in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Rev. W. Burnside, Mr. Andrew J. Randall to Miss Lydia A. [Bolt], daughter of Mr. Azariah Bolt, all of this town.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. Robert Burk, of Otsego, N.Y. [Otsego Co.], to Miss Arvilla J. Carpenter, of Smithville Flats.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst., by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. E.J. Rathbone, of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss E.G. Garatt, of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., Miss Celestia Graves, aged 19 years and 6 months.

In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], on the 7th ins.t, Doct. William C. Wait, in hte 81st year of his age.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th ins.t, Mrs. Malinda Weed, aged 79 years.

A Curiosity

The following inscription was copied from a tomb stone in the town of Smithville, in this County [Chenango Co., NY], and handed us for publication.  We give it verbatim:

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 Sept. 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 a 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 country.  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 husbands, 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."  Norwich Union

Chenango American, Greene, NY, June 27, 1869

Marriages

At the Rectory of Zion church, in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst., by the Rev. Dr. F. Rogers, Mr. Chas. R. Reynolds, of Barker [Broome Co., NY] to Miss Sarah E. Smith, of this town.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Wm. H. Parks to Miss Mary E. Niles, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th inst., Mrs. Mary E. Brigham, aged 37 years and 8 months.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d ins.t, Capt. William Snow, aged 80 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst., Mr. Edward Loomis aged 92 years.

In East McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst., Mr. Ira S. Moore, aged 41 years.