Vital Records, Greene, NY, March 1868

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 5, 1868

Marriages

At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 1st inst. by Rev. S. Elwell, Mr. Arthur R. Beardsley to Miss Evelyn Hinman, both of Greene [Chenango Co., NY].

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 31st, by Rev. T.D. Hammond, Mr. Fairfax Newton of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Harriet Rawley, of Oxford.

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th ult. by Rev. T.D. Hammond, Mr. Frederick M. Bingham to Miss Nettie Betts all of Greene.

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult., by the same, Mr. Manual A Cox, of Manhattan, Kansas, to Miss Mary C. Winston, of Greene.

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 26th ult. by Rev. A.J. Buell, Mr. Charles H. Jones of Addison, N.Y. [Steuben Co.] to Miss Helen L. [Miles], eldest daughter of Mr. Luman Miles.

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult. by Rev. C. Smith, Mr. Milo V. Carr to Miss Margary Keough, both of German [Chenango Co., NY].

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult., by Rev. F.B. Peck, Mr. Simon G Willcox, of Hartford [Washington Co.], N.Y. to Mrs. Tabatha Tillotson of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. by Rev. Joseph Hunter, Mr. Thos. Dickinson, Jr. to Miss Helen C. Bradley, all of Guilford.

Deaths

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. Lewis L. Burdick, Esq., aged 71 years.

In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Mr. Nelson W. Northrup, aged 53 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. Dea. Elijah Chamberlin, aged 81 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 12, 1868

Marriage

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Schuyler Wade to Miss Emma Hicks, all of Norwich.

Deaths

At Cincinnatus, Cortland co., N.Y., Feb'y 29th, of scarlet fever, Willie C. [Quivey], aged 4 years and 9 months.  "Of such is the kingdom of Heaven."

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 6th inst., Mr. Paul R. Miner, aged 72 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Mr. Beecher PorterChenan, aged 77 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 19, 1868

Marriages

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY],e 11th inst., by Rev. Wm. M. Hiller, Mr. Wm. Eber Jones, of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], Miss Mary E. Burdick,  of McDonough.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst. by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. E.L. Soule, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss N.L. Tucker, of Oxford.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 25th, by Rev. L.E. Spafford, Mr. John Martin of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Delia White, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

In the city of Barranquilla, United States of Columbia, South America, Feb. 2d, by Senor Francisco Angulo, Judge of the 1st District, Brevet-Colonel Elias P. Pellet, late 114th Regiment New York Volunteers, Consul of the United States of America for Sabmilla and dependencies thereof, and Petrona P. Salcedo, daughter of Don Ignaclo Salcedo, of Tubarn.

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. Mr. Job Bly, aged 77 years and 7 days.

In Ellicottsville, N.Y. [Cattaraugus County] on the morning of the 11th inst., Martha Emiline Meloy (Willard), wife of Mr. Frederick W. Meloy, formerly of Chenango Forks, Broome Co., NY, in the 66th year of her age.

In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 12th inst., Miss Mina Fitch, daughter of Mr. Seymour Fitch, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] aged 21 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., Mr. John Nichols, aged 63 years.

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., Lucinda P. [Titus] wife of Smith Titus, aged 51 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 26, 1868

Marriages

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th inst. by Rev. E. Z. Lewis, Mr. Franklin Williams, of New Berlin Centre [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Alice [Matthewson], of Jason E. Matthewson, Esq.

In Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], on the 16th inst. by Rev. T.P. Halstead, Mr. George W. Fisk of Colesville [Broome Co., NY], to Miss Susan M. Smith of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY].

Deaths

In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst., Mary [Ten Brook], wife of J.M. Ten Brook, deceased, aged 75 years.

At Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 18th inst., Mr. Joseph Youngs, aged 75 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ins.t, Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison, wife of Samuel Harrison, deceased, aged 86 years.

In Chicago, Ill. on the 10th inst. Mr. U. Cushman, formerly of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged about 60 years.

Obituary, Dr. Augustus Willard - Part 1

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 19, 1868

Died suddenly at Ellicottville, N.Y. [Cattaraugus County], on the 12th inst, Augustus Willard, M.D., of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged 68 years.

In announcing the above melancholy event, something more than the short epitaph of "hic jacet" is required.  Dr. Willard was emphatically a strongly marked man.  His intellectual professional and personal characteristics, render essential a brief obituary notice at the hands of his contemporaries.

 He was the eldest son of Samuel Willard, M.D., who graduated at Harvard College in 1787.  He resided at Stafford, Ct.  The deceased was born in 1800.  He received a good school and academic education, and entered the study of Medicine with Dr. Thomas, of Cooperstown.  In 1821 he entered the office of Dr. Charles Josslyn of Greene.  With him, and the professors of Harvard Medical College, he completed his apprenticeship.  In 1823 he graduated at the above named medical College, and among some forty graduates received the prize for the best medical thesis of the class.

In 1824, at the written solicitation of a number of its citizens, he located in the village of Greene.  His sterling intellectual powers, with his strong and undivided application to his professional duties, soon gave him prominence among his professional brethren, and inspired the confidence of his patrons.  It is enough to say that through a long life he has fully justified the confidence reposed in him by the entire community, as an honest, upright and skillful physician.

He had a strong desire to benefit and improve mankind.  He made an effort to combine intellectual power to attain that end.  In every social organization having this end in view he was the nucleus from which radiated the greatest good to the greatest number.

In his professional associations the County, State and National organizations have felt the influence of his talents and his ardent devotion to their interests.  In the Masonic world, in all its organizations he has been ever faithful and eminently worthy.  In all these relations his merits have not been unrewarded.  He has been the recipient of their highest honors.  Hence his name and his fame is not local or ephemeral, but it extends over the State and is enduring.  Dr. Willard has ever been a champion of popular education, and his convictions of duty embraced not the few, but the many.

Indeed, in all the relations of life, from the social circle to the whole brotherhood of man, his head and his heart have been devoted to the welfare of his species.

Viewing him in all the relations of life, his survivors can point to few more worthy examples for imitation than that presented by the life and character of the deceased.

His funeral occurred in this village on Sunday, the 15th inst., and was attended by a larger concourse of people than we have ever seen here on a similar occasion.

The members of the Binghamton commandery of Knights Templar formed the Guard of Honor, and the members of Norwich, Oxford and Coventry Lodges were present, with full delegations. The burial service was enunciated by Past Grand Master Clinton F. Payge.  Peace, peace to the departed.  May the influence of his example shed its light on our future pathway.