Vital Records, Greene, NY, March 1869

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 4, 1869

Marriages

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult. by Rev. F.B. Peck, Mr. Eugene L. Butler, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY] to Mrs. Almira Stratton, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th ult. by Rev. E.R. Payson, Mr. Nelson A. Bemis, of Odell, Ill., to Miss Sarah L. Sheldon, of Guilford.

In Brookfield, N.Y. [Madison Co.], on the 21st ult. by Rev. A.H. Marshall, Mr. Hewitt Shepard of Waverly, Iowa, to Miss Lucelia [Collins], daughter of Hiram Collins, of Brookfield.

Deaths

In New Ohio [Broome Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Mrs. Abigal Crumb, aged 42 years, 2 months.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Mr. Samuel Wheeler, aged 78 years.

In San Francisco, Cal. on the 27th ult., Capt. James Perkins, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], aged 80 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Mr. David Oviatt, aged 77 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult., Mr. Henry Pellett, aged 33 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 11, 1869

Marriages

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Calvin H. Whitney to Miss Nevada M. Seeley, both of Oxford.

In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th ult., by Rev. E. Holroyd, Mr. Geo. W. Rorapaugh, of East Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Ann Eliza Brown, of Pharsalia.

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst., Mr. Alonzo Covert, aged about 43 years.

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], at the house of Albert Stoddard, on the 5th inst., Miss Mary S Beals, formerly of this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged 76 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Sarah Washburn [Wade], wife of Henry L. Wade, and daughter of Wm. G. Sands, of Oxford, aged 27 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Mary [Seeley] youngest daughter of Abel and Adaline Seeley, aged 20 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 18, 1869

Marriages

At Zion church, in this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. by the Rev. dr. Rogers, Mr. John S. Winter to Miss Eliza E. [Harrington] daughter of Wm. S. Harrington Esq., all of this town.

In East Greene [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., by Rev. R.H. Spafford, Mr. Wm. D. Wheeler, to Mrs. Lucina A. Day, both of this village.

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d ult. by Rev. C. W. Burt, Mr. George F Coy, of Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Francilia V Pease, of McDonough.

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 9th ins.t, by Rev. M.L. Bennett, Mr. T.J. Rogers, of Ohio, to Miss L.J. Lewis, of Preston.

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., Janet [Hotchkiss], wife of Mr. William Hotchkiss, aged 64 years.

In North Fenton [Broome Co., NY], on the 5th inst., Mr. John F. Miller, formerly of this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], aged 86 years and 11 months.

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., of consumptiion, A. Leroy [Harrington], youngest son of Wm. A. and Jane Harrington aged 21 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. of disease of the stomach, Sherwood S. Merritt, Esq., aged 52 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th inst., Capt. Wm. Sage, aged 37 years, late of Co. I, 20th N.Y. Cavalry.

In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 3d, Orris Tubbs aged 32 years and 13 days.

Why should you mourn, the victory is won / Before the conflict is begun, / And to perhaps while you despair / Your Maker saw some tempting snare; / Some pending storm of rain and / The mortal joys of your dear friend, / Then why should you not acquiesce / In all that precaution who would bless and house the plant, his tender flower, / Before the furies of the shower, / Before the raging tempests pour / Or lightnings fly or thunder roar; / His quiet bark is now at rest

Then calm the tempest in your breast; / Ye mourning friends then be resigned, / Gird up the loins of the troubled mind, / Perform your master's will divine, / That you in brighter beams may shine; / Doubtless it must have pierced the heart / To have beheld the mourners' part, / And bid the breathless one farewell, / To moulder in his lonely cell

Wife, mother, sister, more bereaved / Than one is able to conceive, / To resign him to his quiet bed / In cold recesses of the dead, / He who once bid fair to be / Delightful to his family / Will be no more their eyes delight, / But now looks doleful to the sight, / Without a sympathetic concern, /Who could so mournful story learn,

The sands of life how quickly run, / In the prime of life himself cut down, / Length of days appear'd to stamp / His sanguine face the brightest lamp / When to an unknown hand descends / And for his life with him contends / His mortal hill appeared so strong, / He solaced himself in living long.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 25, 1869

Marriages

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th ult., by Rev. E.Z. Lewis, of Norwich, Mr. Leonard G. Lindsley and Miss Celia M. Ford, both of Oxford.

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th inst., by Clark T. Rogers, esq., Mr. William J. Whitford, of Brookfield, NY. [Madison Co., NY] to Miss Hattie E. [Holmes], daughter of Dea Thomas Holmes of Preston.

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 20th ins.t, Mrs. Betsy Hallenbeck, aged 82 years.

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st ult., Mr. Simeon R. Parker, aged 21 years.

In Guilford Centre [Chenango co., NY], on the 10th inst., Mrs. Alice Cady, aged 75 years.

In Colesville [Broome Co., NY], on the 4th ult. Ann Janette [Keech], wife of Wm. Keech, aged 33 years.