Vital Records, Norwich, NY, April, May & June 1837

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY

Marriages

At St. Augustine, on the 7th ult. by the Rev. David Brown, Lot Clark, Esq. formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] President of the Southern Life Insurance and Trust company of that city, to Miss Una Stokes, daughter of the Ref. James O. Stokes, of this state.  [Apr. 12, 1837]

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. by the Rev. L.A. Barrows, Mr. David Pellet of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Polly Janes of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY]

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst. by the Rev. E. Bronson, Mr. Wm. Baldwin, Merchant, to Miss Katharine Humphrey, all of that town. [Apr. 19, 1837]

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Sessions, Mr. James Kershaw, Merchant, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Fanny Bement, of the former place. [Apr. 26, 1837]

On Sunday inst. by the Rev. J.S. Swan, Mr. William Ransford to Miss Laura Pellet, all of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY]

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst. by the Rev. L. S. Rexford, Roswell Judson, Esq. to Miss Lucy Maria Babcock, all of that village. [June 14, 1837]

In Butternuts, Otsego Co. [NY] on the 13th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Gregory, Mr. William Otis Lyon of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Zepporah Thomas of the former place.  [June 28, 1837

Deaths

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] on the 29th ult. Mrs. Hannah D. [Gardinar], wife of Mr. John H. Gardinar, aged 33 yrs. [May 10, 1837]

In Cincinnatus, Cortland County [NY], on Saturday evening, April 29, Mrs. Sally Reynolds, wife of Mr. John Reynolds, formerly of Norwich, Chenango County [NY] and daughter of Deacon Joshua Grosvenor, of Pomfret, Connecticut, aged 40 years.  In the death of this extraordinary woman, her husband and two sons have lost a kind and affectionate wife and mother, and an instructive guide and counsellor; the church and society of which she was an exemplary member, one of its brightest ornaments, and the cause of Christian benevolence and Christian charity a constant and zealous advocate and supporter.  In the most trying arenas of sickness and distress, to which from an impaired constitution she had long been a victim, her well balanced mind never swerved from its center, but true as the needle to the pole pointed to her Redeemer as the source of all her hopes and consolation.  Nor did it fail her in the last trying scene.  She died the death of the righteous [May 17, 1837]