Vital Records, Norwich, NY, April to July 1846

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY

Marriages

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. Mr. William Walker(?) to Miss Mary E. Clark, both of Norwich. [Chenango Co., NY] [Apr. 1, 1846]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. by Rev. C.W. Giddings, Mr. Samuel V. Lyon to Miss Julia F. Duryea.  [Apr. 1, 1846]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on the 9th in the Rev. John B. Hoyt, John B. Hoyt, Jr. of Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] to Rispah B. [Hitchcock], daughter of Mr. Jeduthan Hitchcock of this place.  [Apr. 15, 1846]

On the 16th inst. by Rev. J. Duncan, Mr. John Blivin to Mrs. Caroline Byington, all of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]. [Apr. 29, 1846]

In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], on Wednesday morning last, by Rev. M. Brooks, John Wait Esq., attorney and counsellor of Law in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Mary K. [Foote] daughter of John Foote, Esq., of the former place. [May 6, 1846]

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th ult. by Rev. M.C. Gaylord, Mr. Abram Mudge, of Earlville [Madison Co., NY], to Miss Persis A. [Buell], daughter of Ira Buell, Esq., of the former place. [May 6, 1846]

In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], on Wednesday morning last, by Rev. A. Brooks, Mr. Edwin C. Brooks, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Helen B. Keyes, of the former place. [May 20, 1846]

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 8th inst. by Rev. J.T. Goodrich, Mr. Alexis Miller, of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Julia A. Miller, of the former place. [May 20, 1846]

At Smithville Flats [Chenango Co., NY], on the 32d February last, by Rev. A.O. Warren, Mr. Henry Kinney to Miss Mary V. Monroe, both of Triangle [Broome Co., NY]. [May 20, 1846]

On the 30th of April last, Mr. Abner Strickland, of York Settlement, Dupade Co. Ill, to Miss Rebecca Sessions, of Barker, N.Y. [Broome Co., NY]. [May 20, 1846]

In West Troy, on the 20th ult. by Rev. Mr. Dodge, Mr. Henry L. Bowen of Homer, Cortland Co. [NY], to Miss Ann Elizabeth Wilgus(?) of the above place. [May 20, 1846]

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the morning of the 20th inst., by Rev. A.C. Tuttle, J. DeWitt Rexford, Esq. of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Cynthia M. Babcock, of the former place. [May 27, 1846]

On the 9th inst. in the town of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], by Rev. C.W. Giddings, Mrs. charles Bacon to Miss Alfreda Hopkins, all of this town. [June 17, 1846]

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] on the 3d inst. by the Rev. J.T. Goodrich, Mr. Smith Slocum to Miss Almira B. North, both of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]

[On the] 5th inst. by the same, Mr. Seth G. Pellet to Miss Mary Westcott, both of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] [July 15, 1846]

At Truxton [Cortland Co., NY] on the morning of the 1st, by the Rev. Mr. Shedd, Mr. Edward F. Thomas of the firm of E.F. Thomas & Co. of Homer, Cortland Co. [NY] to Miss Francis A. [Shedd], daughter of O M. Shedd Esq. of the former place. [July 15, 1846]

Deaths

At Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the 11th ult. Mrs. Mary Lathrop, wife of Elijah Lathrop, formerly of Batavia, Genesee County [NY] and sister of Mrs. A. Pellet of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], aged 65 years. [Apr. 1, 1846]

In Pitcher [Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d inst., Mrs. Mary Ann [Pomeroy], wife of Horace Pomeroy, aged 20 years.  After a long and severe illness, which she bore with Christian fortitude and perfect resignation, she bid farewell to the scenes of earth in the morning of life, as her spirit left its tenement of clay for the world where sickness, pain and death are not known and where the sublime and significant glories of Paradise....  [rest unreadable] [Apr. 1, 1846]

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 10th instant, Mrs. Mary Rexford, mother of B.F. Rexford of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], aged 65 years.  [Apr. 156, 1846]

In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st instant, Mrs. Betsey Brooks, wife of Calvin Brooks, an exemplary and much respected member of the Baptist church, in Preston [Chenango Co., NY], aged 61 years. [Apr. 29, 1846]

In Rochester [Monroe Co., NY], on the 17th inst. Hannah Jane [ Van Ingen] wife of Rev. John V. Van Ingen, formerly of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], and daughter of Z. Trowbridge, Esq., aged 32 years. [Apr. 29, 1846]

Suddenly in Sherburne, Chenango County, N.Y. on the 19th ult. by the rupture of a blood vessel, Mrs. Fanny Chipman, aged 26 years.  For more than ten years, Mrs. Chipman had been an esteemed member of the Congregational Church in this place.  Her death, though sudden and unexpected to herself and relatives, did not find her unprepared.  In her last moments, she expressed her confidence in the Saviour and her resignation in his holy and divine will, and we doubt not rests in the bosom of him in whom she had believed.  In Mrs. Chipman's death, her relatives and especially her family have sustained an irreparable loss.  She had left a deeply afflicted husband and three small children to mourn their sudden and unexpected bereavement.  But they mourn not as for one without hope.  For the righteous hath hope in his death."  "There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God." [May 6, 1846]

In Greene [Chenango Co., NY] on the 3d inst. Mr. Eli Webb, aged about 65 years. [May 20, 1846]

In McDonough [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst., Martin Dodge, Esq., aged 51 years. [May 20, 1846]

In Hartwick, Otsego County [NYT], on the 3d inst., Rev. Nathan Bundy, formerly of Oxford [Chenango co., NY] aged 38 years. [May 20, 1846]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 2d of July of a disease of the brain, John Van Wagenen, merchant, in the 42d year of his age, son of Gerit H. Van Wagenen, late of the city of New York, for many years one of its most respectable citizens.  Possessing a reputation unblemished, the deceased sustained through life and in all its relations the character of a true and devoted friend, an active and upright man, and a good citizen.  His loss is deeply deplored by a large circle of relatives and friends.  Oxford Times. [July 15, 1846]

In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY] on the 11th inst., at the residence of her grandparents, Dea. Isaac Foote, Miss Hannah Elizabeth [Foote] daughter of Justin Foote, deceased, aged 20 years.  She was taken sick and died while on a visit at her grandparent's, with whom she had spent the greater part of her life, till about two and a half years since, when she went to reside with her widowed mother in Batavia.  When she came to Smyrna, far from herself and friends was the thought that her youthful and lovely form was so soon to waste away by disease, and to find a grave by the side of her father's sleeping dust.  All that love and skill could do was done to arrest the progress of her disease.  It gradually became evident that death had marked her for his prey, that her time had come.  To her friends it was consoling that she was prepared to meet it.  At an early age she manifested an attachment to Christ, had made a public profession of her faith in Him. By her life she adorned her profession. On the bed of sickness, she was meek, patient and submissive.  She had a desire to live, but wished above all, the will of the Lord done.  Till the last hour she confessed herself to be a sinner, and if saved it must be by nothing she had done, but all through the merits of Christ. She peacefully fell asleep in Jesus, as we trust, leaving many to weep over her early grave. [July 22, 1846]