Vital Records, Norwich, NY, February to May 1838

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY

Marriages

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Dyar, Mr. Benjamin W. Dickinson of Preston to Miss Julia Randall of the city of New York.  [Feb. 21, 1838]

At Gilbertsville, Otsego County [NY], on Tuesday evening, the 20th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Waterbury, Mr. N.C. Chapman of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Elizabeth A. [Gilbert], daughter of Joseph T. Gilbert, Esq., of the former place. [Feb. 28, 1838]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on Thursday evening, the 22d inst. by the Rev. Mr. Sessions, Mr. J.G. Thorp of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Amelia S. Chapman of this village. [Feb. 28, 1838]

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY] on Thursday Evening the 8th inst. by the Rev. Seth S. Rogers, Mr. Hiram L. Whiting to Sarah A. [Holt] daughter of N.P. Holt, all of Guilford. [Mar. 14, 1838]

In Hamilton [Madison Co., NY], on the 12th inst. by Elder Perkins, Mr. Mulford Rogers to Miss Abigail L. Bacon, all of Hamilton. [Mar. 14, 1838]

Deaths

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on the 6th inst. Emily [Purdy], daughter of Alfred Purdy, aged 2 years and 2 months. [Mar. 14, 1838]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on the 10th inst. Mrs. Olive Parker, aged 80. [Mar. 14, 1838]

At the residence of his father, near Sawpitts, Westchester Co. [NY] on the evening of the twenty-second ult., David W. Lyon of Greene, in this county [Chenango Co., NY], in the 39th year of his age, leaving an amiable wife and family to mourn their sudden bereavement.  Mr. L. was visiting at his father's, enjoying his usual health until ten minutes before his death, when the rupture of a blood vessel caused his almost instant dissolution.  Of Mr. Lyon, it can be said with propriety, he was beloved and respected by all who knew him intimately, for his strict morality, virtue and integrity.  He was emphatically "an honest man." [May 9, 1838]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on the 8th inst., Joseph [Hart] son of S.P. Hart, aged 10 months and 5 days. [May 16, 1838]

In Lincklaen [Chenango Co., NY], on the 25th ult. Mr. Elijah Chamberlain. He left a wife and an infant child, and aged parents, who depended on him for support, to lament his loss. The circumstances attending his death are as follows: on the afternoon of the 22d, he went to chop a few scattering trees in his follow.  In one or two hours he returned to the house and said he was very sick.  Medical aid was immediately called, and on a close examination it was concluded that he had received a blow on the head.  The ground being examined, it appeared that in falling one tree, it had brushed against another and threw back a limb, which weighed upwards of twenty pounds.  On a postmortem examination, it was found that his skull was fractured which occasioned his death. [May 16,1838]

In this village [Chenango Co., NY] on Saturday morning last, Mrs. Harriet B. Wait, wife of John Wait, Esq., aged 21 years. [May 30, 1838]