Vital Records, Norwich, NY, January to March 1842

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY

Marriages

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on Wednesday evening, the 12th inst. by the Rev. J. Sessions, Mr. Francis N. Grant to Miss lydia Davis, all of this town. [Jan. 19, 1842]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on Wednesday last, by the Rev. L. Howard, Mr. Elias G. Ford, of Louisville, Otsego Co. [NY] to Miss Lorinda Thompson, of the former place. [Jan. 19, 1842]

In Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] on the 12th inst. by the Rev. E.D. Willis, of Easton, Madison Co. Mr. George Allen, of Lebanon, Madison Co. [NY] to Miss Harriet A. Buel, of the former place. [Jan. 19, 1842]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on the evening of the 17th inst., by the Rev. V.M. Coryell, Mr. Paris O. Davis, to Miss Emily Parker, all of this town.  [Jan. 19, 1842]

On Tuesday morning, the 4th inst., by the Rev. Henry Tullige, Mr. John Henry McNeil of the firm of Henry, Sheldon & Co., New York, to Miss Helen Reed, daughter of Gen. Charles M. Reed, of this city Erie Gazette, [Jan. 19, 1842]

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., by the Rev. A.G. Clark, Mr. Wesley Powers, of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Electa Z. Clark, of the former place. [Jan. 26, 1842]

In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] on the 15th inst. by Austin Clark, Esq., Mr. John Woods, of Newport, N.H. to Miss mary Ann Stiles, of this village [Norwich, Chenango co., NY] [Jan. 26, 1842]

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., at the Congregational Church, by the Rev. Mr. Dyer, Mr. Austin Case, of Canton, Ct., to Miss Mary A. Packer, daughter of Elisha Packer, Esq., of the former place. [Feb. 9, 1842]

In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on the 9th inst. by the Rev. J.T. Goodrich, Mr. Wooderidge G. Barker of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Maranda C. Waters of North Norwich. [Feb. 16, 1842]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday evening last, by the Rev. L.A. Barrows, Mr. Thoma J. Noyes, Merchant, to Miss Ellen G. Hale. [Feb. 23, 1842]

n this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 22d [ult.] by the Rev. V. M. Coryell, Mr. Johnson F. Paddock of Herkimer County [NY] to Miss Tenny E. Bushly, of this village. [Mar. 2, 1842]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Tuesday evening, March 8, by the Rev. L.A. Barrows, Mr. P.D. Walker, jeweler, to Miss Elizabeht C. St. John, daughter of Mr. David St. John. [Mar. 16, 1842]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 5th inst. by the Rev. V.M. Coryell, Mr. Joseph P. Barr to Miss Eleanor Barr, all of this town. [Mar. 16, 1842]

Deaths

Died in South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 19th, John S. Bell, aged 34, of a severe illness which he bore with patient resignation.  He was a member of the Baptist Church.  He united at the age of 12 years, and even to the day of his death was a firm believer in that doctrine.  He was an orphan at 14, and his dying Father's request was for him to be particularly kind to his feeble mother and young brothers and sisters, which trust he faithfully discharged.  He was a dutiful son, a kind and loving brother, a tender husband and father.  He has left a wife and two children, and a numerous circle of friends to mourn the loss of his society, and the Church to which he was attached will mourn, but not without hope that he has joined the Church Triumphant and is now singing praises to that God and Saviour that he loved and adored.  He was always mild and amiable, and humane in his feelings to others.  He was often afflicted but met it with placid submission without a murmur.  God's ways are in the mighty deep.  Adieu! till Gabriel's trump shall sound. / Then wake to life and burst the tomb. [Jan. 19, 1842]

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 4th inst. of Consumption, Mr. Adnah Bullock, aged 27 years.  He was a young man of unexceptionable character, bore he illness with Christian fortitude, and died in entire resignation to the will of is Heavenly Father. [Jan. 26, 1842]

In DeRuyter, Madison County [NY], on the 31st ult., at the residence of HA. Dellay, Julia F. [Birdsall], youngest daughter of James Birdsall, esq., formerly of this village. [Feb. 9, 1842]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mr. Elias S. Breed, aged 38 years. [Feb. 16, 1842]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], at the house of her son-in-law, the Rev. J. Sessions, on the 17th inst. after a short, but painful illness, Mrs. Cynthia Winne, aged 73 years. [Feb. 23, 1942]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Saturday morning last, Mrs. Edith [Parker] wife of Nathan Parker, Esq., aged 73. [Mar. 2, 1842]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY] on the 21st inst., Miss Tirzah A. Gregory, in the 19th year of her age. Sudden and awful is the approach of death. when age, full of honors is summoned to depart, we bow with reverence at the decree of an All-wise Providence, but when youth is cut down in the springtime of its existence, it touches every tender fiber of our nature, and proclaims to us in legible characters too plain to be misunderstood, that we too must die.  The deceased was a young lady of a mild and amiable disposition, beloved by her friends and acquaintances, and has gone down to the tomb, leaving lasting evidence of her confidence in the smiles of her Redeemer. [Mar. 2, 1842]

At Smyrna, Chenango County, New York, on the 27th February last, Hon. Isaac Foote, in the ninety-seventh year of his age.  Judge Foote was a native of the town of Colchester in the State of Connecticut, from whence he removed to the town of Stafford, in the same State, where, for many years, he held the office of magistrate, and often represented the town in the General Assembly of the State.  In the year 1795, he removed to the place first above mentioned, it then being a part of the town of Sherburne, in the county of Herkimer, and in the year 1799 was elected to represent said county in the most numerous branch of the State Legislature, and subsequently was elected a Senator for the Western District of said State.  And when the county of Chenango was incorporated, he was appointed to the office of first judge of the court of Common Pleas and General Session of the Peace, which office he held until constitutionally disqualified, having arrived at the age of sixty years; after which, he retired from active life, and devoted the principal part of his time to reading, especially the Scriptures, and having been an exemplary member of the visible church for seventy-five years or more, and contributed to the support of the Gospel, and the dissemination of its truths, he died a peaceful death, and has, as there is reason to entertain a strong hope, been transferred to the Chruch Triumphant.  "where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest."  [Mar. 9, 1842]