Vital Records, Norwich, NY, May, June & July 1836

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY

Marriages

In South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. by the Rev. P.G. Bridgeman, Mr. Roswell R. Bush, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Lucyna Burlingame, of the former place. [May 4, 1836]

On the 28th ult., Mr. Wait Wells of Cincinnatus, Cortland County [NY] to Miss Polly Root, of Solon [Cortland Co., NY].

At New Lisbon, Otsego Co. [NY], on the 20th ult. by the Rev. R.M. Davis of Springfield, Mr. DeLauzon De Forest, of Edmeston [Otsego Co., NY] to Miss Eliza Pettesgill of the former place. [May 4, 1836]

In the Methoist Chapel in Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] on Sunday the 16th inst. by the Rev. L. Beach, Mr. Lorenzo Adams to Miss Cloe Dimmick, all of that place. [May 18, 1836]

In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult. by the Rev. S. Mills,k Mr. Alfred Pabodie, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Prudence Deline Bosworth, of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY] [June 8, 1836]

In Richford, Tioga County [NY], on the 3d inst. by the Rev. Mr. morse, Mr. Nelson Norton, of that place, to Miss Silvy Stedman, of Berkshire [Tioga Co., NY] [July 13, 1836]

Deaths

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY] on the 28th ult. Mr. Harry N. Fargo, aged 49 years.  Mr. F. was postmaster of Sherburne. [May 4, 1836]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 1st inst., Mrs. Anna Hopkins, consort of George Hopkins deceased, formerly of Plainfield, Conn. in the 86th year of her age.  Mrs. H. was mother to Frederick and Samuel Hopkins, Esqrs. of this town.  She was an amiable and an excellent woman. [May 11, 1836]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday morning last, after a short but distressing illness, Mrs. Betsey [Brooks], wife of Otis R. Brooks, aged 25 years.  [May 11, 1836]

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on Sunday evening the 8th inst. at the residence of her son, Dr. Milton Mason, Widow Abigail Mason, relict of Gen. James Mason, formerly of Lebanon, Connecticut, aged 74 years.  Mrs. Mason had long been a professed follower of the Lord Jesus.  The Bible was not only her consistent companion, but the subject of her daily study.  Her cheerful acquiescence to the will of her heavenly Father, the patience and resignation with which she bore the trials of a most distressing and protracted illness, afford abundant encouragement in her friends to trust that it is now well with her, and to feel that they do not mourn as those who have no hope, and that in her may apply the divine benediction  "Blessed are the dead who die in the lord, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them."

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday last, Mrs. Frances [Pellet], wife of David Pellet, aged 38 years. [May 25, 1836]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st ult. Mrs. Irena [Blivin], wife of john Blivin, aged 32 years (June 1, 1836]

Lyman Baldwin, son of Mr. Rufes Baldwin, Merchant, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], a very intelligent and promising young man, 18 years of age, was drowned in the river on Sunday morning.  We learn that he went into this river with two others, and in endeavoring to cross, not being a swimmer, got into deep water.  The body remained in the water about half an hour. [June 22, 1836]

In New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on the 14th inst., Mrs. Maria Harris, wife of John Harris, Esq., late of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY], aged 38 years.  The circumstances which caused and attended the death above recorded, were peculiarly afflicting.  On the 4th of July, a son of Mr. Harris, aged 12 years, was drowned in the Unadilla River.  The enunciation of this event to the family, produced a shock to the mind of Mrs. Harris from which she never recovered. Search was immediately made for the body of the boy and continued during the afternoon and night, but it was not until the afternoon of the 5th that it was found.  Mrs. Harris became deranged.  Her mind was destroyed, and in ten days from the melancholy occurrence of the 4th, she was no more!  Thus perished a fine boy, and thus perished and excellent and amiable woman.  To the surviving members of the family these were cause of the severest trials and affliction. We have never known the sympathies of the public more general and deep seated than on these occasions. [July 20, 1836]