Vital Records, Norwich, NY, September to December 1838

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY

Marriages

At Salina, Onondaga Co. [NY] on the 11th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Hiram Briggs to Miss Jane Merrill, daughter of Thomas Merrill, esq. [Sept. 2, 1838]

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday last, Mr. James Lewis to Miss Lorinda Gleason, both of that town. [Sept. 2, 1838]

In Richland, Oswego Co. [NY], on the first inst., by the Rev. E.B. Fuller, Mr. Sidney T. Smith, merchant of the village of Pulaski [Oswego Co. NY], formerly of Sherburne, Che. Co. [NY], to Miss Harriet Wood, daughter of Mr. John Wood, of the former place. [Sept. 16, 1838]

In Butternuts, Otsego County [NY], on Tuesday morning 13th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Warren, Mr. George Wells of Preston [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Frances Donaldson, of the former place. [Oct. 21, 1838]

In Solon, Cortland County [NY] on Wednesday last by the Rev. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Thomas Rockwell of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co., NY] to Miss Lucia Holbert, of the former place. [Oct. 21 1838]

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday morning last by Elder J.S. Swan, Mr. Elias Breed to Miss Susan Enos, daughter of Mr. Roswell Enos, all of this town.  [Oct. 28, 1838]

On Tuesday morning, Nov. 17, by the Rev. Elijah Whitney, Mr. Wm. A. Baldwin, merchant, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Lucia G. Williams, of the same place. [Nov. 25, 1838]

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 11th inst. by the Rev. L.A. Barrows, Mr. Dibble of Michigan, to Miss Mary Burbanks, of the former place. [Nov. 25, 1838]

In Smyrna [Chenango Co., NY], on the 23d int. by the Rev. S.E. Mills, Mr. Elijah Sexton of Plymouth [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Sophronia Gleason, of the former place. [Dec. 30, 1838]

Deaths

Of billious feber, at Selma, Alabama, on the 3d of August, after an illness of three weeks, Mr. Daniel W. Garret in the 25th year of his age, son of Daniel Garret of Bainbridge, in this co. [Chenango Co., NY].  Mr. G. left this county about a year ago for the south for the purpose of embarking in business with the enterprise of youth.  It needs no record of his virtues upon paper to retain them in the remembrance of all who ever had the pleasure of his acquaintance.  Having been reared among us, he had endeared himself to all.  To amiability of deportment and a gentlemanly and retiring disposition, were added the qualities of the Christian.  To his bereaved parents his loss is irreparable, having been the strong hope of their declining years.  They, however, have the consolation of knowing that he died calm and resigned, tho' far from his native hills.  He was by "Strangers honored and by strangers mourned." [Sept. 2, 1838]

In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst., after an illness of a few hours, Miss Lucetia Packer, youngest daughter of William Packer, Esq., aged 26 years.  In the death of this young woman, we have a striking instance of the uncertainty of human life.  Yesterday we saw her enjoying and enlivening the social circle of friends, in all the bloom and beauty of health.  Today alas! we consign her mortal remains to the cold and silent grave!  Could youth, beauty, or intelligence, have averted the shafts of the Dread Destroyer, we should now be spared the melancholy reflection that Lucretia is no more.  But it is the fulfilment of destiny from which there is no exemption.  "Tis the way of all the world."

"Here would I dwell and heave the sigh, / Nor, haste to wipe the weeping eye; / Tis Pity's tear, O, let it flow, / It soothes my heart, relieves my woe!" [Sept. 23, 1838]

At South New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday last, after a short but painful illness, Mrs. Patience Dexter, wife of Peleg Dexter, aged 43 years, 3 months and 25 days.  In the death of this amiable and pious woman, the husband has lost a valuable companion, her children a kind and tender mother, and the church a worthy member. We trust she died as she had lived for more than 18 years, an exemplary and devoted Christian.  In the Spring of 1817 as she frequently expressed it, the Lord for Christ's sake pardoned her sins.  She soon after united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which she remained much respected and beloved until she was called to join the Church triumphant where congregations never break up nor Sabbaths ever end.  [Oct. 17, 1838]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst. of consumption, James Thompson, Esq., aged 61 years.  Mr. T. was one of the early settlers of this part of the county, and a highly respectable man.  He held the office of Justice of the Peace for a great number of years, which station he filled to the day of his death. [Nov. 25, 1838]

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 29th ult. Gerrit H. Van Wagenen, aged 83 years.  Mr. V.W. served as a Lieutenant in the army which assaulted Quebec, in Dec. 1775, when the gallant Montgomery fell.  He remained thro' out the revolution a staunch Whig, ardently devoted to the cause of liberty and his country.  As a private citizen he was beloved by all who knew him.  [Dec. 2, 1838]

In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. Miss Catharine M. Thompson, aged 50 years, daughter of Joel Thompson, esq. [Dec. 2, 1838]

In Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday the 16th inst., Mrs. Louisa [Baldwin], wife of William Baldwin, aged 27 years. [Dec. 23, 1838]