Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, November 1848

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, November 1848

Marriages

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th ult. by the Rev. J.T. Goodrich, Mr. Egbert Ketcham to Miss Martha A. Starkey, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] [Nov. 1, 1848]

In the same place, on the 29th ult. by the same, Mr. Chauncey Wilsey of Unadilla, Otsego Co. [NY] to Miss Altane Rose, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] [Nov. 1, 1848]

In Colesville, Broome Co. [NY] in the Methodist Church, on the evening of the 1st inst. by the rev. J.T. Goodrich, Mr. Levi Pratt to Miss Margarett A. Karson, both of that town.  [Nov. 8, 1848]

In Earlville [Madison Co., NY], on the 2d inst., by Rev. J. Stanley, Mr. Norman Wilber to Miss Harriet N. Hale, all of that place.  [Nov. 8, 1848]

In Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY], on the 2d inst. by Rev. J.H. Chamberlin, Dr. J.B. Fletcher, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], to Miss Amanda M. Brett, of the former place. [Nov. 8, 1848]

In Carlisle, Schoharie Co. [NY], on the 10th inst. by Rev. Mr. Clark, Mr Amos Vanderwerken to Miss Lucy Grovenor, all of Carlisle. [Nov. 15, 1848]

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 16th inst. by Rev. M. Stone, Mr. Hiram Smith to Miss Mary Smith, all of Norwich, [Nov. 22, 1848]

In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 19th inst. by Rev. J.T. Goodrich, Mr. David Smtih of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] to Miss Cornelia Stewart, of the former place. [Nov. 22, 1848]

In the public highway at Green Hollow, in Voluntown, Ct. on Sunday the 5th inst., about 1 o'clock P.M., the rain pouring in torrents from the clouds with high winds from the South East, by Elder Charles S. Weaver, while on his way to attend the funeral of Mrs. Amy E. Gallup, wife of Benjamin Gallup, 2d, Esq. of Voluntown, who died Nov. 3d, aged 26 years.  Mr. John Tanner of the former place to Miss Mary Carter, of Hopkinton County of Washington, and State of Rhode Island. [Nov. 22, 1848]

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th inst. by Rev. M. Stone, Mr. Guy Gibson to Miss Mary [Pellet] daughter of John Pellet, all of Norwich. [Nov. 29, 1848]

In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], on the 19th inst. by A.M. Ray, Esq., Mr. Orange A. Beach to Miss Mary Johnson, all of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY]

Deaths

In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 27th ult. Taber Ann [Rogers] wife of Isaac Rogers, aged 37 years. [Nov. 1, 1848]

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], on the 21st inst. Miss Helen Mar Rogers, adopted daughter of Newel and Marinda Slade, aged 23 years. [Nov. 29, 1848]

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 13th ult. Mr. Moses Miles aged 76 years.  Mr. Miles had been in feeble health for some time.  The disease which terminated his days on earth was a cancerous tumor in the chest.  His sufferings were extreme for the last two years, yet they were borne with great fortitude and composure.  He was not deprived of reason till the last moment, and expressed the strongest confidence in his Savior, and entire resignation to his will.  During his last sickness, his wonted cheerfulness was manifested, and he longed for the time to come when he could be with his departed kindred, and with Jesus.  The deceased, a native of Connecticut, was one of the first settlers of the town.  Energetic, persevering and industrious, enduring the hardships incident to the pioneers of this country, he aided in no small degree in converting the rude forest into fertile fields of luxury and abundance.  He was loved and respected by all who knew him, for his many virtues, for his honest and exemplary life, his strong faith to the Christian religion, his meek submission to the will of Providence and for his pious and oft repeated admonitions to his children to embrace that religion which so firmly sustained him in the dying hour.  The bereaved are left to mourn, but not without hope, feeling assured that their loss is his gain.  They have the consolation that he has left them examples of piety to imitate, that he has finished the work his Master gave him to do.  And when death came, he welcomed it as a messenger to transport him to a happy clime, where the souls of the righteous repose in the arms of their God.  [Nov. 1, 1848]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on the 3d inst. of consumption, Miss Desire Hall, daughter of Thomas Hall, Esq., aged 24 years.  She seemed evidently declining under the influence of that fatal disease, for more than eighteen months before her decease.  During her whole sickness, she manifested great patience and composure.  Scarcely ever was she heard to murmur.  She became the subject of renewing grace in the winter of 1846, and connected herself with the Baptist Church, in this place, in the fellowship of which she lived and died, beloved by all who knew her.  Added to an amiable disposition, the influence of the gospel made her an object of sincere affection to a numerous circle of acquaintances.  Towards the close of her sickness, her views of the emptiness of Earth and the Blessedness of Heaven, made her long to exchange her earthly for a heavenly home.  Her chief solitude during her last hours was that she might have patience to wait till her change should come.  Though she was cut off in the morning of life, yet she has not ceased to improve.  She has exchanged her earthly for heavenly instructors, her dim veiled vision, for an open view of the divine glory, her imperfect friends in the flesh, for an innumerable company of angels, and the church of the first born, whose names are written in heaven, leaving a circle of endeared friends to mourn her loss.  But instructed by her life and death, may they have occasion to rejoice in time to come that God has smitten.  [Nov. 29, 1848]

At Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th inst. James Padgett, aged seventy-seven years.  His funeral was attended on Sunday last, by the Rev. Mr. Stone, of the Episcopal Church, and a large number of relatives and friends.  Mr. Padgett was one of the pioneers who commenced the settlement of this town and voted at the first election held in this town.  He was a man of strong powers of mind, and few men, with his opportunities, have acquired as much general information as he possessed.  As a man of strict integrity, he was highly respected by numerous friends, and the community generally.  By his death his numerous family are deprived of a kind and affectionate parent, and his friends sympathize with them in the loss they have sustained.  [Nov. 29, 1848]