Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, October 1870 (continued)

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, October 26, 1870

Marriages

CORNELL - DECKER:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 21t, by Rev. A.M. Totman, Mr. Charles O. Cornell to Miss Mary Decker, all of Norwich.

WHITE - BAXTER:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 19th, by Rev. A.M. Totman, Mr. Lyman White to Mrs. Martha J. Baxter, both of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY].

SKINNER - PORTER:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 8th, by Rev. I.B. Hyde, Mr. Wm. H. Skinner, of Madison [Madison Co. NY], to Mrs. Frances A. Porter of Sherburne.

CLARK - DILLOW:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 18th, by Rev. I.B. Hyde, Mr. James Dever Clark of New york City, to Miss Emogene Dillow, of South otselic [Chenango Co. NY].

\VAN EMBERGH - GARDNER:  In Utica [Oneida Co. NY], Oct. 19th, by Rev. P.H. Fowler, Mr. Thomas Van Embergh to Mrs. Sarah J. Gardner, all of Utica.

Deaths

STEERE:  Suddenly, at the residence of her son-in-law, Charles L. Burdick, in Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 19th, Julia Ann [Steere], wife of Potter Steere, of East McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], aged 53 years.

BUELL:  In King's Settlement [Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 23d, Susan B. [Buell], wife of Elijah K. Buell, aged 47 eyars.

BECKWITH:  In Rockdale [Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 4th, George E. [Beckwith], son of Franklin E. and Myra P. Beckwith, aged 1 year 6 months and 16 days.

BALCH:  In Lenox, Madison Co. [NY], Oct. 5th, Mrs. Hannah Balch, aged 83 years, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY]

A Fly Creek correspondent of the Cooperstown Journal says that on the 12th inst., two boys of Mr. S. H. Chapin, aged 10 and 12 years, and a boy of Peter Edgett, were playing together, having been left at home alone.  The older Chapins boy, Charles, went into the house and got a shot gun that was loaded.  The Edgett boy, aged 8 years, took the gun and said he took off the cap, and then snapped the gun, when it exploded, the whole charge taking effect in the neck of Harvey Chapin, on the left side just below the angle of the lower jawbone, severing the carotid artery on that side and parting the trachea, causing instant death.

It will be remembered by many of our citizens, that Mr. Benj. B. Porter, long the efficient bookkeeper in the Maydole Hammer Factory [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], left this place some four years since with his family and took up his residence in the State of Delaware, remaining there something like a couple of years, He removed to Lawrance, Kansas, stopping at Aiken, South Carolina, a short time, hoping thereby to improve the health of his invalid wife.  In December last he buried his wife in Kansas, she having died a consumptive, leaving to his care three children, the eldest not yet ten and the youngest about one year old.  In April last, Mr. Porter, with his children, came East as far as Philadelphia, where he has since resided.  On Tuesday of last week, he returned to this place with his second child, Stella [Porter], aged about five years, to bury by the side of one he had lost while a resident of Norwich.  Not able to return at once from ill health, on Friday last a telegram brought the sad intelligence that Bennie [Porter], his youngest, aged about 2 years, and who was apparently well up to 24 hours before, was dead. The remains were forwarded by express on Saturday and are expected today (Tuesday) in time for the funeral.  Both the children died of diptheria.  Mr. Porter has the heartfelt sympathy of this community, and of his many friends in Chenango County in this his sad bereavement.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, October 26, 1870

Marriage

BURT - MERCHANT:  In Christ's Chruch, in Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], Oct. 13th, by the Rev. Geo. Heaton, Capt. Frank Burt of Mannington, West Virginia, to Miss May E. Merchant, youngest daughter of the late N.R. Merchant, of Guilford.

Death

In German, on the 20th inst. Dazy Day [Cowan}, aged 6 years, child of B.F. Cowan. [Chenango American, Greene, NY, Oct. 27, 1870]

On Wednesday last, at about sundown our citizens were startled and horrified by the report that Daisy, the beautiful and charming little daughter of Mr. Frank Cowen, living in the southern part of this town [German, Chenango co. NY], was frightfully burned by her clothes taking fire from the stove.  She had been left in the kitchen while her parents were engaged at milking several rods distant from the house.  Screaming and with her clothes all on fire she rushed from the house and was met by her mother, who after being herself severely burned, succeeded by tearing off a portion of the girl's clothing in extinguishing the flames.  The next morning death came to the relief of the little sufferer.  She was [6] years of age.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, October 27, 1870

Marriage

In St. John's Church, Ellicottville, N.Y. [Cattaraugus Co] on the 12th inst. by Rev. Francis Granger, Edwin D. Northrup, Esq. formerly of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], to Miss Lucy Saxton Skinner, all of Ellicottville.