Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, February 1873 (continued)

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, February 20, 1873

Marriages

OLDS - SCOTT:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 8th, by Rev. A.M. Totman, Mr. Isaac Olds to Miss Jennie Scott, all of Norwich.

BRUCE - COVILLE:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 12th, by Rev. A.M. Totman, Mr. Robert E. Bruce to Miss Libbie Coville, both of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY].

WIND - MURRAY:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 8th, by Rev. A.M. Totman, Mr. Albert Wind of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Lydia J. Murray, of Norwich.

LAMB - WORDEN:  Feb. 13th, by Rev. J. Storrs, Mr. Edward Lamb of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], to Miss Lucy A. Worden, of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY].

REED - ROWE:  In Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY], Feb. 12th, by Rev. H.H. Allen, Mr. J.D. Reed, of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Ettie P. Rowe, of Oneonta.

WATERS - COUSE:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 9th, by Rev. J.A. Wood, Mr. Charles Waters to Mrs. Sarah J. Couse.

JAMES - GREENLEAF:  In San Jose, California, Jan. 16th?  by Rev. G.W. Foote, Mr. John James of Pioche, Nevada to Mrs. Addie Greenleaf, of San Jose, formerly of Columbus in this County, [Chenango Co. NY].

Deaths

CRANDALL:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 12th, Mrs. Esther Crandall, aged 97 years, 10 months and 12 days.

SKINNER:  In King Settlement [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 11th, Mr. Daniel Skinner, aged 65 years.

POTTER:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 15th, Mr. Wallace T. Potter, aged 29 years. 

BENTLEY:  In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 11th, Mr. Willard M. Bentley, aged 33 years, 5 months and 2 days.

ALLEN:  In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 31st, Charles J. Allen, youngest son of B.G. and H.E. Allen, aged 3 years 1 month and 24 days.

SALISBURY:  In Woodstock, Ill., Jan. 22d, after a brief illness, Mrs. S.E. Salisbury, youngest daughter of Mrs. Elery Arnold of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] aged 43 years.

HOAG:  In St. Paul, Minn. Jan. 18th, of consumption, R. Ann Hoag, eldest daughter of the late Rev. E. Hoag aged 27 years.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, Feb. 20, 1873

Deaths

DRAKE:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on the 5th inst., Mrs. Orcelia E. Drake, wife of Charles M. Drake, and daughter of Nathaniel L. Moore, of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], aged 24 years and 7 months.  

COBB:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 16th, William Chauncey Cobb, son of Chauncey Cobb, aged 6 months.

BLACKMAN:  In Preston [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 7th, Mr. Almon Blackman, aged 67 years.  His father built and lived in the first house in Oxford village [Chenango Co. NY] and brought with him the first white woman that came into the township.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, Feb. 19, 1873

Marriage

YALE - ELLIOTT:  In Milwaukee, Dec. 30th, by Rev. D. Keene, W.W. Yale to Mary Elliott, both of Milwaukee.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 20, 1873

Marriages

At the Baptist Parsonage, in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Feb.'y 12th, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. William J. Holmes, of Cincinnatus, Cortland Co. [NY] to Mrs. Ellen Valentine, of Marathon [Cortland Co. NY].

By Rev. W. Burnside, in Upper Lisle [Broome Co. NY], Feb. 2d, Mr. George E. Ketchum of Willet [Cortland Co. NY], to Miss Ida M. Thurber, of Upper Lisle.

Also, by the same, in Freetown [Cortland Co. NY], Feb. 18th? Mr. Daniel T. Bowdish to Miss Flora D. Eaton, both of Freetown.

Death

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], Feb'y 16th, Nancy P. [Read], wife of Jesse Read, Esq., aged 62 years.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, February 22, 1873

Marriage

BOTSFORD - WHITE:  At the residence of the bride's father, Devillo White, M.D., in Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 19th, by Rev. Samuel Miller, Mr. M.D. Botsford of Providence, Pa, to Miss Anna L. White, of Sherburne.

One of the pleasant events of the current week was the marriage of Miss Anna White, daughter of Dr. Devillo White, to Mr. M.D. Botsford, of Providence Pa.  The happy event occurred on Wednesday evening, at the residence of the bride's father.  The wedding guests, consisting exclusively of the immediate relatives and friends of the bride and groom, assembled at the early evening hour of 5 o'clock, to enable the wedding party to take the evening train north.  Prompt to the appointed hour the party entered the drawing room, where the ceremony was impressively performed by Rev. Samuel Miller, which was succeeded by the hearty congratulations of friends, with the usual accompaniment followed by a feast of fat things and a flow of love seasoned with admiration of the wedding gifts, which were rich and numerous.  The enjoyment of the occasion was tempered by sympathy for the sorrow of the parents at parting with their last unmarried child, leaving a lonely home for them in their declining years.  At 7:25 the party broke up and the happy pair took their departure for the bridal tour, followed by the best wishes of their numerous friends to which we would add the hope of the News that joy and prosperity may ever attend their future.

A Pleasant Gathering of Old People

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, Feb. 20, 1873

The seventy-eighth birthday of Hon. John F. Hubbard was made the occasion for the assembling of a small company of aged people, at his residence, on Saturday last, to celebrate the event.  We annex a list of those present, with their respective ages:

Hon. John F. Hubbard, aged 78; Mrs. John F. Hubbard, 72; Dr. H. Harris, 77; Mrs. H. Harris, 68; Ralph Johnson, 68; Mrs. Ralph Johnson, 66; Benjamin Hartwell, 68; Mrs. Benjamin Hartwell, 58; John W. Redington, 56; Mrs. J.W. Redington, 59; Mrs. H. Mitchell, 69; Mrs. H. Weller, 73; Mrs. A. Haxton, 64.

Mr. Hubbard has been a resident of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] for the past sixty years and has been prominently connected with all the principal events of that long period.  He started the old Norwich Journal of which the Union is the successor, in 1816.  He served two terms in the State Senate, and was the projector of the Chenango Canal, and to his influence is attributed the success of that then important project.  He has spent his life among the people of Chenango County and has always had their confidence and respect.  In his declining years he has entirely withdrawn from the excitements of politics and business, a course rendered necessary by feeble health.  Honored and beloved by all, his days are gliding peacefully by, and then this gathering of old friends, with some of whom he associated in his youth, and when Norwich could scarcely be dignified by the name of a hamlet.  

We congratulate the veteran editor upon his attainment of so ripe and honorable an age, and to him and his venerable wife, and those who assembled to do honor to his seventy-eighth birthday, we wish many more returns of the anniversary.