Civil War Soldiers, Deceased, Norwich, Chenango Co. NY (1873)

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 22, 1873

Memorial Record of Deceased Soldiers of Norwich.

We are indebted to Dr. Beecher for the following additional names of deceased soldiers of Norwich, gathered by him after the publication of our last issue previous to Decoration Day a year ago.

It will be remembered that the Doctor, in the months of April and May of last year, in the columns of the Union published sketches of our deceased soldiers, intending to embrace every man who lost his life in the service of his country, whether in battle, from wounds or disease.

The subjoined sketches, as far as we have been able to ascertain, make the list of Norwich's fallen braves complete.  Should any have been omitted, most gladly would we in the next or subsequent numbers add their names to the "Roll of Honor:"

Byron L. Terry:  Entered the service of the Christian Commission, in August 1864, in the General Hospital of the 9th Army Corps.  Died from disease there contracted, in Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], October 26th, 1864.  Buried in Norwich Cemetery.

Dwight Parce:  Connected with the 114th, was captured at Brashear City, La., when that place was taken by the enemy, on the 23d of June 1863.  Subsequently confined in Camp Groce, Texas, where he died on the 23d of October. Since the war his remains have been disinterred and brought to Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] for final burial.

Lieut. James E. Spry, enlisted as a private in Company D, 44th N.Y.V., on the 5th of September 1861.  Served with his regiment two years and four months, during which time upward of half the original number had been killed and wounded in battle.  Discharged by reason of special order, for promotion, January 14th, 1864.  The same month commissioned First Lieut. of Co. H, 26th Regiment U.S. Colored troops, Col. William Guernsey commanding.  Wounded and taken prisoner in the battle of John's Island, S.C., July 7, 1864, and is supposed to have died in the hands of the enemy the day after.

Augustus Mowrey, enlisted in Company K, 161st in September 1862.  Died on his passage home from New Orleans.

Van Rensselaer Scott, a member of the 8th N.Y. Cavalry, was discharged from service February 14th, 1863.  Re-enlisted December 16th, 1863, in Company B, 114th New York.  Died of disease at Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C., July 26th, 1864.

Henry V. Scott, son of the last named, enlisted in same company and regiment, August 8th, 1862.  Died from the effects of measles, at Chesapeake Hospital, Fortress Monroe, the 19th of November following.  This soldier had a brother, Aden Scott, who was killed in the service, but the particulars I have not been able to ascertain.

Thomas A. Wyckoff, private Company H, 11th Regiment Heavy Artillery, enlisted in October 1863.  Died at Plaquemine, La. in November 1864.

Benjamin F. Guile:  enlisted in Company C, 114th, August 9th, 1862.  Severely wounded at Cedar Creek, October 19th, 1864, and died it is supposed soon after.

Adelbert Lamphire, a recruit in the 8th N.Y. Cavalry, was wounded on the 13th of May 1864 inside the outer fortifications of Richmond, one leg being carried away and the other badly fractured.  Died in the hands of the enemy.  

Albert Hopkins, a member of the 89th N.Y., died in Hospital at Washington.

Sidney Briggs, of the 8th N.Y. Cavalry, is supposed ot have died in rebel hands, in the battle of the Wilderness.

William B. Sanders was born in Norwich Oct. 23d, 1864; Enlisted in Company C., 114th, Jan. 8th, 1864, captured at Cedar Creek, October 19th, 1864, and died a prisoner in Libby in March 1865.

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

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 22, 1873

Marriages

MARCY - FINCH:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], May 1st, by Rev. A. Croaker, Mr. W.L. Marcy of Greene [Chenango Co. NY], to Miss Alice S. Finch, of Oxford.

LAMB - CHAMBERLIN:  In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], May 15th, by Rev. D.R. Carrier, Dr. M.A. Lamb to Miss Lucinda Chamberlin, of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].

KNAPP - REYNOLDS:  At the home of the bride's parents in Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], on Monday evening May 19th, by Rev. A.F. Brown, Mr. Horace Knapp, of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], to Miss Flora Reynolds, of Smyrna.

YOUNGS - ROE:  In Cortland [Cortland Co. NY], April 27th, by Rev. F.B. Peck, Mr. J.D. Youngs, of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY], to Miss Martha E. Roe, of Cortland.

Deaths

BARNES:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 16th Helen M. [Barnes] daughter of the late Asa Barnes, aged 33 years and 10 months.

TERRY:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 19th, Eunice [Terry] wife of the late Elnathan Terry, aged 70 years.

GIBBS:  In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], May 19th, Mr. J. Dana Gibbs, aged 41 years.

BREED:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], May 19th, of consumption, Mr. Ralph Breed, son of William Breed, aged 21 years.

OLMSTED:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], May 12th, Adeline [Olmsted] daughter of John and Delila Olmsted, aged 24 years.

CLARK:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], Aril 16th, Alice A. [Clark] daughter of A.B. and A.L. Clark, aged 6 years and 6 months.

SIMONS:  In Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], May 2d, Augustus Simons, Esq., aged 82 years, formerly of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY].

SMITH:  In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], May 8th, Myrtie W. [Smith], daughter of William and Julia A. Smith, aged 10 years.

The sweetest flowers must fade, / The brightest eyes grow dim; / That on which the heart is fondest laid, / is soonest called to Him.

In vain our hearts around them twine, / We would not call them back, / Although our hearts are bruised and torn, / And stretched upon the rack.

Thou art gone, our darling one, / Our lovely Myrtie's left our side, / To join her angel sister / Among God's glorified.

Too good, too pure for earth, / Thy Father called thee home; / Among the fields ambrosial, / Thou evermore wilt roam.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 22, 1873

Marriage

LORD - BENNETT:  In Rome, N.Y. [Oneida Co.], May 15th, by Rev. J.G. Brooks, brother-in-law to the bride, Mr. J.S. Lord and Miss Nettie R. Bennett, both of Lincklaen, Chenango County [NY].

Deaths

ROOD:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on the 9th, Hattie [Rood] infant daughter of P. and Zidana E. Rood, aged 9 mos.

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At Eau Claire, Wisconsin, April 23, 1973, Martin Daniels, aged 60 years.

Mr. Daniels was a brother of Asa M. Daniels, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].  He was born in McDonough [Chenango Co. NY] in 1813.  He spent his youth there and when at proper age entered the mercantile business which he followed for twelve or fifteen years, when he removed to Virginia where he engaged in the lumbering business.  He subsequently resided in Ottawa and Minneapolis and finally removed to Eau Claire in the spring of 1859.  In speaking of his death, the Eau Claire Free Press thus speaks of him:

"For the past ten years he has continually served the county as County Clerk and Clerk of the Circuit Court.  For several months past Mr. Daniels has been laboring under some chronic affection of the great vital organs, caused, it is supposed, by application to confining occupation.  His death, however, was not immediately expected till two or three o'clock this morning.  He died at ten in perfect peace and happiness, retaining all his faculties to the last minute.

No man in the city was more universally respected and none more tenderly beloved.  His untiring energy was united to a scrupulous honesty which made him one of the most trusty servants of the people, elected over to the same office without opposition, and to a gentleness of spirit, an exuberant benevolence and kindness, humanity and good nature, which made him an universal favorite with all who knew him.

Were all men as little capable of cherishing an angry thought and as ready to make good out of evil, there would be no necessity for those reforms of which the deceased was a uniform and consistent advocate."

The Index, published at the same place, says:

"He was always regarded as the most liberal man in proportion to his means, with which our community was blessed, never turning a deaf ear to the voice of charity.  His moderate purse was always open, while his kindly words and expressions of solicitude for the needy were the fundamental principles of his religion.  A man of exemplary habits, honorable, and upright in all business and social relations, our community will ever hold him in fervent remembrance, while his demise will be universally deplored by our entire populace whose servant he was, and whose faithful services overruled all political preferment and made him the universal choice of an appreciative constituency."

Mr. Daniels leaves a wife and two sons, one of whom Conway Daniels succeeds his father as County Clerk for the unexpired term.

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Died in Hamilton, Madison Co. N.Y., May 2d, 1873, Augustus Simons, Esq., aged 82 years.

He was born in Connecticut, Litchfield County, April 8th, 1791, and in the year 1817, he, with his family moved to York state, town of New Berlin, Chenango County, crossing the North River at Hudson off a ferry boat propelled by horsepower.  He was known as an upright and honorable man in his deal with his fellows; had a good business capacity and filled some important posts of trust.

In the spring of 1841, the deceased moved to Hamilton and was employed as steward in the boarding hall of the Madison University.  In the fall of 1852 he and his son, E.A. Simons, purchased the old Mathew Calkins farm near South New Berlin.  After staying at Hamilton a few years, he returned to New Berlin, his residence being the old Calkin's House, and while there enjoying the pleasures of past industry and hardships, his amiable wife was taken from him by death and her remains were deposited in the cemetery grounds at South New Berlin.  Afterwards by request of warm and anxious friends at Hamilton, he again made that place his residence, and there remained in the midst of his numerous friends until he has passed away.  He has been a devoted and consistent member of the Baptist church for about thirty-eight years and has gone down to his grave like a shock of corn fully ripe for the harvest by the side of his former deceased wife who are now again side by side in decaying dust, there to remain until the resurrection trump shall sound. Thus, passeth the old pioneers.

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In Traverse City, Michigan, on the 21st of February 1873, Mrs. Orville Corbin, aged 76 years 10 months and 10 days.

She was the daughter of Apollos Allen, one of the pioneers of the town of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], and sister of Mr. Chester Allen of that town.  In early life she made a profession of religion, and united with the Methodist church, and throughout her long life gave daily evidence of the sincerity of her faith in the Savior.  For many years she resided at Forestville, Chautauqua County, where her first husband, Briggs, died.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, May 21, 1873

Marriage

TURNER - FOOTE:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], on the 18th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Deacon Lester Turner to Miss Elizabeth Foote.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, May 22, 1873

Deaths

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], April 10th, William [Harrington], son of W.O. Harrignton, aged 2 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], April 13th, Mrs. Sarah T. Foulston, aged 35 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], April 17th, Mrs. Rosanna O'Neal aged 30 years.

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 16th, Hattie [Carter] infant daughter of John Carter, aged 10 months.

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], May 17th, Mr. David Winchell aged 79 years.

In Chenango Forks [Broome Co. NY], May 18th, Mr. George Mix, aged 62 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], April 16th, Miss Alice Taylor, aged 15 years.

In German [Chenango Co. NY], April 1st, Mrs. Mary Sill, aged 27 years and 3 months.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, May 24, 1873

Death

KNAPP:  In this city [Oshkosh, WI], on Tuesday, May 14, Mrs. Adaline Olivia Knapp, aged 50 years and 6 months.  

The above brief announcement chronicles the passing away of a patient sufferer, a devoted wife and mother and a noble Christian woman.  Mrs. Knapp was born in Sherburne, New York [Chenango Co.], in 1822 and removed with her husband to Oshkosh, in 1853.  For more than six months past she has been prostrated by sickness and death came at last as a relief from intense suffering. Through all her sickness she was patient, contented, and even happy sustained by that unfaltering faith which leads to the brighter shores beyond.  Oshkosh Northwestern, May 26.

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

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 15, 1873

Marriages

TURNER - FOOTE:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 13th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Lester Turner to Miss Elizabeth Foote, all of Norwich.

FLINT - JONES:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], May 5th, by Rev. A.B. Jones, Mr. William A. Flint of Sonica, Ill. to Miss Sarah M. Jones, daughter of the officiating clergyman, of the former place.

FISHER - CONE:  At the home of the bride's father in South Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], May 1st, by Rev. A. C. Smith, Mr. John E. Fisher to Miss Lottie M. Cone, both of South Otselic.

WILCOX - CALKINS:  At the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. H.B. Kinney, in Earlville [Madison Co. NY], May 1st, by Rev. J.O. Gifford, Mr. Samuel Wilcox, son of R.H. Wilcox, Esq., to Miss Ella Flora Calkins, daughter of Smith Calkins, Esq., all of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY].

SHEPARD - KATHAN:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], May 6th, by Rev. Dr. Ayrault, Mr. Frank Shepard, of Chicago, to Miss Agnes C. Kathan, of Oxford.

TAINTOR - FOX:  At the residence of the bride, in Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], May 11th, by Rev. A.G.. Clark, Erving Taintor, Esq. of Harford, Cortland Co., to Mrs. Sylvia S. Fox.

Deaths

WHEELER:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 13th, Mrs. Tamar Wheeler, widow of the late Capt. Samuel Wheeler, of East Greene [Chenango Co. NY], aged 82 years.

HADLOCK:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 8th, Miss Bridget Hadlock, aged 22 years.

SMITH:  In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], May 8th, Myrtie W. [Smith], daughter of William Smith, aged 10 years.

SMITH:  In North Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], April 7th, Anna [Smith], wife of Zira Smith, in the 79th year of her age.

REED:  At the residence of his son-in-law, Russell Avery, in New Berlin Centre [Chenango Co. NY], April 30th, Mr. Amasa Reed, aged 79 years and 25 days.

OWEN:  In Cleveland, Ohio, April 5th, Mr. Frederick O. Owen, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], aged 37 years.

Mrs. Naomi Reed who died in Middlefield (Bowerstown) [Otsego Co. NY], Friday, May 2d inst., at the age of 74 years, was, in some respects, a remarkable woman.  She had lived in the town of Middlefield fifty years, twenty-four of which within one mile of the village of Cooperstown, and yet she was never inside the corporate limits of the village, neither had she ever eaten a meal of victuals outside of her house.

A sad accident occurred at Toddsville [Otsego Co. NY] on Saturday last.  The little son of E.N. Munroe, aged 2 years and 9 months, fell into a pail of hot water, and was so badly scaled that he died the next day.

News Item

From the Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] Daily Times of Monday last, we copy the following:

 "Yesterday, while people were going home from church, an old man was observed sitting on the steps near Stratton's Saloon, apparently in a dying condition.  A crowd gathered about him, and he was carried into Smith's drug store and revived.  He was evidently on the verge of the grave from the effects of consumption.

"From his broken sentences, was obtained an outline of what had transpired in the previous twenty-four hours.  It seems he had always been a working man, and had, at one time, owned a farm.  He spoke of a daughter who was the last of his family and had been educated by him, and finally she died leaving him alone in the world.  For many years he had lived in Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], working at laying stone, ditching and all kinds of farm work.  He had also worked in Corning, Chenango and other places.  He mentioned the name of James Moore and others with whom he had worked, the names being recognized by some of our citizens.  He said he rode sixteen miles in an open wagon, Saturday, and reached this city without money Saturday evening. He remained all night in the frightful Erie depot and had no food; supported by his cane and stopping five times on his way to rest his failing limbs, he tottered up Chenango Street, and finally sank entirely exhausted upon the steps and was taken care of as above mentioned.  Credit is due to the humanity of those connected with Smith's drug store while he was there, and also to Assessor DeVoe who make a collection of over $5.00 for the unfortunate old stranger. He was about sixty-years of age, and his countenance indicates, that at best, he could live but a few days.  He complained greatly of his lungs, and said his limbs felt very numb and cold.  He was taken to the Lewis House by Deputy Sheriff Black, and will be forwarded to his destination, Oxford, on an early train this morning, if he is living and able to go.  His name is David Devine."

The Oxford Times states that the unfortunate man was a resident of that town several years ago, and had also resided in Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].  He arrived in Oxford on Monday evening, and was kindly cared for at the Rogers House, and next day assisted to Guilford, where he desired to go.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 15, 1873

Marriage

WESTPHALL - MORTON:  At the residence of the bride's parents, in South New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], April 26th, 1873, by Rev. A. Brown, Mr. Wm. H. Westphall and Miss Annie Morton, all of South New Berlin.

Death

BIGGS:  Mrs. Cynthia E. [Biggs] wife of C.J. Biggs and daughter of Wm. Wilbur of South New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] died in Norwich, N.Y. [Chenango Co. NY], May 6th, 1873, aged 39 years, 6 months, and 25 days.

The deceased began her Chirstian life when 18 years of age, and united with the M.E. Church in South New Berlin.  Like too many youths, Cynthia wandered from the object of her early love, when becoming engrossed in the cares of a family and much of the time of her married life made no public profession of religion but was always thoughtful and tender on the subject. Death came suddenly but her friends cherish the fond hope that her spirit has found rest in the bosom of her Heavenly Father.

The deceased leaves a numerous circle of friends who deeply mourn her loss.  The afflicted husband has left to him four children, the eldest a boy of sixteen, the second a daughter of fourteen, who is now to take the place of the mother in the care of the family and may He whose eyes never slumbers watch over and aid the dear bereaved child in her womanly duties and responsibilities.  A little boy of two years and an infant five days old, for whose being the mother gave her life complete the family.

Mr. Biggs takes this opportunity to express his thanks to his neighbors in Norwich for their kindness to himself and family in their affliction.  So. New Berlin, May 9, 1873, A. Brown

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, May 14, 1873

Marriage

DOOLITTLE - YALE:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], on 7th, by Rev. R.M. Blanchard, Mr. Arthur M. Doolittle of Bainbridge, to Miss Phebe Jane Yale, of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, May 17, 1873

News Item

There is living in the town of Walton, Delaware County [NY], a man by the name of Cook St. John, who will be one hundred years old the first day of June next, and he is now in good health, with mind and memory unimpaired.  He is living with his oldest son, who is 75 years old.  His grandson is 51 years old, his great-grandson is 27 and his great-great-grandson is 7 years old, and each one is the eldest son of each successive family, and all are living within easy call of each other in the same village.  The descendants of the centenarian are 103 living, and including his two wives, are 33 dead. At the funeral of one of his sons, some six years since, there were 115 together as mourners, relatives by blood or marriage.  Eighty years ago, next month the subject of this sketch went from New Canaan, Conn., with a surveying party to New York, thence up the Hudson to Albany, thence up the Mohawk by batteau, through Wood creek, Oneida lake and Oswego River to Oswego, and thence to Canada.  He says there was one small log house where Utica is now a city, one house at Whitesboro, and three at Fort Stanwix, on the opposite side of the river from the fort.  Rome was then larger than Utica and Whitesboro, or equal.  this narrative I had from the lips of the patriarch but a few days since.  He also said that he had twice had the yellow fever, and twice the typhus fever, and had once been drowned.  His mind and memory seem unimpaired, though sight and hearing have in a measure failed.  there is probably no other like case of five generations living where each is the oldest son.  He is older than the nation and has voted at every Presidential election save one - and the four generations voted for Lincoln and Grant.  On the first of June there is to be a gathering to celebrate the hundredth birthday of the oldest man living in the town of Walton.  How much of this world's history and progress is recorded in the lifetime of this one man.

Anniversary Sermon, Christ Church, Sherburne, NY (1873)

 Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, May 17, 1873

Extract from The Anniversary Sermon, Preached by Rev. J.L. Burrows

On Sunday, May 4th, the Fifteenth Anniversary of his Pastoral connection with Christ church, at Sherburne, N.Y.

"And thou shall remember all the way which the Lord thy God hath led thee."  Deut. 8:2

Anniversaries are waymarks on the journey which must have an end not very distant.  We have come thus far, and are to remember all the way which the Lord God hath led us; led us through sickness, health, suffering, pleasure, sorrow, joy, loss, bereavement, comfort, vexation, delight, and all the changes of life, to this place and this hour, where we may stand and wonder why so many unimportant things troubled us, why we have been so often ruffled by insignificant sayings, why our work has been hindered by what was not worth turning aside to see, and yet to wonder further that we have so much more, in basket, in heart or in home than offending mortals could expect, but if all these fail, God "is the strength of our heart," and shall be "our portion forever."

Each individual, in remembering the way he has come, fears no more for the remaining distance before him.  The same applies to us as a church.  We have no reason to fear. There may be much prejudice lurking in the minds of the uninformed and the misinformed, but hostility is dying out, and there is a more favorable feeling generally among the people. 

For myself, personally, and the occasion calls for the allusion, it has not occurred to me to be either uncourteous or uncharitable toward those who differ from us.  I have visited all sorts of people in sickness or in health and have seldom met with even a show of opposition, but it is scarcely to be expected that a man could live so many years in a place without exciting some animosity, yet I have never in any case, meddled with anyone who did not rudely interfere with things beyond his province, and I have had no enemies able to do much harm.  During the pastorate of the present incumbent which were it to end today, would be unusually long, the sympathies of the people have been generally with him, and he has tried to do his duty.

There have been 74 marriages, being nearly an average of five a year.  Your minister has officiated at about 100 burials, but some of these were not of members of our congregation.  Though we have been less affected by removals than most country parishes, we have lost five more families than we have received.  A few of our young men have gone West, and quite a number of young ladies have left at different times. 

I have referred to the Burials.  We have lost many communicants.  

Mrs. Cushman and her daughter Julia [Cushman] passed away in the same year, 1858, not without good hope through the grace of our Lord.  

Mr. Asa Foote, Sen., in 1859.  He was one of the first members of our church and a vestryman, full of faith and zeal.  

Mrs. Cornelia E. Bullock died in 1861, leaving a large family for whom she had cared most tenderly.  She was one of the excellent of the earth.  

Mr. Eli Elsbre passed away in 1862.  He was a vestryman, and died as he had lived in full hope, through the Spirit, of the glory that shall come unto the Just.  

Next, we lost Mr. Simeon Bullock, a man faithful in all things, pure-mined and good, and long to be remembered.  

Mrs. Mary Merchant was less known as she had resided so long in another parish.  She is rightly numbered with the saints.  

Mrs. Collins Locke died in 1863, aged 95, and her husband the year following, aged 94.  They trusted in the loving God.  

Mr. John Davison, Esq., died in the same year, looking for the life of the world to come.

In 1863 Miss Elizabeth Harvey exchanged earth for Paradise.  She had the esteem of many and the love of not a few.

In the year 1864, Mrs. Susan Weaver departed, having been married less than three years, she was truly loved as she deserved, and now rests upon her Redeemer's heart.

In 1865, Dr. B.H. Marks, a noble and honorable man, was taken from our midst to behold his Lord.

Miss Eliza Knapp died in 1866, and Mr. A Fox in 1867, both of them deeply and worthily regretted.

Mrs. Mary Davidson died full of years and grace in 1868

Miss Nancy Upham passed from earth in 1870.  She was endowed with many noble qualities and had hope in her death.

Miss Ella Reynolds, a young lady of excellent character, died in 1871.  

In that year also departed Mr. A. Baker, who had long been a communicant and several years a vestryman, and who loved the church of the redeemed.

In November of that year, we lost Mrs. Clara Easton a gentle, patient woman, who a friend once was a friend always.  Her end was blessed.

Mrs. John Kershaw passed away last August.  I had buried her son Simeon [Kershaw] but a short time before.  Mother and son had the same precious faith. The former, a worthy woman, had long been a communicant. 

Did it consist with my plan and the time would not fail me, I should like to speak of many others who have a place in our hearts and memories.  Be assured friends and fellow citizens all, that in your sorrows and bereavements you have our warmest sympathies, and when you and I come near Death's door may we be ready.

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

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 8, 1873

Deaths

MORRISON:  At the residence of his son-in-law, Rev. J.D. Pope, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 6th, Mr. John Morrison, aged 77 years.

BLOOM:  In New York City, April 25th, Miss Rosalia C. Bloom, daughter of the late Benjamin Bloom, of King Settlement [Chenango Co. NY], aged 36 years.

BARBER:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], April 30th, Mr. Joshua Barber, aged 92 years.

Smyrna:  Uncle Joshua Barber, one of the original settlers of this town, over 50 years ago, and the oldest citizen at the time of his decease, died on Wednesday last at his son's residence, aged 92 years.  He was an old-line Whig and staunch Republican, and always attended Elections and Town Meetings.  Among the pioneers now living in this vicinity, who came from the same County in Rhode Island, are Henry Knowles, aged 87; Champlain Wilcox, aged 87, and Paris G. Holley, aged 82 years. The latter has recently paid a visit to his old home, "down east."

YORK:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], April 24th, Deacon Jeremiah York, aged 79 years.

STILES:  In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY] April 30th, Mr. David Stiles, aged 66 years.

STODDARD:  In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], May 2d, Mr. Harmon Stoddard, aged 76 years.

BOWEN:  In Willmothville, Missouri, April 4th, Dr. James H. Bowen, formerly of Pitcher N.Y. [Chenango Co. NY].

CLARK:  In LeClaire, Scott Co., Iowa, April 21st, Maribeth Estelle [Clark], only daughter of Cyrus I. and Adelia S. Clark, aged 9 months and 19 days.

Oh! she is gone, she is gone. / Away from her father's fond love; / Gone, in her infant beauty, / Gone where Jesus dwells.

Gone, in her lovely innocence, / From a mother's fond caress, / To the land of pure delight. / Where saints and angels dwell.

So like the early morning dew, / Ere youth its bloom discloses, / From her brother's fond embraces, / Gone where youth forever blooms.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, May 10, 1873

Marriage

BUTTS - NEWCOMB:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], May 7th, 1873, by Rev. A. F. Brown, Mr. Daniel G. Butts and Miss Susie Newcomb, all of Smyrna.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 1, 1873

Destructive Fire

The Planing Mill of D. Wait & Co. in Ruins

About 11 o'clock on Friday evening last, the extensive planing mill of D. Wait & Co., builders, situated on the canal south of Mitchell Street, was discovered to be on fire.  The alarm was promptly given, and those first at the shop found the fire about the center of the east side, on the second floor.

Here was felt the want of an adequate supply of water.  The canal, the main dependence of our village in cases of fire, was nearly empty.  But the "boys in red," as well as the "boys in blue," were promptly on the ground, with steamer, hand engine, hose carts and truck, and made most of the facilities offered.  "Deluge" which years gone by had contested with the devouring element upon the same grounds, was stationed at the bottom of the canal, south of the bridge, where a reservoir was hastily extemporized, amidst an abundance of mud and a scant supply of water, and soon succeeded in sending a beautiful stream upon the burning building.  The steamer was stationed at the lock near the hammer factory, and threw two fine streams upon the shop, and the storehouse of Goodrich & Horton, immediately south, which was several times on fire, but finally saved.

The main building of the establishment was destroyed, with a large portion of the machinery and tools, together with a quantity of lumber in the works for houses commenced and nearly finished.  The engine and boiler being in separate and fireproof apartments were uninjured.  The safe, with books and papers, were taken out unharmed, and some of the lumber saved.

Among the heaviest of the losses was the planer, which cost about $1,500.  From the fact that it weighed upwards of 4,000 pounds, it was at first thought useless to attempt to move it.  Soon, however, help was volunteered to assist in its removal, and those engaged succeeded in getting it to the front door, a distance of some fifteen feet, when it was found that the door was not wide enough to admit of its egress.  While men were engaged in cutting away the sides of the door, the shop was filled with a volume of dense, heated smoke, enveloping those within the building.  In an instant the smoke was turned to one whirling sheet of flame.  Retreat by way of the boiler room was cut off, and with a dozen men it then became a question of life or death. The only exit was through the flames or over the planer.  Several took the former alternative and were burned more or less about the head and hands.  Others climbed for dear life, over the planer, which blocked the doorway.  The last to be taken out was Daniel Wait, the leading partner in the firm, who had twice fallen back, overcome by the flames.  So badly was he burned, that on Sunday he was not recognizable, and fears were entertained as to the result, but on Wednesday he was much better, and it is thought he will recover.

Henry Hall, of the firm of Sternberg, Hall & co., builders, was badly burned, Frank Dimmick, a lad, besides being severely burned, was badly cut; Orville Sherman, George W. Rice, Mr. Wells, and Lyman Bishop were also more or less injured.

To the above parties, besides many others who worked faithfully to save the planer and other property, Messrs. Wait & Co. desire us to express their heartfelt thanks, also to the Fire Department, for their untiring efforts, under the most discouraging circumstances; to Doctors Avery, Beecher, Smith and Andrews, for their valuable services, kindly volunteered; and to Daniel Cook and others, for facing the smoke and flames until all were rescued.

The loss is estimated at $10,000, including shop, machinery, lumber, &c.  In addition to this there were some ten chests of tools lost, valued at from $50 to $125 each, which belonged to the workmen employed.  Upon the shop and contents there was an insurance of $6,000: $1,750 in the Lycoming, of Pa., $1,000 in the Franklin, Phila.; $1,000 in Niagara, N.Y.; $1,000 in the Amazon, O.; $875 in the Hibernia, O., $375 in the Narragansett, R.I.

Some fifteen years since, a shop was burned on the same site, and one year ago a store house a few feet north was destroyed, the shop barely escaping at the time, the canal being as now, destitute of water, but very muddy.

The origin of the fire is a mystery, many believing it to be the work of an incendiary.  It should serve as a lesson to our citizens, showing the helpless condition we are in, when the State ditch is dry.  With an abundant supply of water, the flames could probably in this instance have been checked, and much valuable property saved.  The only wonder with us is that the firemen were able to accomplish so much as they did, under the circumstances.  "Give us water and we conquer" is the motto adopted by the laddies upwards of twenty years ago, and "that's what's the matter" with their successors at the present time.

Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 8, 1873

WAIT:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 6th, from injuries received at a fire, Mr. Daniel Wait, aged 52 years.

We are pained to announce the death of Daniel Wait, of this village, which occurred on Tuesday afternoon last, from the effects of the fearful burns received by him, while attempting to remove a planer from his burning factory, on the evening of the 25th ult., an account of which we published last week.  Although his injuries were very severe, his hair and whiskers being entirely burned off, and his face and head literally crisped, it was hoped that he had not received any serious internal injury.  At times since the accident, unfavorable symptoms had exhibited themselves, but his friends were encouraged to believe that he would finally recover, until Monday last, when he began to sink, and death relieved him from his sufferings on the following day.  It is believed by his physician that the immediate cause of his decease was ulceration o the intestines, caused by the terrible burns he had received.

In the death of Mr. Wait, this village loses an estimable citizen, and an enterprising businessman.  For many years he has been a prominent builder, and the head of the firm of D. Wait & Co., whose extensive factory was burned at the time he received his fatal injuries.  His decease has caused a shock throughout the community, with a feeling of sadness at his tragic death.  His age was 52 years, and he was unmarried.

Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, May 1873

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 1, 1873

Marriages

TAYLOR - PANGBURNE:  In Detroit [MI], April 8th, by Rev. W.F. Seerls, Mr. Frank C. Taylor of New York City, to Miss Sarah Pangburne, of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

WHITE - MONROE:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], April 15th, by Horace L. Barnes, Esq., Mr. Frank M. White to Miss Annie Monroe, all of Pharsalia.

Deaths

DALY:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 26th, Winnefred [Daly] wife of Thomas Daly, aged 34 years.

FRY:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], April 23d, Mr. Robert Fry, aged 84 years.

CLARK:  In Columbus [Chenango Co. NY], April 20th, Mr. Jared Clark, aged 79 years 7 months and 9 days.

WILLIAMS:  In Columbus [Chenango Co. NY], April 15th, Mrs. Lydia Williams in the 65th year of her age.

McCARICK:  In Smithville Flats [Chenango Co. NY], April 23d, after a short illness, Julia [McCarick], wife of Munson McCarick, aged 26 years.

TAYLOR:  In Smithville Flats [Chenango Co. NY], April 23rd, after a short and severe illness, Hattie M. [Taylor] youngest daughter of Mrs. E. Taylor, aged 14 years.

BROWN:  In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], April 14th, Cora May [Brown] only daughter of William W. and Delight S. Brown, aged 2 years 3 months and 23 days.  Little Cora was a bud of promise, and a bright gem in the family from which she was taken.  She was the pride of her parents, the pet of her brother and loved by all who know her.

Little Cora was our darling / Our pet, our joy, our pride; / But early in the morning / Of youth, our Cora died.

Our hearts they seem nigh breaking, / To think that she has gone, / And left us here so lonely, / To think, to weep and mourn.

A more angelic flower / Did never bud or bloom; / But 'twas not in our power / To save her from the tomb.

We'll try and cease our weeping, / For she has gone to rest; / Yes, there amid the greetings / Of angels, she is blest.

'Twas God who lent her to us, / To cherish, love and keep; / 'Twas God who took her from us / We should not pine and weep

But try to live, that when we die, / To us it may be given, / To meet our Cora in the skies, / And dwell with her in Heaven.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 1, 1873

Marriages

GREEN - VANCISE:  At Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY], March 26th?, by Rev. S.W. Wales, Mr. Morris Green of Lake Crystal, Minnesota, and Miss Frankie VanCise, of Mt. Upton.

SLOCUM - BEECHER:  At the M.E. Parsonage, Danby, N.Y. [Tompkins Co.], April 23d, 1873, by Rev. Richard Hiorma, brother-in-law of the bride, Clarence H. Slocum of Danby to Flora A Beecher, of Newark Valley, N.Y. [Tioga Co.].

Death

HILLIARD:  In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], on the 9th, Melissa [Hilliard], wife of Alonzo Hilliard, aged 38 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, May 1, 1873

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 24th, Mr. Nicholas Race aged 79 years and 9 months.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], April 12th, Mary J. [Brooks] wife of James Brooks, aged 36 years.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, May 3, 1873

Deaths

BARBER:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], on the 30th ult., Mr. Joshua Barber, aged 92 years.

RAPER:  In Millford, Mich., on Friday, March 28th, Mr. Thomas H. Raper, formerly of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], aged 78 years.

HAWTHORN:  In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], on the 22d ult. Mrs. Miranda L. Hawthorn, aged 60 years and 1 month.

Dalle Villemain of Pharsalia, Chenango County, NY (1873)

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 17, 1873

Remarkable Longevity

One Hundred and Eight Years Old, Yet Still Vigorous and Hearty

Sketch of the Life of Dalle Villemain

Every schoolboy of Chenango County, who has come to years of maturity, and a good many who never have and never will, has at some period of his scholastic career declaimed "Spartacus to the Gladiators."  One sentence, in which Spartacus describes the "vine-clad hills of Old Pharsalia," has about it ever a vague seeming of familiarity to him.  It comes back to his mind in some such way as Plato's reminiscences floated over the philosophic soul.  But the mystery is solved, when he recalls that the early settlers of our County were attacked with their classic spasm and so Chenango County has its Pharsalia.  But to write of the "vine-clad hills" of our Pharsalia would transcend even poetic license.

One day last week, we went aboard the cars of the Auburn Branch, to take a trip to Pharsalia.  Getting off at Lower Beaver Meadow, a flourishing hamlet, built since the railroad, we there jumped into a sleigh, and rode over "Cold Hill" and through the woods, with snow four feet deep beneath our runners, and a bride and groom riding along ahead of us, till we met a team, when the bride was unceremoniously unloaded into snow that enveloped her deeper than ever did the "toils of love."  Over a wide, open field, across which the wind swept cold and raw, down into a small valley, and we were at the house of Mr. Augustus Gauchat.

Here we met Dalle Villemain.  Mister Villemain is of the age of 108 years.  To appreciate his great age, it is necessary to recall to mind others who have passed off the stage of action, though contemporary with him.  On the 15th day of August 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born.  When the babe, that, as the emperor of the French, was destined to rule Europe, lay purple in his mother's arms, Villemain was a boy of four; yet that same Napoleon has slept in his grave a half century.

Villemain was born on the 18th day of April 1765 at Frotte, Departement of the Haute-Saone, France.  His boyhood was passed in his native village.  His employment at that time was looking after his mother's cow - his mother being a widow, and he her youngest son.  As there are no fences in France, looking after the cow meant more to him than it does to an American youth.  It was a continual oversight, "from smiling morn till dewy eve," for if the cow was allowed to trespass on another's demesue, her owner was subject to a fine.

Thus, playing the part of a shepherd, without a care, he grew to manhood, and developed into a strong, active, happy-hearted young fellow, devoted to all of the athletic games which were practiced at the various fairs in his neighborhood. At the age of twenty-two, following in the way in which Mr. Collyer advises all young people to go, he married.  With the wife of his youth, he lived thirty-four years. Their union was not blessed with any offspring.  He supported himself during this time by following the avocation of a "hod-carrier," or, as we would day "tending mason."

In the meantime, great changes had happened to his country. France had been writing history at a fearful rate; had reddened her pages with the blood of the Revolution - the Eumenides days of Carlyle; had fought with the youthful Napoleon on the sands of Egypt, and by the sacred fords of the Holy Land; "had descended like an avalanche" upon the plains of Lombardy, and immortalized the name of Marengo; had seen the "sun of Austerlitz go down;" had battled at Jena; had made its idolized commander First Console for life, and crowned the First Consol, Emperor; had followed his victorious eagles to the gates of Moscow, and lost amid the streets of the burning city, the star of destiny in which their leader had trusted so long and so successfully.

It will be remembered by all, that Napoleon on his return from his disastrous Russian campaign, in the latter months of 1814, with wonderful energy, set about recruiting his decimated ranks. A conscription was ordered of all available men - it was even proposed by the emperor, to draft those who had already done their share of military service and had been discharged.  Villemain had never been conscripted, because, being the youngest son of a widow, the law exempted him for military service.  Four of his brothers had been or were serving in the armica of their country.  But nothing prevented him from going as a substitute, if he saw fit. John Baptist Turner, the son of a gentleman living near Bayford, was one of the conscripts called out by Napoleon, at this desperate period in his career.  The father of John Baptist did not favor the idea of the conscription of his son and sought a substitute.  He found Villemain and offered him 4,300 francs to take the place of his boy.  Villemain agreed and 300 francs were paid him. We are sorry to state that the honesty of the father of John Baptist Turner was no better than the courage of John Baptist himself - and Villemain never received the other 4,000 francs.  That little amount of "back pay" he would be willing and glad and have no conscientious scruples in voting into his pockets, even at this late day.

Having entered the army, Villemain was hurried off to Fort Huninge.  This fort, as near as we can ascertain was one of a chain of fortifications Napoleon had constructed "over in Mayence, beyond the Rhine."

The reign of Napoleon was now drawing to a crisis.  The great campaign with the coalition was about to commence.  When there was need of the Napoleon who had conquered almost the world, that Napoleon seems suddenly to have been lost.  All that remained was an irresolute man, disputing with destiny.  If he had concentrated his armies, he might have had 400,.000 men in the heart of France. To have done this, he would have been compelled to call in troops from distant stations of the empire.  Could he lessen his grasp upon the realm he had conquered?  It required to do it not a greater genius than his but a greater soul.  He wanted this heroism.  He left 120,000 men shut up in the strong places in Mayence.  Among the 120.000 was Villemain.

He and his comrades made a long and desperate resistance.  For four months they fought and starved in Fort Huninge.  As the old hero lively remarked "they could not get out, nor anyone get in."  The only meat they had was a dead horse now and then, which the enemy's shot had killed.  When Villimain first entered the fort, he was more or less impetuous and careless of danger. Despite the caution of his comrades, he would crawl upon the ramparts of the fort.  This was all well enough, but soon a huge bomb came screaming along, and so the old veteran said, "he got down pretty quick."

The fort was given up when Napoleon "renounced for himself and his heirs the thrones of France and Italy."

After the surrender of the fort, Villemain returned to his native town.  Here, as a result of the hardships of the siege through which he had just passed, he was taken sick.  For forty days he lay helpless. During this time "he did not eat a mouthful."  This sickness, excepting an attack of the black erysipelas a year or two since, is the only sickness he has experienced in all of his long life.  On recovering from this attack, he resumed his labor of "tending mason" earning from twenty to thirty cents per day.  His recreation consisted in attending the fairs in the neighborhood and contending in foot races and other sports.  He had the reputation of great fleetness of foot.

When he was fifty-six years of age his first wife died.  He had lived with her thirty-four years.  He was rather old for a widower, but that did not discourage him.  He set about finding another helpmate.  He had some very amusing experiences.  He came near getting caught by a designing "maid in a shop," but discovering that she was altogether too extravagant for him, he gave her the "go by" - a wise proceeding, no doubt.  After two years of widowed single blessedness, he was again married.  Five children blessed this union.  Two of them died in France. Three grew to manhood and womanhood.  One of these three died a few months since at the age of nearly sixty years.  He has fifteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

At the age of eighty-two, Villemain came to this country.   His son, who had immigrated some time before and who was living in Utica [Oneida Co. NY], sent for his parents.  So, the old man started.  He sold out all his possessions and, in that way, obtained money enough to purchase his passage.  It happened to be in the troublesome times when the French Revolution of '48 was breaking out.  Arriving at Paris he found nothing but uproar and excitement.  A sharper, perceiving that the old man was unaccustomed to traveling, here offered his services, obtained Villemain's goods, and gave a receipt for the same, promising to send them on to Havre de Grace. Arrived at Havre, the old man waited for his goods to come, but they did not.  Leaving his receipt with a person there, he and his wife and daughters embarked for America, possessing nothing in the world except the clothes on their backs. The goods left in Paris, and the receipt left at Havre, have not been heard from to this day.

Landing in New York, he managed to reach Utica.  Here he found his son. At Utica he dwelt for a few months, from there he moved to Earlville [Madison Co. NY], from Earlville to Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], and from Otselic to Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], where he now resides.

While living at Utica, an amusing circumstance happened.  It seemed a foot race between a Yankee and a Frenchman had been agreed upon.  Stakes of $50 on each side had been put up. When the day for the foot race came, the Frenchman was disabled, having sprained his ankle.  He asked to be let off, but his opponent insisted that he should either run the race or forfeit the stakes.  What to do he was undecided.  Our old friend, who had been attracted to the spot by the sport, having some national pride of course, and not wishing to see his fellow countryman beaten, and also remembering the pastimes of his youth, volunteered to take the place of the disabled man.  The Frenchman consented, agreeing to give the old man half of the stakes in case he won, and the Yankee, considering how easily he could beat a man eighty-two years of age, readily fell in with the arrangement.  The race began. At the first the younger man took the lead, but on the home stretch the old Frenchman began to limber up and putting forth all his strength, he came in ahead, handsomely beating his opponent.

Villemain is five feet two inches in height, well proportioned, has deep, full lungs, that play as well now as ever, very active circulation, extremities warm - during the whole winter he has worn on his feet nothing but stockings, boots being too hot.  His eyesight is good.  He can distinguish the color of a thread at a distance of several inches from his eyes, and when asked to put his finger upon the middle of the thread, did it as accurately as any person could.  Uses tobacco, and always has - as long as he could remember - even before he was married the first time and takes his snuff with scarcely a perceptible trembling of the hand.  Has always drank his wine, and whenever he could get anything strong, drank that.  Has never been a drunkard but used to "get tight once in a while."  Probably if he had been brought up to sobriety and temperance, like modern young men, he might live to a respectable old age.  He has a pleasant, agreeable countenance, and is as happy as the day is long.  One of his friends remarked in our hearing that "he was the happiest man she ever knew.  Nothing ever seemed to trouble him."

Last summer he was spry and active, and spent his time in splitting wood.  He expects to do the same the coming season.  It is doubtful, though, whether he will be able.  This winter, he has been compelled to use two canes in walking.  When we saw him, he had discarded one.  It seems that a friend of his sent him, not long since, a bottle of brandy. The use of this stimulant, of which he had been deprived for some time, so strengthened him that he is able to walk with one cane.  He said, "he proposed when the brandy is gone to send word to his friend, that if he would present him with another bottle of it, he rather thinks by the time it is used he will be able to get on without any cane."  He is still a great lover and admirer of female beauty.  two years since, he visited our county fair. When he returned home, he informed his friends that "he had never seen such nice girls in France as he saw at Norwich."  an opinion which is undoubtedly correct.  His appetite is good and always has been.  He ever has been a good feeder, but never has overeaten.  While we were with him, he ate his dinner.  It consisted of a piece of bread, without butter, and a glass of brandy and water.  When he has no brandy, his dinner is simply bread and water.  Shortly after dinner, we bade the old veteran adieu, and left for Norwich. 

What wonderful changes are comprehended in the period of his life!  His own country has witnessed twelve different governments.  He was born under the constitutional monarchy of Louis XVI. This was followed by the first Republic; then the Directory; the First Consol; the Empire; the first Restoration in 1814; the "100 days" of Napoleon; the second Restoration; the monarchy of Louis Phillipe; the second Republic; the Presidency of Louis Napoleon; the Empire and Napoleon III; and now the third Republic.  Our own land has grown up into existence within that time.  How grand has been the advance of science and art.  His old age in fact has witnessed the introduction of the steamboat, the railroad and the telegraph.

In closing we would extend our thanks to Mr. Francois who acted as interpreter for us, to Mrs. Gauchat, for the excellent dinner she spread for us, and to Mr. Gauchat and son, for courtesies shown.

Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, April 1873 (concluded)

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 24, 1873

Marriages

TURNER - NORTON:  At the Chenango house, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 16th, by Rev. A.M. Totman, Mr. Charles M. Turner to Miss Ettie Norton, both of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].

POST - TURNER:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of the bride's father, April 12th, by Rev. L.D. Turner, Mr. Hubert Post to Miss Martha Turner, both of Oxford.

DIMORIER - VALTENBURG:  In Holmesville [Chenango Co. NY], April 15th, by Rev. Bishop A. Russel, Mr. Moses Dimorier to Miss Henrietta Valtenburgh, both of Holmesville.

Deaths

PECK:  At the Chenango house, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 17th, Mr. Henry Peck aged 56 years.

HILLIARD:  In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], April 9th, of consumption, Melissa [Hilliard] wife of Alonzo Hilliard, aged 33 years.

HARVEY:  In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], March 16th, Mrs. Vesta Harvey, aged 74 years.

BEVERLY:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], April 14th, Mr. David Beverly, aged 85 years.

CONKLIN:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], April 13th, at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. C.M. Frisbee, Mrs. Susan Conklin, aged 67 years.

FENTON:  At the residence of Dr. M.C. Parker in Washington, Iowa, March 25th, 1873, after an illness of several weeks, Mrs. Minerva Fenton, aged 76 years.

Deceased was a native of Connecticut but removed at an early day (about 1806 or 9 to the almost unbroken forests of Chenango County, N.Y., where the arduous labors of more than half a century were devoted to making good and comfortable homes for family and friends, with the expectation of living and dying in the midst of her labors. Being the oldest daughter, and the oldest of all but two of a family of fifteen children, all of whom lived to adult age, she knew full well what hard work and scant fare meant in those early days, and that early experience gave her a vigor and determination of character seldom found in these later and more luxurious days.  The love of children proving stronger than the love of home and other kindred ties, she came to this city, seven years ago, with the expressed desire to live and die with her children here.  For more than fifty years she had been an active member in the Congregational church, and of greater moment still, she was a consistent living Christian and a loving mother, and to the last her faith in the fruition of the Christian's hope was strong and unshaken.  Washington County Press.

Delaware County [NY]:  From the Delhi papers we learn that the body of Mrs. Maynard was found on Sunday, the 13th inst., instead of the Tuesday previous, as at first reported, by Robert Murray, Esq. While walking on his flats in the afternoon, something in the creek nearly opposite the head of his island attracted his attention, and he procured a boat and passed over, and discovered that it was the body of Mrs. Maynard, which rested on its face in the willows or alders in the edge of the partially receded waters, a few rods from the river channel.  The body was nearly perfect, with the exception of a few bruises, but the flesh was much blackened, and decomposition followed speedily on its removal from the water.  Most of her clothing was upon her person, and her furs about her neck, just as when she left the pleasant party, on that winter evening, to meet her sudden, sad and untimely fate.  The point where she was found is nearly four miles below the scene of the catastrophe, and there is little doubt that the body has remained hidden under the ice until released by the recent flood.  The remains were taken to Shin Creek, on the Beaverkill, to be deposited alongside her deceased husband.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 24, 1873

Marriage

SCOTT - GREENE:  On Thursday the 16th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Cornell at the residence of the bride's father, James W. Scott of Huntington City, md., and Carrie R. Greene, of Lisle, Illinois.

Death

BABCOCK:  Mary J. [Babcock] wife of James Babcock of Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] on the 12th, after an illness of less than two days, aged 36 years.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, April 23, 1873

Deaths

LYON:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], on 12th, Mrs. Betsey Lyon, aged 83 years.

On Friday last Mr. Edwin L. Wells, residing about half a mile north of Whitney's Point [Broome Co. NY], was at work in his yard with his hired man, sawing a log with a cross-cut saw.  He suddenly stopped work, turned partially around and fell over on the log and immediately expired.  Assistance was soon summoned, and he was carried into the house, Dr. C.R. Rogers, was sent for, and arrived soon after, but too late to be of any assistance.  Mr. Wells had apparently been in his usual health up to the time of his decease and had not complained of ill health. The cause of his sudden death was supposed to be apoplexy produced by overwork.  Deceased was a man of about fifty years of age and leaves a family of a wife and two children.  Binghamton Times.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 24, 1873

Marriages

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of the bride's parents, April 17th, by the Rev. W. Burnside, Mr. De Lano Carter, lately of Greene, of Onondaga Valley, N.Y. [Onondaga Co.], to Miss Helen P. [Banks], only daughter of Mr. H.O. Banks.

At the residence of Mrs. Bishop, in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 22d, by Rev. Geo. Porter, Mr. John F. Sherwood to Miss Alice Heaton, both of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].

At the residence of Mr. John Wilson, in this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 22d, by Rev. Geo. Porter, Mr. William Clarke, of Brooklyn, N.Y., to Miss S. Frankie Scott, of Greene.

In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], April 15th, by Rev. W. Burnside, Rev. C.D. Shepard, of the Wyoming Conference, to Mrs. Mary G. Brown of New Berlin.

Death

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 19th, Mr. Darius Robinson, aged 49 years and 4 months.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, April 26, 1873

Death 

TILLOTSON:  In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], on the 22d inst. Mr. Hiram Tillotson, aged 76 years.

The late Hiram Tillotson who died on Tuesday last, at the advanced age of 76 years, was one of the early settlers of Sherburne, and most highly esteemed for noble qualities and manly virtues.  Few men had more friends and fewer enemies.  Among his neighbors he was greatly respected for his integrity as a man and loved for his fidelity as a friend.  By them he will be mourned as one whose place cannot be filled.  The just are gathered to their home.

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

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 17, 1873

Marriage

HALL - PURDY:  At the residence of the bride's parents in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 15th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Charles F. Hall, of Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Kittie M. Purdy, daughter of Dr. C.M. Purdy.

Deaths

ANDERSON:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 9th, Miss Louise Anderson, aged 20 years.

NEAL:  In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], April 13th, Mr. William Neal, aged 53 years.

PALMER:  Suddenly, in Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], April 4th, Mr. Rensselaer Palmer, aged 58 years.

WADE:  In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], April 14th, Mr. Esek Wade, aged 80 years. 

PERKINS:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], April 12th, Mr. Gurden Perkins, son of the late Erastus Perkins, aged 61 years.

WILCOX:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 16th, Elizabeth [Wilcox], wife of the late Job Wilcox, aged 67 years.

BROWN:  In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], April 14th, Cora May [Brown], daughter of William W. and Delight Brown, aged 2 years and 3 months.

BARNARD:  In Greene [Chenango Co. NY], April 3d, Laurinda O. [Barnard] widow of the late Charles E Barnard, aged 76 years.

COLBURN:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], April 8th, Dea. Everett Colburn, in the 76th year of his age.

ROUNDS:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 21st, Priscilla [Rounds], wife of Samuel Rounds, aged 29 years.

Otselic [Chenango co. NY]:  Mr. Roby an aged citizen passed away on Saturday, April 5th, after a short illness.  He was living with his daughter, Mrs. Warren Brown.

TURNER:  In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], April 9th, of congestion on the lungs, Linn Turner, only son and child of Simon W. and Maria E. Turner, aged 6 months and 4 days.

Our little Linnie slumbers / In a dreamless sleep, / And he will never waken / To see the grieved ones weep.

Locked the lips and eyelids / Of the pale face fair, / For death has now our darling, / He clasps a treasure rare.

Tender care can do no more / Love its all has given / Gazing still a last farewell, / We leave him now to heaven.

Place the pure and infant form / 'Neath the flowering sod; / While Hope and Faith are whispering, / The spirit dwells with God.

The DeRuyter New Era [Madison Co. NY] states that Mr. Wales Fairbank, a farmer about seventy years of age, residing in Cuyler, near Deruyter, was accidently drowned on Monday, the 7th inst., on his return homeward from that village, while attempting to cross the bridge over the Tioughnioga river near what was formerly Sears' Oil Mill, almost within sight of his own door.

Edmund Farrell, who resided about a mile from the Coventry station [Chenango Co. NY], on the D.L.&W. Railroad, left Oxford about nine o'clock on Friday evening last, on the Binghamton express, for that station, whence he started to walk home.  The night coal train, going south, met some obstruction a short distance below the Coventry station, and stopping to ascertain the cause, discovered a mangled body, which was recognized as Farrell's and carried to the house occupied by his parents. Farrell was a very intemperate man, and on the evening referred to, he was in a worse state than usual.  It is supposed that after he left the cars, he took the railroad track toward home, instead of the highway, and that he lay upon the track in a drunken stupor when the engine overtook him.  His neck was found to be broken, head partially crushed, arms broken, and feet lacerated.  The deceased was formerly employed in the furnace of H. Thompson & Co., in this village.  He was about forty-years of age, and unmarried.  Quite an amount of property, which he had acquired, including a large farm, with stock and implements, were transferred to a guardian some time ago, on account of his habits of intemperance.  Constant appeals to reform failed to affect him. 

Edward Farrell, a well-known resident of this town [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], met his death on Friday night last, by being run over by a coal train on the D.L.&W. Railroad.  The train consisted of only the engine and caboose. The particulars are, as we gain them, as follows:

He left this village in an intoxicated condition, for home on the evening express south, which left this station at 9 o'clock, being behind time, and got off at Coventry Station and started down the track, his farm being about a mile below the station.  Following the express was an extra coal train, and when within about 40 rods of his residence the engine struck something upon the track. The train was stopped, the train men went back and found the lifeless and mangled remains of Edward Farrell.  His head was smashed, a leg and arm broken, his toes cut off, and his body otherwise mangled.  Stephen Wilber, the nearest resident was summoned, and the remains properly cared for.  It is supposed that he was asleep on the track at the time.  Death must have occurred instantly.

Deceased was a single man, of intemperate habits, and about 40 years of age.  He leaves an aged father and mother, a married sister, and several brothers.  He had by hard work in his younger days and the help of the family, gained enough to purchase the farm where he resided, but this within a year, owing to his intemperate habits, had been placed out of his hands.  [Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, April 16, 1873]

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 17, 1873

Deaths

PERKINS:  At Oxford, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], April 12th, Gurdon Perkins, son of the late Erastus Perkins, aged 62 years.

LEVEE:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], on the 8th inst. Sherman J. [Levee], youngest child of John and Esther Levee, aged seven months.  He has left his dear friends / That loved him so well, / With Jesus and angels / Forever to dwell.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, April 16, 1873

YORK:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 10th, Dea. Charles York, aged 80 years.

Mr. York was born in Stonington, Conn. on the twenty-second of July 1793, and lived there until the year 1813, when with Elder Jedediah Randall, he emigrated to this village.  About the year 1815 he formed a business partnership with Benj. Chapman and the firm of York & Chapman carried on the mercantile business for two years.  He was afterwards the partner of Cyrus Wheeler for about the same length of time, when he retired from mercantile life to his farm in this village.  In 1817 he married Esther Randall, daughter of John Randall, Sr. and sister of the late Charles Randall, a most estimable lady, who from that time until his death shared his joys and sorrows and now mourns his departure.  In 1835 he united with the Baptist church in this village, and in the following year was elected one of its deacons, a position which he acceptably filled until his death.  Indeed, he was one of the fathers of the church in every sense of the word; a pillar upon whom the entire body seemed to lean at times for support, and it never found him wanting.  At his death his name stood at the head of the roll of membership in length of service as well as in honors.  In 1831 he was appointed one of the Associate Judges of the old Court of Common Pleas a position which we believe he held until the adoption and taking effect of the new constitution in 1846.  He also represented this town for seven or eight years in the Board of Supervisors.

Since his retirement from the bench, he has devoted himself mainly to private pursuits, extending his sphere of usefulness however from time to time as he had opportunity.  Up to the last two weeks of his life, he was able to be around, though his great age and infirmity forbade any active pursuit.  He was complaining for something like two weeks though he was not considered dangerously ill until the Sunday before his death.  His disease was heart disease.

Judge York was one of the marked men of our county.  In whatever station he found himself he was always sure to perform its duties to the utmost satisfaction of his constituents.  As a judge, his action was controlled by sound judgment and wise discretion. As a supervisor he closely guarded the interests of his constituents. As a merchant he was honest and conscientious. As a citizen he was never willing to offend; jealous of his own opinion, he did not willingly obtrude it upon others, and accorded to all the same freedom of action and thought which he claimed for himself.  As a member of the church he was consistent and active, making good his professions by his practice. As a politician he was a Jackson Democrat of the strictest sort.  But when Democracy meant slavery he abandoned the party, and ever afterward upheld Republican principles. As a husband and father, he was kind and indulgent, and while we all shall miss him, in his family circle where his virtues were best known, his loss will be keenest felt.

In addition to his aged widow there remain here of his family three sons, Charles, Henry and Jedediah, all grown to manhood and settled in life.  May the mantle of the father worthily fall upon them.

Thus, passes away the fathers, those who have borne the heat and burden of pioneer life.  But few are left who with Judge York stood shoulder to shoulder in the beginning of the present century.  Thankful should we be that they have been so long spared to us to guide us by their advice and example. Well will it be for the present generation if it heed their counsels.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 17, 1873

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 10th, Mr. Thomas Upham aged 70 years and 7 months.

In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], April 9th, Roxey Waters, widow of Russell Waters, Esq. aged 85 years and 6 months.

In German [Chenango Co. NY], April 6th, Mrs. Lucinda [Adams], aged 67 years, 6 months.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, April 19, 1873

Death

BARNES:  At Spring Prairie, Wis. March 23d, at 7 o'clock A.M., Mrs. Lovinia Barnes, formerly of Earlville, Chenango Co. N.Y., aged 74 years 6 months and 12 days.  Mother Barnes was born in Colerain, Mass., Sept. 11th, 1798. she was baptized by Elder Barber in 1816.  In 1848 she came with her family from Sherburne, N.Y., to Wisconsin.  Soon after she united with the Baptist Church at Spring Prairie and sustained that relation when she passed from the Sabbath on earth to the Sabbath of God in Glory, from the Church militant to the Chruch triumphant.  The funeral was observed at the Baptist Church, on Tuesday at 10:20 A.M.  Thus, we pass away, one by one, to our eternal rest.  Our beloved and aged sister passed hopefully to her rest on high.

"Friend after friend departs, / Who has not lost a friend? / There is no union here of hearts / That finds not here an end. / Were this frail world one final rest, / Living or dying, none were blest."  Milwaukee Sentinel

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, April 18, 1872

Marriages

In this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 9th, by Rev. W.B. Thomas, Mr. B.D. Wood and Miss Emma L. Daniel.

Also, by the same at the same time, Mr. Ransom J. Wood and Miss Nettie M. Case, all of Afton [Chenango Co. NY].

Death

In Durham, Dec. 26th, suddenly of congestion of the brain, Dr. Elias Whittlesy, in the 45th year of his age.

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

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 10, 1873

Marriages

TORREY - ROGERS:  At the residence of the bride's father in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 3d, by Rev. J.D. Pope, Mr Charles r Torrey to Miss Vesta A. Rogers, daughter of Decalvus Rogers, Esq., all of Norwich.

PALMER - PAYNE:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], March 18th, by Rev. J.W. Barr, Mr. James Palmer, of Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], to Miss Alice Payne of Smyrna.

GREGORY - WILCOX:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], March 4th, by Rev. C.F. Hull, Mr. Henry M. Gregory to Miss Annie M. Wilcox, both of Plymouth.

CONWAY - POST:  In Passaic, N.J., April 2d, by Rev. J.B. Kelsey, Rev. Thomas W. Conway to Miss Ada Post all of Passaic.

Deaths

HALL:  In Preston [Chenango Co. NY], April 2d, Mr. Samuel Hall, aged 62 years.

SMITH:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co NY], April 3d, Mr. David Smith, aged 82 years.

DYE:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], March 31st, Miss Tabitha Dye, aged 57 years. 

HALL:  In German [Chenango Co. NY], March 15th, Otis Burtie [Hall], son of William and Emma Hall, aged 6 months and 10 days.

CHASE:  In Oswego [Oswego Co. NY], March 29th, Jennie R. [Chase], wife of Lewis H. Chase, and daughter of the late William Munn of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], aged 23 years and 5 months.  The remains were taken to new Berlin for interment.  Those who knew her best, love her best.

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BATES:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 2d, Charles Bates, aged 18 years.

Another accident occurred in this village on Wednesday evening of last week, a few rods north of the Midland depot, which resulted in the death of Charles Bates, son of Athur Bates, late of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY].  While a construction train from DeRuyter, with two snowplows attached, was approaching the switch near where the branch connects with the main line, Bates attempted to jump upon the rear of the forward snowplow, when it is supposed he slipped and fell, the second snowplow striking him as he lay on the ties outside the track.  He was picked up and carried to the residence of his brother-in-law, Charles D. Smith, where he lingered until between ten and eleven o'clock in the evening, when he expired.  It was found that seven or eight ribs on the left side were broken, and the substance of the lungs injured.  He was conscious until within five minutes of his death and repeatedly stated that he alone was responsible for what had occurred.  His age was eighteen years.

What could have induced the young man to attempt the perilous leap upon the snowplow, is not known, but it is supposed he thought it to be the train upon which Mr. Smith is conductor, although he was never known to make a like attempt before.

The deceased, with his mother, resided in this place, Mr. Bates being engaged in traveling through the west, on business.  Although efforts were made by telegraph to ascertain his whereabouts, they were unsuccessful.  The remains were taken to New Berlin on Friday for interment.

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Another fatal accident, from careless use of the pistol, occurred at the residence of Albert Case, in North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] east of Plasterville, on Sunday afternoon last.  John Dennis, a young man eighteen years of age, had been out during the day with his pistol, hunting muskrats, and while sitting at the supper table, after the meal was concluded, he took the pistol from his pocket, and handled it so carelessly that Mr. Case protested against it.  The next moment one of the chambers was discharged, the ball passing through the lower lip of the unfortunate lad, through his mouth and into his brain, killing him instantly, in the presence of the horror-stricken family. Coroner Hand held an inquest on Monday when the jury found that the shooting was accidental. The report in circulation that he placed the muzzle of the pistol in his mouth, in incorrect.

On Sunday afternoon last, one John Dennis, a young man about 18 years old, came to a sudden death at the residence of Albert Case, about three miles above this village, from the accidental or intentional discharge of a pistol which he held in his hand at the time. Coroner S.M. Hand, of this village, was at once notified, and on Monday he summoned a jury of inquiry which elicited substantially the following facts.  Deceased was a laborer in the employ of Mr. Case. On Sunday morning he went about his chores as usual, and during the day went away to his mother's, Mrs. Lydia Graves', and returned about three o'clock. Soon after he sat at dinner with the family, and so far as the family discovered, exhibited no unusual depression of mind or action.  After dinner he took a revolver from off a shelf where it was lying.  Three barrels of it were loaded.  He loaded the other three and put on the caps.  Handling the pistol rather carelessly, he was cautioned by both Mr. Case and his son, who were still present.  Adelbert Case asked him if he had got the pistol all loaded, Dennis said he had.  He then cocked it and turned the muzzle toward his mouth, when it instantly went off.  The ball entered the lower lip and the wound extended upwards and backwards through the base of the brain, causing instant death.  Upon the examination Mrs. Graves, the mother, swore that he came to her house that afternoon from the house of a neighbor, where he had been a visitor, and he seemed downhearted and sad, and from this has arisen the story, we suppose of suicide. the verdict of the jury, however, was that his death was caused by accidental shooting.  [Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, April 10, 1873]

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The Binghamton Daily Times, of Monday, gives the particulars of a sad case of poisoning, which occurred in that city on Wednesday evening of last week.  Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Stewart were the victims.  Mrs. Stewart was making some pies in the pantry that were standing on a low bread shelf of a cupboard.  In order to get some cinnamon, she reached up to a top shelf, and while doing so knocked down a paper that contained a white powder. This fell into a pie, and as she supposed it to be cream of tartar, she took a spoon and scraped it off and went on with her work. The three children ate their supper early and went to bed, but Mr. Stewart was late, and the pie was placed on the table for supper.  Mr. Stewart on eating the pie, said to his wife:  "There is a queer taste about this pie, just try it."  She did so and in a few moments, both were taken with violent vomiting, and every symptom of poison.  Mr. Steward died on Sunday morning.  Mrs. Stewart is expected to recover.  A paper of arsenic had been kept in the pantry, which was probably the cause of the mischief.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 10, 1873

Deaths

DICKERSON:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 15th, Mr. Zebulon C. Dickerson, in the 82d year of his age. [Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 10, 1873

Mr. Zebulon Dickerson closed his eyes to the light of time, February 15th to open them upon the brightness of the -?-.  The subject of this notice was 81 years of age and had spent some 58 years of this time on his farm about two miles west of North Pitcher.  He came from Saratoga County and knew something of the hardships of the early settlers.  He was blessed in securing a good home where he reared his family, eleven children, nine of whom are living in the enjoyment of the things of this life, and with bright hopes of a golden future.  Hi wife and dear companion had preceded him to the better country some eight years.  He was a kind and affectionate father, a good neighbor and a -?- esteemed by all who knew him.  when the messenger of death came, he sought, and we trust obtained through the blood of the crucible a good hope to a heavenly inheritance.  May parents and children meet bye-and-bye in that land where adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

BLACKMAN:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], March 9th, Mr. Roswell Blackman, in the 82d year of his age. [Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, April 10, 1873]

Mr. Roswell Blackman, one of the oldest inhabitants of the town of Pitcher, departed this life March 9th, aged 80 years.  When a boy ten-years of age, he came with his parents from Litchfield, Mass. to this town and settled at or near Pitcher village, where they lived one year and from there removed to North Pitcher, where he spent sixty-nine years of his life, surrounded with his children and a large circle of relatives and friends who esteemed him highly as a kind father, a warm-hearted friend and a sympathizing neighbor.  He survived Mr. Dickerson three weeks, which whom he had taken sweet counsel and was one of the bearers at his funeral.  He had been, as we are informed, a member of the Congregational Church in years that had passed and had learned that the only way to obtain an entrance into the promised land was by way of Obedience and Faith.  He said to his daughter as he was nearing the Jordan of Death that he felt ready to go.  He was the oldest of ten children all of whom lived until two years ago.  Since that time four of the number have been borne to the silent city of the dead.  He has left three sons and two daughters and a large circle of friends to mourn their loss.  May they all meet and form a reunion to hear no chilling winds nor poisoneth breath shall reach that breathful shore.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, April 9, 1873

Deaths

ROUNDS:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 31, Priscilla [Rounds], wife of Samuel Rounds, aged 29 years.

BENNETT:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY], on 2d, Mr. Egbert Bennett aged 77 years.

In Brisbin [Chenango Co. NY], April 2d, Mr. Henry L. Towslee, aged 47 years and 8 months. [Chenango American, April 10, 1873

Henry L. Touslee, of Brisbin [Chenango Co. NY], fell from a ladder, while engaged in painting his house, in Brisbin, on Thursday afternoon, about six o'clock, striking upon his head and shoulder, receiving injuries from which he died in two hours.  He leaves a wife and five children.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 10, 1873

Marriages

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], April 2d, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. Jas. C. Nightingale, Mr. Samuel R Harrison to Miss Eliza Wilson, both of Smithville.

At the residence of W.H. Wheeler, Bluffton, Kansas, March 26th, by Rev. O.N. Mason, Mr. E.D. Cranston of Rockford, Ill., to Miss Caree L. [Allen], daughter of A.F. Allen, of this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY].

In Watertown [Jefferson Co. NY], March 26th, by Rev. L.M.S. Hayes, of Norwich, Rev. A. Lindsay pastor of the Baptist church in South New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Mary E Smith, of Watertown.

At the Baptist Parsonage in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], March 25th, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. Owen H. Carnegie to Miss Mary Sanders, both of North Colesville, Broome Co. N.Y.

In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 25th, by Rev. J.C. Ward, Mr. Joseph W. Mosher of Aurora [Cayuga Co. NY] to Miss Emma B. Bunnell, of this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY].

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of A.D. Turner, March 24th, Miss Fidelia Hoyt aged 62 years.

In this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], suddenly, April 6th, Henrietta [Day], daughter of the late Henry A Day, aged 9 years, one month and eighteen days.

In Eaton, Madison Co. [NY], March 25th, Lottie Belle [King] aged 9 years and 7 months, only daughter of Leonard B. King, of Brisbin.

In Smithville, [Chenango Co. NY], suddenly, on the morning of April 6th, Mr. John Kinnier, aged 46 years and 2 months.  'A good man hath died."

In Triangle [Broome Co. NY], March 24th, Deacon John S. Morse, aged 76 years.

In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], March 28th, Mrs. Phebe Roome, aged 68 years.

In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], March 26th, Clifford [Roberts], son of John C. and Libbie Roberts, aged 19 days.

In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], March 27th, Sarah A. [Woods], wife of John Woods, aged 47 years.

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 5th, Mary [Burns], daughter of Miles and Eliza Burns, aged 8 years 4 months.

In Brisbin [Chenango Co. NY], April 2d, Minnie Fuimer, aged 3 months.

In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], April 1st, Hannah [Sweet], wife of James K. Sweet, aged 63 years.

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], March 29th, Maria L. [Newton], wife of Lawrence Newton, aged 35 years.

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of H.G. Crozier, Esq., April 7th, Mrs. Eliza Preston aged 48 years.  Funeral on Thursday at 2 o'clock P.M.

In this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 4th, Mrs Rhoda Handy, aged 85 years and 6 months.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, April 12, 1873

Deaths

BARNES:  At Spring Prairie, Wis., March 23d, at 7 o'clock A.M., Mrs. Lavinia Barnes, formerly of Earlville, Chenango Co. N.Y., aged 74 years, 6 months and 12 days.

DUNN:  In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], on March 22d, Martin Dunn, aged 55 years.

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, April 12, 1873

Deaths

VINCENT:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], April 7th, Michael Vincent, aged 69 years.

A little boy named Ernest Lakin fell from a raft about a mile above Deposit [Delaware Co. NY], Wednesday noon and though every effort was made to rescue him, was drowned.  His father jumped in after him but became so benumbed by the cold that it was with difficulty, he got out of the water himself.  Up to this (Thursday) morning the body had not been found. Hancock times