Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, December 18, 1873
Marriages
CURLEY - BURNS: At the Congregational parsonage, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on Sunday evening, Dec. 14th by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Cornelius Curley, if this village to Miss Mary Burns, of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].
HOTCHKISS - RORAPAUGH: At the residence of the bride's father, in Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 16th, by Rev. E.W. Caswell, Mr. Addison Hotchkiss to Miss Rose Rorapaugh, both of Smithville.
READER - WELLS: At the residence of the bride's parents in McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 10th, by Rev. McK. Shaw, Mr. Edward A. Reader of Oriskany Falls [Oneida Co. NY], to Miss DeFrancie R. Wells of McDonough.
COLLINS - DENNISON: In Poolville [Madison Co. NY], Dec. 2d, by C. Palmer, Esq., Mr. John Collins to Miss Mary L. Dennison, both of Columbus [Chenango Co. NY]
DODGE - WILCOX: At the residence of the bride's mother, in Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 16th, by R.A. Carpenter, Mr. Everett Dodge to Miss Ella M. Wilcox, both of Smyrna.
HAIGHT - COVILLE: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Dec. 3d by Rev. F.L. Hiller, Mr. Albert Haight to Miss Emma Coville, both of Oxford.
Deaths
BARTLE: In New Milford, Pa., Dec. 9th, Mr. Richard R. Bartle, aged 46 years, formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].
KINNE: At Sugar Creek, Nov. 1st, Sarah [Kinne] wife of James R. Kinne, aged 63 years and 7 months, formerly of North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].
CHAPMAN: At Saley's Bay, Canada, Dec. 8th, of dropsy Mrs. Mary Chapman, wife of Edward Chapman, and mother of Mrs. H.V. Winsor, of East Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], aged 70 years, 5 months and 14 days.
Sidney Plains [Delaware Co. NY]: The Bainbridge Review announces the death at Sidney Plains, on the morning of the 9th inst. of Phineas Newton an old resident of that village. His father removed from Connecticut to that place in 1806, when the deceased was about ten years of age. Mr. Newton has held a number of town offices and was the inventor of a well-known mill tool known as the saw gummer. He was a Royal Arch Mason and was buried with Masonic honors. His eccentricities attracted much attention. It is stated that is grave had been in readiness for several years. He had made several wills of late, but his entire property - a valuable farm, etc. - was finally bequeathed to his wife.
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Hon. Samuel Nelson, late judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at his home in Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY], on Saturday December 13, aged eighty-two years. The dispatch announcing his death says that on Monday he complained of having a slight cold and was confined to his room until Friday afternoon. He then came downstairs to tea and spent the evening in his parlor. He came down to breakfast Saturday morning, at a rather late hour as was his custom, and appeared as well as usual. While sitting in his chair, between one and two o'clock Saturday afternoon listening to the reading of a letter by Mrs. Nelson, he made an inquiry in regard to it, and then, without a word or sigh, suddenly died. So quiet was Judge Nelson's death that it was supposed he had fainted, and not until the physicians pronounced him dead, was the truth realized. The following sketch of his life and public services we copy from the Utica Observer:
"He was born at Hebron, Washington county, N.Y., on the 11th day of November 1792. When he came to man's estate, he prepared himself for the legal profession by many years of faithful study. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1821 and took an active part in the deliberations of that body. In April 1823, he was appointed Judge of the Sixth Circuit by Governor Joseph C. Yates. He held this office till 1831, when Governor Enos T. Throop, who survives him, appointed him an Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the State. In 1887 he became Chief Justice of that Court and held the office until February 1845, when he was elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Tyler. It will be seen that his judicial career covered about fifty years of uninterrupted service, a longer time than any other judge in our history has served upon the bench. During all that half century of severe mental labor Judge Nelson maintained his place among the best and purest ministers of Justice. The mind developed and enlarged by such vast experience was naturally strongly analytical. Samuel Nelson was a man of very positive qualities. He united great learning to great sense. His opinions usually met the favor and became the judgment of his associates in the United States Supreme Court before that body was degraded by unfit and indecent appointments. Judge Nelson was a dignified proud man - too proud to be vain - who loved justice and hated wrong all the days of his life. In politics he was an unflinching Democrat. While partisanship never influenced his judicial opinions, he was a man of strong and fixed political convictions."
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, December 20, 1873
Marriages
MILLER - SPENCER: In Sangersfield [Oneida Co. NY], on the 15th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Todd, Mr. Collins Miller of Sangersfield, and Mrs. Martha Spencer of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].
STANTON - MILLER: In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], on the 18th inst. by Henry Allfrey, Esq., Mr. William A. Stanton and Mrs. Laura J. Miller, both of Columbus [Chenango Co. NY].
Death
HARRINGTON: In Castile, Wyoming Co., on the 11th inst., Mr. William Harrington, aged 62 years and 11 months.
Rarely has the announcement of the death of an individual fallen so suddenly upon our community or created a more profound sensation of sorrow and regret, than the intelligence of the death of Mr. William Harrington who died at Castile, Wyoming Co., on the 11th inst. in the 63d year of his age.
It is but recently that Mr. H. paid a visit to his relatives and friends in Sherburne and vicinity, and when he left them, on the 3d inst. to return home, he was apparently in good health. On reaching home he expressed himself as feeling remarkably well and, on the Friday, and Saturday following he assisted in slaughtering his hogs and taking care of the pork. The next Monday he started to walk to the village in company with a young lady who observed that he repeatedly dropped a small teapot which he was carrying in his hand. This caused her to make some remark to which he indefinitely replied, and almost immediately thereafter fell to the ground. She immediately went for assistance, and he was carried to his home, but he did not open his eyes after falling, though he lingered until the Thursday following when he expired. Funeral services were held in Castile and was very largely attended. On Tuesday last the remains were brought to Smyrna and from there accompanied by a long procession of friends to Sherburne West Hill cemetery where they were interred, Rev. H.S. Jones officiating in the burial service.
Deceased belonged to a family of seven brothers and three sisters, the youngest of whom, Harriet, died about twenty-two years ago at the age of 22, since which time there has been no break in the family till the death of William. Stephen and Tilly reside in Smyrna and Asa, Ezekiel, Russell, Lewis and the sisters, Mrs. Sallie Warner, Mrs. Roxana Fairchilds and Mrs. Phoebe Northrup live in Sherburne. The six brothers attended the funeral at Castile. Deceased leaves a widow who is a sister of Mr. Isaac Brooks, four sons, Devillo W., M.D., Corydon, George and Arista, and one daughter, Mrs. Flora Higgins.
Mr. Harrington was born in this town and grew up and resided here until about the year 1845 when he removed to Castile where he continued his residence until his death. He was a farmer by occupation and accumulated a handsome competence. He had long been a member of the Baptist church and was most highly esteemed for his sincere and consistent Christian character, and his honest, upright and courteous intercourse with his fellow men secured him the highest respect of all who made his acquaintance, both in this County and Wyoming, all of whom speak of his decease as a great and irreparable loss.
News Item
In May last, Mr. Horace Knapp was married to Miss Flora Reynolds of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], a young lady who will be remembered as at one time an employee in the millinery store of Royce & Martin in this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY]. The young couple went to the house of the bride's father in Smyrna to live and remained there until November 1873, when they separated, for reasons best known to themselves. Soon after the separation the husband swore out a search warrant before Justice Dimmick of Smyrna, claiming that his wife and her mother had stolen certain articles of household furniture, &c., from his rooms. Upon this warrant the goods were taken by an officer and delivered back to the husband. On the 11th inst. a warrant was issued by Justice Mason of Norwich, on the complaint of the wife and Dimmick, against the husband, charging him with perjury, in testifying before Esq. Dimmick, to obtain the search warrant, and the prisoner was arrested at his home in Hamilton [Madison Co. NY]. An examination of the accused was had before Justice Mason, Dec. 12 and after hearing the evidence and counsel the prisoner was discharged. D.H. Knapp of the firm of Prindle, Knapp & Ray, acted for the people. and D.L. Atkyns appeared for the prisoner.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, December 20, 1873
Marriages
VINTON - BARKER: At the residence of the bride's father, near Nineveh [Broome Co. NY], Dec. 10th, by Rev. W.H. Sawtelle, Mr. John W. Vinton of Afton [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Estella M. Barker.
Afton [Chenango Co. NY]: On Wednesday of last week C.L. Pollard took to himself a companion for life, the handsome bride being Miss Julia Peabody, of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY]. We understand they will visit the largest cities in the State before they return. We wish them a pleasant journey, and a host of happiness through life.
Deaths
GREENE: In Cortland [Cortland Co. NY], on the 23d ult. of typhoid fever, F.E. Greene, of Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY], aged 28 years. A young man just in his prime, thus stricken down. He was thoroughly respected by his large circle of friends, who will deplore his untimely death. He was a member of the Baptist church, with a firm trust in his Lord.
FREER: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], on the 25th of November 1873, Cynthia Freer, mother of Wm. Freer, of this town, aged 85 years, 6 months and 29 days. Cynthia Freer, wife of Casper Freer, Jr., was born on the Unadilla River, in the town of Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY], near what is now known as the White Store. She was married at the age of 18, and moved to the town of Unadilla, about a mile below the present village. At the time of her birth, the country was very thinly settled, there being no grist mill within fifty miles of her residence - that at Chenango Forks [Broome Co. NY]. In 1837 she moved to this town, where she resided with her son until the time of her death.
On the 9th inst. George Wright of East Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], received injuries that proved fatal while engaged in binding a load of hay. He was springing down on the pole in order to tighten it, when it broke into three pieces, and he fell to the ground, striking on his back, with part of the binding pole on top of him.
Asa Whitcomb, an old and respected citizen of this town [Guilford Center, Chenango Co. NY], died on the 16th inst., aged about 60 years.
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