Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, February 1874 (continued)

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 19, 1874

Marriages

At the residence of N.F. Moore, Esq., in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 5th, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. E.C. Pollard of Afton [Chenango Co. NY], to Miss Lyina A. [Harrington] daughter of Thos. W. Harrington.

At Marathon [Cortland Co. NY], Feb. 5th, by Rev. A. Luff, Mr. Arthur H. Brown to Miss Ella M. Brace, both of Whitney's Point [Broome Co. NY].

Deaths

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 4th, Mr. James W. Smith, aged 50 years.

In this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 12th, Mr. Reuben Crandall, aged 54 years and 11 months.

Mr. Reuben Crandall, who resides about one mile north of this village, died on Thursday last.  This gentleman has been in ill health a long time, and his illness has baffled the best medical skill in this section.  An autopsy revealed the fact that he died of an enlargement of the liver. We understand that that organ weighed 15 pounds, whereas the liver in a healthy person weighs only some four or five pounds.  Dr. R.P. Crandall of this village, assisted by Dr. Geo. A. Thayer of Binghamton, made the autopsy.

In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 10th, Mr. James Mulligan, aged 64 years.

In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of his daughter, Feb. 12th, Mr. Thomas Turk, of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], aged 59 years.

In Brisbin [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 12th, Mr. John W. Stilson, aged 24 years and 6 months.

Rev. Calvin Waterbury died at Rotherwood, Tenn., Jan. 8, aged 69 years.  Mr. Waterbury was the youngest of a very talented family of ten brothers, brought up at Andes, Delaware County [NY]. Quite distinguished among them were Rev. Daniel Waterbury, many years pastor of the Congregational Church at Franklin and of the Presbyterian Chruch at Delhi; and Hon. David Waterbury, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1846, from Delaware County.  Calvin entered the ministry over forty years ago, his first pastorate being with the Presbyterian Church at Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY].  He labored afterwards at Victor, Ontario County, at Freeport Illinois, and other places with great acceptance and success.  At the close of the war, he went to Tennessee for the sake of a milder climate and to give the last years of his life to the good work of church extension and education in a redeemed land in a portion of it sadly blighted by the footprints of slavery and war.  A man of earnest life and warm heart, he leaves hosts of loving friends at every scene of his labors and going after so many years of toil to find rest, a blessed memory of his good works will abide for life with those who knew and loved him.

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Fell asleep in Fon du Lac, Wis. on the evening of January 24th, Lola Cecelia [Baldwin] only daughter of Anna E. and the late Thomas D. Baldwin, of Elmira [Chemung Co. NY].

"To what can that poor child look forward, / Through all life's wearisome way? / Only upward and onward, / To wings some day."

This was the only answer the neighbors on Fourth street could find for the question, when one day last June little Lola came among us with her crippled body, sweet, sad face and large mournful eyes that told the story of years of suffering.  Only six months ago she was a stranger to us, but when they carried her away it seemed as if they had taken something out of all our lives.  There were plenty of rugged, healthy children on our streets, but there was only one Lola.  Strong men, as they hurried by, dropped for a moment the thought of business and looked with pitying tenderness at the little lame girl, and all the more tenderly when they knew that she was fatherless.  Thoughtless schoolboys stepped carefully one side to let her pass, as she went up and down the walk drawing her little doll's carriage.  Little children dropped their noisy, boisterous games and played at something in which she could join, and no one could resist that little pleading voice when it asked for "Just one story more, please."  For three years Lola's life has been one of constant suffering, at times so severe that even those who loved her best longed for her to be at rest, even if forever.  Last spring her mother brought her here from her eastern home, to try what a change would do, and for a time she gained rapidly that it seemed almost as if strength and health might yet be here.  But just when hope seemed brightest, she sickened and died, and for Lola "wings someday" changed to wings today.

Last Wednesday evening those who had known and loved her stood around the coffin and looked for the last time at the little pale face so calmly beautiful, with the look of pain all gone and, in its place, eternal rest.  Delicate white flowers and green vines were wreathed about her, and as we looked, we could not realize that it was the little sufferer we had known, all was so quiet and peaceful.  The evening train south bore all that was left of Lola and today she is sleeping by the side of her father.

We shall miss her slight form, halting step and sweet, sad face, but it will be a long, long time ere she is forgotten, and when in the twilight we tell the children her story, their hearts will grow tender with the memory of the little lame girl.

"Let us remember the lesson / Of this child, in her patient way, / And ever look upward, onward, / to Wings some day."

E.E. in Fon du Lac (Wis.) Commonwealth.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, February 21, 1874

Marriages

WICKHAM - O'BRIEN:  In Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], on the 15th inst. by Rev. Father Leuddon, Mr. Henry Wickham and Miss Katie O'Brien, both of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].

McDANIELS - CONLEY:  In Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], on the 17th inst. by Rev. Father Leuddon, Mr. Andrew McDaniels,  and Miss Maggie Conley, both of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].

DUROSS - REYNOLDS:  In Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. Father Leuddon, Mr. James Duross of Oneida [Madison Co. NY], and Miss Lizzie Reynolds of Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] daughter of Mr. Peter Reynolds, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].

ROACH - GRIFFIN:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], on the 17th inst., by Rev. Father O'Connell, Mr. Martin Roach and Miss Nora Griffin, both of that village.

Deaths

READER:  In Waterville, February 14, James Reader, aged 21 years.

DAVIS:  In Utica [Oneida Co. NY], February 11, 1874, James L. Davis, aged 57 years.

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, February 21, 1874

Marriages

MILLER - JAMESON:  In Windsor [Broome Co. NY], by Rev. Wm. Roberts, on the 11th inst., Mr. Ward Miller to Miss Jennie Jameson, both of Afton [Chenango Co. NY].

BARR - MURPHY:  At the Rectory in Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], on the 19th inst. by Rev. S.S. Lewis, Mr. Aaron Barr to Miss Ellen Elizabeth Murphy, both of Wells Bridge [Otsego Co. NY].