Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, February 1875 (continued)

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, February 4, 1875

Marriages

MUNRO - BROWN:  In Georgetown, N.Y. [Madison Co.], Jan. 20th, by Rev. C.S. Crain, Thomas N. Munro of Camillus [Onondaga Co. NY] and Nettie C. Brown, daughter of Hon. A.A. Brown of Georgetown.

KEENEY - POPE:  In Fabius, N.Y. [Onondaga Co.] January 21st, by the same, George A. Keeney and Etta J. Pope only daughter of Orel Pope of Fabius.

VOSBURG - DYE:  At the residence of the bride's parents in the town of Lebanon [Madison Co. NY], January 12th by the Rev. M.S. Jones, Frank Vosburg of Poughkeepsie [Dutchess Co. NY], and Miss Mary E. Dye of the former place.

Deaths

GALLUP:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], February 2d, Mary [Gallup] wife of Noyes E. Gallup, aged 60? years.

STONE:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], February 1st, John Stone aged 20 years.

Mary Sullivan, an aged emigrant from Quebec, while walking on the track of the Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad, in Binghamton, was run over and killed on Friday morning.  Her husband, John Sullivan, who was with her, escaped by stepping off the track.

Cortland [Cortland Co. NY]:  Col. and Mrs. J.C. Carmichael, of Cortland have been called to mourn the death of a bright and beloved child, over whom only six summers have passed.  While they were in Washington to spend a few days, the child was attacked with diphtheria, and though everything was done that the best medical skill could suggest, the little sufferer lingered but a short time before its spirit passed away.

Mr. Olive Pattengill Draper of Morris [Otsego Co. NY], died in that town on the 5th inst., at the great age of 94 years and 11 months.

George L. Steele:  an old and well-known printer of this city [Utica, Oneida Co. NY], died in New York at an early hour yesterday (Friday) morning, aged 54 years.  Mr. Steele came to this city from New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] in 1843 and entered the office of the Liberty Press.  Not long after he became connected with the Herald, where he was employed for many years as collector, mailing clerk and compositor.  He understood his trade thoroughly and was among the best printers of that time.  He was republican in politics, very strong in his convictions, and labored actively in the third ward, where he resided.  subsequently he became interested in a paper mill in New Berlin, we believe, and in 1841, accepted a position in the New York Custom house, where he has since proved an efficient and faithful servant.  Of late he held an important position in the warehouse department of the custom house.

Two sons and a daughter were born to Mr. Steele during his stay in this city, and they with his wife, survive to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father.  His many friends in this city will learn of his death with unfeigned sorrow and will always hold his memory in grateful remembrance.  His funeral will take place at Bergen, New Jersey, at 3 P.M. tomorrow, Utica Herald

The remains of Mr. Steele were brought to this place [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], on Tuesday last, thence taken to New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] for interment.  The many friends and acquaintances of Mr. S. in this county will heartily concur in the commendations of the Herald.

DIED, at Decorah, Iowa, Mrs. Harrit E. Sanford, aged 67 years 8 months.  Mrs. Sanford will be remembered by our citizens as the widow of the late Augustus Sanford, who formerly figured very extensively in our village and county as a merchant and businessman generally.   Mrs. S. has spent the last five years with her son Walter at Decorah.  Her remains were accompanied by him to this place for interment.  Mrs. S. was well known in our midst as a woman of rare Christian culture and loved by all for her kindness of heart and womanly virtue's.  Though for so many years removed from us, her memory is green in the hearts of all who knew her.

News Item

An Elopement:  Now it is the preacher's wife.  Mrs. Nash of Harford Mills, Cortland County, [NY], suddenly disappeared, after following her husband, who is a local preacher, to his sleigh and kissing him and telling him, "if I am not alive when you come back, you must take good care of the children."  The innocent man went to meeting, preached a sermon and returned to receive the news that Mrs. Nash was non est.  All supposed her dead and search for her  body was diligently made.  It was found, but it was alive and under the care of a study blacksmith who disappeared  the same time. They were last heard from in Syracuse, where so many bad people go.  In view of such a reedmace, we think brother Nash should sing the first line of the Doxology.

The following are further details of the elopement of Mrs. Nash, spoken of elsewhere.  On Monday he found a note from her, hidden under a book in which she said that when the note was found, she would be cold in death, and asking Mr. Nash's mother to be kind to the children.  Toward evening, circumstances seemed to indicate that the woman had gone off with one Irwin.  Irwin was found to be missing, and his wife and three children left nearly destitute and alone.  On inquiry among the neighbors, it was found that Irwin had been a frequent visitor at Nash's in the absence of the husband and father.  When Mrs. Nash left the house, she said she was going to Mr. Lambert's (a neighbor's) but it is supposed that she found Irwin and he, with a horse and cutter was waiting for her.  The recreant wife and mother left two small children, one of them very sick with inflammation of the lungs.  she is about twenty-six years old, and rather small, with prepossessing features.  Irwin is a blacksmith by trade and is about thirty-five years old.  Mr. Nash can give no reason for this sudden breaking up of his once happy home and had not suspected anything improper in Irwin's visits at his house.  He is now willing to pay a liberal reward for the arrest of the fugitives, but we can't see what in the world he wants of such people.