Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, February 18, 1875
Marriages
GIBSON - ST. JOHN: At Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 4th, by Rev. S.W. Wales, Mr. Samuel A. Gibson of Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY] to Miss Stella C. St. John, of Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY].
PROSSER - HAIGHT: At the M.E. Parsonage in Union [Broome Co. NY], Feb. 7th, by Rev. S.W. Wales, Mr. Henry D. Prosser to Miss Jennie A. Haight, both of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY].
OLMSTEAD - SCHOFIELD: In Masonville [Delaware Co. NY], Feb. 10th, by Rev. J.C. Shelland, Mr. Levi Olmstead of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Ella Schofield, of Masonville.
CHURCH - DARROW: In Afton [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 4th, by Rev. K.T. Jacobs, Mr. Richard B. Church to Miss Eva Darrow, all of Afton.
JONES - GORELINE: In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 9th, by Rev. D.W. Bigelow, Mr. Delos M. Jones of Lincklaen [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Emma L. Goreline of Pitcher.
COE - MUDGE: At the residence of the bride's mother in Earlville [Madison Co. NY], Feb. 9th, by Rev. G.R. Burnside, Mr. W. Emmett Coe of Peterboro, N.Y. [Madison Co.], to Miss Carrie E. Mudge, daughter of the late William Mudge, Esq., of Earlville, N.Y.
BOYD - SWIFT: At the home of he bride's mother in Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], Feb. 4th, by Rev. Gordon Moore, Mr. William A Boyd of Lebanon [Madison Co. NY] to Miss Nellie Swift, of Hamilton.
BENNETT - HOVEY: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 10th, by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Benjamin B. Bennett of Afton [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Harriet L. Hovey of Oxford.
ECCLESTON - WILLCOX: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 11th, by Rev. J.C. Ward, Mr. Clement T. Eccleston of Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], to Miss Alice M. Willcox, of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY].
Deaths
BIRDSALL: In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 14th, Mr. Lewis Birdsall, aged 61 years.
Mr. Lewis Birdsall, formerly a resident of Rockdale [Chenango Co. NY], but for some time past residing in our village, died on the 14th, after a short illness, aged 61 years.
RUCKEL: In Rockdale [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 4th, Mary A. [Ruckel] wife of Frank Ruckel, and only daughter of the late George W. Keyes of Coventry, aged 26 years, 11 months and 21 days.
TITUS: In North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 13th? Lucy M. [Titus] wife of Smith Titus 2d, aged 35? years.
WATERS: In North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 9th, at the residence of her son, G.S. Waters, Mrs. Polly M. Waters, aged 75 years 4 months and 10 days.
LITTLEWOOD: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 10th, Miss Gertrude Littlewood, aged 15 years.
PRESTON: In Lincklaen [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 26th? Alfred M. [Preston] son of Corydon A. and Emerett Preston, aged 10 years, 5 months and 2 days. The third death in the family within one month form the same disease, scarlatina.
CORBIN: In Bennettsville [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 4th, Charlotte [Corbin] wife of Frank Corbin, aged 18 years.
LYON: In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 4th, Mrs. Margaret Lyon, widow of Daniel Lyon, aged 81 years.
SWEETLAND: In Triangle, Broome Co. [NY], Feb. 9th, Calphurnia D. [Sweetland] wife of Freeman B. Sweetland, and daughter of the late Robert H. Holcomb, of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], aged 43 years and 7 months.
BEEBE: In Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY], Jan. 24th, of diphtheria, Mary E. [Beebe], daughter of the late Samuel Beebe, formerly of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY], aged 5? years.
FARNHUM: At Pine Grove, Warren Co. Pa., Mrs. Olive Deming Farnham, wife of John Farnham, and sister of A.C. Scott, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], aged 73 years and 9 months.
Jacob Oatman, of Oneida [Madison Co. NY], was fatally injured February 9, while chopping wood near Verona. The branch of a tree fell and fractured his skull. He leaves a family of nine children.
News Item
A Reminiscence: The Astor House in New York - years ago the most popular hotel in the city - is to be converted into stores, and last week the furniture of the several rooms was sold at auction. In many of the rooms, formerly occupied by Calhoun, Webster and other prominent men, the furniture remained the same, and the sales were attended by those who had the curiosity to gaze upon the ancient furnishings or who desired to purchase mementoes of departed greatness. the Brooklyn Daily Union, makes the following pleasant mention of one of our former townsmen, who was a patron of the Astor in its palmy days:
Among the minor reminiscences of the Astor House are occasional visits formerly made to the great resort by the late Judge B.F. Rexford, of Norwich, Chenango County, N.Y., a man of more than local fame in his profession, very genial in conversation, and eccentric in manner. He like to smoke clean clay pipes, the regular old fashioned, small sized "T.D." and he loved to whittle soft woods, carving out cubes, balls, chains, etc. His room at the Astor House, in days preceding the Rebellion, was occupied by him, perhaps four to six times a year. In it he would have his pipes and tobacco, his pine sticks (carefully selected) and his sharpened pocket-knife. Here, while discussing legal points, or aiding to organize a political campaign, or engaged in social converse, the judge would smoke his clean clay pipes (one three or four times used was rejected) and litter the floor with pine shavings. Many are the pleasant anecdotes related of the old man, and his quaint sayings are today prominent in the traditional gossip of the pleasant old town where he lived and died."
Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, February 18, 1875
Deaths
MANWARING: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], February 14, Mr. Daniel O. Manwaring, aged 43 years.
SHERMAN: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY], suddenly, of apoplexy, on Sunday, Feb. 7, Mrs. Betsey [Sherman], wife of Reuben Sherman, in the 80th year of her age.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, February 18, 1875
Deaths
In Barker [Broome Co. NY], at the house of Newton brewer, Feb. 2d, Mrs. Sobrina [Brewer], wife of Hamilton Brewer, formerly of Triangle [Broome Co. NY], aged 60 years.
In Triangle [Broome Co. NY], Feb. 8th, Mr. Samuel Wiswell, aged 85 years.
Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, February 20, 1875
Marriages
HOLLEY - FOOTE: In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], on the 18th inst., by the Rev. A.F. Brown, Mr. Lavette Holley and Miss Cora Foote, all of Smyrna.
WARNER - WILBUR: At the residence of A. Eastman, in Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], on the 18th inst., by Rev. A.F. Brown, Mr. Stephen Warner of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] and Miss Lottie A. Wilbur, of the former place.
Deaths
ERTZ: In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], on the 7dth inst., Minnie Ertz, aged 2 years 3 months and 22 days.
HAXTON: In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], on the 16th inst., Mr. Chauncey Haxton, aged 80 years and 8 months.
Chauncey Haxton, who died at the house of A.R. Bryant on the 16th inst., was formerly a resident of Sherburne, and was in active business here a generation ago; and was at one time deputy sheriff. He lived where the house of David Elsbre now stands. He was born in Chatham, Columbia Co. N.Y. in 1791, and was eight years old when his family removed to Sherburne. For the last twenty-four years he has lived at Fowlerville, Livingston, Co., N.Y. until last fall, when, in consequence of failing health, he returned to stay with his relatives in Norwich and Sherburne. He left no children. His second wife died about a year ago. Of his brothers and sisters, the only survivors are Mr. Andrew Haxton of Norwich and Mrs. Bryant and Mrs. Robinson, of Sherburne.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, February 20, 1875
Marriage
JOHNSON - HOVEY: At Woosung Jan. 28, 1875, by Rev. L.D. Waldo, Wm. S. Johnson of New Haven, Conn. to Libbie Hovey of the former place.
Deaths
On Thursday morning the Church bells announced the death of Gertrude Littlewood, aged 15 years, and a son of Erastus Babcock, aged 18 years. There seems to be an epidemic sweeping over this portion of the country, that baffles the skill of the physicians, and that is carrying a large number to their last resting place. We understand that in Norwich it is raging fearfully - dying off at the rate of five or six a day. New Berlin Gazette
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