Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, April 1876 (concluded)

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, Apr. 27, 1876

Marriages

At the Baptist Parsonage in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], April 23d, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. Charles W. Page to Miss Ida E. [Bowe] daughter of R.S. Bowe, Esq., both of this town.

At the residence of the bride's mother, near Lamb's Corners [Broome Co. NY], April 16th, by Rev. D. Personous, Mr. Georger. Marsh of Lisle [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Lottie M. Spencer of Nanticoke [Broome Co. NY].

Deaths

In Chenango Forks [Broome Co. NY], April 11th, Sarah J. [Hayhew] wife of Henry W. Hayhew, aged 37 years.

In Colesville [Broome Co. NY], suddenly, April 6th, at the residence of her son-in-law, Amos Wedge, Mrs. Huldah Reynolds, in her 91st year.

News Item

Family Gathering

Mr. Alexander Day, an old citizen of this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], recently completed his eightieth year and his birthday was made the occasion of a pleasant family gathering of relatives.  Mr. Day was the son of John Day, an English soldier who came from the mother country to participate in the war with the Colonies.  He was a loyal English subject to the day of his death.  After the close of the Revolutionary war, he married Anna Wood and settled in the town of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] where Mr. Day was born, residing there until the subject of this sketch was ten years old, but the intense Americanism of the new Republic made it more agreeable for an English subject to reside in the King's dominions.  The family emigrated to Upper Canada and Mr. Alex. Day lived there until the war of 1812 broke out, when he was drafted into the British army, being mustered in at Bennington Heights near Toronto along with thirty others.  In these day before active service began, the soldiers talked together of other lands and better governments.  Over the river, the star of the new Republic glittered and invited them.  The water is thirty-five miles across from Bennington Heights to Fort Niagara.  Thirty of them embarked in a boat one night and following the Milkyway, in due time they came into their port.  There Uncle Sam challenged them and holding aloft the white flag of peace, they were allowed to land.  They were detained a short time and then having taken the oath of fidelity to the U.S. Government; they went their various ways into the new freeland.

Mr. Day left the Canadian soil with fifty cents in his pocket.  His investments with Uncle Sam have turned out well and the fifty cents has returned more than compound interest.  Mr. Day remembers the hardships of those early days; times when the one or two cows went with bells on their necks through unmeasured acres of woodland; when sheep fell victims to the wolf and poor piggy was caught up by the marauding bear.  These days are past, affluence reigns in all the Chenango Valley; the old cow bell has long been forgotten, and fine herds of cattle roam over well-cultivated fields - a dying Chenango County man will revive and come to life if he hears "Butter has riz." Granges prevail and middlemen grow rich, but the country is no better and the race of men no stronger or wiser than in those early days of the Republic.

In 1812 Major Robert Swartout was Commander and Quartermaster General of the Fort at Niagara.  Mr. Day enlisted in the U.S. Army and was appointed wagon master by Major Swartout.  He served in this capacity for eighteen months, until the close of the war.  His journeys extended over the greater part of Central New York; the route of travel lay mostly along the great western turnpikes.  Fourteen days were required to make the journey between Buffalo and Albany. The arsenal for the supply of military stores and equipment was at Batavia.  Mr. D. would be entitled to a pension for service in the War of 1812, but his papers of discharge and service in the army were lost. The old men who anticipated in those stirring events of nearly a century ago are fast passing away; the few survivors ought to appear at the Centennial.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, April 29, 1876

Deaths

FULLER:  In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], on the 25th inst., Mr. Daniel W. Fuller, aged 49 years and 1 month.

WARNER:  In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co, NY], on the 27th inst. Mr. Stephen Warner, aged 27 years and 10 months.

CONDON:  At the residence of Denis Conway, in Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] on the 26th inst. Miss Nellie Condon aged 18 years.

The death of Miss Nellie Condon which occurred at the residence of D. Conway in Norwich last Wednesday was an event marked with more than usual sorrow.  Her excellencies as a young lady of superior intelligence, virtues and piety had endeared her to the society in which she moved and to numerous acquaintances, all of whom speak of her death in the morning of life as an irreparable loss.  On Thursday her remains were conveyed to the residence of her aunt, Mrs. Hyland, in Poolville, from which her funeral took place on Friday and at 11 o'clock, Friday, A.M., Requiem High Mass was celebrated at St. Malachi Church in this village, by Rev. Father Hyland of Amsterdam, assisted by Rev. Father Harrigan and St. Patrick Church Choir of Norwich. The solemn grand and sublime ceremonies of High Mass attended as they were by a large concourse of citizens from this and adjoining towns is perhaps the best testimonial that could be offered to the worth of the deceased, showing the appreciation in which she was held. We believe this to be the first time that the Requiem of High Mass has ever been celebrated in this village, and the impression will long be retained by those who witnessed it.

On Bury Me with Singing

By M.L.H.

On! bury me with singing; / With rejoicing gather round, / When ye have made my narrow bed / Mid the clustering churchyard mounds, / Hush the tolling of the old bell; / Hush the sad funeral strain; / Bear away the hearse and sable pall, / And bring them not again.

Oh! bury me with singing; / Let it swell above the prayer; / I cannot bear that ye should weep / While I am singing there. / There is no gloom within the grave / Where the Christian takes his rest, / I shall not hear life's tempests rave / When the turf lies o'er my breast.

Oh! bury me with singing; / Chant a joyful, happy strain, / And perchance my spirit hovering near, / Shall catch the sweet refrain; / Sing of a vanquished, conquered world / Sing ye of a Saviour's love, / Sing of the glittering Gates of Pearl, / Of my glorious home above.

Oh! bury me with singing, / Dry the tear and hush the sigh / Remember while 'tis sweet to live / 'Tis a glorious gain to die. / Then bury me in the morning light! / And sing as ye bear me on, / For the day I hail shall know no night / When those fleeting shades are gone.

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, April 29, 1876

Marriage

A very sensible sort of wedding occurred on Maple Street, Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY], on Wednesday evening last, so says the Herald and Democrat.  For several days prior to that time, Benjamin Burgess and Hattie Van Alstyne had together purchased furniture, crockery, carpets, pictures, etc. and with these household goods furnished comfortable rooms.  Wednesday evening a good supper was prepared, and the parties were all ready to commence married life. Then the parson came in and made them one.  We call that a very sensible and correct way of getting married.

Deaths

STOCKWELL:  At Oakland, Livingston County, [NY] March 19th, Henry Stockwell, aged 74, formerly a resident of this place [Bainbridge, Chenango Co. NY].

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At Sidney Plains, N.Y. [Delaware Co.], April 22d, Charles Skinner Bradford, aged 35 years.  He was educated at the Delaware Literary Institute, in Franklin, N.Y., entered the 144th Regiment N.Y.S. Volunteers at its organization as Orderly Sergeant, was promoted for good conduct to be first Lieutenant, was a long time its active Quarter Master; with it he was mustered out of service on the return of peace with a record unsullied and personal popularity unsurpassed.

He returned to Sidney Plains, was appointed postmaster, entered [the] mercantile business and exhibited the same traits of character which had marked him in the army, order, punctuality and integrity.  He was the friend and counsellor of all.  Old and young, high and low came to him for advice and encouragement.  A lineal descendant of the Rev William Johnston, who settled at Sidney in 1772, he possessed and developed the more lovable traits of character of that sturdy divine, energy, courage and an unyielding adherence to the right.  He was a gentleman by instinct, Christian from conviction and practice.

He will be sorely missed by the community, by the Church and by the family circle.  His life was an open epistle, known and read by all men.  In the village of his birth, he lived and died, leaving not an enmity or a heart turning.  Well may his survivors take up the lamentation of the ancient prophet, "How is the strong staff broken and the beautiful rod."

His funeral took place on Tuesday and was one of the largest and most impressive gatherings Sidney has ever witnessed.

Smyrna Citizen, Smyrna, NY, April 29, 1876

Deaths

FULLER:  In East Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], the 22nd inst. Mr. George Fuller, aged 23 years.

John Eckman died at the residence of L.H. Talcott this morning.  Mr. E. is a Wwede and has been at work for Mr. T. for some time past.  He has no relatives nearer than Omaha.