Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, August 3, 1876
Marriages
JEWELL - MUDGE: At the Spaulding House, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], July 30th, by Rev. H.M. Crydenwise, Mr. Barrott V. Jewell of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Augusta Mudge, of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].
FARGO - VAUGHAN: In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], July 23d, by Rev. W.G Queal, Mr. Robert B. Fargo of Sherburne, to Miss Abine H. Vaughan, of Sherburne Four Corners.
Deaths
BRUSHELL: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], July 28th, Mr. Henry F. Brushell, son of Amos Brushell, Jr., aged 27 years.
PIKE: In King's Settlement [Chenango Co. NY], July 31st, Mrs. Phebe T. Pike, aged 85 years.
COLBURN: In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], July 17th, Miss Carrie Colburn, eldest daughter of Amasa and Mariett Colburn, aged 18 years.
PHELPS: In DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY], July 25th, Nettie [Phelps], wife of Almer H. Phelps, of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY]. Her remains were taken to New Berlin and buried in St. Andrew's Cemetery on the 28th.
FOOT: In Aylmer, C.W., July 20th, Dr. Ezra Foot, formerly of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] aged 54 years.
Dr. Ezra Foot, a brother of Mr. Asa Foot of this town, died at his residence in Aylmer, C.W. [Canada] on Thursday last. Dr. Foot was a former resident of this town and removed to Aylmer about twenty-eight years ago, where he commenced the practice of medicine and built up a successful practice and resided there until his death.
TERRELL: In Buffalo [Erie Co. NY], July 26th, Mrs. Esther Terrell, aged 72 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
GOODWIN: "Uncle Nat" Goodwin is dead. He published a Free-Soil paper in Cortland [Cortland Co. NY] in 1845 and upwards of twenty years ago was appointed Doorkeeper of the Assembly, which position, with a similar one in the Senate, he held for many years. For the past six or eight years he has served as a trusted messenger in the United States Treasury office in the city of New York where he died a few days since, in the seventy-third year of his age. He was an honest man and a faithful officer.
BROWN: It is stated that Joshua Brown who died in Brookfield [Madison Co. NY] recently at the age of seventy-six, was never out of town but once, when he went ot Sherburne. He left property worth $35,000.
MUGRIDGE: Charles Mugridge a printer employed in the Binghamton Times office [Broome Co. NY], was drowned while bathing in the Susquehanna River in that city on Thursday last. He was a single man, aged Twenty-eight years.
TANNER: Eddie Tanner, aged eight years of Marathon [Cortland Co. NY], was so badly injured by being struck by a runaway team, on the 22d ult that he died eight hours afterwards of internal injuries.
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DAVIS: Suddenly, in Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], July 29th, Mr. John Davis, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], aged 38 years.
A young man named John Davis, aged thirty-eight years, a resident of this village, was found dead in a berry lot on the farm of his cousin, Charles Davis, in the town of Guilford, on Saturday afternoon last. It appears that young Davis had been helping his cousin upon the farm for a few weeks past, and on Saturday afternoon went with Mrs. Davis to pick black raspberries in a lot some half a mile from the dwelling. After a time, the parties became separated and supposing that John had returned to the house, or would do so, Mrs. Davis proceeded homeward. As evening approached and the young man did not return, the family began to wonder at it, and later, with apprehension that something was wrong, a search was made through the field, and about seven o'clock his lifeless body was found. He had placed his berry pail upon a stump nearby and as it is thought, feeling unwell, had sat or fallen down where he died, and where his body was found lying with his face downward. It is stated that another party who were picking berries in the vicinity, saw the pail sitting upon the stump, about four o'clock, but paid no attention to it, not suspecting anything wrong. This, with other circumstances, indicates that he had been dead some time before his body was discovered.
Deceased had for some time complained of a bad feeling in his head, although on the morning preceding his death, he expressed himself as feeling much better than usual. It is supposed that his death was caused by apoplexy. No inquest was deemed necessary. On Sunday his remains were brought to this village, and on Monday afternoon buried from the residence of his brother-in-law, Nelson Aylesworth. Young Davis was a single man, of good habits, and was well known in this village, where he had many friends, particularly among the young people, by whom he will be missed.
News Item
Neither married nor Dead
Two weeks since, the Cortland Democrat published the obituary of Chauncey D. McElroy of Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], whose death from heart disease was announced as having taken place June 13th. A similar notice was published about the same time in the Newburgh Journal, McElroy having recently taught school at Blooming Grove, in that vicinity. About the same time, the papers of this County were publishing a notice of his marriage. These notices were received by the several editors through the mail and by them published in good faith. Since that time a card over Mr. McElroy's signature has been published in which he says he is not married, and the card bears date June 16th. We conclude that he is not dead. Who has been guilty of this contemptible imposition upon the press is what the publishers would be glad to know. Each probably has his own opinion as to the authorship of the brilliant joke, we have ours.
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