Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, June 1876

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, June 1, 1876

Marriages

RIDDICK - THOMPSON:  On Thursday morning, May 25th, at the Methodist Episcopal Church in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], by Rev. H.M. Crydenwise, Rev. Isaac H. Riddick of Litchfield, Minnesota Conference to Miss Sarah Thompson, youngest daughter of the late Dr. James Thompson, of Norwich.

PORTER - DAVIS:  At the residence of the bride's parents in Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], May 28th, by Rev. W.G. Queal, Mr. Adelbert Porter to Miss Hattie Davis, both of Sherburne.

Deaths

HALE:  In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] May 21st, Grace V. [Hale], daughter of H. Oscar and Delia F. Hale, aged 15 months.

LINCOLN:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] May 29th, Mr. Elijah Lincoln, aged 57 years.

ALDRICH:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], May 26th, Mr. Devalson Aldrich, aged 55 years.

WILKES:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], May 29th, Lovinia [Wilkes] wife of Philanus Wilkes, aged 42 years.

Have just heard that Mrs. Wilkes is dead. She has been some time sick with typhoid pneumonia.

SHOLES:  Near Earlville [Madison Co. NY], May 22d, Mr. Parley Sholes, aged 90 years.

CURTIS:  In McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], May 19th, Anna [Curtis], wife of Seth Curtis, aged 79 years.

SCOTT:  Samuel Scott, a successful Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] farmer, died on the 15th ult., his eighty-sixth birthday.

BREED:  We learn that the death of Jabez N. Breed, of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY], a notice of which was published two weeks since, was caused by his being bitten on one of his fingers by a hog, on Friday, the 12th ult from the effects of which he died on the following Tuesday.

MAXON:  Dea. John Maxon aged 84 years died in DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY], on the 19th ult.  In 1830 he founded the Protestant Sentinel, the first Seventh-Day Baptist paper in this country, at Homer [Cortland Co. NY]; in 1836 it was removed to DeRuyter, and Mr. Maxon retained his connection with it until the following year, when it passed into other hands, and was afterwards discontinued.

BOND:  A trackman named David [Daniel] Bond, in the employ of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, was struck and fatally injured a short distance east of Afton [Chenango Co. NY], by the engine of a train which left Binghamton at 4:30 on Monday morning.  Bond was one of a gang at work on the track and while the rest of the men moved clear of the rails, he miscalculated the approach of the train.  He was standing outside the track, bending over, and in the act of drawing a spike when the front of the engine struck him.  He was thrown into the ditch alongside the track and survived in a state of unconsciousness for about an hour.  His body was taken to his home, half a mile distant.  The deceased was about fifty years of age.

HUBBARD:  Calvin Hubbard, from whom Hubbardsville, Madison County [NY] was named, died at his residence in that place on the 17th ult, aged ninety-two years and three months.  He was a native of Sunderland, Mass. and was born on the 16th of February 1784.  Removing with his father Johnathan to then Litchfield, Herkimer County, N.Y., about seventy-five years ago.  He was apprenticed to a trade at Warren, in that county.  He married there Susannah Allen, and removed in 1806 to Sherburne, this county, and in 1813 to Hubbardsville, in the town of Hamilton, where he has resided sixty-three years, being the oldest male person in that town at his decease.  He was much respected by the community in which he had so long resided and his funeral on the 20th was largely attended. Deceased was an uncle of the late Hon. Demas Hubbard, of Smyrna.

CHURCH:  In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], May 21st, George [Church] son of Fayette and Sarah church, aged 18 years and 4 months.

George Church, son of Fayette, died of quick consumption on the 21st inst.  He had the measles a short time previous.  He was eighteen years and four months of age.

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PURDIE:  In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], May 23d, Susan [Purdie] wife of Dr. John Purdie, aged 60 years.

The remains of Mrs. Dr. Purdie of Otselic, were interred in the Friends' Burial Ground in this town [Smyrna, Chenango Co. NY], on Thursday afternoon. 

Mrs. Purdie, wife of Dr. John Purdie of North Otselic, died Tuesday, the 23d of May in the 61st year of her age.  Miss Susan Knowles girded her bridal robes about her and her plighted vows were solemnized and legalized with Dr. Purdie when she was twenty-three years old.  They moved, we believe, from Plymouth to Otselic, where they have resided since.  Her remains were taken to the Foot neighborhood in Smyrna, for interment in the Friends cemetery. She died of consumptions.

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CONE:  Suddenly of heart disease, in South Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] May 24th, Capt. Daniel N. Cone, aged 72 years.

Capt. Daniel N. Cone, of South Otselic died instantly, without premonition of heart disease on the 24th inst.  Capt. Cone was born in the town of Vernon, Ct., in 1804; was married at the age of twenty-seven; came to this state [NY] the same year and settled in the town of Lincklaen, where he lived as an upright and highly respected citizen.  He moved to South Otselic in 1870, and has resided here since, until his death last Wednesday.  He leaves a family of four sons and four daughters, with his wife, to mourn this great loss; all of whom live in this vicinity with the exception of Orello, who resides at Canton, St. Laurence County; is a minister at that place.  Capt. Cone, being deeply imbued in, adhered to, and advocated strongly the Democratic principles. Being elected Assessor in February 1874, he had assumed the duties of that office in the performance of which, so far, he had taken a judicious, reliable and satisfactory course; thus, giving evidence of equity and wisdom in his decided and unerring judgment.  He fully believed in a thorough retrenchment and reform, from the wild extravagance and corruption of many of the public agents.