Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 11, 1876
Marriages
GUILE - SARGENT: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], April 30th, by Rev. H.M. Crydanwise, pastor of the M.E. Church, Mr. Henry C. Guile to Clara A. Sargent, all of Norwich.
SANDERS - BUTTON: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], April 20th, by Rev. J.C. Ransom, Mr. Elias F. Sanders to Miss Eva Button, both of Preston [Chenango Co. NY].
HARRISON - SWEETLAND: In Greene [Chenango Co. NY], April 26, by Rev. R.A. Clark, Mr. George Harrison, of Smithville [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Rhoda Sweetland of the former place.
JONES - WOLDORF: In East Worcester, N.Y. April 30th, by Rev. William McNeil, Rev. J. Jones of Afton [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Minnie Woldorf of the former place.
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On Monday of last week there arrived from one of the rural towns, a young man and lady with the avowed intention of being married, as per agreement, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY]
From here they were to proceed to Scranton, Pa., on a wedding tour. The intended bride desired to postpone the nuptials till their arrival in Scranton and asked from her intended husband the sum of five dollars to enable her to spend the night with a friend at North Norwich, promising to buy the tickets to Scranton and meet the swain on the eleven o'clock train. He agreed to the delay and forked over the legal tender with which she departed.
She met him on the train, as per agreement, but did not buy the tickets and he, lover like, paid the fare to S. On arriving there, he was impatient that the long-delayed nuptials should take place, but she plead for another delay, to enable her to go up fifty miles into the country and obtain the presence of her cousin and asked for more of the needful with which to pay expenses and do some shopping, he to remain in the city. To this he consented, passed over the stamps and saw his lovely girl and hard-earned cash depart - she with love beaming from her eyes, promising to return on the morning train.
In due time the train, but minus the lovely passenger arrived. With longing eyes and troubled heart, he waited, a stranger in a strange land, for three long days, watching every train, but it brought nothing to his embrace. The telegraph was brought into requisition, and this developed the fact that the cousin had not seen or heard of the expected bride; and finally, a wiser, sadder and poorer young man, he turned homeward, wondering, fearing, whether the mines or some other young man had swallowed her up.
Deaths
ECCLESTON: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 4th, Mrs. Sally B. Eccleston in the 72d year of her age.
HOLMES: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], May 7th, Laura [Holmes] wife of Elijah Holmes, aged 63 years.
PADGET: In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], May 7th, Jessie [Padget] daughter of Lewis Padget, aged 19 years.
TILLOTSON: In Smithville [Chenango Co. NY], May 2d, Orrin [Tillotson] son of Albert and Josephine Tillotson, aged 8 months.
SHERWOOD: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], May 3d, Mr. William Sherwood, aged 77 years.
JOHNSTON: In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], April 28th, Mrs. Hannah Johnston, aged 77 years.
KEELEY: In Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], April 27th, Mr. James Keeley aged 36 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].
KNAPP: In Grand Rapids, Mich. April 26, Abigail Blakesley Sill [Knapp], wife of L.H. Knapp, aged 57 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY]
BURTIS: In Buffalo [Erie Co., NY], April 29th, Grace E. [Burtis] wife of Rev. Arthur Burtis, D.D. formerly pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], aged 71 years.
North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY]: Last week, William Jaynes buried his youngest child; cause of death, heart disease.
Bridget Dunn aged 42 years, cook at the Central Hotel in Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] was stricken on Monday afternoon with apoplexy and died before evening.
Wm. H. Plumb, an old resident of Hamilton [Madison Co. NY], died very suddenly Friday evening of apoplexy.
George Harrison died on the morning of the 3d inst. at Georgetown [Madison Co. NY], of Rheumatism of the heart.
Julia [Harrington] daughter of the late Jennice Harrington, of Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], died on Wednesday, the 3d inst. of a relapse from the measles.
Mrs. Ariadne Perkins, consort of the late Thomas Perkins, died last Thursday, the 4th inst. Funeral services take place today, at South Otselic [Chenango Co. NY].
Dr. Abbott, a former resident and physician of this village, died in Elmira [Chemung Co. NY] recently.
Coroner Hand of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], was called to Afton [Chenango Co. NY] on Sunday to hold an inquest on the body of Hiram Gould, of Bettsburg, in that town, who was instantly killed by a gravel train on the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad on the previous evening. From the evidence it appeared that Gould, who was a wagonmaker, left his home on Saturday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, to go to Afton village on business, a distance of about three miles. He crossed the Susquehanna River near his home to take the track of the Albany and Susquehanna railroad and had gone but a short distance on the track when, coming to a sharp curve in the road, he was overtaken by a gravel train and instantly killed. His head was crushed, thigh broken, also the bones of one arm, with a general contusion of the whole body. He was so deaf that for several years it had been very difficult for him to hear even loud sounds. He leaves a wife and four children in dependent circumstances. His age was 46 years.
John Hubbard, the young man who shot himself at the Cafferty House, in Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], April 10th?, died on Saturday afternoon last. His case has attracted much attention among medical men and a postmortem examination showed that the wound was not necessarily a fatal one, the ball having entered between the fifth and sixth ribs and touched no vital organ, and that Hubbard starved himself to death. The only nourishment he was known to take during the seventeen days preceding his death being about half a cup of beef tea and a few Spoonfuls of milk. He was probably insane.
Delaware Co. NY: Orson Boyd and wife attempted to ford the Delaware River at Fisher's Eddie, near the Midland Railroad, on Tuesday of last week, driving a two-horse team attached to a lumber wagon. They had reached the middle of the river when the powerful current, swollen by recent rains, overturned the wagon and threw both into the stream. A young man named, Robert Lewis, who lives on the bank saw the accident and rushed to the rescue, pushing off a small leaky boat, but on reaching the middle of the stream his setting pad broke in two leaving him to helplessly drifting at the mercy of the current, unable to aid two human beings, who drowned before his eyes, the man battling bravely with the current, sustaining his wife above the water while he swam upon his back until they both sank, the woman in the meantime uttering the most piteous cries for help. One of the horses attached to the wagon became entangled in the harness and drowned; the other swam and dragged his mate and wagon to the shore. On Wednesday the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd were recovered and buried on Thursday. They left two children, one a baby and the other a child about three years old.
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