Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, August 1876 (continued)

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, August 10, 1876

Marriages

HEBBARD - DYE:  In Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], August 2d, by Rev. J.K. Peck, Mr. Frank L. Hebbard to Miss Mary Dye.

BROWNELL - NASH:  In Earlville [Madison Co. NY], July 27th, by Rev. E.C. Brown, Mr. Nathan E. Brownell to Miss Carrie M. Nash all of Earlville.

Guilford Chenango Co. NY:  Matrimony flourishes notwithstanding the hot weather.  Barrett Jewell is no longer the boy he was, for there is two of him.  Barnum Phipps realizes the joy and solace there is in having a wife to come tripping o'er the meadows green to meet him, when returning from his daily toil.  And soon our legal limb will demonstrate that there is a blind side, even to a lawyer, by becoming a Benedict.  And so, wags the world.

Deaths

DAVIS:  At the County House, in Preston [Chenango Co. NY], August 2d, Mrs. Catharine C. Davis, aged about 55 years, from Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].

ALLENDORF:  in New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] August 4th, suddenly, Mr. Charles Allendorf, son-in-law of Hosea Dimmick, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].

Our New Berlin correspondent mentions the sudden death of Charles Allendorf, of that place, who was seized with a severe pain in the stomach, on Friday morning last, while working in the hayfield, and died in the evening of that day.

Charles Allendorf, only son of William Allendorf, Esq., died on Friday, August 4th, after a few hours illness. While working in the field at 10 A.M., he was seized with a severe pain in his stomach, and although medical aid was immediately summoned, rapidly grew worse, and expired at 8 P.M.

WATTS:  In Elyssian Fields, Harrison Co. Texas, July 8th, Mrs. Lucy Watts, aged 74 years.

LAKIEHER:  Suddenly, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], August 7th, Frankie [Lakieher], son of Frank Lakieher, aged 13 months.

Frankie, aged thirteen months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lakieher, boarders at the Palmer House in this village, fell from a front window in their room, in the third story of the building, between seven and eight o'clock on Monday morning last, striking upon the plank walk, a distance of some thirty feet below.  The fall was witnessed by several in the vicinity who were horror stricken, and the limp and apparently lifeless body was taken up and carried into the hotel parlor, when it was found that life still remained. Dr Avery was called, who found that one side of the head was crushed, which with other injuries must prove fatal. The unconscious little sufferer survived its fall about half an hour. The parents are almost strangers in town, having removed to this place from Ithaca [Tompkins Co. NY] a few weeks since, Mr. Lakieher being employed in the cigar shop of Schorn & Follett. They have the sympathies of the community in this their sudden and fearful bereavement. The remains were interred in the Catholic cemetery on Tuesday afternoon.

FOSTER:  In this village [Norwich Chenango Co. NY], August 5th, Mr. Thomas Foster, aged 27 years.

Our readers will recollect the account published two months since of the fearful runaway of Joseph Arnold's team, on Broad Street June 6th, and the injuries sustained by Thomas Foster, a young man engaged in driving Ralph Wilbur's cart, with which the runaway team collided, throwing him out and bruising his head badly.  For some weeks Foster lay apparently at the point of death, partially unconscious and his eyesight gone, but at last he rallied.  His strength returned slowly, and his eyesight was so much restored that he was enabled to distinguish person's and objects.  Something like two weeks since he walked some distance from his home and upon his return complained of a severe pain in his head, attributing it to the excessive heat.  From that time he continued to fail, inflammation of the brain having set in, and he died on Saturday evening last.  He leaves a wife and one child, in dependent circumstances.

HAYES:  Suddenly, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], August 5th, Mr. James Hayes, aged 73 years.

The community was startled on Saturday morning last, by the announcement that James Hayes, an old and much esteemed resident of this village, was early that morning found dead in his bed.  Mr. Hayes had for several months been in poor health, and was evidently gradually failing, yet his friends did not anticipate that his end was so near.  He had nearly reached his seventy-fourth year, and during his long life he has been a model of industry and integrity.  Unassuming in his manner, pleasing in his intercourse with all, and scrupulously honest, he had won the confidence and respect of all classes.  who sympathize with his daughter, the only surviving member of the family, his wife having died several years since.  His funeral was largely attended on Sunday afternoon, Rev. D.E. Loveridge officiating. deceased was a brother of E.T. Hayes, Esq.

COLBURN:  In our last we mentioned the severe illness of Miss Carrie Colburn, daughter of Mr. A.E. Colburn, of this town, and we are now called to the sad duty of noticing her death, which took place a few days afterward.  Miss Colburn was engaged in teaching the summer school in this place [Guilford, Chenango Co. NY], when stricken down by the relentless hand of disease, which after a duration of six weeks terminated fatally.  In the capacity of teacher, she gave universal satisfaction, and won many friends.  Her funeral was largely attended at her father's residence. The services were conducted by Rev. J.G. Eckman of Norwich.

TICKNOR:  A daughter of the late Mrs. Nancy Ticknor aged about twelve years, set her clothes on fire while making a fire in the stove, and was so badly burned that she died Wednesday morning. The accident was rendered doubly sad by the fact that her father is dead, and that her mother drowned herself last spring while under a temporary aberration of mind. Two children are left, one of whom is under ten years of age. [Broome Co. NY]

BURGESS:  Mrs. Moreau Burgess of Marathon [Cortland Co. NY], met with a fatal accident on Sunday last, from a runaway, while making preparations to attend the funeral of a relative, a few miles distant, accompanied by Burgess Squires. The lady had taken a seat in the carriage, when Mr. Squires concluded to put a fly net upon the ears of his horse, a young and spirited animal.  In doing so, he was obliged to remove the headstall partially, when the horse made a sudden spring and ran up the street.  Mr. Squires clung to the horse's head until he was thrown violently against a tree, receiving considerable injury. The horse continued at a furious rate of speed, turned to cross the river bridge, the carriage striking the abutment, throwing Mrs. Burgess upon the bed of the river below, a distance of twenty or thirty feet. She was taken up in an insensible condition, but soon regained consciousness for a few moments. She lingered several hours before death ensued.