Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, November 1876 (concluded) December 1876

 Chenango American, Greene, NY, November 30, 1876

Marriages

On Nov. 18th, Rev. E.C. Herdman, Mr. George Sencare of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], and Miss Anna Sherwood, of Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY].

At the residence of the bride's father, Mr. M. Cook, Nov. 15th, by Rev. A.C. Sperry, Mr. E.V. McDonald to Miss Dora Cook, both of North Fenton [Broome Co. NY].

At the residence of Alfred Smith, in Solon [Cortland Co. NY], Nov. 15th, by Rev. W.M. Benger, Mr. Emmit T. Flinn of Solon to Miss Augusta Wright, of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY].

At the residence of the bride's father, Dudley Truman, Nov. 14th, by Rev. J.M. Allen, Andrew J. Coon and Alida Truman, all of Otselic [Chenango Co. NY].

At the M.E. Parsonage, Nov. 12th, by Rev. W.H. Garitt, Mr. Thomas R. Johnson and Miss Mary A. McEneny, all of Greene [Chenango Co. NY]

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, December 2, 1876

Deaths

WILLIAMS:  In this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 18th, Mrs. Dimmie Williams aged 69 y'rs, 1 month and 13 days.

VAUGHN:  In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 24th, Mrs. Hannah Vaughn, aged 70 years.

HILL:  In Lebanon [Madison Co. NY], Nov. 21st, Mr. David Hill aged 83 years and 5 months.

DULEY:  In this town [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 2, Francis Duley, aged 10 months.

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COOK:  On the morning of the 25th of November 1876, Mrs. Harriet Rumrill Cook, wife of Wm. Cook, Esq., aged 75 years.

In the death of Mrs. Cook the community has lost a valuable and highly respected member of society, the family a devoted and affectionate wife and mother, and the Episcopal Church a highly exemplary and useful communicant. many, many years has she passed in and out among us, quietly faithfully discharging the duties of these several relations.

How sad it is, that that home and family circle will be cheered no longer by her presence, nor the Church by her strikingly regular attendance, and earnest cooperation in every good work!  We shall all miss her pleasant face and her affectionate greeting.  Her long-occupied seat in the Sanctuary will be vacant.

After an unusually extended and exemplary Christian life, the master has called her to a higher life, to a nobler service. Except through the sweet communion of the Saints, she is lost to us.  But, oh, what has she gained?  "Absent from the body, present with the Lord."  Weep, we may, but murmur, we must not.  Because the master has called, we must try to say, "Thy will" (always right and good) "be done."  She died, as she had lived, "looking to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of her faith," for forgiveness and acceptance. Though he led her during her protracted sickness, through an experience of bitter suffering, yet her faith wavered not.  "She knew, in whom she believed," and that "He will keep that which she had committed to Him."  She clung to the Cross, and in her last hours found rich comfort in the frequent recital of sweet hymns of love to and trust in Him.

Are we not reminded that our store of treasures above is growing and made to feel more willing when the Lord's time is come, ourselves to leave this earthly scene to join our dear departed in that happier and more enduring life.  She has found a sweet rest in Paradise from sorrow and suffering.  We must cheerfully toil on in the faithful discharge of every duty, believing that we shall, someday, rejoin them in that glorious land.

"Raise thy repining eyes and take true measure / Of thine eternal treasure; / The Father of thy Lord can grudge thee nought, / The world for thee was bought.

"And as this landscape broad, earth, son and sky, / All centers in thine eye, / So all God does, if rightly understood, / Shall work thy final good."

Freeman's Journal, Cooperstown, NY, November 30, 1876

Deaths

In this village [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY], Nov. 23, Mrs. Rasiah M. Reno, aged 52 years.

In Schenevus [Otsego Co. NY], suddenly, Nov. 21st, Isaac Slingerland in the 79th year of his age.

In Gilbertsville [Otsego Co. NY] Nov. 16th, of typhoid pneumonia, Charles Myrick, Esq., in the 76th year of his age.

At Rexford Flats, Saratoga Co. N.Y. on the 25th inst. Mrs. Margaretta M.S. Nott, wife of Edward Nott, Esq., and daughter of the late Mrs. M.M.S. Bowers, of Lakelands [Onondaga Co. NY].