Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, April 1877 (continued)

 Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, April 5, 1877

Death

A peculiarly sad and impressive funeral took place at the M.E. Church in Susquehanna, a week ago last Saturday morning.  It was the funeral of a Miss Dix, who it is said by her friends, died of a broken heart.  According to the Susquehanna Gazette she had for some time kept company with a young man in Jackson and was engaged to be married.  She was preparing for her wedding when the news came to her that he had deserted her and married another girl.  She could not believe the story was true and came up to find out to her sorrow that the news was only too true.  She returned to her home, and taking to her bed never left it, except to be taken to her grave. The doctor who attended her says that her heart was paralyzed from the time she learned of her lover's base desertion.

Morris Chronicle, Morris, NY, April 4, 1877

Marriages

Gilbertsville, Otsego Co. NY:  Mr. Richard Cox and wife have lived sixty years of married life on the premises they now own and occupy.  there is on the lot an apple tree that measures eleven feet and six inches around the trunk that Mr. Cox planted himself.  One of Uncle Dick's peculiarities was that of taking the almanac of the year that his children were born in, with the day and hour they commenced unreeling the thread of life and as each one became of age presented them with it.

Mount Vision, Otsego Co. NY:  On the 7th inst. Mr. Morris Perry and Miss Alice Clark were married at Landen King's.

Deaths

March 31:  In New Lisbon [Otsego Co. NY], Mr. Trevor Yates, aged 61 years, 3 months and 21 days.

March 21:  In Morris [Otsego Co. NY], Mrs. Lucretia Cook, widow of Rice Cook, of West Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY], aged 80 years and 5 months.

March 21:  In Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY], Mrs. Charlotte Howard, widow of Martin Howard, aged 94 years.

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 4, 1877

Marriage

BEEKMAN - FRANKLIN:  At South Otselic [Chenango Co. NY], March 16, by Rev. H.C. Leach, Willard J. Beekman of Lebanon [Madison Co. NY] and Francis M. Franklin of Preston [Chenango Co. NY].

Deaths

CLARK:  In Elmira [Chemung Co. NY], March 29, Hon. J. Burr Clark formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY], aged 65 years.  He was a brother of the late Hon John C. Clark, a resident for many years of Bainbridge.

HYDE:  In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], on the 3d inst., Elijah Hyde, aged 76 years.

SMITH:  The remains of Gardner Smith who formerly resided in this vicinity were brought to this place [Earlville, Madison Co. NY] for interment last week.  He died at Quality Hill [Madison Co. NY], in the town of Lenox, at the age of eighty-three years.

SALEY:  We are pained to learn today of the death of Mrs. M.S. Saley.  Mrs. Saley, who was formerly known to the readers of the Telegraph as "Dick Ditson," went to Rockford, Illinois, last Spring, he [sic] engaged in business with G.P. Griffin. We had learned with much pleasure of their prosperity in their new home, and sad indeed are we to know that this bitter cup is pressed to our friend's lips. The funeral services are to be attended at 2 o'clock P.M. on Wednesday of this week, at the residence of R.R. Briggs in this place [Earlville, Madison Co. NY].

PABODIE:  At the residence of Frederick Weller, in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], april 2 of dropsy on the brain.  Freddie J. [Pabodie], son of H.C. and M.W. Pabodie, aged 7 months and 23 days.

We have tearfully folded his cold white hands / Lovingly on his breast. / We have kissed the pale lips forever closed, / And laid him down gently to rest.

We have laid him to rest with a void in our hearts, / In anguish wept over his tomb, / Yet we would not recall him where earth's chilling winds / Blight the flowers in their earliest bloom.

We would not recall him, Ah No, he has gone / Where life's surges can trouble no more; / To that Heavenly home in the land of the blest, / On that beautiful shining shore.

For we know there's a home in our Father's house, / A home for us all in the skies, / And we know the dear one we've loved so well /Has gained that Paradise.

News Item

Longevity

We have already noticed the fact that during the last two months, four persons have died in this State, who had lived more than one hundred years.  The careful observer will have noticed the fact in the papers of this county, that the deaths of a large number of aged persons have been announced during the Winter and Spring, showing that the Winter has been a severe one for the old, together with the fact that in Chenanog County people live to a great age as well as in other sections of this country.  This speaks well for the healthiness of our climate.  We append a list of these aged veterans with their residence and age who have died thus far during this year.

Jan. 1	Henry Knowles, Smyrna	91 years
Jan. 1	L.D. Burch, Sen., Sherburne	78 years
Jan. 9	Mrs. Joanna Holmes, Norwich	92 years
Jan. 10	Horace Brooks, Oxford	73 years
Jan. 12	Amaziah Parker, Otselic	73 years 9 months
Jan. 16	Nelson B. Hale, Norwich	70 years
Jan. 19	Sylvanus Smith, Rockdale	72 years
Jan. 22	John Pellett, Norwich	88 years
Jan. 22	Mrs. Abigal Stillman, Lincklaen	76 years
Jan. 23	Elliot Ufford, Pitcher	77 years
Jan. 23	Mrs. Hannah Van Wagner, Sherburne	88 years
Jan. 27	Mrs. Julia Emons, Norwich	81 years 7 months
Feb. 2	Christian Winters, Plymouth	83 years
Feb. 8	Mrs. Nancy Curtiss, Norwich	75 years
Feb. 8	Harry PerLee, No. Norwich	85 years
Feb. 12	Lydia Ann Ensworth, Oxford	72 years
Feb. 12	Miss Melinda Ives, Guilford	73 years
Feb. 12	Rev. A.G. Abbott, German	73 years
Feb. 17	John Harris, New Berlin	93 years
Feb. 18	Abijah Beardslee, New Berlin	76 years
Feb. 21	Miss Betsey Rice, Smyrna	80 years
Mch. 3	Mrs. Mary Kinyon, Norwich	77 years
Mch. 5	Betsey Root, Oxford	74 years
Mch. 5	Benjamin Gager, Norwich	81 years 4 months
Mch. 6	Wm. West, McDonough	77 years
Mch. 6	Mrs. Laura Loomis, Sherburne	73 years 7 months
Mch. 10	Mrs. Lemuel Jewell, Guilford	85 years
Mch. 11	Jemima Pratt, Sherburne	82 years 8 months
Mch. 12	Edward Lawton, Oxford	80 years
Mch. 12	Mrs. Achsa Thompson, Norwich	73 years
Mch. 13	Mrs. Huldah Taylor, Afton	82 years
Mch. 13	Solomon Kenyon, Pitcher	72 years
Mch. 13	Abial Bush, Guilford	77 years
Mch. 15	Polly Baldwin, Pitcher	84 years 7 months
Mch. 16	Mrs. E. Dye, Lincklaen	76 years
Mch. 17	Olive Botsford, Bainbridge	81 years
Mch. 17	Mrs. Bede Foot, Oxford	88 years
Mch. 19	Wm. Sliter, Bainbridge	76 years
Mch. 20	Sarah Parker, Norwich	80 years 8 months
Mch. 21	Mrs. Roby Moore, Otselic	85 years 5 months
Mch. 22	Isaac Leonard, Oxford	91 years
Mch. 23	Foster Anderson, Sherburne	86 years

Thus, it will be seen that forty-two of our old citizens who had attained the age of seventy years and upward, have passed away since the advent of this year, during three months ending March 31st.  Of these, twenty-one were seventy and less than eighty; seventeen were eighty and less than ninety, and four were upwards of ninety years of age.  The oldest was the venerable John Harris of New Berlin who had reached the ripe age of ninety-three years.  There have been doubtless many more deaths of people over seventy years of age in the county, during the three months, but they have not been brought to our notice.  There were quite a number also during November and December which we have not included in our list above.

In addition, there have been deaths of about as many more who had attained the age of sixty and upwards but not seventy, and yet we have in our own town still surviving we venture to say, one hundred persons and possibly more who are now upwards of seventy years of age.  Who says Chenango County is not a healthy one?