Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, November & December 1877

 Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, November 28, 1877

Death

HOLDRIDGE:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], November 23rd, May [Holdridge], only daughter of R.M. and Betsy Holdridge, aged 10 years.

May was a bright, thoughtful, affectionate child, strongly endeared to all who knew her.  Their only child, her death is a sore bereavement, one which casts a dark shadow over the parent's home.  In their great sorrow and loneliness, the parents may be assured that they have the deed sympathy of many friends.

O safe at home, where the dark tempter roams not. / How I have envied thy far happier lot; / Already resting where the evil comes not, / The tear, the toil, the woe, the aim forgot.

Just gone within the veil, where I shall follow, / Not far before me, hardly out of sight / I, down beneath thee in the cloudy hollow, / And thou far up on yonder sunny height.

Gone to begin a new and happier story, / Thy bitter tale of earth now to'd and done; / These outer shadows for that inner glory / Exchanged forever, O Thrice blessed one!

O, freed from letters of their lonely prison, / How I shall greet thee in that day of days / When He who died, yea rather who is risen. / Shall these frail frames from dust and darkness raise.

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 1, 1877

Marriage

PARKER - BRONSON:  At the M.E. Parsonage, Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY], November 10th, 1877, by Rev. J.L. Race, Mr. James L. Parker to Miss Carrie C. Bronson, both of Lebanon [Madison Co. NY].

Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, December 8, 1877

Deaths

ST JOHN:  In Binghamton [Broome Co. NY], Nov. 20th, Mrs. Vincent St. John aged 66 years, mother of L.E. St. John, of Greene [Chenango Co. NY].

BARBER:  In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY, Nov. 30, suddenly of heart disease, Horace Barber, aged 65 years 7 months and 5 days.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, November 28, 1877

Death

Guilford, Chenango Co. NY:  Died in this town, on the 19th inst., Mr. Asaph Phillips, aged 86 years. The deceased had resided on the same farm, situated on the Mt. Upton Road, for 82 years and of course was identified with much of the early history of this town.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, December 5, 1877

Death

Greene, Chenango Co. NY:  Henry K. Read died Thursday morning, after a protracted and painful sickness of many months.  He had been in business in this village a number of years.  During the latter years of his life, he had been engaged as a commercial traveler, at which business he was an expert.  American

Chenango American, Greene, NY, December 6, 1877

Marriages

At the Baptist Parsonage in this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY], Nov. 30th, by Rev. J.H. Sage, Mr. Carthon Goetcheus  of German [Chenango Co. NY], to Miss Emma [Harrington] daughter of David Harrington, Esq. of this town.

At the residence of the bride's father, Andrew Jones, Yorkville, N.Y. [Oneida Co.] Nov. 28th, by Rev Barnard Schulte, Miss Lydia A. Jones to Dr. C.M. Hitchcock of Utica [Oneida Co. NY], formerly of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY].

Deaths

The Rev. J.V. Van Ingen D.D. of Rochester [Monroe Co. NY] died at Clyde [Wayne Co. NY] on Saturday evening last, of pneumonia.  Rev. Van Ingen was a prominent clergyman of the Episcopal Church in this State and a man of superior talent.  He was one of the early Rectors of this Parish and officiated at Zion Church several years.  After the death of Dr. Rogers, he again took temporary charge of the church remaining here about three months.  Dr. Van Ingen was well known and highly esteemed by many of our older citizens.  He was a powerful and eloquent preacher and a man of vast research and knowledge.  His remains are to be brought here for interment, the funeral to take place this (Wednesday) afternoon at Zion Chruch at 2 o'clock.  He is to be laid in our beautiful cemetery and his body will repose near the scenes of his early labors until the great day of the Resurrection.