Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, March 1878

 Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 9, 1878

Marriages

BETTS - SINES:  At the M.E. Parsonage, Gilbertsville [Otsego Co. NY], March 5th, by Rev. B.B. Carruth, Mr. Wm. H. Betts of Sidney [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss Emogene Sines of Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY].

CRANDALL - CROZIER:  At the residence of the bride's mother, in Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] March 6th, by Rev. W.R. Stone, Mr. Frank Crandall and Miss Fannie Crozier both of Norwich.

MERRILL - WALLS:  At Milwaukee, Feb. 25th, '78, at the bride's Father's by the Rev. Edward Ellis, Fred A. Merrill to Ida Belle Walls.  Both of Milwaukee [WI].

Deaths

BILLINGS:  In Greene [Chenango Co. NY], Feb. 27th, Mrs. Nellie [Billings] wife of Charles Billings, aged 44 years.

SKILLMAN:  In Zumbrota, Minn., Feb. 23d, Delbert [Skillman] twin brother to Lambert Skillman, and son of John and Clarinda Skillman, formerly of Smithville [Chenango Co. NY] aged 9 years and 10 months.

BOYDEN:  In Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY], March 6th, Ann Eliza [Boyden] wife of Murry Boyden, aged 16 years and four months.

WILLCOX:  In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. S.S. Merritt, March 4th, of pneumonia, Mrs. Lucinda P. Willcox, wife of the late Whitman Willcox, aged 78 years and 10 months.

LYON:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], March 1st, Freddie [Lyon] son of G.W. and Frances Lyon, aged 4 years 11 months and 2 days.

With God a dear one reigneth, / And beckons you away / To plains where a spirit gaineth / Bright views of heavenly day. / There smiling at the glory / Of that bright and happy place / Your loved one sings the story / Of pure, redeeming grace.

News Item

Albert P. Benedict who was committed to the Cortland County jail last week in default of $600 bail, for having more wives than the law allows, was on Wednesday brought before Judge Smith, of Cortland, on a writ of habeas corpus, who ordered his discharge from custody.  It appears that Benedict was married to a Mrs. Borden of Norwich in 1860 and lived with her several years, raising a family of three children.  Last summer he discovered that her first husband was not dead, and this caused him to leave her.  He went to Cortland and soon married a Miss VanBuren, a very respectable young lady, with whom he lived until arrested on charge of bigamy, preferred by his first wife last week.  prisoner's counsel insisted that the marriage between the prisoner and Mrs. Broden was absolutely void and that therefore the crime of bigamy had not been committed.  Decision was rendered as above stated.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, March 6, 1878

Deaths

Guilford, Chenango Co. NY:  The funeral of Mrs. Clarissa Benedict took place on Saturday, from Christ's church.   Mrs. B. was a sister of Samuel A. Smith and was the last of that generation.  Her death occurred in Afton Feb. 28th and her age was 81 years.

The little four months old daughter of Mr. & Mrs. A.R. Brown died on the 23d ult.  It was an only child and dearly beloved and will be missed.  None but the mother can know how much.  They have the heartfelt sympathy of a large circle of friends.

"She is not dead, the child of your affection, / But gone unto that school / Where she no longer needs your poor protection, / And Christ himself doth rule."

Chenango American, Greene, NY, March 7, 1878

Death

In Barker [Broome Co. NY], Feb. 28th, Mrs. Sally Eldredge, aged 78 years.

Sherburne News, Sherburne, NY, March 9, 1878

Marriages

GRAVELDING - BRINON:  At the M.E. Parsonage, in this village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY], March 5th, 1878, by Rev. W.G. Queal, Mr. Joseph Gravelding to Miss Emily Brinon, all of Sherburne.

COSSETT - BERRILL:  At Grace Church, Waterville [Oneida Co. NY], Feb. 19th, by Rt. Rev. D.T. Huntington, D.D., Rev. Frederick B. Cossett of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] to Minnie [Berrill] daughter of Richard Berrill, of Waterville.

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, March 7, 1878

Marriage

Yaleville [Chenango Co. NY], Our friend and neighbor Mr. Elial Birch has again taken unto himself, according to Divine Instructions, a wife.  He was married to a Mrs. Birch of Afton [Chenango Co. NY] on Monday of this week.  We wish the newly married couple much success and that their lives may glide on in one continual happy summer of wedded bliss.

Death

The remains of Mrs. Patchin were brought to this place for interment on Saturday of last week, from her late residence in Worcester [Otsego Co. NY].  She was formerly of this place [Bainbridge, Chenango Co. NY].