Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, May 1878

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, May 23, 1877

Marriages

WALSWORTH - LADUE:  May 9th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Edwin J. Walsworth, of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Mary E. LaDue of North Norwich.

JACKSON - ROSBROOK:  May 16th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. William Jackson of Clark's mills, Oneida Co. [NY], to Miss Hattie L. Rosbrook of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].

JOHNSON - SHIELDS:  May 16th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Thomas H. Johnson to Miss Mary M. Shields, all of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

THORP-HAWTHORNE:  May 18th, by Rev. S. Scoville, Mr. Floyd B. Thorp to Miss Jennie E. Hawthorne, all of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

Deaths

GUINANE:  In This village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], May 19th, Lovina [Guinane] daughter of Daniel Guinane, aged 23 years.

JONES:  In German [Chenango Co. NY], May 12th, 1878, Lucinda F. [Jones] wife of J.C. Jones aged 43 years, sister of V.C. and H. Emerson, of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY].

NEAL:  In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY], May 16th, Mrs. Huldah Neal widow of William Neal, aged 52 years.

COOK:  In Otselic, April 30th, Mr. Loren Cook, in the 81st year of his age.  Deceased was one of the early settlers, having resided in that vicinity for upwards of sixty years.

KNIGHT:  At Columbus [Chenango Co. NY], May 10th, Irene [Knight] wife of Earl Knight, aged 65 years, 9 months and 16 days.

LANDERS:  In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], May 8th, Ann M. [Landers] wife of William Landers, aged 43 years.

ROUNDS:   In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], May 13th, Ruth [Rounds] daughter of William and Rosailia Rounds, aged 14 years.

RUSSELL, In Honesdale, Pa., May 11th, Mr. Zenas Russell aged 71 years, formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY].

BEARDSLEY:  Charles Beardsley died quite suddenly although he has been in feeble health quite a long time.  He had been to our village [Sherburne, Chenango Co. NY] within a week of the time he died.  His funeral occurs today.

NICOLLS:  Our Sabbath School, which dates back more than half a century, has been visited by death for the first time (among the children) in fifteen or twenty years.  Little Agnes Nicolls, one of our most faithful scholars has been smitten by diphtheria and laid away in her early grave.  This little girl has for the year past rarely been absent from her place in the school, walking more than a mile each Sabbath.  A lady said to her on her last appearance at the school, two weeks before her death: "I'm afraid you will get sick walking so far."  She answered, brightly smiling, "Oh, no, I'm never sick."  A brief, sharp struggle with the dread diphtheria, and she has gone to the land where the inhabitants know no sickness or death.  Three successive Thursdays one has been borne to the grave from the home where she died, and there are still other cases of diphtheria in the family.  Nineteen have died at East Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] from this disease.  It is especially fatal among children.

News Item

Mr. Editor, as we are approaching Decoration Day, I would like to call the attention of the Committee to a custom that is practiced in nearly all places where Decoration Day is observed - a custom of decorating the graves of Soldiers of the Rebellion, 1846, 1812 and the Revolution, all alike.  In visiting our cemetery a few days since, I copied the inscriptions on two headstones:  "Captain John Church, by his valor, contributed to the independence of America:  Well has he deserved this monument, Died, July 13th, 1824, in the 68th year of his age."  "Capt. Thomas Lyon, killed at the battle of Little York, April 1813, aged 51."

We cannot honor too highly the memory of such heroes. There are many others whose graves should not go unnoticed.  Let us distribute our decorations equally, if we have to make them smaller.  A Soldier of the Rebellion.