Vital Records, Otsego County, NY, 1847 & 1849

 Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, NY, August 21, 1847

Marriages

In Burlington [Otsego C. NY], on the 8th inst. Mr. Thomas H . Porter of Paris, Oneida Co. [NY], to Miss Martha Ann Conkling of Burlington.

In Oaksville [Otsego Co. NY] on the 12th inst. by Wm. P. Johnson Esq., Mr. James Thompson to Mrs. Helen Carter, both of Warren, Herkimer County [NY].

Deaths

In Cherry Valley [Otsego Co. NY] on the 3d inst. Rev. S. Gilbert aged 65 years.

In this town [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY] on the 27th ult. Miss Betsey Maria Peabody, aged 22 years.

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Death of Robert Campbell. Esq.  We publish today the proceedings of the Bar of Cooperstown, on the occasion of the death or Robert Campbell, Esq. which occurred at his residence, in this village [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY] on Monday last, at the age of 66 years.

This is a merited compliment to the age and high standing of the deceased among his brethren of the profession.

Mr. C. through a long and successful professional career, justly sustained a character for learning and ability which few can hope to enjoy.  As a man, none possessed in a greater degree the good opinion and estimation of his fellow citizens.  His death will create a void in the bar, in the business relations of life, and in society generally, which we may look in vain to see so well, so long, so consistently and uniformly filled hereafter, but in few instances.

Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, July 25, 1849

Deaths

In this village [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY], on the 30th ult., Miss Phebe Ann Ploss aged 22 years.

In this village on the 25th ult., Thomas Prentiss, aged 70 years.

The subject of this notice was born in Charlestown, Mass., in the year 1779, and when quite young removed to Boston.  From Boston he emigrated to this village [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY] about 45 years ago where he has since resided.  The country at that time was an almost unbroken wilderness west of Albany.  He generally enjoyed good health, but his last sickness was protracted to nearly four months.  He lived the allotted time of man and died regretted by a long list of personal friends and acquaintances.

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In San Francisco, California, on the night of the 10th of May last, Albert B. Crafts aged about 35 years, formerly of Cherry Valley, Otsego County, N.Y.

The deceased had been subject for years to fits of apoplexy and it is supposed that he fell down in one of these and perished in the street, as he was found on the morning of the 11th, quite dead, between his lodgings and the City Hotel. The deceased came to this country as a private in company H of the 1st N.Y. Regiment.  He was honorably discharged at that end of the war, since which time he has worked a short time in the mines and was at the time of his death employed as an Inspector in the custom house of this port.  His remains were decently interred on the 12th inst. and were followed to the grave by a large number of his former companions in arms, who thus testified the sincerity of their esteem for one who was beloved and respected for his amiable disposition and goodness of heart.

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The intelligence of the Death of Mrs. G.S. Boardman came too late for any comment yesterday.  And though we have been anticipated in much that we would wish to say respecting this excellent woman, we cannot refrain from a brief tribute.  There have been few persons of our acquaintance who possessed in an equal degree those attributes which deserve the highest respect of men and win in fullest measure the favor of God.  From our earliest childhood have we known and honored her, and our heart now looks back upon numberless acts of kindness to ourself with a mournful gratitude.  She was the daughter of the late respected George Brayton, of Western, the wife of the Rev. G.S. Boardman, a clergyman well known in this and other sections of the state, and the sister of Edward Brayton, Esq., of this city. She was known not only in her own family but among all her acquaintances, for gentleness, benevolence and piety.  She took her last illness while ministering to the wants of a dying stranger.