Vital Records, Chenango (1878) & Delaware (1825) Counties, NY

 Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, July 24, 1878

Marriage

CUMMINGS - MURRAY:  In Olean [Cattaraugus Co. NY, July 4th, by Rev. O.F. Williams, Mr. George H. Cummings of Greene [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Mary R. Murray of Humphrey, N.Y. [Cattaraugus Co.].

Deaths

NASH:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], July 16th, Mr. Alphonzo D. Nash aged 55 years.

PENDLETON:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY], July 17th, William Pendleton, Esq. aged 83 years.

WILLCOX:  In Mayville, Chautauqua Co. N.Y. July 12th, Lydia A. [Willcox] aged 72 years.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, July 25, 1878

Marriages

In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY], July 9th, by Rev. W.G. Queal, Mr. Alonzo E. Miller to Miss Celia Olney, both of Columbus [Chenango Co. NY].

In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], July 14th, by Rev. O.H. McAnulty, Mr. Charles Husted and Mrs. Nancy Button , all of Sherburne.

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, July 25, 1878

Death

DUNLEVY:  In East Guilford [Chenango Co. NY], July 20, 1878, of diptheria, Delia J. Dunlevy aged 38 years.

Diphtheria is still raging to a considerable extent at East Guilford.  On Sunday last, after an illness of but three days with the disease, Mrs. Delia Dunlevy, whose death appears in another column, passed away.  Others of the family are down with it, but hopes of their recovery are entertained.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 7, 1825

Death

On Saturday evening last, Harriet Elizabeth Foote daughter of General Frederick P. Foote of this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY], aged seventeen years.  Last summer saw her apparently in health.  Her decline became visible at the commencement of autumn and at the approach of winter terminated rapidly in death.  She possessed in an uncommon degree the attractive graces and amiable manners which make youth beloved and render it peculiarly and touchingly interesting in its lapse to the tomb.  A life of spotless innocence spent in the practice of virtues early inculcated by the purest precept and example will console her afflicted friends with the belief that she has gone to a better world.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 14, 1825

Death

Died very suddenly in Hancock [Delaware Co. NY], on the 20th ult. Mr. Archibald Armstrong aged about 66 years.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 28, 1825

Marriage

In Walton [Delaware Co. NY] on Tuesday the 22d inst. by the Rev. Isaac Headley, Capt. Platt Townsend to Miss Abigail Mead daughter of Mr. Allen Mead, all of that place.

Deaths

Died at Franklin [Delaware Co. NY] on the 21st inst. of a consumption, Mrs. Betsy Case, wife of Roger Case, Esq. aged 45 years.  Mrs. Case was distinguished for exemplary piety and endearing behavior. She possessed a most amiable disposition and from her kindness and benevolence, she was ever ready to afford relief to the poor and needy. She was an affectionate wife, a kind and tender mother and to her husband and children, her loss is irreparable.  Mrs. Case was a member of the Presbyterian Church and during her sickness her mind often rose superior to her infirmities and bespoke the steadfast purpose of her soul. The thought of death, which often appalls the ungodly, produced in her a glow of animation.  She seemed to view it as the gate of endless day and dying but going home, believing it far greater riches to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season.

Gradually, yet patiently and tranquilly she sank under the increasing weight of disease and her immortal spirit unfettered and enlarged, winged its way to regions of everlasting bliss, to unite with the "spirits of just men made perfect," to the everlasting enjoyment of those good things which God hath prepared and laid up in store of those that love him.

"The world can never give / The bliss for which we sigh; / 'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die.

Beyond this vale of tears, / There is a life above, / Uncumbered by the flight of years, / And all that life is love."

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At Meredith [Delaware Co. NY] after a short illness of a typhus fever, much esteemed and lamented Miss Huldah H. Edwards, daughter of Zephaniah Edwards of Andes [Delaware Co. NY] in the 22d year of her age. she was a public professor of the Christian religion, and we trust she is now 

ranging the fields of the blessed in that happy city, blest abode, / To dwell forever with her God.  

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea saith the Sirit that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."