Vital Records, Chenango County, NY (1879)

 Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, February 6, 1879

Marriages

COOK - RIDER:  In Afton [Chenango Co. NY], Jan. 29th, by Rev. D.N. Grummon, Mr. William B. Cook to Miss Anna F. Rider both of Afton.

SACKETT - OTTMAN: In Carlisle, N.Y. [Schoharie Co.] Jan. 20th, by Rev. M. Kling, Mr. O.E. Sackett of Afton [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Mary E. Ottman of Carlisle.

Deaths

COLEMAN: In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 1st, John M. [Coleman] son of John and Mary Coleman, aged 10 months.

BOWEN:  At Rockwells Mills, Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] Jan. 30th, Mr. Ollis Bowen aged 73 years a, father-in-law of Rev. L.C. Hayes of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].

ADSIT:  In North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] Jan. 28th Mrs. Sally Ann Adsit wife of Edward Adsit, aged 56 years and 9 months.

WILKES:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] Jan. 29th, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Wilkes wife of Horace Wilkes, aged 48 years, 2 months and 10 days.

GILLESPIE:  In Lincklean Centre [Chenango Co. NY] Jan. 26th, Mr. David Gillespie aged 32 years.

KIRTLAND:  In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] Jan. 25th Mrs. John Kirtland aged 38 years.

OWENS:  In Charles City, Iowa Jan. 4th, Mr. J. Evans Owens aged 75 years, formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY].

TURNER:  In Versailles, KY., Jan. 19th, Mr. Ulysses Turner aged 50 years, only brother of Dea. Lester Turner, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].

McLEAN:  Guilford, Chenango Co. NY:  The baby of John McLean was found dead in bed last Sunday morning and was buried yesterday.  As it had the whooping cough, it is thought that it strangled to death. It was about two months old.

UTLEY:  In Rome [Oneida Co. NY] Jan. 30th of paralysis, Mrs. Laura Mills Utley aged 71 years, formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].

Mrs. Laura Mills-Utley, wife of Rufus Utley, formerly a resident of this village, died of paralysis on Thursday evening of last week at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. B.N. Huntington, in Rome.  She was seventy-one years of age and universally respected.

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RICHARDSON:  At her home on Smyrna Hill, Jan. 28th, 1879, Mrs. A.C. Richardson aged 36 years.

We cannot make it seem she's dead / A few days since and she was here. / Now the body lies in its narrow bed, / But the spirit dwells with angels dear.

Smyrna, Chenango Co. NY:  Mrs. Albert Richardson, residing on Smyrna Hill, died very suddenly of heart disease last Wednesday morning.  Her husband and three children have the sympathy of the whole community.

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CASE:  In North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] Jan. 30th, Ora Bell [Case] daughter of Cyrus and Mary G. Case, aged 1 year, 4 months and 18 days

Our darling little Ora / Has climbed the golden stair, / O, how we miss her little prattle / But now she's free from care.

Weep not, lonely parents, / But let this your comfort be. / Little Ora is an angel / Awaiting now for thee.

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ROLPH:  Died at Sparta, Va. January 11th, 1879, Mr. Reuben Rolph, formerly of the town of Coventry, N.Y. [Chenango Co. NY] aged 67 years and 6 months.

The subject of this notice was a native of Suffolk County, N.Y., and moved to Chenango County [NY] in 1835.  He was a subscriber to the Norwich Journal before the writer of this notice was a reader, probably very soon after Thurlow Weed's connection with it, and has ever since been its patron and an unfaltering supporter of the political principles which it has advocated.

A man of unyielding energy and unimpeachable integrity, supported by shrewd sound sense and courteous deportment, he was successful beyond the average of his fellow citizens and accumulated a considerable fortune, owning at one time the finest dairy farm in his township, if not in the County. during the term of his residence there, the town of Coventry was transformed from a crude and struggling community into a well-organized and wealthy agricultural township, taking to itself all the advantages that nature permitted in the way of public improvement. Reuben Rolph did well his part in all her struggles of that period, and his name is honorably associated with her achievements of his day.

In 1870 he emigrated to Virginia and invested considerably in farming lands there and has fallen a victim to a long and painful malady.  His business ability though blunted somewhat by disease, never succumbed until thirty-six hours before his end.