Vital Records, Madison County, NY (1872)

 Democratic Union, Oneida, NY, November 14, 1872

Marriages

CONLISK - HOPKINS:  In this village [Oneida, Madison Co. NY] Nov. 7, by Rev. R.C. Fox, Mr. John Conlisk of Ogden, Utah, and Miss Lucena Hopkins of Oneida.

LAWRENCE - HESS:  In Durhamville [Oneida Co. NY], Nov. 6 at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. Frank H. Newton, Mr. A.F. Lawrence and Miss Sophia Hess both of Durhamville.

WILLIAMSON - WARNER:  In Lebanon [Madison Co. NY] Oct. 29, by Rev. E.D. Reed, Mr. Henry M. Williamson and Miss Addie M. Warner of the same place.

SIMPSON - FLEMING:  In West Eaton [Madison Co. NY] Oct. 30, by Rev. Judson Davis, Mr. R.A. Simpson of Fairport [Monroe Co. NY] and Miss Cora E Fleming of West Eaton.

HUGHES - DURRANT:  In North Brookfield [Madison Co. NY] Nov. 3, by Rev. L. Casier, Mr. Edward H ughes and Miss Louisa A. Durrant both of Hubbardsville [Madison Co. NY].

WELDEN - CANFIELD: In Bingley [Madison Co. NY], Oct. 31, by Rev. F.H. Stanton, Mr. Theodore Welden of Chittenango Falls [Madison Co. NY' and Mrs. Canfield of Bingley.

MEAD - WOODWORTH:  In Fenner [Madison Co. NY], Oct. 30 at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. George Mead, Austin Mead and Francelia Woodworth both of Fenner.

DEAN - BRAMAN:  In Vernon [Oneida Co. NY], at the residence of Samuel J. Shipman, Mr. George B. Dean of Amsterdam [Montgomery Co. NY] and Miss Elizabeth E. Braman youngest daughter of A..B. Braman, Esq. of Vernon.

PEET - LAW:  In Syracuse [Onondaga Co. NY], Oct. 28 by Rev. E.W. Mundy, Mr. Eber D. Peet of Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] and Miss P. Addie Law of Syracuse.

UTTER - THORP:  In Georgetown [Madison Co. NY] Oct. 31 by Rev. C.S. Crain, Mr. Palmer Utter of Fredonia, Iowa and Mrs. Caroline Thorp of Georgetown.

Deaths

MARKHAM:  In Vernon [Oneida Co. NY] Oct. 31, Samuel Markham aged 80 years.

DUDLEY:  Near Morrisville [Madison Co. NY] Nov. 1, of consumption, Mrs. Henry Dudley of Augusta [Oneida Co. NY].

KENNEDY:  In Clinton [Oneida Co. NY], Oct. 31, Jane [Kennedy] daughter of Joseph and Kate Kennedy, aged 5 years, 7 months.

HARMON:  In Hubbardsville [Madison Co. NY] Oct. 30, at the residence of her son, Chester Chambers, Mrs. Hannah Harmon aged 87 years.

DEXTER:  In Kirtland, Lake Co. O., Aug. 28, after a short illness, Mrs. Eunice Boltwood Dexter wife of the late Horace Dexter, formerly of Stockbridge [Madison Co. NY], aged 63 years.

ETSON:  In Lebanon [Madison Co. NY] Oct. 09, Susan L. Etson aged 43 years.

CHAPIN:  In Oneida [Madison Co. NY] Oct. 13, Charles M. [Chapin] son of I.E. and H.A. Chapin, aged 8 months.

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New Woodstock [Madison Co. NY] - Death of Abraham Burden

Again has death been amongst us and removed one of our best and most needed citizens, Abraham Burden, and that when in the very prime of life.  Mr. B. was confined to his bed about the 25th of October with typhoid fever and has continued to fail until Thursday evening.  At near 8:30 he bade farewell to family and friends and passed away to that bourne from whence no traveler returns.  He has left behind him a loved wife, one boy and a girl.  The children are from 7 to 10 years of age.  The tearful congregation that assembled at his residence on Saturday, the 9th inst. at midday, told too plainly how his worth was appreciated and his loss felt.  Sadness was plainly visible on the countenances of his many friends.  When grasped by the hand, the tears would start in their eyes from their deep and heartfelt sorrow.  Mr. Burden was 39 years of age and has, by good management, accumulated a fine property, and throughout the accumulation of this he has borne the character of an honest and fair dealer.  His partner, John B. Blakeslee will miss his counsels in business, but above all will the wife and two children miss the tender care of a husband and father.  His brother, too, will miss him, for each of them have received from him many kind words of advice and many times help from his abundance.  All that the friends of Mr. Burden can do for the comfort of those now bowed down with grief in this dark hour of mourning is to point them to the brighter world above, where we have the promise of sometime meeting where we never more will part.  In that thought there is comfort and consolation. Let us, then, so live that when we leave this earth and her fascinations and friends that we dearly love [and go] to a far more beautiful land, where all have friends gone before us.  The Rev. Mr. Clark paid the last rites to the deceased husband, father, son, brother and friend.  G.W.I.

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Canastota, Madison Co. NY - Fatal Accident

An accident occurred in this village a few minutes past two o'clock Wednesday afternoon of last week by which Mary Larkin a girl about nine years of age, daughter of Michael Larkin, section foreman on the Cazenovia and Canastota Railroad, lost her life.  The child had been sent on an errand to Mrs. Carroll, who lives in the east end of the stone water house, just north of the Central track, and after starting for home she stopped on the north track, standing on one of the rails, to watch an eastward bound freight train.  Her attention being thus occupied, she did [not] notice the approach of a wild engine (No. 333) going west, and although a warning whistle is said to have been blown, failed to get off of the track, and was struck by the engine and thrown about eight feet against the solid stone wall of the water house and instantly killed.  The body was not badly mutilated and undoubtedly the concussion with the stone was alone sufficient to cause death.  Michael Wallace, the watchman, was at the signal pole at the time the engine passed, and as he turned to note its number saw the girl on the track and called to her, but the noise of the eastward bound freight probably prevented her from hearing him, and if she had heard, her chances for escape would have been small.