Vital Records, Chenango County, NY (1879)

 Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, April 23, 1879

Marriage

South New Berlin, Chenango Co. NY:  A marriage occurred in our midst Sunday evening, the parties being Mr. German Potter and Mrs. Nancy Darrough.  Rev. W. Scott performed the ceremony.

Deaths

PITTSLEY:  In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] April 14th, Mrs. Asenith Pittsley aged 60 years.

PENDLETON:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] April 5th, Ralph [Pendleton] twin son of Hadial F. Pendleton, aged 8 months and 21 days.

TIFFANY:  In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] April 13th, Mr. Brown Tiffany, aged 64 years.

COOLEY:  In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] April 5th, Eugene [Cooley] wife of Job Cooley, aged 66 years.

WIDGER:  At Browning, Iowa, suddenly of apoplexy, Ralph D. [Widger] son of William and Betsey Widger, aged 38(?) years formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY]

Chenango American, Greene, NY, Jan. 8, 1880

Marriages

At the residence of the bride's parents in Triangle [Broome Co. NY] Dec. 31st, by Rev. J. Hood, Mr. Floyd J. Purdy of this town [Greene, Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Lida Losee of Triangle.

At Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 21st, by Rev. Charles Steer, Mr. Harvey Raker to Miss Bertha Locke, all of Plymouth.

At the Baptist Parsonage, Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY] by Rev. C.R. Corning, Dec. 23d, Mr. Jerome W. Hackett, formerly of this village [Greene, Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Maggie J. Misener all of Taylor [Cortland Co. NY]

At South Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 24th, by Rev. H.C. Leach, Frank Norris and Oresta Lewis both of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY]

At South Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 27th, by Rev. H.C. Leach, J.O. Lotridge of Potter County, Pa., and Mary Huntley of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY].

Jan. 1st, by rev. Dr. Haynes, Charles Gartsee and Bertha L. Vosburgh all of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

At the residence of Mrs. E. Mathewson in Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 26th, by rev. C.B. Brockway, James H. Castelo of Norwich and Miss Ada L. Cain of Middlebury, N.Y. [Wyoming Co.].

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 31st, by Rev. D.N. Grummon, Charles E. Rudd of Waterville [Oneida Co. NY] to Miss Abbie A. [Winsor] daughter of Olney Winsor, of the former place.

At the residence of the bride's father, Dec. 25th, by Rev. Wm. H. Sawtell, Edward Roberts of Bettsburg [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Matie Poole of Ninevah [Broome Co. NY].

Dec. 25th, Rufus Bush of Nineveh [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Skinner of Harpersville [Broome Co. NY].

Dec. 25th at the residence of the bride's parents by Rev. W.B. Stewart, W.H. Bixby of Windsor [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Fannie E. Adkins of Colesville [Broome Co. NY].

In Masonville [Delaware Co. NY] Dec. 24th, by Rev. Ripley, Mr. E.S. Barstow of Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Grace Matteson of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY].

In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 31st by Rev. E. Bayard Smith, Clarence G. Cook Esq. of Richmondville, N.Y. to Miss Mary J. Crawley of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].

At the residence of the bride's father, J.F. Place, Dec. 31st, by Rev. George F. Place of Castle Creek, Mr. Eugene Doolittle to Miss Sarah Place both of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].

At Chenango Forks [Broome Co. NY] Dec. 3d, by Rev. T. H. Griffith, Horace Henderson, JM.D. of Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY] to Miss Delia E. Terwilliger of the former place.

At the residence of the bride's father, in Solon, N.Y. Dec. 31st, by Rev. G.P. Turnbal, Mr. Emery A. Dwight of German [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Clara M. Livingston of Solon.

Deaths

In German [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 10th, Mr. Benjamin L. Phelps aged 77 years, formerly of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY].

In Guilford Center [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 28th, Paris L. [Ives] son of Rufus S. and Adelia H. Ives, aged 4 years and 8 months.

At Fish Creek, Oneida Co. [NY] Dec. 29th, Mr. John M. Shiffer aged 61 years formerly of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY]

In Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY] Dec. 8th, Mary E. [Briggs] wife of William P. Briggs, aged 19 years 7 months and 5 days.

Rev. George Balcom formerly of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] died of hernia at Cawker City, Kansas on the morning of December 21st - the day after the death of his brother, Rev. Benjamin F. Balcom, near Corning [Steuben Co. NY].  Both were born in Oxford and were brothers of the late Judge Balcom.

The sad intelligence reaches this village of the death of Hon. Hugh G. Crozier of Smithville Flats [Chenango Co. NY] in New York on Monday morning of this week.  Mr. Crozier has been in New York some time for the benefit of his health, which has been poor for some time.  His death leaves a void in his town which it will be hard to fill.  Mr. Crozier was a gentleman of the old school and none gathered under his hospitable roof but felt that they were in the presence of a noble hearted and generous man.  Mr. Crozier was a man of warm impulses and was possessed of many Christian virtues.  His purse was ever open for the church of his choice in the town where he resided. The worthy poor never went from his door empty handed.  He always worked for the interest of his town and for those around him, and all enterprises introduced to further these ends met with a ready response from him.  Mr. Crozier has filled with honor offices of trust, having been Supervisor of his town, a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Cincinnati in1876, when President Hayes was nominated, and at the time of his death was the Superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School and a member of the Board of Education of his village.  A good man has gone and one whose counsels will be missed by many.  His family have the sympathy of all this community, in this their hour of deep affliction.

A little boy by the name of Meaker was drowned at Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] on New Year's Day while playing on the ice.  The ice broke through and let him and another boy into the water.  His companion was rescued by a brave young man who was nearby and heard their cries, although he came near losing his own life in his noble effort.  He caught the little fellow as he was sinking for the third time and was assisted to the shore by the people on the bank running out plank to him over the treacherous and yielding ice.  The body of the little boy drowned passed under the ice to an open space of water near a dam a short distance below and by the strong current it was carried over the dam and finally recovered in the deep water below. This is a sad warning to boys who play on dangerous ice.

News Item

Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] claims to have the oldest citizen in Chenango County, Mrs. Hungerford, 97 years. - Exchange.  

And Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] without a doubt, has the oldest, Mrs. Robert Brooksbanks aged 99 years. - Oxford Times.  

Yield the palm to Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] in the person of Mrs. Rachel Croft who was 100 years old the 21st of this month. - Bainbridge Times.  

Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] has a colored man named Burt who is in his 105th year and he can beg ten cents or a "chaw terbarker" as lively as a boy just in his teens. - Binghamton Republican

Norwich has an old fellow within its borders familiarly known as "West Hill" whose frosted brow boasts of an antiquity which compared with the above, makes them "as little children."  Although his exact age is not known, we can truthfully assert that he never used tobacco or drank intoxicating liquor.  proceed.  Chenango telegraph.