Vital Records, Otsego County, NY (1822 & 1860)

 Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, November 12, 1822

Marriages

At Richfield [Otsego Co. NY] on the 7th inst. by the Rev. John Rowls, Mr. Alfred Patten Merchant of Richfield to Miss Ann Benedict, of the former place.

In Sharon [Schoharie Co. NY] on Tuesday Evening last by the Rev. Mr. Austin, Mr. Daniel Adams to Miss Harriet Butler eldest daughter of Mrs. Roswell Butler, all of the former place.

Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, November 26, 1822

Marriages

At Clinton, Oneida County [NY] on Wednesday the 20th inst. by the Rev. Henry Davis, D.D. Doct. Mathias K. V. Rowley of Russellville (Kentucky) to Miss Mary Ann Diell of the former place.

At Fly Creek [Otsego Co. NY] by Lyman Foster Esq. Mr. Jacob Anthony to Miss Eliza Wentworth all of that place.

Oneonta Herald, Oneonta, NY, July 11,1860

Marriages

In this place [Oneonta, Otsego  Co. NY] on the 24th ult by Rev. D.L. Pendell, Mr. Alanson L. Bennett and Miss Loduski J. Saunders both of Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY].

In this place [Oneonta, Otsego Co., NY] on the 4th inst. by Rev. D.L. Pendell, Mr. Robert Morley of Hancock [Delaware Co. NY] and Miss Hannah A. Crandall of Otego [Otsego Co. NY].

Deaths

At his residence in Milford [Otsego Co. NY] on the 2d inst. Edwin Soule aged 54 years. l He was a man of integrity and moral worth and died i Christian hope deeply lamented by all.

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At Petaluma, Cal. on the 27th of May last at the residence of his friend, Mr. Gustavus Warner, E.W. Goodrich Esq of Red Bluff, aged 37 years and 2 months.

Mr. Goodrich was a native of Franklin Delaware Co. N.Y. in which state his earlier years were passed, and after residing for some years in Connecticut, he emigrated to California in 1849 and thus became a pioneer in a state where his exemplary life has done much towards establishing a healthful state of society.  He has resided in Red Bluff since 1853.

His decease was caused by dropsy, induced by scarlet fever of which latter disease his little son Franky was a victim, whose obituary we recorded a few weeks ago.  Mr. Goodrich leaves a most estimable lady and two young children to mourn his early decease.  He was a gentleman highly esteemed by his fellow citizens of upright conduct and integrity of character, self-reliant, industrious and capable.  During his residence here he has repeatedly held offices of trust, and his name has been a guaranty of correctness in all his business relations.  He was a man whom a community could not afford to lose. While the wife has lost an affectionate husband and the children a loving father and while they are stricken with grief the entire community earnestly sympathize with them for we have all lost a friend.

His remains are expected to arrive here on the boat of Friday evening, and his funeral is to take place on Saturday.  He will be interred with the forms of the Order of Odd Fellows, of which he was Past Grand, R.W.D.D. Grand Master and a most esteemed member Red Bluff Beacon

Oneonta Herald, Oneonta, NY, July 18, 1860

Marriages

At Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] on the 12th inst. by Rev. A.S. Southworth, Mr. Harvey Westcott of Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] to Mrs.. Mary A. Norton of Bainbridge.

At the Hotel of D. Rose in Milford Center [Otsego Co. NY] on the 4th last. by Elder J. Cooke, Mr. James Woodcock to Miss Mary McCarg both of Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY].

Deaths

At Afton [Chenango Co. NY] June 13th of putrid sore throat, Franklin Reuben [Shiffer] aged 5 years, 10 months and 3 days; June 15th, Frederick Rice [Shiffer] aged 5 years 10 months and 5 days; June 23d, Hattie Maria [Shiffer] aged 3 years 2 months and 12 days; June 25th, William George [Shiffer] aged 9 years and 3 weeks - children of William G. and Mary H. Shiffer.

Mr. Gershom Twichell of Milford [Otsego Co. NY] who died on Friday last after an illness of only two days, was the last member of a peculiar and, in some respects, a remarkable family.  Though a man of considerable wealth, owning one of the finest and most valuable farms in Milford, he persisted in living in a state of the most abject poverty.  On the announcement of his death, says a writer in the Boston Journal, the overseers of the poor took immediate steps to secure his estate for his legitimate heirs.  They found in his hovel a large amount of silver, deposited in a pine box, nicely adjusted in layers of dollars, halves, quarters and smaller coins. They also found a bag in which there was a heavy amount of gold. The specie was taken to the Milford Bank for safe keeping.  Nearly the last words uttered by the expiring miser were to request a neighbor who stood by him to leave the room for fear he would steal the money.  His wife abandoned him many years ago, and recently, for a stipulated sum, gave bonds that she would make no claim upon any property he possessed.

Oneonta Herald, Oneonta, NY, July 25, 1860

News Item

Notice

In answer to a notice dated May 15th, which I saw in the Herald, from George W. Blend stating that I had left his bed and board.  I can safely say that his board he sold and pocketed the money and his bed he took with him and left me without food or even a light to read the notice by, and I might have gone hungry and even without clothes for what he cared, had it not been for my father, whom he forbade trusting me.  He before told me if I did not sign a paper which would place at his disposal what my father had given me and which he had the use of, that I must take care of myself, which with my poor health that was not improved by his neglect and harsh treatment, seemed cruel in the extreme. I hereby say that I will not pay any debts of his contracting.  He refused to pay my bills before he left me.  Mary Ann [Blend].