Vital Records, Cortland County, NY (1847)

 McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, August 26, 1847

Marriages

In Solon [Cortland Co. NY] by the Rev. Ezra B. Fancher of McGrawville, Mr. William Copeland of Tully [Onondaga Co. NY] and Miss Harriet Emerson of the former place.

In Solon [Cortland Co. NY] on the 25th inst. by S.G. Hathaway Esq. Mr. Marvin C. Gilbert of McGrawville [Cortland Co. NY] to Miss Aurilla Sergant of Berkshire, Tioga Co. [NY].

Deaths

In McGrawville [Cortland Co. NY] on the 15th ult. Miss Jane Dunbar aged 20 years.

At East Solon [Cortland Co. NY] on Sunday the 22d inst. Emeline [Joiner] wife of Mr. James Joiner.

In Cortlandville [Cortland Co. NY] on the 12th inst. Mr. Abdell S. Bennett.

At Littlefort, Lake Co. Ill., on the 12th ult. Mrs. Emily R. [Hitchcock] formerly of Homer village [Cortland Co. NY], aged 34 years in full prospect of a blessed immortality beyond the grave.

McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, September 2, 1847

Marriages

On the 1st inst at McGrawville [Cortland Co. NY] by the Rev. S.J. Decker, Mr. James Cain and Miss Sarah Edwards both of Solon [Cortland Co. NY].

At Kingston, N.H., Col. William Webster aged 67 to Miss Martha Winslow aged 19.

By the above union, the bridegroom has married his sister's granddaughter, which makes the bride a wife to her granduncle, sister to her grandfather and grandmother, aunt to her father & mother, and great aunt to her brothers and sisters.  She is stepmother to five children, fourteen grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Death

In Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY] on the 26 ult, Dr. McCorter aged 80 years.  Dr. McCorter was one of the first settlers of that town.  He was highly esteemed by all who knew him and has left a large circle of friends to mourn his loss.

McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, September 9, 1847

Marriage

Marriage Extraordinary:  We take the following from the Massachusetts Cataract.  what a happy couple!  The union of so much that is good, as the various titles and additions seem to indicate, seldom happens in this degenerate world.  What a cargo, i.e., cradle full of pretty chubby cheeked little teetotal fellows and felloweses must be the result - oh.

In the city of New York on the 20th of July last, at the Termont Temperance House on Broadway near Trinity Church by Rev. Mr. Crawford of that place, Mr. Thomas Davis of Massachusetts, teetotaler, merchant, auctioneer, Captain of the Schooner propeller of Gloucester, Publisher of the Business Directory of Boston, Poet, Temperance lecturer, Propellerific correspondent of the Massachusetts Cataract and lots of other papers, Reformed Rum seller, General agent of all the New England railroads, steamboats, stages and omnibuses, Son of the Ocean Wave Division of the Sons of Temperance, Boston, and honorary member of all the Martha Washington Societies of the land to Miss Alice E. Ricker of Lynn, Mass., a fair Martha Washingtonian "Gem of purest ray serene" and constituting with her chosen "Lord of the Isles," the New, Dual, Teetotal, Literary, Business and Matrimonial Firm of Propeller & Co. upon whose poetic heads we would now kindly cast a plain prosodic but benedictive dash of our Cataractorial Waters.

Death

In Cortlandville [Cortland Co. NY] on the 4th inst. Mr. Chester Kinney aged 75 years.  Mr. Kinney left his house about 10 o'clock a.m. and went into the field to plough and was found dead about 3 o'clock p.m. laying across the furrow, with his arms folder across his breast. Thus, in the midst of life we are in death!

McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, September 23, 1847

Marriages

In Cortlandville [Cortland Co. NY] Sept. the 16th by H.S. Crandal, esq. Mr. David M. Woodard of Hilsdale Co. Mich and Miss Amanda M. Eastford of Cortlandville.

Accompanying this notice the printer was not forgotten.  The happy couple understood the rules of etiquette and politeness and sent in with the notice a generous assortment of wedding cake!  This act of kind remembrance to the printer was duly appreciated by us and our typos, and the wedded pair have our benedictions for their future prosperity and happiness and an anxious desire that others may go and do likewise. We set their names in Capitals.

Sept. the 8th by the Rev. W.G. Dye, Mr. Milton Negus and Miss Elizabeth G. Andrews all of Fabius [Onondaga Co. NY].

Also, by the same, Sept. the 8th, Mr. Henry Southard and Miss Lois M. Ruddock all of Fabius [Onondaga Co. NY].

Sept. the 11th by the Rev. W.G. Dye of Fabius, Mr. Lafayette Burdick and Miss Mehetable Paddock both of Camillus, Onondaga Co. NY.

Sept. 12th by the same, Mr. Obadiah Strail and Miss Lucy Bedford both of Tully [Onondaga Co. NY].

Death

At McGrawville [Cortland Co. NY] on the 15th inst. Mrs. Keziah Champman aged 77 years.

McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, September 30, 1847

Marriages

In Homer [Cortland Co. NY] on the 27th inst. by Rev. J.P. Simmons, Mr. J.L. Edmonds to Miss Wilmina Vandiline.

At Union Valley in Solon [Cortland Co. NY] on the 27th inst., by Rev. V.H. Barber, Dr. Leander Green to Miss Harriet Smith both of Union Valley.

At the same place, by Rev. V.H. Barber, Mr. Matthew W. Richmond of DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY] to Miss Elizabeth Smith of Union Valley [Cortland Co. NY].

If leeward adversity's current runs strong / May the rudder of honesty steer them along.

Deaths

At Italy Hill [Yates County, NY] on the 28th ultimo, Mrs. Raymond consort of David Raymond.

At Italy Hill [Yates County NY] on the 31st ultimo, Miss Harriet Squares in the full hope of a blessed immortality.