Otsego Herald Cooperstown, NY, April 2, 1807
Marriage
Married, March -?- ultimo, Mr. Adam Cook to Miss Elizabeth Farrington, both of Milford [Otsego Co. NY].
Death
Died in the town of Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY] on Wednesday the 25th ult. Mrs. Sally Bradford, consort of Perez Bradford. She has left a large family to bemoan her loss.
Otsego Herald, Cooperstown, NY, April 23, 1807
Death
In this village [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY] on Tuesday last, Ephraim Hudson, son of the late judge Hudson of Cherry Valley [Otsego Co. NY], fifteen years of age, after six days illness. He was an active honest and promising lad, and his disconsolate mother and sisters will poignantly feel the loss of a son and brother.
Otsego Herald, Cooperstown, NY, April 30, 1807
Death
Died on Wednesday last, in his 40th year, John Beckley, Esquire, Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States. He was born in Great Britain, but, when only eleven y ears old, came, under to protection of his uncle, to this country, where he has continued to reside ever since.
Our contest with Great Britain no sooner began to unfold itself than, yielding to the most ardent enquiries of patriotism, he took an active part in it, and assumed the discharge of duties full of responsibility and danger and particularly the Mayoralty of Richmond, a place assigned him, notwithstanding his youth, by the confidence of his fellow citizens, and at a period when the British army was overrunning the state of Virginia.
Having been educated to the bar, he pursued that profession with reputation, so far as various public duties admitted, until the organization of the General Government, when he was chosen Clerk of the House of Representatives, a place which he filled with rare, perhaps unprecedented distinction, with the intermission of a term of two years, until his decease. His articulation was distinct, his elocution commanding and his parliamentary knowledge accurate and extensive. But his highest distinction was his inflexible patriotism and adherence to republican principles. Through the whole period of his life he pursued an unbending course. Devoted to the cause of liberty, much of his happiness flowed from its triumph, and the zeal which prompted him in the ardor of youth to resist external tyranny remained unbated during the more mature period of life, against internal oppression. National Intel.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, November 7, 1879
Birth
Unadilla Valley, Chenango Co. NY: Not long since, our quiet community was startled by the announcement that our citizen, Mr. Garrity and estimable wife had another little jaw. Too true; It is a girl!
Death
Masonville, Delaware Co. NY: Diphtheria is raging to some extent although not proving fatal except in two instances, those being Jennie Patten and a child of Andrew Brown's.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, nY, November 14, 1879
Marriages
WOODWARD - ESTERBROOK: At the parsonage at Nineveh [Broome Co. NY], Nov. 5, 1879, by Rev. W.H. Sawtell, Mr. Commodore Woodward and Miss Minnie A. Esterbrook, all of Afton [Chenango Co. NY].
HARPER - RICHARDS: At Harpersville [Broome Co. NY] Nov. 5, 1879, by Rev. A.W. Cornell, Mr. Robert Harper, of Washington, D.C., and Miss Emma A. Richards, eldest daughter of Charles M. Richards of Harpersville.
Harpursville, Broome Co. NY: A wedding took place on Wednesday the 5th inst., in this place at the home of the bride, in which Mr. Robert Harper, of Washington, D.C. and Miss Emma Richards, a young lady quite well known to Harpersville friends, were the principal parties. They left town the same day for Washington where they are to reside.
ROOD - MILLS: At Masonville [Delaware Co. NY] Nov. 2, 1879, by Rev. Mr. Mandeville, Mr. George Rood of Tompkins [Delaware Co. NY], and Miss Lizzie Mills of Masonville.
Harpersville, Broome Co. NY: Eli B. Pratt and wife of Harpersville celebrated the fifteenth year of their married life on Tuesday last by a crystal wedding at the residence of J.S. Wakeman. Numerous guests were present from Coventry, Binghamton, Windsor and Harpersville and vicinity. Various presents were made to Mr. Pratt and wife, after which the guests, fifty in number, were seated at the table loaded with the bounties of the season. The evening was spent very pleasantly by those that remained until the parting hour came, when they all bid adieu to Mr. Pratt and wife and parted with their best wishes for a long life and a happy one.
Death
PRATT: At Belden [Broome Co. NY] Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1879, Mr. Levi Pratt aged 76 years.
FRANCIS: Daniel Francis, an old resident of Greene [Chenango Co. NY] and father of Mrs. Daniël Bradley, of that town, died on the 20th of October at the residence of his son, Stephen Francis, in Barton Co., Mo.
LEITH: Alexander A. Leith of Brooklyn, aged sixteen, recently while wading in the water at Sheepshead Bay [King's County, NY], stepped upon the bones of decayed blue fish and died Saturday from tetanus, commonly called lockjaw.
SMITH: Mrs. Edgar O. Smith wife of one of the most prominent citizens of the town of Windsor [Broome Co. NY] died at four o'clock. She had recovered from an attack of diphtheria and was in Windsor village a week before her sudden death. Mr. Smith and his children have the sympathy of the community in this, their time of bereavement. Standard, Windsor
GETTER: Masonville, Delaware Co. NY: Mr. C. Getter an old and respected resident of this town, passed away on Saturday evening, Nov. 8th, in his 80th year. He was a faithful member of the methodist church. [John Christman Getter, buried Whitman Cemetery, Masonville]
FERRIS: We are pained to announce the death of Charles Ferris a young man 18 years of age, son of George Ferris, of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY]. [Charles M. Ferris, d. 15 Nov. 1879, aged 17, buried Guilford Center Cemetery]
News Items
DeForest Rose, a married man aged about 35 years and his wife, took a young man named Edward Harris and a girl named Sadie Bliss to Union [Broome Co. NY], and persuaded Harris to marry Mrs. Rose and Miss Bliss to marry Rose. The ceremonies were performed by a Baptist clergyman, according to the wishes of all concerned. Harris claims that he did not know Rose was married. Rose has disappeared and Harris remains with the woman he married.
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Harpersville, Broome Co. NY: A very pleasant episode occurred at the residence of Mr. C.W. Hare on Nov. 5th, the occasion being the eighty-fourth anniversary of the birth of Mr. Fenner Brown, a worthy gentleman who boards at Mr. Hare's. There were over twenty persons, all relatives, present, of whom three were brothers and one sister, the only ones of the family now living - three having died - David Brown, a brother, living at Centerville, who is 75 years old; Polly Thompson aged 72 years, living about two miles west from this place; Edward Brown, living at Nineveh, 70 years old, and Mrs. Rachael Hare, aged 66 years, living with her on, Mr. Hare, so that their combined ages amounts to 367 years. Mr. Fenner Brown was born in Rhode Island. His ancestors came from England. His grandmother, Mrs. Dinah Wethersly, brought with her from England a coat-of-arms, which she received from the clerk of the county where she resided, which constituted her an heir to an estate, but someone stole this from her. Mr. Brown's ancestors were here to witness and take a part in the struggle of the colonies, in the war of the Revolution. The friends of Mr. Brown present at Mr. Hare's, made him several presents which he will prize very highly as long as he shall live. His daughter, Mrs. Lucy Hayens, of Cortland, and Mrs. Koons of Cooperstown, a granddaughter, who could not attend the gathering, sent presents. May God spare him to receive similar favors in years to come.
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