Vital Records, Otsego County, NY, 1878, 1847, 1848

 Oneonta Herald & Democrat, Oneonta, NY, May 31, 1878

Deaths

Mrs. Carrie Rose Cable formerly a teacher at the Union School, then Miss Rose, has recently died at Chicago.  Her remains were brought to Franklin [Delaware Co. NY].

On the morning of May 14th, I was hastily summoned to see Mrs. Hanson N. Gould on Oneonta, N.Y. [Otsego Co.].  I found her laboring under all the terrible symptoms of corrosive poison.  Although everything was done by myself, friends and kind neighbors, she succumbed to the destroyer in the short space of one week.  Mrs. Gould had been in feeble health for some years past.  Although able to attend to her household duties, she had frequent attacks of sickness, which seemed to depress the nervous system.  I saw her about two months ago.  She complained of headache, attacks of giddiness and mental confusion.  She often expressed herself as being weary of life.  All these symptoms strongly prove that the patient was laboring under temporary insanity.  No blame can be attached to anyone, as she took the poison herself, and gave no reason, other than that she wanted to die.  Thus died one with a large circle of friends.  Few subjects more deserve the careful study of the physician, than the disease which affect the intellectual functions.  If more time were allowed, I would like to explain the cause, symptoms and treatment of mental diseases.  With a clear understanding of the subject, we could have charity where we too often have censure.  E. McDougal, M.D.

Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, February 2, 1848

Marriage

In Middlefield [Otsego Co. NY], on the 20th ult., by the Rev. Mr. Lent, Mr. Andrew Allison and Miss Mary Ann Rains.

Deaths

In Worcester [Otsego Co. NY], on the 16th inst., Samuel Storrs, aged 20 years.

In Cleveland, Boone Co., Illinois, Jan. 1st, Addison [Spencer] son of Mr. Jabez I. Spencer, formerly of this town [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY], aged 16 years.

Death, always busy, has summoned another highly respectable citizen to his last account.  Maj. George T. Dalphin, expired at his residence in Pierstown [Otsego Co. NY], after a brief illness of a few days, on Friday the 14th.  The blow which no earthly arm could avert, falls with the keenest severity upon his afflicted family and a large circle of friends.  Major D. was a kind neighbor, a good citizen, and an intelligent and estimable man.  He was a member of the Odd Fellow's lodge in this village [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY], and was buried on Sunday, after an impressive Discourse by the Rev Mr. Harvey, with the solemn and appropriate ceremonies of that Order.  The funeral procession was very large, the various auxiliary Lodges in the County, being represented on the occasion.  Otsego Republican.

Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, February 9, 1848

Marriages

At Westville [Franklin Co. NY], on the 30th ult., by the Rev. G.W. Gates, Mr. Isaac B.  Hand to Miss Sarah M. Jewell.

At Fly Creek [Otsego Co. NY], on the 2d inst., by the Rev. Mr. Campbell, Mr. Julius Elwell of this town [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY], to Miss Mandana C. Davidson of Otsego [Otsego Co. NY]

Deaths

In Utica [Oneida Co. NY], at the residence of his son, Spencer Kellogg, on the 30th ult. Levi Kellogg, aged 89 years.

In Springfield [Otsego Co. NY], on the 23d ult. Capt. C.B. Vedder, aged 58 years.

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Died in this village [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY] at the residence of her son-in-law, Prince Schoonhoven on the 27th ult.  Betty Brown aged 78 years.  For four years had this estimable woman with a holy resignation to the Divine will, suffered under the effects of a paralysis, when a more violent and fatal attack terminated at once her sufferings and her life.  She had been a worthy and exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church, and an humble and devoted follower of our Saviour for more than thirty years.  As a servant, she had ever been faithful; as a friend, generous and constant; as a parent, most affectionate; as a professor, consistent; and as a Christian, most sincere.  Her life was one of morality and integrity, christened by the benign influence of a divine religion, which not only gave assurance that she had a well-founded hope of a blessed immortality beyond the grave, but which admonished all:  "To lay not up in this vain earth / Their hopes, their joys, their treasures / Where sorrow clouds the pilgrim's path / And blights the promised pleasure"

By her many estimable qualities her kindness and humility, her patience under afflictions, her firm reliance on the promises of the Gospel, and her unshaken adherence to the revealed truths of religion, she had deservedly sustained an unblemished character; secured the respect and esteem of all who knew her, and died the death of the righteous, leaving the rich legacy of an example worthy of imitation by all.

Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, NY, September 18, 1847

Death

In Syracuse [Onondaga Co. NY] on the 6th inst. Mary I. [Dewey], daughter of Solomon P. and Clarissa M. Dewey, formerly of this village [Cooperstown, Otsego Co. NY], aged 9 months and 14 days.