Vital Records, Delaware (1828) & Chenango (1878) Counties, NY

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, January 2, 1828

Marriage

In Meredith [Delaware Co. NY], on the 31st ult. by Isaac Burr Esquire, Mr. Lucius Turrell to Miss Harriet Bill.

Death

In Hamden [Delaware Co. NY] on the 24th ult. Mrs. Matilda Patterson wife of Mr. Daniel Patterson, in the 28th year of her age.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, January 23, 1828

Marriages

At Roxbury [Delaware Co. NY] on the 10th inst. by the Rev. David Mead, Mr. Obadiah S. Scudder to Miss Sally Chase.

By the same, Mr. Harry Moore to Miss Betsey Keator.

By the same, Mr. George Keator to Miss Betsey Benjamin.

 By Elder Cumming, Mr. Henry Patterson to Miss Rosille Lockwood, all of the above place [Roxbury].

At Hamden [Delaware Co. NY] on the 16th inst. by J. Bostwick, Esq. Mr. William Chase to Miss Lorinda Church

On the 17th by the Rev. E.K. Maxwell, Mr. George Mason to Miss Fidelia Hitt.

Deaths

At Andes [Delaware Co. NY] on the 8th inst. Mr. Joseph B. Clinton, aged 67.  He was a Soldier of the Revolution.

The body of a Mr. Odell was found in the Unadilla River, near Mount Upton in this county [Chenango Co. NY], on the 9th inst.  Mr. Odell attended the polls on the second day of the late election and having partaken too freely of spirituous liquors, started for his residence about dark.  The road he had to travel lay upon the bank of the Unadilla into which he fell and being unable to extricate himself, he perished.  The river soon froze over, and he was not found until the period stated above.  It was rumored that he was murdered by a person with whom he had a dispute on the day he was missing, but such appears not to be a fact, as no marks of violence were found upon him.  Oxford Republican.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, January 30, 1828

Marriages

In Roxbury [Delaware Co. NY] on the 26th inst. by the Rev. David Mead, Mr. Dubois Burhans to Miss Mariah Ballard all of the above place.

In Meredith [Delaware Co. NY] on the 27th instant, by the Rev. Oliver Tuttle, Capt. Alpha Bligh to Miss Almira H. Wiard.

Chenango American, Greene, NY, October 10, 1878

Marriage

By Rev. George D. Horton, at his residence Sept. 27th, Mr. Charles H. Jewell to Miss Josephine A. Jones, both of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY].

Deaths

In Nineveh [Broome Co. NY] Sept. 29th, Mrs. Julia Barnes, aged 35 years.

In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] Oct. 2d, C.C. Foster, aged 76 years, 4 months and 18 days.

Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, October 3, 1878

Deaths

Unadilla, Otsego Co. NY:  We miss Uncle David Coye.  Yes, we miss the bowed form with cane and basket.  For many years he lived among us as a hermit.  He loved his fife and was happy even if no other society was afforded him.  He had many kind friends who wished him to share their home but from choice he lived alone, and thus he died, suddenly, on the morning of the second day of the fair after carrying corn and other things to exhibit.  Kind friends carried him to his home, and he lived but a few minutes after reaching it.  The Cornet band played a dirge over his remains and friends from abroad took him to a distant place for interment.  He was 77 years of age.

Miss Emma Bartlet who died in New York recently was one of the "queer creatures" of this county.  She began business in New York some years ago selling halter straps which were made for her by a harness maker on the Bowery.  At first, he trusted her with one, which she told him she could sell.  While standing near a livery stable fronting Union Square a horse broke its halter.  She asked the stable owner if he wanted a new halter strap.  He said "yes."  Then she asked what he gave for halter straps.  He told her, then she ran to a harness shop, told the man she could sell one if she had it.  The man trusted her with three straps to go out and sell.  She disposed of them in one afternoon and at night went to his house and paid him for them.  The next day she sold seven halter straps and paid for them as before.  The third day she sold nine and paid for them.  By this time, she had made and saved $1.75, which she invested in straps, which were soon sold.  She then added to her stock a few halters and in time a few bridles, that she sold at different stables she visited. Thus, she worked her way into a good business and came to own before her death a harness factory in which she gave employment to a hundred persons.  She was a small woman, never weighing to exceed ninety pounds.  Her voice was neither feminine or masculine and she had a hard beard so that she shaved three times a week.  What was more singular was the fact that liquor never affected her brain, though she drank of it whenever a customer would drink.  She used to drink with her customers and thus drove better bargains with them.