Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Vital Records, Chenango County, NY, 1820 &1837

 Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, September 20, 1820

Deaths

At Preston [Chenango Co. NY], on Saturday the 10th inst. Gen. James Mason formerly of Lebanon, Connecticut, aged 61 years.  He was a hero of the revolution, and whilst a citizen of Connecticut, was for many years a representative in the State Legislature.  When living, he was universally respected, and he died regretted by his numerous relatives and acquaintances.

_______________________

At Conhocton [Steuben Co. NY], on the 21st inst. Mr. Edward Wickoff about 40 years of age.  In taking honey from a tree in the woods, he was stung by a bee at the lower point of the ear, near the angle of the jaws.  Instantly after the sting, his system was so strangely affected that he sat down fainting, and begged assistance.  There were some of his friends in company and they used every possible exertion to save him.  But within six minutes, his power of speech was gone, his eyes became blind, and he died without a groan or struggle. Now this is an affecting case representing the uncertain tenure of human life, but we repeat what we have often published in capitals:  

That one wine glass full of olive oil, taken into the stomach immediately after the biting or stinging of any reptile or insect many put an instant -?- stop to the poison

A draught of salt and vinegar instantly taken, is good.

Or, chew and swallow the juice of the snail(?) Plantain.  A strong decoction of this leaf administered as soon as practicable will save from death.  Steuben Pat.

Oxford Gazette, Oxford, NY, September 27, 1820

Deaths

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] on the 20th September, Mr. Abner Humphrey.

On the 14th inst. at his late residence in Steuben [Oneida Co. NY], after a short but fatal attack of the cholera morbus, Dr. Daniel R. Roberts (more generally known by the name of the Welch Doctor).  Doct. Roberts was 45 years of age, a native of Wales, had lived but a few years in this country, and had become deservedly celebrated as a physician, particularly in cancers and chronic complaints.  He was of a very humane and benevolent disposition, exerted himself to relieve the poor who applied for medical aid equally as for the rich; although in a great many instances there was no prospect of his receiving but little, if any compensation; and in many cases of the widow and fatherless he wholly refused compensation when offered.  His death no doubt will be lamented by thousands who are laboring under complaints of the above description.  The Doct. has left an amiable wife and three children to mourn his loss.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 12, 1837

Marriage

At St. Augustine [FL], on the 7th ult. by the Rev. David Brown, Lot Clark, Esq. (formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY]) President of the Southern life Insurance and Trust Company of that city, to Miss Una Stokes, daughter of the Rev. James O. Stokes, of this state.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 19, 1837

Marriages

In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] on the 5th inst. by the Rev. L.A. Barrows, Mr. David Pellet of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Polly Janes of Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY].

In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] on the 12th inst. by the Rev. E. Bronson, Mr. Wm. Baldwin, merchant, to Miss Katharine Humphrey, all of that town.

Death

On Tuesday last, Samuel Seymour aged 14 years, only son of the late James Seymour, deceased, was drowned in the Susquehanna River, about three miles below this village. [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY].  It appears that he started in the morning, without the knowledge of his friends to go to Vestal, and for that purpose constructed a small slab raft upon which he floated down the river to the distance above named, where it came in contact with a log or some other obstruction and separated.  The lad clung for a short time to a fragment of the raft.  His cries for assistance were heard by some females on the shore, who were unable to render him any assistance and they soon saw him sink to rise no more.  His body has not yet been recovered.

The news of the death of this unfortunate youth was conveyed to his orphan sisters in this singular manner.  His cap, which he had thrown from his head, floated down the river some distance and lodged on a bush on the margin.  It was recovered and brought to this village to be identified.  It so happened that the first person to whom the inquiry was directed was the elder sister of the deceased, who replied "Yes, it is my brother's."  The heart-rending intelligence was then broken to her that the owner of it was lost to her forever.  Broome Republican

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, April 26, 1837

Marriage

In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] on the 18th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Sessions, Mr. James Kershaw, merchant, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Fanny Bement of the former place.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 10, 1837

Death

In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY], on the 29th ult. Mrs. Hannah D. [Gardiner] wife of Mr. John H. Gardiner, aged 33 yrs.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, May 17, 1837

Death

In Cincinnatus, Cortland County [NY] on Saturday evening, April 29, Mrs. Sally Reynolds, wife of Mr. John Reynolds, formerly of Norwich, Chenango County [NY] daughter of Deacon Joshua Grosvenor, of Pomfret, Connecticut, aged 49 years.

In the death of this extraordinary woman, her husband and two sons have lost a kind and affectionate wife and mother, and an instructive guide and counsellor; the church and society of which she was an exemplary member, one of its brightest ornaments and the cause of Christian benevolence and Christian charity a constant and zealous advocate and supporter.  In the most trying scenes of sickness and distress, by which from an impaired constitution she had long been a victim, her well balanced mind never swerved from its center, but true as the needle to the pole pointed to her Redeemer as the source of all her hopes and consolation.   Nor did it fail her in the last trying scene.  She died the death of the righteous.

No comments:

Post a Comment