Vital Records, Madison (1820) & Otsego (1879 & 1890) Counties, NY

 The Pilot, Cazenovia, NY, January 5, 1820

News Item

Whereas my wife Susan [Bardeen] has eloped from my bed and board, without any provocation, it is to forbid all persons from harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting after this date.  Moses Bardeen, Jun. December 23, 1819.

The Pilot, Cazenovia, NY, January 12, 1820

Marriage

On Thursday the 6th inst. by Jabez Wright, Esq. Mr. Amos Lane to Widow Ford all of Nelson [Madison Co. NY].

The Pilot, Cazenovia, NY, January 19, 1820

News Item

One Cent Reward:  Departed from the subscriber on the 8th inst. without any cause or provocation, a servant boy about nineteen years of age named Justin Loomis.  I therefore forbid all persons harboring, hiring or trusting him, and who will take up said boy and return him to me shall have the above reward, but no charges.  Henry Bass,  Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] January 14, 1820.

Freeman's Journal, Cooperstown, NY, August 7, 1879

Marriage

In Brooklyn, July 31st, by the Rev. G.H. Chadwell, assistant Rector of Trinity Church, Samuel McElroy and Marie Louise Morgan.

Deaths

At Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY] July 31, Mary Ann [Mickel] wife of Philip Minkel, aged 80 years.

At Fly Creek, Agus 2, Willie [Jackson] son of Melville and Rosa Jackson, aged 1 year and 11 days.

At the residence of his grandfather, John Berry, at Hope Factory [Otsego Co. NY], Aug. 4th, Frederick Van Dusen aged 6 years and 9 months.

In Morris [Otsego Co. NY] July 23d, Moses H. Luther aged 72 years and 7 months.

Unadilla Times, Unadilla, NY, July 16, 1890

Death

Abigail Whittlesey (Camp) Noble

St. Matthew's Church, Unadilla [...unreadable...] and yet very beautiful funeral ceremony on Monday evening last.  Many people gathered there to pay a last tribute of respect to an old friend and neighbor, Mrs. Abigail W. Noble who died in this village on Sunday, July 13th, after a very painful illness.

The Episcopal service faultlessly rendered the time, the place and the occasion seemed suited to each other.

It was fitting that at sunset of a midsummer day, under a clear sky, amid the singing of birds, in an atmosphere filled with the voices of all living things that spoke of joy and hope and endless life, an old woman who believed in immortality and that at the call of her Savior, she would come again from the dead clothed with life eternal, should be laid to rest in the grateful shade and keeping of the much loved church.

All who knew Mrs. Noble in her last years were surprised at the vivacity and clearness of her mind, at the kindliness of her disposition, at her open-handed charity, as if the world was hers to command, and at the vigor of an intellect which time seemed incapable of abating. To such she seemed a remarkable woman.

But to those who knew her in years ago, in the prime of womanhood, when she was the center of a large social circle, and the brightest intellectual found within it, blest with a husband and a family of beautiful children, whom she worshipped when at her home, with all the advantages that wealth and place could [...unreadable...] charming hospitality to all her friends, she was a remarkable woman indeed.

And when in later years, afflictions came without stint or measure and husband and children, all of whom "in the order of nature should have survived her," were taken one by one away and she, the proud and self-reliant woman, patiently bore every sorrow as having been sent by One in whose mercy she trusted, who gave and had a right to take away, and so believing and trusting, and profiting by affliction her bright temper and sunny disposition asserted themselves and shone bright and clear above the gloom of all her grief.  She was still more remarkable.

Mrs. Noble was born at Oswego, NY October 1808.  She was the daughter of William and Abigail Whittlesey Camp. She was married to Judge Charles C. Noble of this village.  She was of a family of rare personal gifts and intellectual distinction.  She was a sister of the well-known lawyer, George Sidney Camp, deceased.  Only two sisters survive her, Mrs. Storrs of Owego and Mrs. Jared O. Gregory of Madison, Wisconsin.

She was a large hearted, great minded, thoughtful woman.  Her self-reliance and positive ideas sometimes made her seem peculiar, but no one who knew her ever thought of attributing any act of hers to a base or unworthy motive.

She was laid to her rest by kindly hands, and as a former pastor committed her body to her last resting place of earth which her care had tended for many long years because it held treasures which she fondly thought did not belong to it.  The tear on many a cheek told in what esteem she was held by men and women who had long known her and felt the gracious encouragement of her unselfish friendship.