Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, June 18, 1879
Marriage
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr. C.R. Chase and Miss May I. Carpenter at Emmanuel Church [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], Wednesday afternoon, June 18th at 5 p.m.
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, June 21, 1879: Emmanuel Church was thronged on Wednesday afternoon with the wealth and fashion of Norwich, attracted thither by the wedding ceremony of Charles E. Chase and Miss May L. Carpenter. The church was appropriately trimmed, and the chancel elaborately decorated with running pine and cut flowers and spanned by an evergreen arch from the center of which hung a floral horseshoe for "good luck." A few minutes before five o'clock the following young lady friends of the bride entered on the arms of the ushers. The Misses Ross of New Berlin, tastefully attired in white tarlatan; Miss Ella Medbury in cream colored bunting trimmed with white satin; the Misses Rider in elegant costumes of pink and white silk trimmed with flowers and ornamented with diamonds; Miss Callie Franklin wearing black silk velvet, trimmed with brocaded ecrue grenadine; and Miss Ada Main attired in blue and white silk trimmed with tarlatan. Promptly at five, the organ pealed forth the wedding march and the bridal party entered, proceeded and followed by ushers Ed. L. Nash, Wm. Peacock, A.W. Niblock and Geo. H. Barnes. The groom was attired is sober evening dress and the bride wore a beautiful peach blow silk, trimmed with white lace. The ceremony was brief but impressive and at its close, the newly wedded pair with their friends drove to the residence of the bride's parents where a short reception was held. The presents were numerous and costly and comprised among other things a handsome toilet set of silver and glass, a cake basket and knife, fruit dish, napkin rings, a carved ivory pin, silver and glass vases, a pie knife, silver spoons, and a card receiver. The young couple left on the evening train for an extended tour.
Death
CHAPM<AN: In Mexico, Miami county, Ind., Sallie Chapman wife of Charles Chapman, formerly of Plymouth, this county [Chenango Co. NY], May 22d, 1879, aged 76 years 5 months and 9 days.
ROE: Mrs. Lydia C. Roe the estimable wife of George W. Roe, died at her home in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. the funeral was held at her late residence Monday forenoon, Rev. S. Scoville officiating. Mrs. Roe was an active member of the Congregational church and will be missed by a large circle of acquaintances. She leaves five children, three boys and two girls.
Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph, Norwich, NY, June 21, 1879
Marriages
FOOTE - WILDER: On June 6th, 1879, by Rev. L.M.S. Haynes, Mr. Charles S. Foote and Miss Minnie Wilder of Coventry [Chenango Co. NY].
CROSBY - FOLK: In Preston [Chenango Co. NY] at the residence of the bride by Rev. Z.B. Santee, Mr. Frank H. Crosby of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] and Miss Eliza M. Folk of Preston.
CORNELL - DUNLAP: George Cornell and Miss Mary Dunlap were united in marriage by the venerable Elder Chamberlain on the morning of the 10th at the home of the bride in Mt. Upton [Chenango Co. NY]. they have gone to Waterville on their bridal excursion.
YEOMANS - FORD: Preston, Chenango Co. NY: Rector Yeomans has gone and done it. He was united in marriage on the 6th of the present month to Miss Anna Ford of McDonough [Chenango Co. NY]
Deaths
The people of that portion of Smithville known as the "Dibble's Corners," [Chenango Co. NY] were startled on Wednesday morning by the announcement that Adelaine Seeley aged 55 years, wife of Abel Seeley, an old resident, had been found dead in a water tank in the rear of her residence, under circumstances that appeared mysterious. Dr. Lee of Oxford was notified of the circumstances, and he telegraphed to Coroner Geo. W. Avery of Norwich who at once started for the scene of the affair, accompanied by a representative of the Telegraph. At Oxford, a Coroner's jury was summoned consisting of McGeorge Bundy, Charles W. Brown, Dwight M. Lee, J.G. VanWagenen, W. Cone Mahurin, Ira W. June and Charles W. Warn, who on arriving on the spot were at once sworn in with McGeorge Bundy as foreman and an investigation commenced, when the following facts were elicited which sufficiently demonstrated the manner of the woman's death, to warrant the jury after a brief hearing in finding a verdict of accidental drowning. The circumstances disclosed are briefly as follows: Abel Seeley and his wife resided alone and on the morning in question they got up about 6 o'clock and Mr. Seeley milked his cows and carried the milk to the factory about a mile distant; he returned, put up his horse and with his wife ate breakfast, after which he went to the barn to feed his calves and turkeys; greased his wagon, was absent some fifteen or twenty minutes. While at the barn he saw his wife in the front yard transplanting flowers. After he had finished his chores, he went to the yard and back of house to pick up some stray boards and came around to the rear and entered the house. Not finding his wife in the house, he opened doors into several rooms calling her name. Getting no response, he went to the water tank, where he saw his wife laying on the bottom in about 18 inches of water, face down and body drawn up. He reach down and took one of her hands, felt for pulse and then after trying to get the body out of the water, went to a neighbor's, name Ethan Boyce, about a fourth of a mile distant, telling them what had occurred and in company with a man named James Webb hastened to the house and by tipping over the hogshead released the body of the unfortunate woman. When taken out there was still warmth in her body, and it is more than probable that my proper means she might have been resuscitated, as there was no proof adduced to show that she had been in the water long enough to drown. Dr. Lee examined the body and pronounced the cause of death asphyxias. Mr. and Mrs. Seeley had not lived happily together, and she had once left him and sued for a divorce, but after an absence of some six months, last fall returned to their old home and had since resided with her husband. Several witnesses swore that they thought her a little out of her head and others that she had a violent temper. Her position in the tub with no evidence of a struggle to get out leaves at least a doubt in the minds of many as to whether it was a case of suicide or accidental drowning. The deceased leaves two children, a married daughter residing in Oxford and a son about twenty-three years of age, who lives in Smithville about half a mile from his father's house. Altogether it is a very sad and melancholy affair.
Bainbridge Republican, Bainbridge, NY, July 31, 1879
Marriages
HAIGHT - LANDERS: At the Episcopal Parsonage July 24, 1879, by Rev. J.L. Egbert, William Haight of North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Nora Landers of Afton [Chenango Co. NY].
BRADLEY - PECKTEAM: At the residence of David Burt, Wellslburgh [Chemung Co. NY], July 23 by the Rev. R. Everts, Mr. Uri Bradley of Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] to Mrs. Mary E. Peckteam of Wellsburgh.
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