Morris Chronicle, Morris, NY, November 12, 1879
Marriages
FOLTS - HILL: At the residence of the bride's parents in Pittsfield [Otsego Co. NY] Nov. 5th, by Rev. J.C. Shelland, William N. Foltz of Morris [Chenango Co. NY] and Mary E. Hill of Pittsfield.
We record the marriage of Will Folts today, and this week, two more young hearts will enter the state of matrimony. Just the time of year to get married.
ASPENWALL - NEWKIRK: At Milford [Otsego Co. NY] Oct. 29 by Rev. D.C. Olmstead, Clark Aspenwall of Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY] and Mrs. Susan Newkirk of Hartwick.
HUMPHREY - DAVIS: At Gilbertsville [Otsego Co. NY] Nov. 1 by Rev. J.H. Sage, Orson W. Humphrey of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Annah J. Davis of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY].
GAGE - POTTER: In Morris [Otsego Co. NY] Nov. 2d by E.W. Townsend, Esq., Albert W. Gage of Morris, to Miss Carrie Potter of Norwich [Chenango Co. NY].
SHEARER - STEERE: At the residence of the bride's parents, Oct. 29th, by the Rev. Hiram Lee, George B. Shearer of Cherry Valley [Otsego Co. NY] to Miss Carrie Gartsee Steere of Laurens [Otsego Co. NY].
Deaths
COLGROVE: In Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] Oct. 28, George L. Colgrove, aged 24 years 4 months.
SKAYES: In Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] Nov. 2d, son of Henry Skayes aged 3 years.
BURROWS: In Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY] Oct. 24, Sarah A. [Burrows] wife of Silas W. Burrows, aged 67 years.
GRANT: In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] Oct. 30, Rev. D. Grant aged 97 years.
BALLOU: In Delhi [Delaware Co. nY] Oct. 30, Zimri Ballou aged 75 years.
HARRIS: In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] Nov. 5th Mrs. Harris wife of the late John Harris, aged 85 years, it being her birthday. Up to within a few hours of her death she had been about the house apparently in her usual health. [Polly Harris]
YOUNG: Major John W. Young enlisted in Springfield, this county [Otsego Co. NY], soon after the war broke out, in the 76th regiment; was chosen Capt. and in 1863 was promoted to the office of Major. He participated in eleven severe battles and was wounded and taken prisoner at Gettysburg. He was in the service three and a half years and was discharged in the spring of 1865. For a time, he practiced law in Richfield [Otsego Co. NY] and about four years ago removed to Michigan, where some two weeks ago he died.
DUSENBERRY: Henry Dusenberry of Middlefield [Otsego Co. NY] was found dead in his bed on the morning of the 28th ult. He was one of the oldest residents of that town, being 88 years of age.
Unadilla Times, Unadilla, NY, May 7, 1891
Birth
CONNELLY: Born to Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Connelly, Sunday, May 3, 1891, a daughter.
Deaths
STAPLETON: Miss Julia Stapleton of Susquehanna Street passed to a better life yesterday afternoon, after a short illness. she was born at Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY] in 1880 and loved by all who knew her best. Oneonta Star, May 6.
BARTHOLOMEW: Ann [Bartholomew] who died at the home of her son, Edward S. Bartholomew in Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY] April 25th, aged 91 years, had been a member of the M.E. Church 78 years and was beloved by all who knew her. She was noted for her even temper and quiet disposition and her patience during the five and a half years that she was confined to her bed a helpless sufferer.
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From the Chenango Union of 30th ult, the following brief notice is clipped:
SPENCER: In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] April 20, 1891, Mr. J.E. Spencer aged 76 years.
Jonathan Eleazer Spencer, more commonly known by his middle [name] was born and raised in "Spencer Street" in the town of Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY], the second son of William Duncan Spencer and grandson of Jonathan Spencer, who made the first clearing on "Upton's Patent" in that town soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, in which he was an active participant.
With him to Unadilla came his oldest son (a man grown and surveyor) Orange Spencer, known when I was a boy as Elder Spencer. They came from Florida, Montgomery Co. [NY], through the woods to Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] driving cattle and bringing family goods on sleds. At Cooperstown they constructed a batteaux and embarked family, cows, oxen and household effects and floated down to the mouth of the Unadilla. Here the livestock was disembarked, and the boat was polled up to a cove on the present farm of Hobart Ives, where it was allowed to sink and portions of it were found but a few years ago.
Elder Spencer was father of Mrs. John Avery Fry, mother of W.A. and John B. Fry and of Dr. Gaius Spencer, who read medicine with Dr. Colby Knapp and was father of Dr. Spencer of Guilford and Dr. C.D. Spencer of Binghamton.
Jonathan Spencer had other sons viz, Nathaniel, Elisha, Asher, William D., Balzilla, and Solomon, all long since dead. He and many of his sons are buried in the God's acre near Fred Sliter's place of Spencer Street.
His wife nee Keech, was much younger than he and survived him many years and was known as "Aunt Patty," (Martha). Many a night have I sat at her knee and listened to her graphic accounts of the dangers and sufferings of the inhabitants of the Mohawk Valley, from Indians, British and Tories. Her brothers had participated in the old French war and she could tell all about the fighting around Ft. William Henry and "Old Ti." She had herself stood guard in [the] blockhouse at Fort Plain, when the women and children gathered there and the men went "sogering." When they first settled in Spencer Street, their nearest neighbors were the Johnstons at Sidney Plains [Delaware Co. NY] and Gen. Bates on the farm where James Bundy now lives [in 1891]. Mrs. Spencer died (I think) in Jan'y 1844. It was a great mistake that somebody did not take down the many historical incidents she could tell.
Her grandson, J.E., who has just died, was an honest, industrious, good citizen, who left a good record and no enemies. I knew him for more than fifty years, in fact since 1835. Some fifty years ago he married Miss Caroline Chapin, who survives him. He leaves several sons, of whom I know less than of the former generation. William P. Spencer (Parker) is his half-brother and is I think the only one of the name who retains ownership of any of the original Spencer purchase in Unadilla.
At some future time, if the fit come on, I may furnish you with another relay of early history of your vicinity, always supposing you will spread them before the public.
P.P.R. Binghamton, May 2nd, 1891
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