Vital Records, Delaware (1834) & Otsego (1879) Counties, NY

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 3, 1834

Marriages

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the 30th October last, by the Rev. Mr. Kirtland, Mr. Jesse Betts of Kortright [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss Sally F. [Beardsley] daughter of Patrict Beardsley, Esq.

In New York on Monday evening 24th ult. by the Rev. Doct. Leasing, Mr. Albert M. Clark, merchant of the above place, to Miss Harriet F. Clark, formerly of Hudson [Columbia Co. NY].

Death

At Fort Gibson, Arkansas Territory on the 6th of October ult. Lieut E.G. Eastman of the 2d Regiment of United States' Infantry.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 17, 1834

Deaths

In this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the morning of the 16th inst. Mrs. Polly A. [Bristol] consort of Mr. John Bristol of this village, aged 30 years.

At his residence in Middletown [Delaware Co. NY] on Wednesday the 26th of Nov. Mr. John Dickson aged 71 years.

Mr. Dickson emigrated from Scotland in early life & has long been a respectable member of society in this town.  His high regard for the holy Bible as the rule of our faith & guide of our conduct was manifest as well in his manner of educating a respectable family as in his general intercourse with society. The family feel the loss of an affectionate husband and a tender father but have reason to hope that he is gone where the weary are at rest.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 24, 1834

Marriages

 In Bovina [Delaware Co. NY] on the 11th ult. by John Landon, Esq. Mr. John Palmer to Miss Amelia Tuttle all of the former place.

In Bovina [Delaware Co. NY] on the 12th ult. by the Rev. John Graham, Mr. James Felter of Andes [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss C. Miller of Bovina.

Death

In the village of Vallatia, town of Kinderhook, Columbia County [NY] on Wednesday the10th inst. Miss Laura Leal, youngest daughter of Mr. David Leal, formerly of this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] in the 20th year of her age.  She died of typhus fever after an illness of fifteen days, which she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation.  She resigned her spirit into the hands of God who gave it and left this world rejoicing in the hope of a blessed immortality beyond the grave. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, December 31, 1834

Death

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the 21st inst. William G. [Fish] son of Mr. Daniel Fish Jr. aged 5 years.

Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, August 6, 1879

Deaths

Patrick Morse a mason of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] fell from a scaffold in the new Catholic church in Towanda in which he was engaged in plastering, on July 31st and was instantly killed.  The distance was thirty feet and the fall broke his neck.  Morse plastered W.H. Van Wagonen's house and did other jobs in this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY] where he was quite well known.

Russel Boyce who died suddenly at Nineveh [Delaware Co. NY] of paralysis recently, to which place he had walked on a visit, will be greatly missed in this community.  His funeral was held in the Methodist church of which he was a member on Sunday, July 27th, all other services being discontinued