Vital Records, Delaware County, NY (1835)

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, March 4, 1835

Marriage

At Bainbridge, Chenango County [NY] on the 17th ult. by the Rev Mr. Adams, Chester Hull, Jr., Esq. Editor of the Green County [NY] Advertiser, to Miss Rosa M. Hodge of the former place.

Death

In Kortright [Delaware Co. NY] on the morning of the 25th ult., Mary Augusta Keeler, daughter of Burr Keeler, aged four years.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, March 11, 1835

Marriages

At Middletown [Delaware Co. NY] on the 24th inst. by the Rev. Salmon Scott, Mr. Alexander C. Sleyter to Miss Julia Ann [Lawrence] daughter of James Lawrence, all of Middletown.

On the 4th inst. at the Delaware County Hotel, by the Rev. Mr. Maxwell, Mr. William Tilford of Burlington, Otsego County [NY] to Miss Margaret Laidlaw, recently from Scotland.

At South Worcester, Otsego Co. [NY], on the 26th ult., by the Rev. J. Starks, Mr. Lucas Barnum of Jefferson, Schoharie Co. [NY] to Miss Nancy [McCollum] eldest daughter of James McCollum, Esq. of the former place.

Deaths

On the 6th inst., while on a visit at the residence of S. Lusk, Esq. in the village of Deposit [Delaware Co. NY], after a short and severe illness, Mr. William Butler, in the 58th year of his age.  Mr. Butler came early into this county and settled in Deposit, where for many years he was extensively engaged in business and greatly distinguished by his activity and enterprise.  He was possessed of a strong mind, great energy and decision of character, pleasing manners, and the most benevolent and humane feelings.  With truth it may be said, few have lived more respected or died more lamented.

At Cannonsville [Delaware Co. NY] on the 7th instant, of consumption, after an illness of six months, George Maples, son of Darius Maples, merchant of that place, aged eighteen years, four months and twenty days.

At South Worcester, Otsego County [NY], on the 19th ult. Daniel Sawyer in the 66th year of his age.

At Higganum Ct. on the 12th ult. George M. Clark, son of James Clark, Jr., aged 4 years.

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In Kingston, Penn. on Monday the 23d ult. Mr. Emmeus Locke, aged 60 years and 9 months.

The deceased (says the Wyoming Republican) was an honest, upright man.  For a number of years his hopes had been placed in his Saviour and during his last sickness, he evinced an unshaken confidence in Him, in whom he trusted for a safe and eternal deliverance.  Friends may feel their loss, but there is left them the consoling reflection that his spirit has gone to inhabit a house, not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens, whose builder and Maker is God the Lord.  A favorite verse with the deceased was,

"There I shall bathe my weary soul, / In seas of Heavenly rest, / And not a wave of trouble roll, /Across my peaceful breast."

The deceased was the father of Mr. C.F. T. Lock of this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY].

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The Late General Leavenworth

The New Orleans Bulletin of the 2nd inst. contains the following notice of intended funeral honors to be paid to the remains of this gallant officer who, it will be recollected, died last summer while in command of the expedition sent against the Pawnee and Chamanche Indians.  We are indebted to a gentleman recently from Fort Towson for the following intelligence:

On the 10th inst. Lieuts. Fry and Barnwell were dispatched by order of Col. Vose, to Fausse Charchita, for the purpose of disinterring the remains of the late General Leavenworth and Lieut. McClure.  The latter to be re-interred with military honors at Fort Towson and the former to leave that post, in charge of Lieut. Legate about the 18th inst. for Natchitoches, where they will be met by a suitable escort from Fort Jessup, La. and proper honors paid them.

From thence they are to be transported, in charge of Major Belknap, to Delhi, in the State of New York [Delaware Co.], for final interment, agreeable to the last expressed wishes of the deceased.

The citizens of Delhi, it is understood, intend meeting the remains of their departed fellow citizen at some thirty miles distant, with a military escort and of consigning them in the place of their final repose, with such honors as are due to the distinguished merit of the lamented Leavenworth.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, March 18, 1835

Marriage

In Franklin [Delaware Co. NY] on the evening of the 5th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Waterbury, Mr. Charles Grant of Stamford [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss M. Amanda Green of the former place.

Death

In the city of New York on the 4th inst., from bleeding at the lungs, our fellow citizen, John F Darrow in the 47th year of his age.

In him, the Mechanical Society have lost a most ingenious, enterprising and useful member and the community at large a valuable and worthy citizen. But who shall estimate the loss to his bereaved partner and to his orphan children.  Or who will not accord in them his most affectionate sympathies, and his most ardent prayers for their prosperity, and for the smiles of a gracious providence upon them? and in this sudden and lamented death, who does not feel a solemn echo of the voice of inspiration, "Be ye also ready; for in an hour that ye think not, the son of man cometh."  Catskill Recorder.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, March 25, 1835

Deaths

In Sidney [Delaware Co. NY] on the 15th inst. Maria T. [Baxter] wife of John Baxter, Esq. and daughter of William Townsend Esq. of Walton [Delaware Co. NY] in the 37th year of her age.

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In Andes [Delaware Co. NY] on the 18th inst. Mr. Philo Burr, in the 43d year of his age.

For many years Mr. Burr has been sorely pressed by the hand of disease.  He in vain tried the mild climate of the Southern states and Florida for relief.  He bore his afflictions with becoming fortitude worthy of an honest and moral man, for such he was.  Possessed of an independent mind and conscious of the rectitude of his life, he patiently awaited his appointed time.  Mr. Burr, if not a native, has, we believe, from his infancy resided in this county and for several years was an inhabitant of this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY].

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In this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the 14th inst. Annet [Wood] daughter of Mr. Amos Wood, aged one year and eleven months.

As the dew gems the field when the orient sun / Spreads o'er nature his mantle of gold; / As virtue enriches the mind of the good / When she doth her treasures unfold:

So children bestrew the pathway of life / With pleasures we ne'er can forget; / So sweetly did she whose frolics were peace, / The cheerful, sweet, charming Annet.

But winter came on, and her sand glass was run / And her course to the cold grave is given; / We wept, but we ought not, for truths record says, / That of such is the kingdom of Heaven.