Vital Records, Delaware (1835) & Chenango (1876) Counties, NY

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, April 1, 1835

Deaths

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the 19th of March, Edwin R. [Millard] youngest son of William Aillard in the 3d year of his age.

In Hamden [Delaware Co. NY], on the 24th ult.  Mrs. Isabella Pike consort of Mr. Cornelius Pike, and daughter of the late William Moscript, aged 24 years.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, April 8, 1835

Married

In this town on the 25th ult by Elder Jones, Mr. Alonzo Mallory to Miss Sally Valentine.

Deaths

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the 4th inst. Mrs. Prudence Hall consort of the late Adam Hall, aged about 60 years.

Died, in this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the morning of the 29th ult. Simon Crane, a Revolutionary pensioner, in the 80th year of his age.  Mr. Crane removed to this country shortly after the war terminated in which he had taken an active and efficient part and has for more than forty years been a resident of this county.  He was one of four brothers, all of whom with their father, were either in the French or Revolutionary wars, one brother was killed in the former and another in the latter war. the other and only surviving member of the family we understand resides in the western part of this state and is also a pensioner.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, April 29, 1835

Marriage

In this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the evening of the 24th inst. by the Rev. Elbert Osborn, Mr. Charles Stoddard to Miss Caroline Newton both of Delhi.

Deaths

In this town [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY] on the 20th ult., Solomon Palmer a pensioner of the Revolution, in the 85th year of his age.

In Hamden [Delaware Co. NY] on the 20th ult. Mrs. Molly Humphrey in the 87th year of her age.

New Berlin Gazette, New Berlin, NY, September 2, 1876

Marriage

MOORE - WRENCH:  In this village [New Berlin, Chenango Co. NY] Aug 26th by Rev. N.J. Hawley, Edwin Moore of Pittsfield [Otsego Co. NY] and Miss Ursula Wrench of Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY].

Death

A sad accident occurred at Campville [Tioga Co. NY] yesterday morning. A boy name Bond about twelve years of age, engaged in distributing advertising bills about the country, left the accommodation train at Campville on Saturday evening and remined in the place overnight.  On Sunday morning he stopped at the residence of Mr. Haner, who lives on a farm belonging to Mr. E. Van Tuyl of this city, just west of Campville.  Picking up a revolver which was lying near him, he began carelessly fooling with it, when it suddenly went off, the ball entering the head of Mr. Haner's little boy just below the eye.  Mr. Haner telegraphed to Owego for a physician at once, but the child died in about twenty minutes after the accident. The deceased boy was two years of age and an only child.  The boy at whose hands the accident occurred says that his father is a shoemaker living in Susquehanna.  An account was telegraphed to the father and the boy is under arrest.  The affair caused great excitement at Campville, but was undoubtedly an accident.

News Item

Last Saturday forenoon, a very long funeral procession was on the valley road, and the driver of the fourth or fifth carriage gave the side of a hay stack a cut with his whip.  Immediately hundreds of hornets swarmed out of that stack and attacked the horses and men and women furiously.  He had cut their nest.  Many horses reared, plunged forward, pranced, tried to run, but the hill just before them soon tuckered them out. The men and women fought the hornets with fans, handkerchiefs, parasols and hats, nearly all the distance to the cemetery.  A few were stung and there was some screeching and would have been more but for the sense of decorum due the solemn occasion.  It is a wonder to everybody in the procession that no accident occurred.  With all the rearing and dashing of the horses, not even a buggy tipped over.  There is no doubt, however, that if the hill had not been so near, serious accidents would have occurred, as it was, the driver had the good sense to let his team try the hill when they started off on being stung. and the drivers behind him followed his example.  No funeral procession ever went up a hill as that one did, we venture to say.