Vital Records, Broome (1838), Madison (1854) Counties, NY

 Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, May 31, 1838

Death

In this village [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY], on Sunday the 27th inst., Mrs. Dorothy Sanborn, aged 72 years.

Broome Republican, Binghamton, NY, June 14, 1838

Marriages

Married in the town of Lisle [Broome Co. NY] on Wednesday the 6th inst. by James Stoddard, 2d, Esq., Mr. George Setmour of Triangle [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Mary Freeman of the former place.

In the town of Greene, Chenango County [NY], on the 12th instant by the Rev. Mr. Van Ingen, Joseph G. Masten, Esq. of Buffalo [Erie Co. NY] to Miss Christine Cameron of the former place.

Cazenovia Republican, Cazenovia, NY, August 2, 1854

Death

Mrs. Harriet King, wife of Mr. King, innkeeper at Onondaga Hollow [Onondaga Co. NY], died of cholera at her residence on Wednesday afternoon, after an illness of 7 hours.  She was a sister of the late Mr. Hiram Snow, of this city [Albany, Albany Co. NY] and hers was the third death from the same disease in that family.  Syracuse Journal

E.B. Georgia, a hotel keeper near Meredith Square, Delaware County [NY], was killed by lightning on Monday.  He was in his barn with a Pedler.  The latter was stunned but recovered in time to rescue the dead body before the fire, which communicated to the barn, had reached it.  Albany Journal

Cazenovia Republican, Cazenovia, NY, August 9, 1854

Death

John [Hillis], youngest son of D.D. Hillis, Esq. was drowned in the Onondaga Creek yesterday.  He was swimming with several others and accidentally getting into very deep water, he sank and was drowned.  This bereavement will fall heavily upon the parents and friends of the deceased child.  Syracuse Journal, Aug. 3

Cazenovia Republican, Cazenovia, NY, August 16, 1854

Elopement

Mr. Levi Main, a widower, and father of one small child, eloped with the wife of John Hembery, the mother of two children, from this town last week to parts unknown. The woman took one of her children and some ten dollars in cash, the hard earnings of her husband.  Main is a poor, shiftless coot and a vagabond, but the woman is represented as bearing a good character heretofore; was young and much better circumstanced in life than Main, and why she should have committed such an act is unfathomable.  but there is no accounting for taste, as the old woman said when she kissed the cow. The husband plucks up courage and says "good riddance."

Death

John A. Messinger, Esq. died of cholera at Milwaukee, Wis. a short time since, after an illness of only five hours.  Mr. Messinger was forty-five years of age.  He was formerly a resident of this vicinity and has numerous friends and relatives in Madison County [NY] who will be pained to hear of his unexpected death. We believe Mr. M. was under indictment for alleged participation in the rescue of the Fugitive Slave Glover.  He has now gone beyond the jurisdiction of Courts and marshals where the vindictive animosity of Sharpstein, the District Attorney, can pursue him no farther.  Oneida Sachem

Cazenovia Republican, Cazenovia, NY, August 30, 1854

Marriage

In Watervale [Onondaga Co. NY], on the 23d inst.by the Rev S. Hocking, Mr. George Romeyn Ostrander to Miss Sarah Ann Wright, both of Pompey [Onondaga Co. NY].