Vital Records, Madison County, NY (1867)

 Oneida Dispatch, Oneida, NY, March 30, 1867

Marriages

BUMPUS - LUMBARD:  March 27th, 1867, at the National Hotel, By Rev. David McFarland, of Oneida, Mr. Augustus H. Bumpus to Miss Eliza M. Lumbard, both of Fenner, N.Y. [Madison Co.].

WHITMAN - WILCOX:  In Clockville [Madison Co. NY] on the 20th inst. at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. Leander Hall, Mr. Allen S. Whitman and Miss Mary Wilcox all of Clockville.

SHAPLEY - STEWART:  At the residence of the bride's father in Georgetown [Madison Co. NY], March 14th, 1867, by Rev. James H. Sage, Mr. Spencer B. Shapley of Lebanon [Madison Co. NY] to Miss Dora C. Stewart.

WARD - COOK: Thursday, March 21st, 1867, at the residence of the bride's mother, by the Rev A.G. Fargo, Waulatean B. Ward of Madison, N.Y. [Madison Co.] to Miss Lottie A. Cook of Bouckville, N.Y. [Madison Co.].

VEDDER - MAINE:  In Perryville [Madison Co. NY], March 29th, 1867, by Rev. E.F. Maine of Walworth, Mr. Horatio K. Vedder of Oppenheim [Fulton Co. NY] to Miss Marion A.Maine of Perryville.

BARLOW - SHERWOOD: On March 21, 1867, by Rev. Wm. Reddy, Mr. William Barlow of Canaseraga [Allegany Co. NY] to Mrs. Jane Ann Sherwood of Oneida Valley.

HUNT - TUTTLE:  In Georgetown [Madison Co. NY] on the 6th inst. Mr. George H. Hunt of DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY] and Miss Dorlesca Tuttle of Georgetown.

BROWN - BACON:  In Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] on the 12th inst. Mr. George Brown and Mary E. Bacon, all of Otselic. 

McCARTNEY - MIX:  In Sangerfield [Oneida Co. NY] on the 6th inst. by the Rev. C. Morgan, Mr. John McCartney and Miss Ellen C. Mix.

MORTON - WHEELER:  In Georgetown [Madison Co. NY] on the 6th inst. by Rev. Mr. Brooks, Mr. Reuben Morton of Herkimer Co. [NY] and Miss Mary Wheeler of Otselic [Chenango Co. NY].

The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark of Eaton [Madison Co. NY] met at their residence on Wednesday evening, the 20th inst. to celebrate their twenty-fifth marriage anniversary.  It was a pleasant and happy gathering.  Mr. and Mrs. Clark were the recipients of numerous handsome and appropriate presents, amounting in value to $175.  There were about sixty guests present, and they all gathered round a table filled with the good things the worthy hostess knows so well how to prepare.  All united in doing these good things ample justice. Then followed music, song and dancing, till the small hours of the night came round, and admonished all to seek their homes.  And thus, the happy company broke up, pleased and highly gratified with the evening's entertainment and hoping long life may bless the host and hostess, whose house has always been the welcome, cordial home of all callers, whether rich or poor.  that they might live to enjoy their golden wedding, when twenty-five more years have rolled away, was the earnest wish of all.

Deaths

COPPINS:  In DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY], March 20th, George Coppins aged 21 years 10 months and 20 days.

CROSS:  In Georgetown [Madison Co. NY]m, on the 9th inst., Mrs. Betsey Cross aged 76 years

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DENISON:  In Oneida [Madison Co. NY] March 23, at the residence of her mother, Mrs. N.B. Wilbur, Mrs. Mary W. Denison, wife of Lyman Denison, Esq. of New York, aged 40 years.

No brief obituary notice can do justice to the memory of one who possessed such a rare combination of personal beauty with exquisite culture of mind and heart.  Whether we refer to her kind and gentle spirit, by which she won the affection of all who knew her, to intellectual gifts, her perfect taste and fine execution in painting and music, by which she challenged their admiration, or her ardent childish love for all things beautiful in nature, by which the world of beauty in sight and sound was open to the sensitive soul, or to that Christian faith which consecrated and sanctified there gifts and graces, we are embarrassed by the limits of this notice.  In the prime of her life and beauty she fell a victim to disease.  For several years she bravely resisted its inroad, receiving all the loving care which the devoted ministry of her loving family could render, but it becoming evident the past winter that she was failing, she left the city for the quiet repose of the country, to die in her mother's house.  There, in perfect quiet and peace, grateful as a child for every kindness shown her, looking to her Savior with that entire reliance which removed all fear or dread of death, she lay for several weeks, waiting the summons to depart.  And when, in the early watch her Savior called, she, asking for her husband and mother, smiled sweetly saying:

"So fades a summer cloud away; / So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; / So gently shuts the eye of day; / So dies a wave along the shore."