Vital Records, Broome County, NY (1875)

 Union News, Union, NY, April 9, 1875

Marriages

LAYCOCK - ATCHINSON:  At Union, N.Y. [Broome Co.] on Sunday, March 28, by Rev. C.S. Dewing.  Mr. Joseph Laycock of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] to Miss Tobia Atchinson of Chenango [Broome Co. NY].

GASTON - MANLUFF:  At Union, N.Y. [Broome Co.] on Friday April 2d, 1874 [sic], by Rev. C.S. Dewing, Mr. Andrew Gaston of Havana, N.Y. [Schuyler Co.]to Miss Kate Manluff of Union, N.Y.

HARRISON - FLANAGAN:  On Sunday, April 4th, 1875, at Union Mills, Ind., by Rev. Mr. Smith, James E. Harrison, Esq. of Union, N.Y. [Broome Co.] to Mattie Flanagan of Union Mills, LaPort Co., Indiana.

Deaths

On March 26th, Avery Olmstead, residing two miles east of Apalachin [Tioga Co. NY], died aged 19 years.  He is spoken of by his neighbors as a good neighbor and friend and an excellent businessman.  He leaves behind him a wife, an estimable lady, and a daughter, who sincerely mourn his loss.  Mrs. Olmstead is a sister to General Catlin of Brooklyn.

A lamentable accident occurred on Sunday afternoon at Port Dickinson [Broome Co. NY].  A party of young men from Whitney's Point [Broome Co. NY] rowed up the Chenango to the above place.  The current was very strong and carried them over the dam turning one boat upside down and throwing the men into the water.  All were rescued except Charles B. Beach of Whitney's Point.  He was drowned.  He was a son of Franklin Beach of Whitney's Point, aged 28 years and leaves a wife and one child.  He was formerly a traveling agent for George Q. Moon, of Binghamton [Broome Co. NY].

The Funeral of the late Henry R. Mygatt took place at Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] on Monday from St. Paul's Church and was largely attended.  Six clergymen took part in the services.  The church was beautifully decorated with flowers.

Mr. Henry Turner of Maine [Broome Co. NY] died very suddenly of heart disease at his residence on Monday March 20th.  Mr. Turner was a man very highly esteemed and his loss will be sincerely mourned.

Union News, Union, NY, April 16, 1875

Marriage

Sheriff Holme of Montrose was married to Miss Jessie Bissell of Jessup on the 24th ultimo.  He razed the siege of Susquehanna Depot, executed Irwin and O'Mara, and led a bride to the altar all in one year.

Deaths

Three children of James E. Wait in the town of Windsor [Broome Co. NY] died of scarlet fever last week Annie [Wait] aged four years and eight months, died Thursday; Gracie [Wait] aged six years and ten months died Saturday; and on Sunday, Henry [Wait] aged one year and five months died.

The death of Miss Emma J. Stewart the lovely and accomplished daughter of Mr. William Stewart, of this city which occurred yesterday morning, creates a profound feeling of sorrow among a numerous circle of friends.  Republican.

On Tuesday morning of last week, Clarence Taft, a nine-year-old boy of Mr. C.H. Taft, of Deposit [Delaware Co. NY] while playing in the garden, dug up a root of which he ate a piece about as large as a hen's egg, supposing it to be parsnip.  He soon told his mother that he felt sick, informing her that he had eaten the root and wondered if it was that that made him sick. His mother told him to take off his boots and warm his feet, not thinking that the root he had eaten was a poison.  He had scarcely taken off his boots when he was thrown into convulsions of the severest kind. Physicians were immediately sent for and everything possible was done to save the little sufferer's life, but without avail, as the poison had quickly done its work and his jaws were set and could not be opened.  It was about eleven o'clock when the poison first affected him and death ended his suffering about two o'clock.  Dr. O.T. Bundy pronounces the root which caused the child's death the poison hemlock and informs us that there are many cases on record of children being poisoned by it.  It tastes like parsnips and is a quick and deadly poison.  A large quantity of the root was found in the garden and removed.  Courier

Union News, Union, NY, April 30, 1875

Marriage

EWELL - ROUNDS:  At the Methodist Parsonage in this village [Union, Broome Co. NY] on the 22d inst. by Rev. William N. Cobb, Mr. J. Ewell to Miss Cornelia Rounds, both of Vestal [Broome Co. NY].

Death

Mrs. Timothy Wood, who formerly resided in Union [Broome Co. NY] and who died in Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] Saturday, was buried on Monday at the cemetery, this village. [Lamira Wood, d. 24 Apr. 1875, aged 59y, buried Chenango Valley Cemetery, Binghamton NY]

News Item

Recovery of the Body of C.B. Beach

The body of Charles B. Beach was found in the Chenango River at about half past two o'clock Friday afternoon, upon the bar a few rods below Noyes' dam or brush dam as it is called, near Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] and not far from the west band of the river.  The bar consists of four or five small islands clustered at this point and filling up the greater portion of the breadth of the river.  Between the islands run narrow and shallow water channels and in one of these the body was found.  The channel was not over eight feet in width, while the water where they body lay was estimated to be not more than from four to six inches deep.  

The body lay with the face downwards in a bed of mud with the feet pointing up the stream.  It was not mangled or bruised and the clothing was entire.  There was very little bloating of the body and scarcely any signs of decomposition.  The friends of the deceased had kept up the search with tireless fidelity for nineteen days, the accident having occurred on the fourth inst.  The same ground has been searched scores of times and up to within a day and a half of the finding of the body.  Frank Burgett, a half-brother, and George Warner started in a skiff to go up to the dam and when they reached the islands they started up through them in this narrow channel, without any purpose of searching here for the body.  From appearances it is thought the body must have lain here several days. 

About an hour after the finding, the body was carried across the river in a skiff to Noyes' Island, where Sheriff Edmister removed the effects of the deceased from the pockets.  These effects consisted of a valuable revolver, a pocketknife, box of steel pens, an order book and a memorandum book, a key, two lead pencils and $4.82 in cash.  From here it was taken in a wagon to the basement of J.S. Frear & Son, undertakers, where it was laid out. The funeral on Saturday was largely attended.