Vital Records, Chenango County, NY (1848)

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 15, 1848

Marriages

In Pitcher [Chenango Co. NY] on the 12th inst., by the Rev. W.S. Smith, Mr. Benjamin F. Baldwin of Butternuts [Otsego Co. NY] to Miss Amy R. Baldwin of the former place.

On the 1st inst., by Rev. J.S. Mitchell, Mr. Phillip A Sweet of Otselic [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Mary Williams of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].

Death

At his residence in North Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] on Wednesday morning, the 8th inst. of pulmonary apoplexy, Isaac S Bockee, Esq.  in the 61st year of his age.

The sudden decease of our worthy friend, whose obituary is just recorded, sensibly reminds us that "in the midst of life we are in death." Although for some days previous to his departure from the scenes of earth, he was quite indisposed, no serious apprehensions were entertained as to his recovery, until there arose a new combination of symptoms, alike fearful in their nature and fatal in their tendency.  The dead cannot profit by this solemn dispensation, but the lesson to us and to all is of too practical use ever to be forgotten, and the admonitory voice is "be ye also ready," as we have every reason to hope and trust was he, whose mortal remains now lie moldering back to their mother earth.  Of the history of the deceased, the writer of this imperfect tribute knows but little, but from the happiness of a short acquaintance and the information gathered of his character, and his virtues, from an extensive and exalted reputation, we believe we are more than warranted in saying the town in which he has so long resided, the church of which he was a member, as well as others, and the immediate community where he lived, have sustained in him a loss which can never be made up.  Many are the unfortunate sons of adversity, whose hearts have been made glad by the munificence of his benefactions.  He exhibited evidence of a sound judgment, a well-balanced and a well stored mind, and possessed qualifications of a superior order.  Home, with him, was the theatre of his fondest hopes, the domestic circle and the friends he loved, the center of his best affections, the extent of his ambition.  But he is now gone from amongst us and from our midst.  And if missed so much by all, so much by those who knew him least, who can estimate the loss and the loneliness of the bereaved family, of which he was the husband and their head.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 22, 1848

Marriages

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on Wednesday morning last, by Rev. S. Goodale, Mr. Edward Tucker to Miss Eliza Roberts.

Also by the same, on Thursday evening, Mrs. Levi Brown to Miss Elizabeth Dyke, both of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].

Death

In Greene [Chenango Co. NY], on the 12th inst. Mrs. Mary A. [Chase] wife of Lester Chase, Esq. aged 21 years.

The deceased fell a victim to Consumption, and although suffering the debility and -?- which usually accompany that gradually wasting disease, yet she was -?- in an -?- degree by the power of Christian patience and fortitude. [rest unreadable]

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, March 29, 1848

Marriage

On the 23rd inst., by the Rev. S. Goodale, Mr. Charles L. Thompson of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Elizabeht A. Wait daughter of Dr. W.C. Wait, of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].

Deaths

At his residence, in Ithaca [Tompkins Co. NY] on Sunday afternoon the 19th inst. Ben Johnson, Esq. in the 65th year of his age.  Another of our distinguished citizens has departed!

He was stricken with paralysis on the Monday morning preceding his death and lingered almost wholly unconscious until the afternoon of the Sabbath.  In the midst of his family and in apparent health, without warning or anticipation, the bolt of Death found and suddenly prostrated him.  Mr. Johnson was extensively known as an eminent lawyer.  The energies of his life had been devoted with great fidelity to his profession.  He was an early resident of Ithaca and for kindness of heart, for unostentatious philanthropy, for active enterprise, and a uniform interest in the prosperity of the place, no man was more respected and beloved.  This was well illustrated by the anxious interest manifested by all our citizens when they learned that he was struggling with the great conqueror, Death,  But he was deeply imbued with those principles which would insure to him the final triumph.  He was a Christian, humble and trusting and has gone to his reward.  Ithaca Daily Chronicle, March 21.

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At Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 25th Feb., Joseph B. Fenton, Esq., son of J.S. Fenton, formerly of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY], in the 33rd year of his age.

Mr. Fenton had established himself in that city in the practice of the law, and although a young practitioner, had acquired an enviable reputation for his critical understanding of the philosophy of legal science.  Among the prominent lawyers of longer practice than himself in Cincinnati, he was recognized as one of their number.  He has fallen in the springtime of life, amid ardent aspirations for the future in the immaturity of his fame.