Vital Records, Otsego County, NY (1860 & 1879)

 Oneonta Herald, Oneonta, NY, December 5, 1860

Death

In Kortright [Delaware Co. NY] on the 28th ult. James A. Roberts only child of Merrits S. and Adelia A. Roberts in the 8th year of his age.  surely the hand of affliction hath touched them.  

Oneonta Herald, Oneonta, NY, December 12, 1860

Deaths

In Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] on Monday the 10th inst. John Fritts in the 75th year of his age.

Death has again entered the ranks of the aged, and taken an old and respected citizen, John Fritts.  "Uncle John," as he was familiarly called, was an old resident of this town; was a man of integrity and always bore a good name and was highly respected in the community where he so long resided.  He leaves a large circle of mourning friends.

In this village [Oneonta, Otsego Co. NY] on the 8th inst., Wallace Blakeley aged 26 years.

Suspected poisoning Case:  A young man named Enos Shrauger of Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] died in Cannonsville [Delaware Co. NY] on Thursday the 22d ult, in great agony and under circumstances which indicated the presence of poison. Suspicion rests upon George McIntosh of Hamden [Delaware Co. NY] who was indicted recently for assisting Becker in breaking jail and against whom young Shrauger would have been a material witness on his trial.  McIntosh was arrested at Bloomville [Delaware Co. NY] on Monday the 26th ult. and is now in custody.

Murder of Delawarian in California:  We learn from a California paper that E. H. Bush formerly of Hobart, Delaware County [NY] was murdered in Long Valley, Cal. the 7th of Oct. last.  It was supposed that Mr. Bush was killed on his return from Virginia City to which place he had been on business.  He came to his death by a gunshot wound in the head. The ball took effect in the forehead.  A second wound was found in the neck near the collar bone. A large yellow dog was found dead by the body of Mr. Bush.  He having no such animal, the dog was supposed to have belonged to the murderer.

Oneonta Herald & Democrat, Oneonta, NY, August 8, 1879

Marriages

In Owego [Tioga Co. NY], July 30th, by Rev. Y.C. Smith, Pierce Butler of Carbondale, Pa and Fanny P. Wood of Owego.

In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] July 29th by Rev. E.B. Russell, C.H. Dobson of New York City and Anna D. [Clark] daughter of the late George W. Clark, Esq.

Deaths

In Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] July 21, William S. Banks aged 10 years.

In Walton [Delaware Co. NY] July 30th, Wilson Wright aged 66 years.

In North Walton [Delaware Co. NY] August 3d, Dr. E.D. Arnold aged 30 years. Buried at Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] on the 5th.

In Richfield [Otsego Co. NY] July 24, Emeline C. [Burgess] aged 39 years.

In Hobart [Delaware Co. NY] July 28, John Hanford aged 75 years.

In Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY] August 2, Simeon Spencer aged about 65 years.

In Morris [Otsego Co. NY] July 28, Mrs. Polly Bunnell aged 78 years.

In Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] August 1, Mrs. Elizabeth Woolerton aged 79 years.

At Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY] July 31, Mary Ann Mickel wife of Philip Mickel aged 80 years.

In Fly Creek [Otsego Co. NY] May 25th, John Fern in the 77th year of his age.

In Walton [Delaware Co. NY] Aug. 3, Helen M. [Armstrong] aged 51 years.

Last Saturday afternoon Miss Lizzie Abbey aged about 24 years, a music teacher residing at Shokan [Ulster Co. NY], was crossing the railroad be ridge at Boiceville [Ulster Co. NY] when, missing  her footing by the breaking of a rotten plank, she fell between the ties, striking the rocky bottom about 25 feet below, injuring her so badly that she died in about an hour.

On Friday last, William Gibson aged about 83 years, residing about two miles east of Hobart [Delaware Co. NY] was engaged in drawing hay, when the load upset, throwing Mr. Gibson off, the wagon coming over and one of the wheels striking him in the back, breaking the spine.  He lived about twenty-four hours and was conscious although there was no feeling in his body below the fracture. The portion of the body above the fracture gradually brew numb until he died on Saturday evening.

Vital Records, Cortland County, NY (1847)

 McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, August 26, 1847

Marriages

In Solon [Cortland Co. NY] by the Rev. Ezra B. Fancher of McGrawville, Mr. William Copeland of Tully [Onondaga Co. NY] and Miss Harriet Emerson of the former place.

In Solon [Cortland Co. NY] on the 25th inst. by S.G. Hathaway Esq. Mr. Marvin C. Gilbert of McGrawville [Cortland Co. NY] to Miss Aurilla Sergant of Berkshire, Tioga Co. [NY].

Deaths

In McGrawville [Cortland Co. NY] on the 15th ult. Miss Jane Dunbar aged 20 years.

At East Solon [Cortland Co. NY] on Sunday the 22d inst. Emeline [Joiner] wife of Mr. James Joiner.

In Cortlandville [Cortland Co. NY] on the 12th inst. Mr. Abdell S. Bennett.

At Littlefort, Lake Co. Ill., on the 12th ult. Mrs. Emily R. [Hitchcock] formerly of Homer village [Cortland Co. NY], aged 34 years in full prospect of a blessed immortality beyond the grave.

McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, September 2, 1847

Marriages

On the 1st inst at McGrawville [Cortland Co. NY] by the Rev. S.J. Decker, Mr. James Cain and Miss Sarah Edwards both of Solon [Cortland Co. NY].

At Kingston, N.H., Col. William Webster aged 67 to Miss Martha Winslow aged 19.

By the above union, the bridegroom has married his sister's granddaughter, which makes the bride a wife to her granduncle, sister to her grandfather and grandmother, aunt to her father & mother, and great aunt to her brothers and sisters.  She is stepmother to five children, fourteen grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Death

In Cincinnatus [Cortland Co. NY] on the 26 ult, Dr. McCorter aged 80 years.  Dr. McCorter was one of the first settlers of that town.  He was highly esteemed by all who knew him and has left a large circle of friends to mourn his loss.

McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, September 9, 1847

Marriage

Marriage Extraordinary:  We take the following from the Massachusetts Cataract.  what a happy couple!  The union of so much that is good, as the various titles and additions seem to indicate, seldom happens in this degenerate world.  What a cargo, i.e., cradle full of pretty chubby cheeked little teetotal fellows and felloweses must be the result - oh.

In the city of New York on the 20th of July last, at the Termont Temperance House on Broadway near Trinity Church by Rev. Mr. Crawford of that place, Mr. Thomas Davis of Massachusetts, teetotaler, merchant, auctioneer, Captain of the Schooner propeller of Gloucester, Publisher of the Business Directory of Boston, Poet, Temperance lecturer, Propellerific correspondent of the Massachusetts Cataract and lots of other papers, Reformed Rum seller, General agent of all the New England railroads, steamboats, stages and omnibuses, Son of the Ocean Wave Division of the Sons of Temperance, Boston, and honorary member of all the Martha Washington Societies of the land to Miss Alice E. Ricker of Lynn, Mass., a fair Martha Washingtonian "Gem of purest ray serene" and constituting with her chosen "Lord of the Isles," the New, Dual, Teetotal, Literary, Business and Matrimonial Firm of Propeller & Co. upon whose poetic heads we would now kindly cast a plain prosodic but benedictive dash of our Cataractorial Waters.

Death

In Cortlandville [Cortland Co. NY] on the 4th inst. Mr. Chester Kinney aged 75 years.  Mr. Kinney left his house about 10 o'clock a.m. and went into the field to plough and was found dead about 3 o'clock p.m. laying across the furrow, with his arms folder across his breast. Thus, in the midst of life we are in death!

McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, September 23, 1847

Marriages

In Cortlandville [Cortland Co. NY] Sept. the 16th by H.S. Crandal, esq. Mr. David M. Woodard of Hilsdale Co. Mich and Miss Amanda M. Eastford of Cortlandville.

Accompanying this notice the printer was not forgotten.  The happy couple understood the rules of etiquette and politeness and sent in with the notice a generous assortment of wedding cake!  This act of kind remembrance to the printer was duly appreciated by us and our typos, and the wedded pair have our benedictions for their future prosperity and happiness and an anxious desire that others may go and do likewise. We set their names in Capitals.

Sept. the 8th by the Rev. W.G. Dye, Mr. Milton Negus and Miss Elizabeth G. Andrews all of Fabius [Onondaga Co. NY].

Also, by the same, Sept. the 8th, Mr. Henry Southard and Miss Lois M. Ruddock all of Fabius [Onondaga Co. NY].

Sept. the 11th by the Rev. W.G. Dye of Fabius, Mr. Lafayette Burdick and Miss Mehetable Paddock both of Camillus, Onondaga Co. NY.

Sept. 12th by the same, Mr. Obadiah Strail and Miss Lucy Bedford both of Tully [Onondaga Co. NY].

Death

At McGrawville [Cortland Co. NY] on the 15th inst. Mrs. Keziah Champman aged 77 years.

McGrawville Express, McGrawville, NY, September 30, 1847

Marriages

In Homer [Cortland Co. NY] on the 27th inst. by Rev. J.P. Simmons, Mr. J.L. Edmonds to Miss Wilmina Vandiline.

At Union Valley in Solon [Cortland Co. NY] on the 27th inst., by Rev. V.H. Barber, Dr. Leander Green to Miss Harriet Smith both of Union Valley.

At the same place, by Rev. V.H. Barber, Mr. Matthew W. Richmond of DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY] to Miss Elizabeth Smith of Union Valley [Cortland Co. NY].

If leeward adversity's current runs strong / May the rudder of honesty steer them along.

Deaths

At Italy Hill [Yates County, NY] on the 28th ultimo, Mrs. Raymond consort of David Raymond.

At Italy Hill [Yates County NY] on the 31st ultimo, Miss Harriet Squares in the full hope of a blessed immortality.

Vital Records, Madison County, NY (1873)

 Democratic Union, Oneida, NY, March 6, 1873

Marriages

PATTERSON - EASTMAN:  In Oneida, March 3, at the residence of the bride's brother, Charles Eastman, by Rev. B.C. Fox, Mr. W.L. Patterson of Syracuse [Onondaga Co. NY] and Miss Mary F Eastman of Oneida [Madison Co. NY]

JOHNSON - LAKE:  At the Reformed parsonage, Chittenango [Madison Co. NY], Feb. 26, by Rev. J. Henry Enders, Mr. John Johnson of Boliver [Allegany Co. NY] and Miss Lida Laek, of New Boston [Lewis Co. NY].

EVERSON - SLOCUM:  In Chittenango [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 26, by Rev. J. Henry Enders, Mr. James P. Everson of Hartsville [Steuben Co. NY] and Miss Jane Amelia Slocum of Eagle Village [Onondaga Co. NY].

COLLINS - AMSDEN:  At the residence of William H. Hinman, Esq., in Stockbridge [Madison Co. NY], Feb. 20, by Rev. B.H. Brown, Mr. Dexter C. Collins and Mrs. Julia M. Amsden both of Syracuse [Onondaga Co. NY].

BATES - FAULKNER:  In Fenner [Madison Co. NY], Feb. 18, by Rev. E.M. Barber, Archibald Bates, Jr., of Nelson [Madison Co. NY] and Bell Faulkner of Fenner.

WILLIAMS - BROWN:  In Canastota, Feb. 26, by Rev. E.S. Davis, Mr. H.P. Williams, Esq of Rome [Oneida Co. NY] and Miss Helen M.. Brown of Canastota [Madison Co. NY].

CASLER - DEWITT:  In Little Falls [Herkimer Co. NY], Feb. 26 by Rev. Mr. Evarts of Utica, Mr. A.O. Casler Esq. of Little Falls and Miss Helen A. Dewitt of Chittenango [Madison Co. NY].

BABBITT - BROWN:  In Rome [Oneida Co. NY] March 3, by Rev. Leicester A. Sawyer, Mr. Dexter W. Babbitt of Lebanon, N.H. and Miss Leafy D. Brown of Taberg [Oneida Co. NY].

GOODFELLOW - SEAGER:  In Fayetteville [Onondaga Co. NY], Feb. 20, by Rev. L.B. Wells, Mr. Edward C. Goodfellow and Miss Anna M. Seager both of Manlius [Onondaga Co. NY].

KINGSLEY - SMITH:  In West Eaton [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 20 by Rev. O. Taynter, Mr. A.Z. Kingsley of Hamilton [Madison Co. NY] and Mrs. M.E. Smith of the former place.

BLINN - MORSE:  In Eaton [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 19, by Rev. Judson Davis, Mr. Elisha Blinn and Mrs. Cornelia Morse both of Eaton.

GORTON - MANCHESTER:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 27 by Rev. J.D. Pope, Mr. Thomas Gorton and Miss Delphine Manchester both of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].

CAULKINS - STANTON:  In Utica [Oneida Co. NY] Feb. 27 by Rev. A.J. Canfield, Mr. E.A. Caulkins of South Edmeston, N.Y. [Otsego Co.] and Miss Emogene Stanton of Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY].

Hamilton, Madison Co. NY:  Mr. and Mrs. William Stevens celebrate the tenth anniversary of their marriage at their residence in his village on Monday evening next.

Deaths

KINSLEY:  At his residence in Oneida [Madison Co. NY] March 4, Leonard Kinsley in the 72d year of his age.

CASE:  In Nelson Flats [Madison Co. NY], Feb. 27, Grandley Case aged 83 years.

KINNEY:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 21, Lydia Kinney aged 67 years.

MARSH:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] Feb. 28, Eliza Carrier wife of Simeon B. Marsh, aged 78 years.

LINEBECK:  In Syracuse [Onondaga Co. NY] Feb. 26, Mrs. Anna E. Linebeck sister of H.C. Lower of Canastota [Madison Co. NY], aged 33 years.

SMITH:  At his residence in Knoxboro [Oneida Co. NY], Feb. 24, Joel Smith in the 88th year of his age.

CARD:  In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 22, Lucia Case [Card] wife of Deacon Elliott Card, aged 61 years.

SHAVER:  In Chittenango [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 23, J.W. Shaver aged 79 years.

LASHER:  In Hamilton [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 21, George E. Lasher son of Rev. G.W. Lasker, aged 11 years and 9 mos.

MITCHELL:  In Cazenovia [Madison Co. NY] Feb. 25, Mrs. Robert Mitchell.

SPEAR:  In DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY] March 27, Mr. George W. Spear, aged 58 years.

MASON:  At Oak Hill, N.Y. [Greene Co.] Feb. 23, Alvin T. Mason aged 69 years.

DEWEY:  In North Manlius [Onondaga Co. NY] Feb. 25, Bradley S. Dewey aged 46 years and 9 days.

BUTLER:  Morrisville, Madison Co. NY:  The wife of Edwin Butler died quite suddenly last Thursday morning, resulting from an apoplectic fit.

Vital Records, Chenango (1879) & Otsego (1891) Counties, NY

 Oxford Times, Oxford, NY, June 4, 1879

Marriage

A very pleasant affair was the marriage of Miss Phoebe Coy of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] to Mr. Fred Hopkins of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY], at the home of Mr. Herrick Searles on Thursday.  Many were present from abroad who with her host of friends in town unite in wishing her and hers all happiness. Binghamton Republican.

Deaths

KEYES:  In this village [Oxford, Chenango Co. NY] May 20th, Mr. John Keyes aged 78 years.

BUTTON:  In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] May 28th, Mr. Henry Button aged 58 years.

FISH:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] May 24th Myra A. [Fish] wife of M.H. Fish, aged 30 years.

YATES:  In Brownwood, Texas, May 17th, Mrs. Ella I. Yates daughter of Andruss and R.D. Crumb, formerly of this county [Chenango Co. NY] and granddaughter of Merritt Webb of Smithville [Chenango Co. NY] aged 22 years and 7 months.

SANFORD:  In Coventry [Chenango Co. NY] May 31st, Mrs. Electa Sanford aged 59 years.

Unadilla Times, Unadilla, NY, February 5, 1891

Death

Mrs. Eliza G. [North] wife of Col. Samuel North passed peacefully away from earth on Monday evening, February 2d, 1891, at the family residence in this village [Unadilla, Otsego Co. NY] after a long and painful illness.  Her intense sufferings were borne with a patience and resignation that is seldom witnessed.  Mrs. North was born in Durham, Greene County, N.Y. February 1st, 1815, and was 76 years of age the day before her decease.  Hers was a death that brought to a close the useful life of a good woman.  From the early morning of life, all through its meridian and afternoon, she was noble hearted, kind, earnest and true.  Her life interests were centered in the circle of home.  There the husband attests a true and loving wife, and children a devoted and affectionate mother.  In her friendships she was unvaryingly consistent, pleasant and generous.  In her charities liberal, sympathetic and unostentatious.  Her loss will be felt by all who were so fortunate as to possess her friendship and acquaintance.  But in the family from which her familiar presence has forever gone, where her warm and sympathetic nature worked its sweetest influence, will continued grief be known. To them there is comfort in the thought that at the close of such a life, to purple twilight succeeds the perfect day. The funeral services will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o'clock at the family residence and 2:30 at St. Matthew's church.

Unadilla Times, Unadilla, NY, February 12, 1891

Death

At West Berne, Albany Co., N.Y. Jan. 25, 1891, Jacob I. Laraway aged 80 years.  He was brought here last Friday and buried in Chestnut Hill Cemetery.  Mr. Laraway was a former resident of Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY].

Unadilla Times, Unadilla, NY, February 19, 1891

Deaths

Died Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1891 at the residence of Mrs. A.M. Thorne, Mrs. Rachel Thorne, mother of A.J. Thorne, deceased, at the advanced aged of 71 years. The funeral will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. and the remains taken to Portlandville [Otsego Co. NY] for burial.

W.A. Millard of Oneonta [Otsego Co. NY] was accidentally killed in the railroad yard at Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] on Thursday of last week.  He had been employed in Oneonta only about two weeks and went to Binghamton the day previous to assist in some extra work.  He had spent the larger part of his life in Colorado, coming east about a year and a half ago.

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Dr. G.L. Halsey died at his home in this village [Unadilla, Otsego Co. NY] Tuesday morning, February 17th, 1891.  To this community and to a large circle of friends and acquaintances, this sad intelligence comes dreaded but not unexpected.

Dr. Halsey was born May 4th, 1819 in the town of Kortright, Delaware County, N.Y.  His father was Gaius Halsey, also a physician, and a descendant of Thomas Halsey, an Englishman who went from Boston to help found Southampton, L.I. in 1610.  Southampton and Southold contest for the distinction of being the oldest settlement in the State made by the English.

In 1840 he cane to Unadilla and began practicing his profession in which he soon gained a wide reputation.  Of his early life here, he gave a full account in these columns about a year ago.  He remained in Unadilla until 1847, when he sold out his practice and moved to Connecticut.  The news of finding gold in California being announced in 1848, he went to that state by way of Panamna and engaged in gold digging on the middle fork of the American river, near the celebrated Sutter's mill, where gold was first discovered.  San Francisco and Sacramento were then mere mining settlements and Dr. Halsey would probably have remained in one of those places the rest of his life had he not been called home by domestic ties. As it was, he almost concluded to make the sacrifice.  But with him no ties ever supplanted the domestic ones.  His real life was in his family and to the interests of his children he always devoted his best resources with complete indifference to his own needs. Any one of them would say he was not only their parent, but their greatest worldly benefactor.

Dr. Halsey was a Democrat in politics throughout the most of his life.  With the late Salmon G. Cone and Martin B. Luther he was prominently identified with the Greenback and Labor movements in recent years and in one election was the candidate for State Comptroller.  Before the war he was supervisor of the town, and he has been a delegate to one or more State conventions.  His interest in public affairs was keen to the last.  He read his New York paper until near the last week of his life. The fate of the force bill, the silver legislation and Gen. Sherman's illness, were among the topics on which he awaited the arrival of the latest intelligence. During the civil war, Dr. Halsey saw service as a physician in hospitals at the South just after the battle of Antietam.

After the war he entered into partnership with the late Chauncey Slade in the uptown drug store which is now owned by Lamble & Co.  In those days, Mr. Slade managed the store and Dr. Halsey practiced his profession, which carried him to many parts of this valley and the surrounding hill regions.  In 1874 the store passed entirely into his hands and from that year until 1888, when he sold out to the present owners, he was closely confined to the business.  His practice continued, though it was necessarily restricted more and more to office and village patients.  Among the last patients whom he visited were Mr. C.L. Hayes and Mrs. O'Dell.  In consultation with her regular physician, Dr. Clark, he visited Mrs. Noble in her last illness.  Like Mrs. Noble, he was afflicted with gangrene in the feet. this was complicated with diabetes from which he had suffered several years. About three years since he announced to his children the presence of this latter disease and assured them, he could not last many years.  For the past month he watched the progress of his failing health with professional eyes and knew his time was short.  Among his last words were "I am going, going. I am worn out.  God bless you."

Unadilla Times, Unadilla, NY, February 26, 1891

Marriage

An absolute divorce was granted Mrs. Hattie E. Derby of Otego [Otsego Co. NY] from her husband Samuel Derby at the Delaware Circuit Court at Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] last week.  Mrs. Derby secures the control of the child.

Death

Died Feb. 24, 1891, at the family residence in Unadilla [Otsego Co. NY] Mrs. Sarah R. Copley aged 63 years. The funeral will be held at the family residence today (Thursday) at 2 p.m.

Vital Records, Chenango (1841) & Broome (1846) Counties, NY

 Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, August 18, 1841

Deaths

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on the 9th inst., Capt. John King a Soldier of the Revolution, aged 89 years.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] on the 12th inst. of consumption, Mr. Socrates Brooks aged 53 years.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, September 1, 1841

Marriages

In Fairfield, Herkimer Co. [NY] on the 26th ult., by the Rev. Albert D. Peck, Bartlett H. Mills, Junior Editor of the Susquehanna Register, Montrose, Pa., to Miss Delia Halsey of the former place.

At the Eagle Tavern in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on Sunday the 28th ult. by the Rev. L.A. Barrows, Mr. Hiram Johnson of Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Lucy Ann Eggleston of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY].

Death

On the 13th ult. in Westfield, Chautauqua Co., N.Y., Joseph Collins Esq. of Smyrna, Chenango Co. [NY] of bilious fever, aged 69 years.

He was on his return from Michigan where he had been to visit a son.  Having arrived at Westfield, he was attacked with the above complaint and died after an illness of eight days.  Mr. Collins was one of the earliest settlers of this county and by his energy of character, as well as his benevolence and firm regard to truth, had gained to himself a high reputation.  In his death his family, the church, and the community have sustained an irreparable loss.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, September 8, 1841

Marriages

In Homer, Cortland County [NY] on Monday evening last, by the Rev. L.A. Barrows, of this village, Mr. N. Pellet, Editor of the Chenango Telegraph to Miss Malvinia [Bowen] daughter of Mr. Ira Bowen, of the former place.

In Truxton, Cortland Co. [NY] on the 25th ult. by the Rev. John M. Lewis, Mr. Edward Miller to Miss Emily W. Shedd.

In Steubenville, Ohio, on the 19th ult by the Rev. G.H. Comings, Mr. Abraham T. Per Lee of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Margaretta Willson daughter of Judge James Willson of the former place.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on Wednesday evening, the 1st inst., by the Rev. V.M. Coryell, Mr. Henry C. Willcox of Erwin, Steuben Co. [NY] to Miss Elizabeth J. Bosworth of this village.

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on Wednesday the 1st inst. by the Rev. L. Howard, Mr. Lemuel Wells to Miss Esther French of this town.

In Plymouth [Chenango Co. NY] on the 29th ult. by N.F. Murdock, Esq., Mr. Horace Barr to Miss Harriet Holden, both of Smyrna [Chenango Co. NY].

In Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] on the 5th inst. by the Rev. J. Sessions, Mr. Alva Owen of New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Mary Ann Jacox of the same place.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, September 15, 1841

Marriages

In Walton, Delaware Co. [NY] on the 8th inst. by the Rev. Archibald Bassett, Mr. Charles B. Smith Merchant of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Jane Bassett daughter of the Rev. Archibald Bassett of the former place.

In New Berlin [Chenango Co. NY] on Sunday the 12th inst. by the Rev. H. Kelsey of Pittsfield, Otsego Co. [NY], Mr. Charles Goodrich of this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] to Miss Fanny A. [Nichols] daughter of Dea. C.C. Nichols of the former place.

Deaths

In Guilford [Chenango Co. NY] on the 3d inst. Mrs. Lucinda Place wife of Mr. Foster C. Place, aged 26 years.

In this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on the 8th inst. Mrs. Caroline Woodworth wife of Mr. Azel Woodworth, aged 32 years.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, September 22, 1841

Marriage

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on Tuesday evening the 14th inst. by the Rev. J. Sessions, Mr. Arnold Wait to Miss Mary L. Hopkins daughter of Frederick Hopkins Esq. all of this town.

Chenango Telegraph, Norwich, NY, September 29, 1841

Marriage

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY] on the 23d inst. by the Rev. L. Howard, Mr. Samuel H. Pike to Miss Lucy E. Hall daughter of Thomas Hall, Esq. all of this town.

Binghamton Courier, Binghamton, NY, July 1, 1846

Marriage

In this village [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY] on the 25th inst. by Rev. C. Darby, Mr. Francis T. Smith to Miss Emily Ann Davis all of this place.

Binghamton Courier, Binghamton, NY, July 8, 1846

Marriage

In Madison, Madison Co. N.Y. on Sunday evening July 5th by the rev. M.S. Platt, Manco Capac Dickinson to Miss Charlotte Harvey all of this village [Norwich, Chenango Co. NY].

Binghamton Courier, Binghamton, NY, July 15, 1846

Deaths

In Vestal [Broome Co. NY] on the 26th ult. of consumption, Mr. John H. Yarrington in the 69th year of his age.

In Triangle [Broome Co. NY] on the 1st inst. Joseph Marion [Mathewson] youngest son of Joseph Mathewson, aged 13 years 4 months and 8 days.

Binghamton Courier, Binghamton, NY, July 29, 1846

Marriages

On the 15th inst. by the Rev. Dr. Andrews, Mr. Charles B. Stow to Miss Janette Smith all of this town [Binghamton, Broome Co. NY].

In Union [Broome Co. NY] on the 4th inst. by the Rev. Horace Kelsey, Mr. William Spencer to Miss Annis Webb all of the above place.

Vital Records, Madison (1820) & Otsego (1879) Counties, NY

 The Pilot, Cazenovia, NY, July 12, 1820

Death

Died in this village [Cazenovia, Madison Co. NY], very suddenly on Tuesday last, Henry Murdock aged 12 years, son of Mr. John Murdock.

The Pilot, Cazenovia, NY, July 19, 1820

Deaths

In this town [Cazenovia, Madison Co. NY], on the 9th instant, Mr. Jonas Sims in the 89th year of his age.

On the 11th instant, an infant daughter of Doct. Kennedy.

On the 18th inst. Mr. Phinney, aged 78 years.

On the same day, Capt. Blankman an aged gentleman who had recently emigrated from Holland to this country.

The Pilot, Cazenovia, NY, July 26, 1820

Marriage

On the 20th inst. by the Rev. John Brown, Mr. Jeremiah Broughton to Miss Betsey Stone, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Stone, all of this town [Cazenovia, Madison Co. NY].

The Pilot, Cazenovia, NY, August 3, 1820

Marriage

In DeRuyter [Madison Co. NY] by Elder John Greene, Mr. Jonathan Coon on the wrong side of sixty, to Miss Annis Coon aged sixteen!

"May age, the foe of love, here lose his power, / And theirs increase with every passing hour."

The Pilot, Cazenovia, NY, August 24, 1820

Death

Died, in this town [Cazenovia, Madison Co. NY] on the 12th inst. after a short but distressing illness, Mrs. Marion Clark aged 39 years, consort of Mr. Othniel Clark.

The Freeman's Journal, Cooperstown, NY, August 28, 1879

Marriages

At the M.E. Parsonage, Westford [Otsego Co. NY], Aug. 22, 1879, by Rev. J.S. Southworth, Gilbert A. Darling of Decatur [Otsego Co. NY], to Miss Emma E. Bailey of East Worcester [Otsego Co. NY].

At Fly Creek [Otsego Co. NY] Aug. 23d, by Rev. H.G. Harned, Martin A. Wheeler of Fly Creek and Carrie M. Coats of Albany [Albany Co. NY].

Deaths

At Fly Creek [Otsego Co. NY] Aug. 22d, John B. Northrup aged 87 years.  Mr. N. had been a respected citizen of the town of Otsego [Otsego Co. NY] for sixty-two years.

In Cherry Valley [Otsego Co. NY] Aug. 19th, of consumption, Estella [Van Valkenburg] daughter of Henry Van Valkenburg in the 19th year of her age.

In Roseboom [Otsego Co. NY], Aug. 18th, John R. Stevens aged 63 years.

In Otego [Otsego Co. NY] Aug. 14th Mary [Reagle]\ wife of Daniel Reagle, aged 40 years.

In East Worcester [Otsego Co., NY] Aug. 17th, Amos W. Campbell aged 48 years.

Mrs. Morgan, mother of Mrs. George A. Starkweather of New York, who has frequently visited Cooperstown, where she has many warm friends, died at her home last week.  When she went from here last summer, her physician had to go with her, as she was even then in very feeble health.

Captain William Newton died at Sherburne [Chenango Co. NY] on the 13th, at the age of ninety-two years.  He was the father of eleven children, one of whom is Professor H.A.  Newton of Yale College.

Horatio N. Todd was the eldest son of the late Ira Todd of Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY].  He was long connected with the business interests of Wenona, Ill., where he died a few days since in the 71st year of his age.  He was a man who was greatly esteemed in that community.

Vital Records, Delaware County, NY (1833)

 Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 6, 1833

Marriages

At Deposit [Delaware Co. NY] on Wednesday evening, 30th ult., by Peter Pine, Esq.  Mr. Smith Stringham to Miss Elizabeth Newman both of Starrucca, Pa.

At the same place, on Thursday evening, 31st ult. by Simon Lusk, Esq., Mr. Otis Briggs to Miss Mary Lee Hulce both of Tompkins [Delaware Co. NY].

At Delhi [Delaware Co. NY] on the 24th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Silas K. Davis of Greene Co. [NY] to Miss Catharine Ann Becker of Delhi.

Death

At Osbornville on the 26th inst. Mrs. Aurelia [Osborne] wife of Bennet Osborne, Esq. aged 48 yrs.  The deceased needs no eulogy to tell his worth to those who knew her.  Her amiable deportment and exalted virtues had endeared her to a wide circle of highly respectable relatives and friends and formed for her a monument more lasting than marble. The pang that wrung the bosom at her death was softened by the reflection that she had left an example that all might be proud to imitate and had died in the full assurance of a happy and glorious immortality.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 13, 1833

Deaths

At Davenport [Delaware Co. NY] on the 5th inst. after an illness of only three days, Miss Eliza Ann Burget in the 20th year of her age, daughter of widow Huldah Burget.

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Antony Laussat. The following notice of the death of this highly talented young man, is taken from the Philadelphia National Gazette of the 1st inst.  Mr. Laussat was the son of the late Anthony Laussat of Middletown in this county [Delaware Co. NY], where Mrs. Laussat now resides.

Died, on Monday afternoon, Antony Laussat.  With the best talents and the brightest prospects, he was cut off in the twenty-eighth year of a life that merited longer duration.  He was of the profession of the law and distinguished even before his admission to its practice.  An Essay on Equity, written by him at the age of twenty years and as a mere school exercise, appeared to the gentlemen who then presided over the Law Academy of Philadelphia, of which he was a student, to be of such unusual desert, they recommended its publication, and his youthful task passed from its original modest pretensions into a little volume which has been publicly quoted in Europe and cited with approbation by the most distinguished jurists of America.  He soon after came to the Bar, but without any sort of patronage and no advantages that were not exclusively his own.  Since then - now less than seven years - he has given abundant proof that nothing but length of days was wanted to his fulfilment of the loftiest anticipations that his friends had formed for him.  

His progress at the Bar was rapid.  His career in politics, in which he embarked with characteristic fervor, most flattering.  Full of talent, and of untiring industry, it was yet not easy to analyze his character or to appreciate the means of his unusual success. They seemed to lie as much in a combination of various qualities of a temper made for fortune as in the force of his labor and genius.  To the quickest talents, and all the aspiring ardor of the country from which his family was derived, there were joined a patience of toil, vexation and detail, a steadiness of purpose, a maturity of character, a philosophy of temper, a simplicity & nobleness of nature, which seemed to mark him for high destinies. 

Long subject to the attacks of disease, he saw his health slowly undermined with a resignation that was touching.  He never complained but endured his fate with a silence more eloquent than the loudest grief. Conscious how short was to be his career, he yet continued his daily pursuits cheerfully and with the same ambition to excel as if he was destined to reap the soil he was so industriously planting.  His sweetness of temper never forsook him.  In his last illness, to his latest breath, he bore his sufferings without a murmur.  His death has severed the dearest ties that bind men to life.  The sorrows of his numerous friends will be cured - of his large circle of his acquaintances and admirers forgotten - but the tears which flow for the husband and the father cannot be wiped away.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 20, 1833

Marriages

At Stamford [Delaware Co. NY] on the 9th inst. by Ebenezer Gilbert, Esq. Mr. Jacob Wallis to Miss Mary Butler all of Stamford.

At Colchester [Delaware Co. NY] on Thursday evening the 14th inst., by the Rev. Caleb Bush, Mr. Jared G. Monfort of Hamden [Delaware Co. NY] to Miss Loretta Fuller, daughter of Mr.  Nathan Fuller of Colchester.

At Walton [Delaware Co. NY] on Thursday evening 7th inst., by the Rev. David Terry, Mr. James F. Hitt Jr.,  to Miss Clarinda Ramsey both of Walton.

At Newburyport [MA] on Monday morning by the Rev. Mr. Dimmick, Benjamin E. Hale Esq. editor of the People's Advocate to Miss Martha Ann Davis.

At Philadelphia [PA], on Wednesday evening, by the Right Rev. William White, William Duane Jr. Esq. son of the late Secretary of the Treasury, to Louisa [Brooks] daughter of Mr. Samuel Brooks.

Delaware Gazette, Delhi, NY, November 27, 1833

Death

At his residence in New York on the 15th inst. after a short but distressing illness, Doct. E.S. Knapp in the 28th year of his age.

He was the son of Deacon Silas Knapp, whose memory is yet fresh in the minds of this community, and until recently, was a resident of this village [Delhi, Delaware Co. NY].

Naturally possessed of an enterprising mind, he became early attached to literary pursuits which he prosecuted with commendable diligence and successfully removing the obstacles that were in his way, he at length attained the object which he sought - the possession of a thorough and useful education.  Thus fitted to pursue with profit one of the professions, he made choice of medicine and qualified himself to practice it, under the superintendence of Dr. E. Steele and by lectures at the New York Medical college.

Moved on by the ardor of youth and the spirit of enterprise with which his life had hitherto been characterized, he was prepared to meet and surmount the difficulties and discouragements that attend an introduction into the business of his profession and although a stranger, with nothing to recommend him but his merit, and surrounded by older and more experienced men, he in a short time, gained the confidence and secured the patronage of a respectable portion of the citizens.  As a man, he commended himself by the possession of a sound mind, a generous spirit and fixed principles and in a high degree developed those qualities which so effectually secure the good will of those who came within the sphere of their influence.

And to these were added the chastening influence of religion.  He adopted its principles when young.  Its consolations were his in prosperity in the midst of affliction they gave him support and enabled him to meet death with calmness and resignation.  In the midst of his usefulness has he left us - and to the inquiry Why is it so?  It is answered from  above "I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am."