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Vital Records Extracted from the Yates County Chronicle

Editor: Stafford C. Cleveland

September - December 1874

3 September 1874

Mr. William W. Dean of Altay died on Monday, August 17^th, at Crystal Springs in Yates county, aged fifty-four years….—Schuyler County Democrat

Died at the Jefferson House in this village on Wednesday evening, Aug. 19^th, Israel Jacobson of Syracuse, aged about 47 years….—Watkins Express

Wallace W. Betts of Penn Yan, a member of Sloan Post 93, G.A.R., died in this city yesterday, aged 35. His remains will be carried to Penn Yan…--Elmira Advertiser, Sept. 2

Died in this city on Monday, August 3^rd, 1874…Emma, wife of William Sutherland of Manistee, Mich., aged 18 years and 10 months. The deceased was a sister of Mrs. Geo. Woodruff of this place….She left a little child, a boy about two months old…--Columbus (Wis.) Republican

Branchport—The funeral of Mrs. Brocklebay a daughter of Jonathan Dains will be held at the M.E. Church this (Tuesday) afternoon. She died at Wellsville, aged 63 and will be buried here. A son lost in the army also sleeps in our cemetery. Rev. Mr. Stratton will conduct the burial services.

10 September 1874

Died in Penn Yan Aug. 4^th, 1874, in the 54^th year of his age, Samuel E. Conklin. [He] was born in Onondaga county Aug. 23^rd, 1820. At an early age he came to live in the town of Benton, where he remained until after he reached his manhood. For the last twenty years he has made his home in the village of Penn Yan, where he had won a large circle of acquaintances and friends….P.

Rev. J.D. Smith, Middlesex, united in marriage at the residence of the bride’s parents, Charles E. Shattuck of Branchport to Miss Della M. Hawley of Middlesex, on the 27^th of August.—Naples Record

Wallis W. Betts died in Elmira after a brief illness on Monday night, August 31^st….He leaves a wife.—Democrat

Wm. N. Smith, and ex-sheriff of Steuben county, died at Bath last Sunday evening aged sixty-three years.

A late number of the Chicago Tribune mentions the death of Wm. L. Pearce at Dunlap, Iowa. Some twenty years ago or more Mr. Pearce kept the Washington Temperance hotel in Geneva….

Branchport—Mrs. Stratton, wife of the Rev. Mr. Stratton, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, died on Saturday Sept. 5^th, and was buried on Sunday afternoon….

Married

• In Benton, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Sept. 8^th, 1874, by Rev. H.P. Collin, J. Stewart Crosby of Greenville, Mich. To Emma daughter of H.C. Collin Esq.

17 September 1874

Died at his residence in Milo on Thursday Sept. 10, 1874, Job L. Babcock at the age of 61 years and 6 months. …Born in the town of Scipio, Cayuga county, in 1813, he came in 1816 with his father Abiram Babcock and his grandfather, Charles Babcock, to this county and grew up to manhood in the vicinity near which most of his life was spent. He married first Cordelia, daughter of Joseph S. Ketchum of Barrington, and they lived on the Lake road in Barrington till 1867…His wife died in 1868, leaving five children, all of whom are married but one. He married a second wife Maria Gardiner (widow Fuller) a sister of Stimson Gardiner, who survives him….

Died in Penn Yan on September 11, 1874, Mrs. Lizzie Merrill, at the age of thirty-nine years. [She] was born March 10^th, 1835, at Penn Yan, and was the only surviving daughter of Joseph and Catharine Elmendorf…In May 1857 she married Mr. H.W. Merrill and soon after her marriage she and her husband removed to Paterson, New Jersey, where they have since resided….She leaves two children, William J., born September 1859, and Katie G., born in May 1862….

Melville G. Whitaker and his bride Carrie Brigden are taking their honeymoon among their Yates county friends. They were married in Chicago September 8^th. They have good wishes on all hands.

Mr. John Haight, a farmer formerly resident on Bluff Point, died on Tuesday afternoon in this village at the residence of his daughter Mrs. Kittredge.

The Chicago Tribune of Sept. 9^th announces the death in that city Sept. 7^th of Mrs. Catharine VanBuren, wife of Hon. Evert VanBuren, formerly of Penn Yan. Her age is not stated. Mrs. VanBuren will be kindly remembered by the older residents.

Joseph Muckle a lad of twenty years and a resident of Middlesex became discouraged with life and on Monday evening, September 7^th, procured arsenic at a Rushville drug store and took a leap into the unseen world. Poor fellow! What a terrible mistake he made!

Died at her home on Bluff Point August 25^th, 1874, Mrs. Rhoda Ann Rogers, wife of Lawson Rogers at the age of forty-three years….[She] was a daughter of Joseph S. Ketchum, formerly of Barrington, and had been married seventeen years. An elder sister of hers was the first wife of Job L. Babcock who died several years ago, and her brother William H. Ketchum is now a resident of this village. Lawson Rogers now forty-four years old is a native of Bluff Point, being a son of Thomas R. Rogers who settled there nearly fifty years ago, and with the exception of two years in Michigan has resided there all his life.

Married

• In Milo, Sept. 6, by Rev. Wm. Garnett, Eugene Lewis to Miss Georgia Owen, both of Milo.

24 September 1874

Michael Devanney, an Irish laborer of this town, was found drowned on Sunday Morning in the canal near the entrance of the first lock below this village…He was a faithful and excellent laborer and was about fifty three years old.

John R. Thompson, a colored man well known for several years past in this village, and lately as an attaché of the Shearman House, died on Monday last. “Jack” was a right clever man and had no enemies. He was supposed to be upwards of sixty years old.

Died September 11^th at the residence of her son G.G. Hickox, 1924 Hamilton Street, Newburgh, Ohio, Mrs. Nancy S. Hickox, aged 80 years and 9 months. Mrs. Hickox was the mother of Mrs. Timothy Brigden and Mrs. Delancey Martin of this village.

Died

• In Tyrone, on the 10^th inst., at the house of Mr. John Faucett, Mr. Andrew Sproul, in the 81^st year of his age.
• In Pulteney, Steuben county, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, Jane, daughter of George and Harriet Miller, aged two years and one month.

1 October 1874

Died in Pulteney, Steuben Co., of spinal fever, Sept. 15^th, 1874, after a brief illness of thirty-six hours, Jane, daughter of George M. and Harriet P. Miller, and only grandchild of Franklin and Jane Holden, aged two years, one month and four days.—Dundee Record

The good people of Branchport experienced a surprise last Sunday by the marriage in church of Solomon D. Weaver, Esq., and Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews, widow of the late Silas A. Andrews and daughter of our friend David W. Smith of Jerusalem. We understand there were a number of friends of the worthy bride present from Penn Yan. The married pair have our best wishes and our sincere congratulations.

Died in Starkey on Sunday afternoon last, Mrs. C. Taylor, in the 95^th year of her age. Further particulars hereafter.

Married in Reading, Sept. 1, Mr. George McNemer and Miss Lilly Sutton, all of Reading. They have many friends in Starkey to wish them much joy.

Married

• In Italy on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1874, by Rev. Mr. Cowles, Mr. James M. Cornish and Miss Martha Annable, daughter of Lucien Annable, Esq., of Italy.

Died

• In this village on Monday morning last, John Bishop, aged seventy years.

8 October 1874

Judge Samuel Cheever, formerly president of the State agricultural college at Ovid, died at his residence in Waterford, Saratoga county, on Friday of last week, at the advanced age of 86 years.

Died in Cameron, Steuben county, September 21^st,…Mr. William H. Walton, eldest son of the late John Walton formerly of this village and Mrs. Patience Walton now Mrs. P. Yost of this town, aged 56 years, 5 months and 2 days. He was a native of this town, having been born on what is known as the Hazard farm just a little south of what is now Dundee. Here he remained until he grew up to manhood and was married in 1838 to Miss Emeline Brassinton who was then late from England. Sometime after this event they removed to Cameron, and he commenced active life as a farmer and there he spent the remainder of his life, and by industry and economy succeeded in paying for quite a large farm and a comfortable competency.—Dundee Record

A late copy of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Daily Eagle, handed us by Charles Wagener, Esq., announces the death on the 29^th of September of John W. Squier at the above named place and at the age of seventy-five years. He was born in New Jersey Oct. 4, 1799. For many years he was a resident of this village, and while here was proprietor of a carding machine and fulling mill in the same building now occupied as a planing mill by Millspaugh & French, just below this village. While here he acquired a wide acquaintance with the people, and he is well remembered by many of the older citizens.—In 1834 he moved to Washtenaw county, Mich., and in 1842 to Grand Rapids, where he became a wealthy miller….He leaves a widow…and six sons and daughters….

Mrs. Leander Reddy died at her home in Elmira last week, and her body was brought here for burial in the Penn Yan Cemetery. Her age was upwards of seventy years.

Frederick William Wald, aged two weeks, died in [Dresden] on the evening of the 3d instant, of sore mouth. This is the son of Henry Wald, our cobbler.

Dr. D.W. Brundage and family attended the funeral of his aged mother, who died on the 28^th ult., of consumption at her home near Lodi, Seneca county….

15 October 1874

Died in Auburn on Tuesday morning October 14, 1874, Mrs. Lucinda Ball, mother of Mr. S.S. Ball of this village, at the age of nearly eighty-five years. Mrs. Ball was born in Connecticut in 1790, and was a daughter of William Pelton, who formerly lived in Pulteney and died there a very aged man. She married Nathaniel Ball and was the mother of two sons and two daughters, one of each of whom survive her. Her husband died three years ago aged eighty three….

Married, by the Rev. U.S. Hall at his residence in Dundee, on Monday evening, October 5, 1874, Mr. Frank Dense to Miss T. O’Brien, all of Starkey.

Died in Dundee on Wednesday, October 9, 1874, Lucien C. Murdock … at the age of forty-five years….

22 October 1874

Tonganoxie, Kansas, Oct. 12, ’74.—The inhabitants of our town and vicinity have been called upon to mourn the death of Ezra F. Davis, who formerly was a resident of Yates county. He was born near Utica, was in the farming business till he came west to Missouri and Colorado. Although he engaged in mining at first in the mountains, he made most of his property by stock raising. He purchased land here in Kansas in 1868, and engaged in the dairy business … He leaves a wife…and three sons, the eldest of whom now of age expects with his mother to prosecute the dairy business….H.E.W.

Last Saturday afternoon there was a quiet social celebration at the house of Deacon George C. Wheeler of Milo…Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler celebrated their golden wedding….Among those present on this occasion aside from the immediate family were Mr. Wheeler’s sister Mrs. Mary Rector of Naples, widow of Conrad Rector, aged seventy-three years; Sally, another sister, wife of William Coons at Naples (63 years old) and her husband; Charles, a brother of Ypsilanti, Mich., aged 60; another brother Samuel R. Wheeler of Kalamazoo, Mich., age 57; Nathaniel K. Rice, a nephew of Mr. Wheeler, from Kalamazoo, and a son of Samuel R.; John A. Coons of Barrington, (80 years old), a cousin of Mrs. Wheeler, and his wife a cousin of Mr. Wheeler. Among Mrs. Wheeler’s relatives there were present Mrs. Helen Johnson, widow of Benjamin Johnson, of Ira, Cayuga county, age 76; also a niece Elizabeth Perkins of Ira; George C.W. Baker, a nephew of Mrs. Wheeler, with wife and daughter of Niles, Cayuga county….George C. Wheeler was born Jan. 15, 1804, in Taghkanic, Columbia county, and was the fourth of ten children of Christopher Wheeler and Catharine Rosman his wife….{He] and Polly Shaver were married Oct. 18, 1824…at Leyden, Lewis county. They lived in Columbia county thereafter some half a dozen years when the whole family, including the parents, moved to the town of Benton…They have been the parents of seven children: Aaron, Catharine E., Angeline, Carlton, Minerva, Jennette E., and Adelia….

Died in Branchport, October 15, 1874, Mrs. Angie S. Richardson, daughter of Lewis Misner of Starkey, aged thirty-six years. It is but one short month since Mrs. Richardson went to Branchport as a wife, with high hopes of life and a brilliant future.

Died in this village on the 5^th inst., …Mrs Sally Swarts, widow of the late Micajah Swarts, aged 68 years. She was born in Sussex, now Warren county, N.J., near Belvidere in 1806, and was the youngest daughter of Mr. Peter Beam, Sen. In June 1809 she came to this town with her parents, and has resided here since with the exception of a year or two she lived in Barrington. … In early life she was married to Mr. Swarts, with whom she lived until his decease, which took place in this village in 1863, since when she has lived here as a widow respected by all…She leaves a son and two daughters….—Dundee Record

29 October 1874

Mr. Editor: Many of your readers, especially those of Middlesex and Potter, will be shocked to learn of the sad accident which occurred on the 22d inst., on the Geneva & S.W.R. R., one and a half miles south of Rushville, and which resulted in the death of James Kelley…Mr. Kelley resided in the town of Middlesex near Rushville and was a very worthy and industrious man….A Friend

On Tuesday evening the 20^th inst., we had the pleasure of attending a wooden wedding which was  a very pleasant affair. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Goundry of Milo celebrated the fifth anniversary of their marriage… [They] live on the farm with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, who came to this country from New England some twenty-five or more years ago….We.

Died on Thursday Oct. 22, 1874 at St. Charles, Saginaw county, Mich., Aaron G. Dorman at the age of forty-seven years, four months and eighteen days. [He] was a son of the late John Dorman of Jerusalem, and the oldest of eight children of that family. He was born in Jerusalem June 4, 1827, and married in September, 1851, Miss Cynthia Adams of Penn Yan, who survives him with one surviving son, now at the age of seventeen years….In accordance with the latest wish of his life his body was brought to Penn Yan for burial by the side of his ancestors. His is the first death in the family of his parents. Three of his brothers and two sisters still reside in Jerusalem.

Lydia A., wife of Orlando Crofoot died October 19^th, aged thirty-four years. She was born in Pulteney on May 20, 1840, and was a daughter of Erastus W. Lee, who is still living. For several years she has resided in this village [Branchport] and is the mother of six children from the age of fifteen months up to fifteen years….

We have also to record the death of Arthur, son of James Spencer, aged ten years. This bright, active boy was a deaf mute from his birth, but had good powers of mind. Mr. Spencer had taken him to the New York Institute for education and systematic training….

Married in Dundee on Wednesday evening Oct. 21, 1874 Spencer Harpending and Miss Mary, only daughter of Harrison Shannon….

Married

• At the M.E. Parsonage, Monterey, Oct. 21^st, 1874, Mr. E.P. Smith and Mary A. Laman, niece of the officiating clergyman, Rev. A.G. Laman, all of Orange, Schuyler county.

Died

• At Penn Yan on Friday, Oct. 23^rd, 1874, Wm. VanDeventer, in the 55^th year of his age.

5 November 1874

Enos T. Throop died at his residence near Auburn last Sunday evening. He was ninety-one years old. He was elected Lieut. Governor in 1828 under Martin Van Buren. The latter having been selected by Gen. Jackson for Secretary of State, Mr. Throop became Governor and was elected to the office of Governor in 1830. Since that period he has scarcely been known in the politics of the State.

The funeral of Mrs. Robert McKay will take place on Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. No. 36 Canal street.

Married in Starkey at the home of the bride (the residence of Richard Hults) by Rev. Smith Hults of Ill., Mr. James P. Swarthout and Miss Flora Hults. Also by the same at the same time, Mr. Hunt and Miss Eva Hults, sister of Flora. Mrs. Richard Hults must be considered a lucky woman; for besides having two sons added to her family, had also present a new daughter, her son who lives in Chemung county having married a wife the previous Monday.

Married in Dundee October 20, 1874 by Rev. James Mullin, Mr. Charles McAlister and Miss Louisa Barnes. Also by the same October 21, 1874, Mr. Alexander Phillips and Miss Carrie Z. Ludlow, all of Dundee.

A foundling at the doorstep of William F. VanTuyl…on West Hill on Saturday evening last is the subject of an eight days’ wonder in that quiet neighborhood. The little stranger was encased in a neat wicket [sic] basket and was deposited at the doorway about three o’clock in the morning. The family were awakened by the cries of the infant and on going to the door to ascertain its whereabouts found it well wrapped in an elegant attire, tossing uneasily in its little prison on the threshold. A neatly written note accompanied the masculine waif saying that it was an orphan and hoped they would kindly take the stranger in….By whom this three-month-old piece of waifishness was committed none of the curious or incurious neighbors know; but Mr. and Mrs. VanTuyl have adopted this windfall to inherit their paternal affections….

Walter S. Corbett, a young man twenty-six years old, unmarried, a son of Otis Corbett living two miles north of Watkins, was instantly killed last Saturday morning by falling from the top of the cupola of the old Methodist Church in Watkins to the ground, about fifty feet….—Elmira Advertiser

Married

• On Wednesday, Oct. 28 at the residence of the bride’s parents in Starkey, by Rev. S. Hultz of Bethany, Genesee county, Mr. James P. Swarthout of Torrey and Miss Flora A. Hultz.

Died

• In Penn Yan, Oct. 28, 1874, at the residence of J.R. Halliday, Mrs. Mary Moon, widow of Peter Moon, in the seventy-seventh year of her age.

12 November 1874

Dresden—Those weddings I spoke of last week were James P. Swarthout of this town to Miss Flora Hultz of Starkey, and Mr. Briggs to Miss Libby, daughter of Russel VanDeventer, both of this town….The wooden wedding was at the house of Harrison Dains and wife, here in Dresden….

Elihu Eldridge of Springport aged ninety-seven years and six months died at his home in that town on Monday evening last at about 9 o’clock. The deceased was one of the oldest residents, if not the oldest man in the county. He went to Springport in 1804 from Washington county, and in 1810 settled on a farm in the south part of the village of Union Springs….—Bulletin

Married in Dundee at the residence of Rev. U.S. Hall, Nov. 6, Mr. George Haight and Miss Fanny Pettingill, oldest daughter of Wm. Pettingill, all of Starkey.

Mrs. Hector Ely, and one of the pioneers of the town of Hector died on Friday of last week. Her husband was the first white man born in Schuyler county.—Watkins Express

Died on Sunday, Nov. 1^st at half past four in the afternoon, Davis Dean living in the edge of Italy, whose age was 71 years last April. Mr. Dean was … an old resident of this section, living here even when “Middletown” was the name given for Naples….The funeral was held at the Church near the Barker settlement … and his remains were carried to the cemetery near by. He leaves a large family of children and grandchildren….—Naples Record

Married

• In Benton, Nov. 7^th, by Rev. A.C. Mallory, Mr. James M. Walter of Benton, and Miss Caroline Werley of Potter.

19 November 1874

Ira S. Bullard of Geneva died in that place on Wednesday the 4^th inst., at the age of sixty-four years….

Agnes C., daughter and only child of Capt. Ralph T. Wood of this village, died on Tuesday at the age of twelve years. The body was taken yesterday to Dansville for interment.

The youngest daughter of Hiram L. and Harriet P. Stults of West Italy Hill died on Saturday morning, Nov. 7, at the age of two years from injuries caused by fire. Her dress took fire while she stood by her older sister, who was kindling a fire.

Married

• At the residence of Mr. Newton Gage, the home of the bride in Benton, Nov. 11, 1874, by Rev. A.F. Freeman of Barrington to Miss Belle Gage.
• At the M.E. Parsonage at Benton Center, Nov. 11, 1874, by Rev. A.F. Countryman, Mr. George Conklin of Penn Yan to Miss Cynthia E. Page of Potter.

Died

• In Penn Yan on Tuesday, Nov. 3^rd, 1874, Mrs. Helen McKay, wife of Robert McKay and daughter of Isaac Grey, aged 24 years.

26 November 1874

Rushville, Nov. 17^th, 1874—Last Friday evening one of those pleasant affairs which sometimes happens in the social world, and which is becoming quite fashionable, occurred at the residence of Peter L. Dinturff near Rushville, in the celebration of their twenty-fifth marriage anniversary….A silver-headed cane presented by Charles, Ella and Nellie, children of Mr. and Mrs. Dinturff, one present that will be greatly cherished, the large photographs of Mr. and Mrs. C. Cadmus, near and aged relatives of Mr. Dinturff. Yet one present we must not forget, a fine fur hat, the gift of Mr. Dinturff’s mother, a lady in her seventy-sixth year….A Guest

The death of the wife of Hon. William A. Sackett of Saratoga is announced at Weimar in Germany. She had been traveling in Europe for two years past for the instruction of a daughter….Mr. Sackett was once a Member of Congress from the Wayne, Seneca and Yates district….Mrs. Sackett’s maiden name was Miss Charlotte Buttrick of Clinton, Oneida county, the location of Hamilton College….

The Naples Record mentions the death of George W. Cook, aged sixty-two years, in Middlesex, on Saturday, Nov. 14. Also of Corydon Clark, aged twenty-eight, at Rushville Nov. 16^th. He was the youngest son of George Clark and died of consumption.

3 December 1874

Wm. F. Havermayer the Mayor of New York died very suddenly of apoplexy on Sunday.

Thomas Pembroke, a brakeman on a Northern Central freight train living at Canandaigua was severely injured at the Penn Yan station. His hand was caught between the bumpers while coupling cars, and badly jammed though no bones were broken. The principal nerve of the arm was badly injured. He lingered just a week and died on Tuesday evening. He suffered some days from lockjaw. When first hurt his wound was dressed by Dr. R.R.C. Bordwell.

Mrs. Mary Curtis, widow of the late Samuel F. Curtis, died very suddenly at her home in this village early on Monday morning. … She was born Dec. 15^th, 1796, and lacked therefore but a few days of being seventy-eight years old.—She was a daughter of Col. Perley Phillips of Geneva, an early resident of Geneva. Her father erected the first brick house in Geneva, and established a tannery there. A sister of Mrs. Curtis, six years her senior, was the wife of Dr. Joshua Lee. Mrs. Curtis was the third wife of Samuel F. Curtis, and he was her second husband. She is the mother of his two youngest children, P.P. Curtis and Miss Mary Curtis of this village. She had a daughter by a former marriage, formerly the wife of Daniel Marsh, and subsequently remarried….

Miss Dolly C. Strong, daughter of Ezra C. Strong of Wheeler, hung herself in her father’s barn a little more than a week ago. She was twenty-four years of age. The jury brought in a verdict that the young lady committed suicide during a temporary fit of insanity.—Hammondsport Herald

Died in Camden on the morning of the 22^nd inst., in the 57^th year of her age, Miss H.A.P. Ayer, widow of the late Nathan W. Ayer…Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Congratulations are very properly extended to our townsman [Starkey] Herman C. Cook, who has wedded Eadie E. Bigelow, one of the best girls of Altay. They were married Nov. 18^th by E.B. Wells, Esq., at the home of the bride, the residence of Mr. James G. Bigelow her father.

Died in Starkey on Sunday Nov. 22, 1874. Mrs. Rhoda Cowing, wife of Caleb Cowing in the 93^rd year of her age. This aged couple have lived many years in Starkey, having settled here when the country was relatively new….

Married Nov. 18 in Dundee by Rev. U.S. Hall, Mr. M.E. Bennett and Miss Emma Rhodee, all of Starkey.

John Neff, the veteran blacksmith of this town, aged 77 years, went over into Schuyler County last week, and after due and proper sanctions, brought away widow Phillips, aged 72, and has installed her in his home with all the honors of a faithful and devoted wife. The boys say it is all right. Father is of age.—Prattsburgh News

Mrs. James Rutledge of Rockstream died at her residence on Friday, the 20^th inst., and was buried in the Cleveland cemetery in the town of Reading on the following Tuesday. Deceased was seventy-four years of age. Her husband is still living, and is conducting a farm about a mile this side of the village of Rockstream. He was formerly a miller by occupation….—Watkins Express

Rochester had its wedding in high life the other day. The daughter of Hon. Freeman Clark, Miss Carrie, was married to Mr. Frederick Allen; the daughters of Hon. Roscoe Conkling, and Gen. Leslie Coombs being principal bridesmaids….

Married

• In Penn Yan, Nov. 25^th, 1874, by Rev. T.R. Peters, Mr. Stephen Heck and Miss Helen Coons, both of Yates County.

10 December 1874

James C. Longwell…died at his residence near this village early on Sunday morning last, Dec. 6^th, aged sixty years, seven months and twenty-five days. [He] was born April 11, 1814, we believe in Seneca county, and was a son of the late David Longwell, who died an aged resident of this town but a few years ago. …In 1844 he married Rachel A., youngest daughter of Richard Henderson, and purchased the Henderson homestead where he resided many years…His daughter Emma, wife of Byron F. Hobart, banker of Oswego, Kansas, was with him…Besides this daughter he has one child only, his son Smith M. …

A brother of Captain Allen Wood, a bachelor and a prosperous farmer, forty years of age, residing in Farmington, Ontario county, committed suicide a few days ago through aberration of mind.

John H. Lapham, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Penn Yan, died at four o’clock yesterday afternoon, aged seventy-two years…

Died in Penn Yan on Sunday morning, Dec. 6^th, Mrs. Caroline M. Spencer, aged 61 years. [She] was born at Hudson, Sept. 12, 1813. Both of her parents were earnest Christians of the Baptist faith, her two brothers became Baptist clergymen (Revs. J. Newton and Edwin C. Brown) and her husband was also for twenty years a faithful Baptist minister….Her husband, Rev. Horace Spencer, was well known in former years in this section of the State, and died about twenty years ago, since which time his widow has resided in this village….He was a brother of Martin Spencer, formerly of this village, and a nephew of Capt. Truman and Hon. Elijah Spencer, who were among the Benton pioneers of 1791. Mrs. Spencer leaves two children, Newton B. and Carrie T….

We record two deaths at James J. Stever’s residence about a mile south of this village [Branchport], of a Mrs. Pierce who had been assisting them in housework, and the other was the infant of Mr. and Mrs. Stever which has not at any time been at all robust. The burial services of the child were conducted by Rev. H.K. White.

Married

• In Benton Center, Dec. 3^rd, by Rev. A.C. Mallory, Mr. James McAlpine and Miss Flora A. Armstrong, both of Benton.
• At Branchport, Thursday evening, Dec. 3^rd, by Rev. G.A. Wilkins, Edwin J. Clarke of Italy Hollow to Miss Mary Hulse of the former place.

17 December 1874

Died at his residence in Dresden on Tuesday evening, Dec. 15, 1874, Joseph Remer at the age of nearly eighty-one years. …He was born at Princeton, N.J., in 1793 and was the oldest son of Bryan Remer, who came to this county in 1804, and soon after settled at Hopeton. He followed the trade of his father, that of shoemaker, for a number of years, and in 1820 married Mary, daughter of Rowland Embree, who survives him….Joseph Remer and his wife have been the parents of six children, four of whom survive. Susan is the wife of Dr. Charles A. Bogart, now of Bay City, Mich. Byron resides at Dresden, single. John married Rachel, daughter of Moses A. Legg, and resides at Dresden. Mary E. is also single and has resided with her parents. Catharine and Nancy A. have both died within the past five years. Mr. Remer’s funeral takes place this afternoon at one o’clock and he will be interred in the Hopeton Cemetery.

John H. Lapham, whose decease was mentioned last week, had been a citizen of Penn Yan for thirty years, and chiefly engaged in mercantile affairs. He was born October 8, 1804, in Dutchess county, and consequently was seventy years, two months and one day old at the time of his death. He followed to this place his brother, Ludlow E. Lapham, who came in 1825….He married in 1829 Louise Russel of Northeast, Dutchess county, who was the mother of his children, five daughters. She died in 1864 and in 1869 he married a second wife, Emily, widow of Madison Wheeler and sister of his first wife, who survives him. He and his brother L.E. Lapham, and their only sister, now Mrs. Melzer Tuell, were the only children of Eliakim Lapham of Dutchess county.

Died at his home in Benton on Sunday December 13, 1874, George L. Cleveland aged 68 years. [He] was well known in this vicinity, where he has resided for more than forty years. He was of New England birth and came to the locality where he has subsequently resided in his early manhood….His excellent wife, originally Miss Sarah Ann Cushman, was the companion of his life about thirty years and survives him.

Miss Julia Sloan died of consumption on Wednesday Dec. 9, 1874, at the residence of John Beam near Dundee, aged twenty-six years…

“Gone and done it,” is the remark I heard the other day in regard to the marriage of H.L. Sage of Starkey and Miss Emma L. Lawrence of Culpepper, Va. They were married Nov. 28 at the residence of Mr. L. Green, by Rev. U.S. Hall.

It is rare we hear of sun stroke so near Christmas; but Mr. A. Hollister [of Starkey] was presented with a son the other day much to the joy of all concerned.

Mrs. Rhoda Cowing, wife of Mr. Caleb Cowing, died in Eddytown, Nov. 22, 1874, aged 92 years. She was a native of Vermont. Her maiden name was Royce, a sister of the late Reuben, Simeon and Matthew Royce. She came here with her brothers in or about 1804, and settled upon the tract of land upon which she closed her life. She saw the total eclipse of the sun in June 1806 from the wilderness on the western slope of the shore of Seneca lake, and here she taught the first school ever organized in what is now Starkey. In 1810 she was married at a Methodist meeting held in a barn to Mr. Cowing and sometime after they settled in Seneca, Ontario county….They had no children and she was the last of her family. Mr. Cowing is left at ninety years a widower, after living sixty-four with the wife of his youth, and there are no relatives left except nephews and nieces….—Dundee Record

Married

• At the residence of the bride’s parents Dec. 9, 1874, by Rev. M.C. Dean, Mr. Willard J. Snyder of Gorham to Miss Ella J. Culver [sic], youngest daughter of Culver Barber, Esq., of Potter.

24 December 1874

Superintendent Charles D. Milne of the Seneca Lake Grape and Wine Company at Severne, it appears has united his fortunes matrimonially with one of the prettiest girls of Milo, Miss Lizzie Aspell, daughter of D.B. Aspell, Esq.

The marriage is recorded of F.M. McDowell of Wayne, and Miss Eva, daughter of W.M. Sherwood of Woodhull. The lady is a niece of Hon. Henry Sherwood of Corning….

Mrs. Ann E. Beebe, the wife of Mr. George H. Beebe, died suddenly at her residence in Penn Yan on Friday evening, December 18^th, 1874, aged 37 years….She was married in Herkimer county on the last day of January, 1857…Two sons were born to them, who survive her….

Died in Penn Yan on Wednesday, Dec. 16^th, 1874, of consumption, Lottie, daughter of George T. Wyckoff, aged twenty-one years….

Died in this village on the 13^th inst., Mrs. Cornelia Haggerty, aged 40 years. She was a daughter of Mr. John T. Raplee, formerly of this town….She leaves a father, sister and son to mourn her loss.—Dundee Record

Married

• At the residence of the bride, December 9, 1874, at Hampton, Rock Island Co., Ill., by Rev. A. Harper, Orson W. Graham of Penn Yan, and Lottie, youngest daughter of John Wells, Esq.

31 December 1874

Gerritt Smith died in New York on Monday at the age of seventy-seven years….

The latest death at Branchport is that of Mr. Phineas Parker, who died on Tuesday morning [of smallpox]… We understand he was about sixty years of age.

Jefferson Fraser was born June 15, 1827 in the town of Sangerfield, Oneida county, and was the third and youngest child and only son of Elias Fraser and Jemima Jefferson his wife. When he was one year old, the parents removed from Oneida county to the town of Hector, then in Tompkins, now Schuyler county….[He died] in Brooklyn…August 24^th, 1874 at the age of forty-seven years….Mr. Fraser’s mother is still living at the age of eighty-three years, and resides at Glenora in this county with her daughter Mrs. O.B.F. Ingalls. His father died in 1853 at the age of sixty-seven years. The elder daughter of the family is Mrs. S.C. Cleveland of Penn Yan.

Died at Branchport Dec. 25^th, Ward VanTuyl aged 19 years. Deceased was the only son of Wm. VanTuyl, and was removed to the smallpox hospital Dec. 15^th and after that was not seen by any of the family….Wm. Herries

[Married] in this village at the M.E. Church Dec. 24^th by Rev. Ezra Tinker, M.A.B.D. of Goshen, assisted by Rev. J.P. Farmer, Prof. Berlin H. Wright of Penn Yan Academy to F. Loretta, youngest daughter of J.C. Mills, M.D….

Died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sunday morning, Dec. 6, 1874, Mrs. Lucy B. Hartwell, in the eightieth year of her age. [She] was the oldest of the seven children of Thomas Hathaway, long a prominent citizen of this county in its early history. She married Oliver Hartwell, one of the foremost young men of Canandaigua, where they resided many years…They had four children. Their daughter Elizabeth married a Mr. VanRensselaer who was a leading lawyer of Detroit…The second daughter married Judge Howell of Michigan, who was a relative of the Canandaigua Howells. The third daughter married J.T. Warner, a wealthy merchant of Cincinnati. Their only son, Thomas H. Hartwell…is now an attorney…[in] New York….Mrs. Hartwell…was a sister of Mrs. Susan Wisner of this village, and Mrs. Mary Hathaway of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

John B. Royce died at his residence in Milo, Yates county, Dec. 24^th, 1874 in the 63^rd year of his age. He was born in Lodi, Seneca county, Sept. 15^th, 1812, moved to this town March 17^th, 1857….Mr. Royce left a wife and several children. All the children have reached adult age.

Lottie Wyckoff, daughter of George and Mary, died in Penn Yan during December, 1874.

An event of unusual interest took place yesterday at the residence of Henry Wray, on Adams Street, Cornhill…It was the gathering of a large concourse of near relatives and intimate friends to witness the marriage of Miss Maria Wray to Delos W. Hollowell, Esq., of Penn Yan….—Rochester Express, Dec. 24

Died at the residence of his daughter at Rock Stream, Dec. 27, 1874, Timothy E. Jones at the advanced age of ninety-three years….

Died

·         At the residence of Peleg Gardiner, Esq., in Potter Dec. 23^rd, 1874, Monroe Brundage, only son of Henry A. and Kate E. Potter, of consumption of the bowels, aged five years, eight months and three days. The remains were taken to their home in Ovid, Mich. For burial.