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Vital Records Extracted from the Yates County Chronicle

Editor: Stafford C. Cleveland

September - December 1875

2 September 1875

Died in this village on the 27^th ult., at the residence of her father, Robert French, Esq., Mrs. Mary J. Cheney, widow of the late Dr. Walter S. Cheney of Prattsburg, aged thirty one years, nine months and one day.

Died at his home in Potter at 9 o’clock on Tuesday evening, August 31, 1875, Walter P. Hobart, at the age of seventy five years, after a very brief illness. Mr. Hobart was an exemplary and most worthy citizen, whose entire life was spent in the town where he was born and where he died. He was born in 1800 and was the youngest child of Rev. Wm. Hobart and his second wife Dolly Smith, who settled in the then town of Augusta in 1797. Walter P. Hobart married first in 1825 Amanda, daughter of Nathan Loomis of Rushville, who died in 1833, and in 1835 he married Rachel Clark of Benton. His third wife Lorania Randall, he married in 1858. By the second marriage three children were born, Amanda, Jeanette and George, and by the third, one son Arthur. The daughters remain single and George married Adelaide, daughter of James T. Davis, and is a worthy citizen of Jerusalem….

Mrs. Catharine Morgan of this village, widow of the late James D. Morgan, senior, died at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Alfred Young in Rochester on Friday, august 27, 1875, …in the sixty-second year of her age. …Mrs. Morgan was born at Greenbush, Rensselaer county December 26, 1813, and was a daughter of Jahleel B. Stark and Amy J. Pierce his wife of that place. She was married at New Hamburg, Dutchess county, August 17, 1831, and came immediately to Penn Yan, where she has been a resident for forty-four years. …She was the mother of seven children, six of whom survive…She has four living brothers, Ambrose, J. Wesley, William H. and Theron. …Mrs. Emma Pierce of Washington and Mrs. Jane Dodge of Beekman, Dutchess county are her sisters. Mr. Oliver Stark and Charles M. Stark of this village are her cousins….

Married at the residence of the bride’s father Mr. G. Oldfield, August 17, 1875, by Rev. Nathan Bosworth, Mr. Foster P. Wood and Mrs. Sarah E. Haskell. The bride will be remembered by many old students of Starkey Seminary. The happy couple left shortly after for their future home at Big Rapids, Mich.

Died at Starkey August 20, 1875, quite suddenly of severe summer complaint, Charles Moran, the youngest son of Peter Moran.

9 September 1875

We deeply regret to learn of the unexpected death yesterday afternoon of Mrs. J. Lorimer Ogden of this town. …

News comes to us from Oakland, Cal., of the death of Rev. Silas E. Lacy, formerly a resident of this county…

Mrs. Adaline Potter of Big Flats, a former resident of Starkey, died on the 30^th ult. at the age of about twenty-eight years. She was a daughter of Benjamin McSwain of Himrods, and sister of Mrs. E. Dense and Horace McSwain of Starkey, George McSwain and Mrs. Shults of Milo, and Nettie, who resides with her father. The remains were brought to Starkey for burial.

Married in Altay August 18, by Rev. R.B. Stanton, Vermilyea T. Brouwere and Miss Ada Kendall. In Starkey August 25, Mr. James Moorhead and Mrs. Alvira Mandeville, formerly of Elmira.

Died at Nunda August 15, Mrs. Leah Walling, widow of Jacob Walling, formerly of Starkey, aged nearly eighty years. She was a daughter of Samuel Kress Sr., and a sister of Mr. Isaac Kress. Her parents came to Starkey in the beginning of this century and settled on the farm now owned by John Supplee.

16 September 1875

At 5 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon last, September 1, 1875, Johnson Brigham, Esq., of Watkins, associate editor of the Watkins Express, and Miss Nettie Gano, only daughter of L.M. Gano, Esq., senior editor and proprietor of that journal, were married in the Presbyterian church in that village….

The death is announced at Salt Lake City of Martin Harris, one of the original disciples and dupes of Joseph Smith, the Mormon apostle. Harris was a resident of Palmyra in 1820, and furnished the money for printing the first Mormon Bible. He died at the age of 92 years….

An unusual occurrence resulting in the death of D. Howell Pattison, a young man aged 17, took place at the Wheeler Wine Cellar near Hammondsport recently….

We learn that Mr. David L. Becker, who has been an invalid for several months, died yesterday afternoon.

Daniel King, an aged and highly respected citizen of Torrey, died on the 9^th inst., after a very brief sickness. He was eighty-four years old.

Miles G. Raplee died at his residence in Milo on Sunday last, Sept. 12, 1875, at the age of sixty-four years on the farm where he was born. Mr. Raplee was a noted agriculturalist and stock grower, and owned a farm on the bank of Seneca Lake of over two hundred acres, which is a part of the several hundred his father Joshua Raplee owned in that locality, and where the father settled in 1807. His grandfather James Raplee was a pioneer of Starkey, and the common ancestor of a very large number of descendants still resident in Yates county. The wife of Miles G. Raplee, Maria Westbrook, died in 1871. Their children were Margaret, Amanda, Mariette, Miles and Minor. Margaret married Nelson Jones of Milo. Amanda married Josephus Johnson of Chicago, and settled west. Mariette married William Henderson of Starkey. Miles married Emma, daughter of Peleg Briggs of Starkey, and Minor married Lovina Spooner of Milo and remains on the paternal homestead.

Mrs. Esther Mariner died at the residence of her son Homer Mariner in Benton, September 10, 1875, aged ninety-one years and one month. She was born in Litchfield county, Conn., August 10, 1784, …She married the late Buel Mariner in 1806, and he died in 1852. She came to Milo in May 1822, thence to Benton in 1823, where she spent the remainder of her life. She was the mother of eight sons, six of whom survive her….

W.W. Eastman steps a little prouder than heretofore. His first born is a boy, that saw the sunlight yesterday for the first.

Died in this village Tuesday, September 14^th, Mrs. Henry Wood, aged 56 years. Her maiden name was Percis C. Babcock, daughter of Shubael and Katharine Babcock. Her mother is now the widow of the late Judge Knox of Steuben county. She married Henry Wood in 1846 and their children were, Katharine wife of Jeffrey Smith, William H., Orvill B., and Frank A., who died in 1856 at the age of thirteen years….

Married in Watkins August 22, 1875, Mr. Charles Taylor of Barrington and Miss Sarah Smith, oldest daughter of George A. Smith of Starkey Station.

Miss Emily Gay of Glenora died of consumption August 20, 1875. She was a daughter of the late Hiram Gay….

Died near Rock Stream September 3, 1875, Mrs. John D. Carpenter of Ithaca.

Married

• At the house of the bridegroom, September 9, 1875, by Rev. D.W. Sherman, Mr. John A. Teal of Italy N.Y. and Miss Eva A. Dunton of Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
• At the residence of the bride’s father on Wednesday September 1, 1875, by Rev. S. Knapp, Mr. Lawson Rodgers of Jerusalem and Miss Sarah A. Brown of Prattsburg.

Died

• Very suddenly in the village of Cuba, Allegany county, on Sunday morning, September 5, 1875, Lucy M. Douglass wife of W.R. Bronson, Esq., aged thirty-five years.
• In Pulteney, August 27, 1875, Mrs. Minerva Carpenter in the fifty-ninth year of her age.
• In this village on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1875, Frank Hobart, son of Chester Hobart, aged nineteen years. Frank was married but a few months since to Nettie, daughter of George McDonald…

23 September 1875

Died after a protracted illness, at his residence in Pulteney, Mr. David S. Wagener on Thursday, September 9, 1875, at the age of fifty-one years, ten months and twenty-two days. [He] was the son of Melchoir Wagener, one of the first settlers of Pulteney, and was born on the farm where he died…At the age of about twenty-two he traveled west, going through several states, and finally engaged in the lumbering business with his oldest brother W.W. Wagener in Lapeer county, Mich. After he had been there about a year his brother died and he too was very sick with the fever of the country, but he soon recovered his health and came east, where he engaged in the flouring business in Yates county near Penn Yan. He there erected the Farmers’ Mills …At about this time he married Miss Mary Ann McArthur of Lapeer county, by whom he reared four children—two sons and two daughters. Soon after the death of his father at Pulteney he bought the old homestead that he loved so well and moved his family there…--Jacob Wagener

The funeral of David L. Becker was largely attended on Sunday last. The Masonic brotherhood took charge of the service and buried their deceased brother at Benton center. He was 66 years old.

The fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Green of Prattsburg took place on the 10^th inst. They have eleven children living, and a host of grand-children.

Peter Pulver of West Italy Hill died on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1875, aged 57 years….

Died at Dresden on Monday evening September 20, 1875, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Harris, widow of James Harris, at the age of 42 years. [She] was ten years the chief cook at the Benham House in this village….She was a daughter of Mrs. Martha Walbridge of this village.

Died at his residence one half mile south of Dresden, on the 9^th of September, Captain Daniel King, after an illness of five days of typhoid fever, aged eighty-four years. [He] was born at Somerset Co., N.J., on the 14^th day of December, 1791. At the age of eighteen years he put a knapsack on his back and came on foot to this then wilderness and located with his father on lands just south of Dresden (no village, then) the same, or a portion of the same, on which he has resided for over sixty-six years…In 1820 he was married to Miss Susannah Smith of Benton and began housekeeping. They were the parents of seven children—four sons and three daughters—all of whom survive. David is a widower living at Seneca Falls, his oldest son Daniel King 2^nd having lived with his grandfather for many years past. Fanny, single, resides at home. John and Hugh S. live in Michigan. Catharine Deming lives at Seneca Falls, Clinton King in Torrey, so also Martha Keefer—all married but Fanny and Hugh, and have families. Of Mr. King’s family there was one pair of twins, Hugh and Martha. Mr. King has drawn a pension for the past few years as a soldier of 1812…[He] lost his wife on the 3^rd day of September, 1868. Since that time his daughter Fanny has been his housekeeper….Of his father’s large family only two survive him. Mrs. John Tones is living near or at Sodus, Wayne county…John King, who was at the funeral, lives near Seneca Falls….M.

Died in Starkey September 12, 1875, of cholera morbus, Barney, eldest son of Nelson Hanmer, in the fourth year of his age.

The infant son of Samuel Robinson died in Starkey on the 13^th inst.

Married

• In Benton September 14, by Rev. A.C. Mallory, Mr. Homer L. Pelton and Miss Sarah C. Gage, both of Benton.
• At the home of the bride in Benton Center, September 26, 1875, by Rev. A.F. Countryman, Rev. Nathan N. Beers of the Central New York Conference, and Miss Mary Hodge.
• At the residence of the bride’s parents on Tuesday, September 26, 1875, Mr. Philetus W. Porter and Miss Julia E. Sutfin, all of Rushville.

30 September 1875

Married at the residence of M.T. Webb September 21, 1875, by Rev. U.S. Hall, Mr. George Goble of Starkey and Miss Rose Hopkins of Beaver Dam, Dodge county, Wisconsin. Miss Nelle McLoud acted as bridesmaid and Mr. Frank Goble as groomsman.

At half past 12 o’clock last night, a dispatch received by Mr. S.G. Lapham of this city was brought to the Sentinel office, conveying the brief statement that Dr. Increase A. Lapham is dead. The dispatch came from Oconomomee where the doctor has been living with his family since May last….Dr. Lapham was born in Palmyra, Wayne county, March 7, 1811, and came to Milwaukee July 1, 1836….—Milwaukee Daily Sentinel

Dr. Increase Allen Lapham…was a cousin of Ludlow E. Lapham, Esq., of this village. Their common grandfather was Pazzi Lapham of Dutchess county. The father of Ludlow E. Lapham was Eliakim, and the father of Dr. A.A. Lapham was Seneca Lapham of Dutchess county. Seven generations back the family tree had its root in John Lapham, a weaver who came from Devonshire, England and settled at Providence, Rhode Island….

Died

• Mrs. Mary A. Cleveland, wife of Nathan B. Cleveland of Dix, Schuyler county, Sept. 9, 1875 in the thirty-sixth year of her age. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, a devoted wife, and an affectionate daughter and sister.

7 October 1875

Lizzie L. Haines was born at Clifton Springs May 18, 1837, and died at her home in the town of Geneva September 30, 1875, aged eighteen years, four months and twelve days. [She was Lizzie Robbins before her marriage seven months ago.] The deceased lost her mother at the early age of ten years, since which time she has lived in various localities, but for the last few years had found a home with her grandfather Peter Lovejoy at Benton Center….

Mr. Joseph Bartholomew died in Elmira on the 22^nd ult., of apoplexy, in the sixty-fifth year of her age…He was born at Lodi, Seneca county, January 1, 1811. In early life he came to this county and when we came to Barrington in 1839 he was living in that town, and was engaged with his brother David B. Bartholomew, at the business of a millwright….He leaves a wife and five children…and we think he has left two sisters surviving….—Dundee Record

Died in Starkey September 13, 1875, …Mrs. Cornelia, wife of John D. Carpenter of Ithaca, at the age of fifty-eight years.

Married

• At the residence of the bride’s father W.P. Sheldon, September 9, 1875, by Rev. H. Boughton, Mr. Marvin B. Shaw of Benton to Miss Ella J. Sheldon of Macedon, Wayne county.
• In Benton September 29, by Rev. A.C. Mallory, Mr. Thomas Peck of Geneva to Miss Fannie L. Mitchel of Benton.
• At the house of John Remer Esq. in Dresden, on Sunday evening Oct. 3^rd by Rev. P.E. Brown, Mr. William D. Semans of Starkey to Mrs. Ellen Mariner of Dresden.
• On the 2^nd inst., by the Rev. James Rankins, at the Church of St. Peter’s “Memorial” in Geneva, Mr. William Robert Topp to Catharine Maria Williams, both of Penn Yan.

Died

• In Barrington Sept. 12, 1875, Thomas Waterman, aged seventy years.
• In Hammondsport Sept. 29, 1875, Mrs. Clarissa A. Hastings Nichols, wife of George W. Nichols of Hammondsport, aged forty four years.

14 October 1875

Died in Potter on Sunday morning, Oct. 10, 1875, Ezekiel W. Gardner at the age of sixty-one years. [He] was the youngest son of Ezekiel Gardner and Mary H. Niles his wife, who came from Rhode Island in 1826 and occupied for many years the Potter farm. He has never married, and for the past few years has resided with John Underwood, his brother-in-law, on the Potter farm….

The public were startled on Monday last, Oct. 11^th with the intelligence of the sudden and unexpected death of Senator William Johnson at three o’clock in the morning of that day…His age was fifty-four years. He was a son-in-law of Hon. Jacob P. Chamberlain of Seneca Falls.

Married

• At the M.E. parsonage in Dundee, October 1, 1875, by Rev. U.S. Hall, Mr. Joseph McDermott of Barrington and Miss Mary J. Clark of Starkey.
• At the residence of the bride’s mother at Norristown, Pa., October 5, 1875, by Rev. G. Evans Shannon of East Haven, Conn., Mr. John C. Scheetz of Penn Yan and Miss Lizzie S. Yerkes of Norristown.

Died

• In Starkey on the 2^nd inst., …M. Kendrick Vosburg, an esteemed citizen, aged 39 years.
• In Starkey Sept. 16, 1875, Barney Hanmer, aged 3 years, 4 months and 27 days.
• In Penn Yan on Saturday, October 2, 1875, Mrs. Margaret Chase, wife of A.B. Chase at the age of fifty-one years.

William Wallace died at the county poor house in Jerusalem on Monday, October 4, 1875, at the age of eighty-five years. He was an old citizen of Jerusalem and had been for fifteen years an inmate of the poor house.

Allen Bassett, who died September 29, 1875, at his home in Barrington in his seventy-ninth year…was born at North Haven, Conn., June 5, 1796, and was the youngest of three children left by his father, who died early. His mother subsequently married John Boyce and the family moved to this region and found a home in what is now Barrington, where Mr. Bassett has since resided. He married first Drusilla W. Eddy, daughter of Richard Eddy, who died in 1829, and he afterwards married Jemima C. Mann, who survives him at the age of sixty-seven years. He was the father of nine sons and six daughters, ten of whom survive him….

[Married] in Barrington at the residence of the bride’s mother, on Wednesday October 6^th, 1875, Mr. Daniel Sunderlin of Wayne to Miss Emma Lazear [of Barrington].

Died in Prattsburg, Steuben county, Sept. 23^rd, 1875, Mrs. Sarah Merritt, wife of Mr. Chauncey Merritt, second daughter of the late Samuel and Cyntha Westcott, and sister of the Editor of the Dundee Record, in the 56^th year of her age. She was born in Mendon, Monroe Co., August 6^th, 1820, was married in the early part of the year 1845 and soon after went to Prattsburg, where she spent the remainder of her life, living upon the farm where she with her husband first settled. She was the mother of five children, three of whom survive her. The eldest and youngest, two sons, had gone before her, and two sons and a daughter remain to realize her loss.

[Died] in this town on the morning of the 5^th inst., Ezra Spink, aged fifty-four years. …--Dundee Record

Dresden—Death has visited our village and taken the only child of Theodore F. Denniston, a smart promising boy of 9 years of age….

Died in Starkey October 5^th, 1875, Mrs. ---- Demorest. Further particulars hereafter.

Died very suddenly in Starkey October 5, 1875, Mr. Ezra Spink at about fifty-five years of age.

Died in Starkey October 2, 1875…Mr. Kendrick Vosburgh, in the fortieth year of his age…

21 October 1875

Frederick T. Backenstose of Geneva died in that place October 11, 1875, at the age of sixty-three years.

Samuel Finch, who died at Naples October 5, 1875, at the age of ninety years and five months, was for many years a citizen of Rushville, and a miller there.

Married

• At the Baptist church in Barrington on Thursday October 14, 1875, by the Rev. James Parker, Mr. William Taylor and Miss Mattie Parker.
• At the Baptist church in Barrington on Thursday October 14, 1875, by the Rev. James Parker, Mr. Frank McDowell and Miss Delia Parker. The above named ladies are both daughters of the Rev. James Parker.

Died

• In Penn Yan, September 14, 1875, at the residence of his father, Frank C. Hobart, eldest son of Chester L. and Emeline S. Hobart, aged 20 years, 9 months and 5 days.
• In Springfield, Mass., on Wednesday, October 13^th, Mrs. Elizabeth VanDeventer of this village, aged 56 years. The remains of the deceased were brought to this place for interment on Friday last.

28 October 1875

Nehemiah Foster, a prominent citizen of Middlesex, died on Monday last.

Mrs. VanRensselaer, mother of Dr. David VanRensselaer had a very pleasant party at her home in Randolph, Cattaraugus county on the 22^nd inst., the occasion being her 100^th birthday. Her son David VanRensselaer was a former dry goods merchant in Penn Yan, of the firm of Wheeler & VanRensselaer. Their store was where Douglass & Beaumont are now established. Mrs. VanRensselaer is said to be still vigorous and healthful though on the shady side of her 100^th year.

Addison Lewis died in Barrington October 20^th in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

Died in Trumansburg October 21, 1875, of typhoid fever, Harry Ketchum, in the eighteenth year of his age. He formerly lived in Starkey.

Married

• On the 20 inst. Mr. Charles Hershey of Gorham and Miss Hattie Trumbull of Seneca.
• At the residence of Mrs. Mary F. Porter in Penn Yan, October 21^st, 1875, by Rev. T.E. Peters, Arthur Jessup to Irene M. Stanton.
• At the Baptist church in Penn Yan October 20^th by the Rev. T.E. Peters, Edward Jessup to Sarah J. Ladley….

4 November 1875

Died in the city of Toronto, Ontario on the 26^th inst., Mrs. Maggie Willis, wife of Edward A. Willis, aged twenty-five years. Her remains were brought to this village and deposited in Evergreen cemetery this afternoon….Margaret Willis was born in this village in December 1850, was the daughter of Luther S. and Elisie Hayes, whose family consisted of three daughters and two sons, all of whom now survive her but Helen. Maggie was married to Edward A. Willis on the 15^th of October 1872, and the following February moved to the city of Toronto…They had one little cherub born to them last August, but the little daughter only lived eight days….Dresden, Oct. 29, 1875…..M.

Married

• In Barrington on Thursday October 20, by the Rev. Mr. Je---, Mr. Edwin Hewitt and Miss Ida Baley.
• At the home of the bride in Barrington, October 28, 1875, by Rev. C.S. Hall, Mr. Smith Shoemaker of Dundee and Miss Phebe Stedwell.

Died

• At Plainville, N.J., on Thursday October 26, 1875, of typhoid fever, Miss Anna Denton, age of forty-five years. She was a daughter of Lewis Denton, a former resident of this village.

Bertie E. Brown, son of James L. and Sarah S. Brown, was born March 15, 1873 and died September 13, 1875 in Shearman’s Hollow, Jerusalem….

I learned yesterday that John C. White, formerly of Benton Center, died at the Ontario county-house on Saturday last. Mr. Fletcher residing on the A.L. smith farm near Croton lost his little son, Hiram Leroy, aged about six years, on the 28^th inst.

Mrs. Maggie Hayes Willis, formerly of Dresden, died in the city of Toronto, Canada, on the 20^th inst., and was brought here for burial. She was about twenty-five years of age.

The silver wedding of V.R. Swarthout and wife on the 22^nd inst. was a fine affair….

11 November 1875

Married

• At the residence of the bride’s parents in Fleming, Cayuga county, Oct. 31, 1875, by Rev. D.D. Davis, Mr. Judson Brown of Dresden to Miss Annie M. Barnes of Fleming.

Rev. Dr. C. Mann, a prominent clergyman of the Episcopal faith, died at Watkins on Wednesday morning, November 3. He was the founder of the Episcopal church at Watkins, and was for many years popular as its rector. Previously he and his brother Alexander Mann were the publishers and editors of the Rochester American, a paper afterward consolidated with the Rochester Democrat. Mr. Mann was the father of Rev. Cameron Mann, late of Branchport, now of Albany, who formerly served the three Episcopal churches of Branchport, Penn Yan and Dresden.

Died at Bear Lake, Mich., October 18, 1875, of typhoid fever, Mr. Lleonard M. Bohall, aged forty years. [He] was formerly a resident of Torrey in this county, and was sergeant of Company I, 148^th N.Y.V., under Captain Hicks. He was wounded at Petersburg, Va., in June 1864, and was honorably discharged from the service in April 1865, on account of his wound. He was a good soldier and a genial comrade.

Died in Hector, Schuyler county, on Sunday, October 31, 1875, Mrs. Catharine Carley, widow of Abraham Carley, at the age of eighty-eight years and two months. {She] was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, married at Johnstown, Montgomery county, at fifteen years of age and has survived her husband about eighteen years. She was the mother of twelve children, nine of whom lived to adult age, and seven survive her. Mrs. Jemima Frazer, a sister of Mrs. Carley, resides at Glenora, Yates county, at the age of eighty-four years, and the mother of these ladies also reached the respectable longevity of eighty four.

Died in Italy on Thursday, November 4, 1875, Mrs. Anna Robinson, wife of Abraham L. Robinson, at the age of nearly sixty-three years. Mrs. Robinson was the oldest daughter of William Hall, a pioneer of Potter, and she was a native of that town. …She sustained the relation of a wife forty-four years, and died leaving ten living children…Her husband is also a native of Potter, and one of the best citizens of Italy….

Benjamin Lafler died October 25, aged four score and four. He was born in Somerset county, N.J., June 28, 1794. He moved to Pennsylvania, then to Seneca county, this state, then to Canandaigua, where he was married to Lucena Lee; he moved next to the Gore near Rushville, then to Jerusalem, then to Italy. Six children were born to them—Fanny married James Fisher, Lucy married Matthias Brown and they lived near him, as did also a son Jeremiah Lafler. The remainder of the family died before him. His sister is yet living in the town. He was one of the first settlers of the town of Jerusalem and stood well the usages of that early day…His remains rest in the West Italy Cemetery by the Baptist church.—Naples Record

On Wednesday evening last Mr. and Mrs. Clark Sharp celebrated the fifth anniversary of their marriage by a wooden wedding, at which about forty neighbors and friends were present.

Died at Walla Walla, W.T., October 7, 1875, Mr. Mulford Martin, at the age of forty-nine years. He was formerly a resident of Starkey, and built the stone mill now owned by Mosher & Son.

The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. D. Shannon occurs about the 27^th inst.

18 November 1875

Mr. James Gordon Bennett, it is rumored, is engaged to be married to the daughter of Senor A. Yznaga del Valle, residing in Orange, N.J. The lady is both beautiful and highly accomplished.

Married

• At the residence of the bride’s parents in this village, on Wednesday, November 8, 1875, by the Rev. J.F. Farmer, Mr. Frank H. Hopkins of Chillicothe, Ohio, and Miss Nellie P. Powell.
• At the residence of the bride’s father in Dresden, on Tuesday, November 16, 1875, by the Rev. Dr. Rankin of Geneva, Mr. Edward W. Burrall and Miss Janett Graves.

Died

• In this village on the 16^th inst., Mrs. Ellen M. Weber, relict of the late Major Mahlon Weber of St. Louis, Mo. Funeral services at the Presbyterian church on Friday at 2 p.m.

Our Starkey correspondent made a slight mistake last week. Mr. Mulford Martin who died in Walla Walla Oct. 7, 1875, at the age of fifty-three years, did not built the stone mill now occupied by Mosher & Son in Starkey. It was Mulford Martin’s father, Clarkson Martin, who built that mill.

We are obliged to omit this week a number of articles, and among others a notice of the recent marriage at Bath, Maine, of Rev. John Gregson, Episcopal rector of Grace church in that city, and Miss Henrietta P. Neally, daughter of Hon. E.S.J. Neally, United States Collector at that port. Mr. Gregson is well remembered by many people of Penn Yan.

Mrs. Sarah G. Simonds, the well known keeper of the boarding house at Starkey Seminary, died Wednesday morning, November 17, 1875, aged about 50 years.

Caroline E. Halpin, wife of Christopher Halpin of Dresden, came to her death on Wednesday night, November 10, 1875, by the explosion of a kerosene lamp….She was forty-five years old and the mother of three sons and two daughters who are her survivors. They were all absent from home…

Died at the residence of his son James Ellsworth in Havana, Wednesday, the 10^th inst., Mr. Franklin Ellsworth, in the eighty second year of his age, Mr. Ellsworth resided within a few years at Branchport in this county….Mr. Ellsworth leaves a devoted son and family, and warm friends. He was a brother of the late Hon. Samuel S. Ellsworth, the late Hon. John Ellsworth and Mrs. Eben Smith of this village.—Democrat.

Married at the residence of the bride’s father in Starkey, November 10, 1875, by Rev. Moses Livermore, Mr. Jabez Hanmer of Pine Grove, N.Y. and Miss Carrie L. Raplee only daughter of Rochester Raplee….

Married at Himrods November 11^th, by Rev. Moses Livermore, Mr. Edward A. Sayre of Starkey and Miss Mary Longcor only daughter of Levi Longcor at Himrods…

On the 12^th, the remains of John Wood, a son of George Wood (deceased) who has been living at Saginaw, Mich., in the employment of David Allington, formerly of this village [Dresden] for the last several years, was brought to Hopeton, the home of his mother, and was interred in the Hopeton cemetery on the 13^th. He died of fever, and was about 25 years old.

Mr. Edward W. Burrall and Miss Nettie Graves are to be married this p.m. at the home of the bride’s father, Chauncey Graves in this village [Dresden] and start for Philadelphia on their wedding tour…

25 November 1875

Four vice-presidents have died in office. These were George Clinton, who died in 1812; Elbridge Gerry, who died in 1814; William R. King, who died in 1853; and Henry Wilson [who died Nov. 22, 1875]. Daniel D. Tompkins, whose term as Vice-President expired in 1825, died the same year.

Died at the late residence of John Dorman in Jerusalem on Saturday, November 20^th, 1875, Mrs. Experience Dorman, widow of Aaron Gilbert Dorman, aged nearly ninety-eight years. [She] was one of the nine children of Isaiah Youngs, who settled in 1802, on lot number 21 of the Potter Location near Seneca lake. Experience and her sister Temperance were twins. When her father moved from New Jersey and made his home in the Friend’s Settlement in 1802, she was twenty-five years old. …She married Aaron G. Dorman and they settled first on the north half of the first acre presented by David Wagener to Dr. John Dorman, his father, the first physician in Penn Yan. Penn Yan was then in the woods. He followed the occupation of a distiller here till 1814, then moved to Sparta (now Livingston county), where he followed farming and distilling several years. He then moved to Dresden and there established a distillery and run it two years, when he removed to the farm in Jerusalem where he died, and where his wife survived him about fifty years. They had nine children, Temperance, John, Stephen, Sally, Isaiah, Joel, Peter and Sybil. Temperance married Robert Brown who died in Jerusalem leaving three children. John married Aurilla Briggs of Jerusalem and settled on the homestead where he died April 2, 1874, at the age of sixty-eight years. They had eight children. Stephen married Adaline, daughter of John Lawrence Jr., and settled in Bradford where he still lives. They have three children. Joel, who with his brother Stephen are the only survivors of the family, married Sylvia Cairns of Jerusalem and now resides at Painted Post. They have a son Joel. Isaiah married and died in Michigan and the remaining children died single. All the departed except Isaiah were buried with their father in the Penn Yan Cemetery, where the aged mother was deposited on Sunday last, by the side of her husband….Mrs. Dorman, old as she was, has still a surviving brother, Mr. Benjamin Youngs, the last of the family and he resides on the homestead of his father. The late George Youngs of Milo, long a noted citizen, who died in 1862 at the age of seventy-three was her brother. Mrs. Dorman’s father Isaiah Youngs died in 1829, aged eighty, and his wife Mary Haggerty died in 1833, aged eighty-three….

Died at her residence in Starkey November 16, 1875, …Mrs. Sarah G. Simonds, relict of the late J. Simonds at about fifty-five years of age. Mrs. S. with her husband and daughter came to Starkey about seven years ago….

Married in Starkey November 18, 1875 by Rev. A. Damon, Mr. Gilbert R. Hammond and Miss Dolly Simonds, only daughter of the late Jeremiah Simonds.

Married

• At the residence of the bride’s parents in Milo, on Wednesday evening November 24, 1875, by the Rev. Alfred Hutton, Mr.Fayette P. Hutton and Miss Georgia Thayer.
• At the residence of the bride’s father in this village, on Wednesday evening November 24, 1875, by the Rev. J.P. Farmer, Mr. Clark W. Enos and Miss Emma K. Masten.
• At the residence of the bride’s parents in Benton on Wednesday evening, November 24, 1875, by the Rev. T.R. Peters, Mr. Frank Sutherland and Miss Ella Gristock.
• At the bride’s mother’s in this village, on Wednesday evening, November 24, 1875, by the Rev. J.P. Farmer, Mr. Charles Kerney and Miss Jennie Mathews.
• At the residence of the bride’s parents in Lodi, Seneca county, on Wednesday evening, November 17, 1875, Mr. Morg. L. Slaght of Eddytown and Miss Dora L. Covert.
• At the bride’s residence in Jerusalem, November 10, 1875, by Rev. B.L. Phillips, Mr. Ezra B. Hopkins and Miss Almeda A. Sutton.

2 December 1875

Mr. and Mrs. Reading B. Lefferts celebrate their silver wedding this evening.

Jonathan Bailey, an old citizen of Milo, died on Thursday last, Nov. 25, 1875, at the age of seventy-two years. He resided for fifty-five years on the Bath road. His farm, on which he was the first settler, was on lots 46 and 35. He sold it a few years ago to Job L. Babcock. During the last two or three years he has resided near the Starkey railway station….

Mrs. Betsy Wyman, widow of Samuel Wyman and mother of George G. Wyman and William W. Wyman of Potter, died on Monday the 22^nd of November in the ninetieth year of her age. She had survived her husband a period of twenty-seven years, and had resided with her son George G. Wyman. She came to Augusta, now Potter, with her adopted father, George Green, in 1792.

Branchport—Mr. Loren R. Swiff has lost his little babe of but two weeks old. Funeral to-day, Tuesday.

Branchport—We regret that the infant twin of Mr. Eberly E. Smith on West Hill is not better. He lost one about two weeks since, aged five months, and apparently the other is likely to soon follow the first to rest.

Married at Senora, N.Y., Nov. 17, 1875, by Rev. J.T. Canfield, Mr. George Conley of Starkey and Miss Etta E. VanCuren of Sonora.

Mr. Stephen Hallock of Starkey and Miss Frances Kendrick of Monterey, Schuyler county, were recently married.

Married

• At the M.E. Church in this village on Thursday, November 25, 1875, by the Rev. J.P. Farmer, Mr. Orville S. Wood and Miss Dora Wynans, all of this village.
• In Barrington November 24, 1875, by Rev. James Parker, Mr. John A. Morse and Miss Mary E. Peacock.
• At the residence of the bride’s parents in Starkey on Wednesday, November 10, 1875, by the Rev. U.S. Hall, Mr. Eugene Paddock of Bradford and Miss Hattie Tetor.
• At the 2^nd Milo Baptist parsonage, November 20 by Rev. C.M. Bruce, Mr. George R. Shultz and Miss Josephine Davenport.

9 December 1875

Married

• At the M.E. Church in Dundee on Wednesday, December 1, 1875, by the Rev. U.S. Hall, Mr. Sidney Shultz and Miss Emma Wheeler, all of Starkey.
• At the 2^nd Milo Baptist parsonage October 2, 1875, by Rev. C.M. Bruce, Mr. Oliver Brown and Miss Louise Smith, both of Milo.
• At the Benton Center M.E. Parsonage November 25, 1875, by Rev. A.F. Countryman, Mr. Albert L. Greenfield and Miss Emma Sophia Soul, all of Benton.
• At the residence of Griffin B. Hazard, Esq. in Torrey Dec. 1^st, 1875, by Rev. P.E. Brown, Mr. A.C. Townsend to Miss C.A. Hazard, both of Torrey.
• At the residence of Ephraim Hanford in Milo by Rev. T.T. Peters on Wed. evening December 8^th, 1875, Mr. W.B. Brundage and Miss Alice Noble.

Luke Hickey of Bellona, who sustained serious injury by a fall from an apple tree some five weeks ago, died of such injury on Friday last…--Geneva Gazette

Charles G. Tuthill a former prominent citizen of Starkey, died at Ithaca on Monday, Dec. 6^th, of paralysis. Mr. Tuthill was sixty-eight years old. He was a brother of the late Benjamin Tuthill and uncle of Capt. Henry and E.D. Tuthill…It is many years sine he resided in Starkey having lived some years at Burdette and subsequently at Ithaca.

Died at his home in this village on Saturday morning, December 4, 1875, Alonzo Stone, at the age of sixty-five years. Mr. Stone had resided in this village about twenty-two years, serving most of the time as a clerk, some ten years with Myron Hamlin & Sons, and about the same time with John M. Latimer….In 1862 he married Miss Caroline Judd daughter of Dr. Uri Judd, who survives him….

Henry Voorhees, youngest son of Jacob Voorhees, died at the residence of his parents in Potter on Saturday morning, Nov. 27^th, 1875, after an illness of several months, aged 24 years.—Naples Record

Died in this village on Tuesday evening, Dec. 7, 1875, John Norcott, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. [He] has been a citizen of Penn Yan for more than half a century…

Married at the residence of Harrison Shannon by Rev. T.S. Hill, Jeremiah Raplee of Milo and Olivia Lewis of Starkey.

16 December 1875

Died in Penn Yan December 16, 1875, at twenty minutes to 7 o’clock, Miss Lottie Wyckoff…In her twenty-second year her young life ceased….

The Dundee Record of last week contains the announcement of the decease of James L. Seeley…[He] died at Canisteo November 30, 1875, and lacked but one month of seventy-five years of age. He was born on the first day of January 1801 at Cochocton, Sullivan county. His mother died in his infancy, and a maiden aunt Miss Temperance Bailey took the care of him till he was fourteen years old. …In 1828 he came to Starkey…In 1835 he married Miss Maria Little, who died in 1867….Mr. Seeley left four children, three sons and a daughter, none of whom reside in Dundee.

Died at her married life residence in Potter, Mrs. Betsy R. Wyman relict of the late Samuel Wyman who died in 1846. [Her] maiden name was Waterman, one of the original families of Rhode Island, as were also the Greens. She was a niece of Mrs. George Green of Potter who came to that town in 1804 and settled where now resides George G. Wyman. She, then a young lady accompanied them as theirs by adoption, for they never had children. She was born in Norwich, Rhode Island the 26^th of May 1786, was married at the house of her adopted parents in 1806 being then near 20 years old, where they immediately took up their residence on the farm…on which she died on the 23^rd of November 1875…She was the mother of nine children, her two oldest being twins and now residents of Potter—four others survive her. Their names are George G., residing on the George Green homestead. Mrs. Sally Basom, widow residing in Potter. William W., residing on the paternal homestead. Eliphalet H., residing at Barry, Orleans county. Hannah, wife of David A. Thomas of Potter and Samuel B., settled at Lincoln, California. Betsy, wife of William S. Coats of Jerusalem, is dead. Susan L., wife of Walter Simmons of Lockport, and John R., are also dead….R.H.W.

Milan Kidder, son of S.S. Kidder of Benton died at his home at Saline, Mich., Dec. 2, 1875, of cancer, at the age of fifty-six years.

The Naples Record contains the following obituary notices,

• Mrs. A.A. Griswold died on East Italy Hill, December 6^th, aged thirty-eight years.
• Patrick Hagan died at his residence near Rushville, December 6^th, of heart disease, aged fifty-eight years. He was a native of Ireland and had lived twenty-five years in and around Rushville…His funeral was held at the Catholic church in Canandaigua.

Married

• At the residence of the bride’s parents in Tyrone, November 1875 by the Rev. E.B. Welles, Mr. Erasmus Wright, Jr., and Miss Clara T. Willis.

Died

• At the residence of her brothers, Messrs. W. and O.G. Shearman in this village, December 6, 1875, Miss Rebecca W. Shearman, daughter of the late George Shearman, Sr., aged fifty-five years.

23 December 1875

Phillip Dinturff, brother of ex-Sheriff Dinturff, died this week aged sixty-five years.

Mr. Isaac Lane, whose illness we mentioned in our last, died on Friday morning, the 17^th inst., aged eighty-one years. His funeral was attended on Sunday, and notwithstanding the intense cold a large concourse was gathered on the occasion. Among them was an aged brother of the deceased, who seemed also near the end of his journey. Mrs. Lane is very feeble…He leaves two sons—Leander, who resides on the old homestead of the family, and Milton who resides on his father’s farm, where he died….He was the oldest white native citizen of Potter, being born at the old home farm a little west of the Potter farm in January, 1795. The family was formerly from New Jersey…

John McIntyre of the town of Wayne, a brother of Mr. Albert McIntyre of Milo, died very suddenly on Sunday last of apoplexy. He was fifty years of age.

Died in Pulteney on Sunday morning Dec. 12, 1875, Otho Roff, aged 25 years. The deceased was a former student of Penn Yan Academy, and a very worthy young man.

Died at Italy Hill Monday Dec. 6^th, 1875, after a protracted illness, Ann Amelia, wife of G.W. Griswold, aged 38 years. [She] was born June 10^th, 1836, in the town of Bristol, Ontario county. Her mother died Sept. 9^th of the same year. She was cared for by her relatives who lived in Naples until March 17, 1857, when she married G.W. Griswold of Italy Hill, Yates county. By him she had two children, Geo. L., who is 17 years old, and Nettie, who died May 28^th, 1873, aged 1 year and 11 months.—Naples Record

Starkey—An infant daughter of John Ward of Rock Stream died of inflammation of the brain on December 9, aged about six months.

Died in Starkey December 16, 1875, of a complication of diseases, Mr. Thomas Brown, at about sixty-five years of age. Mr. Brown was a native of Ireland, but came to this country at an early age and for nearly forty years has been a resident of Starkey….

Married in Rock Stream December 15, 1875, by Rev. H. Damon, Mr. E.R. Kenyon of Buffalo and Miss Stella M. Hathaway.

Married at the bride’s residence in Starkey, December 15, 1875, by Rev. M. Livermore, Mr. Charles German of Millport and Miss Almira Potter.

Married

• At the M.E. parsonage in Dundee December 17, 1875, by Rev. U.S. Hall, Mr. Lewis W. Davenport of Starkey and Miss Alvira B. Mandeville of Elmira.
• At the M.E. parsonage in Gorham, December 16, by Rev. N.A. DePew, Mr. Dales Pearson and Mrs. Hannah B. Martin, both of Seneca.
• At the home of the bride in Benton December 21 by Rev. C.M. Bruce, Mr. George W. Haight of Jerusalem and Miss Addie M. Stamp.

Died

• In this village on the 18^th inst., Mrs. Thankful McAlpine, wife of Andrew McAlpine—aged seventy two years.

30 December 1875

Married at the home of the bride at Kinney’s Corners on Christmas night by Rev. H. Kirke White of Branchport, Mr. James Roselle and Miss Jennie J. Chissom, only daughter of Dr. A.B. Chissom…

Died at her home on Bluff Point October 15^th, 1875, aged sixty-nine years, Jemima, wife of James Barr. Mrs. Barr the daughter of Benjamin and Catherine Barry was born in Montgomery county June 17^th, 1806, being one of fourteen children. Her father moved to Fayette, Seneca county about the year 1814 or –15 where he followed the occupation of shoemaker, living in a log house which stood on the Swan farm at Geneva. Jemima was married to Thomas R. Rogers, brother to James S. Rogers of Rose Hill in 1825, and lived in Fayette till 1830, when they moved to Bluff Point, where her husband died in 1841, leaving six living children. Kate is unmarried. Abigail married Daniel Norrel, who lives in Malvern, Iowa. John Rogers lived in St. Cloud, Minn. Dawson Rogers is living on Bluff Point. Mary Jane married Ezra M. Stead of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Thomas S. Rogers is living near Penn Yan, and William D. and Benjamin F. Rogers died in infancy. In 1843 she was married to James Barr of Bluff Point and has lived there most of the time since his death—February 5, 1874. He left two children—Lucius W. Barr, living on Bluff Point, and Sarah Ann, an invalid, who for twenty-four years required the mother’s constant care….

Miss Issie Lang dropped dead upon the street in Watkins last Tuesday evening. She was the daughter of John Lang, Esq., Treasurer of the Fall Brook Coal Company. ….Elmira Advertiser

Died at the residence of her niece in Starkey on the 26^th inst., Mrs. Clara Hackett in the 87^th year of her age.

Married at the residence of the bride’s parents in Starkey on the 25^th inst., by Rev. H. Damon, Mr. Floyd Ludlow of this village and Miss Olivia, daughter of Seeley Bailey, Esq.

Married

• At the home of the bride in Eddytown December 25, 1875, by Rev. Auston Damon, Mr. Floyd A. Ludlow of Dundee and Miss Olivia D. Bailey.
• At Kinney’s Corners, December 25, by Rev. H.K. White, Mr. James Roselle and Miss Jennie J. Chissom.
• At the bride’s home in Potter, December 25, by Rev. A.F. Countryman, Mr. Andrew N. Bain of Benton and Miss Lovina Andrew.

Died

• In Starkey December 26, 1875, Mrs. Clara Hackett in the eighty-seventh year of her age.