Vital Records

From the

1875 NYS Census

Town of Sodus

Wayne County, NY

Info kindly provided by the Wayne County Office of the County Historian and digitally formatted by co-coordinator Allyn Hess Perry.

Miscellaneous Statistics:

First Election District: Sodus: during year ending June 1, 1875
P.W. TINKLEPAUGH, Enumerator

First Baptist Church: R. Baptist; value of church & lot $4000, seats 300; usual number in attendance 50; number of communicants or regular members 25

South Sodus M.E. Society: Meth. E.; value of church & lot $8000; seats 350; value of other real estate $1000; usual number in attendance 250; number of communicants or regular members 100; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $800

First M.E. Church of Sodus Point: Meth. E.; value of church & lot $4000; value of other real estate $600; seats 400; usual number in attendance 100; number of communicants or regular members 46; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $300

Christian Church: Christians; value of church & lot $1200; seats 200; usual number in attendance 75; number of communicants or regular members 4

Free Methodist Church: Free Methodist; value of church & lot $1200; seats 200; usual number in attendance 125; number of communicants or regular members 50; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $400

Christ Church: Episcopal; value of church & lot $4000; seats 200; usual number in attendance 100; number of communicants or regular members 27; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $500

St. Luke Church: Episcopal; value of church & lot $800; seats 150; usual number in attendance 100; number of communicants or regular members 15

Inns, hotels and taverns - 6; whole sale stores - none; retail stores and groceries - 12

Remarks on the harvest of 1874: The wheat and apple crop was injured about 1/2 on account of a severe hail storm in June 1874. Cabages injured by worms that made not more than half crop. Other crops a fair average.

Domestic animals in cities and villages: 37 horses; 43 cows

Wages, estimated average pay of hired laborers and mechanics, exclusive of board: men working at common hand labor in building etc. $1.25 by the day, $7 by the week, $20 by the month; farm hands hired by the season or year $18 by the month; farm hands hired in haying and harvest $2 by the day; women hired for common household work $2 by the week; carpenters and joiners $2.50 by the day; masons $3.00 by the day; shoemakers $10 by the week; moulders $2.50 by the day; blacksmiths $2 by the day; printers and glaziers $2.50 by the day; dressmakers 75 cents by the day; sewing and other women's hand labor 50 cents by the day; retail store clerk $15 by the month; sailors $26 by the month

General Remarks: The village of Sodus Point has 356 inhabitants, Sodus Center 217, South Sodus 211; Alton 211

Second Election District: Town of Sodus
C.R. BORRADAILE, Enumerator

Centenary Church: Ep. Methodist; value of church & lot $4500; seats 200; usual number in attendance 100; number of communicants or regular members 60; Rev. F.M. WARNER

Third Society: M.E. Church; value of church & lot $4000; value of other real estate $1500; seats 400; usual number in attendance 200; number of communicants of regular members 300; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $1000; REV. F.M. WARNER

Saint Johns Church: Episcopalean; value of church & lot $4000; value of other real estate $2500; seats 300; usual number in attendance 100; number of communicants of regular members 35; REV. E.P. BURKE

First Presbyterian Church; value of church & lot $4500; value of other real estate $2100; seats 400; usual number in attendance 200; number of communicants or regular membefs 90; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $800; REV. R.H. CATLER

Newspapers and Other Periodicals: Wayne Co. Alliance, Galen Ouderkirk, Editor and Proprietor

Inns, hotels and taverns - 1; retail stores and groceries - 12

Remarks on the harvest of 1874: Wheat more than average crop. All other kinds of grain full average for 1875. TGhe wheat crop will be less than half crop, froze out in spring. Oats, barley and meadows looks midling to fair. Apple crop looks promising.

Domestic animals in cities and villages, the number of domestic animals kept by those who occupy no farming lands are 38 horses; 30 cows.

Remarks on the mortality of the year ending June 1, 1875: No epidemics, causes all natural.

Wages, estimated average pay of hired laborers and mechanics, exclusivce of board: men working at common hand labor in building $1.50 by the day, $8 by the week, $25 by the month; farm hands hired by the season or year $1.00 by the day, $18 by the month; women hired for common household work $2.50 by the week; carpenters and joiners $2.50 by the day; mason, stone and bricklayer $3 by the day; shoemakers $9 by the week; moulders $3 by the day; blacksmiths $2 by the day; painters & glaziers $2.50 by the day; printers $1.25 by the day; dressmakers $1 by the day, $4 by week; sewing and other woman's hand labor $1 by the day, $4 by the week.

General Remarks: In taking the population of Sodus village, I estimated houses and lots and stores and shops under the kind of what material built instead of putting them down fraimed I have used the term wood as there are no log houses in dist. no. 2.

Third Election District: Sodus
Enoch GRANGER, Enumerator

Presbyterian: value of church & lot $3000; seats 400; usual number in attendance 100; number of communicants or regular members 12; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $500

M.E.; value of church & lot $1500; seats 250; usual number in attendance 50; number of communicants or regular members 50

Retail stores and groceries: 2

Wages, estimated average pay of hired laborers and mechanics, exclusive of board: men working at common hand labor in building $1.50 by the day; farm hands hired by the season or year $1 by the day; farm hands hired in haying and harvest $2 by the day; women hired for common household work $2 by the week; carpenters and joiners $2.50 by the day; mason, stone and bricklayers $2.50 by the day; blacksmiths $1.50 by the day

MARRIAGES:

First Election District: Sodus: during year ending June 1, 1875
P.W. TINKLEPAUGH, Enumerator

John J. EVERINGHAM, 23, single and Lucy A. THORNTON, 22, single
Sept. 30 in Sodus, Wayne Co. by a Bap. clergyman

Wesley A. THORN, 21, single and Ella A. CHAMPLAIN, 20, single
Sept. 23 in Sodus, Wayne Co. by a Meth. E. clergyman

James FRANKLIN, 26, single and Addie TAYLOR, 16, single
Dec. 18 in Sodus, Wayne Co. by a J.P.

Andrew MILLER, 23, widowed and Carrie CRAMER, 20, single
July 20 in Williamson, Wayne Co. by a Meth. E. clergyman

Jerome HUNN, 22, single and Abbie E. MESSENGER, 19, single
Mar. 15 in Sodus, Wayne Co. by a Meth. E., clergyman

Jay BARDEN, 22, single and Celia LOYD, 23, single
Nov. 5 in Sodus Point, Wayne Co. by a Baptist clergyman

Henry LEPPER, 21, single and Theressa INGMAN, 18, single
Oct. 10 in Sodus, Wayne Co. by a Meth. E. clergyman

A.C. SHAW, 24, single and Mary BRITTON, 21, single
Dec. 15 in Sodus, Wayne Co., by a Meth. E. clergyman

Charles M. GILBERT, 22, single and Elizabeth A. BILLINGS, 22, single
Feb. 28 in Sodus Point, Wayne Co. by a 2nd Advent clergyman

Frank HULE(?), 23, single and Hattie NOBLES, 21, single
Jan. 14 in Sodus, Wayne Co. by a 2nd Advent clergyman

Martin GIBBS, 21, single and Elizabeth VanAUKEN, 21, single
Nov. 22 in Sodus Point, Wayne Co. by a Meth. E. clergyman

Second election district: Town of Sodus: during year ending June 1, 1875
Chas. R. BORRADAILE, Enumerator

John COLLINS, age 25, single and Mary COLLINS, age 24, single
March 1874 in Sodus by a clergyman

Rowland SMITH, 25, single and Mary VOSBURGH, 20, single
Dec. 1 in Sodus by clergyman F.M. WARNER

Francis DUFLOO, 21, single and Beter CLIQUENNOI, 25, single
Mar. 25 in Sodus by clergyman VENHISEN

Byron J. CASE, 18, single and Betsy J. HALL, 21, single
June 14 in Sodus by F.M. WARNER, clergyman

Eva L. PULVER, 21, single and Noadiah hill, 23, single
Jan. 23 in Sodus by clergyman Rev. BOND

John PORTER, 21, single and Nella CARTMAN, 16, single
Nov. 8 in Williamson by clergyman Rev. BOND

Anson PULVER, 49, widowed and Saray BELL, 35, widow
Oct. 26 in South Sodus by clergyman Rev. PHILLIPS

Martin TESTER, 32, single and Frances O. BELL, 39, widow
Jan. 14 in Sodus by clergyman F.M. WARNER

Harry WARD, 26, single and Margariet SULIVAN, 23, single
Dec. 24 in Michigan by a Justice of the Peace

Elizabeth WILSON, 26, widowed and Francis WILSON, 23, single
Mar. 20 in Rochester by a M. clergyman

Isaac REDMAN, 74, widowed and Jane BUELL, 34, widow
Sept. 7 in Newark, Wayne Co. by a M. clergyman

Merele C. CLEAVLAND, 24, single and Nelly SMITH, 18, single
May 18 in Sodus, Wayne Co. by a M. clergyman

Third Election District: Town of Sodus: during year ending June 1, 1874
Enoch GRANGER, Enumerator

Edgar STEAVENS, 27, single and Elizabeth STEAVENS, 29, single
April 29 in Arcadia by a clergyman

John C. JOHNSON, 22, single and Sarah MULLIE, 19, single
Dec. 17 in Sodus by a clergyman

John SNITZEL, 32, single and Hatie HOOT, 31, single
Oct. 15 in Palmyra by a clergyman

Aron B. DINGMAN, 30, widowed and Sabrah DINGMAN, 24, single
Feb. 2 in Sodus by a minister

John WOOD, 26, single and Mary PIERSON, 25, single
Mar. 16 in Scarbrough by a ME clergyman

Charles FRANK, 24, single and Anna PEAK, 28, single
May 16 in Phelps by a ME clergyman

DEATHS:

First Election District: Sodus: during year ending June 1, 1875
P.W. TINKLEPAUGH, Enumerator

Anna M. JOHNSON, 5, female, single, Dec. 11, b. Albany Co., consumption

Margaret TINNEY, 85, female, widow, May 5, b. Wayne, old age

William DELANO, 88, male, widowed, April 25, b. Maine, blacksmith, dropsy

Hellen Wallace CASE, 8, female, single, May 19, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

William WICKHAM, 96, male, widowed, May 27, b. N.Y., retired sailor, old age

John F. PEELER, 66, male, married, April 13, b. N.Y., farmer, typhoid pneumonia

Aaron LOYD, 21, male, single, July 3, b. N.Y., laborer on S.P. & S.R.R., accident on S.P. & S.R.R.

James LOYD, 4, male, single, Feb. 27, b. N.Y., hooping cough

Albert LOYD, 2, male, single, Aug. 27, b. N.Y., dropsy on the brain

Rosa MAY, 5, female, single, March 4, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Sarah ANDREWS, 73, female, married, Jan. 27, b. N.J., dropsy

Charles VANNETTEN, 1y 2m, male, single, May 5, b. N.Y., consumption

Sarah Jane HENRY, 8, female, single, Feb. 13, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Samuel RICE, 47, male, married, Dec. 1, b. N.Y., farmer, unknown

Grant MILLER, 10, male, single, March 1, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

George Frederick SUCHER, 2m, male, single, May 2, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Elizabeth HOXIE, 34, female, married, Jan. 8, b. N.Y., consumption

Polly KNAPP, 84, female, widow, May 7, b. N.Y., heart disease

Robert SHEPARDSON, 6m, male, single, June 8, b. N.Y., brain fever

Julia E. CRANE, 54, female, single, July 9, b. N.Y., heart disease

William SMITH, 70, male, widowed, April 24, b. Mass., paralysis

Adam ESPENSCHIED, 54, male, married, Feb. 24, b. Germany, farmer, suicide by hanging

Richard MESSENGER, 8, male, single, March 6, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Emma J. MESSENGER, 10, female, single, March 14, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Clay LESTER, 3y 2m, male, single, May 7, b. N.Y., congestion lungs

Polly SMEDLEY, 84, female, married, March 14, b. N.Y., old age

Jennie ROSE, 2, female, single, March 12, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Mathew GAFFIELD, 3, male, single, March 9, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Catharine REYNOLDS, 54, female, widow, Feb. 18, b. N.Y., paralysis

John VanETTEN, 55, male, married, Jan. 7, b. N.Y., farmer, consumption

Anna STEPHENS, 5, female, single, Dec. 11, b. N.Y., consumption

Ralph S. PARMER, 66, male, married, Nov. 22, b. N.Y., farmer, gravel

Horace CLEAVELAND, 76, male, married, Oct. 25, b. N.Y., fisherman, gravel

Catharine OSTRAM, 75, female, widow, Oct. 13, b. Mass., consumption

Holly LESTER, 5m, male, single, Sept. 22, b. N.Y., hooping cough

John FIELD, 48, male, married, Sept. 13, b. N.Y., sailor, injuries received on board vessel

Phebe BLANCHARD, 78, female, single, Aug. 15, b. N.Y., old age

Charles COMPSON, 1m, male, single, Aug. 9, b. N.Y., congestion

Roger CASE, 63, male, widowed, July 19, b. N.Y., farmer, cancer

Second Election District: Town of Sodus: during year ending June 1, 1875
Chas. R. HORRADAILE, Enumerator

Robert HOCRAFT, 84, widowed, male, April 2, b. England, farmer, apoplexy

John COLLINS, 25, male, married, March 12, b. Canada, printer, consumption

Mary SMITH, 20, female, May 12, b. Wayne Co., spinal fever

Alley Bird MUMFORD, 1y 2m, female, Oct. 6, b. Wayne Co., inflamation and disintary

Elizabeth YEOMANS, 27, female, married, April 1, b. Wayne Co., farmer, consumption

Samuel TURNER, 77, male, married, May 12, b. Wayne Co., gravel

Lewis KELLY, 59, male, married, Dec. 25, b. Renselear Co., farmer, pleurisy

Permelia NORRIS, 89, female, widow, June 3, b. Long Island, farmer, peralasis of stomach

Amanda M. KELLY, 36, female, married, Feb. 3, b. Wayne Co., farmer, inflamation and congestion of bowels

Mary LEYFURGIE, 6m, female, May 8, b. Wayne Co., iracipilas

James VANSLYKE, 56, male, married, March 30, b. Columbia Co., farmer, peralasis

Charaty McCARTHY, 82, female, widow, April 22, b. Penn., farmer, paralasis

George W. RICHARDSON, 23, male, married, May 18, b. Wayne Co., jeweler(?), typhoid fever

Sarah DUBOIS, 43, female, widow, May 20, b. Holland, laborer, consumption

Miles L. LANDON, 74, male, married, March 4, b. Oneida Co., farmer, peralisis of stomach and liver

Barbara M. HORNER, 40, female, married, Feb. 23, b. Mass., farmer, debility no desease whatever

S.M. OMAN, 4m, female, March 12, b. Wayne Co., quick consumption

Third Election District: Town of Sodus: during year ending June 1, 1875
Enoch GRANGER, Enumerator

Wm. SPEARS, 55, male, married, April 10, b. N.Y., farmer, dyptheria and typhoid fever

Nellie BOSTWICK, 58, female, single, March 17, b. N.Y., housekeeper, heart disease

Mary E. STEVENSON, 19, female, single, Jan. 14, b. Wayne Co., housekeeper, consumption

Edward SAMMERS, 84, male, married, Jan. 24, b. Wayne Co., farmer, old age

Jacob HIMES, 45, male, married, Sept. 24, b. Wayne, farmer, suicide by hanging by the neck

George RAWDON, 2, male, Jan. 15, b. Wayne Co., inflamation of the lungs

Mata E. BOYST, 4, female, March 4, b. Wayne Co., scarlet ear

Lizzie McNAMARA, 11, female, Jan. 24, b. N.Y., inflamation

Elizabeth DINGMAN, 34, female, married, May 25, b. Wayne Co., fever

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