Vital Records

From the

1875 NYS Census

Town of Macedon

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:

Town of Macedon: for the year ending June 1,1875
B.D. BEAL, Enumerator

Macedon Universalist Society: Universalist; value of church & lot $9000; seats 250; usual number in attendance 100; number of communicants or regular members 56; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $1000

Macedon Baptist: Baptist; value of church & lot $6000; value of other real estate $1000; seats 300; usual number in attendance 150; number of communicants or regular members 45; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $900

Roman Catholic: Catholic; value of church & lot $4000; value of other real estate $500; seats 500; usual number in attendance 300; number of communicants or regular members 500; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $500

Inns, hotels and taverns - 1; retail stores and groceries - 18

Remarks on the harvest of 1874; Wheat, corn, oats and barley a fair average; potatoes 1/4 more than usual; apples 1/4 more than the usual crop

Domestic animals in cities and villages. The number of domestic animals kept by those who occupy no farming lands, are 100 horses, 2 mules, 50 cows

Wages: estimated average pay of hired laborers and mechanics, exclusive of board: farm hands hired by the season or year $1.25 by the day; farm hands hired in haying and harvest, 75 cents by the day, $20 by the month; women hired for common household work $2.50 by the day; carpenters and joiners, $2.50 by the day: masons, stone and bricklayers $3 by the day; machinists, $3 by the day; moulders, $2.50 by the day; blacksmiths, $45 by the month; painters and glaziers, $3 by the day; printers, $1 by the day: dressmakers, 75 cents by the day; teamsters $4 by the day

MARRIAGES:

Town of Macedon: during year ending June 1, 1875
B.D. BEAL, Enumerator

John TICE, age 28, single and Jane HARE, age 32, single
June 23 in Palmyra, Wayne Co. by an Epis. clergyman

Thomas NEEDHAM, age 30, single and Joanna McCARTY, age 22, single
Nov. 25 in Palmyra, Wayne Co. by a R.C. clergyman

Mitchel N. WILSON, age 30, single and Sarah SMITH, age 27, single
June 10 in Macedon, Wayne Co. by a M.E. clergyman

Charles S. LACY, age 24, single and Ella ACKER, age 20, single
June 21 in Macedon, Wayne Co. by a M.E. clergyman

Peter GURNEY, age 25, single and Susan MUMBY, age 25, single
Nov. 1 in Ontario Co. by a Baptist clergyman

James ENLEY, age 27, single and Jennie MAXWELL, age 20, single
June 2 in Macedon, Wayne Co. by a R.C. clergyman

Frank REEVES, age 26 and Susan KENNET, age 22, single
Sept. 10 in Macedon Center, Wayne Co. by a J.P.

Eugene REEVES, age 26, single and Mary J. KENNET, age 18, single
Oct. 10 in Macedon Center, Wayne Co. by a M.E. clergyman

F.A. FARNUM, age 23, single and E. REED, age 20, single
Jan. 5 in Macedon Center, Wayne Co. by a M.E. clergyman

Elwood CHASE, age 26, single and Emma E. HAMM, age 24, single
Sept. 30 in Macedon Center, Wayne Co. by a M.E. clergyman

T.S. HURLBURT, age 35, widowed and Ann E. RICHMOND, age 34, single
June 1 in Macedon Center, Wayne Co. by a M.E. clergyman

DEATHS:

Town of Macedon: during year ending June 1, 1875
B.D. BEAL, Enumerator

Thomas COFFEE, age 22, male, single, Oct. 26, b. N.Y., farmer, consumption

Ella J. HOAG, age 85, female, widow, Nov. 23, b. N.Y., dropsy

John T. QUINN, age 1y 3m, male, June 1, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Ann Marie REED, age 50, female, married, March 2, b. N.Y., consumption

Mary E. HERENDEEN, age 36, female, married, Apr. 11, b. N.Y., cerebro spinal meningitis

Samuel T. THURSTON, age 86, male, widowed, June 4, b. N.Y., farmer, old age

Edward MITCHELL, age 70, male, widowed, July 26, b. England, bookkeeper, old age

Mary MITCHELL, age 4m, female, Apr. 1, b. N.Y.

Eliza S. JONES, age 69, female, married, Jan. 3, b. Conn., rheumatism

Edward GRANT, age 3m, male, Sept. 10, b. N.Y.

Cornelia HARDWOOD, age 35, female, married, Sept. 15, b. N.Y., heart disease

Barney CONIFF, age 60, male, married, June 15, b. Ireland, farmer, old age

Louise LONGSTATT, age 28, female, single, Apr. 10, b. N.Y., housekeeper, cerebro spinal meningitis

William ROGERS, age 56, male, married, May 18, b. England, grocer, typhoid pneumonia

John QUINN, age 6, male, June 5, b. N.Y., measles

Annie LAMPSON, age 41, female, married, June 7, b. N.Y., typhoid pneum.

Mary H. DOUBLEDAY, age 48, female, married, Apr. 21, b. N.Y., typhoid pneumonia

Ala L. FULLER, age 13, female, Nov. 22, b. N.Y., scarlet fever

Robert L. WALSWORTH, age 8, male, July 4, b. N.Y., throat disease

John BAUDER, age 2m, male, June 22, b. N.Y.

James DOWNS, age 53, male, married, Apr. 30, b. Ireland, farmer, brain fever

Dora LISK, age 34, female, married, March 28, b. N.Y., kidney

Jerushia CLARK, age 43, female, married, March 30, b. N.Y., cancer

Charles HURLBURT, age 30, male, married, Oct. 15, b. N.Y., farmer, unknown

Charles HOLCOMB, age 68, male, single, Jan. 28, b. N.Y., farmer, typhoid

Bridget DORNTEE, age 54, female, married, Nov. 10, b. Germany, consumption

Mary J. PACKARD, age 51, female, single, March 2, b. N.Y., inflamation stomach

Emmons R. WILLETS, age 65, male, widowed, Dec. 12, b. N.Y., farmer, dropsy

Phebe FRITTS, age 51, female, married, Feb. 22, b. N.Y., appoplexy

Alice HURLY, age 9, female, Jan. 30, b. N.Y., unknown

Julia MONFORT, age 60, female, married, June 14, b. N.Y., consumption

Lemuel DURFEE, age 49, male, single, May 30, b. N.Y., farmer, appoplexy

These records were taken as part of the NY State 1875 state census and cover the calendar year from June 2, 1874 to June 1, 1875. Otherwise there are no such government records for the other 1870s years ex. for the US 1880 Mortality Schedule. Not all records have survived for all towns and counties in New York State. To find out what has survived, please check with the historical society of the county you're interested in, visit the New York State Historical Society in Cooperstown, NY, or inquire of your nearest Family History Center about microfilm loan.

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