Vital Records From the 1875 State Censuw

Town of Savannah

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 Savannah: for the year ending June 1, 1875
Delos BETTS, Enumerator

First Presbyterian Church: Presbyterian; value of church and lot $4000; value of other real estate $1500; seats 350; usual number in attendance 125; number of communicants or regular members 40; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $850.

Methodist Episcopal: Methodist Episcopal; value of church & lot $5000; seats 350; usual number in attendance 200; number of communicants or regular members 120; salary of clergy besides use of real estate $6000

Inns, hotels and taverns - 1; retail stores and groceries - 3

Domestic animals in cities and villages, the number of domestic animals kept by those who occupy no farming lands are 7 horses and 4 cows

Remarks on the mortality of the year ending June 1, 1874: I think not any.

Wages: estimated average pay of hired laborers and mechanics, exclusive of board (cannot read the first columns): carpenters and joiners $2.50 by the day; masons, stone and bricklayers $2.50 by the day; blacksmiths $2 by the day; farm laborers $1.25 by the day

MARRIAGES:

Town of Savannah: during year ending June 1, 1875
Delos BETTS, Enumerator

Joseph M. HALL, 37, single and Hortence D. HALL, 33, widow
Mar. 3 in Savannah by a Presby. clergyman

Jacob SMITH, 21, single and Mary COON, 19, single
July 5 in Savannah

DEATHS:

Town of Savannah: during year ending June 1, 1875
Delos BETTS, Enumerator

Edward LAWRENCE, 49, male, married, Jan. 17, b. N.Y., boatman, paralysis

Sylvester SECOR, 64, male, married, March 20, b. N.Y., farmer, typhoid fever

Charles H. ROSE, 68, male, married, Feb. 16, b. N.Y., farmer and lawyer, heart disease

Isabel GAY, 44, female, married, May 5, b. N.Y., consumption

Lucretia FERRIS, 23, female, single, Feb. 7, b. N.Y., consumption

Francis S. CORNELL, 35, female, married, April 16, b. N.Y., consumption

Frank McAVOY, JR., 19, male, single, June 3, b. N.Y., farm laborer, scarlet fever

Alanzo L. DEAN, 47, male, married, Dec. 19, b. N.Y., farmer, heart disease

Johnathan INGERSOL, 70, male, married, Sept. 17, b. N.Y., farmer, erysipelas

Safrona SEARLE, 69, female, married, Dec. 25, b. N.Y., dropsy

Luther WEED, 79, male, married, Oct. 7, b. N.Y., farmer, typhoid fever and inflamation of lungs

M.K. EVANS, 39, male, married, Aug. 14, b. N.Y., farmer, paralysis

Archie MUNSON, 1, male, Nov. 17, b. N.Y., bowel complaint

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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