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69 Prepared by Jack A. Parrish (2755 Stage Coach Drive; Memphis TN 38134 on 10/11/199070 Marriages and Deaths Taken From “The Delaware Gazette” at Delhi, Delaware County, NY From 1880-1895 issue of November 30, 1892 compiled andcopied by Gertrude A. Barber, page 95 shows: Nov 27, Delhi, James L. Harkness 63y71 For more on this family, see New England Parish Families, Descendants of John Parish of Groton, Mass., and Preston, Conn. by .Roswell Parish. The TuttlePublishing Company, Inc. Rutland Vt. 1938. Also the family of John O. Parrish who wed Martha’s sister Mary.72 The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men. Iowa Volume. American Biographical Publishing Company,Chicago and New York; 1878. pps 754-5.73 She died 28 Nov 1887 according to the tombstone in Sterling, Cayuga Co., NY. “Harkness Lydia Leal wife of Robert 4/12/1808-11/28/87”74 Liber E. Will 185.75 Liber H. Admin. 38. Box H.76 Note the following will of James who had a daughter Lois.77 Perhaps Lois’s wedding was 7 September 1880, Kortright, Rev. A. M. Smeallie, James Y. Thompson of Hobart to Lois J. Harkness ofKortright. See Barber; p. 7. Typed MS at NEHGS Library.78 Liber F. Admin. 48. Box N