View source for Family:Whitney, Submit Ellen "Nellie" (1837-1890)

'''Submit Ellen "Nellie" Whitney''' (Stover6, Benjamin5, Benjamin4, John3, Benjamin2, John1), was born 05 Sep 1837, Bowdoin, ME, and died 11 Feb 1890.

She married firstly, 27 Jan 1867, Topsham, ME, '''William A. Walker''', son of Nathan and Sophia (Dore) Walker. He was born 29 Sep 1830, Strafford, NH, and died 03 June 1864, Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA.

William A. Walker was a Private in Co. D, 5th Maine Infantry in the Civil War.  He was killed by a rebel sharpshooter at the the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in VA.  He is buried in the Cold Harbor National Cemetery, Mechanicsville, VA, and is memorialized on the grave marker of his son Dunham in the Pine Grove Cemetery, Brunswick, ME.

Nellie (Whitney) Walker m. secondly Charles Barstow Smith, son of Elias and Elmira (Curtis) Smith, 8 Sep 1867 in Brunswick, ME. Charles B. Smith was b. 9 Sep 1841, Hallowell, ME and d. 11 Mar 1905, Bath, ME.  He had m. firstly Annie E. Curtis, who d. 10 Jan 1864.  With her he had three children:

Almira G. Smith, b. 7 Aug 1861

Charles E. Smith, b. 10 Aug 1862

Willard E. Smith, b. 14 Jan 1863

Charles was a Blacksmith and a Corporal in Co. C, 21st Maine Infantry in the Civil War.  He received a pension for his service.  He and nellie had on daughter, Flora M. Smith, b. 19 May 1873 in Hallowell, ME.  She m. Lewis A. Langmaid.

Children of Submit Ellen "Nellie" and William A. Walker:

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==References==

1.From the Civil War Pension File of Charles B. Smith

Co. C, 21st Maine Infantry

Invalid Application #984770, Certificate #1069067

Other # C-2523926

The National Archives Building,

Washington, D.C.

2. Maine, U.S., Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918; Ancestry.com

3. New Hampshire, U.S., Death & Disinterment Records, 1754-1947; Ancestry.com

4. Vital Records of Topsham Maine to the year 1892

5. Maine, Birth Records, 1715 to 1922; Ancestry.com

6. Maine Death Records, 1761 to 1922 (Ancestry.com)

7. Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915; Ancestry.com

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