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| − | "Our mother, Mrs. Eliza Whitney Bennett Mercer, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in the year 1818. She was the youngest child of Ephriam and Elizabeth Whitney who in the early dawn of the 18th century emigrated from the state of Maine into the then wild and unknow west, and under the giant oaks surrounded by all the dangers of a primeval forest upon the banks of the big Stillwater and not far from the present city of Wichsville in a humble log cabin our mother was born. At the age of six years her mother died and the devoted father and his little flock were compelled to struggle on without the aid of a mother's love and care. Left thus alone as it were, with out the advantages of education, refinement and thought, and like the forest, the flowers and the babbling brooks of her childhood's happy home she grew up true to her destiny, free from much of the same and hypocrisy and cast of the present day. In religion she was in her younger days Puritanic, but as light overcame darkness, and the infinite the nite, she was compelled to believe that the good Father, in His infinite wisdom and love has a final place of rest and peace for all mankind. As a mother she was kind, affectionate and true. No misfortune or discouragement could be so great but she would brave them all to care and provide for her family, and thus when stricken down, when the journey from the cradle to the tomb was ended, surrounded by all her children, by kind and loving friends, and with a firm and child like faith in the immutable goodness of her heavenly Father, mother passed over the crystal sea." [This obit was suppose to be written in 1880, which would make her 61?]"
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Revision as of 00:19, 29 July 2009
Ephraim6 Whitney
(Amos5,
Amos4,
Nathaniel3,
Benjamin2,
John1),
son of Amos5 and Anna (Weston) Whitney,
was born 1780, Buxton, ME, and died after 1850, OH.
He married, 24 Nov 1805, Hampden, ME, Keziah Moffatt. She was born about 1784, probably Hampden, ME.
Moved to Tuscawaras Co., OH, about 1817/18. On the 1850 census, Ephraim Whitney, Sr., age 70, was living with his daughter, Eliza (Whitney) Bennett in Tuscawaras Co., OH. He and Keziah Moffatt lived in 1817 in OH.
Children of Ephraim6 and Keziah (Moffatt) Whitney:
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Ephraim7 Whitney, b. 7 Sep 1807, Newburg, ME; m. Edith Ross.
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Sylvia Whitney, b. ca. 1812, prob. Newburg, ME; m. Jacob Wright.
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Amos Whitney, b. ca. 1814, prob. Newburg, ME; m.(1) Matilda Wright; m.(2) Nancy W. Lee.
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Eliza Whitney, b. ca. 1818, OH; d. after 1850; m. John Bennett.
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Census
- 1810, Twp 2 Range 1 [later Hampden], Hancock Co., ME: Whitney, Ephraim, 1 male 26-44, 1 male 16-25, 1 male 0-9, 1 female 16-25, and 1 female 10-15.
- 1820, Dohrman, Tuscarawas Co., OH: Ephraim Whitney, 1 male 26-44, 1 male 10-15, 2 males 0-9, 1 female over 45, 1 female 26-44, and 2 females 0-9; 1 engaged in agriculture.
- 1830, Dohrman, Tuscarawas Co., OH: Ephraim Whitney, Sr., 1 male 40-49, 1 male 15-19, 1 male 10-14, 1 female 15-19, and 1 female 10-14.
- 1840: not found. Possibly living with a daughter and son-in-law.
- 1850, Perry, Tuscarawas Co., OH:
2105 2130 John Bennet 34 M - Boatman Pennsylvania
Elisa " 31 F - "
Silva A. " 6 F - Illinois
John E. " 1 M - Ohio
Ephraim Whitney 70 M - None $200 Maine
References
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