Family:Whitney, Cyrus (1802-a1870)

Cyrus⁷ Whitney (David⁶, Benjamin⁵, Joseph⁴, Joseph³, Jonathan², John¹), son of David⁶ and Susanna (Huntington) Whitney, was born 21 Dec 1802, Tunbridge, VT, and died after 1870.

He married, 20 May 1833, Betsy Curtis, daughter of Elias and Abigail (Clement) Curtis. She was born 21 Mar 1807, Tunbridge, VT, and died after 1870. She appears as "Lucy" in 1860.

He resided Jefferson, WI; s. p.

i.	Ernest8 Whitney, b. ca. 1843, VT; d. between 1850 and 1860.

Census

• 1840, Tunbridge, Orange Co., VT: Cyrus Whitney, 1 male 70-79, 1 male 30-39, 1 male 20-29, 1 male 15-19, 1 female 70-79, 1 female 30-39, 1 female 20-29, and 1 female 10-14; 3 engaged in agriculture.
• 1850, Tunbridge, Orange Co., VT:

40 43 Cyrus Whitney 48 M - Farmer $6000 Vt. Betsey C. " 43 F - " David " 84 M - Farmer Mass. Eliza " 20 F - Vt. Olive " 18 F - " Attended school, insane Ernest " 7 M - " Attended school John Ballou 22 M - Farmer "

• 1860, Jefferson, Jefferson Co., WI:

413 393 Cyrus Whitney 58 M - Farmer $4000 $500 Vermont Lucy " 53 F - " George Rade 13 M - Prussia Attended school Joseph Runnels 26 " - Day Laborer "

• 1870, Jefferson, Jefferson Co., WI:

156 168 Whitney, Cyrus D. 67 M W $2000 $1000 Vt. Parents of foreign birth, Male citizen over 21 -----, Betsey C. 63 F W Keeps house Vt. Remal, Catherine 23 F W Domestic s. Wis. Parents of foreign birth

• 1880: not found.

References

• All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), p. 373.

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