Family:Whitney, Edward C. (1828-1909)

Edward C.⁸ Whitney (David⁷, Isaac⁶, David⁵, Thomas⁴, Thomas³, Thomas², John¹), son of David⁷ and Charlotte (Blanchard) Whitney, was born 28 Oct 1828, New Ipswich, NH, and died 2 May 1909, Ashby, MA, aged 80 years 6 months 2 days, of diarrhea.^[1]

He married, 5 Sep 1855, Barnet, VT, Mary Jane Winn,^[2] daughter of George and Lydia (Messar) Winn She was born 12 Sep 1832, Danville, VT, and died 2 May 1895, Ashby, MA, aged 62 years 7 months 20 days, of pleurisy and pneumonia.^[3]

He resided Ashby, MA.

Children of Edward C.⁸ and Mary Jane (Winn) Whitney:

i.

Etta Jane9 Whitney, b. 5 Feb 1865, Ashby, MA; d. 11 Apr 1902, Fitchburg, MA,. aged 37 years 2 months 6 days, of jaundice;[4] m. 8 Sep 1886, Ashby, MA [but recorded in Fitchburg, MA], Fred G. Bugbee, b. ca. 1865, Bethel, VT, son of Oliver L. and Melvina B. (-----) Bugbee;[5] resided W. Fitchburg, MA.

Census

• 1860, Ashby, Middlesex Co., MA:

1643 1614 Lewis Whitney 41 M - Farmer $500 $100 Mas`s. Charlott 67 M - N.H. Edward Whitney 31 M - N.H. Mary Jane 28 F - Vermont

• 1865 State, Ashby, Middlesex Co., MA:

116 131 Edw. C. Whitney 36 M - Do M Farmer - - 1 1 - Mary J. Whitney 33 F - Vermont M - - - - - Etta J. Whitney 3m F - Massachusetts S - - - - - 117 132 Lewis Whitney 46 M - Massachusetts S Farmer - - 1 1 -

• 1870, Ashby, Middlesex Co., MA:

74 72 Wellington, Mary 32 F W Domestic Servant Mass. -----, Flora L. 2 F W At Home " Whitney, Lewis M. 51 M W Farmer $1000 $300 " Male citizen over 21 -----, Edward C. 41 M W Farmer $300 New Hampshire Male citizen over 21 -----, Mary J. 37 F W Keeping House Vermont -----, Ettie J. 5 F W At Home Mass. -----, Carlott B. 77 F W No Occupation New Hampshire

• 1880, Ashby, Middlesex Co., MA:

Edward C. WHITNEY 51 Self M M W NH Farmer MA NH Mary J. WHITNEY 48 Wife F M W VT Keeping House NH NH Lewis M. WHITNEY 61 Bro M S W MA Works On Farm MA NH Etta J. WHITNEY 15 Dau F S W MA At School NH VT

• 1900, Ashby, Middlesex Co., MA:

60 65 Whitney, Edward E. Head W M Oct 1828 71 wid New Hampshire Massachusetts New Hampshire Farmer, Owns free farm

References

• Census Records.

• All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), pp. 527-528.

1.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 1909/3, page 39.

2.^  Vermont, Vital Records Index, Marriages.

3.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 371, page 47.

4.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 530, page 311.

5.^  "Etta J. [Whitney], a. 21y., d. Edward C. and Jane, and Fred G. Bugbee, a. 21y., carpenter, of Fitchburg, s. Oliver L. and Melvina R., [married] Sep. 8, 1886," according to Jeannette D. Pingrey, comp., Birth, Marriage, and Death Records in the Town of Ashby, Massachusetts, from 1754 to 1890 (Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Company, c. 1989). Also, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 371, page 47, and volume 372, page 300.

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