Family:Whitney, Charles (1805-1884)

Charles⁸ Whitney (Silas⁷, Silas⁶, Daniel⁵, Richard⁴, Richard³, Richard², John¹), son of Silas⁷ and Abigail M. (Shedd) Whitney, was born 15 Sep 1805, Boston, MA, and died 27 Dec 1884, Boston, MA.

Marriage intentions were published 1826, Charlestown, MA, for him and Maria Emery. He married, 6 Jun 1826, Concord, NH, Lydia Maria Emery. She was born 24 Feb 1808, Concord, NH, and died 12 Dec 1884.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whitney, of the Highlands, reached the fifty-eighth anniversary of their marriage, Friday, 6 Jun 1884. Mr. Whitney started from Charlestown, Massachusetts, 5 Jun 1826, at sunrise, and arrived at Chichester, New Hampshire, at sundown, in a chaise, a distance of about seventy miles. The following morning he was united in marriage to Lydia Maria Emery, having seen her but twice, their courtship being done mostly by proxy. And that they have lived together so long and happily proves that long courtships are not always necessary. Mr. Charles Whitney, a gentleman highly esteemed by all who knew him, died on Sunday, at his home on Melrose street, aged 79 years. It was only 16 days after the death of his wife, with whom he been wedded nearly 59 years. It seemed a beautiful mercy of the Almighty that death should not long divide them, and, although their departure is sorrowful to the mourners bereft, yet they were sheaves fully ripe, and God has garnered them. [Melrose Journal.] He died 27 Dec 1884; resided Boston, Massachusetts.

Children of Charles⁸ Whitney:

i.	Louisa M.9 Whitney, born 16 Sep 1827; married Benjamin F. Peakes; resided 8 Codman Park, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
ii.	Augusta G. Whitney, born 20 Aug 1829; married ----- Weissbuga. She died Apr. 22, 1860.
iii.	Mary Eliza Whitney, born 5 Nov 1831; married Edgar B. Fox. She died Apr. 23 1874, in Berlin, Wisconsin Ch.: Edgar Augustus, born 7 Jun 1852; married Bertha Sweet; res Berlin, Wisconsin; Harold Sumner, born June 16, 1856; married Addie Easton; res, Berlin; George Julian, born May 4, 1858; married Emma Seelye; resided Berlin; Fannie Louise, born Feb. 14, 1864; married Frank C. Roberts; resided Braintree, Massachusetts; Annie Alice Lydia, born 7 Sep 1868; married A. Adelbert Doty; Edgar Bernard, Jr., born 9 Dec 1872; resided Berlin.
iv.	Fannie E. Whitney, born 14 May 1837; married Henry G. Washburn; resided 8 Codman Park.
v.	Helen S. Whitney, born 18 Jul 1849; resided 8 1/2 Beethoven St., Roxbury.
vi.	Charles J. Whitney, born 15 May 1843; married Mary E. Dunbar, and Helen E. Fuller.
vii.	Helen S. Whitney, born 2 Apr 1834; died 1843.
viii.	Charles J. Whitney, born 15 Jan 1839; died Feb., 1839.
ix.	Charles J. Whitney, born 11 Jan 1840; died 1842.

References

1. 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. 513.

1.^  "Mr. Charles Whitney of Charlestown & Miss Maria Emery of Chichester, N.H., entered May 20, 1826," according to Roger D. Joslyn, F.A.S.G., comp. and ed., Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984).

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