Family:Whitney, Aaron (1809-a1860)

Aaron⁷ Whitney (Aaron⁶, Daniel⁵, James⁴, John³, Jonathan², John¹), son of Aaron⁶ and Ede (Fisk) Whitney, was born 15 Sep 1809, Sherborn, MA,^[1] and died after 1860 (and probably before 1865) [no record found in MA VRs].

He married Marie Elalie Delavie. She was born about 1812, Seychelles Islands, and died 3 Jun 1849, Sherborn, MA, aged 37 years, of cholera morbus.^[2]

He apparently married secondly, 30 Dec 1852, Sherborn, MA, Mary Pearson B. (Hoyt) Walker, daughter of Joseph and Anna (Brown) Hoyt.^[3] She was born 11 Dec 1816, Danvers, MA, and apparently died between 1855 and 1860 [no record found in MA VRs]. She had married firstly, 19 Feb 1843, Waltham, MA, George Walker.^[4]

He resided Sherborn, Natick, and Medway, MA.

Children of Aaron⁷ and Marie Elalie (Delavie) Whitney:

i.	Marie E.8 Whitney, b. ca. 1842 (twin), Madagascar Island.
ii.	Edmund T. Whitney, b. ca. 1842 (twin), Madagascar Island.

Children of Aaron⁷ and Mary Pearson B. (Hoyt) Whitney:

iii.	Ede Elizabeth Whitney, b. 10 Nov 1853, Sherborn, MA;[5] d. 24 Dec 1862, Medway, MA, aged 9 years 1 month 9 days, of diphtheria.[6]
iv.	Annie Whitney, b. 22 Oct 1855 (given name omitted), Medway, MA;[7] d. after 1860.
v.	Eulalia Whitney, b. ca. 1855, West Medway, MA; d. 22 Oct 1883, Boston, MA, aged 28 years, of pelvic abscess;[8] m. 10 Apr 1878, Cambridge, MA, Wendell P. Taft, b. ca. 1858, Brownsville, NY, son of Jerome A. and Charlotte A. (-----) Taft.[9]

Census

• 1850, Natick, Middlesex Co., MA:

312 406 Lowell Perry 55 M - Farmer $1600 Mass. Harriet " 48 F - " Orville " 12 M - " Attended school Harriet " 2nd 9 F - " Attended school Levi Russell 33 M - " " George H. Gay 16 " - " " Attended school Hugh Wilson 28 " - Laborer Canada Chauncey C. Leland 27 " - " $1500 Mass. Maria P. " 22 F - Mass. Aaron Whitney 40 M - Shoemaker " Edmund F. " 8 " - Madagascar I. Attended school Marie N. " 8 F - " Attended school

• 1855, Medway, Norfolk Co., MA:

235 245 Aaron Whitney 46 M - Boot Maker Mass. Mary P. Whitney 38 F - Mass. Edmund T. Whitney 15 M - East Indies Mary E. Whitney 15 F - East Indies Ede E. Whitney 2 F - Mass. Clara E. Walker 10 F - Mass.

• 1860, Natick, Middlesex Co., MA:

1355 1609 Wm. Greenwood 59 M - Farmer $2000 $500 Mass. Sarah 50 F - " Carrie 19 F - " Abby E. 17 F - " Attended school Willie 7 M - " Attended school Aaron Whitney 50 M - Shoe Maker " Annie " 5 F - " Attended school

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

41 43 Lyman Whitney 56 M - Sherborn, Mass. M Farmer - - 1 1 - Pamelia Orne Whitney 47 F - Plymouth, N.H. M Housewife - - - - - Daniel Leland Whitney 19 M - Sherborn, Mass. S Farm Laborer - - - - - George Lyman Whitney 16 M - " " S " " - - - - - Lois Whitney 81 F - Whitestown, N.Y. W Housewife - - - - - Aaron Whitney 54 M - Sherborn, Mass. W Mariner - - 1 1 - Elmira May Centre 8 F - Boston, " S - - - - -

• 1870: 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. 369.

1.^  "Aaron [Whitney], s. of Aaron and Ede, [born] Sept. 15, 1809," according to Thomas W. Baldwin, ed., Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: 1911).

2.^  "Marie Elalie [Whitney], w. of Aaron, June 3, 1849, a. 37y. Born in Seychelles Islands. Cholera morbus," according to Sherborn Vital Records.

3.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 61, page 140.

4.^  Waltham Vital Records, p. 174.

5.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 73, page 147.

6.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 157, page 280.

7.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 91, page 217.

8.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 348, page 293.

8.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 299, page 51.

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