Family:Whitney, Isaac Lounsbury (1800-a1874)

Isaac Lounsbury⁶ Whitney (Elias⁵, Jeremiah⁴, Nathan³, John², Henry¹), son of Elias⁵ and Judith (Wood) Whitney, was born 26 Mar 1800, Fishkill Plains, NY, and died after Jul 1874.

He married firstly, 15 May 1821, New York, NY, Sarah Haywood.

He married secondly, 16 Jul 1824, Mary Ann Stackhouse, daughter of John and Aletta (Caniff) Stackhouse. She was born 12 Jul 1808, New York, NY, and died 16 Jul 1871, Lyons, NY.

Phoenix says the following:

"Isaac Lounsbury Whitney, b. at Fishkill Plains, N. Y., 26 March 1800; a stove-mounter; went to New York City in 1818, and there married, 15 May 1821, Sarah Haywood; married (2d), 16 July 1824, Mary Ann Stackhouse, dau. of John and Aletta (Caniff) Stackhouse, of New York City, where she was born, 12 July 1808. They remained in New York till 1844, in which year they removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and thence, in Sept. 1847, to Lyons, N. Y., where she died, 16 July 1871, and was buried. He then moved to Bloomington, Ill., and thence, in 1873, to Mayfield, N. Y., where he was living, in July 1874, with his brother, Francis Rowland Whitney."

Isaac Lounsbury⁶ and Sarah (Haywood) Whitney had no children.

Children of Isaac Lounsbury⁶ and Mary Ann (Stackhouse) Whitney:

i.	Elias James7 Whitney, b. 30 Feb 1827, New York, NY; m. Mary Helen Van Voast.
ii.	Judith Lenchy Whitney, b. 16 Apr 1829, Poughkeepsie, NY; m. Levi Selleck.
iii.	Mary Jane Whitney, b. 7 Nov 1831, New York, NY; m. Daniel Van Voast.
iv.	Wilson Whitney, b. 23 Mar 1834, New York, NY; d. 9 Nov 1834, New York, NY.
v.	Isaac Francis Whitney, b. 17 Feb 1837, New York, NY; m. Minnie Etta Lunger.
vi.	John Henry Ellsworth Whitney, b. 30 Jul 1840, New York, NY; m. Emily Louisa Calhoun.
vii.	Lewis Whitney, b. 9 Sep 1846, Brooklyn, NY. He enlisted in the Autumn of 1863, with his brother Isaac, in Co. H, 14th Reg., Heavy Artillery, N. Y. Volunteers; was among the first to assault the works before Petersburgh, when the mine was sprung by Gen. Burnside, 30 Jul 1864; was captured by the enemy, uninjured, and imprisoned at Danville, NC, where he died from starvation, 11 Dec 1864, just before a general exchange of prisoners. His friends have not been able to find the place of his burial.

References

• All data imported from Stephen Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to which is prefixed some account of the Whitneys of England. (New York : Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] 1878), p. 327 and pp. 865-867.

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