Family:Whitney, Otis (1802-1851)
Otis Whitney, parentage unknown, was born 1802,[1] MA, and died after 1850.
Marriage intentions were published 10 Aug 1826, Stow, MA, for him and Mary Puffer, "wid.".[2] He married 15 Oct 1826, Sudbury, MA, Mary (Lovering) Puffer,[3] daughter of Jonas and Mary (How) Lovering, and the widow of Jacob Puffer of Stow. She was born 5 Sep 1796,[4] and died 14 Feb 1869, Somerville, MA.
Children of Otis and Mary (Lovering)(Puffer) Whitney:
i. Mary Ann Keziah Whitney, b. 21 Oct 1829, Stow, MA.[5] ii. Caroline M. Whitney, b. ca. 1831, Stow, MA; d. 25 May 1877, Grafton, MA, aged 46 years, of cancer;[6] m. (int. 8 Jan 1849, Stow, MA) Sawyer C. Austin.[7] iii. (child) Whitney, b. -----; "infant" d. -- --- 1840, Stow, MA.[8]
Census
- 1830
- 1840
- 1850, Stow, Middlesex Co., MA
References
1.^ "Otis [Whitney], [h. Mary L. P.], [born] -----, 1802. G.R.1," according to F. Apthorp Foster, ed., Vital Records of Stow, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911).
2.^ "Otis [Whitney] and Mary Puffer, wid., int. Aug. 10, 1826," according to Stow Vital Records.
3.^ "Otis [Whitney] and Mrs. Mary Puffer, [married] Oct. 15, 1826, in Stow," according to Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903).
4.^ "Mary L. P. [------] [Whitney] [w. Otis], [born] -----, 1796. G.R.1," according to Stow Vital Records.
5.^ "Mary Ann Keziah [Whitney], d. Otis and Mary, [born] Oct. 21, 1829," according to Stow Vital Records.
6.^ "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 294, page 318.
7.^ "Caroline [Whitney] and Sawyer Austin, int. Jan. 8, 1849," according to Stow Vital Records.
8.^ "_____ [Whitney], inf. Otis, [died] ___, 1840. C.R.," according to Stow Vital Records.
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