User:Karin Whitney

My Whitney Line ThomasA Whitney, m. Mary Bray John1 Whitney, m.(1) Elinor ----- Joshua2 Whitney, m.(2) Abigail Tarbell Cornelius3 Whitney, m. Sarah Shepard Matthias4 Whitney, m. Alice Robbins Cornelius5 Whitney, m. Elizabeth May Eliphalet6 Whitney, m. Lucy Ellsworth Lyman E.7 Whitney, m. Jane S. ----- Charles L.8 Whitney, m. Mary Adams William L.9 Whitney, m. Maude Mowry Robert E.10 Whitney, m. Adeline Shockey Robert E.11 Whitney, Jr., m. Margaret Karin12 Whitney

Whitney ancestors are from the John & Elinor lineage I believe

My grandfather Robert Earl Whitney was born (August 1898) and raised in Mexico, NY. He had one sister Doris, several years younger.

His father was William Whitney born 1857(?) or thereabouts. He had two spinster sisters who lived to be very old both into their 100's. His wife was Maude (Morre) Whitney. He was a farmer in Mexico, NY.

Robert Earl Whitney went to university on a wrestling scholarship, married Adeline Francis Shockey b. June 1904, Ohio.

They lived in Ohio where my father was born, eventually settling in Dansville, NY and had a prosperous appliance and electronics business with a large factory storefront called "Whitney's." He also owned a portfolio of rental residences in Rochester, NY, until he retired to Miami, FL where he sold real estate.

Had three children, Robert Earl Jr., Barbara, and Virginia Ellen. I am the first and only child of Robert Earl Whitney, Jr. (b. February 1924) and his wife Margaret Anna (Wohlleben) Whitney (b.February 1937.) I was raised by my paternal Whitney grandparents and remember my great grandfather who lived with us in Dansville until his death in 1961 or 1962. He would hold my hand and go for walks in town and his room smelt like sweet cigars.

Any info pertaining to this branch of Whitney's would be welcome.