Family:Whitney, Thomas Aaron (1805-a1874)
Thomas Aaron7 Whitney (Silas6, Aaron5, Samuel4, Richard3, John2, Henry1), son of Silas6 and Nancy (Russell) Whitney, was born 20 Feb 1805, near Dykeman's, Southeast, NY, and died after 1874.
He married firstly, 28 Oct 1838, Carmel, NY, Naomi Jane Dykeman, daughter of Jesse and Phebe (Russell) Dykeman. She was born 19 Mar 1820, Patterson, NY, died 27 Mar 1870, Peekskill, NY, and is buried in Cortlandt Cemetery, about two miles north of Peekskill.
He married secondly, 5 Oct 1870, New York, NY, Susan Elizabeth (Newman) Dykeman, of Hoboken, NJ, daughter of Harvey and Elizabeth (Pardee) Newman. She was born 14 Sep 1827, Stanwich, in Greenwich, CT, and died after 1874. She had married firstly Albert Adolphus Dykeman.
Phoenix says the following:
- He settled at Peekskill, N. Y., in 1826; has been teacher, trader, underwriter, and, for more than twenty years, a magistrate. . . . . They lived on the corner of James and Orchard Streets, Peekskill, in 1874.
Children of Thomas Aaron7 and Naomi Jane (Dykeman) Whitney:
i. Mary Missouri8 Whitney, b. 4 Mar 1840, Peekskill, NY; d. 29 Jan 1862, Peekskill, NY; bur. Cortlandt Cemetery. ii. Josephine Dykeman Whitney, b. 12 May 1842, Peekskill, NY; d. 22 Feb 1868, Peekskill, NY, s. p.; bur. Ref. Dutch Church-yard, three miles south of Peekskill, in the town of Cortlandt; m. 24 Sep 1867, Peekskill, NY, by Rev. Polhemus Van Wyck, Warren Reynolds, a farmer, b. Cortlandt, NY, son of Isaac and ----- (Post) Reynolds. He m.(2) her sister, Jane Adelaide Whitney. iii. Adelaide Augusta Whitney, b. 22 Apr 1844, Peekskill, NY; d. 13 Sep 1845, Peekskill, NY; bur. Cortlandt Cemetery. iv. Jane Adelaide Whitney, b. 21 Jan 1846, Peekskill, NY; m. 23 Nov 1870, Peekskill, NY, by Rev. Charles P. Page, Warren Reynolds, who m.(1) her sister Josephine. They lived at White Plains, NY, Nov 1873, without children. v. Augusta Justina Whitney, b. 10 May 1849, Peekskill, NY; res. Peekskill, with her father, unmarried, Nov 1873. vi. Maria Louisa Whitney, b. 13 Aug 1854, 83 Eighth Ave., New York, NY; res. Peekskill, with her father, unmarried, Nov 1874. vii. Thomas Joseph Whitney, b. 9 Dec 1856, Peekskill, NY; a drug-clerk; res. Peekskill, with his father, Nov 1873. viii. Jessie Mary Whitney, b. 13 Jun 1860, Peekskill, NY; res. Peekskill, with her father, Nov 1873.
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. 673 and pp. 1468-1469.
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