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Whitney Family.
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mayor, Hon. A. M. Wood, in Charleston, S. C., to assist in the ceremony of restoring the national flag to Fort Sumpter; and was chairman of the committee appointed to represent the City of Brooklyn at President Lincoln's funeral, in Washington. He has been, since 1874, president of The Hamilton Fire Insurance Co., 11 Wall Street, N. Y.; and, since 1 July 1875, Registrar of Arrears for the City of Brooklyn.
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IV. Scudder Valentine Whitney, b. on the homestead of his father and grandfather, in East Woods, now Woodbury, Oyster Bay, L. I., 11 March 1821; a farmer, land-surveyor, and teacher; married in Brooklyn, N. Y., by Hon. Thomas G. Talmage, mayor of the city, at 34 Henry Street, the house of his brother Daniel, 19 Ap. 1849, to Elizabeth Titus, dau. of Henry Titus, of Glen Cove, L. I., where she was born 23 Sept. 1849. He has been three times elected trustee of the "Jones Fund" for the support of the poor of the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead; has held numerous town-offices; and has reached the rank of lieutenant in the N. Y. State Militia. He lived on the farm where he was born, in 1874.
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V. Sarah Ette Whitney, b. at East Woods, now Woodbury, L. I., 8 July 1823; married by Rev. Mr. Pease, Methodist, at Brooklyn, N. Y., 28 July 1846, to William Henry Monfort, a farmer, of West Hills, Huntington, L. I.
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VI. Timothy Titus Whitney, b. at East Woods, now Woodbury, L. I., 6 May 1827; died at the same place, 31 Dec. 1827.
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Chil. of Willetts and Naomi (Whitney) Whitson.
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I. Sarah Whitson, b. at Jericho, L. I., 19 March 1809; married at Half Hollow Hills, in Huntington, L. I., 13 Ap. 1831, by Joel Jarvis, justice of the peace, to Samuel Bedell, a farmer, son of Whitmore and Jane (Smith) Bedell, of Melville, in Huntington, where he was born 19 Feb. 1808. They settled at Amityville, L. I., where she died at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Whitson (Bedell) Terry, 7 July 1872, "aged 63 years, 3 months and 18 days," and was buried in the Terry Cemetery. He was living at Melville in July 1875.
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II. Mary Whitson, married at Half Hollow Hills, in Huntington, L. I., Charles Bedell; and lived, in 1867, near Farmingdale, L. I., and at Central Park, L. I., in July 1875.
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III. Esther Whitson, married in Nov. 1830, at Hempstead, L. I., Mott Simonson; and was reported dead in 1873.
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