Family:Whitney, Edward Purcel (1843-1874)

Edward Purcel⁸ Whitney (Asa P.⁷, George W.⁶, Asa⁵, Nathan⁴, Nathaniel³, Benjamin², John¹), son of Asa P.⁷ and Eunice C. (Kneeland) Whitney, was born 29 Oct 1843 or 25 Nov 1843, VT, and died 25 Jan 1874, Harrison, ME.

He married, 24 Dec 1866, Pembroke, NH, or Waltham, MA, Carrie⁸ Whiting,^[1] daughter of Nathan⁷ and Caroline (Allen) Whiting [Oliver⁶, John⁵, John⁴, Oliver³, Samuel², Samuel¹]. She was born 25 Jul 1836, ME, and died 3 Apr 1916, Stow, ME, aged 80 years, of chronic interstitial nephritis.^[2] She was buried in Stow Cemetery, Stow, ME.

He resided Waltham, MA, and Harrison, ME.

i.	Edward Gilman9 Whitney, "Willie" b. 6 Nov 1867, Waltham, MA.[3]; m. Esther Jane Mansfield.

Census

• 1870, Waltham, Middlesex Co., MA:

374 496 Whitney, E. P. 27 M W Works in Watch Factory $300 Maine Male citizen over 21 " Carrie 26 F W Keeping House " " Ned G. 3 M W Mass. Reed, Aaron 21 M W Farm Laborer " Male citizen over 21

• 1880, Waltham, Middlesex Co., MA:

William A. ROGERS 52 Self M M W NH Work In Watch Factory NOVA SCOTTIA NOVA SCOTIA Rosetta ROGERS 49 Wife F M W VT Keeping House CANADA CANADA Frederick EVES 29 Oth M M W ENG Work In Watch Factory ENG ENG Sarah EVES 25 Oth F M W NJ Milliner NJ NJ Carrie WHITNEY 35 Oth F W W ME Work In Watch Factory ME ME

• 1900, Stow, Oxford Co., ME:

108 109 Whitney, Carrie Head W F Jul 1836 63 wid 1ch 1liv Maine Maine New Hampshire Farmer, Rents farm

References

• Census records.

• All data imported from Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635, (Chicago: 1895), pp. 579-580.

• Moulton, Alphonso, Howard L. Sampson, and Granville Fernald, comps. and eds., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine: Containing The Centennial Celebration of 1905, and Historical and Biographical Matter (Portland: Southworth Printing Company, 1909), p. 537.

1.^  "E. P. Whitney & Carrie Whitney, m. 24 Dec 1866, NH," according to New Hampshire, Vital Records, Marriage Index. Also, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 190, page 256.

2.^  Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, at FamilySearch.org.

3.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 197, page 249.

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