Family:Fowler, Elizabeth (1782-1817)
Elizabeth6 Fowler (Sarah5, Seth4, Nathan3, John2, Henry1), daughter of Joseph and Sarah5 (Whitney) Fowler, was born 6 Jul 1782, Yorktown NY, and died 16 May 1817, Mamakating, NY. She was buried in the Daniel Wilson Methodist Episcopal Churchyard, Mamakating, NY.
She married, 26 Dec 1807 or 1 Jan 1808, Yorktown, NY, Robert McKune, son of Joseph and Esther (Many) McKune. He was born 17 Aug 1786, was killed by falling from a car, on the Erie Railway, near the Cascade bridge, in Harmony, 4 Mar 1861, and was buried at Lanesborough, PA. He married secondly, 6 Dec 1817, Harmony, PA, Mary Hilborn, daughter of John and Martha (Dilloss) Hilborn.
He was a tanner and farmer. He settled at Mamakating, NY. He moved in Mar 1826, to Harmony, PA.
Children of Robert and Elizabeth6 (Fowler) McKune:
i. Mary Ann McKune, b. 9 Sep 1810, Mamakating, NY; d. 3 May 1884, Lanesboro, PA; m. 3 June 1830, James Comfort. ii. Esther McKune, b. 13 Sep 1812, Mamakating, NY; d. 8 Apr 1888, Lanesboro, PA; m. 22 Jan 1834, Seth Augustus Lyons. iii. Joseph Fowler McKune, b. 26 May 1815, Mamakating, NY; d. 25 Jan 1892; m. 4 Jul 1836, Betsey Abigail Curtis.
References
- 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), pp. 317-318, and pp. 480-481.
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