Family:Whitney, Davis S. (1824-1908)

Davis S.⁸ Whitney (Salmon⁷, Salmon⁶, Jonas⁵, Jonas⁴, Moses³, Richard², John¹), son of Salmon⁷ and Eliza (Sumner) Whitney, was born 2 Oct 1824, Boston, MA, and died 8 Apr 1908, Boston, MA, aged 83 years 6 months 6 days, of angina pectoris.^[1]

He married 24 May 1883, Boston, MA, Sarah Thayer (Penniman) Belcher of South Braintree, daughter of Gardner and Relief (Thayer) Penniman.^[2] She was born 5 May 1824, South Braintree, MA, and died after 1908. She had married firstly, 2 Feb 1843, Braintree, MA, Nathaniel T. Belcher, who died 15 Mar 1858, Braintree, MA.

He resided at 5 Puritan Ave., Boston, MA; s.p.

Census

• 1900, 5 Puritan Avenue, Boston Ward 20, Suffolk Co., MA:

223 390 Whitney, David L. Head W M Oct 1824 75 mar 18 Massachusetts New Hampshire Maine Owns free house -----, Sarah Wife W F May 1829 71 mar 18 0ch 0liv Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Stevens, Bessie J. GNic W F Oct 1875 24 sgl England Massachusetts Massachusetts Immig. 1877

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), p. 499.

1.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 1908/9, page 394.

2.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 345, page 73.

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