Family:Whitney, Gurdon Boardman (1839-1864)

Gurdon Boardman⁸ Whitney (Eben Jennings⁷, Thomas⁶, Peter⁵, Josiah⁴, Josiah³, [prob.] Benjamin², John¹), son of Eben Jennings⁷ and Sarah (Boardman) Whitney, was born 29 Nov 1839, Brown, OH, and died 4 Aug 1864, in the Balfour U. S. General Hospital, Portsmouth, VA, of camp diarrhoea. He was buried in the U. S. Cemetery, Portsmouth, VA.

He married, 12 Jan 1860, Brown, OH, Ann Ilgenfrieg.

He served in the civil war as a private in Company B, 142d Regiment Ohio National Guard. He resided Brown, OH.

Children of Gurdon Boardman⁸ and Ann (Ilgenfrieg) Whitney:

i.	Ida Lucinda9 Whitney, b. ca. 1862.

Census

• 1860, Brown, Knox Co., OH:

94 94 Geouton Whitney 21 M - Laborer O. Married in year Ann 20 F - " Married in year

• 1870, Monroe, Knox Co., OH:

70 62 Whitney, Anne 30 F W Ohio -----, Ida 7 F W Ohio

• 1880, Mt. Vernon, Knox Co., OH:

Ann WHITNEY 41 Self F W W OH Seamstress PA PA Ida WHITNEY 17 Dau F S W OH At Home CT OH

References

• 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. 557.

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