Pioneer History of Camden, Ohio

PIONEER HISTORY OF CAMDEN TOWNSHIP, LORAIN COUNTY, OHIO

(By Dr. F. E. Weeks, Kipton, Ohio)

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Gideon Waugh, Jr., married Harriet L. Sherman, of Wakeman, and died at Gardner, Kansas in 1884.

Ezra Chapman M. Waugh married, 1843, Roxy Cook, of Oswego County, N.Y., a sister of Jesse Cook, of Camden. He lived on the Gower farm, bought 27 acres of the Norman Lee farm in 1850, south of the railroad, and in that same year sold all of his land to Isaac Wiborn, and lived in Wakeman when his wife died in 1855. In 1856 he married Mrs. Polly Cable, a daughter of Eli and Lucy Waterhouse, of Vermont, [a relative of Lucy Waterhouse, of Kipton?]. About 1858 he bought the Carl Krieg farm in Henrietta, and died there in 1898.

He had children, by first wife:

Newell, who married Christina Barhyte, Judson and Nancy.

Lansing Waugh died in Kansas in 1858.

James H. Waugh married Laura A. Parish March 4, 1852 and died at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Minerva Waugh married Silas C. French, of Wakeman, August 26, 1857, and died in Wakeman in 1900.

WAUGH, LANSING, brother of Gideon, was born in Camden, N.Y., March 9, 1809. He married, Jan. 1, 1831, Dotia Minor, a sister of Gideon’s wife. He became a preacher and began his work in 1833, and was known as "Elder Waugh". He lived in Scriba, Concord and Stockton, New York, and moved to Camden, probably in 1845. He bought the farm opposite the Prentice farm adjoining the east and west road, and the house stood across the corner from the Peter Beam corner, where some remains are to be seen. He sold this in 1850 and in 1852 removed to Wakeman, to the farm next west of the John Kingsbury corners, and died there July 8, 1889. His wife was born in Hamilton, N.Y., July 10, 1806, and died Feb. 4, 1892. Their children were: Justin, born April 9, 1832, died in 1904; Nancy, born May 20, 1834, married F. A. Gilbert and died in Washington State in 1915; Mary F., born June 24, 1836, married Wallace Nay of Camden and Wakeman and died in 1873; Betsy E., born March 5, 1841, married Samuel W. Rowland, of Clarksfield, and died in Wakeman; Dotia A., born April 16, 1843, married William H. Pierce, of Wakeman, and died in Wakeman in 1909; Cynthia P., born Oct. 3, 1845, married Edward M. Day, of Clarksfield, lived in Clarksfield, then in Lorain, Ohio, where she died in 1920.

WAUGH, DAN [We never find the name written ["Daniel"], a brother of Gideon, came to Camden as early as 1835, and settled on what came to be known as the Russell farm, south of the Blackwell farm. In 1851 he sold the part of this on the west side of the road to Norton Bates. He also owned the Norman Lee farm and in 1850 sold four acres of the farm at the southeast corner to Otis Bates [who owned the Guernsey farm], and the remainder to Isaac Wiborn, and removed to Wisconsin. On January 1^st, 1837, he married Abigail Hovey, daughter of John Hovey. They had two children, at least. Dan, Jr., born Oct. 3, 1827, married Mary Coltrin, of Camden, and lived on the Russell farm until his death May 21, 1857. Marian, the daughter, married, Aug. 18, 1842, Mortimer Allen, and 2^nd, after his death or disappearance, Hawley McCotter, and went to Kansas. Dan Jr., bought of James Bunker the Watkins five acre field in 1852, but sold it to Moses Holcomb the same year.

WAUGH, ARCHIBALD BURNET, another brother of Gideon, a one-handed man, received of Gideon a deed to the Holden farm, but sold it the same year to William W. Arnold, and removed to Michigan. He was unmarried.

WAUGH.

Mr. Frank A. Waugh, of Amherst, Mass., has added to the Waugh history. [From another source we learn that the name was pronounced, not as it is in America, but "Wagh" with the guttural "g", as pronounced by the Germans.]

It has always been the tradition in this family that John Waugh and his son Alexander came to this country from Scotland. Of course the name is Scottish and not Irish, though the family may have tarried a few years in Northern Ireland after leaving Scotland. A good many Scotch families did that way. [On account of religious persecutions, many Scotch families emigrated to Ireland, and in later years to this country, becoming known as the "Scotch-Irish".]

It is understood that John Waugh and his son Alexander, for example, remained two years in the vicinity of Boston after arriving in this country and before settling permanently at Litchfield, Connecticut. They may have stopped off temporarily in Ireland the same way, but there is no doubt that the family was originally Scotch. Mr. Frank Waugh a son of Albert F., and grandson of Dan Waugh, Sr., sent copies of records taken from his grandfather’s family Bible.

Births.

Dan Waugh,	born Aug. 21, 1801.
Abigail Elizabeth Hovey,	July 21, 1816.
Marion Bradfoot Waugh,	April 19, 1824.
Dan Waugh, Jr.,	Oct. 6, 1827. [These last two were children of Albert Freeman Waugh, Oct. 17, ‘37 [a first wife, name unknown.]
Clarissa Elizabeth Waugh,	March 24, 1840.
Sydney Horace Waugh,	Dec. 21, 1841.
Emogene Letitia Waugh,	Sept. 6, 1843.
Lurana Elizabeth Waugh,	June 4, 1847.
Frances Emily Waugh,	Sept. 9, 1850. [Last six were children of Abigail [Hovey] Waugh.]

Marriages.

Dan Waugh and Abigail Hovey,	Jan. 1, 1837.
Marion B. Waugh and Mortimer Allen,	Aug. 18, 1842.
Dan Waugh, Jr., and Mary Coltrin,	Aug. 28, 1850.
Emogene L. Waugh and Alvan B. Bliss,	Feb. 11, 1864.
Albert F. Waugh and Lana Beeler,	June 3, 1868.
Marion B. [Waugh] Allen and Hawley McCotter,	June, 1865.

Deaths.

Clarissa Elizabeth Waugh,	Sept. 3, 1842.
Dan Waugh, Jr.,	May 25, 1857.
Sydney Horace Waugh,	Aug. 22, 1860.
Frances Emily Waugh,	Oct. 13, 1861.
Lurana Elizabeth Waugh,	Oct. 21, 1861.
Marion B. [Waugh-Allen] McCotter,	Nov. 8, 1868.
Dan Waugh, Sr.,	Oct. 2, 1878.
Alvan B. Bliss,	Sept. 24, 1884.

[Another correspondent says that the first wife of Dan Waugh, Sr., was Irene Smedley. Dan Waugh emigrated to McPherson, Kansas.]

WEEKS, JAMES, whose line runs back through John, Abel, James, Samuel, to Francis, the first American ancestor, who came from England in 1635. He was born in New York City Nov. 22, 1803. The name of his first wife is unknown, but she died in New York, leaving a daughter Henriette. His second wife was Henriette Schatzell, or something like it, and they had children, John, James, Elbert T., Frances L., Cornelia, Charles, Harriet, Azelia and Almeda. This wife died Feb. 20, 1852, at the age of thirty-six. For his third wife he married Hannah Morse, of Camden, and had daughters Laura and Ida. She died and he married her sister, Sarah and who died October 14, 1906, without issue.

Mr. Weeks was induced by Samuel Morgan to come to Camden and he worked for him a year, then kept the hotel at Samtown, then hauled ashes for the ashery. In 1851 he bought a small piece of land at Samtown and in 1852, the Manderville farm. He sold this and in 1853 bought the 40 acre piece next north of where Eugene Reynolds lived at the time of his death. In 1860 he sold this and bought the Webb Calkins farm and lived there until he removed to Kipton and lived in the Lucy Lee house until his death Jan. 28, 1890.

History of his children:

Henriette,	born in New York, Sept. 15, 1826, married Walter G. Scott of Camden, Dec. 29, 1846, and died in Kipton, March 8, 1910.
John James	married Ann Eliza Hurd, of Camden, March 8, 1855, and died in Michigan Feb. 11, 1901, aged 70 or 71.
Elbert T.,	married, 1^st, Malvina Allen, of Henrietta, who died July 11, 1862. He married, 2^nd, Maria Cook, and died in Wheeler, Michigan, Jan. 24, 1917, at the age of 83.
Frances,	born in 1837, married Charles Allen and died in 1857.
Harriet	became the first wife of Newell Cook, of Camden, and Cornelia the second wife.
Charles	married Pearl Hurst, of Wakeman, and died Jan. 19, 1878, at the age of 29.
Azelia	married, Aug. 10, 1868, Ed Fenn, and died in Clarksfield.
Almeda	married, Feb. 19, 1870, George Hales, of Camden.
Laura	died unmarried.
Ida	married Frank Williams, of Camden, and lives in Elyria.

Weeks, James Harvey, known as "Harvey", no near kin of the other James, "Uncle Jimmie", as he was known, probably lived at Camden Center where he owned land in 1851. In 1852 he and Charles Downing sold 12 ½ acres of land at the Center to Obadiah Bowen. His wife was Laura Bowen, a sister of Obadiah Bowen and of the wife of Charles Downing. Mr. Weeks moved to Kipton after the railroad was built, and lived in the Earl Morgan house. He acted as deputy postmaster, under John Scott. He had children, Elizabeth, Adelaide, Orcelia, Simon and Frank. He was born in New York State May 22, 1790, and died in Elyria Feb. 27, 1871. A granddaughter, Mrs. Laura Stout, of Topeka, Kansas, wrote a letter which gives something of the history of the family, which we quote. " I was born in May, 1862, and the earliest recollection I have of visiting Grandma Weeks was at Ridgeville. I must have been five or six years old, perhaps younger, and they must have left there soon after, as I remember visiting in Elyria as early as seven years of age. As I remember they lived in a large house at Ridgeville, had the post-office, small store and country tavern they called it, at that place. There were few other houses there, not over five or six in sight. I know it seemed to be in the country. Perhaps after this town grew a little they called it Shawville, but I am sure it was Ridgeville then and I think the old family burying ground was there and my Aunt Elizabeth who died in the Newburgh Asylum, was buried there, also my Aunt Adelaide who died many years later at San Antonio, Texas. The Simon you speak of died when 21 years old, was drowned in N. Y., where he went for a visit. I was there in Elyria when he was shipped home. I could not have been more than seven years old at that time, and my Grandfather Harvey as he was called, I do not remember the name of James, died either a short time before or after this happened, because my grandmother Laura [I was named for her] was down town running a dressmaker shop, with her youngest child Frank left at home [he is only four years older than I], where I visited her many times between the ages of ten and 16 years. - - - - - She died when I was about 22 years old and had returned to Hayes, Kansas, and my mother went back to Ohio at that time. * * * My mother, Orcelia Weeks - wife of Stephen Gager - was born April 2, 1840, Philadelphia, Jefferson Co., N.Y., died Nov. 4, 1920, at Wichita, Kansas, a Masonic Home."

Frank Weeks was in New York City when the letter was written.

WELCH, SAMUEL, born August 27, 1797, married Elizabeth Billings [born Sept. 21, 1797]. They came from Aurora, Erie County, N.Y., to Camden, and in 1845, removed to Wakeman. He bought 20 acres where Albert Todd lives, on the Butler Road, and lived there. According to his tombstone, in Camden cemetery, he died in Camden June 11, 1868, although another date, Sept. 26, 1869, is found in history. The wife died Oct. 2, 1874. In Camden they lived south of the Bostwick Ingersoll place.

They had children:

Russell,	born in 1818, married Louisa Pike and died in Michigan in 1866. In 1852 he bought the 13 acres where George Miller used to live, and sold it to David Morgan in 1858 and was then living in Michigan. In 1856 Louisa Welch received of Samuel Morgan a deed of land south of Samtown, but sold a part to Edwin E. Massey and the remainder back to Morgan in 1858.
Daniel,	born in 1824, married Lucy A. Bates, daughter of Hiram Bates of Camden, Dec. 25, 1845. They lived on the Wiborn farm in Wakeman, moved to Iowa, returned to Wakeman and lived on the Butler Road on the Peabody farm, then removed to Michigan, then to Iowa, and finally to Michigan, where he died July 16, 1910.

They had children:

Irwin A.,	born Nov. 5, 1846, married Sarah M. Aldrich April, 1867.
Ruth A.,	born July 9, 1849, married Henry F. Hand, of Wakeman, July 9, 1868, and died Nov. 5, 1935, in Camden.
Eliza C.,	born July 27, 1851.
James L.,	born June 4, 1853, married Luella Aldrich April 6, ’76.
Julia E.,	born Nov. 25, 1855, married Sterling Green, of Camden, Nov. 8, 1880, died July 21, 1923.
Lucevia,	born March 13, 1859, married William Brown, Oct. 17, ‘75.
Alice A.,	born Nov. 8, 1860, married Herbert T. Cross July 7, 1876.
Alvarado L.,	born Nov. 28, 1862,married Emily Dickson Nov. 20, ‘e82.
Dilla A.,	born Oct. 20, 1866, married Llewellyn R. Lawrence June 5, 1890.
Herbert A.,	born Sept. 9, 1869, married Clarie Loomis Sept. 8, ‘92.

Oscar F.,	born 1826, married Marion Morgan, of Camden, 1853, lived east of Wakeman, and died suddenly in the field.
Dighton B,	born in 1828, married Annie Bates, a daughter of Hiram, and died in Iowa in 1901.
Betsy,	born in 1830, died unmarried in 1874.
Eunice,	born in 1832, married Harvey Billings and died in Iowa.
Nehemiah,	born in 1834, married Betsy Cook, and died at his home in Wakeman, in 1914.
Mary A.,	born in 1836, married Enoch Bell and lived in So. Dakota.
Alpheus,	born in 1839, married Lucy Martin and died in Wakeman in 1872.

WELLS, DAVID, is said to have come to Camden in 1833, but he was surely one of the residents when the township was organized in 1835. He was born August 22, 1807, where, we do not know, and died in Kipton Nov. 25, 1896. His wife, was Cynthia Eddy, sister of Reuben Eddy. She was born August 19, 1810 and died July 5, 1885. They were married June 18, 1835. He bought the Henry Hand farm on a contract, which he received in 1840 and which was treated as a deed, the compensation being $400, for the portion on the east side of the road, consisting of 73 acres. In 1860 H. K. House bought the farm. The house stood across the road from the brick one, and was burnt. The barn which Mr. Wells built in 1836, is yet standing, in a dilapidated form. Mr. Wells removed from here to Berlin, then Brownhelm, but lived at the home of John Scott for some years. His children were Allen W., born in Kipton [Camden] Aug. 14, 1836, became a doctor and went south: Jane, who married a Dr. Peck and lived in Philadelphia, Ohio: Madison ["Maddie"], who married Augusta Bates, a daughter of Bennett. He died in the army: Homer, went to Kansas.

Wells, Mrs. John [Ada C. Moore] enrolled in Oberlin College 1857-62. was from Camden.

Wells, Henry T., was a director in Dist. No. 7 in 1855 and removed in 1858.

WHEELER, COONRAD, wife Clarissa, bought the south end of the Earl Howell farm in 1850 and sold it to C. C. Burt in 1856.

WHIPPLE, WILLIAM E., was a director in Dist. No. 7 in 1855.

WHITE, WASHINGTON, lived here in 1875. He married, 1^st, Lydia Wightman, 2^nd, Mary Crandall, daughter of Henry.

WHITFORD, WILLIAM, in 1846 bought of David Whitford 50 acres of the Gibbs farm and sold it to Origen Hamon in 1849. In 1852 he bought the Clarence Searles farm and the south part of the Roy Radcliffe farm. In 1851 he sold the home farm of Barzillai Gibson.

William Whitford worked as a farm hand in Florence and married Hannah Harrison, of Florence, a woman twenty years his senior. They lived in Florence, Wakeman and Clarksfield. He was a harness maker and had a shop in Wakeman. He bought a farm in Wakeman in 1854. The wife died in Illinois in 1879. There is a possibility that there were two men of the name.

WHITNEY, JOHN R., was the progenitor of a goodly number of residents, past and present, of Camden. The Whitney Genealogy has been traced back for several hundred years, and connected to a number of families of royal and aristocratic origin, by Hallam Spencer Whitney, of Cleveland, and the author of this history.

Begin with Turstin, "the Fleming", or Turstin de Wigmore. II Eustace, son of Turstin. III Sir Robert de Whitney, a direct descendant of Eustace. IV Sir Eustace, son of Sir Robert. V Sir Eustace. VI Sir Robert de Whitney. VII Sir Robert.

VIII Sir Robert. IX Sir Eustace. X Sir Robert. XI James Whitney. XII Robert Whitney. XIII Sir Robert, knighted in 1553. XIV Robert. XV Thomas. XVI John Whitney was born in 1583. In 1635 John Whitney, with his wife Elinor and five sons came to New England, and settled at Watertown, Mass. The line from this John and Elinor is Joshua, William, William Thomas, Gen. William to John R., the Camden settler. Gen. William and other men, were first settlers in Binghamton, New York.

John R. Whitney was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was born in Hillsdale, N.Y. He married 1^st, Catherine Schoonover, and had children, William W., John R., Hiram, Rachel, Calvin, Joshua, Henry S., Caroline, besides some who died in infancy. He married, 2^nd, Sallie Spencer, and had Mary, Lucretia, Elisha, Warren W., and Warner S., twins, and Frank R., besides Calista, Elydia, Olimena, Ross, Ambrosia, who died young, and Rosena, who died at the age of nineteen. Of these children we are interested in those who became Camden residents; William W., Hiram, Calvin, Joshua, Henry S., Elisha, Warren and Warner. This list shows how Camden might have been pretty well sprinkled with Whitneys. In a like manner the New England states and others were sprinkled with Whitneys, as John Whitney of Watertown had twenty-nine grandsons.

Whitney, William W., born April 9, 1807, came to Camden in 1834, with a wife and three children, and settled on the Samuel Hardy farm, but later removed to the John Broder house, where he died Nov. 15, 1872. His wife was Ann Sigsworth, daughter of Thomas, who lived in Binghamton, but came to Camden in 1833. She died April 30, 1870.

They had children:

Catherine,	born in 1829, married Charles Hardy and died in 1904.
Mary,	married Elias Brewer.
William ["Little Bill"],	born Aug. 8, 1832, died Jan. 30, 1896, married Elizabeth Mileham, born in Arkansas in 1844, died Oct. 5, 1901. They lived on the Otto Geist farm. They had children: John M., born Aug. 11, 1865, married Amy Holden and died. Charles, born June 14, 1867, married, 1^st - - Ross, with a number of marriages since her death. Martha, born March 7, 1872, married Darwin Derby. Frankie, born Oct. 2, 18--, married Lloyd Green. Bertha, born Oct. 2, 1887, married LaFayette Simonson.
Hannah,	married Dec. 21, 1854, Lewis Mosher.
Jane,	born Feb. 3, 1848, married Thomas Guernsey, and died March 13, 1900.
Thomas,	married the widow, Philena Granger. According to the tombstone he was born in 1840, and died in 1918. A relative said that was wrong, as he was older than John.
John F.,	born in 1842, died in 1918, married Mary Dent.
Samuel H.,	born Jan. 12, 1845, died May 17, 1908. He married Ruth Arnold. Lewis Whitney, of Kipton, is his son.
Reuben E.,	born 1848, died March 7, 1877, married Isabelle Davidson, who later married Frank Sigsworth. William R. Whitney is their son.

Calvin Whitney came to Camden in company with Hiram Whitney and William W. Cook, in 1834. He married Emma L. Morse, daughter of Benjamin, and once lived at Samtown, in the old church which had been made over into a dwelling. He died July 24, 1892, at the age of 77. His children were:

Caroline,	married Egbert Squires and lived in Cleveland.
George,	married Alice Guernsey, and died in Michigan in 1922.
Will K.,	married Ella Whitney, daughter of William E., and died in Kipton May 25, 1917. Mrs. Guy Morgan and Mrs. Dean Morgan are his daughters. His sons, Clayton and Ernest are dead.
Charles A.,	married, 1^st, Lillian Rhodes, 2^nd, Elvira Collins and is deceased, May 21, 1914.
Alice,	married, 1^st, Walter Chapman, 2^nd, Wm. Wallhead.
Lizzie.	married, 1^st, - -Locke, 2^nd, Frank Stone.
Olive Anne	married Anos Collingwood, of Clarksfield and died in New London.

Hiram Whitney was born May 24, 1812. He married, 1^st, Charlotte Appleby [born in 1812 and died Jan. 25, 1839] and had sons who grew to maturity, Henry and Hiram, besides three children who died young. In 1834 they moved to Camden,

in company with William W. Cook and family, each man furnishing a horse to make up a team. Calvin Whitney started with them, but left them and make a quicker trip, being in Elyria when they arrived there. From Elyria to Camden there was only a blazed trail. [Along the trail trees had a patch of bark hewed off.] The women rode on horseback, after the wagon became mired and had to be abandoned, and this was at dark. Mrs. Whitney carried her baby in her arms, but a low limb swept her from the horse, so Mr. Whitney rode and carried the baby. As to the result of the journey, read the Cook history on page 29.

Hiram Whitney bought the Fanny Tennant from in 1837 and sold it in 1844. In 1845 he bought the Charles Hill farm, or a part of it, and sold it to John Cannan in 1846. He lived in Wellington some of the time, but removed to Henrietta Hill in the spring of 1847. He bought a farm of 103 acres and lived at the southeast corner, where he carried on a store, post office and tavern, as well as his farm. He had just gotten his debts paid when he was killed by the kick of a horse, June 4, 1853, being forty-one years of age. Of his sons, Henry, born in Pennsylvania, May 2, 1833, married Sarah Brown April 12, 1860 and died in Henrietta June 1, 1896. Hiram, Jr., born Sept. 1, 1835, married, 1^st, Hannah Shay, 2^nd, Effie Shay, in Penna., and died in Penna., Aug. 5, 1899, without issue. Henry had children, Lewis, Marka, Myrtle, Charles, Arthur and Ellen. Hiram Whitney’s wife died, and he married, 2^nd, Mary Louise Juckett, daughter of Ebenezer Juckett, who lived in Camden. They had children, Eli Hannibal, Elmina, Louise, Lottie E., James V., Jason D., Charles Hardy and Anna Marilla.

Whitney, Joshua, son of John R., born Sept. 5, 1819, and died July 7, 1887, in Pennsylvania. He married, in Pennsylvania, Mehitable Head, Dec. 22, 1845. They came to Camden, where he bought the Tom Barnes farm in 1857, and sold it the next year. He removed to Michigan, and later, back to Pennsylvania. He had children, Caroline, John H., William B., Elliott and Emma Jane.

Henry S. Whitney, son of John R., whose mother died when he was young, went to live with an aunt in New Jersey. In 1843 he married Hannah Shay, and had children, Joshua S., and Phebe C. The wife died and he married Catherine Gunn in 1849, and had children, Margaret Ann, John R. and Lorannah. He came to Camden in 1853 and lived on the Frank Calkins farm. He died March 17, 1885. His daughter Maggie lived in Wellington in recent years.

Elisha Whitney, son of John R., was born in York, Lorain Co., Ohio, in 1836. In 1854 he received a deed of the Thomas Brumby farm from his father, and sold it to Mr. Brumby in 1858. He lived in Wakeman, and there married Sarah Erskin, Jan. 1, 1859. They removed to Wood County, Ohio, and lived for 23 years, then moved to Michigan. The wife died in 1898. He remarried and died May 28, 1909. They had a family of eight children. The daughter Mary, came to Kipton and lived at Roswell Hardy’s, and married Vincent Whitney, of Kipton, and lived in Kipton until the death of Vincent; she married, 2^nd, George Thompson, and lives in Michigan.

Warren W. Whitney, son of John R., born Aug 15, 1839, in Ohio, married Frances Farrel and removed to Missouri and Kansas, where he died in 1917.

Warner Whitney, the twin brother of Warren, was brought up in Camden by Sylvia Spencer, some connection of his mother, and he went by the name of Warner Spencer. He married Naomi Waite, of Wellington, removed to Michigan and died there in 1912. He and his foster mother lived in a house which stood across the road from the Herbert Howe farm. John R. Whitney may have come to Camden soon after his sons, and then removed, for a time, as he apparently lived in Rochester Township in 1842. He later owned 25 acres of the Thomas Brumby farm, and perhaps died there, on November 10, 1857.

Frank Rodman Whitney, son of John R., born in Rochester, July 16, 1842, served in the army, and settled in Michigan, where he married Eliza Waggoner, and died in 1925.

Whitney, Rev. Hallam, a cousin once removed, of John R., married his first cousin, Elizabeth P. Morse. He died in 1872, and his widow with two children, Florrie E., and Vincent P., came to Kipton and lived in the William Brumby house. She was born March 16, 1816, and died Dec. 2, 1888. Florrie, born in 1848, died Sept. 16, 1889. Vincent born Feb. 24, 1856, died Oct. 5, 1889. He married Mary Ann Whitney, daughter of Elisha.

Mrs. Hallam Whitney, Mrs. Calvin Whitney and Mrs. Samuel Hardy were sisters, daughters of Benjamin Morse.

Mr. and Mrs. Hallam Whitney had other children, Sarah, Carrie, Frances, Olive Anna.

Whitney, Arvy [no kin of the John R. family], was a son of Elisha and Marian [Eaton] Whitney, and was born in Rensselaer County, N.Y., March 10, 1802. He married, 1^st, Lucinda Remington January 28, 1823. He came to Ohio in 1840. He lived in Camden south of the Center, on the Obitts farm, on the east side of the road. He was a blacksmith. He married 2^nd, the widow Campbell of Camden, who had sons Frank and John and a daughter, Clara. He started for Amherst one day, but took his own life. He must have been married three times. He had a daughter, Martha, a half-sister of the other children, who married Jefferson Wood. He had other children, William E., Climena J., Ezra, Lavina and Norval, half-brother of William E., so Martha and William were children of the first marriage, undoubtedly.

CORRECTION.

By the first marriage to Lucinda Remington, the children were:

William E.,	born Nov. 26, 1827, died Oct. 19, 1911.
Climena,	born July 28, 1828, died Aug. 27, 1854.
Lovina,	born April 1, 1832, died Aug. 10, 1894.
Ezra,	born April 8, 1836. These were all born in Clarendon, Orleans County, New York.

By the second marriage, to Mrs. Campbell, March 5, 1845, there were:

Martha Lucinda,	born March 18, 1846, died March 4, 1915.
Norval,	born May 2, 1848.

Climena Whitney married John H. Scott, of Camden in 1842.

William E. Whitney married Mary Higley Dec. 16, 1848, at Rockport, Ohio. He bought the Ray Searls farm in 1853, sold it to William Bailey in 1856, and bought it back in 1858. In 1851 he bought the Mrs. Groatt farm and sold it in 1853.

He had children:

Eliza J.,	born Oct. 6, 1849, died Feb. 19, 1858.
Ella J.,	born Sept. 19, 1851, married Will K. Whitney June 28, 1873, and died June 4, 1923.
Elmer J.,	born Aug. 26, 1853, died May 4, 1901.
Melvin H.,	born Aug. 10, 1856, died Jan. 28, 1884.
Climena J.,	born April 16, 1859, married Joseph M. Flickinger, of Camden, and died Aug. 30, 1917.
George R.,	born Oct. 24, 1861.
Arvy I.,	born May 18, 1864.
Juliette,	born Sept. 22, 1865, married Thomas Crabtree, died Jan. 7, 1908.
Bertha M.,	born Sept. 17, 1867, married W. H. Turner, June 11, 1891, died Nov. 6, 1909.
Maurice Burton,	born July 24, 1869, married Myrtle Rogers 1891, died July 16, 1902.

William E. Whitney moved from the Searls farm to Kipton, but returned to the same farm in 1864.

Lavina Whitney, daughter of Arvy, married March 30, 1852, Curtis Bailey, of Amherst.

Ezra Whitney, married and lived in Amherst, but removed to Iowa.

Norval Whitney married Emeline Bayless.

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