Family:Whitney, Ransford (1796-1856)

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Ransford Whitney (Samuel), son of Samuel and Martha (-----) Whitney, was born about 6 Feb 1796, Norwalk, CT, and died 15 Sep 1856, Millbury, MA, aged 60 years 7 months 9 days, of heart disease.[1]

He married 7 Aug 1823, Framingham, MA, Eunice Parmenter,[2] daughter of Elias Buckley and Eunice (Brown) Parmenter. She was born about 24 Oct 1804, Framingham MA, and died 2 Feb 1864, Millbury, MA, aged 59 years 3 months 8 days, of inflammation of the bowels.[3]

Both are buried in Millbury Central Cemetery, Millbury, MA.

Children of Ransford and Eunice (Parmenter) Whitney:

i. Clarissa Whitney, b. ca. 1825; d. 12 Apr 1914, Millbury, MA; m. ("of Millbury" int. 30 Jun 1849, Grafton, MA[4]) 26 Jul 1849, Millbury, MA, Francis W. Sawyer of Grafton, b. ca. 1828, son of William and Sarah (-----) Sawyer.[5]
ii. Alden Whitney, b. ca. 1827, Oxford, MA; m. Lydia M. Gregory.
iii. Frederick Whitney, b. ca. 1829, Marlborough, MA; m.(1) Elizabeth Thornton; m.(2) Melinda G. Bryant; m.(3) Sarah A. (Fitts) Ford; m.(4) Cordelia (Slocum) Rice; m.(5) Mary Ella Temple.
iv. Francis Whitney, b. ca. 1830; m.(1) 23 Nov 1867, Shirley, MA, Nancy (Freeman) Sutton, dau. of Whipple and Susan (-----) Freeman; m.(2) 22 Oct 1875, Grafton, MA, Mary E. Flagg.
v. Harriet Whitney, b. ca. 1831; m. 20 or 21 Nov 1848, Grafton, MA, Ithiel P. Farnum, b. ca. 1825, Grafton, MA, son of David and Betsy (-----) Farnum.[6]
vi. Edwin Dean Whitney, b. 5 Mar 1833, Princeton, MA; m. Eliza Jane Brown.
vii. George Washington Whitney, b. 16 Sep 1836, Sterling, MA; m.(1) Jane Phetteplace; m.(2) Elizabeth Munyan.
viii. Sarah Jane Whitney, b. ca. 1838, Lancaster, MA; d. 16 Dec 1858, Millbury, MA, aged 20 years; m. 3 Jan 1854, Millbury, MA, Abram Pierce, b. ca. 1833, Millbury, MA, son of Abraham and Elmirah (-----) Pierce.[7]
ix. Eliza J. Whitney, b. ca. 1841, MA; not in family in 1855.
x. Melvina Whitney, b. ca. 1843, MA; not found in 1870 or 1880; no marriage or death record found in MA.
xi. Alfred Whitney, b. ca. 1845, Millbury, MA; d. 5 Jul 1870, Northborough, MA, aged 23 years, of spinal disease;[8] unmarried.

Notes

His parents Samuel and Martha (-----) Whitney are named in his death record, but nothing has been found to identify such a couple having children in 1796 in Norwalk, CT. His son George's death certificate says that Ransford was born in Newark, NJ.

It seems remotely possible that his parents could have been Samuel6 and Eunice (Wellman) Whitney of Jamaica, VT; that man's second wife and step-mother of his older children was Martha (Parmenter) Whitney.

Census

131 166 Ransford Whitney 58 M - Soap Manufctr. Conn. Unice Whitney 48 F - Mass. Edwin Whitney 22 M - Jeweller " Melvina Whitney 12 F - Conn. Alfred Whitney 10 M - Conn.

1881 2093 Susannah Gale 76 F - Mass. James " 33 M - $1000 " 2094 Eunice Whitney 56 F - " Edwin " 26 M - Turner " George " 28 M - Mule Spinner " Eliza J. " 18 F - " Melvina " 17 F - " Alfred " 15 M - "

References

1.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 104, page 169.

2.^  "Ransford [Whitney] and Eunice Perminter [Parminter, int.], [married] Aug. 7, 1823," according to Vital Records of Framingham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: 1911).

3.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 176, page 264.

4.^  "Clarisa [Whitney] of Millbury and Francis Sawyer, int. June 30, 1849," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Grafton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, MA: The Systematic History Fund, 1906).

5.^  "Clarissa [Whitney] (d. Ransford and Eunice, a. 23) and Francis Sawyer of Grafton, [married] July 26, 1849," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Millbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (1903). Also, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 38, page 355.

6.^  "Harriet [Whitney] (d. Ransford and Eunice, a. 17) and Ithiel P. Farnum, [married] Nov. 21, 1848," according to Franklin P. Rice, ed., Vital Records of Grafton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, MA: The Systematic History Fund, 1906).

7.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 71, page 245..

8.^  "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004; volume 231, page 292.


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