Family:Whitney, Alvah Spaulding (1822-1863)
Alvah Spaulding7 Whitney (Josiah6, Hezekiah5, Hezekiah4, Joseph3, John2, Henry1), son of Josiah6 and Sarah (Spaulding) Whitney, was born 10 Feb 1822, Wolcott, VT, and died 21 Jan 1863, VA.
He "of Lowell" married, 20 Oct 1846, Lowell, MA, Idris F. Richardson of Lowell, daughter of William and Hannah (-----) Richardson. She was born about 1826 and died after 1874.
Phoenix says the following: "Alvah Spaulding Whitney ... went to Lowell, Mass., where he married, 20 Oct. 1846, Idris Richardson, of Lowell, formerly of Stowe, Vt. After his marriage, he lived successively in Wolcott, Vt.; Lowell, Mass., again; Craftsbury, Vt.; Hyde Park, Vt; and again in Wolcott. He enlisted, 11 Aug. 1862, in the Union army, and died in Virginia, 21 Jan. 1863, and was buried there. She was living at Lowell, in 1874.
Children of Alvah Spaulding7 and Idris (Richardson) Whitney:
i. Sarah M. Whitney, b. Lowell, MA; d. Wolcott, VT, when young. ii. Sylvia Whitney, b. Wolcott, VT; living 1874, Lowell, MA. iii. Ida Whitney, b. Lowell, MA; living 1874, Lowell, MA; unmarried. iv. Julia Whitney, b. Craftsbury, VT; living 1874, Lowell, MA; unmarried. v. Helen Whitney, b. Craftsbury, VT; living 1874, Lowell, MA; unmarried. vi. Nellie Whitney, b. Hyde Park, VT; living 1874, Lowell, MA; unmarried. vii. Flora Whitney, b. Wolcott, VT; living 1874, Lowell, MA; unmarried.
References
- All data imported from 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), p. 353 and pp. 934-935.
1.{{note|1]} "Albah [Alvah. int.] S. [Whitney], unm., of L., a. 24y., laborer, s. Josiah and Sarah, and Idris F. Richardson, unm., of L., a. 20y., operative, d. W[illia]m and Hannah, [married] Nov. 8, 1846," according to Vital Records of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1930).
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