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Ross Co., Ohio, in the following Winter, and to Kingston, in Tippecanoe township, in Aug. 1838; married, 25 Dec. 1838, in Chillicothe, Ohio, by William Craton, Esq., to Mary Ressell, born in Harrisburgh, Penn., 4 Sept. 1822, dau. of Philip and Catharine (Crotzer) Ressell. They dwelt, first, in Kingston, Ohio; removed, in 1844, to Middletown, Ind.; thence to Putnam Co., and again to Tipecanoe Co., Ind.; and settled, 4 Oct. 1853, in Marion, Iowa, nine miles from Mount Pleasant, the county-seat. There his wife died, 2 March 1859, and was buried in the Hickney Cemetery. He was married (2nd), 12 Nov. 1861, in Wayne, Iowa, by Rev. Joseph B. Vernon, Methodist Episcopal, to Ann Eliza Miller, born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, 13 Sept. 1824, dau. of Milton and Cineh (Plummer) Miller. They were living near Mount Pleasant, in 1873, and he was engaged in the cultivation of his fine farm.
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VI. Esther Mary Whitney, b. in Shelby, Ohio, 10 Dec. 1819; married, 3 Aug. 1858, in Mansfield, Ohio, by Jacob Barber, after an engagement of nineteen years, to John Rogers, a waggon-maker and ship-carpenter, born in Heidlersburgh, Penn., 30 March 1816, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Moore) Rogers.1 They were living, without children, at 25 Main St., Shelby, in 1873.
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VII. Hannah Whitney, b. in Sharon, now Shelby, Ohio, 8 Nov. 1821; married, 31 Dec. 1844, in Shelby, William Henry Harrison Ashley, who was born in Phelps, N.Y., 5 May 1824, son of Jonas and Elizabeth (Eaton) Ashley. They settled in Auburn, Ohio; lived there for nine years; and then moved to Harford, Mich., where he died, 27 Sept. 1858, from an injury received while he was working in a saw-mill. He was buried in Hartford. She married (2nd), 12 Dec. 1858, in Hartford, Parling Robbins, who was born in Dunstable, Mass., 21 Ap. 1802, son of Elijah and Rebecca (Commens) Robbins. They settled in Hartford, and removed to Bangor, Mich., where they were living in 1873.
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VIII. Sarah Ann Whitney, b. in Sharon, now Shelby, Ohio, 22 Jan. 1823; went, after her mother's death, to East St. Louis, Ill., with her brother, Henry Fitch Whitney, and lived with him during his life; married, 1 Oct. 1866, in St. Louis, Mo., as his second wife, Alfred Carter Robertson, of the same city, an iron-founder and machinist, who was born in Barre, Vt., 28 May 1814, son of William and Nancy (Shepherdson) Robertson. He has been a resident of St. Louis for more than thirty years; was of the firm of Palm and Robertson, who built the first locomotives ever made in that city, and the first gas-pipers and water-pipes that were laid there. He was in the South during the war and, it is intimated, did all that he could do for the success of the confederates. His first wife
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1 They moved to Ohio in 1837; he died aged 84 years; she, aged 62.
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