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Whitney Family.
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827
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Chil. of Platt and Rana (Bills) Whitney.
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1439
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II. Susan Parks , b. at Sheffield, Mass., to Aug. 1822; married there, 24 Sept. 1839, by Rev. S. W. Turner, to Walter R. Holmes, a farmer, son of John and Statira (Adams) Holmes, of Salisbury, Conn., where he was born 2 Sept. 1815. They settled in Salisbury, near the Chapinville station of the Conn. Western Railroad, and were living there in 1874.
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12066
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III. Frances Bills Whitney, b. at Sheffield, Mass., 7 June 1829; married there, 1 Sept. 1847, by Rev. James Bradford, Congregational, to William Fayette Boardman, a civil engineer, of Sheffield, who was born in Salisbury, Conn., 14 Sept. 1824, son of William and Abigail (North) Boardman, afterward of Sheffield. Previous to his marriage, he had lived at Lockport, N. Y., in 1842-43; and in Egremont, Mass., in 1845-46. They went to California in 1851; lived in San Francisco till 1859; and then settled in Oakland, where she died 2 Feb. 1869, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery. He married (2d), 6 Oct. 1869, at Omaha, Nebraska, Kate Bills Holmes, a niece of his first wife, and was living at Oakland in 1874. He has been county-surveyor of Alameda County; city-surveyor of Oakland; and in 1874, was a member of the Board of Education of that city.
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12072
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Chil. of Thomas and Nancy (Whitney) Burnham.
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1440
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I. Henry Whitney Burnham, b. at Moreau, N. Y., 22 Aug. 1811; lived at Whitehall, N. Y., where he had a wife, whose name is unknown. He died while away from home, 4 Ap. 1856, and was buried at Whitehall. His widow and daughter moved west, and his mother does not know where they now live.
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12076
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II. Mark Burnham, b. at Moreau, N. Y., 4 March 1814; a farmer; settled in Princeton, Ill., in 1854, and there married, in Dec. 1859, Sarah Herrald. He died 31 July 1860, without children, and was buried in Princeton. He served as a soldier in the Mexican War. His widow married Freeman H. Robertson, and settled in Afton, Iowa.
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III. Adeline Gray Burnham, b. at Queensbury, N. Y., 10 Dec. 1815; married at Egremont, Mass., 15 Nov. 1832, Ransom Noble Karner, a farmer, who was born in Egremont, 24 Dec. 1806, son of Pliny and Rhoda (Noble) Karner. He settled in South Egremont, Mass.; where he died 11 Ap. 1863, and was buried in the South Egremont Cemetery. She lived in South Egremont, a widow, in 1874.
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