Enoch STAPLES

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Elmira WHITNEY

(1) Whitney Research Group: "Elmira WHITNEY, b. 13 Nov 1813, Phillips, ME; m. before 1840, Enoch Staples." 
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Notes

Updated January 26, 2016. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Madrid: Page 318; September 14, 1850.

Enoch STAPLE is head of household, married to Almira [WHITNEY] STAPLE. He is 38 years old, born in Maine and is a farmer with real estate value at $300. His wife's son Isaac S. STAPLE (age 15, born in Maine) is also in the household. A second family is included within the household, George STAPLE (age 80, born in New Hampshire) and Phebe STAPLE (age 74, born in New Hampshire).

(2) 1860 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips (Phillips Post Office): Page 25, June 27, 1860.

Enoch STAPLE is head of household, married to Elmira [WHITNEY] STAPLE. He is 49 years old, born in Maine and is a farmer with real estate valued at $1,100 and personal estate valued at $500. Phebe K. STAPLE (age 7, born in Maine, unknown relation) also resides in the household.

(3) 1870 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Sandy River Township (Green Vale Post Office): page 3; June 14, 1870.

Enoch STAPLES is head of household, married to Almira W. [WHITNEY] WHITNEY. He is 59 years old, born in Maine and is a millman with real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $700. Phebe HIGHS [?] (age 17, born in Maine) also resides in the household.

(4) 1880 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Farmington: Supervisor's District 1st; Enumeration District 70; page 3; June 2nd, 1880.

Enoch STAPLES is head of household, married to Elmira [WHITNEY] STAPLES. He is 69 years old and was born in Maine, with his father born in New Hampshire and his mother born in Maine. He is a miller. Georgie MORSE (age 23, born in Maine, keeping house) also resides in the household.

(5) Whitney Research Group.

- "Elmira WHITNEY, b. 13 Nov 1813, Phillips, ME; m. before 1840, Enoch STAPLES. Child, paternity unknown: Isaac Smith WHITNEY, b. Jul 1834, ME; m. Mary Eliza MITCHELL."

(6) Sedgeley, Geo. B., Micah Whitney, Revolutionary Soldier and His Twelve Children Settled Early in Philips, Maine; Jacob and Joseph Whitney Came to Phillips 1792; Salmon Whitney Appeared in Letter E Plantation 1810 (Farmington, Maine: The Knowlton & McLeary Co., Printers, 1943).

- "Enoch Staples, a man of large physique and great physical strength; weighed 325 pounds; dropped dead while working in his grist mill at Fairbanks, Maine."

(7) Our Pioneering Families, Genealogies of Whitney, Groathouse and Lignitz, researched and compiled by Vivian Gail Morrow Wade, Dec. 1986, first edition. Self-published manuscript available at DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 87.