Lydia WHITNEY

Father: Micah WHITNEY
Mother: Hannah COBB

                                  _Nathaniel WHITNEY ___
                  _Abel WHITNEY _|
                 |               |_Sarah FORD __________
 _Micah WHITNEY _|
|                |                _Micah CANE __________
|                |_Mary CANE ____|
|                                |______________________
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|--Lydia WHITNEY
|
|                                 _Chipman COBB ________
|                 _Andrew COBB __|
|                |               |_Elizabeth INGERSOLL _
|_Hannah COBB ___|
                 |                _Daniel GREEN ________
                 |_Hannah GREEN _|
                                 |_Mary BLOOM __________

Notes

Updated September 23, 2013. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Vital Records of Gorham, Maine. Maine Genealogical Society, Special Publication No. 7, Compiled by Marquis F. King, Second Edition. Picton Press, Camden, Maine 1991. Birth recorded on page 172.

(2) U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Lydia WHITNEY
- Location: Phillips, Franklin Co., Maine, USA
- Age: 63
- Place of Birth: Maine
- Month in Which the Person Died: June [1849]
- Cause of Death: Consumption
- Number of Days Ill: 12 Months

(3) Whitney Research Group.

- "Lydia WHITNEY, b. 3 or 8 Feb 1785, Gorham, ME, or 9 Feb 1785, Phillips, ME; d. Jun 1849, Phillips, ME; unmarried. She is buried in the Field Cemetery in Phillips."

(4) The History of Gorham Maine, by Hugh D. McLellan, Picton Press, Camden, ME (originally published 1903 by Smith & Sale, Portland, ME), 1992. Page 834.

(5) 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 65.

- "never married, lived with bro.-Ebenezer; died in old age."

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Additional Notes.

Mayflower lineage: Howland/Tilley -1; Hope Howland -2; Hope Chipman -3; Samuel Cobb -4; Chipman Cobb -5; Andrew Cobb -6 (DAR/SAR ancestor); Hannah Cobb -7; Lydia Whitney -8.