Huldah WHITNEY

Father: Andrew WHITNEY
Mother: Huldah SWEETSER

Family 1: Benjamin WHITNEY

(1) Whitney Research Group: Benjamin WHITNEY... "married, 15 Apr 1853, Phillips, ME, Huldah WHITNEY daughter of Andrew and Huldah (SWEETSER) WHITNEY"

  1. Almont Benjamin WHITNEY
  2. Charles Alvano WHITNEY

Family 2: Curtis SMITH

(1) Wisconsin, Compiled Marriages for Select Counties via Ancestry.com 
                                     _Abel WHITNEY _
                    _Micah WHITNEY _|
                   |                |_Mary CANE ____
 _Andrew WHITNEY __|
|                  |                 _Andrew COBB __
|                  |_Hannah COBB ___|
|                                   |_Hannah GREEN _
|
|--Huldah WHITNEY
|
|                                    _______________
|                   _John SWEETSER__|
|                  |                |_______________
|_Huldah SWEETSER _|
                   |                 _______________
                   |_Jane RIDEOUT___|
                                    |_______________

Notes

Updated March 30, 2019. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips: Page 147; August 16, 1850.

Huldah WHITNEY is the daughter of Andrew and Huldah WHITNEY. She is 14 years old, born in Maine and is attending school.

(2) Wisconsin, Compiled Marriages for Select Counties via Ancestry.com

- Name: HULDA [Mrs] WHITING [WHITNEY]
- Spouse: Curtis A. SMITH
- Marriage Date: 4 Mar 1869
- County: Monroe
- State: WI

(3) 1870 United States Census for Wisconsin, Monroe Co., Town of Lincoln (Tomah Post Office): page 19; June 15, 1870.

Hulda [WHITNEY] SMITH is married to Curtis N. SMITH (age 46, born in New York, a farmer), head of household. Hulda is 34 years old, born in Maine and is keeping house.

(4) Monroe County newspaper (MCR), May 9, 1879, Page 5, Col 5; courtesy of Monroe County Local History Room

"Mr. Curtis SMITH, of La Grange, lately sold his farm near the water mill and having arranged matters for his wife soon to follow him by train, left her at the house of Mr. PRESCOTT of said town, and started for Nebraska, to seek a new home. He left Tomah on Tuesday, and the same night his wife died. On Wednesday about noon, Mr. Smith had arrived in Sparta, when he received news of his wife's death. He immediately returned to attend her funeral. Mrs. SMITH's health had not been good of late, yet her death was sudden and entirely unlooked for: 'Be ye also ready.'"

(5) Find a Grave

- Name: Hulda H WHITNEY SMITH
- Birth: unknown
- Death: 7 May 1879
- Burial: Greenfield Cemetery; Tunnel City, Monroe County, Wisconsin, USA
- Memorial ID: 79943083

(6) Whitney Research Group.

- "[Benjamin WHITNEY] married, 15 Apr 1853, Phillips, ME, Huldah WHITNEY daughter of Andrew and Huldah (SWEETSER) WHITNEY. She was born at Phillips, Maine, 7 Sep 1835, and died 7 May 1879, Tomah, WI. He resided Phillips, ME, and Lincoln, WI."
- "Children of Benjamin and Huldah (WHITNEY) WHITNEY: i. Almont Benjamin WHITNEY, b. 23 Jun 1856; d.s.p. 7 Jul 1880; ii. Charles Alvano WHITNEY, b. 21 Oct 1860; m. Belle Armstrong."

(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 73.

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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; Andrew Whitney -8; Huldah Whitney -9.