Elmira WHITNEY
- BIRTH: 13 Nov 1813, Phillips, Franklin Co., Maine, USA
- DEATH: 4 Dec 1896
- BIRTH: Evergreen Cemetery; Rangeley, Franklin Co., Maine, USA
Father: William Peace WHITNEY
Mother: Sarah FRANK
Family 1: Enoch STAPLES
- MARRIAGE: Bef. 1840
_Abel WHITNEY _
_Micah WHITNEY _|
| |_Mary CANE ____
_William Peace WHITNEY _|
| | _Andrew COBB __
| |_Hannah COBB ___|
| |_Hannah GREEN _
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|--Elmira WHITNEY
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|_Sarah FRANK ___________|
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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.
Almira [WHITNEY] STAPLE is married to Enoch STAPLE, head of household. She is 36 years old and born in Maine. Her 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.
Elmira [WHITNEY] STAPLE is married to Enoch STAPLE, head of household. She is 46 years old, born in Maine and is a housewife. 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.
Almira W. [WHITNEY] WHITNEY is married to Enoch STAPLES, head of household. She is 57 years old, born in Maine and is keeping house. 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.
Elmira [WHITNEY] STAPLES is married to Enoch STAPLES, head of household. She is 66 years old and was born in Maine, as were her parents. She is keeping house. Georgie MORSE (age 23, born in Maine, keeping house) also resides in the household.
- "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." Cites the Phillips, Maine, Vital Records for her birth information.
(6) Elmira STAPLES via Find a Grave
- Name: Emira STAPLES
- Birth: abt. 1813 (extrapolated from inscription)
- Death: Dec. 4, 1896
- Inscription: w/o Enoch, age 83y
- Burial: Evergreen Cemetery; Rangeley, Franklin County, Maine, USA
(7) 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).
"Elmira, daughter of William WHITNEY, born Nov. 13, 1813. She was the mother of Isaac SMITH WHITNEY who changed his name to Isaac WHITNEY SMITH; was a millman; lived in Phillips and Madrid, Maine; was the father of Charles, Fred, Daniel, Isaac and Artemas SMITH. She married 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."
(8) 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.
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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; William Whitney -8; Elmira Whitney -9.