The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 191 through 200

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WHEELER, Joel, whose wife was Elvira Betts, a sister of Mrs. Cyrenus Beecher, of Florence township, came from Connecticut to Wakeman in 1832. He purchased of Woodward Todd 50 acres of Lot 33, north of Wakeman (George Dean farm), and lived there until he sold it in 1855. The family moved to Chicago, where the son, Leroy, was living with his wife and where was making a success as a singer. The proceeds received from the sale of the farm was invested in real estate in Chicago, but the great fire of 1871 swept away the family wealth. Soon after this Leroy died of typhoid fever, leaving a wife and two children. Besides Leroy, Mr. Wheeler had another son, Milo, who became a physician and settled in Wisconsin, and also a daughter, Laura. A few years after the fire Mr. Wheeler died, and Laura came back to Wakeman, bringing her brother’s children. She was then Mrs. Funston, a widow, and was married to Sala Todd, of Wakeman, in December 1876, or January 1877. In November 1877, Mr. Todd died and in 1883 she and her nephew, Lloyd Wheeler, moved to Kansas City, Mo.

Mrs. Joel Wheeler came to Wakeman and lived here until her death.

Mr. Wheeler was a prominent member of the Episcopal Church and was a very fine singer.

WHEELER, Asa, Jr., a son of Asa, Sr., was born in Connecticut and came to Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio, with his parents. He was married there to Olive Minor, a sister of Dan. Minor, the well known pioneer tavern keeper on Hartland Ridge. In 1818, he came to Clarksfield and later bought the "Hayesville" mills. In 1831 he bought half of Lot 47, in Wakeman. In 1840 he was living in Wakeman village and operated the mill, but probably not very long, for he bought 5 acres of land there and sold it the same year to Levi Rowland, who also operated the mill. While living in Wakeman, Mr. Wheeler took up a stray sheep and announced the fact in handbills which he had printed.

"This is to inform the people whom I much regard

That a stray sheep jumped into my yard.

As I have fed him the best of good hay,

Prove property, pay charges and take him away.

If the above sheep is for sale,

Here is your money for him without fail.

My name is A. Wheeler, as you plainly see,

And I live way down where the mill ought to be.

He was of a roving disposition and it is reported that he lived in more different houses than any other man in the country. He died in Clarksfield, Jan. 21, 1875, at the age of 81.

He had children: Sally Lovina, Bethia, Anson W., Lucretia, Mary Ann, William W., Lucy and Lemuel. The wife died in 1836, and he married Sophia, daughter of Isaac Hill, of Wakeman, Nov. 19, 1837, and they had a daughter, Betsy.

Anson W. Wheeler, son of Asa, was born in Clarksfield, Dec. 19, 1820. He married 1^st, Martha Easterly, 2^nd Mrs. Amanda Johnson, of Clarksfield. He, like his father, moved around a good deal. In 1856, he bought 29 acres of land in Lot 70, opposite the Jonah Martin farm, and sold it in 1859. He died in Clyde, Ohio, July 24, 1903.

WHITFORD, William, came to Florence and worked around as a farm hand and married Hannah Harrison, of "Harrison’s Hill" near Birmingham. She was about twenty years older than he. They lived in Wakeman, where he carried on a harness shop, and lived in the old parsonage (H. P. Draper house.) In 1854 he bought 51 acres of Lot 56 and sold it to J. F. Stoughtenburgh in 1857. In 1858, he bought 47 acres of Lot 58 (Wilkins farm). From here they moved to Clarksfield and thence to Monmouth, Ill., where the wife died March 19, 1879, at the age of nearly 80 years. He married again and died in the west.

WHITMORE, T. J., had children:

Calvin Byron,

was killed at the battle of Fisher’s Hill in the civil war.

Mina,

born July 25, 1849, married John, son of Morgan L. Chrysler, and died at Millbury, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1914.

Thomas B. ("BERT"),

born April 9, 1852, married Clara Russell, of Clarksfield and was killed in a railroad wreck Oct. 30, 1905.

Hattie,

married George Dalton, Sept. 7, 1875, and died in Cleveland, May 2, 1892. Their children are Grace, Mina (Kirshner), Edward, George, Henry and Byron.

Carrie,

living in Detroit, married 1^st, Norman Young, 2^nd , Neil Gram, 3^rd , Fred Romer.

WHITNEY, Abel, was born in Newtown, Conn., Sept. 23, 1797, one of a family of thirteen children. He married Levira T. Beecher, Oct. 2, 1821. He and his family came to Ohio in 1849, settling at Vermillion, later moving to Florence township, thence emigrating to Iowa, and about 1858, settling south of Wakeman, but a year later removing to the Burhans farm, north of the village on Lot 42. Here he died Aug. 7, 1887. The wife was born in Bridgewater, Conn., March 28, 1802, and died in Sandusky Feb. 27, 1889.

Children:

Eunice,

born in Newtown, March 7, 1824, married Charles R. Shelton, of Wakeman, April 6, 1851, and died March 4, 1898.

Ruggles,

born April 6, 1826, died in Birmingham.

Hannah,

born July 31, 1832, died Tabor, Iowa.

Charles P.,

born May 23, 1834, married Clarissa Ennes and died in Wakeman, April 6, 1890.

Frederick A.,

born in Bridgewater, Jan. 23, 1837 married Fanny Shoff, of Birmingham, Dec. 13, 1861, and lived in Birmingham until 1887, then moved to Nebraska, then to Wakeman two years later, and died May 15, 1914.

Theodore B.,

born in Bridgewater, April 21, 1840, married 1^st, Mary E. Parker, Dec. 6, 1866, and who died in 1888, 2^nd, Catherine Newhall, and died in Scotia, Nebraska, (where he had lived since 1884), Aug. 8, 1894. For some years he lived on the Whitney farm in Wakeman.

Jane Amelia,

born May 2, 1842, married William Canfield, son of Calon C. Canfield, of Wakeman, and died in Wakeman, April 4, 1921.

WILSON, James (better known as "Deacon Wilson"), was born in Woodbury, Conn., Sept. 22, 1798. He was married to Amarilla White, in Woodbury, in 1822. She was born in Woodbury, Jan. 17, 1800. The next day after the wedding, Mr. Wilson started for Ohio, alone. He worked in a woolen mill in Milan for a year, then came to Wakeman and located on a piece of land half a mile north of the center of the township. In 1827, he obtained a deed of 50 acres of Lot 44 (owned by Frank McKellogg a number of years ago). In 1837, he bought the house of Rev. Xenophon Betts, farther west. The road used to continue east from Bacon’s corners to the bank of the river, before the railroad was built, and Mr. Wilson’s house stood on this road. After the railroad was built, Mr. Wilson built a house on the road next to the railroad (where Mr. and Mrs. Freundt lived recently.)

Mrs. Wilson came to Wakeman a couple of years after her marriage. Mr. Wilson was a miller as well as a farmer and worked in the mill some of the time. He died Sept. 18, 1860, and the wife died Feb. 8, 1877. Rev. Betts, in his narrative on page 69, tells what led Mr. Wilson to sign the temperance pledge.

Children:

DeWitt Clinton,

born May 25, 1825, married 1^st, Jane McCumber, of Clarksfield in 1846, and removed to Illinois. The wife died in 1872, and he married 2^nd, (name not recorded) in 1881. He married 3^rd, in 1892, Caroline Luce, of Wakeman. He removed from Illinois to Wisconsin, where he became the editor of a number of newspapers. He served in the army during the civil war, from 1861 to 1864. He served as Representative and State Senator for Wisconsin. He died at Manston, Wis., Aug. 26, 1895. His children were: Mrs. Mary Booth (once of Wakeman), James A., of Manston, and Mrs. Frances Pool, of Sparta, Wis.

Henry,

born Jan. 11, 1828, married Mary, daughter of Joseph French, of Wakeman, and died at Groton, South Dakota, Nov. 5, 1891. He used to live west of Wakeman and had two daughters, Emma, deceased, in 1914, and Viola, (Mrs. Freundt.)

Alfred,

born June 3, 1831, married Mary McCumber, of Clarksfield, in 1863, and died at Sparta, Wis. They lived in Wakeman for a few years. He died Jan. 1, 1900.

James N.,

born March 31 1835, died in infancy.

Amanda,

born May 13, 1837, married Mortimer Johnson, of Wakeman, and died Aug. 18, 1868.

Samuel,

born April 29, 1839, was a soldier, was wounded at the battle of Chicamauga, Sept. 19, 1863, and was never heard of again.

WING, Jason, a native of Vermont, came to Wakeman and lived west of the center. He moved from here to Berlin and to Clarksfield in 1843, and lived there until his death in 1879 at the age of 86. His wife was Sally Cary, of Wakeman, and a sister of Mr. G. H. Camp. She died in 1881 at the age of 82. Mr. Wing was a tanner by trade.

His children were: Mary Ann, wife of Barna Cooper, of Clarksfield; Joseph of Wisconsin. J. Clark, of Kansas. Sumner A., who lived in Clarksfield for many years but died in Norwalk April 7, 1919.

WONSER, Levi B., came to Wakeman about 1857, and purchased 100 acres of Lot 30, and in 1863, purchased the remainder of the lot (Ed Prosser farm). His first wife was Mary Eliza Tucker, who died Dec. 25, 1874, aged about 48. In November 1875, he married Mrs. Miranda Higley, of Clarksfield. He died by his own hand, July 15, 1879, aged about 56. His children were:

Francis Marion,

born June 3, 1852, married a lady from Cincinnati, and lived in Tarrytown, N.Y.

Levi Birdsey,

born Aug. 15, 1856, married Jan. 1, 1872, Genevra, daughter of Victor Barnes, of Wakeman, and his place of residence is unknown to his relatives.

William Henry,

born July 11, 1858, married , March 15, 1876, Verna French, daughter of Bernice T., of Wakeman, and lived at Charlotte, Michigan.

Mary Elizabeth,

born May 22, 1864, married -- Morning, and lives at Salt Lake City, Utah.

WOOD, Daniel, Jr., married Hannah Root, daughter of Solomon Root, of Wakeman, Aug. 1, 1833. In 1832 he bought 50 acres of Lot 61 in Wakeman (Perry Parker farm and the F. A. Denman orchard across the road). He sold this to J.B. Sanger in 1849. He died Feb. 27, 1850, at the age of 44. His wife died at Lodi, Ohio, in 1903. They had children: Darius, Sarah Ann, and Jefferson D. The latter was born July 8, 1844, and lived in Wakeman until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted and served until the close. He married Martha Whitney, of Camden in 1870, and lived in Camden until a few years before his death on Aug. 23, 1918.

WRIGHT, Abijah Dickerson, a son of John and Betsy Wright, was born Nov. 19, 1814, in Camillus township, Onandaga county, N.Y. At the age of fourteen he went to Syracuse, N.Y., to live with a merchant and remained until he was of age. In the meantime his parents and family had moved to Medina Co., Ohio. In 1835, he came there, but spent the most of the next fourteen years in Michigan, where he bought a farm of wild land. On Nov. 18, 1849, he was married to Margaret Rhoades, of Medina county. She remained with her parents, while he went to Michigan to prepare a home. The wife died Aug. 5, 1852, and he sold the Michigan farm and bought another in Medina county, but soon sold this and bought 49 acres of the southwest part of Lot 97 in Wakeman (Foster Reigle farm), in 1853. On December 15, 1855, he married Caroline L. Conkey, widow of William Halliwell. She was born Jan. 26, 1821 in Belmont county, Ohio, and died Feb. 23, 1897. Mr. Wright died Jan. 29, 1887. By the first marriage he had a son, Orrin Abijah, born in Medina Co., Feb. 26, 1851, lived in Oakton, Virginia.

By the second marriage there were Joshua P., died in youth, and Mary E., lived in Litchfield, Ohio, unmarried.

Addenda.

CANFIELD.

1. Thomas Canfield and wife, probably Phebe Crane, of Wethersfield. They were in Milford, Conn., as early as 1646; was admitted to the church March 1, 1656. He had a home lot in 1667; was a freeman in 1669; made a sergeant of the Train Band May 1669; represented the town of Milford in the General Court in October 1674; was taxed in 1686 on r 154. The inventory of his property at his decease, Aug. 22, 1698,was r 482 - 15s- 7d.

CHILDEN.

Thomas, Jeremiah, Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary, Phebe, Mehitabel.

3 JEREMIAH, son of Thomas & Phebe, married Alice - - and resided in Milford until 1727, when he settled in New Milford. He purchased three rights of land in this town at one time, much of which was laid out when he bought, and these were additional to the one he owned as original proprietor. His wife, Alice, died Jan. 4, 1739/ 40, and he died March 18, 1739/40. (These dates mean that 1739 in the old calendar was 1740 in the present one. His four and a half rights gave him and his heirs over fifteen hundred acres of land at the end of the seventeenth century, when the last division was made.)

CHILDREN.

9 Jeremiah, 10 Azariah, 11 Alice, 12 Zeruiah, 13 Mary, 14 Samuel, 15 Thomas, 16 Jeremiah, 17 Zerubabbel, 18 Joseph. (Those numberings are the ones given in the History of Bridgewater, Milford, &c., where this history is found.)

17 Zerubabbel Canfield, son of Jeremiah, came to New Milford and married Mary, daughter of John Bostwick, 1^st, July 26, 1731. He died Aug. 18, 1770. He had a Sabbath – Day house in 1745 and hence may have then been living in Bridgewater, part of New Milford. It is said that his father put up the frame for a house …. and that he died soon after the frame was put up, and afterwards it was taken down and removed to Bridgewater and was made the first dwelling house of Zerubabbel Canfield in that part of the town. The father, Jeremiah, Sr., died Jan. 4, 1740, and therefore Zerubabbel may have settled in Bridgewater in 1741or 42.

CHILDREN.

Sarah, Betsy, Ann, Nathan, Enos, 35 Lemuel, Hannah, Daniel (born 1749, died Aug. 18, 1770, same day with his father and both buried in one grave.)

35 LEMUEL, son of Zerubabbel, married Sarah Burton Feb. 10, 1774. He lived on his father’s farm in Bridgewater.

CHILDREN.

Daniel, Ann, Burton, Charles A., 111 Augustine, Lemuel, Orlando.

111 AUGSTINE CANFIELD, married Betsy, daughter of John Canfield, Oct. 25, 1807. He was born Jan. 15, 1784. He removed to Wakeman, &c.

CANFIELD, SECOND FAMILY.

9 Canfield, Jeremiah Jr., son of Jeremiah and Alice, married Judith Mallory, of Milford, July 14, 1711. He was residing in Milford in 1748, when he deeded land to his son, David.

CHILDREN.

Jeremiah, Phebe, Mary, 204 David, Mehitabel.

204 DAVID, son of Jeremiah, Jr. and Judith – born March 7, 1725-6, married Mary Northrop, of Milford, Oct. 3, 1745. In 1748, his father obtained the half right of land in New Milford which he, Jeremiah, Jr., had received from his father, Jeremiah, Sr. X X X X

In 1754 David purchased of Job Goold, the half of 142 acres, with a dwelling house and barn on Second Hill, for L2000, old tenor, and he probably settled on this farm that spring, and remained there ten or fifteen years. By a deed we learn that he was living on Long Mountain in 1772 and had probably been there several years. He was, as near as has been ascertained, the first settler on Long Mountain at the homestead still known as the Abel (his son) Canfield place. He was made freeman in New Milford in 1755. He died Jan. 26, 1806 and his widow, Mary, died in Oct. 1809.

CHILDREN.

Mary, David, Abel, Andrew, Elijah, Ira, 212 John, Northrop, Amos, Mebitable, Eunice, Jeremiah.

212 JOHN CANFIELD, son of David, married Phebe, daughter of John Treat, March 6, 1781. She died March 3, 1801 in her 38^th year. He died Feb. 21, 1814, in his 55^th year. He lived in Bridgewater part of New Milford. He married 2^nd, Mrs. Polly Treat Betts

CHILDREN.

John E., Amasa, Mary, 238 Betsy, born March 15, 1789,(married Augustine Canfield, Oct. 25, 1807, died Feb. 25, 1861, in her 72^nd year), Alva T., Calvert, Laura, Arza, George, Phebe, Louisa. (Calvert was a doctor and removed to Pleasant Valley, near Poughkeepsie, New York. The name Calvert has been handed down for several generations in Wakeman.)

BOSTWICK, Arthur, came from Cheshire Co., of Cheshire, England, with his son, John and was an early settler in Stratford, Conn., before the year 1650. In 1659 he had a second wife, Ellen. The son, married Mary, daughter of John Brinsmead and lived in Stratford, where he died.

Children: John, Zachariah, Joseph, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane.

John, 2^nd, married Abigail --, resided in Stratford until 1708 when he settled in New Milford. He married 2^nd, Jemima, daughter of Jeremiah Canfield.

Children: John, Robert, Ebenezer, Joseph, Nathaniel, Lemuel, Sarah, Daniel, MARY, born Feb. 1715, married Zerubabel Canfield, July 26, 1731. (See Canfield history.)

TREAT, Gov. Robert was born in England in 1621; came to America in company with his brother, Richard, with Sir Richard Saltonstal and settled at Wethersfield, where his brother remained and his descendants became numerous.

Robert Treat removed to Milford with Rev. Peter Truden, the first minister, in Milford, and was then in the 18^th year of his age, being one of the first settlers in that town. He soon became a very active, influential citizen. In 1670, he was appointed Major of the Connecticut troops and Colonel in 1674, and served in the Indian Wars. In 1674, he was chosen Deputy Governor, and in 1683 Governor of the State and was annually elected to that office fifteen years, when he declined a re-election. He was afterward Deputy Governor again, so that he served the state as Governor and Deputy Governor about thirty years. His residence was in Milford, where he died July 12, 1710, in the 89^th year of his age. He married 1^st, Jane, only child of Edward Tapp, one the first settlers of Milford. She died April 8, 1703, and he married 2^nd, Oct. 24, 1705, widow, Elizabeth Bryan, who died Jan. 10, 1706.

The Governor’s name stands at the head of the list of New Milford Proprietors as Col. Robert Treat.

Children: Robert, Jane, Samuel, John, Mary, Robert, Sarah, 2^nd, Hannah, JOSEPH, Abigail, LIEUT. Joseph, born 1663, son of Gov. Robert, married Frances Bryan, of Grassy Hill, Milford. He was an original proprietor in New Milford. He died in 1731.

Children: Frances; JOSEPH, Ann, John, Sarah, Jane, Richard, Edward, Elizabeth, Samuel, Stephen.

JOSEPH, 2^nd, son of Joseph and Frances, married Hannah Buckingham, June 9, 1720. She died May 25, 1733. He married, 2^nd, Clemence, sister of his first wife, Sept. 27, 1734. He was born March 21, 1693, and died in May 1772, in his 80^th year.

Children by first wife, Joseph, JOHN, Hannah.

" " second wife, Richard, Gideon, Jane, Stephen, Clemence, Sarah, Gideon, 2^nd, Frances, Elizabeth, David.

JOHN, son of Joseph 2^nd, and Hannah, born Sept. 4, 1724, came to that part of New Milford, now Bridgewater, a young man and married Phebe, daughter of Jehiel Hawley, Oct. 3, 1750 (town record says Aug. 17, 1749). He settled in Bridgewater part of New Milford about the time of his marriage. He died May 1804, in his 80^th year.

Children: Sarah, Hannah, Abijah, Anna, Clara, John, John Hawley, PHEBE, Polly.

PHEBE, married John Canfield, of the second family, which see.

ABEL WHITNEY, of Wakeman, was the 12^th and youngest son of James and Eunice (Johnson) Whitney. James was a soldier of the Revolution, and was a son of Samuel and Hannah (Judson) Whitney. Samuel was a son of Samuel and Anne Laboree. The latter was son of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Whitney. John was son of Henry Whitney, the earliest of the family in America, born in England about 1620. Henry settled in Connecticut. Abel Whitney was born in Newtown, Connecticut 23 Sept. 1797; a blacksmith; married Oct. 1, 1821, at her father’s home in Bridgewater, Conn., by Rev. Abner Brundage, pastor of the church in Brookfield, Conn., to Elvira Tryphosa Beecher, who born in Bridgewater 28 March 1802, daughter of Raphael and Hannah (Ruggles) Beecher. They lived in Newtown (where he was an assessor in 1847) till May 7, 1849 and then removed to Wakeman, Ohio. They had children:

Daughter,

died 1831 at age of 6.

Eunice Orena,

b. Newtown 7 March 1824, m 6 April 1851, Charles R. Shelton.

Ruggles Nahum,

b. 6 April 1826, m 9 June 1848, Jane Sherman. Settled in Vermillion and in 1850 in Florence, where he died 6 Nov. 1865.

Lewis Becar,

b. 9 Feb. 1828, 1 1846.

Hannah Maria,

b. 31 July 1832, m. at Wakeman, Leverett Benedict Hill, 30^th March 1856; removed to Tabor, Iowa, soon after marriage, later to Larkspur, Colo.

Charles Philo,

b. Bridgewater 23 May 1834; lived in Wakeman till spring of 1857; a year in Birmingham; Tabor, Iowa, till 1860; Colorado and Cal. Married in Birmingham 30^th March 1870, Celinda Elizabeth, dau. of DeWitt Ennes.

Frederick Augustus,

b. Bridgewater 23, Jan. 1837, m. in Florence 8 Dec. 1860, Fanny Maria Shoff; lived Birmingham.

Theodore Beecher Whitney,

b. Bridgewater 21 April 1840, m. 6 Dec. 1866, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Zachariah Parker, lived on farm in

Wakeman.

Jane Amelia,

b. Newtown, 2 May 1842, m. in Wakeman 24 Aug. 1863, William Augustine Canfield, son of Calvert Carlon Canfield, page 89.

Letters from Isaac Hill to Miss Betsy Curtiss, of South

Britain, Conn., May 14, 1829.

The enclosed is the commencement of my letter. I had wrote a whole sheet and some things that I thought would not be interesting to you & I tore it off & had I time would copy the remainder but cant for want of time. I will not proceed to give you some account of our Ch there is at present but about 12 members but fondly we hope their number will increase. We have an excellent minister settled over us by the name of Zenaphon Betts perhaps you have seen him. I think he has been at Mrs. Smith he is about 29 years old he was from Norwalk Con. Studied divinity at New Haven he is a fine preacher and in every way agreeable we have a Sunday School & Bible Class & we have a weekly ch prayr meeting & they are becoming very interesting since I wrote the first which was in April.

I think I have good reason to hope that Sylvester my youngest son is born into the kingdom of God dear son if true it has caused joy in heaven & I doubt will cause your heart to *** with joy & I can see more than a common solemnity in some others. Pray for us that this little cloud may be in large & spread over our whole horizon & that a copius shour of Grace may descend and watter this dry and thirsty land we know B that our God is a prayr hearing God did it not appear in the time of the awakening in S.B. when I was there that God answered prayr even before it was offred up God knows the meaning of his saints the language of their groans I hope there is some praying here and we know that a praying Breath was never spent in vain if we pray repenting & believing. Perhaps as you was once some acquainted with my family some little account of it would not be all together interrsting 4 of them is marid Mariah Benjm Leverett & Ruth the last 2 since their Mothers death Ruth about that time all maried well Leverett mared Ester Strong of Woodbury perhaps you may know her She is the bearer of this Ann is teaching school Justin from home learning a trade so I have but 4 steadyly at home beside L I mention this merely to lot you see the difference in my family from what it once was but I suppose this cannot be very interesting to you I will just mention that if you wish to write to Mrs. Pierce or any of your friends you may send back by my daughter from Woodbury or by Mr. J. Sherman sooner. I should be very glad to hear of your welfare. Give my respects to your father if you think proper. Perhaps if you keep this letter to yourself it will save a good deal of conjecter & yourself some mortification. I write as a friend & trust to a friend I have some important business to do in Britain ought to have come out this spring building and other things prevents but mean if possible to come next fall I will just mention there is a number of persons who frequently write from your place out here please keep this to your self for the present.

I subscribe myself yours &c

Isaac Hill

Wakeman May 1829

Miss Betsy Curtiss

N. B. I send this in closed in a letter to my Brother B with orders not to make it publick.

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Calvin Byron,	was killed at the battle of Fisher’s Hill in the civil war.
Mina,	born July 25, 1849, married John, son of Morgan L. Chrysler, and died at Millbury, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1914.
Thomas B. ("BERT"),	born April 9, 1852, married Clara Russell, of Clarksfield and was killed in a railroad wreck Oct. 30, 1905.
Hattie,	married George Dalton, Sept. 7, 1875, and died in Cleveland, May 2, 1892. Their children are Grace, Mina (Kirshner), Edward, George, Henry and Byron.
Carrie,	living in Detroit, married 1^st, Norman Young, 2^nd , Neil Gram, 3^rd , Fred Romer.

Eunice,	born in Newtown, March 7, 1824, married Charles R. Shelton, of Wakeman, April 6, 1851, and died March 4, 1898.
Ruggles,	born April 6, 1826, died in Birmingham.
Hannah,	born July 31, 1832, died Tabor, Iowa.
Charles P.,	born May 23, 1834, married Clarissa Ennes and died in Wakeman, April 6, 1890.
Frederick A.,	born in Bridgewater, Jan. 23, 1837 married Fanny Shoff, of Birmingham, Dec. 13, 1861, and lived in Birmingham until 1887, then moved to Nebraska, then to Wakeman two years later, and died May 15, 1914.
Theodore B.,	born in Bridgewater, April 21, 1840, married 1^st, Mary E. Parker, Dec. 6, 1866, and who died in 1888, 2^nd, Catherine Newhall, and died in Scotia, Nebraska, (where he had lived since 1884), Aug. 8, 1894. For some years he lived on the Whitney farm in Wakeman.
Jane Amelia,	born May 2, 1842, married William Canfield, son of Calon C. Canfield, of Wakeman, and died in Wakeman, April 4, 1921.

DeWitt Clinton,	born May 25, 1825, married 1^st, Jane McCumber, of Clarksfield in 1846, and removed to Illinois. The wife died in 1872, and he married 2^nd, (name not recorded) in 1881. He married 3^rd, in 1892, Caroline Luce, of Wakeman. He removed from Illinois to Wisconsin, where he became the editor of a number of newspapers. He served in the army during the civil war, from 1861 to 1864. He served as Representative and State Senator for Wisconsin. He died at Manston, Wis., Aug. 26, 1895. His children were: Mrs. Mary Booth (once of Wakeman), James A., of Manston, and Mrs. Frances Pool, of Sparta, Wis.
Henry,	born Jan. 11, 1828, married Mary, daughter of Joseph French, of Wakeman, and died at Groton, South Dakota, Nov. 5, 1891. He used to live west of Wakeman and had two daughters, Emma, deceased, in 1914, and Viola, (Mrs. Freundt.)
Alfred,	born June 3, 1831, married Mary McCumber, of Clarksfield, in 1863, and died at Sparta, Wis. They lived in Wakeman for a few years. He died Jan. 1, 1900.
James N.,	born March 31 1835, died in infancy.
Amanda,	born May 13, 1837, married Mortimer Johnson, of Wakeman, and died Aug. 18, 1868.
Samuel,	born April 29, 1839, was a soldier, was wounded at the battle of Chicamauga, Sept. 19, 1863, and was never heard of again.

Francis Marion,	born June 3, 1852, married a lady from Cincinnati, and lived in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Levi Birdsey,	born Aug. 15, 1856, married Jan. 1, 1872, Genevra, daughter of Victor Barnes, of Wakeman, and his place of residence is unknown to his relatives.
William Henry,	born July 11, 1858, married , March 15, 1876, Verna French, daughter of Bernice T., of Wakeman, and lived at Charlotte, Michigan.
Mary Elizabeth,	born May 22, 1864, married -- Morning, and lives at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Daughter,	died 1831 at age of 6.
Eunice Orena,	b. Newtown 7 March 1824, m 6 April 1851, Charles R. Shelton.
Ruggles Nahum,	b. 6 April 1826, m 9 June 1848, Jane Sherman. Settled in Vermillion and in 1850 in Florence, where he died 6 Nov. 1865.
Lewis Becar,	b. 9 Feb. 1828, 1 1846.
Hannah Maria,	b. 31 July 1832, m. at Wakeman, Leverett Benedict Hill, 30^th March 1856; removed to Tabor, Iowa, soon after marriage, later to Larkspur, Colo.
Charles Philo,	b. Bridgewater 23 May 1834; lived in Wakeman till spring of 1857; a year in Birmingham; Tabor, Iowa, till 1860; Colorado and Cal. Married in Birmingham 30^th March 1870, Celinda Elizabeth, dau. of DeWitt Ennes.
Frederick Augustus,	b. Bridgewater 23, Jan. 1837, m. in Florence 8 Dec. 1860, Fanny Maria Shoff; lived Birmingham.
Theodore Beecher Whitney,	b. Bridgewater 21 April 1840, m. 6 Dec. 1866, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Zachariah Parker, lived on farm in Wakeman.
Jane Amelia,	b. Newtown, 2 May 1842, m. in Wakeman 24 Aug. 1863, William Augustine Canfield, son of Calvert Carlon Canfield, page 89.