Sherburne, VT. Rutland Co. Killington Peak, 3924 feet in height, several ponds, and Thundering brook with a handsome fall lie in this town. Queechy river rises in this town and along its vanks is some good land; but the lands are genrally too elevated even for pasturage. Sherburne was first settled in 1785. It lies 22 miles NW from Windsor, and 10 E from Rutland. Population 1830 452. >From Haywards New England Gazetteer - missing the title page so not sure when exactly this issue was published. If you can post a new list of towns that you need checked, I will look in the Gazetter. ----- Original Message ----- From: <whitney-request@rootsweb.com> To: <whitney@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:44 PM Subject: WHITNEY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 158 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: John Whitney of Warren ME (Ken Whitney) > 2. Re: John Whitney of Warren ME (Lis Whitney) > 3. Re: John Whitney of Warren ME (Marion) > 4. Re: Location Help (Ted Whitney) > 5. Coloma, IL vs Colona, IL (Jonathan Whitney) > 6. Re: Location Help (Darlene M Leonard) > 7. Re: Location Help (R R Kyser) > 8. Philadelphia Vermont (Margie and George Parker) > 9. Re: Location Help (Richard G. Smith) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:30:53 -0400 > From: "Ken Whitney" <ken.whitney@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] John Whitney of Warren ME > To: <whitney@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <006901c7de7f$b8dc32c0$6400a8c0@Whitneycomp> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Lisbeth, > > Thank you very much. Your posting of the cemetery records for John > Willard Whitney helps to solve an identification problem, but creates > another. I can identify this particular John Willard Whitney. He was born > in > Maine 22 December 1837, the son of John Fay and Jane B. (no maiden name > yet > identified) Whitney. His birth is found in the Town Records of Searsmont, > Maine. His ancestry is: John1, Benjamin2, Nathaniel3, Nathaniel4, Moses5, > Samuel6, John Fay7, John Willard8. I think that the one month on the grave > marker may have been meant to be a seven. > > Posted on the WRG site is my previous posting of the Civil War pension > file for Willard Whitney. In the posting, I stated that I could not > positively identify Willard Whitney, but speculated on his ancestry, and > that he might be John Willard Whitney. This cemetery record makes that > identification incorrect. So, the question now becomes, who was the Civil > War soldier Willard Whitney? > > Ken Whitney > Silver Spring, MD > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lis Whitney" <liswhitney@roadrunner.com> > To: <whitney@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:32 PM > Subject: [WHITNEY] John Whitney of Warren ME > > >> >> This past winter I purchased a copy of the Annals of Warren Maine where >> there is a mention of a John Whitney. According to this book, he was >> born in 1777 in Lincoln, MA. He appears on the census information (via >> WRG website) as living in Union ME in 1810 and moved to Warren in 1819. >> He married Lydia Russell and resided near Mt. Pleasant. Died Nov, 6 >> (according to the book) or 7 (according to headstone) 1851. >> >> His children: John (2nd)m. Jane Kiff resided in Centreville, RI >> James b. Sept 1, 1813; m Belinda S (Orff)Day >> Feb 22, 1852 resided Northeast Warren >> Russell, b. Jan. 1816; m. Henrietta L. >> McKellar of Camden Sept. 26, 1852 and d. Nov 22, 1859 >> >> James' child: Lavinia E. b. March 20, 1855 in Warren >> Russell's children: Lydia J. b. Nov and d. Dec 1853; Alden R. b Feb 14, >> 1855 >> >> Today I photographed the head stone for John Whitney, one I suspect >> belongs to his wife Lydia (no information, just a marker), his son >> Russell and Russell's infant daughter. The other members of the family >> aren't buried in this cemetery or they are unlisted and unmarked. There >> was a veteran's marker for John Whitney. >> >> I also found a headstone for John Willard Whitney and the markers for >> his parents John F. and Jane B. He died June 22, 1868 at 30 yrs and 1 >> mo. The Annals of Warren, ME do not mention any of them and I so far >> haven't located their homes on the 1851 map of the town that came with >> the book. >> >> >> These people aren't related to me and my interest is that they lived not >> very far from me. I have pictures of the stones and a copy of an old >> map from 1851 where Mrs. Russell and John Whitneys' houses were if >> this is of interest to anyone. I'm curious to know more about them and >> so far, haven't found much information - I've yet to go to our >> historical society as they keep archaic hours - if any. I've tried >> searching through the WGR website and find no mention of these Whitneys >> other than John in the 1810, 1830, 1840 Census information. The >> Lincoln, MA vital records that are on the website as well has no listing >> for John Whitney being born in 1777. >> >> Hope the photographs can be of use to someone, just contact me and I'll >> email them on. >> >> Best to all on a warm Sunday afternoon, >> >> Lisbeth Whitney >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WHITNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:52:04 -0400 > From: Lis Whitney <liswhitney@roadrunner.com> > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] John Whitney of Warren ME > To: whitney@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <46C1C194.3090105@roadrunner.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Good Morning Ken, > Upon reading your email I realized I typed his death date incorrectly. > It should be Jan 22 1868. His epitaph reads: > > Dearest Willard thou hast left us > Here thy loss we deeply feel > but tis God that hath bereft us > He can allow.............heal > > I'll send you privately the photo of his headstone and am going to > investigate more what the missing words are in the final line of the > epitaph. > > > Lisbeth Whitney > Warren, ME > > Ken Whitney wrote: > >>Lisbeth, >> >> Thank you very much. Your posting of the cemetery records for John >>Willard Whitney helps to solve an identification problem, but creates >>another. I can identify this particular John Willard Whitney. He was born >>in >>Maine 22 December 1837, the son of John Fay and Jane B. (no maiden name >>yet >>identified) Whitney. His birth is found in the Town Records of Searsmont, >>Maine. His ancestry is: John1, Benjamin2, Nathaniel3, Nathaniel4, Moses5, >>Samuel6, John Fay7, John Willard8. I think that the one month on the grave >>marker may have been meant to be a seven. >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:30:34 -0400 > From: "Marion" <marionm112@sc.rr.com> > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] John Whitney of Warren ME > To: <whitney@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <00e001c7de88$0f08c520$0801a8c0@Marion> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Lis, > > I looked on line and found a "last line." "He can all our sorrows heal." > from a cemetery in Newfoundland. I have an OLD notebook from my gg > grandmother that contains some cemetery verses. They are both sad and > poignant, especially those of a lost child. That was from the Calderwood > side of the family, not the Whitney. > > Marion Whitney Martin > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:07:13 -0400 > From: "Ted Whitney" <twhitney@hughes.net> > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] Location Help > To: <whitney@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002401c7de8d$37127520$0200a8c0@DHWZ3T31> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Do not forget us Whitney,s of Bakersfield, VT. Ted > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Branagan" <cbranagan@comcast.net> > To: <whitney@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:46 AM > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] Location Help > > >> Tim and WRG: >> >> Here's some info on locations from the Green Mountain state: >> >> Barnstead, Vermont-Though there is a section of the Vermont town of >> Manchester called Barnstead, the town of Barnstead is located on the >> Suncook River in southeastern New Hampshire. >> >> Berkshire Center, Vermont-Vermonters call this community simply >> 'Berkshire'. >> The hamlets of Berkshire, West Berkshire and East Berkshire are located >> along route108 in northwestern Vermont. They are all the same political >> unit >> sharing a selectboard, road crew and K-8 school system. Excellent dairy >> farming country >> >> Cheshire, Vermont-There is no Cheshire Vermont that I know of, but >> Cheshire >> County, New Hampshire is located in the extreme southwestern section of >> the >> state. Last summer bad flooding drove many Cheshire County residents >> from >> their homes and destroyed property. >> >> East Enosburg, Enosburg Falls, North Enosburg, West Enosburg and >> Enosburg >> Center are all small sections of the community of Enosburg, located in >> Franklin County in northwestern Vermont. Every June the Lions Club >> sponsors >> the Annual Dairy Festival in Enosburg Falls drawing 4-5 thousand people >> to >> celebrate Vermont's dairy farmers. Enosburg Falls is one of several >> Vermont >> communities that generates its own power by damming the river. Local >> dairy >> farmers are also trying a new technology to generate electricity by >> using >> the methane from cow manure. They sell the power back to the grid. >> >> Forrestdale, Vermont-This tiny community is located in west central >> Vermont >> on route 73 near Brandon. Here in 1834, Orange Alfonso Smalley, a young >> blacksmith and mechanic living with his parents, and another blacksmith, >> Thomas Davenport, experimented with electromagnetism and invented the >> first >> electric motor. >> >> Franklin Center, East Franklin and Franklin, Vermont are all sections of >> the >> same community near the Canadian border in northwestern Vermont. In East >> Franklin, in sight of the border crossing station there is a large >> cemetery >> where many Whitneys are buried. My sister preaches during the summer at >> the >> East Franklin Methodist Church. >> >> Gullup's Mills, Vermont-This must be Gallup Mills, Vermont located in >> Caledonia County in Vermont's northeast kingdom. None of the roads are >> paved in Gallup Mills. >> >> Jericho Centre, Vermont- Located on route 117, not far from Burlington. >> Jericho and Jericho Center are two sections of the same town. Vermont's >> current Speaker of the House, Rep. Gaye Symington, D., lives in Jericho >> Center. >> >> Mallett Bay, Vermont- This is Malletts Bay, part of the town of >> Colchester >> and is located on route 127.The bay is a well known area of Lake >> Champlain >> and there are many summer camps and homes there along with a large >> commercial marina. In winter one can see dozens of ice shanties on the >> ice >> in Malletts Bay where fishermen try to keep out of the wind as they catch >> several kinds of native fish, mainly perch. In 1789 Ethan Allen crossed >> Malletts Bay on the ice with a team of oxen on his way to property he >> owned >> in South Hero, one of the islands in Lake Champlain. He died on the trip >> of >> an apparent heart attack. >> >> Otter Creek, Vermont- Known as the Indian Road, the Otter Creek empties >> into >> Lake Champlain near Vergennes. During the 1700's the waterway was a well >> traveled route for natives escaping with colonial captives from southern >> Vermont/New Hampshire/Massachusetts. Once they got to Lake Champlain it >> was >> relatively easy to get to Montreal, travel by water being much easier >> than >> travel over land. The Otter Creek was dammed in Middlebury during the >> nineteenth century providing power for the mills there. >> >> Philadelphia, Vermont-I have never heard of Philadelphia, Vermont and >> cannot find it on any of my state maps. >> >> Pittsford Mills, Vermont-On route 7 in central Vermont, Pittsford and >> Pittsford Mills are the same political unit. Population in the 2000 >> census >> was 3140. >> >> Sherburne, Vermont-There is a Sherburne New York, but it is located in >> the >> central part of the state, too far from the Vermont border to be >> considered >> part of the Green Mountain state. I think this reference must be >> Shelburne >> in Chittenden County, south of Burlington. Shelburne is a lovely >> community >> on Lake Champlain, home to the Shelburne Museum, a collection of early >> New >> England curiosities. >> >> Silver Lake, Vermont-This lake is located in Bethel on route 12. >> There's >> a >> nice state park at Silver Lake where camping is allowed from Memorial >> Day >> until Labor Day. >> >> Townsend, Vermont-West Townsend and Townsend are both located on route 30 >> in south eastern Vermont. >> >> Tyson, Vermont-Not far from Echo Lake, Tyson is near Plymouth, the >> boyhood >> home of Calvin Coolidge. >> >> Weathersfield, Vermont-In southeastern Vermont, Weathersfield Center lies >> near the New Hampshire border. There is also Weathersfield Bow on route >> 5, >> from which one could throw a softball into New Hampshire. >> >> West Derby, Vermont-Derby Line and Derby Center are located on Interstate >> 91 >> in northern Vermont. Derby line straddles the Canadian border. >> >> West Randolph, Vermont-This must be the community Vermonters refer to as >> 'Randolf' located on route 12A. Randolph Center, East Randolph, South >> Randolph and North Randolph are all part of the same town and are near or >> on >> the White River. >> >> I hope this is helpful. >> >> Carolyn Whitney Branagan >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tim Doyle" <tim@greenscourt.com> >> To: <whitney@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 12:21 PM >> Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] Location Help >> >> >>> These are all excellent! Thank you to everyone who has contributed in >>> just >>> the short amount of time.............. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WHITNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:50:46 -0500 > From: Jonathan Whitney <ccreview@grics.net> > Subject: [WHITNEY] Coloma, IL vs Colona, IL > To: whitney@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <05972CC7-7CF3-47D8-977B-99D9029EA9CE@grics.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > This post was written by Lori Callaway and being posted by cousin > Jonathon Whitney....as Lori is having issue with all her posts > showing up blank. If anyone knows the reason why....please email > Lori at callaway525@msn.com and let her know how to fix this. > > > COLONA IL is in Henry County Illinois and considered part of the > Quad Cities of IL/IA. > > > COLOMA, IL is in Whiteside County, Illinois...and lies a little south > of the Sterling & Rock Falls area. > > > These two towns are often mistaken for each other and often > transcription errors due to handwriting between the 'M' and 'N'. > > I grew up in Carroll County IL, about smack dab in the middle of > these two places....and know that there were Whitney's of my > branches in both areas. > > > Lori Callaway > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:41:21 -0700 > From: Darlene M Leonard <darldahl@juno.com> > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] Location Help > To: whitney@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <20070814.115028.4068.0.darldahl@juno.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I looked up the ones in WA state as I live here. > > I could not find anything for Asylum, WA; West Branch, WA; nor Windom, > WA. > I found 3 Ruby, WA. > Ruby, Whatcom Co., WA (historical) > Ruby, Pend Oreille Co., WA > Ruby, Okanogan Co., WA > > Hope these are of some help. Maybe someone can help with the other > three. > > Keep up the good work, > Darlene Leonard > darldahl@juno.com > Yakima, WA > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:06:33 -0500 > From: R R Kyser <sorryken@att.net> > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] Location Help > To: whitney@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <a3a923d22a9f16b3ce22e017df2e6b40@att.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Speaking of Philadelphia and Coolidge... > > If this Philadelphia doesn't refer to the city, then a likely candidate > is tiny Philadelphia, New York, in Jefferson County, near Watertown, > N.Y. and Kingston, Ont. It's only 90 mi. west of Vermont. > > It's the hometown of the painter Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. You won't > know his name but will recognize his work-- he specialized in dogs > playing poker. > > Cheers, > Ron Kyser > > > On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:46 AM, Christopher Branagan wrote: > >> >> >> Philadelphia, Vermont-I have never heard of Philadelphia, Vermont and >> cannot find it on any of my state maps. > >> Tyson, Vermont-Not far from Echo Lake, Tyson is near Plymouth, the >> boyhood >> home of Calvin Coolidge. >> >> >> Carolyn Whitney Branagan >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:47:40 -0500 > From: Margie and George Parker <MandG@math.siu.edu> > Subject: [WHITNEY] Philadelphia Vermont > To: whitney@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <200708141843.l7EIhqV31790@math.siu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > I don't know if this helps, but a Google search for Philadelphia Vermont > gave > > www.virtualvermont.com/towns/chittenden.html > > and says an area of Chittenden Vt used to be called Philadelphia. > > George Parker > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:43:59 -0500 > From: "Richard G. Smith" <rgsmith_gen@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [WHITNEY] Location Help > To: whitney@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <46C205FF.4040208@verizon.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > There is a West Branch in Iowa. The WA for Washington was probably the > last two letters of Iowa. > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the WHITNEY list administrator, send an email to > WHITNEY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the WHITNEY mailing list, send an email to > WHITNEY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WHITNEY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of WHITNEY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 158 > ***************************************