Hello, I've only recently started looking into my Whitney ancestry. My grandmother's name was Leola Levade Whitney born 1936 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho to Estel E Whitney born 20 Jul 1886 Maine Prairie, Stearns, Minnesota and Elizabeth "Bessie" Williams born 20 Jul 1901 Hibbing, St. Louis, Minnesota, daughter of William Williams and Jane E Buzza both born Cornwall, England. Estel's parents were Joseph B Whitney born 31 Mar 1844 in Illinois and Anna S Winslow born abt. Jun 1858 Maine, daughter of Benjamin H Winslow and Elizabeth "Betsy" W (Unknown) both from Maine. Joseph's parents were John F Whitney born abt 1815 Vermont (possibly Swanton, Franklin, VT) and Sarah "Sally" Nokes born abt 1816 Vermont (a couple online trees I've found, but haven't confirmed yet say Swanton, Franklin, VT). The children of John F and Sarah were Hannah Whitney b. abt. 1837 New York state, Jacob b. abt. 1842 New York state, Joseph B. b. 31 Mar. 1844 (according to death cert.) Illinois (died 02 Dec 1917 MN), Sylvester b. abt. 1846 Illinois, May (might actually be Mary) b. abt.1851 Illinois, and John N. b. abt. 1856 Illinois. The family seems to have traveled with members of the Nokes and Inman families according to the Census' I found them in. If anyone can help to further my research I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance for any info. Sincerely, Kristy Fitterer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

All, At 03:13 PM 5/23/05, Jim Fitterer wrote: >Joseph's parents were John F Whitney born abt 1815 Vermont (possibly >Swanton, Franklin, VT) and Sarah "Sally" Nokes born abt 1816 Vermont (a >couple online trees I've found, but haven't confirmed yet say Swanton, >Franklin, VT). > >The children of John F and Sarah were Hannah Whitney b. abt. 1837 New York >state, Jacob b. abt. 1842 New York state, Joseph B. b. 31 Mar. 1844 >(according to death cert.) Illinois (died 02 Dec 1917 MN), Sylvester b. >abt. 1846 Illinois, May (might actually be Mary) b. abt.1851 Illinois, and >John N. b. abt. 1856 Illinois. Your John F. WHITNEY was son of James and "H." WHITNEY, according to his death certificate. It seems very likely that your John F. WHITNEY was John Franklin WHITNEY. Apparently his mother was a certain Hannah (BRUCE) WHITNEY. James was born about 1791, MA, and died after 1850. Both James and John F. appear in the 1850 census of Lee Township, Brown Co., IL. There are several messages in the WHITNEY-L mailing list archives which mention either John F. and Sarah, or else James and Hannah. You can find them by using the WRG web site search engine at <http://www.whitneygen.org/search.html>, as I did. I'm not sure of the birth and parentage of this James WHITNEY, but it seems possible, based on birthplace and age, that he was James-7 WHITNEY, born 4 Jun 1792, Dunstable, MA, son of James-6 and Lydia (SPAULDING) WHITNEY [James-5, James-4, Joseph-3, Jonathan-2, John-1]. Regards, Robert Mr. Robert L. Ward [email protected] http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html