Edmund WITNEY (Abt 1790-1842)

Mary SEYMOUR (Abt 1798-1843)

William HOPE (1778-1854)

Ann BAYLES (Abt 1779-)

Edmund WHITNEY (1818-Abt 1850)

Frances HOPE (1822-1877)

Alfred WHITNEY (1845-1925)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Mary A. HUSS Edmond WHITNEY Violet WHITNEY John P. WHITNEY+ Charles WHITNEY Ephraim WHITNEY Bessie Frances WHITNEY+ Albert WHITNEY Alfred WHITNEY 2 Born: 1845, , , New York 3 4 Marriage: Mary A. HUSS on 31 December 1872 in , Harrison Co., Iowa 1 Died: 30 December 1925 at age 80 Buried: 1925, Soldier Valley Cemetery, Jackson Twsp., Harrison Co., Iowa   General Notes: Carried mail on horseback from Council Bluffs to Sioux City. Buried in Soldier Valley Cemetery near Pisgah, Iowa.   Noted events in his life were: • Residence, 1884, Jackson Twp., Harrison Co., Iowa. 5 Alfred married Mary A. HUSS on 31 December 1872 in , Harrison Co., Iowa.1 (Mary A. HUSS was born in 1859 in , , Pennsylvania and died on 18 January 1896 in Little Sioux, Harrison Co., Iowa.)

1 Republished 1997 by Harrison County Genealogical Society, Harrison County, Iowa Directory, 1905, Marriage Licenses 1855-1905, page 130. Middle initial shown as E. Middle initial A. is from tombstone in Soldier Valley Cemetery.

2 Genealogy Records - Violet (Bell) Shepard (Various Correspondence with Ronald Whitney in 1997, 1998, and 1999. ,). Her story of family history on file with the Harrison County, Iowa Genealogical Society.

3 Federal Census - 1850, Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, page 173.

4 Transcribed by Cindy Bou (Posted on link from Harrison County, IA GenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaharris/index.htm). Age shown as 10 on this census. Children listed in this census all should have the surname WHITNEY and are the offspring of the first marriage of Frances Hope to Edmund Whitney.

5 Land Records, List of Jackson Township Landowners, 1884. Section 9.