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Wife Charlotte Kimball Witham
Born: September 7, 1790 - Bradford, Massachusetts
Baptized:
Died: April 29, 1879 - Hampden, Maine
Buried: 1879 - Seaside Cemetery, Blue Hill, Maine
Father: Andrew Witham
Mother: Mehitable Kimball
Children
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Wife Cynthia Henrietta Witham
AKA: Cinthy H. Witham
Born: - Maine
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Ira Witham
Mother: Sylvina Fogg
Noted events in her life were:
1. A.K.A.
2. A.K.A, Cinthy
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Census
7. Education
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
Children
Husband Dr. Daniel Witham 1
Born: August 30, 1700 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: 1776 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Marriage: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Other Spouse: Lydia Sanders 1
Noted events in his life were:
1. Education
Wife
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Daniel Witham
Daniel Witham graduated Harvard Coillege in 1718. Soon afterward, he taught a school in Dorchester; and in 1729 and 1730 was engaged in the same emploment in Gloucester. He next entered upon the practice of medicine, and continued in it during life. Tradition and history are both slient concerning his professional career and reputation; but the written testimony of his ability, and usefulness as a citizen, is ample and conclusive. He began in early manhood to take an active part in town affairs, and gained a popularity which he preserved to the end of his life. He was town clerk forty-two years, and selectman thirty-seven years; and, besides these permanent offices, was frequently called upon to serve in others of temporary, but no less important character. Being qualified by education, experience in public affairs, and interest in the general welfare, his services were often in requisition in the preparation of resolves and addresses for the expression of the sentiments of the people at the anxious and excited period which immediately preceded the Revolutionary War; and he fully shared the patriotic indignation which filled the breasts of his townsmen, when assembled to consider the oppression and wrongs which the mother country made them so sensibly to feel.
Husband Daniel Witham
Born: February 16, 1781 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: April 5, 1851 - Scarborough, Cumberland, ME
Buried: - Maple Ridge Cemetery, Harrison, Cumberland, ME
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Sarah Row
Marriage: November 9, 1807 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Occupation
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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Witham
History of Harrison, Maine
Daniel Witham, a brother of Jeremiah, married Elizabeth Knight, bought his brother's farm, and settled in this town (Harrison). He was a large corpulent man.
1810 Census - Harrison, Cumberland, ME
M26-45 Daniel Witham (1781)
M10-16 Unknown
F26-45 Elizabeth Witham (1787)
1820 Census - Harrison, Cumberland, ME
M26-45 Daniel Witham (1781)
M<10 Daniel Witham (1818)
M<10 Abner K. Witham (1820)
F26-45 Elizabeth Knight Witham (1787)
F<10 Tamson M. Witham (1810)
F<10 Sophronia Witham (1812)
F<10 Charlotte Witham (1814)
F<10 Nancy Witham (1815)
F<10 Elizabeth Witham (1817)
1830 Census - Harrison, Cumberland, ME
M40-50 Daniel Witham (1781)
M10-15 Abner K. Witham (1820)
F40-50 Elizabeth Knight Witham (1787)
F15-20 Tamson M. Witham (1810)
F15-20 Sophronia Witham (1812)
F15-20 Charlotte Witham (1814)
F10-15 Nancy Witham (1815)
F10-15 Elizabeth Witham (1817)
F5-10 Susan Witham (1822)
F5-10 Clarinda Witham (1824)
F<5 Mary Witham (1825)
F<5
Husband Daniel Witham
Born: February 16, 1781 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: April 5, 1851 - Scarborough, Cumberland, ME
Buried: - Maple Ridge Cemetery, Harrison, Cumberland, ME
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Sarah Row
Marriage: October 21, 1810 - Poland, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Occupation
Wife
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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Witham
History of Harrison, Maine
Daniel Witham, a brother of Jeremiah, married Elizabeth Knight, bought his brother's farm, and settled in this town (Harrison). He was a large corpulent man.
1810 Census - Harrison, Cumberland, ME
M26-45 Daniel Witham (1781)
M10-16 Unknown
F26-45 Elizabeth Witham (1787)
1820 Census - Harrison, Cumberland, ME
M26-45 Daniel Witham (1781)
M<10 Daniel Witham (1818)
M<10 Abner K. Witham (1820)
F26-45 Elizabeth Knight Witham (1787)
F<10 Tamson M. Witham (1810)
F<10 Sophronia Witham (1812)
F<10 Charlotte Witham (1814)
F<10 Nancy Witham (1815)
F<10 Elizabeth Witham (1817)
1830 Census - Harrison, Cumberland, ME
M40-50 Daniel Witham (1781)
M10-15 Abner K. Witham (1820)
F40-50 Elizabeth Knight Witham (1787)
F15-20 Tamson M. Witham (1810)
F15-20 Sophronia Witham (1812)
F15-20 Charlotte Witham (1814)
F10-15 Nancy Witham (1815)
F10-15 Elizabeth Witham (1817)
F5-10 Susan Witham (1822)
F5-10 Clarinda Witham (1824)
F<5 Mary Witham (1825)
F<5
Husband David T. Witham
Born: April 29, 1853 - Hallowell, Kennebec, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Sidney Witham
Mother: Adruanah W. Pierce
Marriage: May 2, 1877 - Somerville, Middlesex, MA
Noted events in his life were:
1. A.K.A.
2. Alt. Birth
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Census
7. Census
8. Census
9. Occupation
10. Occupation
11. Occupation
12. Residence
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Husband Ebenezer Witham
Born: June 16, 1753 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: May 12, 1826 - Danville, Cumberland, ME
Buried:
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Elizabeth Pattee
Marriage: February 1, 1777 - Gloucester, Essex, MA Or Danville, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Baptism
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Emigration
7. Emigration
8. Intention
Wife
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Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
2. Alt. Marriage
3. Alt. Marriage, Gloucester, Essex, MA, February 1, 1777
4. Alt. Marriage, Gloucester, Essex, MA, February 20, 1777
Children
General Notes: Husband - Ebenezer Witham
He moved to New Gloucester, ME in late 1777. While the family lived in New Gloucester, he bought land near Danville Jct (Moses Little's Gore) and began clearing a farm and building a home. After about two years he returned to Gloucester,MA, but moved into his new home on the Pejepscot Claim likely in 1782. He was one of the earliest settlers in Danville, ME.
Towns from which the Early Settlers of Pejepscot Claim & Moses Little's Gore Came: Ebenezer Witham, from New Gloucester, ME 1782.
For its excellent series of records, Danville has been indebted to several painstacking clerks, but none of them for a longer period than to Ebenezer Witham. His father, a native of Gloucester, Mass., was one of the first to settle in the northwestern part of town, moving there soon after 1780. His mother was Sarah Hool. They had eight children, of whom four married and had children. Two of the sons, John and Ebenezer, were on the board of selectman over a quarter of a century.
1820 Census - Danville, Cumberland, ME
M>45 Ebenezer Witham (1753)
F>45 Tammy Finson Witham (1757)
F16-26
M<10
1810 Census - Pejepscot (Danville), Cumberland, ME
M>45 Ebenezer Witham (1753)
M16-26 Ebenezer Witham (1788)
M16-26 Thomas Witham (1790)
M16-26 Asa Witham (1793)
F16-26
1800 Census - Pejepscot (Danville), Cumberland, ME
M>45 Ebenezer Witham (1753)
F>45 Sarah Hool Witham (1754)
M16-26
M10-16 Ebenezer Witham (1788)
M10-16 Thomas Witham (1790)
M<10 Asa Witham (1793)
F16-26 Sarah Hool Witham (1783)
Husband Ebenezer Witham
Born: June 16, 1753 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: May 12, 1826 - Danville, Cumberland, ME
Buried:
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Elizabeth Pattee
Marriage: April 6, 1813 - Pejepscot Claim, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Baptism
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Emigration
7. Emigration
8. Intention
Wife
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Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
2. Alt. Marriage
3. Alt. Marriage, Pejepscot Claim, Cumberland, ME, April 6, 1813
Children
General Notes: Husband - Ebenezer Witham
He moved to New Gloucester, ME in late 1777. While the family lived in New Gloucester, he bought land near Danville Jct (Moses Little's Gore) and began clearing a farm and building a home. After about two years he returned to Gloucester,MA, but moved into his new home on the Pejepscot Claim likely in 1782. He was one of the earliest settlers in Danville, ME.
Towns from which the Early Settlers of Pejepscot Claim & Moses Little's Gore Came: Ebenezer Witham, from New Gloucester, ME 1782.
For its excellent series of records, Danville has been indebted to several painstacking clerks, but none of them for a longer period than to Ebenezer Witham. His father, a native of Gloucester, Mass., was one of the first to settle in the northwestern part of town, moving there soon after 1780. His mother was Sarah Hool. They had eight children, of whom four married and had children. Two of the sons, John and Ebenezer, were on the board of selectman over a quarter of a century.
1820 Census - Danville, Cumberland, ME
M>45 Ebenezer Witham (1753)
F>45 Tammy Finson Witham (1757)
F16-26
M<10
1810 Census - Pejepscot (Danville), Cumberland, ME
M>45 Ebenezer Witham (1753)
M16-26 Ebenezer Witham (1788)
M16-26 Thomas Witham (1790)
M16-26 Asa Witham (1793)
F16-26
1800 Census - Pejepscot (Danville), Cumberland, ME
M>45 Ebenezer Witham (1753)
F>45 Sarah Hool Witham (1754)
M16-26
M10-16 Ebenezer Witham (1788)
M10-16 Thomas Witham (1790)
M<10 Asa Witham (1793)
F16-26 Sarah Hool Witham (1783)
Husband Frank Roger York
Born: - Raymond, NH
Baptized:
Died: - Raymond, NH
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Edith W. Witham
Born: May 17, 1912 - Northwood, Rockingham, NH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Melvin Warren Witham
Mother: Mary Etta Belle Labarnes
Other Spouse: Raymond W. Higgins
Children
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Wife Elizabeth Witham
Born: December 9, 1750 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died:
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Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Elizabeth Pattee
Noted events in her life were:
1. Baptism
2. Intention
Children
Husband Hiram Witham
Born: November 16, 1818 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: December 23, 1891 - Madrid, Franklin, ME
Buried: - Madrid Village Cemetery, Madrid, Franklin, ME
Father: Elijah Witham
Mother: Polly Wadleigh
Marriage: January 25, 1843 - Sanford, York, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Occupation
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
Wife Elizabeth H. Witham
Born: - Kittery, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: December 30, 1882 - Madrid, Franklin, ME
Buried: - Madrid Village Cemetery, Madrid, Franklin, ME
Father: Aaron Witham
Mother: Elizabeth Nutter
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
Children
1 F Maria Sarah Witham
Born: - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
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Spouse: Selden Ben Hinkley
Marr: July 28, 1878 - Phillips, Franklin, ME
2 M Lewis Cass Witham
Born: June 1847 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: June 1, 1906
Buried: - Madrid Village Cemetery, Madrid, Franklin, ME
Spouse: Florence Maria Hinkley
Marr: September 11, 1868
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Wife Emily Christiana Witham
Born: May 24, 1834 - Farmington, , Maine
Baptized:
Died: February 16, 1920 - Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, MI
Buried:
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Susannah A. Hopkinson
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census, Hamilton, Warren, OH, 1850
2. Census, Maineville, Warren, OH, 1860
3. Occupation, Teacher, 1860
4. Residence, Living with mother, 1860
5. Census, Union, Warren, OH, 1870
6. Occupation, Proprietress, 1870
7. Census, Wayne, Randolph, IN, 1900
8. Martial Status, Widow, 1900
9. Residence, Living with sister Susan, 1900
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage, Mason, Warren, OH, December 13, 1860
Children
Husband Frank A. Witham
AKA: Frank Atwood Witham
Born:
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Died:
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Father: Witham
Mother: Lydia A.
Marriage: April 23, 1932 - Nobleboro, Lincoln, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Martial Status
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
9. Occupation
10. Occupation
11. Occupation
12. Residence
13. Residence
14. Residence
15. Residence
Wife Estella S. Witham
AKA: Stella, Stella Witham
Born: February 1881 - Alna, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Witham
Mother: Lydia A.
Father: John E. Witham
Mother: Hattie A. Turner
Other Spouse: Ira H. Waltz - August 13, 1899 - Nobleboro, Lincoln, ME
Noted events in her life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Census
7. Residence
Children
Husband
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Marriage:
Wife Esther Witham
Born: 1748
Baptized:
Died: March 27, 1840
Buried:
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Elizabeth Pattee
Noted events in her life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Baptism
Children
Husband Frank A. Witham
AKA: Frank Atwood Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Witham
Mother: Lydia A.
Marriage: October 26, 1897 - Chelsea, ME
Other Spouse: Estella S. Witham - April 23, 1932 - Nobleboro, Lincoln, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Martial Status
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
9. Occupation
10. Occupation
11. Occupation
12. Residence
13. Residence
14. Residence
15. Residence
Wife
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Children
Husband Gerald W. Witham
Born: July 6, 1924 - North Dakota
Baptized:
Died: March 9, 1978 - Springfield, Lane, OR
Buried:
Father: Blaine C. Witham
Mother: Dia Dama Lavina Smith
Marriage: September 24, 1944 - Surrey, Ward, ND
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census, Surry, ard, ND
Wife Audrey Jane Zook
Born: July 27, 1926 - Minot, Ward, ND
Baptized:
Died: March 30, 2007 - Springfield, Lane, OR
Buried: April 2, 2007 - Springfield Memorial Gardens
Father: Thomas Zook
Mother: Ethel Anderson
Children
1 M Witham
Born:
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Died:
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2 M Witham
Born:
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Died:
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3 F Witham
Born:
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Died:
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Spouse: Marcum
4 F Witham
Born:
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Died:
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Spouse: Lane
Husband George W. Wyman
Born: March 23, 1825 - Dead River, Maine
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Samuel Wyman
Mother: Miriam Rowell
Marriage: June 4, 1854 - Dead River, Maine
Wife Harriet H. Witham
Born: 1834
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
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Marriage:
Wife Harriet M. Witham
AKA: Hattie
Born: November 1887 - Maine
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John E. Witham
Mother: Hattie A. Turner
Noted events in her life were:
1. A.K.A
2. Census
3. Census
4. Education, At School
5. Residence
Children
Husband Henry Witham
Born: March 27, 1668 - Salem, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: April 24, 1695
Buried:
Father: Henry Witham
Mother: Sarah Somes
Marriage: October 23, 1691 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
Wife
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Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband Henry Witham
Born: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: April 17, 1702 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Sally Parsons
Marriage: October 23, 1691 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Other Spouse: Sarah Somes - June 15, 1665 - Salem, Essex, MA
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
Wife Lydia Younglove
Born: - Ipswich, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: November 1, 1702 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried:
Noted events in her life were:
1. A.K.A
2. A.K.A, Lydia Griffin
Children
General Notes: Husband - Henry Witham
History of Gloucester, Early Settlers, p. 87-89
"No other Witham but Henry appears among the early settlers of New England. I find no grant of land to him till the general grant of six acre lots in 1688; but it is certain that his son Thomas sold to Joseph York, in July 1701, before his father's death, eighteen acres lying near Lobster Cove, that belonged to him. His name first occurs in the record of his marriage, June 15, 1665, to Sarah, daughter of Morris Somes, who died May 11, 1689. He next married, Oct. 23, 1691, Lydia Griffin, who died Nov. 1, 1702. He died April 17, 1702."
General Notes: Wife - Lydia Younglove
Widow of Samuel Griffin became 2nd wife of Henry Witham of Annisquam, Gloucester 23 Oct 1691. She brought to her new home a son Samuel, then a boy, who 18 Dec 1703 married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel York.
Husband Elder Henry Witham
Born: December 6, 1695 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: March 18, 1777 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Marriage: June 18, 1733 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Noted events in his life were:
1. Residence
Wife
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Baptized:
Died:
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Children
General Notes: Husband - Elder Henry Witham
Roger W. Babson in his "Story of Bear Skin Neck"... "Ebenezer Babson, who the resided at the Farms, saw the bear attack the boy (his nephew, Henry Witham). He immediately attacked the bear to get his attention away from the child, but having no gun he permitted the bear to follow him into the water. There - after a terrific struggle - Ebenezer killed the bear with a fish knife."
The story is continued by George Jay Babson: "He then brought the bear onto shore, skinned him, and spread the skin on the rocks to dry. Ebenezer died shortly afterwards, presumably at sea, but his nephew Henry Witham, whose life he saved, lived to a ripe old age. Naturally, he often told the story of hios rescue, and when people asked how Ebenezer killed the bear, he would reply: "With his knife, I do declare."
History of Gloucester, Early Settlers, p. 88...
"Henry, the next son of Thomas, married Jan. 18, 1733, Rachel, widow of Thomas Parsons and daughter of Elder Jabez Baker of Sandy Bay. He settled at Sandy Bay, probably on the land bequeathed to him by his father, became an elder of the fifth church, and died March 18, 1777, aged eighty-two. She died in Jan. 1795, aged over ninety. Their children were, - Anna, Moses, Mary, Patience, Joshua, Bethiah, Henry, Abigail, Caleb and Ebenezer. I know not that more than one of the sons married. Henry, born Feb. 13, 1744, married widow Anna Davis, Dec. 17, 1767, and is said to have died at about eighty years of age. His son Henry, says Mr. Pool, died in 1819, of a malignant fever caught on board of a vessel in Boston, recently arrived from a sickly port, aged forty-nine; leaving a son William Henry who settled in Illinois, and removed then to Houston, Texas, where he died in 1855."
History of Gloucester, Early Settlers, p. 335...
"Henry Witham, son of Thomas Witham, married Rachel Parsons (a widowed daughter, it is supposed, of Jabez Baker) in 1733, and settled in Sandy Bay, near the Grovers, at the southeasterly end of the Cape. He had a large family of children; became an elder of the church there; and died March 18, 1777, aged eighty-two."
Husband Elder Henry Witham
Born: December 6, 1695 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: March 18, 1777 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Marriage: June 18, 1733 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Noted events in his life were:
1. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Elder Henry Witham
Roger W. Babson in his "Story of Bear Skin Neck"... "Ebenezer Babson, who the resided at the Farms, saw the bear attack the boy (his nephew, Henry Witham). He immediately attacked the bear to get his attention away from the child, but having no gun he permitted the bear to follow him into the water. There - after a terrific struggle - Ebenezer killed the bear with a fish knife."
The story is continued by George Jay Babson: "He then brought the bear onto shore, skinned him, and spread the skin on the rocks to dry. Ebenezer died shortly afterwards, presumably at sea, but his nephew Henry Witham, whose life he saved, lived to a ripe old age. Naturally, he often told the story of hios rescue, and when people asked how Ebenezer killed the bear, he would reply: "With his knife, I do declare."
History of Gloucester, Early Settlers, p. 88...
"Henry, the next son of Thomas, married Jan. 18, 1733, Rachel, widow of Thomas Parsons and daughter of Elder Jabez Baker of Sandy Bay. He settled at Sandy Bay, probably on the land bequeathed to him by his father, became an elder of the fifth church, and died March 18, 1777, aged eighty-two. She died in Jan. 1795, aged over ninety. Their children were, - Anna, Moses, Mary, Patience, Joshua, Bethiah, Henry, Abigail, Caleb and Ebenezer. I know not that more than one of the sons married. Henry, born Feb. 13, 1744, married widow Anna Davis, Dec. 17, 1767, and is said to have died at about eighty years of age. His son Henry, says Mr. Pool, died in 1819, of a malignant fever caught on board of a vessel in Boston, recently arrived from a sickly port, aged forty-nine; leaving a son William Henry who settled in Illinois, and removed then to Houston, Texas, where he died in 1855."
History of Gloucester, Early Settlers, p. 335...
"Henry Witham, son of Thomas Witham, married Rachel Parsons (a widowed daughter, it is supposed, of Jabez Baker) in 1733, and settled in Sandy Bay, near the Grovers, at the southeasterly end of the Cape. He had a large family of children; became an elder of the church there; and died March 18, 1777, aged eighty-two."
Husband Henry Alverado Witham
Born: May 11, 1861 - Hallowell, Kennebec, ME
Baptized:
Died: March 27, 1937 - Cobb Co., GA
Buried:
Father: Sidney Witham
Mother: Adruanah W. Pierce
Marriage: August 26, 1893 - St. Augustine, St. Johns, FL
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
Wife
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband Horace Albert Witham
AKA: Horace A. Witham
Born: December 22, 1878 - Alna, Lincoln, ME
Baptized:
Died: April 28, 1962 - Mendocino, CA
Buried:
Father: John E. Witham
Mother: Hattie A. Turner
Marriage: October 20, 1900
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
9. Occupation
10. Residence
11. Residence
12. Residence
13. Residence
14. Residence
15. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage, October
Children
Husband Horace Albert Witham
AKA: Horace A. Witham
Born: December 22, 1878 - Alna, Lincoln, ME
Baptized:
Died: April 28, 1962 - Mendocino, CA
Buried:
Father: John E. Witham
Mother: Hattie A. Turner
Marriage: October 29, 1902 - Brunswick, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
9. Occupation
10. Residence
11. Residence
12. Residence
13. Residence
14. Residence
15. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband Ira Albert Witham
AKA: Ira A. Witham
Born: September 27, 1873 - Deerfield Twp., Rockingham, NH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Thomas A. Witham
Mother: Mary L. Langley
Marriage: February 12, 1896 - Northwood, Strafford, NH
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Residence
Wife Etta May York
Born: February 1876 - Nottingham, Rockingham, NH
Baptized:
Died: - Deerfield, Rockingham, NH
Buried:
Father: Albert A. York
Mother: Mary Mullen
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Residence
Children
1 M Omer E. Witham
Born: August 1896
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Blanche G. Witham
Born: April 1899 - Epping, NH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Napoleon Currier
3 F Agnes Pauline Witham
Born: September 18, 1904 - Deerfield, Rockingham, NH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Leonard G. Higgins
Marr: September 22, 1940 - Pittsfield, NH
4 M Aaron R. Witham
Born: - Deerfield, Rockingham, NH
Baptized:
Died: - Deerfield, Rockingham, NH
Buried:
Spouse: Esther A. Higgins
Marr: July 28, 1928 - Amesbury, Essex, MA
5 M Ray E. Witham
AKA: Roy E. Witham
Born: August 27, 1912 - New Hampshire
Baptized:
Died: January 22, 1999 - Newport, Sullivan, NH
Buried:
Husband Isaac Witham
Born: May 28, 1790 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Sarah Row
Marriage: June 12, 1810 - Durham, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Census
7. Intention
8. Occupation
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Isaac Witham
1830 Federal Census, Haskell Platation, Somerset, ME
M40-50 Isaac (1790)
F30-40 Betsey or Mary??
M10-15 Isaac (1816)
M10-15 Elias (1821)
F10-15 Unknown
Husband Jacob Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Sally Witham
Born: May 25, 1800 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: June 19, 1865 - Avon, Franklin, ME
Buried:
Father: Jacob Witham
Mother: Martha Thompson
Father: Jacob Witham
Mother: Sally Haynes
Other Spouse: Samuel Bean - June 10, 1819 - Sanford, York, ME
Children
Husband Jacob Witham
Born: November 15, 1791 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Sarah Row
Marriage: January 20, 1822 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Census
3. Census
4. Occupation
5. Occupation
6. Residence, Living ith Sarah Hill
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband James Witham
Born: December 21, 1693 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized: 1703 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Died: August 1, 1794 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Marriage: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - James Witham
History of Gloucester, Early Settlers, p. 88...
"James, the oldest son of Thomas who lived to mature years, married Hepzibah, daughter probably of John Stanwood, Feb. 7, 1723. Besides five daughters, - Susanna, Sarah andRebekah, twins, Rachel and Jerusha, he had sons, - James, John, Thomas and Zebulon, the first three of whom appear to have been married in town. A cellar on a lonely spot near what was once known as Stacy's Pines, on the back road to Rockport, marks the home of James Witham and his son Thomas, who, it is said, were employed by some of the Low family to watch their flocks and herds in the neighboring pastures. In its later days the old house was frequently visited by young people, and was the scene of a great deal of mirth and jollity."
Husband Jedediah Witham
Born: - Eliot, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: July 29, 1863
Buried: - Witham Lot, Eliot, York, ME
Father: Jedediah Witham
Mother: Hannah Davis
Marriage: November 14, 1801 - Kittery, York, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Occupation
5. Occupation
Wife Olive Witham
Born: - Eliot, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: May 3, 1862
Buried: - Witham Lot, Eliot, York, ME
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
Children
1 F Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Jedediah Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died: September 25, 1841
Buried: - Witham Lot, Eliot, York, ME
3 F Irene D. Witham
Born: May 9, 1824 - Eliot, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Timothy O. Parker
Marr: October 14, 1849 - Saugus, Essex, MA
General Notes: Husband - Jedediah Witham
1820 CENSUS: Eliot, York, ME
M26-45 Jedidiah Witham
F26-45 Olive Witham
M<10 Jedidiah Witham
F10-16 Unknown
F<10 Unknown
F<10 Unknown
Husband Jeremiah Witham
Born: March 31, 1806 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: March 26, 1883 - Alfred, York, ME
Buried: - Congregational Churchyard, Alfred, York, ME
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Margaret Littlefield
Marriage: - Alfred, York, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. A.K.A.
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Occupation
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
Wife Huldah A. Wormwood
Born: December 25, 1806 - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: July 22, 1874 - Alfred, York, ME
Buried: - Congregational Churchyard, Alfred, York, ME
Father: Amos Wormwood
Mother: Lydia Storer
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
Children
1 F Mary E. Witham
Born: - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Nathaniel S. Meserve
Spouse: Josiah H. Pierce
Marr: October 22, 1868 - Limerick, York, ME
Spouse: Nathaniel Leavitt Merserve
Marr: March 16, 1874 - Limerick, York, ME
2 F Nancy Jane Witham
Born: - Maine
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Turner
3 M Edward K. Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died: September 9, 1841 - Alfred, York, ME
Buried: - Congregational Churchyard, Alfred, York, ME
4 M Albert Fisk Witham
Born: September 1843 - Maine
Baptized: March 3, 1844 - Alfred Congregational Church, Alfred, ME
Died:
Buried: - Evergreen Cemetery, Alfred, York, ME
Spouse: Elizabeth C. Emery
5 M Gilbert Tapley Witham
Born: October 24, 1831 - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized: July 7, 1839 - Alfred, York, ME
Died: July 13, 1913 - Washington, Nevada, CA
Buried:
Spouse: Jemima Mccune Reid
Marr: October 28, 1857 - Sacramento, CA
General Notes: Child - Albert Fisk Witham
Albert F. Witham: 8th Maine Infantry Co. F, Private. Enlisted 07 Sep 1861. Discharged 18 Jan 1866.
Res. Alfred, ME at enlistment, age 18. Re-enlisted 29 Feb 1864. Detailed as a nurse in 1863 in general hospital.
General Notes: Child - Gilbert Tapley Witham
Gilbert T. Witham
After a six months’ stormy trip around the Horn, G. T. Witham landed in San Francisco May 6, 1850. The journey was made in the old sailing bark Carlomarand, long ago gone to the graveyard of worn-out ships, and during the entire voyage from Boston to San Francisco she called at only one place, and that the Island of San Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chile - the place made famous by being the isle where Alexander Selkirk was marooned for seven years and occasioned the writing of "Robinson Crusoe". The young Argonaut - he was seventeen years of age - came as supercargo of the vessel, having superintended the loading of the vessel with lumber at Boston, and on her arrival in San Francisco he superintended the discharge of the vessel.
G. T. Witham was born at Alfred, York county, Me., in 1832, and was educated in the public schools, after which he was employed in a general store in Portland until he came to California. For several years his life was the usual life of the young men wandering in the yellow haze of the Eldorado. He was a miner, teamster and all-around rustler wherever there was something to do. At Kanaka valley, on the American river, he found for a partner John Millikan, a fellow-Maine man - native of Portland - and they picked and shoveled together, working many a ton of sand and other debris into the Sacramento river - and some “dust” into their pockets. They ran a store at Michigan Bar - a typical mining-camp store, such as described so vividly by Bret Harte and other early California writers. They sold out and afterward opened and ran the old New England house on J street, Sacramento, until the big fire of 1851-52, when they were burned out. Mr. Witham ran the first hack that ran up and down the streets of the state capital. The vehicle cost him $3,000 in San Francisco. His stand was at the Orleans hotel, a lively hostelry in those exceedingly lively times. In 1854 he entered the employ of C. K. Doughty & Co., and was in their service for many years. He also saw military service during the war as captain of Company M., First California Calvary, though his campaigning happened to be in New Mexico chasing hostile Indians. One of his fellow troopers was the famous scout, Kit Carson, and many a wild ride have these two taken together with the Apaches either close before or behind. Captain Witham met the secretary of war in New Mexico and by that official was offered a commission in the regular army. But the captain declined the offer, preferring the freer life of a civilian. After the conflict he returned to Sacramento, re-entered the employ of Doughty & Co., running for that firm the first steam and produce boat on the river.
From the river to the road was but a short step, and he took it, becoming a Central Pacific trainman and a faithful one. As conductor he ran the first train out of Sacramento en route to Chico, Tehama and Red Bluff; and took the first carload of freight to the "Summit" to Sacramento. The stuff was blasting powder, and it was used to open the way for the road through the mountains. Judge Crocker was in charge of the train bossing the job. Captain Witham saw Stanford turn the first shovelful of earth on the levee between J and K streets, Sacramento, for the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Afterward he was an assistant superintendent and train dispatcher of the Sacramento division, and later was offered the position of superintendent, but declined it. He is the oldest living Central Pacific conductor. In 1900 he retired from the “road” and is now in the insurance business in Washington.
In Sacramento, October 28, 1857, Captain Witham was married to Jemima Reid, a native of New York City. Her father, James Reid, was a forty-niner, and Mrs. Reid joined him in 1852, she also coming via Cape Horn. Born to Captain and Mrs. Witham were the following children: Frederick, William, Albert, Edith and Cyrus, of whom only William and Edith are living. Captain Witham was made a Mason in Union Lodge No. 58, F. & A. M., is a member of Union Chapter, Union Commandery, K. T., all of Sacramento, and is a member of the California Commandery, Militant Order of the Loyal Legion. He can claim for himself the distinction of casting the first Republican vote in (Washington) Broderick. Eighty years of age finds this hearty old pioneer enjoying life after this strenuous time through the other days. So his last years flow on as peacefully as the great river that ripples past his door.
Transcribed by Bea Barton
Source: "History of Yolo County, California" by Tom Gregory. Published by the Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1913, pages 478 - 482.
California Civil War Rosters
First Regiment of Cavalry
Company M
Transcribed completely as appears in book, pp 161-167.
No corrections made to original text. Kathy Sedler, May 2004.
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First Regiment of Cavalry, Company M
Name Gilbert T. Witham
Rank Captain
Place of Enrollment Sacramento, Cal.
Date of Enlistment Mar. 6, 1863
Date of Muster May 16, 1863
Remarks Resigned Feb. 28, 1865.
Husband Jeremiah Witham
AKA: Jeremiah Witham Jr.
Born: June 12, 1774 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: - Poland, Androscoggin, ME
Buried:
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Sarah Row
Marriage: April 25, 1799 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
Children
General Notes: Husband - Jeremiah Witham
History of Harrison, Maine
Jeremiah Witham, a son of Jeremiah, who located where Samuel York now lives, about 1799. He married Polly Bennett, and after living here a few years, sold to his brother, and moved to Poland; he had issue - Isaac, Jacob, Ira, Ebenezer, Jeremiah, Sarah, Mary, and some that died in infancy.
Living with Stephen Mellen Marble and Allura (Bonney) Marble in Poland, ME 1850
Stephen b. 25 Dec 1802, Bethel, Oxford, ME s/o Nathan Marble and Mehitable Freeland
Allura b. 04 Mar 1801 Turner, Androscoggin, ME
1820 Census, Poland, Cumberland, ME
M10-16 Eben (1809)
M10-16 Jeremiah (1807)
M16-18 Ira (1804)
M16-26 Isaac (1800)
M16-26 Jacob (1802)
M16-26 Ira (1804)
M>45 Jeremiah (1774)
F<10 Martha (1819)
F26-45 Mary (1780)
1830 Census, Poland, Cumberland, ME
M<5 ??
M20-30 ??
M20-30 Jacob (1802) ??
M30-40 Isaac (1800)
M50-60 Jeremiah (1774)
F<5 Mary Sophia (1825)
F5-10 Sarah (1822)
F5-10 Martha (1819) ??
1840 Census, Poland, Cumberland, ME
M40-50 Issac (1800)
M60-70 Jeremiah (1774)
F15-20 Sarah (1822)
F15-20 Mary Sophia (1825)
F60-70 Mary (1780)
Husband Jeremiah Witham
Born: December 1745 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized: December 1745 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Died: - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Buried:
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Elizabeth Pattee
Marriage: April 27, 1817 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Other Spouse: Sarah Row - June 9, 1773 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Other Spouse: Elizabeth H. Taylor - April 17, 1817 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage, New Gloucester, Cumberland,ME, April 24, 1817
Children
General Notes: Husband - Jeremiah Witham
1790 Census - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
M>16 Jeremiah Witham (1745)
M>16 Jeremiah Witham (1774)
M>16 Benjamin Witham (1775)
M<16 Daniel Witham (1781)
M<16 Samuel Witham (1785)
M<16 Isaac Witham (1790)
M<16 Ira or Benjamin Witham
F Sarah Witham (1753)
F Lydia Witham (1787)
F Sarah Witham (1779)
F Lucy Witham (1783)
F Unknown
1800 Census - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
M>45 Jeremiah Witham (1745)
M16-26 Benjamin Witham (1775)
M10-16 Samuel Witham (1785)
M<10 Isaac Witham (1790)
M<10 Jacob Witham (1791)
F26-45 Sarah Witham (1753)
F<10 Patty Witham (1795)
F<10 Mary Witham (1795)
F<10 Unknown
F<10 Unknown
1810 Census - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
M>45 Jeremiah Witham (1745)
M26-45 Benjamin Witham (1775)
M16-26 Samuel Witham (1785)
M16-26 Isaac Witham (1790)
M16-26 Jacob Witham (1791)
F>45 Sarah Witham (1753)
F26-45 Lydia Witham (1787)
F10-16 Patty Witham (1795)
1820 Census - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
M26-45 Jacob Witham (1791)
M>45 Jeremiah Witham (1745)
F>45 Elizabeth Taylor
Husband Joe O. Witham
AKA: Jody
Born: August 1, 1930 - Garland Co., AR
Baptized:
Died: June 19, 2004 - Saline Mem. Hospital, Benton, Saline, AR
Buried: June 21, 2004 - James Cemetery, Saline Co., AR
Father: Loy H. Witham
Mother: Bessie N. Chennault
Marriage:
Noted events in his life were:
1. Occupation
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Witham
2 F Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Rowe
General Notes: Husband - Joe O. Witham
Published on Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:48 PM CDT
Joe O. 'Jody' Witham
Joe O. "Jody" Witham, 73, died Saturday, June 19, 2004, at Saline Memorial Hospital.
He was a Korean War veteran and earned the Purple Heart medal.
Witham was born Aug. 1, 1930, to Loy and Bess Chenault Witham in Garland County. He was a retired butcher for Safeway and Pikewood Food Center in Bryant.
He is survived by a son, Doug Witham and his wife Renne of Crows Station; a daughter, Kaye Rowe and her husband Jimmy of Stamps; a nephew, Michael Whitehead of Dallas; a niece, Renee Denosky of Orlando, Fla.; four grandchildren, Courtney Rowe, Kristen Rowe, Brittany Witham and Bridget Witham; cousins, Louis and Erma Tudor of Benton; and friends, Phil and Ann Flanders of Benton.
A graveside services will be held Monday at James Cemetery in Mountain View with the Rev. Clarence Shell Jr. officiating.
Memorials may be made to Saline County Hospice.
Arrangements are by Ashby Funeral Home.
Husband John Witham
AKA: John Wittum
Born: December 20, 1733 - York, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Witham
Mother: Lydia Ramsdell
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Peter Witham
Born: March 9, 1763 - Culpepper Co., VA
Baptized:
Died: - Spencer, Owen, IN
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Debora Dicken
Marr: October 21, 1790 - Culpepper Co., VA
2 M John Witham
Born: - Virginia
Baptized:
Died: January 20, 1855 - Saline Co., AR
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Hutchinson
General Notes: Husband - John Witham
Moved from Maine to Virginia sometime around 1765. First mention of him is found in the book, Culpepepr County, Virginia Deeds, Vol. 1-4(1749-1769)( p. 400) by Dorman. where he disposed of all his property. "May 17, 1767- John Witham of Culpepper County to Elijah Simms of same for value in hand paid. Two Cows and two calfs marked with their right ears cut off, one heifer two years old red, one black steer, one year old marked as above and eleven head of hogs same mark, two feather beds ocf furniture. signed John Witham. Wit: james Duncan, Richard Flynt, William Clark, Roderick Perry."
General Notes: Child - Peter Witham
Entered the service about March 1, 1781. Fought in the Revolutionary War. Fought in the Battle of Yorktown. He was drafted again in 1794 to participate in the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania. He applied for a pension and was granted one in May 1834. From Culpepper County, Virginia Peter moved to Cumberland County, Kentucky about 1806/7, where he lived for about 20 years and from there he moved to Owen County, Indiana. The first record of Peter in Kentucky is from a list of early Kentucky landowners that lists Peter as a householder on May 18, 1807.
1840 CENSUS: Clay, Owen, IN
Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Service included in the foregoing
Peter Withim aged 77
1810 CENSUS: Burksville, Cumberland, KY
M>45 Peter Withem (1763)
F26-45 Mary Withem (abt 1760)
M16-26
M16-26
M16-26
M10-16 Joseph Withem (1796)
M<10 William Withem (1804)
F16-26
F10-16
F<10 Lucinda Withem (1809)
F<10
F<10
F<10
F<10
1830 CENSUS: Owen Co., IN
M60-70 Peter Witham (1763)
F60-70 Mary Witham (1760)
M15-20 Peter Witham (1816)
M15-20 George Washington Witham (1816)
General Notes: Child - John Witham
!Letter from Tom McBride, 1221 Mayberry Lane , State College, Pa 16801
16Feb 1992
Husband John Edgar Witham
Born: February 10, 1891 - Newcastle, ME
Baptized:
Died: April 1966 - New Britain, Hartford, CT
Buried:
Father: John E. Witham
Mother: Hattie A. Turner
Marriage: February 3, 1910
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Education, At School
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
9. Occupation
10. Occupation
11. Residence
12. Residence
13. Residence
14. Residence
15. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - John Edgar Witham
Induction: Wicasset, Lincoln, ME, Sep 18, 1917. Private; Cpl Nov 1 , 1917; Sgt Mar 7, 1919. Org: Btry B 303 FA to disch. Eng: Toul Sector. Overseas: Jul 16, 1918 to April 29, 1919. Hon disch on demob: June 30, 1919
Husband John Edgar Witham
Born: February 10, 1891 - Newcastle, ME
Baptized:
Died: April 1966 - New Britain, Hartford, CT
Buried:
Father: John E. Witham
Mother: Hattie A. Turner
Marriage: September 1, 1919
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Education, At School
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
9. Occupation
10. Occupation
11. Residence
12. Residence
13. Residence
14. Residence
15. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - John Edgar Witham
Induction: Wicasset, Lincoln, ME, Sep 18, 1917. Private; Cpl Nov 1 , 1917; Sgt Mar 7, 1919. Org: Btry B 303 FA to disch. Eng: Toul Sector. Overseas: Jul 16, 1918 to April 29, 1919. Hon disch on demob: June 30, 1919
Husband John R. Witham
Born: - Poland, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: October 9, 1885
Buried: - Abbot Cemetery, Abbot, ME
Father: Ira Witham
Mother: Martha Race
Marriage: June 16, 1868 - New Sharon, Franklin, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Census
3. Census
4. Martial Status
5. Military
6. Occupation
7. Residence
8. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
Children
General Notes: Husband - John R. Witham
11th Maine Infantry Regiment, Co. F
Witham, John R. Private
Entered age 34 July 15, 1863
Left: Feb 02, 1866 M.O.
Residence when enlisted: Vienna, ME
Died: Oct 9, 1885
Husband Jonathan Witham
Born: March 26, 1764 - Kittery, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: May 28, 1815 - Sanford, York, ME
Buried: - Oakdale Cemetery, Sanford, York, ME
Father: Moses Wittum
Mother: Abigail Hammond
Marriage: April 25, 1784 - Kittery, York, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. A.K.A
Wife Lydia Witham
Born: - Maine
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Moses Wittum
Mother: Abigail Hammond
Noted events in her life were:
1. A.K.A
Children
1 F Olive Witham
Born: August 7, 1786 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: May 20, 1811 - Sanford, York, ME
Buried: - Riverside Cemetery, Springvale, York, ME
Spouse: William Gowen
Marr: October 3, 1808
2 F Mary Witham
Born: - Kittery, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: June 11, 1819 - Sanford, York, ME
Buried: - Riverside Cemetery, Springvale, York, ME
Spouse: William Gowen
Marr: May 3, 1813
3 M Joshua Witham
Born: - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Lucy Bean
4 M Eli Witham
Born: August 3, 1790 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: March 24, 1864 - Denmark, Oxford, ME
Buried:
Spouse: Hannah Fernald
Marr: July 18, 1814 - Sanford, York, ME
5 F Lydia Witham
Born: - Sanford, Kittery, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
6 M Elijah Witham
Born: October 28, 1791 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: November 14, 1874
Buried: - Oakdale Cemetery, Sanford, York, ME
Spouse: Polly Wadleigh
Marr: September 16, 1816 - Sanford, York, ME
7 M Nahum M. Witham
Born: - Sanford, Kittery, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Sabara
General Notes: Husband - Jonathan Witham
History of Sanford, Maine 1661-1900
There is a tradition that he served on the "Bon Homme Richard", under John Paul Jones, before he came to Sanford.
General Notes: Child - Joshua Witham
1830 Federal Census - Portland, Cumberland, ME
M30-40 Joshua Witham
F20-30
M<5
F<5
1840 Federal Census - Portland, Cumberland, ME
M40-50 Joshua Witham
F30-40
M15-20
M10-15
M5-10
M5-10
M<5
F10-15
Husband Joseph Witham
Born: - New Hampshire
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Joseph H. Witham
Mother: Eliza Willey
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Etta M.
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Residence
9. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Karl Saxton Witham
Born: December 26, 1897
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Joshua G. Witham
Born: - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Margaret Littlefield
Marriage: November 30, 1820 - Alfred, York, ME
Wife Nancy Wormwood
Born: - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Amos Wormwood
Mother: Lydia Storer
Children
1 M Dunham Witham
Born: April 1822 - Maine
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Witham
Spouse: Hannah L. Goding
Marr: September 19, 1840 - Portland, Cumberland, ME
Spouse: Harriet J. Combs
Marr: April 2, 1854 - Portland, Cumberland, ME
2 M Joseph A. Witham
Born: August 1829
Baptized:
Died: September 29, 1836
Buried: - Western Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland, ME
3 F Asenath Witham
AKA: Arenath Uk
Born: February 14, 1830 - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: George W. R. Sawyer
Marr: January 11, 1853 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
4 M Joshua G. Witham
AKA: Joshua Witham
Born: October 30, 1834 - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: November 22, 1922 - Gray, Cumberland, ME
Buried:
Spouse: Mary E.
Spouse: Harriet Bradford Sawyer
Marr: August 20, 1853 - Civil, New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
5 M Benjamin T. Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Henrietta W. Gilman
Marr: May 24, 1860 - Portland, Cumberland, ME
General Notes: Child - Joseph A. Witham
Western Cemetery, Portland, ME: Lot F:8
General Notes: Child - Asenath Witham
Moved to Danville in May 1859 from New Gloucester
General Notes: Child - Benjamin T. Witham
Enlisted as a Sergeant on 04 Oct 1861 at age 25, residence Portland, Co. I, 10th Infantry Regt. Maine; received disability discharge on 10 Mar 1862.
Portland Maine Directories 1889-91, clerk located at 33 Forest Ave., Deering Point, Portland, ME
Civil War Pension Index, widow Henrietta W.
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Lucy Witham
Born: December 16, 1739 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: January 3, 1820 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried: - First Parish Burial Ground, Gloucester, Essex, MA
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Elizabeth Pattee
Noted events in her life were:
1. Baptism
Children
General Notes: Wife - Lucy Witham
Marriage by Rev. Samuel Chandler of Gloucester.
Husband Edward Franklin Wyborny
Born: December 24, 1878 - Iowa
Baptized:
Died: September 21, 1963
Buried:
Marriage: October 14, 1908
Wife Lulu Ethel Witham
Born: December 16, 1883 - Monroe, Green, WI
Baptized:
Died: August 15, 1955 - Plymouth, Cerro Gordo, IA
Buried:
Father: Moses E. Witham
Mother: Frances Elizabeth Ward
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census
2. Occupation, At School
Children
1 M Roy Edward Wyborny
Born: July 8, 1909 - Danville, Worth, IA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Harold Orvill Wyborny
Born: September 2, 1910 - Manly, Worth, IA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
3 U Wyborny
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
4 U Wyborny
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
5 U Wyborny
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Lydia Witham
Born: December 1, 1787 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: August 13, 1854 - Harrison, Cumberland, ME
Buried:
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Sarah Row
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
Children
Husband Ezekiel Wormwood
Born: - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: - Alfred, York, ME
Buried:
Father: Amos Wormwood
Mother: Lydia Storer
Marriage: - Alfred, York, ME
Other Spouse: Hannah W. Garland - October 8, 1840 - Portland, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
Wife Mary Witham
Born: - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: - Portland, Cumberland, ME
Buried:
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Margaret Littlefield
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
Children
Husband Zebulon Witham
AKA: Zebulon Wittum, Zebulun Wittum
Born: August 8, 1713 - York, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Witham
Mother: Elizabeth Tidy
Marriage: - York City, York, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
Wife Mary Witham
AKA: Mary Wittum
Born: November 5, 1729 - York, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Benjamin Wittum
Mother:
Father: Benjamin Wittum
Mother: Mary Rankin
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
2. Alt. Marriage, York, York, ME
Children
1 M Zebulun Wittum
Born: - York, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: April 27, 1749 - York, York, ME
Buried:
2 F Rhoda Wittum
Born: April 12, 1750 - York, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
3 F Mercy Wittum
Born: April 2, 1752 - York, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Zebulon Witham
!Same as for Elizabeth,child #1
!Kittery Family Records & Marriages- Book !, to the year 1892, p 56
Husband Jay L. Yeaton
Born: May 1858 - New Hampshire
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: March 24, 1881 - Fremont, Rockingham, NH
Other Spouse: Hattie W. Burley - Fremont, Rockingham, NH
Wife Mary A. Witham
Born: - Deerfield, Rockingham, NH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Thomas A. Witham
Mother: Mary L. Langley
Other Spouse: Arthur R. Guptill
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census
2. Census
Children
1 M Irving J. Yeaton
Born: August 15, 1882 - Epping, Rockingham, NH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Dora Purington
Marr: June 15, 1906 - Raymond, Rockinham, NH
Husband Rev. Maurice P. Witham
Born: - York, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: 1807 - Chillocothe, OH
Buried: - Bank Of Ohio River, Clermont, OH
Father: Gideon Wittum
Mother: Catherine Soames
Marriage: January 16, 1772
Other Spouse: Hannah Bragdon - July 16, 1772 - York, York, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. A.K.A
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Rev. Maurice P. Witham
He made his first trip to Ohio on horseback between 1795 1nd 1797. He purchased a one thousand acre tract of land from George and Julius Blackburn. The land was part of a four thousand acre Virginia Military Warrant, No. 2311, granted to Captain Churchill Jones who had served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. By an Act of Congress, August 10, 1790, the young United States Government, financially unable to pay the soldiers for their service during the War, granted them the privilege of obtaining "titles to the lands lying Northwest of the River Ohio, between the Little Miami and Sciota" in the Northwest Territory. This served the dual purpose of renumeration for the soldiers and hopefully would help settle the wilderness of the West. Morris Witham's ded was dated November 28, 1803 and signed by President Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State James Madison, and Secretary of War Henry Dearborn. It was recorded in the Department of State's patent of lands "granted to the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment" by Christopher Thoms, Clerk. The original patent is in the possession of Helen Witham and her daughter, Kay, at present. Copy of deed in possession of James Bennett.
Morris and his wife and their eight children and their families left their home in Saco Valley, Maine, along with other families from the area and migrated to Ohio. Their settlement was originally known as Witham's Settlement. Morris subdivided his property, selling some land to his chilren and their spouces for their own farms. Morris, a Regular Baptist minister as well as a farmer, along with William Robb,helped to found the Baptist church in the community.
In 1807 Morris set out for Chillicothe, Ohio to purchase more land but never returned. There is no information on the manner of his death. There is no record of his disappearance in the Chillicothe newspapers of the early 1800's.
Emigrating to the Ohio Country
1798-1800
G. T. Ridlon, Sr.
From The New England Magazine, New Series, Vol. 21, Issue 6,
published by the New England Magazine Co., Feb. 1900, Boston.
(P. 695) Elder Maurice Witham, said to have been a native or
transient resident of Standish, Cumberland county, Maine, and
sometime chaplain to Congress, was the promoter of a great
uprising in the Saco valley in the years 1798 and 1800, and
became the Moses of the Hard-shell Baptists of that period, who
led the once contented and prosperous inhabitants from their
peaceful homes through the wilderness to the Promised Land
known at the time as the "Virginia Reserve" or Northwestern
Territory, and now in the state of Ohio.
This man made a journey on horseback to the West in 1797-
98, and purchased or somehow became possessed of a large tract
of land in Little Miami county, now within the corporate limits of
Cincinnati; but for reasons that do not appear, he abandoned this
and secured title to one thousand acres in the present Clermont
county, some ten miles east of Columbus, then in the "Virginia
Reserve", so called. This tract, one of the first to be settled in the
great Northwest, was surveyed in November, 1787; and in 1798
the first settlement was made, headed by Elder Maurice Witham.
In the autumn of 1798 he returned to the Saco valley as he
went, on horseback, accompanied by a half-breed Indian named
John Whales, (The mother of this John Whales was a
full-blooded squaw, belonging to one of the western tribes, and
John's early years were spent among the Indians. In a moment
of anger he had killed one of the savages, and fled to escape
the vengeance of the tribe. Being hunted by dogs, he eluded
them by taking to the water. While he was secreted on the bank
of the Ohio River, he discovered several of his dusky pursuers
approaching in a canoe and headed directly toward his hiding
place; and as soon as they were within range he sent bullets
through three of them. Aware that there would never be any
safety for him in the West, and having found the new settlement
and formed the acquaintance of Elder Witham, he procured a
horse and accompanied him to the East. He built a cabin on the
bank of what has since been called "Whales Pond" where he lived
as a "squatter" burning lampblack and stealing his neighbors' sheep,
until he was detected and driven away. He removed to Cornish and
continued his lawless course. He was once discovered in a store in
the night, having removed a shutter, and the owner tried to secure
him, but, seeing the gleam of the long knife with which he was armed,
allowed him to escape. He married a woman of respectability, and
many of his descendants are now living in western Maine, who show
some characteristics of their Indian ancestors.) and brought back
such a glowing account of the rich bottom lands and prairies, of the
salubrious climate and pure water, the beautiful forests and valuable
timber, plantiful game and mineral resources, that he induced two or
three families to dispose of their farms and stock and, the following
spring, to follow his "star of destiny" westward.
According to a description given the writer by one who
remembered the event, Elder Witham might have been (p. 696)
seen dressed in a well worn suit of black, under a broad-brimmed
hat, on an old "heaving" yellow mare, riding from neighborhood
to neighborhood up and down the Saco valley in Newbury-
Narragansett (now Buxton) and Little Falls Plantation (now
Hollis), halting here and there, surrounded by groups of sturdy
yeomen, while he enlarged, in vivid description, upon what he
had seen in the great West. He told of corn, growing from soil as
black as gunpowder and of unknown depth, higher than the tallest
of men; of natural grasses for pasturage growing on broad
blossoming prairies, upon which cattle became for for the
shambles in a few weeks; of inexhaustible fountains of purest
water, which he predicted would prove to be an elixir of life; of
tall chestnuts from which rails could be split as true as a line by
an axe stroke; of cedars from which shingles and clapboards
could be made that would never decay: of unfailing streams that
could be utilized for water powers and prove a source of wealth
to such as had a predisposition to engage in the lumber trade.
Mohawk potatoes would grow, he affirmed, as large as Caleb
Kimball's foot which had long been the unit of measurement for
large solid bodies in the Saco valley; and by this allusion to a
familiar object he enabled his hearers to form a ready estimate of
the size of the tubers. Was he not a minister of the gospel, this
Elder Maurice Witham, and, consequently, a man of truth?
The fact was, he was a man of superior intelligence, eloquence
of language, and speculative temperament, who could preach the
doctrine of predestination with power, and successfully embark in
business ventures, as a "side line", at the same time. He believed
that the saints should inherit the earth, had no doubt about his
being one of the elect, and wished to secure his share of the best
land before the available territory was absorbed. He was a Hard-
shell Baptist of the ultra stamp, a rigid close communionist, who
wished to establish a colony where he could live without any
interference from the other sects. As we survey the movement in
retrospect, aided by the testimony of excellent characters, both in
the East and West, who were personally acquainted with Maurice
Witham, some of whom followed him from New England to
Ohio, it appears that he had cherished the hope that, when settled
down upon his claim in the West, surrounded by a cluster of
families isolated from other communities and free from any
denominational intrusion, he could build up a little theological
kingdom of his own, all of one stripe.
The inception and execution of his plans, so far as they were
executed, was no haphazard thing, but a well arranged scheme,
which bid fair to materialize in organized form. Evidence of this
was found in the manner of surveying, allotment and disposition
of his lands among those who followed him to the West. Here he
exhibited his ingenuity and forethought. All lots assigned to
settlers radiated from a common centre, and extended backward
for half a mile, like the openings between wheel spokes. A
suitable plot was reserved at the hub for a church, school. burial
ground, blacksmith's shop and stores. Each owner was required
to erect his homestead upon the narrow end of his land; and thus
they formed a compact hamlet in neighborly association.
In the autumn of 1799 Elder Witham returned to New England
the second and last time, for the purpose of moving his own
family, and of inducing other families to follow him to the West.
Having waited for those who had first emigrated to gather a
harvest from the new lands, like the faithful spies from the land
that "flowed with milk and honey", he brought of the fruits of the
new country "the grapes of Eschol" in his saddlebags to prove
the truthfulness of his statements when on his first (p. 697)
homeward journey. There were potatoes surely of enormous size,
but not as large as Caleb Kimball's foot; there were ears of corn
of tremendous length, but not as long as common flail swingles;
and there was a braid of grass wound about the neck of his mare,
of luxuriant growth, but not as tall as giants. With these
specimens he rode through the Saco valley settlements and
exhibited them to the wondering inhabitants. As further proof of
the fertility of the soil, he brought letters from the families who
had first removed to his lands for their kindred in the East. These
epistles, one of which I have seen, were as high colored in
descriptive phrase as the meagre education of the writers would
admit. In one, it was stated that the potatoes grew so large that
while the writer was using his pen, his brother was sitting on one
end of the Mohawk, or Shenango, eating potato and butter, at the
same time that the other end was roasting in the embers at the
fireplace. Another wrote that the corn grew to such enormous size
that the kernels had to be cracked with a sledge-hammer before
they could be ground between millstones. This was hyperbole
with a vengeance. - of which there was very much in those old
days when New England began to go into the West. They also
wrote of mild winters, long, temperate summers, a climate
salubrious and delightful.
Such letters, written by the pioneers on the "Virginia
Reservation", contained the bacteria of an early western fever that
spread through the Saco valley until many families became
hopelessly infected. The excitement became so contagious that
the industrious farmers, whose domestic necessities required their
attention at home, neglected their daily work and assembled in
groups of dozens to mature plans for selling out and removing to
the West. As a result of this early craze, those who owned good
lands and comfortable buildings, whose expanding fields and
pastures were ornamented with abundant crops and decked with
goodly herds and flocks, who, having passed through the
preliminary struggles of cutting away the forest and subduing the
soil, were just entering upon an era of agricultural prosperity,
were so swept away from a coll estimate of the sacrifice they
were making, that they sold their farms and stock in haste at
ruinous prices, pulled up stakes, turned their backs upon their
native region and kindred and anticipated the advice of Horace
Greeley to go West.
Many of these farmers expended nearly every dollar they had
received for their land and stock for large horses, wagons and
harnesses, and in other preparations for their journey. All the
cordwainers in the Saco valley were called into commission to
cut up all the sides of leather in the tan pits of Ben Burnham and
Dan Hopkinson, and make harnesses for the big horses, while
wheelwrights and joiners were hewing, sawing and slashing to
build the great lumbering wagons of capacity sufficient to
accommodate the families and household gear to be transported
toward the setting sun.
It was indeed a sad hour when the time of parting came; and as
we look backward and try to appreciate the whole transaction and
all that this westward movement involved, we can hardly
understand the strength of the motive that was sufficient to impel
a family connection living together in a peaceful neighborhood to
turn away to untried scenes and circumstances; and we naturally
ask whether they were possessed of the finer sensibilities of
kindred attachment and filial affection, thus voluntarily to isolate
themselves from so many associations that should have bound
them to the homes of their childhood. The settlements where
they had lived on the Saco were nearly all made up of their own
relations, and they had become masters of the means of securing a
livelihood. On their estates there was an abundance of valuable
timber that could be turned into ready money and (p. 698) family
supplies; and there was no necessity behind to stimulate their
removal. The war of the Revolution was over; they had secured
valid titles to their land, had built commodious farm buildings,
were provided with schools, with mills for sawing lumber and
grinding corn, and their harvests were ample to supply them with
wholesome food. I was satisfied when visiting the West and
conversing with old men who, having been among those who
removed in 1800, were able to give me accurate information, that
much was sacrificed and nothing gained by this precipitate
exodus. It is true that the new lands were all that could be desired
for a new colony; and so were those they abandoned in the East.
Many who followed Elder Witham were united in amity with
those left behind and carried away with them much that had made
life enjoyable in their old neighborhood; and they left behind
them the remnants of broken families and the bleeding hearts of
those who loved them; and they knew the separation would be
final, so far as this world was concerned.
From the lips of two venerable men, one in the Saco valley
and his cousin in southern Illinois, at whose prairie home I was
visiting twenty years ago, I wrote down some reminiscences of
the parting scenes and the journey, as the two remembered them.
It was, they said, a balmy morning in "flax-bloom time", when
those composing the emigrating party took leave of their friends
and kindred and turned their faces away from their childhood
homes. On the evening previous, fathers and mothers had
gathered their children around them and knelt for the last time at
their hearthstones to pray. Mothers went from room to room to
take a last look at the homely walls and ceilings hallowed by toil
and domestic peace. Fathers strolled once more over the acres
they had cleared and brought to fertility. With quivering lips these
heard the familiar click of the door latch for the last time. Then
they turned away and went to pass the night with their aged
parents down the river. Before daybreak all was bustle with the
final preparations for the journey. Old, white-haired men sat at
their chimney-sides with bowed he adds brushing away the tears
that trickled down the furrows of their cheeks. Venerable
mothers, who had spent their stregnth in childbirth and the
bringing up of their children, were now, with many a sigh,
assisting them to depart. Brothers and sisters had journeyed from
the back towns to say farewell to those who had been nursed on
the same maternal bosom and rocked to sleep in the same cradle.
More distant relatives, indeed every family in the community, had
assembled to see the west-bound train depart.
When the great wagons had been loaded, and the horses
brought from the barns and hitched up, Elder Ebenezer Lewis,
widely known as "Uncle Eben" in the Saco settlements, called the
families together and delivered a brief and practical address, in
which he admonished all to remember the counsel of their early
years and the God of their fathers; then he knelt upon the green
turf-the very spot has been pointed out to me-and in a most
solemn and pathetic prayer commended the whole company to an
all-merciful and covenant-keeping Providence. Afterwards, amid
falling tears, the fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters,
neighbors and friends, fondly embraced each other. One by one
the children were handed up to the great covered wagons.
"Farewell, Abram" said a patriarchal father with faltering voice,
as he stood with uncovered head, his snowy locks tossing in the
breeze. "Good by, Patience", sobbed a poor old wrinkled mother,
as she held the hand and looked into the face of her first born for
the last time. "Good by, grandpa and grandma", cried a quartet of
little voices from the wagon. Then crack went the great leathern
whips, (p. 699) and one by one the slow, heavy-laden teams
moved away down the bank of the Saco.
Long and sadly did those gathered about the dooryard stand
and watch the departing teams. Not a word was spoken, for every
heart was full. When the last white covering of the wagons
disappeared below the hill, these neighbors silently separated and
pensively went their way. Back to their hearthstones, where they
had reared their children, went the aged parents, and sat down
forlorn. A cloud, dark and heavy, had gathered over the old home,
and they sighed: "O Abram, O Patience, how can we give thee
up!" "O Maurice Witham, ye have bereaved us of our children.
Would we had died for them!"
This is no fancy picture, but the cold attempt to delineate what
actually took place, as related substantially by those who were
eyewitnesses of the sad even t when their young minds were
impressionable and their memories retentive. Nor does the
account apply simply to one family, to the separation of one
kindred band: it applies to many.
There were twenty families in the train when all had come
together, and those who moved down the Saco River from the
plantations of Little Ossipee and Little Falls were witnesses of
what transpired at other homes as the caravan was augmented on
the road. At Salmon Falls, the rallying point for all, the saintly
Parson Coffin, of precious memory, had come down to bid adieu
to those families baptized and united in marriage by him. While
the long train of white-covered wagons was drawn up in the
highway, he called together those who lived in that vicinity, many
of them members of the church founded by him in the wilderness,
and reverently prayed with them. That was a memorable day in
the Saco River settlements, of which much was afterwards told
around the firesides in the years that succeeded. Many heart
woulnds were made that never healed: many an old mother's
tears fell upon her knitting work; and many a father brushed from
his cheek, fissured by the plough of Time, the dews distilled by
an aching heart, as they remembered those who were torn from
their arms on that sad morning.
Cooking utensils, such as were used at the time, were carried
in each wagon; and when night came on, the train was formed
into a circle, the horses were tethered to hubs driven into the
ground, and watched in turns by their owners, while the women
were preparing food for the supper. Seeing their fires, the people
living in the neighborhood of the emigrant camp came out to see
them and often brought refreshments for them. Jovial seasons
were enjoyed around those evening camp fires. One of the young
men, with musical inclinations, had taken his fiddle along to
beguile the hours of their loneliness; and in spite of Elder
Witham's remonstrances, the young men and maidens whiled
away an evening with dancing and merrymaking. These social
pastimes were often participated in by the youth who came to the
emigrant encampment from the homes along their route.
I was also informed that a pleasant incident of a romantic
character occurred on the journey. The horses wore wooden
hames without collars or padding, and when the train reached
Pennsylvania the poor creatures were so badly chafed that it was
necessary to halt for two weeks while the sore shoulders healed.
Being in a Dutch settlement, the men of the emigrating company
engaged in threshing grain with flails, and their wives in spinning
flax, for the kind families whose hospitality they shared, to pay
their keeping. It was while they thus tarried that a young
Dutchman became passionately enamored of a beautiful daughter
of one of the Saco valley families, and as she reciprocated his
affections they were loath to part. After a delay of sixteen days,
some of the horses were still too (p. 700) sore to be harnessed,
and these were exchanged for sound ones, with the Dutch
farmers. "My father", said my old informant, "traded one of hit
big horses for a tight-bitted mare, and found afterwards that she
would bite like a sarpint, and kick like a mu-el." As the emigrants
resumed their journey, there was a touching scene when the
young Hans took leave of the damsel who had so struck his fancy.
The sequel proved that some rather sacred promises were made
by the two before they separated; for so powerful was the
feminine magnet, that on the second day after leaving the Dutch
settlement the young man joined the emigrants and journeyed
with them to their destination. This accounts for the wedding in
the colony of New England families between Hans Frelinghusen
and Pattie Woodman, the first there united in wedlock by the
founder of the settlement, Elder Witham; and a record of his
contract should be preserved in Clermont county, Ohio, until this
day.
The women, from the day the families had decided to
emigrate, had employed every spare moment in spinning woollen
yarn, and were busy with their knitting work while on their
journey, in the wagons and arjound the fires when encamped; and
many a little foot was kept warm during the following winter with
stockings their mothers had knitted while on the way to 'Hio.
I asked my old friend one evening, while sitting on his porch
at Webb's Prairie, whether Elder Witham himself took any of the
"Oh, be joyful" while on the trip. He answered "Sartinly!
Sartinly! Why, everybody took the ardent when they could get it
in them days. I remember him well. He would swallow a little
and then snap his eyes and smack his lips smartly, as if he took
kindly to it."
There were some lively encounters on the road. When they
reached a broad highway, they raced horses "ontil the waggins
rumbled like an airthquaker, and the dust rose like a heavy
cloud." "My soul! How the pots and kittles rattled!" said Uncle
Sam as he threw his head back and laughed. "Speaking of
dancing," he said, "I could tell you that my mother was an all-
killin' powerful dancer, and could tucker down any man who
dared to take the floor agin her."
Elder Witham constantly rode in advance, on his yellow mare,
and guided the long winding caravan slowly westward. He had
covered the trail as many as four times, and was familiar with
every inch of the track. When he said, "Advance," the train
moved forward; when he rode back and said, "Halt," they went
into camp. There were no hosts led on behind by Pharaoh, no
rumblings of chariot wheels to fear, and they took their time.
When they reached the Alleghany Mountains, the ascent was
so steep that the emigrants found it necessary to double up their
teams and draw the heavy wagons up by stages, one at a time; and
men walked behind with billets of wood to trig the wheels when
they allowed the horses to stop and rest. In descending, long
withes were twisted into the hoops of their wagon covers, and
these, held by men who walked on the upper side of the uneven
road, prevented the wagons from capsizing. When going down a
very steep hillside, a young horse on which one of the lads was
riding stepped upon a loose stone, stumbled and fell, throwing the
rider upon a ledge and breaking his arm. The teams could not be
stopped, and the lad was put into one of the wagons, where he
suffered excruciating pain until the foothills were reached; then
they laid him upon a quilt at the roadside and his fractured limb
was bound up between two rough "splints" cut from a cedar
sapling for the purpose; then he mounted the colt again, but
suffered terribly from the jolting motion over the flinty road.
At Redstone Creek a halt was called, and the whole company
waited until great timber flatboats were constructed (p. 701) upon
which to transport the families, horses, wagons and gear down to
the place of landing. Here a stranger fell in with them, who said
he was on his way to the Northwestern Territory to prospect for
land. As he appeared to be honest, and his objective point was the
same, he was permitted to take a pair of the horses down the river
by land. This would reduce the cargo and help the traveler on his
way.
The passage down the river was uneventful. Frightful stories
had been heard about hostile Indians skulking along the shores to
waylay emigrants; and as a precaution the flatboats were
anchored every night some distance from the banks, where they
remained, guarded by armed sentinels. The arrival of the settlers
had been anticipated, and at the landing place the party was
greeted with acclamations of joy by their kindred, who had
followed Elder Witham to the settlement a year before.
The stranger did not appear with the horses as promised, and
after waiting for several days, the owner went back in search of
them. One was found where it had been turned out to care for
itself; but, being too poor and weak to drive, it was exchanged for
a two-year-old heifer and a note of hand, which was never paid.
The other horse, a valuable one, was never found, nor was the
adventurer to whom it had been intrusted ever afterwards heard
of.
"How long were you on the journey?" I asked my old friend.
"We left Saco valley at flax-bloom time, and reached our
destination and roast-ear time," was his prompt reply. They were
on the road, including the two weeks in the Dutch settlement,
about three months.
Some of the families were permitted to spend their first winter
in the cabins of their kindred who had preceded them; others
made haste to cut down trees for log houses, and in a few days
were sheltered from the storms under a bark roof and living upon
a ground floor. The family of which "Uncle Sam" was a member
passed their second winter in a rude hut of puncheons roofed with
great squares of chestnut bark. There was but one small room,
one door, and no window. A store of meal and potatoes was laid
in; but all the meat the family had was brought to them by two
Dutch hunters, named Van Eaton, who came occasionally to tarry
for a night. These provided some fore quarters of venison and
wild turkeys to pay for lodgings, which were very acceptable. In
this cabin a family consisting of the parents and four children
were sheltered; and a fifth child was born there during the winter.
Meanwhile the father and his eldest sons were splitting rails for
Elder Witham, to pay for their land. There was none ill, they were
contented, and "came out as fat as woodchucks in the spring."
"Nothing to do but build a log meeting-house as soon as we got
fairly landed," said my old friend. It was a sanctuary in the
wilderness, a small, rude building, twenty by thirty feet, laid up
with rough logs and warmed in cold weather by a stone-cobbled
fireplace. When their first winter in the West had passed, the men
united in building houses for those who had lived in the cabins of
their kindred; and then the settlement, named "Witham's
Settlement", began to assume some resemblance to a village.
Strong arms, nerved by resolute wills, hewed down the forest, and
domestic peace prevailed.
On Sabbath mornings the families assembled within their
"parish church" and sat on timber seats to hear Elder Witham
preach; and the year after their arrival a powerful revival was
experienced and many were baptized and gathered into a church.
And here for seven or eight years this Moses, who had led his
people through the wilderness between New England and the
great Northwestern Territory, held sway as ecclesiastical head.
Thus far his plans had materialized, (p. 702) and he could "sit
under his own vine and fig tree with none to molest or make him
afraid." But ambition often hurls headlong those who become her
votaries. Elder Witham was not satisfied with his achievement,
and expanded his plans. His ideals of a colony on church-
extension lines were broad and high. He must have more land.
Mounting his mare, he left his brethren and sisters and his family
to go East and purchase more territory. Whether Washington or
Chillicothe was his objective point we do not know; but he died
in a tavern in the latter town, and before his son could reach the
place had been buried. As in the case of the earlier Moses, the
place of his grave is not known unto this day.
Thus ended the earthly carreer of the speculative preacher,
colonizer and founder of the village which today bears the name
of Withamsville. His horse was found and brought back to his
home; but the money supposed to have been on his person was
not recovered. Few particulars concerning his last hours could be
obtained, and many believed he had been foully dealt with.
Had he survived and secured another concession of land
adjoining his original purchase, there is no reason for doubting
that he would have made another journey to New England with
strings of stories about the land that flowed with deer and wild
turkeys, drumming up recruits to enlar
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Mehitabel Kimball Witham
Born: August 28, 1797 - Blue Hill, Maine
Baptized:
Died: July 10, 1835 - Blue Hill, Maine
Buried: July 1835 - Seaside Cemetery, Blue Hill, Maine
Father: Andrew Witham
Mother: Mehitable Kimball
Children
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Melissa S. Witham
AKA: Mary
Born: - Maine
Baptized:
Died: March 29, 1873
Buried:
Father: Ira Witham
Mother: Sylvina Fogg
Noted events in her life were:
1. A.K.A
2. Census
3. Census
4. Residence
Children
Husband Moses Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Moses Witham
Born: August 15, 1790 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died: June 11, 1873 - Madrid, Franklin, ME
Buried: - Madrid Village Cemetery, Madrid, Franklin, ME
Spouse: Fannie Taylor
Marr: June 15, 1815 - Sanford, York, ME
General Notes: Child - Moses Witham
History of Sanford, Maine 1661-1900
Moses Witham, musician, in Captain Chadwick's company, Colonel Learned's regiment, April 1813-1814. He was a fifer, and at his death, left his fife to his daughter, Mrs. Hiram Witham. He was at Stony Creek, June 6, 1813, and at Plattsburg, September 11, 1814.
Marriage by Rev. Joseph W. Clarey
07 Dec 1815 Moses Witham Jr., Sanford and Ann Taylor
Husband Nathan Witham
Born: April 11, 1811 - New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
Baptized:
Died: March 26, 1880 - New Sharon, Franklin, ME
Buried: - New Sharon Village Cemetery, New Sharon, Franklin, ME
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Mehitable Wing
Marriage: January 24, 1837 - New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Residence, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1836
2. Intention, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, December 19, 1836
3. Census, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1840
4. Census, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1850
5. Census, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1860
6. Occupation, Farmer, 1860
7. Census, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1870
8. Occupation, Farmer, 1870
9. Residence, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, February 7, 1878
10. Occupation, Farmer, 1879
11. Alt. Death, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, November 1879
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Nathan Witham
1840 Census - New Sharon, Franklin, ME
M20-30 Nathan Witham (1811)
M15-20 Unknown
M<5 George Witham (1839)
F50-60 Mehitable Wing (1776)
F20-30 Naomi Lufkin (1810)
F20-30 Elmira Witham (1813) sister
F20-30 Unknown
F15-20 Unknown
Husband Nathan Witham
Born: April 11, 1811 - New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
Baptized:
Died: March 26, 1880 - New Sharon, Franklin, ME
Buried: - New Sharon Village Cemetery, New Sharon, Franklin, ME
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Mehitable Wing
Marriage: February 7, 1878 - New Sharon, Franklin, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Residence, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1836
2. Intention, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, December 19, 1836
3. Census, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1840
4. Census, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1850
5. Census, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1860
6. Occupation, Farmer, 1860
7. Census, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1870
8. Occupation, Farmer, 1870
9. Residence, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, February 7, 1878
10. Occupation, Farmer, 1879
11. Alt. Death, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, November 1879
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Nathan Witham
1840 Census - New Sharon, Franklin, ME
M20-30 Nathan Witham (1811)
M15-20 Unknown
M<5 George Witham (1839)
F50-60 Mehitable Wing (1776)
F20-30 Naomi Lufkin (1810)
F20-30 Elmira Witham (1813) sister
F20-30 Unknown
F15-20 Unknown
Husband Orlando A. Witham
Born: - Prospect, Waldo, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: James Parker Witham
Mother: Sarah J. Avery
Marriage: May 7, 1881 - Otis, Hancock, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband Otis Henry Witham
AKA: Henry Otis Witham, Otis Witham
Born: August 31, 1883 - Alna, Lincoln, ME
Baptized:
Died: September 16, 1940 - Nobleboro, Lincoln, ME
Buried:
Father: John E. Witham
Mother: Hattie A. Turner
Marriage: August 25, 1902
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Occupation
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Occupation
9. Residence
10. Residence
11. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
Children
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Patience Witham
Born: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Children
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Patience Witham
Born: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Children
Husband Peter Witham
Born: July 31, 1773 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: 1860 - Greenbush, Penobscot, ME
Buried:
Father: Asa Witham
Mother: Rebecca Lane
Marriage: June 15, 1791 - Sandy River, Lincoln, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. A.K.A., Peter Wythem
2. Alt. Birth
3. Alt. Birth
4. Baptism, April 26, 1778
5. Misc., Married by Oliver Wood, Esq., 1791
6. Residence, Sandy River, Lincoln, ME, June 15, 1791
7. Residence, Sterling, Kennebec, ME, 1794
8. Misc., Winthrop, Kennebec, ME, March 2, 1794
9. Census, Plymouth Gore, Kennebec, ME, 1800
10. Census, Wayne, Kennebec, ME, 1800
11. Census, Mercer, Somerset, ME, 1810
12. Census, New Sharon, Kennebec, ME, 1810
13. Census, New Sharon, Kennebec, ME, 1820
14. Census, Olamon Plantation, Hancock, ME, 1830
15. Census, Greenfield, Hancock, ME, 1840
16. Census, Greenfield, Hancock, ME, 1850
17. Residence, Living with son Luther, 1850
18. Census, Greenfield, Penobscot, ME, 1860
19. Martial Status, Widower, 1860
20. Residence, Greenfield, Penobscot, ME, July 18, 1860
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Peter Witham
1800 Census Wayne, Kennebec, ME
M26-45 Peter Witham (1773)
M<10 John Witham (1794)
M<10 Asa Witham (1799)
F26-45 Joanna Whitney
F<5 Joanna Witham (1798)
1810 Census New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
M26-45 Peter Witham (1773)
M10-16 John Witham (1794)
M<10 Asa Witham (1799)
M<10 Luther Witham (1804-06)
F26-45 Joanna Whitney
F10-16 Joanna Witham (1798)
F<10 Submit Witham
F<10 Lydia Witham
1820 Census Township 38 (Olamon Plt.), Hancock, ME
M>45 Peter Whitham (1773)
M16-26 John Witham (1794)
M10-16 Asa Witham (1799)
M<10 Luther Witham
M<10 ??
M<10 Orrison Witham (1817)
F>45 Joanna Whitney
F16-26 Joanna Witham (1798)
F16-26 Lydia Witham (1800-1810)
F10-16 Sybil Witham (1810)
F10-16 Submit Witham (??)
1820 Census New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
M>45 Peter Witham (1773)
F>45 Joanna Whitney
F16-26 Joanna Witham (1798)
F16-26 Submit Witham
F10-16 Lydia Witham
1830 Census Olamon Plantation, Hancock, ME
M50-60 Peter Witham (1773)
M15-20 Orrison Witham (1817)
M5-10 Unknown
F50-60 Joanna Whitney
1840 Census Greenfield, Hancock, ME
M60-70 Peter Witham (1773)
M20-30 Orrison Witham (1817)
M10-15 Unknown
F90-100
F60-70 Joanna Whitney
F5-10 Unknown
Peter Witham, born in Maine, perhaps New Sharon, about 1770, died in Greenfield, about 1860. He settled on a farm in Greenfield, and resided there the remainder of his life. He married Joanna Whitney, born in Maine in 1771, died in Greenfield in 1847.
"Peter Witham, who came to Industry from the vicinity of Hollowell, in 1788, and settled north of Levi Greenleaf, on Lot 67, was the second settler on the Patent. He was coarse, vulgar and illiterate, and was not properous- possibly in consequence of intemperate habits."
"Esq. Wm Allen says (Hist of Industry, p. 17): "The first settlers in Industry on the patent were joseph Taylor and Peter Witham in 1792, on that part set off to New Sharon, also at the same time Nathaniel Chapman, who was a Revolutionary soldier." Documentary evidence in the State House in Massachusetts shows that Peter Witham came in 1788, Taylor in 1799, eleven years later, and that Mr. Chapman did not settle in town until 1801. These same records show Levi Greenleaf to have been the first settler in town."
1800 Census - Plymouth Gore (Pittsfield or New Sharon), Kennebec, ME
M26-45 Peter Witham
M10-16
M<10
M<10
M<10
F26-45
F<10
1810 CENSUS - Mercer, Somerset, ME
M26-45 Peter Witham
F26-45
M16-26
M10-16
M10-16
F10-16
F<5
F<5
F<5
F<5
F<5
Marriages Solemized by Oliver Wood, Esquire, of Lincoln County
15 June 1791 Peter Witham and Armela Brann, both of Sandy River
The first settlers in Industry, on the patent, were Joseph Taylor and Peter Witham in 1792, on that part set off to New Sharon.
Husband Peter Witham
Born: July 31, 1773 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: 1860 - Greenbush, Penobscot, ME
Buried:
Father: Asa Witham
Mother: Rebecca Lane
Marriage: March 2, 1794 - Sterling Fayette , Kennebec, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. A.K.A., Peter Wythem
2. Alt. Birth
3. Alt. Birth
4. Baptism, April 26, 1778
5. Misc., Married by Oliver Wood, Esq., 1791
6. Residence, Sandy River, Lincoln, ME, June 15, 1791
7. Residence, Sterling, Kennebec, ME, 1794
8. Misc., Winthrop, Kennebec, ME, March 2, 1794
9. Census, Plymouth Gore, Kennebec, ME, 1800
10. Census, Wayne, Kennebec, ME, 1800
11. Census, Mercer, Somerset, ME, 1810
12. Census, New Sharon, Kennebec, ME, 1810
13. Census, New Sharon, Kennebec, ME, 1820
14. Census, Olamon Plantation, Hancock, ME, 1830
15. Census, Greenfield, Hancock, ME, 1840
16. Census, Greenfield, Hancock, ME, 1850
17. Residence, Living with son Luther, 1850
18. Census, Greenfield, Penobscot, ME, 1860
19. Martial Status, Widower, 1860
20. Residence, Greenfield, Penobscot, ME, July 18, 1860
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Peter Witham
1800 Census Wayne, Kennebec, ME
M26-45 Peter Witham (1773)
M<10 John Witham (1794)
M<10 Asa Witham (1799)
F26-45 Joanna Whitney
F<5 Joanna Witham (1798)
1810 Census New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
M26-45 Peter Witham (1773)
M10-16 John Witham (1794)
M<10 Asa Witham (1799)
M<10 Luther Witham (1804-06)
F26-45 Joanna Whitney
F10-16 Joanna Witham (1798)
F<10 Submit Witham
F<10 Lydia Witham
1820 Census Township 38 (Olamon Plt.), Hancock, ME
M>45 Peter Whitham (1773)
M16-26 John Witham (1794)
M10-16 Asa Witham (1799)
M<10 Luther Witham
M<10 ??
M<10 Orrison Witham (1817)
F>45 Joanna Whitney
F16-26 Joanna Witham (1798)
F16-26 Lydia Witham (1800-1810)
F10-16 Sybil Witham (1810)
F10-16 Submit Witham (??)
1820 Census New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
M>45 Peter Witham (1773)
F>45 Joanna Whitney
F16-26 Joanna Witham (1798)
F16-26 Submit Witham
F10-16 Lydia Witham
1830 Census Olamon Plantation, Hancock, ME
M50-60 Peter Witham (1773)
M15-20 Orrison Witham (1817)
M5-10 Unknown
F50-60 Joanna Whitney
1840 Census Greenfield, Hancock, ME
M60-70 Peter Witham (1773)
M20-30 Orrison Witham (1817)
M10-15 Unknown
F90-100
F60-70 Joanna Whitney
F5-10 Unknown
Peter Witham, born in Maine, perhaps New Sharon, about 1770, died in Greenfield, about 1860. He settled on a farm in Greenfield, and resided there the remainder of his life. He married Joanna Whitney, born in Maine in 1771, died in Greenfield in 1847.
"Peter Witham, who came to Industry from the vicinity of Hollowell, in 1788, and settled north of Levi Greenleaf, on Lot 67, was the second settler on the Patent. He was coarse, vulgar and illiterate, and was not properous- possibly in consequence of intemperate habits."
"Esq. Wm Allen says (Hist of Industry, p. 17): "The first settlers in Industry on the patent were joseph Taylor and Peter Witham in 1792, on that part set off to New Sharon, also at the same time Nathaniel Chapman, who was a Revolutionary soldier." Documentary evidence in the State House in Massachusetts shows that Peter Witham came in 1788, Taylor in 1799, eleven years later, and that Mr. Chapman did not settle in town until 1801. These same records show Levi Greenleaf to have been the first settler in town."
1800 Census - Plymouth Gore (Pittsfield or New Sharon), Kennebec, ME
M26-45 Peter Witham
M10-16
M<10
M<10
M<10
F26-45
F<10
1810 CENSUS - Mercer, Somerset, ME
M26-45 Peter Witham
F26-45
M16-26
M10-16
M10-16
F10-16
F<5
F<5
F<5
F<5
F<5
Marriages Solemized by Oliver Wood, Esquire, of Lincoln County
15 June 1791 Peter Witham and Armela Brann, both of Sandy River
The first settlers in Industry, on the patent, were Joseph Taylor and Peter Witham in 1792, on that part set off to New Sharon.
Husband John Wormwood
Born: - Alfred, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: May 1, 1826 - Sanford, York, ME
Wife Phylene Witham
Born: - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Margaret Littlefield
Noted events in her life were:
1. A.K.A
Children
1 F Josephine M. Wormwood
Born: January 3, 1828 - Sanford, York, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca Witham
Born: February 13, 1804 - New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
Baptized:
Died: January 19, 1835
Buried: - New Sharon Village Cemetery, New Sharon, Franklin, ME
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Mehitable Wing
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census, New Sharon, Kennebec, ME, 1820
2. Census, Athens, Somerset, ME, 1830
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage, Civil,New Sharon, Franklin, ME, October 15, 1818
Children
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca L. Witham
AKA: Rebecca R. Witham
Born: November 1834 - Maine
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Benjamin Witham
Mother: Tryphena Harriman
Noted events in her life were:
1. A.K.A.
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Census
7. Intention
8. Martial Status, ido
9. Residence
10. Residence
Children
Husband Reuben Orion Witham
Born: - Toledo, OH
Baptized:
Died: 1955
Buried: - Park Lawn Cemetery And Mausoleum, Evansville, Vanderburgh, IN
Father: Warren Augustus Witham
Mother: Ruthanna Butterworth
Marriage: 1905
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census, Wayne, Randolph, IN, 1900
2. Census, Wayne, Randolph, IN, 1910
3. Occupation, Manager, Lumber Yard, 1910
4. Occupation, Railway Mail, U.S. Govt., September 12, 1918
5. Residence, Kankakee, IL, September 12, 1918
6. Census, Evansville, Vanderburgh, IN, 1920
7. Occupation, Postal Clerk, Railroad, 1920
8. Occupation, Clerk, 1922
9. Residence, 320 Adams Ave., Evansville, IN, 1922
10. Census, Evansville, Vanderburgh, IN, 1930
11. Occupation, Postal Clerk, Railroad, 1930
12. Occupation, U.S. Railway Mail Service, 1942
13. Residence, Evansville, Vanderburgh, IN, 1942
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Sabrina Witham
Born: February 1, 1821 - New Sharon, Kennebec, ME
Baptized:
Died: 1870
Buried:
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Mehitable Wing
Noted events in her life were:
1. Residence, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, 1845
2. A.K.A., Sabina, 1850
3. Census, Bucksport, Hancock, ME, 1850
4. Census, Ellsworth, Hancock, ME, 1860
Children
Husband Samuel Witham
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Deborah Witham 2
AKA: Gott 2
Born: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: James Gott 3
Marr: October 6, 1768 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, , , 2
Spouse: Samuel Hidden
Marr: December 23, 1765 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Husband Samuel Witham
Born: November 26, 1673 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried:
Father: Henry Witham
Mother: Sarah Somes
Marriage: December 5, 1705 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Residence
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband Samuel Witham
Born: July 13, 1785 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: October 28, 1861
Buried: - Gloucester Hill
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Sarah Row
Marriage: March 15, 1812 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Alt. Death
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Census
7. Intention
8. Occupation
9. Occupation
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Witham
1830 CENSUS - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
M40-50 Samuel Witham (1784)
M20-30
M10-15 Stephen Witham (1816)
F40-50 Polly Witham (1782)
F30-40 Unknown
F15-20
1840 CENSUS - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
M50-60 Samuel Witham (1784)
F50-60 Polly Witham (1782)
F40-50 Unknown
Samuel weighed over 300 pounds and was straight and handsome.
Husband Samuel Witham
Born: July 13, 1785 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Baptized:
Died: October 28, 1861
Buried: - Gloucester Hill
Father: Jeremiah Witham
Mother: Sarah Row
Marriage: May 6, 1820 - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Alt. Death
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Census
7. Intention
8. Occupation
9. Occupation
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage
Children
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Witham
1830 CENSUS - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
M40-50 Samuel Witham (1784)
M20-30
M10-15 Stephen Witham (1816)
F40-50 Polly Witham (1782)
F30-40 Unknown
F15-20
1840 CENSUS - New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
M50-60 Samuel Witham (1784)
F50-60 Polly Witham (1782)
F40-50 Unknown
Samuel weighed over 300 pounds and was straight and handsome.
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Sarah Witham
Born: June 8, 1706 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Children
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Sarah Witham
Born: June 8, 1706 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Children
Husband
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Susannah Witham
AKA: Susan Withee, Susan Zzz
Born: January 19, 1801 - New Sharon, Franklin, ME
Baptized:
Died: September 6, 1872 - Harmony, Somerset, ME
Buried: - Libby Cemetery, Harmony, Somerset, ME
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Mehitable Wing
Noted events in her life were:
1. Alt. Birth, 1799
2. Alt. Birth, Maine, 1806
3. Census, Harmony, Somerset, ME, 1850
4. Misc., Insane, 1850
5. Census, Harmony, Somerset, ME, 1860
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage, New Sharon, Franklin, ME, October 17, 1815
2. Alt. Marriage, Bingham, Somerset, ME, November 9, 1815
Children
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Wife Thankful Witham
Born: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Baptized:
Died: May 18, 1786 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried:
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Children
Husband Theodore C. Witham
Born: April 24, 1947
Baptized:
Died: April 7, 2006 - Chesterton, Porter, IN
Buried:
Father: Lewis Freeman Witham
Mother: Esta I. Overmyer
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1 M Witham
Born:
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General Notes: Husband - Theodore C. Witham
Theodore C. Witham, of Chesterton passed away Friday, April 7, 2006. He was 58.
He is survived by two sons, Theodore C. (Tara) Witham, Jr. of Griffith and Lewis R. Witham of Highland; one grandson, Nicholas Witham; special friend, Martha Flanagan of Chesterton and a brother, Jack (Mary) Witham.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lewis and Esta Witham.
Theodore was a resident of Chesterton for over 12 years. He was a Trustee in the Moose Lodge #1623 in Chesterton.
Friends are invited to meet with the family from 2-8 p.m. Monday, April 10 at the Kuiper Funeral Home, 9039 Kleinman Rd. (two blocks south of Ridge Rd.,) Highland.
Memorial donations may be made to the family
Husband Thomas Witham 4 5
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1 F Margery Witham 4 5 6
Born: 1618 - Devonshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1678 - Kittery, York, Maine
Buried:
Spouse: William Everett 4 5 6
Marr: 1640 4 5 6
General Notes: Husband - Thomas Witham
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Notes: Marriage
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General Notes: Child - Margery Witham
She married :
1) William Everett, he died 1652
2) Isaac Nash by 1656
3) Abraham Conley AFT 1664, son of Abraham Conley and Ann x(Lord)
Husband Thomas Witham 4 6
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1 F Margery Witham 4 5 6
Born: 1618 - Devonshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1678 - Kittery, York, Maine
Buried:
Spouse: William Everett 4 5 6
Marr: 1640 4 5 6
General Notes: Husband - Thomas Witham
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Notes: Marriage
1 _UID C845B3E9E4DE8B4291BC37322A71D7B41471
_STATMARRIED
General Notes: Child - Margery Witham
She married :
1) William Everett, he died 1652
2) Isaac Nash by 1656
3) Abraham Conley AFT 1664, son of Abraham Conley and Ann x(Lord)
Husband Thomas Witham 4
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1 F Margery Witham 4 5 6
Born: 1618 - Devonshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1678 - Kittery, York, Maine
Buried:
Spouse: William Everett 4 5 6
Marr: 1640 4 5 6
Notes: Marriage
_STATMARRIED
General Notes: Child - Margery Witham
She married :
1) William Everett, he died 1652
2) Isaac Nash by 1656
3) Abraham Conley AFT 1664, son of Abraham Conley and Ann x(Lord)
Husband Thomas Witham 4 5
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1 F Margery Witham 4 5 6
Born: 1618 - Devonshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1678 - Kittery, York, Maine
Buried:
Spouse: William Everett 4 5 6
Marr: 1640 4 5 6
General Notes: Husband - Thomas Witham
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Notes: Marriage
1 _UID C845B3E9E4DE8B4291BC37322A71D7B41471
_STATMARRIED
General Notes: Child - Margery Witham
She married :
1) William Everett, he died 1652
2) Isaac Nash by 1656
3) Abraham Conley AFT 1664, son of Abraham Conley and Ann x(Lord)
Husband Thomas H. Witham
Born: January 25, 1838 - Farmington, , Maine
Baptized:
Died: December 26, 1880 - Union City, Randolph, IN
Buried: - Union City Cemetery, Union City, Randolph, IN
Father: Ebenezer Witham
Mother: Susannah A. Hopkinson
Marriage: February 14, 1877 - Muscatine Co., IA
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census, Hamilton, Warren, OH, 1850
2. Census, Maineville, Warren, OH, 1860
3. Occupation, Mechanic, 1860
4. Census, Jackson Twp., Darke, OH, 1870
5. Occupation, Manufacturer of Wooden ????, 1870
6. Residence, Living with brother Warren, 1870
7. Alt. Death, February 25, 1891
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Husband Thomas Joshua Witham
AKA: Joshua Witham
Born: February 21, 1883 - Clinton Co., KY
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Father: William Granville Witham
Mother: Irena
Marriage:
Noted events in his life were:
1. A.K.A.
2. A.K.A
3. Alt. Birth
4. Census
5. Census
6. Census, Franklin, Johnson, IN
7. Misc.
8. Misc.
9. Occupation
10. Occupation
11. Occupation
12. Residence
13. Residence
14. Residence, Franklin, Johnson, IN
Wife Anna May York
Born: - Kentucky
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Father: James York
Mother: York
Noted events in her life were:
1. A.K.A.
2. Census
3. Census, Franklin, Johnson, IN
4. Census, Franklin, Johnson, IN
5. Occupation
6. Residence, Franklin, Johnson, IN
Children
1 M Marvin T. Witham
Born: September 23, 1906 - Kentucky
Baptized:
Died: July 1985 - Indianapolis, Marion, IN
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2 F Lucy M. Witham
Born: - Kentucky
Baptized:
Died:
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3 U Witham
Born: 1910
Baptized:
Died: 1910
Buried:
4 M Robert H. Witham
Born: February 3, 1911 - Franklin, Johnson, IN
Baptized:
Died: November 1983 - Anderson, Madison, IN
Buried:
5 M Earl Witham
Born: - Kentucky
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6 M Virgil Witham
Born: - Kentucky
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7 F Ruth E. Witham
Born: December 27, 1919 - Franklin, Johnson, IN
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8 F Abigail Witham
Born: - Kentucky
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Died:
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9 M Bert E. Witham
Born: April 15, 1922 - Franklin, Johnson, IN
Baptized:
Died: March 10, 1993 - Franklin, Johnson, IN
Buried:
Spouse: Wilma M. Rhude
10 M William Joshua Witham
Born: October 26, 1924 - Franklin, Johnson, IN
Baptized:
Died: February 25, 2003 - Franklin, Johnson, IN
Buried:
Spouse: Cora McKay
Marr: August 17, 1947 - Washington
11 M James L. Witham
Born: June 16, 1927 - Franklin, Johnson, IN
Baptized:
Died: January 14, 1992 - Franklin, Johnson, IN
Buried:
Husband Allen Zikmund
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Wife Verlene Witham
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Father: William James Witham
Mother: Ruth Ada Green
Children
1 F Zikmund
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2 M Zikmund
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3 F Zikmund
Born:
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Husband William Franklin Witham
AKA: Bill
Born: September 6, 1865 - Saline Co., AR
Baptized:
Died: April 11, 1930 - Saline Co., AR
Buried: - James Cemetery, Haskell, Saline Co., AR
Father: Joseph Witham
Mother: Amanda Jane Bunch
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Martha Smith - February 15, 1885 - Saline Co. AR
Other Spouse: Sarah D. Staner - March 4, 1890 - Saline Co. AR
Other Spouse: Martha Brazil - June 27, 1915 - Saline Co. AR
Noted events in his life were:
1. A.K.A.
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Census
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
Wife Sarah L. Wright
AKA: Sallie
Born: September 5, 1877 - Saline Co., AR
Baptized:
Died: December 9, 1914 - Saline Co., AR
Buried: - James Cemetery, Haskell, Saline Co., AR
Father: Paul Mchenry Wright
Mother: Elizabeth James
Noted events in her life were:
1. Alt. Birth
2. Census
3. Census
Children
1 F Lena Bell Witham
Born: October 8, 1895 - Saline Co., AR
Baptized:
Died: October 25, 1957 - Saline Co., AR
Buried: - Deaton Cemetery, Saline, AR
Spouse: William Harrison
Marr: January 18, 1914 - Saline Co. AR
2 F Clara Mattie Witham
Born: March 10, 1897 - Saline Co., AR
Baptized:
Died: March 23, 1977 - Saline Co., AR
Buried: - Graham Cemetery, Saline Co., AR
Spouse: Louis Earnest Tudor
Marr: December 23, 1915 - Saline Co., AR
3 U Witham
Born: April 1900 - Arkansas
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4 M Loy H. Witham
Born: November 19, 1901 - Saline Co., AR
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Died: December 20, 1978 - Saline Co., AR
Buried: - James Cemetery, Haskell, Saline Co., AR
Spouse: Bessie N. Chennault
Marr: July 11, 1923 - Saline Co. AR
5 F Grace Witham
Born: March 28, 1903 - Arkansas
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Died: August 22, 1972
Buried: - Greenwood Cemetery, Hot Springs, Garland, AR
Spouse: Alvin Lee McNeill
Marr: August 4, 1923 - Saline Co. AR
6 F Myrtle Witham
Born: - Arkansas
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Died:
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Spouse: Homer S. Ogles
Marr: July 17, 1933 - Saline Co., AR
7 M Roy Edward Witham
Born: May 23, 1910 - Mt. View, Saline, AR
Baptized:
Died: December 16, 1973 - Benton, Saline Co., AR
Buried: - Old Rosemont Cemetery, Benton, Saline, AR
Spouse: Winnie Bel Hilton
Spouse: Tommie Kelly
Marr: March 7, 1938 - Saline Co., AR
8 M William Fred Witham
Born: February 9, 1911 - Arkansas
Baptized:
Died: December 12, 1982 - Saline Co., AR
Buried: - James Cemetery, Haskell, Saline Co., AR
Spouse: Jewell Lee Ashburn
Spouse: Winnie Bel Hilton
Marr: January 11, 1937 - Garland Co., AR
9 M Pete Witham
Born: June 15, 1913 - Saline Co., AR
Baptized:
Died: July 24, 1998 - Benton, Saline Co., AR
Buried: - Mt. Harmony Cemetery, Haskell, Saline, AR
Spouse: Louise Josephine Potthoff
Marr: December 27, 1937 - Saline Co., AR
Husband William H. Witham
Born: - Maine
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Father: Ira Witham
Mother: Sylvina Fogg
Marriage: October 15, 1864 - Vienna, Kennebec, ME
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
3. Census
4. Census
5. Education
6. Occupation
7. Occupation
8. Residence
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General Notes: Husband - William H. Witham
1st Maine Calvery, Co. M
List of Pensioners 1882-83 Piscataquis County
Abbot Village, Certificate # 22,557; Injury of Back
Monthly Rate $4.00
Data from 1890 Maine Veterans Census
Minor Civil District: Kingsbury; Town of Abbot Village
William H. Witham, Private, Company M, 1st Maine Calvery
Enlist 09 October 1861; Discharge 02 December 1862
American Civil War Soldiers Record
about William H Witham
Name: William H Witham ,
Residence: Abbot, Maine
Enlistment Date: 31 October 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Maine
Unit Numbers: 1014 1014
Service Record: Sick at Pennsylvania Hospl (1862)
Enlisted as a Private on 31 October 1861 at the age of 21
Enlisted in Company M, 1st Cavalry Regiment Maine on 31 October 1861.
Received a disability discharge Company M, 1st Cavalry Regiment Maine on 11 November 1862
Husband Capt. Zebulon Witham
Born: - Gloucester, Essex, MA
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Died: January 22, 1794 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Buried: - First Parish Burial Ground, Gloucester, Essex, MA
Father: Thomas Witham
Mother: Abigail Babson
Marriage: December 17, 1736 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
Other Spouse: Dorcas Lane - January 28, 1770 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Zebulon Witham
Zebulon was a some time ship master. He was captured, robbed and released by a Spanish privateer on the coast of Cape Charles, November 1740.
Husband Dalbert T. Withem
AKA: Delbert Witham
Born: - Indiana
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Father: Charles Witham
Mother: Elizabeth
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Noted events in his life were:
1. Census
2. Census
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1 M Withem
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Husband Thomas Withers
Born: 1270 - Derbyshire, England
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Died: 1370
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Marriage: 1300
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1 F Lettice Withers 4 5 6
Born: 1300 - Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England
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Died: 1400
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Spouse: John Cockayne 4 5 6
Marr: 1325 - England 4 5 6
General Notes: Child - Lettice Withers
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Husband Sir Knight Thomas Withers
Born: 1284
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1 F Lettice Withers
Born: 1304 - Ashbourne Hatley Derbyshire England
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Spouse: John Cokayne
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Wife Amelia Witmer 7
Born: 1847 7
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Father: Abraham Witmer 7
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Herr 7
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Wife Barbara Witmer 7
Born: 1788 - Lancaster Co., PA 7
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Father: John Witmer 7
Mother: Barbara Hershey 7
Children
Husband Benjamin Witmer 7
Born: 1795 - Lancaster County, PA 7
Baptized:
Died: 1881 7
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Father: John Witmer 7
Mother: Barbara Hershey 7
Marriage: 1825 7
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Wife Elizabeth Witmer 7
Born: 1831 7
Baptized:
Died: - Henry, Marshall County, Illinois 7
Buried:
Father: Abraham Witmer 7
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Herr 7
Children
Husband Jacob Witmer 7
Born: 1828 7
Baptized:
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Father: Abraham Witmer 7
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Herr 7
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Husband John Witmer 7
Born: - Lancaster County, PA 7
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Father: John Witmer 7
Mother: Barbara Hershey 7
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Wife Lucena May Witmer 7
Born: February 8, 1878 - Marshall County, IL 7
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Died: January 28, 1952 - Centerville, Iowa 7
Buried:
Father: Samuel Whitmer 7
Mother: Martha Wilmeth Porch 7
Children
Husband Michael Witmer
Born: 1602 - Muttenz, Baseland, Switzerland
Baptized:
Died: May 4, 1646 - Liethael, Baseland, Switzerland
Buried:
Father: Hans Witmer
Mother: Irmsen
Marriage: December 17, 1645 - Lietheael, Baseland, Switzerland
Wife Margaret Wolff
Born:
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Father: Christopher Wolff
Mother: Margaret Von Henneberg
Children
1 M Christopher Witmer
Born: 1646 - Lithael, Baseland, Switzerland
Baptized:
Died: 1726 - Hershield, Germany
Buried:
Spouse: Agnes Broich
Marr: May 11, 1666 - Hessfield, Nassau, Germany
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Wife Nancy Witmer 7
Born: 1788 - Lancaster County, PA 7
Baptized:
Died:
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Father: John Witmer 7
Mother: Barbara Hershey 7
Children
Husband Rudolph Witmer 7
Born: 1810 - Niagra County, NY 7
Baptized:
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Father: John Witmer 7
Mother: Barbara Hershey 7
Marriage:
Wife
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Husband Samuel Witmer 7
Born: 1788 - Lancaster County, PA 7
Baptized:
Died: - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 7
Cause of Death: Cholera
Buried:
Father: John Witmer 7
Mother: Barbara Hershey 7
Marriage:
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Wife Sarah Witmer 7
Born: 1830 7
Baptized:
Died:
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Father: Abraham Witmer 7
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Herr 7
Children
Husband Tobias Witmer 7
Born: April 5, 1842 - Niagra County, NY 7
Baptized:
Died: October 1, 1923 - Henry, Illinois 7
Buried:
Father: Abraham Witmer 7
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Herr 7
Marriage: October 21, 1869 7
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Husband Elias Libby Wyman
Born: January 12, 1824 - Temple, Maine
Baptized:
Died: November 5, 1891 - Glendale, Wisconsin
Buried: - Greenfield Cem., Tunnel City, Wisconsin
Father: Abraham Wyman
Mother: Elizabeth Jewell
Marriage: April 5, 1854 - Phillips, Maine
Wife Louisa J. Witney
Born: March 10, 1836 - Phillips, Maine
Baptized:
Died: October 27, 1919 - Glendale, Wisconsin
Buried: - Greenfield Cem., Tunnel City, Wisconsin
Children
Husband Hiram I. York
Born: April 9, 1819 - Brookfield, Madison Co. New York
Baptized:
Died: December 4, 1896 - Farina, Illinois
Buried:
Father: Ichabod York
Mother: Freelove Gardner
Marriage: May 30, 1844 - Brookfield, Madison Co. New York
Other Spouse: Harriet G. Stillman - September 12, 1845 - Allegany Co., New York
Other Spouse: Mary Davis - 1877 - Farina, Illinois
Wife Cynthia Witter
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1 F Cynthia A. York
Born: March 20, 1845 - Allegany Co., New York
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General Notes: Husband - Hiram I. York
[Turner, Prettyman, York Family tree.FTW]
BROWN GENEALOGY, Vol I, by Cyrus Henry Brown, Boston, The Everett Press Company, 1907, page 196.
He had less aptitude for intellectual pursuits than others of his family, but greater devotion to manual and mechanical avocations. He had keen enjoyment of outdoor life. Removed in 1844 to Allegany Co., NY, and in 1870 to Farina, Illinois, where he married his third wife. He was of robust stature, of great physical strength, and a hale and vigorous man
Husband Ichabod York
Born: October 20, 1777 - Stonington, New London Co. Conn.
Baptized:
Died: April 1, 1846 - Brookfield, Madison Co. New York
Buried:
Father: John Jr. York
Mother: Keturah Brown
Marriage: September 19, 1805
Other Spouse: Freelove Gardner - October 8, 1816 - Brookfield, Madison Co. New York
Wife Hannah Witter
Born:
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Died: - Brookfield, Madison Co. New York
Buried:
Children
1 M J. Randell York
Born: October 5, 1806
Baptized:
Died: July 14, 1834 - Rushville, Illinois
Buried:
2 F Sally G. York
Born: April 4, 1808
Baptized:
Died: October 9, 1897 - Brookfield, Madison Co. New York
Buried:
Spouse: Asher Palmiter
3 F Julia D. York
Born: March 13, 1810
Baptized:
Died:
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4 F Lucina Hannah York
Born: January 24, 1812 - Brookfield, Madison Co. New York
Baptized:
Died: April 28, 1897 - Webster City, Hamilton Co. Iowa
Buried:
Spouse: Chauncey Jaramie Burleson
General Notes: Husband - Ichabod York
[Turner, Prettyman, York Family tree.FTW]
BROWN GENEALOGY, Vol I, by Cyrus Henry Brown, Boston, The Everett Press Company, 1907, page 177.
He made his first visit to Brookfield, NY, in company with his brothers John and Thomas in 1795. He returned to Connecticut, but removed permanently to Brookfield in 1797. He began housekeeping in the house first built by his father. Here his eldest child was born. About 1807 he removed to the plateau about midway east and west between and road running south from the Waterman School-house and the Palmiter road to a house then standing on the road running from "james Satterlee's to John York's". Later he acquired the additional line of lots extending to the Palmiter road, including the house then occupied by Wheaton Williams. In this house on the hill nearly all his children were born. Here hannah died
Husband Benjamin Wittum
AKA: Benjamin Wittum
Born: - Kittery, York, ME
Baptized:
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Father: Peter Wittum
Mother: Agnes
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Mary Rankin - York, York, ME
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Children
1 F Mary Witham
AKA: Mary Wittum
Born: November 5, 1729 - York, York, ME
Baptized:
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Spouse: Zebulon Witham
Marr: York City, York, ME
Husband
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Wife Bessie M. Wixon
Born: May 25, 1880 - Dennis, Barnstable Co., MA
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Died:
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Other Spouse: Arthur Freeman Perry - April 19, 1900 - Brockton, Plymouth Co., MA
Noted events in her life were:
1. Residence, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, June 14, 1880
2. Residence, Brockton City, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1900
3. Residence, Brockton Ward 6, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1910
4. Residence, Brockton Ward 1, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1920
5. Residence, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1930
Children
Husband Llary Ap Casnar Wledig
Born:
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Father: Casnar Wledig
Mother: Thewer Verch Brydw
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1 M Rhun Rhudd Baladr Ap Llary
AKA: Rhudd Baladr
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Husband William Wodehouse
Born:
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Father: William Woodhouse
Mother:
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1 F Emma Wodehouse
Born:
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Spouse: Robert De Wentworth
Husband Wodzinksi
Born:
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Father: Wodzinksi
Mother: Lewis
Marriage:
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1 F Wodzinksi
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Husband Henry Wolcott
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1 F Mary Wolcott
Born:
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Died: September 6, 1689
Buried:
Spouse: Job Drake
Marr: June 25, 1646
Husband Samuel Wolcott
Born: April 4, 1751 - South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Baptized:
Died: June 7, 1813 - S. Windsor, , Conn
Buried:
AFN: 17SS-53R
Father: Gideon Wolcott
Mother: Naomi Olmsted
Marriage: December 29, 1774 - Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
Wife Jerusha Wolcott
Born: November 29, 1755 - Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
Baptized:
Died: March 19, 1844 - South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Buried:
AFN: 17SS-540
Children
1 F Jerusha Wolcott
Born: October 8, 1775 - East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Baptized:
Died: November 20, 1826 - Avon, , NY
Buried:
AFN: 17SS-LBG
Spouse: Epaphrash Bisell
2 F Naomi Wolcott
Born: October 10, 1777 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Baptized:
Died: March 1, 1831 - Geneseo, , NY
Buried:
AFN: 17SS-LL4
Spouse: James Wadsworth
Marr: October 1, 1804
3 U Wolcott
Born: 1779 - S. Windsor, , Conn
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Died: 1779 - S. Windsor, , Conn
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AFN: 17SS-57L
4 M Samuel Wolcott
Born: December 12, 1781 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
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Died: February 11, 1795 - S. Windsor, , Conn
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AFN: 17SS-58S
5 M Elihu Wolcott
Born: February 12, 1784 - East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
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Died: December 12, 1858 - Jacksonville, , Ill.
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AFN: STHF-6W
6 F Sophia Wolcott
Born: March 29, 1786 - South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
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Died: June 8, 1870 - E. Windsor, , Conn
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AFN: 8MSK-58
Spouse: Martin Ellsworth
7 F Ursula Wolcott
Born: November 17, 1788 - East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
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AFN: 17ST-PRS
Spouse: Newton Skinner
8 F Elizabeth Wolcott
Born: September 23, 1791 - East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
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Died: - E. Windsor, , Conn
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AFN: 17SS-MMH
Spouse: Erastus Ellsworth
9 M Horace Wolcott
Born: March 25, 1794 - South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
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Died: 1838 - Ill
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AFN: 17SS-5DM
Husband Daniel Wolf
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1 F Sophia Wolf
Born: May 15, 1813 - Cavetown, Washington Co., MD
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Died: August 18, 1899
Buried: - Rocky Ridge Monacacy Church Of The Breth
Spouse: Isaac Renner
Marr: September 10, 1835 - Frederick County, Maryland
Husband Wolfenburger
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1 F Elvira Wolfenburger
Born: April 22, 1862 - Tennessee, USA
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Died: August 12, 1926 - Winters, Runnels, Texas, USA
Buried: November 8, 1926 - Winters, Runnels, Texas, USA
Spouse: Tillman Jennings
General Notes: Child - Elvira Wolfenburger
1) Name orginally listed as Alvera Wolfenburger
Husband Henry Wynnesbury
Born: 1378 - Donington, Shropshire, England
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Marriage: 1399 - Donington, Shropshire, England
Wife Mary Wolfeston
Born: 1380 - Kilrington, Shropshire, England
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1 M John Wynnesbury
Born: 1400 - Donington, Shropshire, England
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Spouse: Margaret Humphreston
Marr: 1422 - Donington, Shropshire, England
Husband Roger Wolfeston
Born: 1350
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1 F Mary Wolfeston
Born: 1380 - Kilrington, Shropshire, England
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Spouse: Henry Wynnesbury
Marr: 1399 - Donington, Shropshire, England
Husband Esuas Wolff
Born: 1553 - Schaapsen, Vilsen, Hannover
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Died: - Pforzheim, Bavaria
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1 M Christopher Wolff
Born: - Schwabach, Mittelfranken, Bavaria
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Died: - Knittlingen, Wurthemburg, Germany
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Spouse: Margaret Von Henneberg
Marr: September 3, 1597 - Schwabach, Mittelfranken, Bavaria
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Wife Susanna Wolterton
Born: 1613 - England
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Died: - Newbury, Essex Co, MA
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Father: Stephen Wolterton Wolterton
Mother: Susanna Peabody Immigrant
Other Spouse: Nathaniel Merrill - September 23, 1633 - Wherstead, Suffolk, England
Children
1 M Nathaniel Merrill
Born: 1633 - England
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Died: - Newbury, Essex Co, MA
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Spouse: Joanna Ninian
Marr: October 15, 1661 - Newbury, Essex Co, MA
General Notes: Wife - Susanna Wolterton
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General Notes: Child - Nathaniel Merrill
Husband John Wolvedon
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Husband John Wolvedon
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1 M Andrew Wolvedon
Born: 1413
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Spouse: Unknown
Marr: 1440 - England
Husband John Wolvedon 4 5
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General Notes: Husband - John Wolvedon
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Notes: Marriage
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Husband John Wolvedon 4 5 6
Born: 1469 - Devonshire, England
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Died: 1514 - Cornwall, England
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Father: Andrew Wolvedon
Mother: Unknown
Marriage: 1495 - England 4 5 6
Other Spouse: Cecily - 1480 - England
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1 F Catherine Wolvedon 4 5 6
Born: 1495 - Wolvedon, England
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Spouse: Nicholas Carminow Carminowe 4 5 6
Marr: 1519 - England 4 5 6
General Notes: Husband - John Wolvedon
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Notes: Marriage
_STATMARRIED
General Notes: Child - Catherine Wolvedon
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