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Whitney Family Cemetery

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Location	:	Elmira Heights, Chemung County, USA
Description	:	"Thomas Whitney, b. in Warwick, N. Y., 2 Feb. 1767. He learned the trade of waggon-maker with Benjamin Coleman, of Warwick, who married his aunt, Esther Burt, living with him from the age of seventeen to that of twenty-one, soon after which he went west with Joshua Carpenter, who had married his aunt, Sarah Burt. They settled about a mile and a half north of where Elmira, N. Y., now stands; built a cabin of poles and bark; cleared a piece of land; raised a crop of corn and potatoes, which they buried carefully for the Indians to steal; and... Read More	"Thomas Whitney, b. in Warwick, N. Y., 2 Feb. 1767. He learned the trade of waggon-maker with Benjamin Coleman, of Warwick, who married his aunt, Esther Burt, living with him from the age of seventeen to that of twenty-one, soon after which he went west with Joshua Carpenter, who had married his aunt, Sarah Burt. They settled about a mile and a half north of where Elmira, N. Y., now stands; built a cabin of poles and bark; cleared a piece of land; raised a crop of corn and potatoes, which they buried carefully for the Indians to steal; and returned to Warwick, to spend the Winter. He married at Warwick, early in 1789, Hannah Parker, dau. of Joseph and Betsey (Gregory) Parker, of New Jersey. In April 1789, they started, with a party, seventeen in all, including his uncle Joshua Carpenter and family, for their new home, she making the journey on horseback, with a huge pile of bedding behind her. He built his log-house about three miles north of Newtown, now Elmira, and there she died, 23 March 1814, of an epidemic fever. He worked on his farm in Summer, and at his trade in Winter, till 1826, when he sold the farm to John and Frank McCann, and moved to Big Flats, N. Y., settling on a small farm about nine miles north-west of Elmira. He died at Big Flats, 5 Feb. 1834, and was buried, with his wife, in a family cemetery, which he enclosed and reserved for that purpose, on the farm where he first settled." Source: The Whitney family of Connecticut, and its affiliations; being an attempt to trace the descendants, as well in the female as the male lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; published 1878 by Stephen Whitney Phoenix. The above indicates this to be a separate Whitney Family Cemetery and not part of the Whitney Cemetery in Big Flats, New York where other family members are buried. It implies that Daniel died at Big Flats and was taken back to the family cemetery where he first settled.

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