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From: R R Kyser <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Ellen of Broome, NY; Abby of Crawford, PA
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:21:08 -0500

This couple is buried in the Harpur Cemetery, Town of Colesville, Broome
Co., N.Y.:

Warren L. Blakeslee
Dec. 5, 1880
Ae 44y 8m 20d

Ellen Whitney
Mar. 17, 1922
Wife of Warren L. Blakelsee
Mother

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nybroome/brharprc.htm
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ny/broome/cemetery/harpur.txt

That's a long widowhood! I don't see Ellen among the grandchildren of
Joshua Whitney Jr. in Marjory Hinman's book on Binghamton. I wonder if
she's related to this branch in some other way.


Over in Crawford Co., Pa. (where another, contemparaneous Warren
Blakeslee lived) I found the following notice:

Marriage of Henry Watson and Abby Whitney: Henry Watson of Venango
Twp., Crawford
Co., Waggon maker, born Cambridge Twp., Crawford Co., son of Thomas
Watson and Mary
Ann Watson, m. by Rev. E W Beebe of Washington [Twp.], Erie Co., Pa., in
a Presbyterian
ceremony at Washington, Erie Co., Pa., 11 Jan. 1853 Abby Whitney, dau.
of Jonathan Whitney
and Lydia Whitney; white; [dates of certification and registration cut
off].

http://www.alltel.net/~yoset/CCo/vital/m1852-54.html

I don't see Abby in our databases, though there is the remarkable
coïncidence of an Abby born to a Warren Whitney and Anne Watson at about
the same period as this Abby.

A side note: Crawford is the only Pennsylvania county with a thicket of
classically-named townships-- Athens, Sparta, Troy and Rome-- strongly
suggesting the county was settled by New Yorkers.

Cheers,
Ron Kyser

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