Hannah F. WHITNEY

Father: William Peace WHITNEY
Mother: Sarah FRANK

Family 1: Melzar Lorin WORTHLEY

(1) Sedgeley, Geo. B., Micah Whitney, Revolutionary Soldier and His Twelve Children Settled Early in Philips, Maine

  1. Alphonso WORTHLEY
  2. Elbridge Thaxter WORTHLEY
  3. Millie WORTHLEY
  4. Hannah Emma WORTHLEY
  5. Helen WORTHLEY
                                           _Abel WHITNEY _
                          _Micah WHITNEY _|
                         |                |_Mary CANE ____
 _William Peace WHITNEY _|
|                        |                 _Andrew COBB __
|                        |_Hannah COBB ___|
|                                         |_Hannah GREEN _
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|--Hannah F. WHITNEY
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|_Sarah FRANK ___________|
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Notes

Updated May 12, 2013. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1850 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips: August 21, 1850.

Melzar L. WORTHLEY is head of household, married to Hannah [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY is married to Melzar L. WORTHLEY. She is 33 years old and born in Maine. Children in the household are Alphonso, Elbridge and Milla F. WORTHLEY.

(2) 1860 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips, Phillips Post Office; Page 10 June 19, 1860.

Hannah [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY is married to Melzar L. WORTHLEY. Children in the household are Alphonso C., Elbridge, Hannah E., and Hellen WORTHLEY.

- Age: 44. - Birthplace: Maine
- Occupation: House mistress (housekeeper)

(3) 1870 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Phillips (Phillips Post Office): page 5; June 11, 1870.

Hannah [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY (spelled "Worthly") is married to Melzar L. WORTHLEY, head of household. She is 53 years old, born in Massachusetts and is keeping house. Their daughter Helen M. WORTHLEY resides with them.

(4) 1880 United States Census for Maine, Franklin Co., Farmington: Supervisor's District 1; Enumeration District 70; page 41; June 25, 1880.

Hannah [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY is married to Melzar L. WORTHLEY, head of household. She is 64 years old and is keeping house. She was born in Maine as was her parents.

(5) Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Hannah WORTHLEY
- Gender: Female
- Age: 89; Widowed
- Birth Date: abt 1815
- Death Date: 16 May 1904
- Death Place: Farmington
- Cause of Death: Pneumonia
- Registration Place: Farmington, Franklin
- Spouse: M Loreng
- Father: William

(6) Find a Grave via Ancestry.com

- Hannah F. [WHITNEY] WORTHLEY
- Birth: 1815
- Death: May 16, 1904
- Burial: Riverside Cemetery; Phillips, Franklin Co., Maine, USA

(7) Whitney Research Group.

- "Hannah WHITNEY, b. 4 Aug 1815, Phillips, ME; m. 1835, Gray, ME, Lorin WORTHLEY." Cites the Phillips, Maine, Vital Records for birth information.

(8) Sedgeley, Geo. B., Micah Whitney, Revolutionary Soldier and His Twelve Children Settled Early in Philips, Maine; Jacob and Joseph Whitney Came to Phillips 1792; Salmon Whitney Appeared in Letter E Plantation 1810 (Farmington, Maine: The Knowlton & McLeary Co., Printers, 1943), pages 28-29.

"Hannah, the youngest child of William WHITNEY by his first wife (the mother died sixteen days after her birth). She was born Aug. 4, 1815; married Lorin WORTHLEY; lived in Phillips in the house where Whitman TOOTHAKER lives. Her husband used the house on the rock near the river for a wood-working shop and cooper shop; was living in the Dr. CURRIER house in 1869 freshet, then moved to Farmington."

"Children, order of birth not known, except that Helen was the youngest: (I) Thaxter WORTHLEY, came home on a cot from the Civil War; died soon after; (II) Alphonso WORTHLEY, went to California; (III) Millie WORTHLEY, married Edward GLEASON, lived in Mexico; four children; had one pair twins; (IV) Emma WORTHLEY, married Charles B. BANGS, lived in Farmington, Maine, for a time, then removed to Massachusetts, Bangs was a native of Salem, Maine, had five children; (V) Helen WORTHLEY, born about 1860; married Edward C. MERRILL, dentist, of Farmington, Maine; had six children, one pair of twins, resides in Farmington."

(9) Our Pioneering Families, Genealogies of Whitney, Groathouse and Lignitz, researched and compiled by Vivian Gail Morrow Wade, Dec. 1986, first edition. Self-published manuscript available at DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 87.

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Additional Notes.

Mayflower lineage: Howland/Tilley -1; Hope Howland -2; Hope Chipman -3; Samuel Cobb -4; Chipman Cobb -5; Andrew Cobb -6 (DAR/SAR ancestor); Hannah Cobb -7; William Whitney -8; Hannah Whitney -9.