his last days on his farm at Bozrah, and left two sons and a daughter. The names of these two sons were CALEB and WILLIAM. 1. CALEB was a farmer, and lived and died at Bozrah. He had three sons and four daughters: Ebenezer, William, Raymond, Nancy, (Mrs. Campbell,) Lucy, (Mrs. Hilbourn,) and Martha, (Mrs. Newton.) Mrs. Hilbourn accidentally put out her eye with a spindle. 2. WILLIAM became an eminent physician, and a devoted patriot in the Revolutionary War. He was the father of Mrs. Mary Anna Boardman. See Appendix H. H. THE FAMILY OF DOCTOR WILLIAM WHITING, OF GREAT BARRINGTON. [A. D. 1730-1792.] He was a learned and distinguished physician; was born, April 8th, 1730, and died, December 8th, 1792. His wife was Anna Mason, a daughter of Jeremiah Mason and Mary Clark, of Franklin, a part of Norwich. He had seven children; four sons and three daughters: 1. SAMUEL, born at Hartford, August 14th, 1762. He married (1803) Sarah Betts, daughter of Stephen Betts, Esq., of Reading, Connecticut; and had two sons and a daughter. His elder son, WILLIAM, now resides at New Haven. He married (1833) Aurelia Sherman, of Newtown, Connecticut, and has four children: Stephen Betts, Sarah Maria, William Samuel, and Edward Sherman. The younger son of Samuel Whiting, STEPHEN, was born at Reading, in May, 1806; studied medicine at New York and New Haven; graduated, at the Medical College in New Haven, in the year 1830; and died, at Essex, Connecticut, October 14th, 1833. He was on his way to attend the Annual Convention of the Diocese of Connecticut, which was to be held that year at Norwich; and he was a passenger in the steamboat New England, when, on the preceding night, its boiler burst at Essex, and occasioned his death in the manner already (p. 299) mentioned. His body now lies interred at Essex, many miles away from the family home and family burial-place at Reading. It was at that family home that his parents lived together in domestic happiness, for about thirty years, "lovely and pleasant in their lives." "And in their death they were not divided." The father died, in January, 1832; and the mother, in the May following. At the family burial-place, they now sleep side by side. The son, when he died the year after, and found a grave far away from theirs and among strangers, was parted from them as respects the body only; for there can be no doubt that his spirit is with their spirits in the same heavenly habitations, and that, at the resurrection, when they are all to resume their bodies now apart, they will never more know separation. The only daughter, MARIA, married (1840) the Rev. Thomas Dutton of Mendon, Adams county, Illinois; and has three children: Anna Dorcas, Aaron Samuel, and Thomas. Mr. Samuel Whiting died on Sunday, Jan. 29th, 1832. For a sketch of his life and character, see pp. 223-232 of this volume. 2. WILLIAM, born at Hartford, November 7th, 1764, married Ann Ransom of Great Barrington. His wife died in the year 1840, and he removed to New Milford, where he now resides. He has had no children. For some further remarks respecting him, see p. 298 of this volume. 3. MARY ANNA, born at Great Barrington, October 19th, 1767, married the Hon. Elijah Boardman of New Milford. A particular account of her family is given in Appendix I. She died, June 24th, 1848. 4. ABRAHAM, born at Great Barrington, September 1st, 1769, studied medicine with his father, and became a physician at Great Barrington, where he now resides at the advanced age of 80 years. He married (1793) Currence Wheeler, and has had six children: HARRIET, EMMA, THEODORE WILLIAM, TRUMAN, HULDAH, and GIDEON M. THEODORE married (March 15th, 1820) Amelia Ann Robbins, and has had two children: Harriet Amelia and Frederick T. The daughter, Harriet Amelia, married W. S. Brown of Rochester, New York, and has had two daughters: Eugenia Antoinette and Cora Amelia. TRUMAN removed to Illinois, where he married and died. HULDAH married Edward Hills, and lives in Ohio. GIDEON married (November 27th, 1833) Louisa Rood, and resides at Great Barrington. He has had five children: Cornelia E. Boardman, Martha Cordelia, Mary Louisa, George Boardman, and Ruth Emma. Mary Louisa died, September 12th, 1842. 5. ELIZABETH, born, January 15th, 1772, removed to New Milford in the year 1802, and, after having been her sister Mary Anna's inseparable companion for forty-six years, has survived her, and now resides at New Milford. For a further account of her, see pp. 308-310. 6. MASON, born, May 8th, 1774, and educated as a lawyer, married (April 26th, 1800) Mary Edwards, and removed to Binghamton, New York. For a sketch of his life, see pp. 301-306. He died, January 11th, 1849. He had eight children. (1) MARY ELIZABETH married John T. Doubleday, and has two sons: John Mason and William Edwards. She resides in Brooklyn, New York. (2) WILLIAM EDWARDS married Ann Lyell Post, and has no children. He resides in the city of New York. (3) CAROLINE married Richard Mather, and has five children: Elizabeth Wait, Rhoda Ann Lester, Nancy Louisa, Caroline, and Mason Whiting. Two other children, Mary Whiting and Frances, have died. (4) RHODA ANN married Ralph Lester, and has one daughter: Caroline Mather. She resides at Rochester, N. Y. (5) FRANCES married Henry Mather, and has two children: Richard Henry and Elizabeth Radcliffe. An elder daughter, Mary Doubleday, a child of very great loveliness, died in the year 1840, at the age of 8 years; and an incident connected with her last illness is mentioned at p. 319. (6) MASON married Eliza Vandewater, and has two daughters and two sons: Eliza Vandewater, Amelia, William Mason, and Henry Vandewater. An infant son, Jonathan Edwards, died in 1848, aged 1 year. (7) CATHARINE SPENCER married U. M. Stowers, and has three children Mary Whiting, Catharine, and Morris. (8) AMELIA OGDEN married William S. Tyler, and has three sons: Mason Whiting, William, and Henry Mather. She resides at Amherst, Massachusetts. Mrs. Richard Mather, Mrs. Henry Mather, Mr. Mason Whiting, and Mrs. Stowers, reside at Binghamton. 7. FANNY, the youngest daughter of Dr. William Whiting of Great Barrington, was born, December 1st, 1778. She married Frederick Abbot, and lives at Medina, Ohio. She has five children Cornelia and Caroline, who married brothers, and live in Medina; Frances, who married Mr. Seaton; Mary Ann, who has twice married, and whose second husband is the Rev. Mr. Loring; and Mason, who studied law, married, and lives at Hudson, Ohio. I. THE FAMILY OF MRS. MARY ANNA BOARDMAN, OF NEW MILFORD. [A. D. 1767-1848.] She was the daughter of Dr. William Whiting of Great Barrington, and Anna Mason of Franklin. She was born, October 19th, 1767; and died, June 24th, 1848. She married (September 25th, 1792) the Hon. Elijah Boardman of New Milford, and had six children: 1. WILLIAM WHITING, born, October 10th, 1794, a graduate of Yale College, studied law at Litchfield and Cambridge, and has been Judge of Probate at New Haven, and also a Member of the House of Representatives of Connecticut, a Member of the Senate of the State, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the State, and a Member of the House of Representatives in Congress. He resides at New Haven. Ĉ did 27th August 1891 2. HENRY MASON, born, January 4th, 1797, married Sarah Hall Benham, daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Benham then of New Milford, and left four sons. For a sketch of his life and character, see pp. 235-257. His children are: (1) Frederick Alexander, born, September 1st, 1820, married (March 20th, 1848) Mary Ann Williams, daughter of Dr. Jehiel Williams of New Milford. (2) Elijah George, born, July 30th, 1829, now (May, 1849) a member of Yale College. (3) William Jarvis, born, April 15th, 1832, now (May, 1849) a member of Milnor Hall, Kenyon College. (4) Henry Whiting, born, February 7th, 1837, now (1849) 257 1851 |