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WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

S. Cassidy (View posts)
Posted: 1 Feb 2004 10:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Feb 2004 1:32PM GMT
Surnames: WHITE, Church, Wrigley, Alger,
Any info - Washington married Eliza Ann Wrigley (b. England) in CA.

Walter married Sarah Fearns Wrigley in CA.

Levi married Almira Alger (b. in NY).

They left Canada for Michigan after 1930.

Are the three brothers? Who are their Father and Mother?
Walter parents were: Benjamin White and Abigail Church)

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

Posted: 2 Feb 2004 3:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Oct 2004 3:37PM GMT
Surnames: White, Wrigley, Church, Watts
according to the LDS site: http://www.familysearch.org/
Washington White was born August 5, 1809, New York
Eliza Ann Wrigley born July 3, 1819 at Mossley, Lancs, England.
They married about 1840 at St. Thomas, Elgin county, Ontario Canada.
Children were Orpha born 1844, died 1868, Mary Ann born 1847, Joseph G. born 1850 at Kent, Michigan.
Washington's parents were Benjamin White, born 1775 in Mass. and Abigail Church married 1798 at Uxbridge, Worcester, Mass
He died July 20 1847 in Kent, Michigan and is buried at Alton cemetery, Vergennes, Michigan.
Orpha married Charles Watts Whitfield, Nov 10, 1863 at Vergennes, Michigan.
He later remarried and died in 1911 in Tacoma, Washington.
The Alton cemetery with some burials (Almira, Levi, Orpha etc.) is here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikent/cemeteries/vergennes/alton.h...
There is a lot of information on Sarah Fearns Wrigley-White, and her picture, here:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/wrigley.htm.
Good luck hunting! Merv.

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

Posted: 3 Feb 2004 12:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 Aug 2005 3:46AM GMT
Surnames: Fraser, Wrigley, White, Anderson, Rose
There was an exodus of inter-married families who were neighbours on the 7th line of Dumfries (on the county line of the present Waterloo and Brant counties) to Vergennes Township, Kent Co., Michigan from 1840-1850.

My Janet FRASER married George Fearns WRIGLEY (brother of Sarah Fearns (Wrigley) WHITE. Janet's sister married Donald ANDERSON. Donald's brother married Catharine ROSE. All the above emigrated to Vergennes.

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

Mary (View posts)
Posted: 3 Feb 2004 12:38AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Feb 2004 1:26PM GMT
Surnames: White, Wrigley, Fearns
The Wrigleys are mine in that I descend from the Wrigleys who decided to stay in Ontario. Sarah Fearns Wrigley was brother to Sylvanus Fearns Wrigley, my ggg-grandfather.
I do not know anything about Eliza Ann though (why not????)
Do you know who Eliza Ann's parents were?
Sarah Fearns Wrigley was d/o Joseph Wrigley & Ann Fearns
One of the URLs given in Marv's (did I get the name right?) reply to your email is my Wrigley page
Mary

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

S. Cassidy (View posts)
Posted: 3 Feb 2004 2:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Feb 2004 1:26PM GMT
Surnames: White, Wrigley, Lovell
Eliza Ann - I do not know who her parents are. I picked up on a web site, her surname was Wrigley (?). At first I thought Elizabeth Wrigley was Eliza - but the difference in age.
Eliza Ann (?) married Washington White. The 1850 census, Vergennes Township, Kent County, MI - indicates Joseph, Ann (born in England), Elizabeth (born 1825 in Canada), Wrigley, Sylvanus Lovell, born in Canada, Washington and Eliza Ann (wife), born 1819 in England, and four children.

Walter White married Sarah Fearns Wrigley. I'm trying to find out if Walter, Washington and Levi White are brother, cousins or ???.

From LDS there is a Eliza Ann Wrigley, born 1819 England;
christening; Mossley, Lancashire, England; death 1885 Kent Co., MI - buried Alton Cemetery.

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

Posted: 3 Feb 2004 5:19AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 Aug 2005 3:46AM GMT
Surnames: White, Church
Walter & Washington White must have been brothers.

Read Merv Burgard's post above about Washington.

This is an excerpt from a history on Vergennes (sorry I can't site the title)

"WALTER WHITE was born in Oneida Co. N.Y on May 29, 1807. He is the son of Benjamin and Abigail Church White, both of English parentage, the former born in 1775 in Massachussets."

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

S. Cassidy (View posts)
Posted: 3 Feb 2004 5:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Feb 2004 1:24PM GMT
Surnames: White, Church, Alger
Thanks for the info. I believe the information about Walter was taken from a bio of him from the Kent County web site (which, by the way is GREAT).

I think, but can not prove, Benjamin White and Abigail Church was the father and mother of Walter, for sure, maybe, Washington and I can't find anything in Levi. (there are two Levi's in Kent County) Levi's wife was Almira Alger.

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

Posted: 3 Feb 2004 6:12AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 Aug 2005 3:46AM GMT
Surnames: LAMBERTON, KEENEY, GODFREY, LOVELL
I received the information from a lady in Green Rapids who had copied the information from a book in the Green Rapids library. Unfortunately, she didn't write down the title.

Other Ontario families from this area who went to Vergennes: LAMBERTON, KEENEY,GODFREY, LOVELL.

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

Posted: 3 Feb 2004 11:54AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Oct 2004 3:37PM GMT
Surnames: White
Some land records showing Washington, Levi and others can be found here:
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/kent/multiple/land/ke....
Merv.

Re: WHITE, Walter, Levi and Washington from NY

Posted: 3 Feb 2004 12:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Oct 2004 3:37PM GMT
Surnames: White
Some interesting reading on their church membership is here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikent/churches/verg-chr.html.
Merv.

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