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David F. Lowry, "Gaining a Daughter but Losing a Son: The Children of Samuel6 Eddy (1765-1744) of Wallingford and Dorset, Vermont", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register vol. 174, no. 695 (2002):228-241.
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[Children of Samuel and Lucy (Stiles) Eddy:]
v. LAURA EDDY, b. Wallingford 25 Feb. 1813; d. Dorset 18 Feb. 1896, aged 82, bur. North Dorset Cemetery;84 m. EMERSON WHITNEY,85 b. Putney, Windham Co., Vt., 4 Aug. 1808, son of Eliphalet and Sarah (Tenney) Whitney,86 d. Dorset 9 Aug. 1897, aged 93.87 Children of Emerson and Laura (Eddy) Whitney:88 1. Orrin Emerson Whitney, b. Dorset 21 Nov. 1833; d. Dorset 9 April 1907, aged 73;89 m. Dorset 7 March 1867, Ann Eliza Luther.90 2. Lucy E. Whitney, b. Vt. ca. 1840; m. ca. 1865 Seth Curtis,91 d. Manchester, Bennington Co., Vt., 31 March 1905.92 3. Laura A. Whitney, b. Dorset 12 March 1842; d. Wallingford 20 Nov. 1878, aged 36;93 m. Danby 28 Nov. 1873, Isaac B. Colvin, son of John and Lydia (Frink) Colvin.94
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84 North Dorset Cemetery [note 2], Laura (Eddy) Whitney marker.
85 Eddy, Eddy Family in America [note 1],398.
86 Vermont Vital Records, 1760–1954, birth (spelled “Emason”), image 3365 of 3853 [FHL 0,027,729]; Vital Records of Stow, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston NEHGS, 1911), 223 (parents’ marriage).
87 Vermont Vital Records, 1760–1954, death, image 2764 of 6563 [FHL 0,540,620].
88 Wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney_Emerson_(1808-1897)
89 Vermont Vital Records, 1760–1954, death, image 3398 of 6563 [FHL 0,540,602].
90 Vermont Vital Records, 1760–1954, marriage, image 1695 of 1954 [FHL 0,027,730].
91 Eddy, Eddy Family in America [note 1], 398, states Lucy married a nan with the surname Curtis. The birth record of their child, Charles Henry Curtis, gives the fathers name as Seth Curtis (Vermont Vital Records, 1760–1954, image 340 of 4064, birth [FHL 0,027,523]). The birth of their eldest child, Clarence is estimated from the age recorded in the 1880 U.S. Census, Sunderland, Bennington County, Vermont, E.D. 39, roll 1341, p. 521A.
92 Vermont Vital Records, 1760–1954, image 3986 of 6290, death, Montpelier [FHL 0,540,079].
93 Photograph of the gravestone online at FindaGrave.com, memorial no. 68092281.
94 Vermont Vital Records, 1760–1954, image 884 of 3173, marriage [FHL 1,984,645]. Eddy, Eddy Family in America [note 1], gives Lydia Colvin’s maiden name as Frank but it is clearly Frink on the marriage record.
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