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Demmon Whiting Grave Stone
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William Whiting, Warsaw
In the pioneer section of Warsaw Village cemetery there remains
a marble slab to William Whiting, born at Hartford, Conn, in ",1758s>
who died at Warsaw, March 22, I8I4.9, aged 90 years. The Wyoming
County Mirror, recording his death, stated that at the commencement
of the Revolution he lived in Connecticut, near Hartford. In 1776,
he went to New York in the militia company of Lt. George Kellogg and
Col. Chester. In April 1777> he enlisted for three years and served
under Capt. Elisha Kimball, Col. John Chandler and Col. Joseph Hoit.
He was in the battles of Germantown, Ft. Mifflin and Monmouth.
During 1781 and 1782, he was in the team service under Capt; John
Waters, Conductor of Teams.
After the Revolution, he removed with several children to Granville, N.Y., then to Hampton and from there to Warsaw in 1821. He
was an honorable man and retained his faculties up to near the end
and the time of his death. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
His wife, the mother of his children, was Abigail Flower, who died
Aug. 25, 1832, aged 73 years. One of his sons, Nathan Whiting, and
a brother-in-law, Col. Chauncey Sheldon,were among the Americans who
joined the Canadian patriots in 1837ยป were captured and banished by
the British Government to Van Dieman's Land. They were pardoned and
returned to the United States some few years before the father's
death. DAR application papers state that Mr. Whiting saw three years
Revolutionary service as Private under Capt. Nehemiah Rice in Col.
Chandler's 8th Connecticut Regt. In I8l8, he apnlied for a pension
which was allowed. After his first wife's death, the old veteran
married three more times; his second wife, Lucinda Whiting, his
brother's widow, died Sept. 10, 1838, aged 67; his third was Mrs.
Phebe Rich, widow of Peter Rich, and his fourth, the widow of Lyman
Noble.
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Portrait and Biographical Album of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin ...
tired life in Burlington, Wis., was born in U the town of Rupert, Bennington County, \'t., August 12, 1807. His father with the family removed thence to the town of Sandgate, in the winter of 1809. The following summer they were visited by an uncle of our subject, Demmon Whiting. and Mr. Sheldon relates what was to him, a three-year old boy, a most interesting experience, the killing of a woodehnck. The animal was discovered in a field of clover not far from the house and his uncle securing a handspike or billet of wood which was used in rolling logs together, preparatory to burnmg them, managed to get between the chuck and his hole and droye him in a cleft in a rock near by, from which there was no escape
-ance at school in the winter.
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1798 - 1857 (59 years)