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Henry C. Whipple

BIRTH: 7 Sep 1825, Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island
DEATH: 3 Jun 1898, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island
BURIAL: River Bend Cemetery, Beach Street, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island
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Father: Christopher Rhoades Whipple (31 May 1797 - 6 Jan 1873)
Mother: Edith "Edey" N. Tarbox (30 Jul 1803 - 11 Mar 1838)

Family 1: Mary Spicer (4 Feb 1826 - 9 Sep 1883)

MARRIAGE: 15 Nov 1845, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island

+Mary Edith Whipple (ABT 1849 - 26 Mar 1924)
+Joseph Henry Whipple (9 Nov 1854 - 16 Feb 1931)
+Everett Edward Whipple (30 Jul 1857 - 9 Oct 1935)

Family 2: Ellen Murphy (____ - ____)

MARRIAGE: Jul 1884

                                                                                                    _Eleazer Whipple _____+
                                                                                                   | (.... - 1719) m 1669 
                                                                              _James Whipple ______|_Alice Angell ________
                                                                             | (1686 - 1731)         (1649 - 1743)        
                                                        _Eleazer Whipple ____|
                                                       | (.... - 1760) m 1744|
                                                       |                     |                      _John Williams _______
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                                                       |                     |_Mary Williams ______|_Elizabeth Olney _____
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                                _Joseph Whipple _______|
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                               |                       |_Deliverance Rhodes _|
                               |                         (1729 - 1804) m 1744|
                               |                                             |                      _James Greene ________+
                               |                                             |                     | (1659 - 1711) m 1688 
                               |                                             |_Mary Greene ________|_Mary Fones or Jones _
                               |                                               (1703 - 1745) m 1724  (1671 - 1720)        
 _Christopher Rhoades Whipple _|
| (1797 - 1873) m 1824         |
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|--Henry C. Whipple 
|  (1825 - 1898)
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|                               _Samuel Tarbox ________|
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|_Edith "Edey" N. Tarbox ______|
  (1803 - 1838) m 1824         |
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                               |_Elizabeth Johnson ____|
                                 (1768 - 1854)         |
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Notes

!SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 63.

!SOURCE: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (Chicago: J.H. Beers, 1908), 3:1796-1797.

!IDENTITY: Oldest son of Christopher Whipple. --Representative Men

!OCCUPATION: "Late Judge of the Third Judicial District of the State of Rhode Island." --Representative Men

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 16 Nov 2000.

!SOURCE: Will of grandfather, Samuel Tarbox, dated 12 Dec 1854, proved 4 Jun 1854, p. 157-159. Abstracted in Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 13, "Abstracts Coventry Wills," p. 11. Refers to Henry as Henry C. Whipple.

!SOURCE: Will of father, Christopher Whipple, dated 26 Feb 1867, proved 17 Feb 1873, p. 81. Abstracted in the R.I. Genealogical Register, Vol. 14, "Abstracts Coventry Wills," p. 7.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol. 5, Hopkinton, Part 7 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 27.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Joseph Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 9 Apr 2002. Cites Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Index.

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 9 May 2004. "He served as Postmaster of Hopkington, RI in 1850, Town Clerk from 1858 to 1867, Sheriff 1870-1886 and Judge 1886-1898, dying in office 3 Jun 1898."

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