WHITEHILL FAMILY of Rashielee in Renfrew, Scotland [excerpted from town histories of Barnet (p.386,667) and Ryegate (pp.422,557-63)] William=Margaret

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1 WHITEHILL FAMILY of Rashielee in Renfrew, Scotland [excerpted from town histories of Barnet (p.386,667) and Ryegate (pp.422,557-63)] William=Margaret Macklam Wilson of Strathblane (original sp.: Muck~lew~ham) Scotland b.? b.? d.? d.? (1) James=1772=Mary John=1802=Catherine Whitehill Mitchell Macklam Liddle of Strathblane 1753? a 1835 < st (2) John("Big Jock")=1812=Anna Whitehill Welch of Groton, Vt. 1786? John b. Scotland; came to Ryegate w/parents 1798; rem. Morgan 1844 (3) William=1838=Anna (r.groton)whitehill McLam (as spelled post-civil War) (b. Scotland) (4) (a) Albert P.=1870=Emma Wm. Alexander=1881=Nellie 8 sisters Whitehill Whitcher Whitehill Welch 1846? 1857???? 1891 Denzil (res. Groton) Mansfield=1877=Nancie (5) David Lumsden (to Pass c 1920 s ) Crane Snow {(4) Horace Moore Whitehill} (5) Charles Liscomb= Linwood Farris=1908=Emma Louisa Whitehill Whitehill Crane (6) 3rd Bernard Austin= 2nd cousin -> Denzil, 6 Arthur, 6 Nellie, 6 Carrol, 6 Thelma 6 Whitehill live 1991 live 1988

2 WHITEHILL FAMILY of Rashielee in Renfrew, Scotland [excerpted from town histories of Barnet (p.386,667) and Ryegate (pp.422,557-63) AND from Vital Records] b. Ireland of Scotch ancestry: James=Agnes Moore Colbeth 1702? 1779? (1) James=1772=Mary Rob't=Ruhannah Whitehill Mitchell Moore Mitchell 1753? < nd (2) John("Big Jock")=1827=Betsey Nat'l=1805 Dorothy Whitehill Emery of Groton, Vt Moore Bamford 1786? ? John b. Scotland; came to Ryegate w/parents 1798; rem. Morgan 1844 (3) Lucinda=υνm.=Horace Whitehill Moore ? >1913 (4) Horace Moore=Adeline Whitehill Thayer 1852? 1937 <1937 (5) Charles Liscomb=1923=Geneva Whitehill Hubbard a 1961? (6) Bernard Austin=1952=Gertrude Whitehill Willard ?

3 LAST UPDATED: 2 August 2002 bhs_vt Research users are asked, but not required, to make a nominal donation to the Barnet Historical Society/Town Clerk for the restoration of old Barnet Vital Records and other genealogical resources. NOTE: br,mr,dr in this document are from town vital record indexes [bc,mc,dc are from the actual certificate/document Info w/o [sources] was copied from the 1923 edition] NOTE: when last verified, the "History of Ryegate, Vermont" was still available for purchase in reprint (hardcover) from the Ryegate Town Clerk. THIS COPY IS ANNOTATED WITH SOURCES IN BRACKETS, "[ ]". 666 HISTORY OF BARNET, VERMONT. WHITEHILL. JAMES 1 and ABRAHAM 1 WHITEHILL, from Inchinnan, Scotland, bought in 1798, six lots of land on the "Witherspoon Tract" in the northwest corner of Ryegate. They were covenanters, and founders of the Reformed Presbyterian Churches of Ryegate and Barnet. They reared larged families, and their descendants intermarried with the older families of both towns and of Peacham and Groton as well. Several farms, included in the purchase of these brothers, are still owned and tilled by their descendants. The records of these families are given in the History of Ryegate. The following lived in Barnet: WM. H. H. 3 (Wm., 2 Abraham 1 ), b. Feb. 25, Enlisted July 2, 1862 in Co. A, 10th Vt. Served most of the time in 1st Brig., 3rd Div., 6th Army Corps. Was in several important battles. Discharged June 22, Went to Iowa in 1867 and settled at Green Mountain; rem. to State Center, Held town and county offices, was commander of Grand Army Post, and member of Presbyterian Church. He m. Dec. 4, 1869 Margaret J. Gibson (b. Barnet Jan. 10, 1840 [1923ed]; d [1994ed]) dau. John Gibson. Wm. 3 d. March 3, I. Nelson McPhee, 4 b. Green Mountain, Ia. Oct. 13, Physician and surgeon at Boone, Ia. Served in the World War in a hospital in France as a surgeon. He m. Mary L. Brown of State Center. 1. Margaret, 5 b. Dec. 31, Charlotte B., 5 b. Jan. 22, Mary ELizabeth, 5 b. June 25, The two oldest are attending Grinnell College [ca.1923]. GENEALOGY WHITEHILL. 667 II. William John, 4 b. State Center, Ia. Dec. 25, Cashier of First National Bank, State Center; m. Henrietta Majis of that place. 1. Dorothy Annabel, 5 b. Nov. 30, Helen Elizabeth, 5 b. Aug. 14, III. Ben Chase, 4 b. March 6, Commandant of Iowa Soldier's Home, Marshalltown, Ia.; m. Apr. 5, 1900 Mary L. Vance. 1. Nelson William, 5 b. March 3, Joseph Gibson, 5 b. Nov. 22, IV. Annabel Gibson, 4 b. June 30, 1877; m. Lewis Rice. Res. Hubbard, Ia. Druggist. Child: William, 5 b. Jan. 30, 1912

4 JAMES WHITEHILL FAMILY. LINWOOD FARRIS WHITEHILL BRANCH. see: History of Ryegate p. 563 for ancestry of this branch LINWOOD FARRIS WHITEHILL 5 (Wm. Alex., 4 William A., 3 John, 2 James 1 ), b. Groton Jan. 9, 1886 [GVRbc (B:19)]; m. Barnet Oct Emma Louise Crane of McIndoes [BVRmc (4:42)/ch.bc] (b. Nov. 4, 1880; d [gs]) dau. Denzil Mansfield 1 and Nancie (Snow) Crane, q. v. (p. 386). After d. of Emma, Linwood m. 2nd Wells River March 17, 1949 Emma's divorced sister, Julia Helen (Crane) Sund [BVRmc (12:80)] (b. Barnet Oct. 27, 1894 [dc]; d. Pine Knoll Nursing Home, L'ville, Vt. Apr. 10, 1990) [BVRdc (15:16)]. He d. Aug. 16, 1974 [gs/stjdr (253:322)]. All three bur. McIndoes [gs], q. v. (p. 386). I. Denzil William, 6 b. McIndoes June 17, 1909 [BVRbc(4:58)]; m. June 17, 1942 Pauline "Polly" Blake (Briggs) [her OBIT] (b. Derby July 1, 1919; d. NVRH Jan. 15, 2002) dau. Charles Arthur and Hazel Mae (Blake) Briggs [OBIT/StJdr (365:8)]]. She grad Lyndon Normal School and Lyndon State College 1939 [LSC Alum.Recs], teaching in the Ryegate, then Mountain Region after it absorbed the local town systems [OBIT]. Res. Syms Pond Road [2001 phonebook] in East Ryegate [LSC Alum.Recs]; he d. Oct. 24, 1998; bur. McIndoes [BVRgr/wife.OBIT]. 1. Denzil John, 7 m. June 28, 1969 Linda Jean Wheeler [StJmr (239:39)]; res. Church St., Barnet in 2002 [moth.obit/2001 phonebook]. a. Anthony William, 8 b. Hosp. at St. Johnsbury Oct. 15, 1970 [BVRbr (13:30)]; m. Barnet Aug. 12, 1992 Louise A. Hoyle (b. Iowa Sept. 25, 1969) [BVRmc (15:78)] dau. John C. and Eileen M. (Campbell) Hoyle [dau.mc]. b. Emily Elizabeth, 8 b. Hosp. at St. Johnsbury July 23, 1979 [BVRbr (13:151)]. 2. Pauline Agnes 7 (adopted - born to Green family), b. Bennington, Vt. Jan. 24, 1944 [OBIT], m. 1st in Groton, Vt. Heman Welch, div. [her OBIT]; m. 2nd 1973 in Barre, Vt. Worley Parton [her OBIT], res. Williamstown, Vt. and Nashville, Tenn., div. [her OBIT]; res. Burlington in 2002 [moth.obit], d. there Jan. 18, 2004 [OBIT]; buried McIndoes spring 2004 [OBIT]. Children (not in order): a. Baby boy stillborn 1964 [gs]. dau.{one of next three} etched the picture of the family farm on Denzil and Polly's grave [interview w/"dau."]. b. Marie Thorpe of Winooski, Vt. [moth.obit]. c. Melody Harvey of Graniteville, Vt. [moth.obit]. d. Michelle Green of Burlington, Vt. [moth.obit]. e. Mathew Green of Burlington, Vt. [moth.obit]. f. Corey Parton of Burlington, Vt. [moth.obit]. II. Arthur Linwood, 6 b. Ryegate Jan. 23, 1911; d. St.J Health & Rehab Ctr Feb. 1, 2000; dairy farmer in Ryegate all his life [OBIT]; elder in Presbyterian Chh. [OBIT]; m. McIndoes Jan. 1, 1942 [RVR(1936/1947:108)] as 2nd husband of Isabelle Myrtle (Workman) Currier (b. Lisbon, N. H. [mc] ab [dr]; d. Nov. 30, 2000 [StJdr (356:145)]) dau. Guy A. and Blanch A. (Spooner) Workman; Guy was b. Stewartstown, N. H. and Blanch was b. Bethlehem, N. H. [Isabelle mc]. Children (by Isabelle's prev. m.): 1. Robert H. (Currier) d. bef [stepfath.obit]. 2. Marilyn (Currier); m. Lamarre; res. Woodsville in 2000 [stepfath.obit]. 3. Margaret (Currier); m. Hussey; res. Fitchburg, Ma in 2000 [stepfath.obit]. 4. Ralph L. (Currier); res. Panama City, Fla. in 2000 [stepfath.obit]. 5. Winston F. (Currier); res. Monroe in 2000 [stepfath.obit]. III. Nellie Agnes, 6 [1923ed] b. Ryegate [son BVRbc] Nov. 20, 1912 [1923ed] m. Leroy Francis Ryder "of Nantucket" (b. ab. 1923) [son BVRbc]; res. Nantucket Island, Mass. in 2000 [bro.arthur OBIT]. Ch.: Donald Linwood 7 (Ryder), res. Barnet after hospital-birth in St. Johnsbury Feb. 9, 1945 [BVRbc (11:27)].

5 IV. Carroll Roger, 6 b. Nov. 12, 1914 [1923ed]; d. Sept. 30, 1991 [bro.arthur Y2K OBIT]. V. Thelma Ruth, 6 b. Oct. 1, 1918 [1923ed]; m. 1st McIndoes Aug. 31, 1940 Glenn Roswell Fearon [BVRmc (11:61)] (b. Newbury, Vt. ab [mc]) son of Percy Willie Fearon [b. Whitefield, N. H. per son mc] and Velma Frances (Shumway) [b. Thetford, Vt. per son mc] Fearon [son mc]; she m. 2nd George; res. Woodsville, N. H. in 2000 [bro.arthur OBIT]. Stepchildren: VI. James Oscar (Sund), b.brooklyn, N. Y. May 21, 1893; res. McIndoes, q. v. (p. 386). VII. Rose Sharon (Sund), b. Woodsville, N. H. ab [mc]; res. McIndoes; m. Notre Dame Rectory Oct. 16, 1949 Harold Burtram Ryder, Jr. of Nantucket, Mass. (b. ab. 1928) [BVRmc (12:92)]. DAVID LUMSDEN WHITEHILL BRANCH. first cousin to Linwood Farris (above) see: History of Ryegate p. 560 for ancestry of this branch DAVID LUMSDEN WHITEHILL 5 (Albert P. 4, Wm. A., 3 John, 2 James 1 ), b. Groton, Vt. Nov. 4, 1884 [GVRbc (B:17)]; m. Groton Feb. 21, 1906 Abigail Anna Welch [GVRmc (1:11)] (b. Groton Apr. 13, 1887 [GVRbc (B:20)]; d. Brightlook Nov. 9, 1956; [BVRdc (12:155)]) dau. James Austin and Christie (Plummer) Welch [ch.mc]. They came to Passumpsic sometime between 1922 and 28 [ch.bc s ]. He d. Waterford/Passumpsic Sept. 12, 1959 [WfdVRdc (19:50)]. Both bur. Groton Cem. [dc s ]. I. Austin W., 6 b. Groton Oct. 15, 1908 [bc GVR (2A:10)][dc gives b. Oct. 19]; m. Waterford Aug. 17, 1932 Dorothy Carpenter [Wfd mc (17:98)] (b. Juarez, Mexico [mc] July 25, 1906 [dc]; d. Dec. 17, 1968 [BVRdc (13:61A)]) dau. Truman C. [b. Addison, Vt.] and Fannie L. [gr] (Cross) [b. Baird, Tex.] Carpenter [dau.mc/dau.dc]. She taught school; they farmed; he was elected selectman; after retiring from the dairy farm, they res. on what was to be named (in 2001) Brook Hill Road. He d. St. Johnsbury Convel. Ctr. Sept. 6, 1986 [BVRdc (13:316)]. All buried Passumpisc [gs]. 1. Jean Ann, 7 b. Brightlook May 17, 1933 [WfdVRbc (17:31)]; m. 1st Cabot Jan. 27, 1951 John A. Pike (farmer; b. Cabot ab. 1929) [BVRmc (13:2)] son of J. Earle and Addie (Arthur) Pike [ch.mc]. Unmarried, LSC ' 61, [addr unk per 1999 Alum.Recs], teacher for whom her father built house next to his [Lyman' s memory]. She m. 2nd Peter Bowles [fath.dc, phonebook, & Barnet Town Clerk]. 2. Mary Susan "Binkie", 7 b. Sept. 4, 1937 [BVRbc (9:142)]; res. Passumpsic; d. of pneumonia Mary Fletcher Hosp., Burlington, Vt. May 8, 1957 [BVRdc (12:172)]; bur. Passumpsic [dc/gs]. 3. Margaret Gail, 7 b. Brightlook July 5, 1939 [BVRbc (10:45)]; m. Passumpsic Sept. 1, 1962 Richard Cole Smith of the US Navy (b. Rochester, NY ab. 1937) [BVRmc (13:179)] son of Stanley T. and Laila S. (Cole) Smith [son.mc]. II. Albert Patridge, 6 b. Groton June 3, 1910 [GVRbc (2:32)]; d [wife.obit] m. Montpelier Oct. 3, 1936 Marjorie Seavey Roby (b. Springfield, Mass. March 18, 1912 [OBIT/ch.bc s ]; d. Woodside House, Danville (res. Passumpsic [2001 phonebook]) Nov. 3, 2001) [OBIT] dau. Horace and Louella (Barrus) Roby [Marj.OBIT], she worked as an operator and cashier for the telephone company prior to marriage [Marj.OBIT]. Albert was a civil engineer and surveyor for the state [dc/wife.obit] and instrumental in obtaining for the town the high quality gravel deposits under what became the Town Farm, and later, the town gravel pit [Lyman' s memory]. They resided in the center of Passumpsic village; he d. NVRH Dec. 23, 1988 [BVRdc (14:27)]; both bur. Passumpsic [gs s ]. 1. Beverly Ann, 7 b. Montpelier July 29, 1937 [VVRbr] m. Passumpsic Sept. 3, 1960 Stanley Gleason, farmer (b. Jericho, Vt. ab. 1918) [BVRmc (13:144)] son of Albert Irving Sr and Bertha Alice (Brown) Gleason of Jericho [son.mc]. They res. Zion, Ill in 2001 [Bev.moth.OBIT].

6 2. David Linwood, 7 b. Montpelier May 19, 1939 [dc]; drowned Passumpsic Apr. 13, 1944 [BVRdc (11:7)]; bur. there. 3. Clifford Albert, 7 b. Heaton Hosp., Montpelier July 20, 1945; m. Passumpsic Feb. 13, 1965 Barbara Jean Grady (b. St. Johnsbury ab. 1948) [BVRmc (13:212)] dau. Allen Arthur and Doria Josephine (Duperron) Grady [Barb.mc]; res. Fort Collins, Colo. in 2001 [moth.obit]. III. Lynwood Nelson, 6 b. Groton May 10, 1913 [GVRbc (2:102)]; m. Tete Margaret Mueller (b. 1914) [gs] dau Joannes A. and Adele (Brinkama) Mueller [gs s ]. He d [gs]; all bur. Passumpsic. IV. Alvin Richard, 6 b. Groton March 18, 1915 [GVRbc (2A:49)]; m. Marie Battermann [gs]. He d [gs]; bur. Passumpsic [gs]. V. Paul Gray, 6 b. Groton July 28, 1917 [GVRbc (2A:110)]; d. there Aug. 15, 1917; bur. there the next day [GVRdc (3:66)]. VI. Helen Christina, 6 b. Groton Sept. 6, 1919 [GVRbc (3:10)]; d. May 13, 1981 [gs/stjdr (280:58)]; bur. Passumpsic [gs] [sister of John W. per common gs]. VII. Annie, 6 b. Groton Sept. 30, 1922 [GVRbc (3:85a)]. VIII. Christie, 6 b. Hosp. at St. Johnsbury Apr. 9, 1928 [BVRbc (8:9)]. IX. Margaret Emma, 6 b. May 10, 1929 [StJbr (116:98)]; res. Waterford [WfdVRbc (16:74)]; m. Passumpsic June 23, 1951 John Robert Paulsen (b. Woburn, Mass. ab. 1924) [WfdVRmc (18:73)] son of John and Ellen L.A.J. (Bosselman) Paulsen of Denmark [dau.mc]. X. John William, 6 b. Brightlook Dec. 26, 1932 [WfdVRbc (17:27)]; m. June 1, 1957 June Alice Baird [BVRmc (13:94)] (b. Newport Ctr., Vt. [ch.bc s ] 1930 [gs; living 2002]) dau. Howard Alvin and Victoria Russell (Ramsdell) Baird of Newport [BVRmc (13:94)]. They farmed on the flat just north of Passumpsic. He d. Brightlook Nov. 13, 1968 [WfdVRdc (20:17)]; bur. Passumpsic [gs]. 1. Dennis John, 7 b. Apr. 17, 1958 [WfdVRbc (19:36)]; m. 1st Passumpsic Nov. 19, 1977 Angela Marie Somers [ch.bc] (b. St. Petersburg [ch.bc], Fla. Apr. 18, 1960) [WfdVRmc (20:93)] dau. Raymond Gordon and Virginia (Pierson) Somers of Peacham [Ray.bc/dau.mc], q. v. (p. 614); m. 2nd Passumpsic May 19, 1984 Audrey Ann (Hapgood) Tanner [WfdVRmc (21:30)] (b. Lancaster, N. H. Aug. 14, 1963 [ch.bc]) dau. Walter and Janet (Redmond) Hapgood; res. Passumpsic [2001 phonebook]. a. Nicholas John, 8 b. NVRH March 21, 1980 [WfdVRbc (20:187)]. b. John Dennis, 8 b. NVRH Nov. 1, 1984 [WfdVRbc (21:41)]. 2. Abbie Welch, 7 b. Brightlook May 17, 1964 [WfdVRbc (19:90)]; m. Passumpsic May 17, 1997 Kenneth Edward Ruffner (b. N. Y. Sept. 27, 1960) [WfdVRmc (23:18)] son of Edward J. and Eileen K. (Gilligan) Ruffner of Denmark [son.mc]. 3. Nelson David, 7 b. Brightlook Aug. 4, 1960 [WfdVRbc (19:54)]; m. Roena Lynn Drew b. St. Johnsbury ab [ch.bc], LSC ' 81 [Alum.Recs]. Victoria, 8 Ashley, 8 and Austin 8 [Alum.Recs/br s ]. CALVIN ELLISWORTH WHITEHILL BRANCH. Children (all b. Barnet) are third-cousins to L.F. & D.L. above see: History of Ryegate p. 559 for ancestry of this branch CALVIN ELLISWORTH WHITEHILL 4 (Calvin Knox, 3 Abram, 2 James 1 ), m. Dec. 29, 1881 Etta Belle Lyford [POPp321]. Manager of creamery at Barnet in 1913 [RTHp559]. Children (all b. Barnet): I. Virginia N., 5 b. Sept. 30, 1882 [BVRbr (1:40)]; m. West Barnet Dec. 4, 1905 Nathaniel Hurd 4 Roy II [BVRmc (4:2)] son of Joseph Warren 3 and Caroline (Eggleston) Roy [ch.mc], q. v. (p. 592) II. Flora Belle, 5 b. Sept. 8, 1885 [BVRbr (1:43)]; m. Center Parsonage Sept. 16, 1903 Bert R. Brock of Barnet (b. Kingsey, Que. ab. 1880) [BVRmc (3:54)] son of John W. and Georgia (Wales) Brock [ch.mc]. III. Earle Leon, 5 b. July 20, 1891 [BVRbr (1:50)]. IV. May Alvina, 5 b. May 16, 1895 [BVRbr (1:54)].

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