Robert and Hannah (Burnett) Whiting
Robert Whiting, s. of James Whiting and Sarah Ann (Ham) Whiting, b. Allerton, Somerset, England, 3-7-1819; d. Winona, Winona County, MN., 8-3-1898; with wife and children arrived in New York aboard the Sarah Sands (of the Sands & Company Shipping Line) on May 2, 1849, following a stormy six-week ocean voyage; md. (1) Blackford, Somerset, England, 1837, Hannah Burnett; she b. Blackford, Somerset, England, c. 1815; d. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 1-29-1880; Robert md. (2) Mrs. Hurbst.
Children:
(1) John Whiting, b. Wedmore, Somerset, England, c. 1840.
(2) Mary Ann "Polly" Whiting, b. Allerton, Somerset, England, 8-20-1841; d. Winona, Winona County, MN., 1-3-1927; bd. Hillside Cemetery, St. Charles, MN.; embarked at age eight with parents and siblings aboard the Sarah Sands on a stormy, six-week ocean voyage, arriving in New York on May 2, 1849; made immediate preparations to go to Iowa; 5-26-1849 arrived in Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., where her father opened the first hotel and dealt in livestock; worked in a tailor shop for twenty-five cents a day to pay tuition for evening private school (as no public schools were yet available); md. (1) (Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA.?) George Gibbs, who apparently died shortly afterward; 1871 Polly moved to Winona, Winona County, MN., to work as assistant matron and seamstress at Soldiers' Orphans Home of Minnesota (organized to care for children of Civil War soldiers) md. (2) Delhi, Delaware County, IA., 3-11-1874, George Butler "Boss," s. of William Talbot and Sophia (Butler) Talbot; he b. West Pennard, Glastonbury, Somerset, England, 10-15-1846; d. Winona, Winona County, MN., 11-11-1923, of "carcinoma of stomach;" bd. Hillside Cemetery, St. Charles, MN.; June 1852 immigrated to Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., with parents and siblings; 1855 moved with parents and siblings to St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN.; one of the first pupils of the Vowles School, which stood on his father's farm; worked his father's land until 1874 when the property was divided between George and his brother Fred, George taking 160 acres in Section 26, St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN.; eventually increased his property to 320 acres; 1893 retired from farming and moved to 714 West Wabasha (at that time Indiana) Avenue, Winona, Winona County, MN., where he and Mary Ann spent the rest of their lives; member of Winona County Old Settlers' Association;; silver wedding anniversary celebrated in Winona in 1899 with thirty friends, "an elaborate supper," singing and gifts of a silver smoking set for George and silver tea set for Mary Ann.
Children:
Hannah Alberta "Allie" Talbot, b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 4-11-1877; d. Winona County, MN., 6-20-1950; 1950 donated a mausoleum to Hillside Cemetery, St. Charles, Winona County, MN., in memory of George Talbot family; md. Winona, Winona County, MN., 12-31-1896, Clarence F., s. of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Camp; he b. Warren Township, Winona County, MN., 10-2-1872; d. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 5-22-1956; 1902 began employment as machinist for Chicago & North Western Railway; 50-year member of International Association of Machinists; member of Central Methodist Church, Winona, Winona County, MN.; 50-year member of Masonic lodge (a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason since February 1917); d. at old George Talbot farm in Section 26, St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN. (which had been sold to the Rex Sanders family with the agreement that Clarence could live there in his old age).
Ada May Talbot, b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 5-29-1879; d. Winona, Winona County, MN., 5-8-1944; one of the first graduates of College of Saint Teresa, Winona, MN., where she later taught commercial subjects for two years; member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Winona, MN., and Auxiliary to the United Spanish War Veterans; md. Winona, Winona County, MN., 10-4-1905, Frank A. Wunderlich; he b. Winona, Winona County, MN., 1877; d. Winona, Winona County, MN., 8-13-1944; plumber; Spanish-American War veteran; enlisted in Company C, Twelfth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry 4-29-1898, in Winona, MN.; mustered out 11-5-1898, in New Ulm, MN.; enlisted in Company K, 45th Regiment U.S. Volunteer Infantry 9-29-1899, in Winona, MN.; mustered out 6-3-1901 in San Francisco, CA.; member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Winona, Winona County, MN.
(3) Sarah Ann Whiting, b. Allerton, Somerset, England, 9-15-1843; d. St. Charles, Winona County, MN., 1-4-1941; bd. Hillside Cemetery, St. Charles, MN.; embarked at age six with parents and siblings aboard the Sarah Sands on a stormy, six-week ocean voyage, arriving in New York on May 2, 1849; made immediate preparations to go to Iowa; 5-26-1849 arrived in Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., where her father opened the first hotel and dealt in livestock; raised her granddaughter Florence Lillian Sarah Rhames after the death of her daughter Mrs. Henry (Florence Edith Talbot) Rhames; fiftieth wedding anniversary celebrated 4-8-1916, with fifty relatives and friends, "social converse, music and cards;" among their gifts, Sarah and Fred received a gold-handled cane and gold-handled umbrella from the family of George and Mary Ann (Whiting) Talbot; Sarah known locally (affectionately) as "Aunt Sarah" and later "Grandma Talbot;" in old age retold stories of pioneer times when Indians visited her family on their farm in St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN.; member of Trinity Episcopal Church and Winona County Old Settlers' Association; honorary member of Sunshine Chapter, Order of Eastern Star; died at age ninety-seven; md. Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 4-9-1866, Fred S., s. of William Talbot and Sophia (Butler) Talbot; he b. West Pennard, Glastonbury, Somerset, England, 9-3-1840; d. St. Charles, Winona County, MN., 5-10-1920; bd. Hillside Cemetery, St. Charles, MN.; June 1852 immigrated with his parents and siblings to Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA.; 1855 moved with his parents and siblings to St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN.; married in Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., and returned to St. Charles by taking a boat up the Mississippi to Winona and then a stage coach to St. Charles; farmed his father's land until 1874 when the property was divided between Fred and his brother George; 1883 replaced the log cabin on his father's farm with a frame house; his property was known as "Festina Farm;" town board supervisor; school board treasurer and director; member of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 49, A.F. & A.M., Oriental Chapter, No 19, R.A.M., Sunshine Chapter, No. 98, O.E.S. and Winona County Old Settlers' Association; 1903 sold his property to his son Albert Cornelius "Bert" Talbot; moved into the city of St. Charles on day of St. Charles cyclone (10-3-1903) without injury or property loss; "a kind and loving husband and father, a good neighbor and a loyal friend."
Children:
Clarence Jasper Talbot, b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 10-15-1867; d. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 5-26-1874 (sixteen days after the death of his brother Frank), of congestion of lungs.
Frederick Irvin Talbot, b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 2-26-1869; d. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 3-29-1869.
Frank Irvin "Frankie" Talbot, b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 6-14-1870; d. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 5-10-1874, of scarlet fever.
Florence Edith Talbot, b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 7-27-1875; d. Eyota, Olmsted County, MN., 1-24-1905 (eight days after the birth of her only child), of appendicitis; "an earnest and conscientious worker in the Order of the Eastern Star;" md. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 9-13-1897, Henry Sherwood, s. of Robert Richard and Eleanor Harriet (Sherwood) Rhames; he b. Rochester, Olmsted County, MN., 2-12-1871; d. Lewiston, Winona County, MN., 9-25-1960; began career in hardware business at age seventeen with S.A. Johnson Company, St. Charles, MN.; later operated his own hardware stores in Eyota, Olmsted County, MN., and Utica, Winona County, MN.; member of Asher Lodge No. 61 A.F. & M. Eyota, Rising Sun Lodge No. 49 A.F. & M. and Aurora No. 109 Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, Eyota; treasurer of Trinity Episcopal Church, St. Charles, MN.
Albert Cornelius "Bert" Talbot, b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 6-29-1877; d. Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN., 11-16-1954; operated his father's farm; member of local Masonic orders; md. Winona County, MN., 9-23-1903, Jennie E., d. of William Henry Harrison and Clarissa (Sinclair) Groger; she b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 3-6-1871; d. St. Charles, Winona County, MN., 8-15-1931; taught school in St. Charles vicinity prior to marriage; secretary of Equitable Fraternal Union of St. Charles; member of St. Charles Women's Club.
Maude Lillian Talbot, b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 1-4-1884; d. St. Charles, Winona County, MN., 7-5-1969; married in the parlor of her parents' home in St. Charles, MN., amid evergreens, chrysanthemums, ferns and pink and white carnations; given away by her father and attended by Jennie (Groger) Talbot and "Little Florence Rhames;" member of Sunshine Chapter of Order of Eastern Star, Women's Christian Temperance Union and Trinity Episcopal Church Guild; Winona County extension chairman; md. St. Charles, Winona County, MN., 1-1-1907, Hugh Sinclair, s. of William Henry Harrison and Clarissa (Sinclair) Groger; he b. St. Charles Township, Winona County, MN., 8-17-1882; d. Rochester, Olmsted County, MN., 1-7-1952; farmed southeast of St. Charles until moving into St. Charles in 1945; Past Master of Rising Sun Lodge No. 49, Past High Priest of Orient Chapter No. 19, and Past Worthy Patron of Sunshine Chapter of Order of Eastern Star No. 98.
(4) Phoebe A. Whiting, b. Somerset, England, 10-16-1846; d. Oakland, Alameda County, CA., 10-( )-1930; md. (1) 1867 Frank Ham; he b. England 10-9-1843; d. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 4-30-1874; Phoebe md. (2) 2-( )-1875 William Brown Duckett; he b. Wedmore, Somerset, England, 7-30-1844; d. Buena Vista County, IA., 5-26-1899.
Children of Frank and Phoebe (Whiting) Ham:
George B. Ham, b. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 3-1-1868; d. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 11-4-1868.
Robert F. Ham, b. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 11-16-1870; d. Alta, Buena Vista County, IA., 3-3-1881.
William E. Ham, b. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 9-13-1872; d. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 9-20-1873.
Child of William and Phoebe (Whiting Ham) Duckett:
Minnie Florence Duckett, b. Alta, Buena Vista County, IA., 2-( )-1878; d. 1960; md. (1) Alta, Buena Vista County, IA., 11-30-1899, George Henry Holmes; Minnie md. (2) Clement Fielding Mingus.
(5) Frank Whiting, b. Somerset, England, 10-20-1848; d. 10-( )-1934; md. Colesburg, Delaware County, IA., 4-23-1872, Elizabeth McQuirk; she b. Brooklyn, NY., 1-18-1854; d. IA., 6-8-1944.
Children:
Aurelia Belle Whiting.
B. Whiting
Amelia Airella Whiting.
Robert Whiting.
Lawrence Francis Whiting, b. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 10-15-1878; d. 5-( )-1965; md. Gertrude M. Cavanaugh; she b. IA., 1884; d. 1960.
(6) George Whiting, d. at age eleven.
(7) Eliza Whiting, d. at age two.
(8) Eliza Jane Whiting, b. Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 10-12-1858; d. Sumner, Bremer County, IA., 10-1-1923; md. Delhi, Delaware County, IA., 3-11-1874, Walter, s. of Joseph Watts and Miriam (Tilley) Watts; he b. Marks, Somerset, England, 5-21-1849; d. Boyer Valley Township, Sac County, IA., 12-14-1929.
Children:
Eva Belle Watts, Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 10-1-1875; d. Spencer, Clay County, IA., 2-8-1955; md. 5-29-1895 Ruben Joseph Jackson; he b. Earlville, Delaware County, IA., 2-28-1868; d. Early, Sac County, IA., 1-21-1934.
William Alfred Watts, b. St. Charles, Winona County, MN., 4-12-1878; d. Early, Sac County, IA., 2-9-1883.
Hanna Juanita Watts, b. Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 10-27-1882; d. Early, Sac County, IA., 2-28-1883.
Walter Irvan Watts, b. Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 5-13-1884; d. Storm Lake, Buena Vista County, IA., 12-13-1960; md. Early, Sac County, IA., Annette Florence Perrott; she b. Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 2-16-1880; d. Sac City, Sac County, IA., 5-28-1945.
Amber Brunette Watts, b. Polk City, Polk County, IA., 6-22-1892; d. Cedar Township, Sac County, IA., 10-27-1897.
(9) Elizabeth Edith Whiting, b. North Fork Township, Delaware County, IA., 10-( )-1860; d. Rockford, Winnebago County, IL., 4-5-1942; md. (1) Fred Hurbst; md. (2) IA., 1895, Frank Benjamin Jackson; he b. PA., 3-( )-1855; d. Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA., 4-20-1916
Children of Fred and Elizabeth (Whiting) Hurbst:
Blanche C. Hurbst, b. Dubuque County, IA., 4-( )-1884.
Juanita Hurbst.
Child of Frank and Elizabeth (Whiting Hurbst) Jackson:
Clifford W. Jackson, b. Dubuque County, IA., 3-12-1896.
(10) Harriet Ann Whiting, b. Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 4-12-1863; d. Early, Sac County, IA., 2-19-1950; md. Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 7-6-1881, Benjamin Franklin Evans; he b. Dyersville, Dubuque County, IA., 7-28-1857; d. Waterford Township, Clay County, IA., 7-2-1936.
Children:
Frances Maude Evans, b. Eden Township, Sac County, IA., 12-17-1882; d. IA., 1967; md. Early, Sac County, IA., 6-16-1909, William Edgar Jackson; he b. Earlville, Delaware County, IA., 8-2-1872; d. 6-5-1947.
Clarence Samuel Evans, b. Sac County, IA., 7-( )-1884; md. Storm Lake, Buena Vista County, IA., 12-20-1906, Martha Pearl Egy; she b. IA., 2-1-1883; d. Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA., 1-25-1954.
Angeline May Evans, b. Early, Sac County, IA., 3-31-1887; d. Hartley, O’Brien County, IA., 8-7-1970; md. Early, Sac County, IA., Millard Wilson Drury; he b. Sac County, IA., 4-21-1887.
Elmer Franklin Evans, b. Early, Sac County, IA., 8-29-1893; d. Sac County, IA., 7-2-1960; md. Early, Sac County, IA., 4-15-1914, Clara May Drury; she b. 6-26-1894; d. Webster City, Hamilton County, IA., 3-17-1989.
William McKinley Evans, b. Sac County, IA., 12-( )-1896; d. Webster City, Hamilton County, IA., 6-27-1957; md. Gladys C. Toogood; she d. Webster City, Hamilton County, IA., 6-26-1957.
Documents
Robert Whiting handwritten note 1888
Robert Whiting's biography in History of Winona County, Minnesota
Robert Whiting (1819-1898)
l. to r.: Eliza (Whiting) Watts, Frank Whiting, Phoebe (Whiting Ham) Duckett, Elizabeth (Whiting Hurbst) Jackson, and Sarah (Whiting) Talbot
Robert Whiting's sister Ann (1817-1910) and her husband William Hatch
Mrs. Robert (Hannah Burnett) Whiting (c. 1815-1880) with her daughter Harriet Ann "Hattie" (1863-1950)
