Ancestry of
John Spellman

18th Governor of Washington

William H. Cushman

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of John Spellman — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Daniel Cushman 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bowman   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1791 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Dec 1854 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Whiteside County, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Erie Cemetery, Erie, Whiteside, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Wallace
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1817 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Daniel Cushman

  Polly Ann Cushman

  Flava Cushman

  Wallace Cushman

  Holloway Cushman

  John Cushman (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  • Notes: 

  • The 1908 bookHistory of Whiteside County, Illinois, Vol. 2 (p. 352) gives the mother of William H. Cushman's children as Betsy Barnett. The death certificate for son John, who was born about 1833 in Indiana, gives his mother's name as Rebecca Wallace. Betsy is William's wife in the 1850 federal census. No death record for Rebecca, or marriage record for either marriage, have been found.

    It seems likely that William H. Cushan did have two wives. John, whose death certificate lists Rebecca Wallace as his mother, has some circumstantial evidence supporting it. He has an older brother named Wallace, and his older sister Polly Ann (Cushman) (Chaffee) Morehouse named a son Wallace. Since the Whiteside County history does not mention Rebecca, it would seem likely she died before the family arrived in Illinois. Therefore, John and his older siblings, all born in Ohio or Indiana, were likely children of Rebecca Wallace. All of John's younger siblings, born in Whiteside County, Illinois, were likely the children of Betsy Barnett. John's wife was Mary Ann Barnett, daughter of Anderson Barnett. It seems likely that his wife Mary Ann is in some way related to his step-mother Betsy.

• Additional marriages for William H. Cushman

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  • Spouse:
  • Betsy Barnett
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1836

• Sources for William H. Cushman

  • ¹ Federal Census, IL, Whiteside County, 1850, District 37, Image 77 of 128.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/01/2023).
  • ³ Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935, Marriage record for son John Cushman and Mary A Barnett.
  • ⁴ Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1988, FHL 4669914, Images 177-182, Probate file for son-in-law Simeon Chaffee.
  • ⁵ Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1988, FHL 4669914, Images 638, 655, 678-681, 816-818, Probate file for William H Cushman.
  • ⁶ Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1988, FHL 4669914, Images 177-179, Probate file for son-in-law Simeon Chaffee.
  • ⁷ Iowa, U.S., Death Records, 1880-1972, Death certificate for daughter Narcissa Cain.
  • ⁸ Membership Application to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, Massachusetts and Salt Lake City, Utah (2019), General No. 83067.
  • ⁹ Oregon, U.S., County Births and Deaths, 1855-1970, Death record for son John Cushman.
  • ¹⁰ Davis, William W., History of Whiteside County, Illinois: From Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, Vol. 2, Chicago: The Pioneer Publishing Co. (1908), 351-352.
  • ¹¹ Oregon Secretary of State, Early Oregonians Database, Record for son Holloway Cushman.