Ancestry of
Mike Huckabee

44th Governor of Arkansas

Jesse Bedient Whitney

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Mike Huckabee — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 56 
  • Father:
  • William Whitney 
  • Mother:
  • Sally Batterson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Oct 1810 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wolcott, Lamoille, Vermont 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Oct 1891 
  • Death Location:
  • Petersburg, Menard, Illinois 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Emily Brown
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Sep 1839 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Franklin County, Kentucky 
  • Child:

  Scott Massena Whitney (Ahnentafel No:28 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jesse Whitney is said to have abandoned his first wife Hannah Estabrook when he went to Ohio. He was a clock peddler.

• Additional marriages for Jesse Bedient Whitney

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Estabrook

• Sources for Jesse Bedient Whitney

  • ¹ Federal Census, IL, Menard County, 1880, Petersburg, E.D. 137, p. 16, Image 16 of 22.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Menard County, 1860, Township 17 Range 7, p. 33, Image 17 of 18.
  • ³ Federal Census, IL, Scott County, 1850, Image 6 of 135.
  • ⁴ Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916, Death record for Jesse B Whitney.
  • ⁵ Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979, Marriage record for Jesse B Whitny and Emily Brown.
  • ⁶ Phoenix, S. Whitney, The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations . . . of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878, Vol. 1, New York: Privately Printed (1878), 352.

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