Saint Joseph County MI Archives Obituaries.....Whitney, Remington Hobby (aka R.H.) June 29, 1890
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Burr Oak Acorn July 3, 1890
R.H. Whitney passed June 29, 1890 in Burr Oak, MI. He was born in 
Portland, ME, Dec.26, 1801. Emigrated to western New York with his parents in 
1812. He later married Eliza Weaver by whom three children were born, one of 
which survives him. Soon after the birth of the youngest child, his wife died. 
Two years later he married Rhoda Chapman, it then being 1835. In 1838 they moved 
to the then young state of Michigan where they met, with courage and fortitude, 
the vicisitudes attendant upon a pioneer life. Carving out a home for themselves 
by clearing one of the best farms in St. Joseph county. Nine children were the 
fruits of the second marriage. 
He was raised among the Quakers therefore he was inclined to be the liberal in thought. 
His estimable wife and seven children survive him.

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