Reuben Winslow Whipple, Sr

Genealogy of the Whipple, Paddock, and Bull Families in America 1620-1970 by Ruth Kapphahn & James Grafton Carter says: "Reuben Whipple was born in Rhode Island in 1770 and there married Alice Sprague. He migrated to New York, settling near Cooperstown, apparently sometime between 1810-1820, as he is seen on the 1810 census in Providence, RI, & on the 1820 census of Otsego, New York, with his son, Reuben Jencks Whipple. He and Alice with a son and daughter were among the first members of Fitch Hill Methodist & Episcopal Church in 1813, in the town of Otsego, New York. They died within five days of each other in 1842. He was a farmer. The history of the Fitch Hill Methodist church shows first members as Reuben & his wife Ellis Sprague & her brother, Jonah & his wife Esther Bates Sprague. Their sons Col Hezekiah Sprague & Dr Jencks Smith Sprague are long time residents of the county, & one of their homes is preserved for tours.

The History of Otsego County, New York

1740-1878

D. Hamilton Hurd

Published by Everts & Fariss, Philadelphia

Church Histories

Birth 17 May 1770 Death 28 Mar 1842 (aged 71) Burial Amboy Center Cemetery Amboy Center, Oswego County, New York, USA Memorial ID 31266156 · View Source Son of Benager/Benejah and Tabitha Whipple, Reuben was born in Rhode Island, married Alice Sprague Feb 7 1794 and moved to New York. The couple had eight children:

Freelove b Dec 19, 1794 - 5.22.1797 Reuben Jencks b Nov 12, 1797 - 10.16.1860 m Deborah Maples Lucina b Aug 4, 1799 - 3.17.1879 m Zadock Fitch Anthony b Oct 22, 1801 - 1.4.1889 m Sarah Ann Lester Eliza b abt 1805 - 12.25.1825 Emily b Feb 9, 1807 - Ferdinand b Jul 8, 1808 - 12.8.1896 m Mary Smith George Washington b 1.17.1811 - 11.25.1871 m Hariett Hitchcock - - - - - - -

Thanks to Lynda Ozinga FaG contributor # 49279713, who contributed the following from the handwriten manuscript of Mrs. Esther (Whipple) Converse, sister of Reuben Whipple re parents of Reuben:

Father (Benejah) Whipple Departed this life March 17, 1816. Otsego NY March 18th, 1813, Mother (Tabatha) Whipple Departed this life in the 84th year of her age.

The inscription on the grave stones for father and mother. (Verses composed by Barnett Whipple, his son.)

"Sleep on kind parents in the dust till the ressurection of the just there may you rise to realms of bliss and dwell in light where Jesus is." - - - - - -

The parents are buried in a private cemetery

Siblings of Reuben were:

Ezek Whipple b June 3, 1760 - 12.21.1833 m Meribah Sprague, sister to Alice Sprague Esther b October 30 1762 - 3.24.1832 m Jonathan Converse Abigail b March 9, 1764 - 10.21.1851 m Stephen Burlingame Barnet b March 19, 1766 - 3.10.1821 wife Catherine Benajah b Nov 3, 1768 - 2.27.1813 m Naomi Winsor Tabatha or Tabithy b 1768 - aft 1817, married name Price James b June 30, 1772; died 3.16.1814

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