Carmi WHITFORD
1766 - 1842 (76 years)-
Name Carmi WHITFORD Born 13 Feb 1766 West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI 
Gender Male Died 9 Dec 1842 Buried Maple Root Cemetery, Harkney Hill Rd., Coventry, RI Person ID I00340 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father Nicholas WHITFORD, b. 25 Feb 1721/22, East Greenwich, Kent Co., RI , d. 1790, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI (Age 67 years) Mother Susannah CARR, b. 3 Feb 1733/34, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI , d. 1802, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI (Age 67 years) Married 18 Nov 1752 West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI [1] Notes - I have a photocopy of the original marriage entry in the Town of West Greenwich. They were married by Samuel Hopkins, Justice of the Peace.
Family ID F00201 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Barbary BAILEY, b. 16 Sep 1765, East Greenwich, Kent Co., RI , d. 19 Dec 1846, East Greenwich, Kent Co., RI (Age 81 years) Married 24 May 1787 West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI [1, 2] Notes - I have a photocopy of their marriage entry from West Greenwich. It reads: "These May Certify all persons whom it may Concern that Carmy Whitford of Westgreenwich and Barbary Bailey of East Greenwich was Lawfully Married May the 24 AD 1787 By me James Wightman Elder"
Children 1. Susannah Whitford, b. 28 Jun 1788, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI , d. 8 Dec 1870, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI (Age 82 years)2. Caleb Bailey Whitford, b. 9 May 1791, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI , d. 7 Aug 1846, Coventry, Kent Co., RI (Age 55 years)3. Phebe Whitford, b. 31 Jan 1796, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI 4. Jeremiah Bailey WHITFORD, b. 18 Sep 1805, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI , d. 29 Aug 1882, West Greenwich, Kent Co., RI (Age 76 years)Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F00168 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Several generations of Whitfords are buried, with their spouses, in Coventry Historical Cemetery #135 on Harkney Hill Road, directly across from the historic Maple Root Baptist Church. There are two cemeteries next to each other; the Whitford graves are in the one situated toward the west, which is the older one of the two, commonly known as Maple Root Cemetery. In one lot there are six stones standing in a row, representing three consecutive generations beginning with the ones for Carmi and his wife Barbary, then Jeremiah's and Sally's, then the two for Charles and Harty. I have pictures of the stones individually, as well as the whole group. There is a saying carved on Jeremiah's stone: "Dear husband, you have passed away, and left me here so lonely, But I hope to meet you in that heavenly land where we shall part no more." Some of the next generation are also buried nearby.
Pictures of these gravestones are posted on the family tree at our web site [www.thesorensens.net].
I believe Carmi's farm was up on the hill near the intersection of Rt. 3 and Interstate 95, where a motel is now. This is where my great-grandmother lived as a child.
Carmi's will was proved in West Greenwich on 28 Jan 1843. In it he mentions his father Nicholas; wife Barbara (Barbary); and sons Caleb B. and Jeremiah (our ancestor), the youngest; daughters Susannah Nichols and Phebe Potter; and granddaughter Lucitta Nichols.
An online genealogy shows this family group with two more children: John, b. c. 1800, and Lucietta, b. c. 1805. However, these names are not found on the page with the birth records of the other four children, and are not named as children in the will.
The 1850 census of Oneida County, New York shows a Lucetta Whitford, age 45, born in RI, along with Warren Tillinghast, 38. However, she was not of Carmi's family; she was Lucetta Tillinghast, daughter of Elder Pardon Tillinghast. Lucetta had married William M. Whitford on 5 Sept 1824, probably at East Greenwich. Warren was probably her younger brother.
- Several generations of Whitfords are buried, with their spouses, in Coventry Historical Cemetery #135 on Harkney Hill Road, directly across from the historic Maple Root Baptist Church. There are two cemeteries next to each other; the Whitford graves are in the one situated toward the west, which is the older one of the two, commonly known as Maple Root Cemetery. In one lot there are six stones standing in a row, representing three consecutive generations beginning with the ones for Carmi and his wife Barbary, then Jeremiah's and Sally's, then the two for Charles and Harty. I have pictures of the stones individually, as well as the whole group. There is a saying carved on Jeremiah's stone: "Dear husband, you have passed away, and left me here so lonely, But I hope to meet you in that heavenly land where we shall part no more." Some of the next generation are also buried nearby.
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