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William Whalen, born about the year 1803 in the State of Kentucky, married a woman named Sarah. Sarah Whalen was born in Kentucky about 1815. Her maiden name may have been Adams or Haley. There is a record of the marriage of William C. Whalen and Sarah Adams in Harrison County, Kentucky, with the marriage having taken place on April 16, 1834, and performed by James O. Crouse.
William and Sarah Whalen were living in Harrison County, Kentucky during the census years 1860 and 1870.
The following is a list of the children of William and Sarah Whalen:
1. Squire Whalen,
born about 1834, married Cynthiana Smalley, who was born
about 1839. Squire Whalen was a farmer. They were listed as
living in
Harrison County, Kentucky, during the census years 1860, 1870 and 1880.
2. Cynthia Whalen,
born in May, 1839, married Richard Smalley.
3. Minerva Whalen,
born February 23, 1841, married Dennis Hester in Bracken
County, Kentucky. Dennis Hester was born in Fleming County, Kentucky,
on
November 20, 1840. He was the son of Henry and Sarah Griffin Hester,
In
the 1900 census, Dennis and Minerva Hester were living in Fleming County,
Kentucky. Dennis Hester died sometime after September, 1929.
I believe
Dennis and Minerva Hester are buried in a cemetery near Browning's Orchard
in Fleming County, Kentucky, known as Minerva's Chapel.
4. William Henry
Whalen (See below)
5. Jack Whalen
6. Millie Whalen
7. Sarah F. Whalen,
born about 1849.
8. Emily C. Whalen,
born about 1853, married ______Arnold.
William and Sarah Whalen may also have been the parents of children named Martha, Andrew J. (could be Jack?), and Amelia.
William Henry Whalen, the son of William and Sarah Whalen, was born April 12, 1843 in Harrison County, Kentucky. He married Anna Mae Gaines, the daughter of Robert and Sarah Gaines, on November 17, 1863. Anna Mae Gaines Whalen was born April 27, 1847 and died March 22, 1910. William Henry Whalen died May 30, 1924. They are buried at the Ramey Chapel Cemetery in Fleming County, Kentucky.
1. Mary (Mollie)
Whalen, who married Weekliff Lucas in Fleming County,
Kentucky, in 1882.
2. Sarah Fannie
Whalen, born 1867 and died 1945, married Daniel P. Caudill
on October 2, 1886 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Daniel Caudill was
the
jailer in Fleming County at one time. He lived from 1864 to 1934.
They
are both buried at the Ramey Chapel Cemetery in Fleming County,
Kentucky.
3. Malinda (Linn)
Whalen married W. T. Gifford. Her second husband was
William Williams.
4. Martha Jane
Whalen, born May 5, 1871, and died in 1963, married Daniel
Smalley. Daniel Smalley was born in March, 1859, and died in 1937.
5. William Riley
Whalen, born October 1, 1872, died February 17, 1926,
married Martha Nedra Crawford, who was born October 22, 1874, and died
June 22, 1954. They are buried in the Mays Lick Cemetery in Mason
County, Kentucky.
6. Robert Samuel
Whalen married Elizabeth Thornsbury on October 8,
1894. He lived from January 20, 1876 to June, 1951. Elizabeth
Whalen
was the daughter of Thomas and Ann McClanahan Thornsbury. She lived
from February 7, 1876 to August 30, 1964.
7. Ladoga Whalen,
known as Dodie, born 1879, married Richard McKee in
Fleming County, Kentucky, on September 23, 1897. She died prior
to 1908.
8. John Preston
Whalen (See below)
9. Vivian Mae
Whalen, born May 14, 1887, and died January 10, 1968,
married J. William Lantern in Fleming County, Kentucky. After the
death
of William Lantern, Vivian Mae Lantern married Fleming Gulley in 1917 in
Fleming County, Kentucky. He lived from September 13, 1888 to
September 8, 1959. Fleming and Vivian Gulley are buried at the Muses
Mills Cemetery in Fleming County, Kentucky.
John Preston Whalen,
born August 6, 1885 in Fleming County, Kentucky, married Melinda Bell,
the daughter of James and Rebecca Frances Bryant Bell, on April 25, 1905
in Fleming County, Kentucky, at the home of James Bell. Melinda Bell
Whalen was born February 11, 1883, in Harrison County, Kentucky.
John Whalen died February 13, 1959. Melinda Whalen died on September
28, 1975. They are both buried at the Wedonia Cemetery, Mason County,
Kentucky.
