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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ng onthe Sandusky, Whitaker traded his furs and Indian suppliesfor lumber from Canada, and after rafting it up the SanduskyRiver built a large frame, two-story house, also a warehouseand store building. When her first child, Nancy, was nine orten months old, Mrs. Whitaker started on her first trip hometo Beaver Creek, carrying her baby on her horse in front ofher and being accompanied by two Wyandot squaws. She wasthe mother of eight children, from her marriage in 1782 until The Croghan Celebration. 93 the death of her husband in 1804, at Upper Sandusky. Shemade several trips to her old home in Beaver Creek, going forthe last time in 1823 to attend a family reunion at the home of hersister. An incident of that occasion is that her sister sat at thetable with twenty-two of her own children, two others havingdied. Of the twenty-two, a quartet of boys, born at one birth,were dressed in suits of handsome green cloth presented to themby President Monroe. Mrs Whitaker died suddenly in 1833,
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CASKET CONTAINING REMAINS OF MAJOR CROGHAN IN STATE IN CITY HALL. while on a visit to Upper Sandusky, where her husband also haddied nearly thirty years before. She was buried at Upper San-dusky, although her husbands body had been taken back to LowerSandusky. Her will, dated February 13, 1833, was admitted toprobate in this county September 13, 1833, in which are mentionedthe names of several of her children, including Isaac and James,the latter being her executor. In her will among other things 94 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. mentioned as her property was a chest containing valuable arti-cles. From the inventory of her estate as recorded in the officeof the probate judge the following articles of silver were foundin a chest: Silver castor, cruets, tablespoons, sugar tongs, Indianarmband and shoe buckles. The children of James Whitaker and Elizabeth FoulksWhitaker were all born on what was afterward called theWhitaker Reservation, a tract of 1280 acres set aside for her

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