Harry, son of Charles E. Whitten and Sarah E. Moon, married Bessie L Durgin in Lynn, Mass., 27 Apr 1910.
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His wife Bessie died young, in 1932.
In the 1840 census, the 52-year-old Harry appears in Swampscott, Mass., apparently living with just a 75-year-old boarder by the name of Jennie P. Patmer.
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His gravestone is in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass. It is the same marker as for his wife Bessie and her parents.[3]
Sources
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"Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4DJ-C4J : 17 July 2017), Harry E Whitten and Bessie L Durgin, 27 Apr 1910; citing Lynn, , Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,511.
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"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4XP-C4F : accessed 1 October 2017), Harry E Whitten, Swampscott, Swampscott Town, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5-399, sheet 8A, line 2, family 147, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1590.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 July 2020), memorial page for Harry Ellsworth Whitten (1887–May 1961), Find A Grave: Memorial #54366404, citing Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by john gibney (contributor 46859312) .
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