Elizabeth (Bunker) Wallingford (1796 - 1889)

Born 25 Jul 1796 in Pittsfield, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Wallingford — married 9 Jul 1812 in Athens, Somerset County, Maine

Descendants

Died 6 Sep 1889 at age 93 in Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota, United States

Biography

Elizabeth was born in 1796. She was the daughter of Francis Bunker and Elizabeth Jennings.

She married Jonathan Wallingford. They had the following children:

Harriet Wallingford (1815–1888), who married Charles Toot Whittier.

Elizabeth "Betsey" Wallingford (1818–1902), who married 1st Daniel Twombly Bunker. She married 2nd Benjamin Durkee.

Jonathan Wallingford (1820–1882), who married Mary Ann Hussey.

John Noble Wallingford (1833–1913), who married 1st Arabella J. DeGroot. He married 2nd Mary Jane Sheridan.

She passed away in 1889. Burial: Glenwood Cemetery, Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA. ^[1]

JONATHAN WALLINGFORD was born in Rochester, N. H., July 5, 1762, lived in Maine and died there August, 1847.

He enlisted at the age of eighteen as a Private under Capt. Timothy Emerson, Col. Thomas Bartlett's Regiment, New Hampshire Troops, and marched to the defense of West Point. Term of service, 3 months and 18 days.

Betsey Bunker Wallingford received a pension as the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier for many years until her death September 6, 1889.

(N. H. Records of Revolutionary War, Vol III, p. 119.)

Sources

1. ↑ lizabeth Wallingford Memorial Page on Find A Grave. Elizabeth Wallingford

• Elizabeth Wallingford Memorial Page on Find A Grave. Elizabeth Wallingford

• Bunker Genealogy : Descendants of James Bunker v.3 by Edward Carleton Moran. Francis Bunker, Page 35.

• Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 21. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Durkee DAR# 20453 PG 158.