Benjamin M.6, the youngest child and sixth son of Micah and Hannah (Cobb) Whitney, was born in Gray, Maine, March 19, 1806; died in 1890; married Sept. 26, 1830, Susan Wells of Phillips, Maine. (She was born in 1806 and died in 1892.) He lived in Phillip5, and probably on the Rufus Bean farm, so called, for a time, as his father, the Revolutionary soldier, and mother are buried in unmarked graves on that farm on the bank of the Sandy River.
The plot of land with six or more graves is unfenced and has grown up to woods. The soldier's grave will probably be marked at the close of the second World War. He came to Phillips when a child with his parents soon after 1806, and like his brother, Joel, served as town clerk for several years He is buried in the cemetery back of Methodist Church. Mrs. Ella Brackett of Phillips, aged 90 years, says: "I well remember Benjamin Whitney. He was of small stature. Among his other activities he was a school teacher. When there was a hard school to govern or the teacher had been lugged out by the big boys the school authorities would send for little Ben Whitney and there was no more trouble in that school the rest of the term."
The plot of land with six or more graves is unfenced and has grown up to woods. The soldier's grave will probably be marked at the close of the second World War. He came to Phillips when a child with his parents soon after 1806, and like his brother, Joel, served as town clerk for several years He is buried in the cemetery back of Methodist Church. Mrs. Ella Brackett of Phillips, aged 90 years, says: "I well remember Benjamin Whitney. He was of small stature. Among his other activities he was a school teacher. When there was a hard school to govern or the teacher had been lugged out by the big boys the school authorities would send for little Ben Whitney and there was no more trouble in that school the rest of the term."
Benjamin M.6, the youngest child and sixth son of Micah and Hannah (Cobb) Whitney, was born in Gray, Maine, March 19, 1806; died in 1890; married Sept. 26, 1830, Susan Wells of Phillips, Maine. (She was born in 1806 and died in 1892.) He lived in Phillip5, and probably on the Rufus Bean farm, so called, for a time, as his father, the Revolutionary soldier, and mother are buried in unmarked graves on that farm on the bank of the Sandy River.
The plot of land with six or more graves is unfenced and has grown up to woods. The soldier's grave will probably be marked at the close of the second World War. He came to Phillips when a child with his parents soon after 1806, and like his brother, Joel, served as town clerk for several years He is buried in the cemetery back of Methodist Church. Mrs. Ella Brackett of Phillips, aged 90 years, says: "I well remember Benjamin Whitney. He was of small stature. Among his other activities he was a school teacher. When there was a hard school to govern or the teacher had been lugged out by the big boys the school authorities would send for little Ben Whitney and there was no more trouble in that school the rest of the term."
The plot of land with six or more graves is unfenced and has grown up to woods. The soldier's grave will probably be marked at the close of the second World War. He came to Phillips when a child with his parents soon after 1806, and like his brother, Joel, served as town clerk for several years He is buried in the cemetery back of Methodist Church. Mrs. Ella Brackett of Phillips, aged 90 years, says: "I well remember Benjamin Whitney. He was of small stature. Among his other activities he was a school teacher. When there was a hard school to govern or the teacher had been lugged out by the big boys the school authorities would send for little Ben Whitney and there was no more trouble in that school the rest of the term."
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