Robert S. Fessenden

1839 - 1906  (67 years)

• Name	Robert S. Fessenden
  Birth	23 Mar 1839	, , Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Mar 1906	, , Rhode Island
  Burial	Swan Point Cemetery, Blackstone Blvd., Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Person ID	I22859	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Fessenden, Reverend,   b. of, Valley Falls, Providence, Rhode Island
  Mother	Mary Wilkinson,   b. 11 Oct 1804, of, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F11820	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abbie Wilmarth,   b. Abt 1845, , , Rhode Island d. 27 Mar 1919, , , Rhode Island (Age ~ 74 years)
  Children	1. Mary Fessenden,   b. Abt 1866, prob, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island   2. Charles R. Fessenden,   b. Abt 1869, prob, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F11826	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 23 Mar 1839 - , , Rhode Island Death - 30 Mar 1906 - , , Rhode Island Burial - - Swan Point Cemetery, Blackstone Blvd., Providence, Providence, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Israel Wilkinson, Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America (Jacksonville, Ill.: Davis & Penniman, 1869), p. 279. Gives birth 23 Mar 1839 (no place given), death 19 Feb 1845 (no place given). !SOURCE: "Descendants of Robert W. Fessenden," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 22 Jan 2007. Confirms birth date (gives birth in RI); gives death 30 Mar 1906 in RI. Cites/notes the following: Israel Wilkinson, Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America, (1869), 279 Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Index. (Cemetery records give death date 30 Mar 1906 in RI, contradicting the Israel Wilkinson source.) In 1850, Robert was 11 old and living in Cumberland, Providence, RI with his parents and brothers Charles 16 and Russell F. 7 Census 1: July 19, 1870, Age 31, clerk in store, living Cumberland, Providence, RI w/wife Abby W. 25 & children Mary 4 & Charles R. 1 next to parents (Source: 1870 Census, Cumberland, Providence, RI, 112.) Census 2: June 02, 1880, Age 41, merchant, living Valley Falls, Cumberland, Providence, RI w/wife Abby W. 35, dau. Mary 13 & son Charles 11 (Source: 1880 Census, Cumberland, Providence, RI, 132.)