Cornelius Sprague WHITCOMB
1850 US Federal Census Township 7 Range 11,Jersey,Illinois
1870 US Federal Census - Agricultural survey, Martinez, Contra Costa, CA
1880 US Federal Census Sycamore,Contra Costa,California
1860 US Federal Census Township 2,Contra Costa,California
California Voter Registration (Ancestry.com), Jun 7 1866, Lafayette, CA
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California County Marriages, 1850-1952 (FamilySearch.org)
1840 US Federal Census Jersey County, Illinois, Enumerated as Kernuls Whitcome
NOTE: Died during childbirth.
NOTES: Residing in California from at least 1875, occupation was Painter, living in Oakland. Per Voter Registration. Family notes say he died in 1900 in CA. In 1880, a house painter in Nez Perce, Idaho In 1883 he was in the Idaho Territory, according to James R. Slaten's biography. Located on the 1910 Census in Columbia, Flathead, Montana, in the "Montana Soldier's Home". Single.
He married Elizabeth Patten Aug 1836 at Illinois . Elizabeth Patten was born at Tennessee 14 Jan 1820 daughter of (poss) Robert Patten and (poss) Martha .
They were the parents of 4
children:
Nathan Timothy Whitcomb, Dr
born 23 Aug 1838.
Mary Jane Whitcomb
born 11 Aug 1841.
Sylvester Julius Whitcomb
born 12 Feb 1844.
Maria Whitcomb
born 16 Jan 1850.
Cornelius Sprague Whitcomb died 17 Jul 1893 at Walnut Creek, Contra Costa, California .
Elizabeth Patten died 23 Jan 1850 at Jersey, Illinois .