Polly Whiting was a sister of Elisha Whiting, Jr. Elisha Whiting, Jr was the father of Edwin. Polly Whiting was Edwin’s aunt.
This early photo of Polly and her husband, Seth Ingersoll, was submitted by Louise Phare Ruby Bea of San Francisco, California.
Below is an image and a transcription of the Journal/Cash Records of Henry Green Boyle from the BYU Special Collections showing a purchase of fruit trees sold to Edwin Whiting. March Bills Payable pg. 151 Date 1857 For Edwin Whiting for Sundry fruit trees $53.00 Peach Trees $4.00 Receivable Boyle, Henry Green vol. 03, 1857 , p. 151 Edwin Whiting -March Bills Payable-Receivable
Source: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/MMD/id/35072/rec/1 Source: Mormon Missionary Diaries, Article from the BYU Special Collections
Transcription of the Journal/Cash Records of Henry Green Boyle from the BYU Special Collections by James W. Whiting.
March Bills Payable pg. 151
Date ? For Edwin Whiting
for Sundry fruit trees $53.00
Peach Trees $4.00
Receivable
Source: Mormon Missionary Diaries
Boyle, Henry Green vol. 03, 1857 , p. 151
Edwin Whiting -March Bills Payable-Receivable
Diary of Charles M. Nielsen, Missionary in Minnesota
About 9 lines from the bottom of the image starts the Whiting information.
“… we left our Testimony with theme and went on to Clitherall, Otter Tail Co, we took dinner with Mr S. Whiting, and stoped with Mr. F.L. Whiting for several nights while we was laboring round there. I found here about 20 families that left the Church at Nauvoo with Alpheous Cutler as their leader, after the death of of the Prophet Joseph. the went first to the State of Iowa. where Alpheous Cutler …(end of page)
Transcribed by James W. Whiting. Spelling and punctuation original.
Diary of, Nielsen, Charles M. vol. 1, 1883-1884, pg 24,25,26,28, who had spent time among the Cutlerite Church members of Clitherall, Otter Tail Creek in Minnesota., having been “taken home”, by S. Whiting and F.L. Whiting, presumed Sylvester and Francis Lewis Whiting, who were brothers of Edwin Whiting from this region, who had gone with the Cutlerites.
Source: Mormon Missionary Diaries, http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php. Copied by James W. Whiting, 14 Dec 2007.
Source: Edwin Whiting and His Family by Marie J. Whiting and Marcus L. Smith page xi.
Source: Page iv of Edwin Whiting and His Family by Marie J. Whiting and Marcus L. Smith