Documentation for Atwood P. Vining - Harriet Decker


Census Data

  1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910
Atwood P. Vining 28 37 44 ? 64 dead
Harriet (Decker) Vining 18 30 38 ? 57 ?
    Addie Vining

10 not living in this household ? dead

    daughter Vining not living in this household not living in this household not living in this household ? not living in this household ?
    John Decker Vining

2 12 ? married and living in separate household
    Jane Leona "Jennie" Vining

2 ? 22 ?


1860 Hyde Park Borough, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania - dwelling 1350, family 1357 - Also living in this household in 1860 was a Mrs. Ross (40, b. PA).



1870 Conklin, Broome County, New York - dwelling 16, family 16 - Also living in this household in 1870 were Jane Vining (19, b. NY) and Jerome Vining (22, b. NY), siblings of Atwood P. Vining.



1880 Conklin, Broome County, New York - dwelling 33, family 33. Also living in this household in 1880 was S. Murran (22, b. NY).



1900 Conklin, Broome County, New York - dwelling 104, family 104. Also living in this household in 1900 was George A. S[talker?] (b. May 1889, PA, "gran son").





Death Data

Thank you to Carolyn Jones for the following information about the family of Harriet (Decker) Vining, which comes from the biography of William Henry Decker, a brother of Harriet (Decker) Vining:

"PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
"WILLIAM HENRY DECKER, a lifelong resident of Lackawanna County. Catherine Snyder, mother of our subject, was born in Columbia County, N.Y., and died in July, 1891, at the age of seventy-five. She was of German descent and a daughter of John J. Snyder, who served in the War of 1812, came to Pennsylvania about 1831 and settled at Blakely, where he engaged in farming until his death at eighty-one years. Eleven children were born to George and Catherine Decker, of whom the following attained mature years: William Henry; Catherine, Mrs. Evan S. Jones, of Scranton; Martin M., a blacksmith in this city; Harriet, Mrs. A. P. Vining, of Broome County, N.Y.; Mary, Mrs. Henry Earley, who died in Scranton; Mrs. Eliza Goble, who died in this city; George W., an engineer on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western road; and Ella, widow of Thomas Tague, of Scranton."