Documentation for Seward Vining - Roxanna F. Purrington


Census Data

  1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920
Seward Vining 23
[see note below]		 33 43 53 ? dead
Roxanna F. (Purrington) Vining 19
[see note below]		 29 39 49 ? 69
[see note below]		 78
[see note below]		 dead
    Lizze A. Vining 9 19 married and living in separate household
    Abbie Evelyn Vining 2 12 married and living in separate household
    Frances Lillian Vining 7 17 ? married and living in separate household
    Albert Nelson Vining 1 month 10 ? living in separate household
    Leslie Alvin Vining 8 ? married and living in separate household
    Winfield Vining 5 ? married and living in separate household


1850 Avon, Franklin County, Maine - dwelling 103, family 105. Seward Vining and Roxanna F. Purrington were married before the 1850 census and were living in the household of his parents, Thomas Vining and Jemima Haines.



1860 Avon, Franklin County, Maine - dwelling 244, family 248. Also living in this household in 1860 was Horatio N. Purrington (25 y., b. Maine).



1870 Avon, Franklin County, Maine - dwelling 71, family 74. Also living in this household in 1870 was Horatio N. Purrington (35 y.).



1880 Strong, Franklin County, Maine - dwelling 164, family 177:



1890 Census data are unavailable.


1900 Strong, Franklin County, Maine - dwelling 107, family 119. In 1900, Roxanna F. (Purrington) Vining was living in the household of son Leslie Alvin Vining.



1910 Strong, Maine (Franklin County) - dwelling 72, family 84. In 1910, Roxanna F. (Purrington) Vining was living in the household of son Leslie Alvin Vining.





Death Data

Death records for Seward Vining and Roxanna F. (Purrington) Vining:
  


Gravestones for Seward Vining and Roxanna F. (Purrington) Vining, in Village Cemetery, Strong, Franklin County, Maine (from Find A Grave):
   




Descendants Data

Thank you to Albert Nelson Vining Jr. for identifying people in this photograph that was in his possession as 19 June 2006. All of the people he named were descendants of Seward Vining and Roxanna F. (Purrington) Vining. His identifications were expanded using full names from the online Vining family genealogy. Information in brackets is also from the online genealogy.

Back row (standing, from left to right): ?, ?, ?, ?, Christie Vining [daughter of Leslie Alvin Vining], ?, ?, ?, Albert Nelson Vining Jr. [son of Albert Nelson Vining], Helen Louise (Meserve) Vining [wife of Albert Nelson Vining], Randall O. Vining [son of Winfield R. Vining], Chester C. Allen [second husband of Lizzie A. Vining; she was the first child of Seward and Roxanna], Marcellus F. Will [husband of Abbie Evelyn Vining; she was the second child of Seward and Roxanna], Albert Nelson Vining [fourth child of Seward and Roxanna], housekeeper of Winfield R. Vining, ?, ?, Ella Amelia (Winter) Vining [wife of Leslie Alvin Vining], ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Leslie Alvin Vining [fifth child of Seward and Roxanna].

Middle row (seated in chairs, from left to right): ?, ? [seated on lap],?, Lizzie A. (Vining) Allen [wife of Chester C. Allen], ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Abbie Evelyn (Vining) Will, ?, ?, ?, ?, Winfield R. Vining [sixth child of Seward and Roxanna].

Front row (seated/kneeling on ground, from left to right): all unknown to Albert Nelson Vining Jr.