The Whitaker Bible is dated 1881. The front cover of the bible is engraved with the family name 'Whitaker" (click on image to enlarge). A four page PDF version of the Whitaker Bible (cover, births, marriages and deaths) can be found at familysearch along with a well sourced family tree.

The Bible is in the possession of Nancy O'Connor Evans via the following abbreviated family tree.

Whitaker Family Bible Births

Whitaker Family Bible Marriages

Whitaker Family Bible Deaths

When looking through old newspapers on NYSHistoricalNewspapers.org, I found something quite unexpected. The following news article was published 5 May 1899 in The St Lawrence Tribune (page 3)



Arthur La Rue and Millie Whittaker were married on Tuesday 2 May 1899 in Gouverneur, New York.

So, it looks like Millie Lucy was married before she married Alfred Bush.  I have heard the name La Rue in connection the Bush/Whittaker side of the family, but the fact that Millie Lucy was previously married to a man named La Rue was definitely not known.

As I recall the La Rue family connection had something to do with a silent film actor, but I have not found any connection with Arthur La Rue and the early film industry.

Millie and Arthur La Rue are found in the 1900 US Census living in Potsdam Township, New York.





Millie Lucy's marriage to Arthur La Rue didn't last very long. Millie appears (using her maiden name) along with future husband Alfred Bush on the first page of The Ogdensburg Advance and St Lawrence Weekly Democrat on 12 November 1903 in the following news tidbit filed under the town of Madrid.

George Capron Furniss, son of George Furniss and Lucy Cook, death notice published 1 September 1863 in the Ogdensburg Journal, page 3.






Libbie (Elizabeth) Furniss dies of consumption at age eighteen, four weeks after the death of her twenty year old brother George Capron Furniss. Death notice published 26 September 1863 in the Ogdensburg Journal, page 3.






Lucy Claflin Cook, wife of George Furniss, article regarding her poor health about one month before she died. 13 March 1883, Norwood News, page 3.









Lucy Claflin Cook, wife of George Furniss, obituary, published in the Ogdensburg Journal on 11 April 1883, page 3.






George Furniss death notice, two months after the death of his wife lucy Claflin Cook. George died in England he was visiting his birth place in England. Article in the 5 June 1883 issue of The Ogdensburg Journal 1883, page 3.