Person:Philena Woolworth (1)

Census: 1880 Albion, Dane Co., Wisconsin

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} The Sabbath Recorder . (New York City, New York; later Plainfield, N. J.)
   129:4:68, July 22, 1940.

   Philena Vernette Woolworth, youngest daughter of Leonard and Eunice Babcock Woolworth, was born July 21, 1851, in Milton, Wis., and died June 25, 1940, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. E. Thomas, Milton.
   On December 31, 1872, she was married to Algenon Lawrence Whitford, and the following spring they set out with ox team and covered wagon for Greeley Co., Neb. Later they returned to Milton Junction and Milton. Mrs. Whitford joined the Albion Seventh Day Baptist Church as a young woman and later transferred her membership to the Milton Junction Seventh Day Baptist Church, where she retained her membership till death.
   She is survived by seven children, twenty-two grandchildren, and sixteen great-grandchildren. Farewell services were conducted by Pastor J. F. Randolph; burial in Evergreen Cemetery in Albion. J. F. R.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Janesville Daily Gazette
   p. 7, June 26, 1940.

   Milton - Mrs. A. L. Whitford, 88, died at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon in the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. E. Thomas, Milton, after an illness of several months.
   She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Thomas, Milton and Mrs. F. C. Vincent, Milton Junction; and five sons, H. E. and K. D. both of Albion, W. W. of Indian Ford, L. B., Milton Junction, and E. W. Whitford, Lincoln, Calif. Her husband preceded her in death on Oct. 25, 1937.
   Mrs. Whitford lived for many years at Albion, and later at Milton Junction, more recently she had lived in Milton and since the death of her husband had lived with her daughter.
   Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Seventh Day Baptist church, Milton Junction, and burial will be in Albion cemetery. Friends may call at the Gray and Albrecht funeral home in Milton Junction Wednesday evening.