Parents Father: CHESLEY, Samuel Mother: MOORE, Eleanor Birth Born on April 23, 1773 in Granville, Annapolis Co., NS Death Died on March 27, 1866 in Wilmot, Annapolis Co., NS Buried in Kingston Old Cemetery in Kingston, Kings Co., NS Marriages PHINNEY, Elijah Married on May 18, 1796 in Upper Granville, Annapolis Co., NS Children PHINNEY, Ann: 1796 - 1861 PHINNEY, Stephen A.: 1797 PHINNEY, Lot: 1798 PHINNEY, Elijah R.: 1803 - February 15, 1888 PHINNEY, Eleanor: 1806 - April 20, 1886 PHINNEY, Benjamin J.: 1806 - April 08, 1889 PHINNEY, Margaret Jane: 1810 - December 24, 1853 PHINNEY, Diadama: 1812 - December 16, 1856 PHINNEY, Mary Jane: April 30, 1816 PHINNEY, Sarah Matilda: June 29, 1816 - December 02, 1852 PHINNEY, Harriet: 1818 - 1880 Notes Obituary: Mrs. Hephzibah Phinney, of Wilmot, N.S. Died at the residence of her son, at Wilmot, March 27, Hephzibah, relict of the late Mr. Elijah Phinney, in the 93rd year of her age. She was born in Granville, but sometime after her marriage, moved to Wilmot, where she remained until her death. She was the mother of eleven children, only five of whom survive her. She was the daughter of the late Samuel Chesley, who was a member of the Episcopal Church; but she, after her conversion to God, chose connection with the Methodist Church, with which she stood connected for more than sixty years, and one who had a very good right to know, says of her, "I think we may say of her with great propriety that she had been a consistent member of the church ever since \endash "walking in the fear of the Lord, and in comfort of the Holy Ghost." She retained her faculties remarkably well during her long life, till the last five or six years of her life, when they became very much impaired indeed, remembering scarcely anything of a previous date. But I found on visiting her that there was One whom she had not forgotten, That of Jesus she spoke with great animation and delight. In speaking of dying, she said, "I am not afraid to die," though sometimes she would say, "I dread the pains of dying, but I do not fear the future; for "I know that my Redeemer lives, 'and I know in whom I have believed,'" \endash and now she has gone to be "forever with the Lord," and to overtake her late husband, who was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost, - to praise the three-one God forever and ever. Oh may she meet all her dear family there! The occasion was improved by the writer from Num. xxiii, 10, to a deeply attentive congregation. Provincial Wesleyan Halifax,NS May 9,1866 Sources Nova Scotia Deaths: Book 1801 Pg. 9 #114 Kings Cemetery Records: Kingston Old Cemetery Images Benjamin & Hephzibah Chesley Birth Elijah & Hepzibah (Chesley) Phinney Hephzibah (Chesley) Phinney Death Elijah Phinney Marriage