Marriage and Family
In 1840 he married Caroline A. Rundlett and they had one child, Horace Rundlett Cheney. Caroline died in 1846, while he was studying at Whitestown.
The following year, the widower Cheney married Nancy S. Perkins. They had two children, Caroline and Emmeline. Nancy died in 1886.
In 1892 Cheney married Emeline S. (Aldrich) Burlingame, a widow, who survived him.
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