Joseph Ward was the son of Samuel Ward (son of William) and Sarah How. (Source: "Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward, Who Settled in Settled in Sudbury, Mass., In 1639", by Andrew Henshaw Ward, AM, published by Samuel G. Drake, Boston, 1851.)
The Crandall Genealogy gives her birth place as Villenova, NY, but Villenova did not exist as a separate township at that early date. Internet genealogies give the birth place as Brookfield, NY.
_Joseph Gerald WHEELOCK _+
| (1946 - ....)
_Michael Joseph WHEELOCK _|
| (1969 - ....) |
| |_Marie ALLARD ___________+
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|--Christina Michelle WHEELOCK
| (1995 - ....)
| _________________________
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|__________________________|
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_Joseph S. WHEELOCK ____+
| (1819 - 1902) m 1850
_Millard Fillmore WHEELOCK _|
| (1856 - 1931) |
| |_Polly Almira CRANDALL _+
| (1826 - 1899) m 1850
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|--Dime H. WHEELOCK
| (1884 - 1961)
| _George LEWIS __________
| | (1832 - 1912) m 1860
|_Persis Ellen LEWIS ________|
(1861 - 1900) |
|_Ellen BLYDENBURGH _____+
(1836 - 1919) m 1860
Dime H. Wheelock, taught school for 1 year in Hamlet & married. She went to training school in Cherry Creek. Dime & Ed owned the Red & White grocery store at Hamlet, NY. Ed was the Postmaster, upon his death March 11, 1931, Dime became the acting Postmaster (3/12 1931), becoming the official Postmaster on April 22, 1931 & remained in that capacity until March 10, 1947, when she sold her store to Fred J, Ruttenbur. She was the only woman Postmaster for the Hamlet Post Office in its 104 year existence. The Post Office at Hamlet closed Dec. 31, 1954.
Note on the Hamlet Post Office: From "The Early Post Offices of Chautauqua County, N. Y".; C. Malcolm Nichols; Jamestown, NY 1960. A Post Office was established November 19, 1850 at Omar, NY and was called the Hamlet Post Office. The Village of Omar eventually adopted the name of the post office & became Hamlet. The Hamlet Post Office was discontinued December 31, 1954. The Post Office at Hamlet was one of the first in the country to operate its own rural free delivery service. Hamlet was one of a limited number of communities selected by Congress in 1898 for the RFD experiment, which eventually resulted in a system of nation wide postal service.
The "Red and White Grocery Store" was located in Hamlet, on the southeast corner of South Hill Road and Rt. 83.
(Source: Theresa Anne (Crowell) Bickhart, March 1999)
_Eliab WHEELOCK _____+
| (1785 - ....)
_Francis Henry WHEELOCK _|
| (1826 - ....) |
| |_Ruth BLACKMAN ______
| (1790 - ....)
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|--Ellen WHEELOCK
| (1858 - ....)
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|_Nancy J. DEWEY _________|
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_Abijah WHEELOCK ____+
| (1764 - 1846) m 1786
_Jonathan WHEELOCK __|
| (1787 - ....) m 1818|
| |_Lois NICHOLS _______
| (1764 - 1847) m 1786
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|--Marency WHEELOCK
| (1817 - ....)
| _____________________
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|_Sarah CHASE ________|
(1787 - 1848) m 1818|
|_____________________
_Benjamin WHEELOCK __+
| (1678 - 1746) m 1700
_Daniel WHEELOCK ____|
| (1707 - 1793) m 1732|
| |_Huldah THAYER ______+
| (1682 - 1739) m 1700
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|--Mary WHEELOCK
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| _Benjamin DARLING ___
| | (1687 - 1772) m 1708
|_Deborah DARLING ____|
(1711 - 1793) m 1732|
|_Mehitable WHITE ____
(1689 - 1730) m 1708
_Calvin WHEELOCK ____+
| (1754 - ....) m 1778
_Adam WHEELOCK ______|
| (1789 - 1870) m 1810|
| |_Mercy WHITE ________
| (1757 - 1815) m 1778
|
|--Mary WHEELOCK
| (1811 - 1877)
| _____________________
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|_Betsey ROBBINS _____|
(1786 - 1870) m 1810|
|_____________________
_Abel WHEELOCK ______+
| (1793 - 1870) m 1822
_Major C. WHEELOCK __|
| (1837 - 1924) m 1858|
| |_Jane FOSTER ________
| (.... - 1877) m 1822
|
|--Minnie Churchill WHEELOCK
| (1878 - ....)
| _____________________
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|_Mary Lois NORTH ____|
(1840 - ....) m 1858|
|_____________________
_Luther WHEELOCK ____+
| (1775 - ....) m 1824
_Samuel Leland WHEELOCK _|
| (1825 - 1901) m 1844 |
| |_Clarissa MARCY _____+
| (1804 - 1891) m 1824
|
|--Samuel J. WHEELOCK
| (1849 - ....)
| _____________________
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|_Almena R. LANGDON ______|
(1822 - 1892) m 1844 |
|_____________________
Samuel J. Wheelock appears in no further Census records. He may have died when the family moved to Illinois.