__________________________
|
_Guybert Mathew ARMITAGE ______|
| |
| |__________________________
|
|
|--Janet Mary ARMITAGE
| (1922 - ....)
| _Carlyle Capron WHEELOCK _+
| | (1865 - 1928)
|_Charlotte Carpenter WHEELOCK _|
(1893 - 1948) |
|_Ella Perley BURLINGAME __+
(.... - 1947)
_____________________
|
_Eli TUCKER _________|
| (1797 - 1858) m 1817|
| |_____________________
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|
|--Sarah D. TUCKER
| (1818 - ....)
| _Gideon WHEELOCK ____+
| | (1771 - 1851) m 1797
|_Deborah WHEELOCK ___|
(1798 - ....) m 1817|
|_Sally DAVIS ________
(1777 - 1854) m 1797
_Welcome WHEELOCK ___+
| (1784 - 1865) m 1813
_Langdon Cheever WHEELOCK _|
| (1822 - 1873) m 1857 |
| |_Clare WHEELOCK _____+
| (1785 - 1850) m 1813
|
|--Charles Sumner WHEELOCK
| (1865 - 1906)
| _____________________
| |
|_M. Annette GOLDSBURY _____|
(1830 - 1927) m 1857 |
|_____________________
The following obituary was found in the scrapbook of Carrie Wheelock. It is presented verbatim below.
15 Aug 1906
Charles Sumner Wheelock whose death yesterday afternoon was briefly chronicled in yesterday's paper was the son of the late Langdon C. Wheelock, Esq. He was graduated at Goddard Seminary, and entered Tufts College. After two years in the later institution, ill health compelled him to go further from the coast. He then took a course and graduated at the Eastman (??) Business College in Poughkipsie, N.Y.
For three years he was at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City, when ill health again compelled him to give up [..illegible...] purpose. The directors of the bank with great kindness gave him a years leave of absence during which time he hoped to regain his strength. For three years he was travelling, trying to find some place which would restore him to health, but his search, proving fruitless, he returned to his home of Barre where he had remained, except for brief intervals away, ever since, during which time he was a constant sufferer from asthma. The disease produced a weakened heart and resulted in heart failure.
Those who knew him well had many pleasant memories of his sparkling wit and his keen appreciation of things. It was this rare gift which kept him cheerful under most trying conditions and enabled him to find joy in life although forced by his illness to spend much of his time in his room. He was an ardent lover of outdoor sports, although denied large participation in them, an enthusiastic admirer of nature, and something of a naturalist in an unscientific way. He was a loyal citizen anxious for the best interests of his native city, and believing thoroughly in her bright future, he was a consistent temperance man and a staunch Universalist.
With him has died the last male in his line of the Wheelock family. He leaves his mother and one sister.
The funeral will be held at his late home, 145 North Main St, Barre, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The friends are kindly requested not to send flowers.
_Silas Mandeville WHEELOCK _+
| (1818 - 1901) m 1841
_Eugene Augustus WHEELOCK _|
| (1846 - 1912) m 1868 |
| |_Irene TAFT ________________
| (1816 - 1900) m 1841
|
|--Henry Arnold WHEELOCK
| (1883 - 1954)
| ____________________________
| |
|_Sarah Smith TAFT _________|
m 1868 |
|____________________________
_Silas WHEELOCK _____+
| (1717 - 1793) m 1740
_Eleazar WHEELOCK ___|
| (1747 - ....) m 1771|
| |_Hannah ALBEE _______+
| (1718 - 1803) m 1740
|
|--Joseph WHEELOCK
| (1763 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Betty WOODWARD _____|
m 1771 |
|_____________________
Joseph is mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Silas Wheelock of Mendon, allowed 1793.
_Amasa WHEELOCK _____+
| (1788 - 1844) m 1808
_Joseph WHEELOCK ____|
| (1813 - 1878) m 1834|
| |_Sally BURLEIGH _____
| (.... - 1872) m 1808
|
|--Josiah B. WHEELOCK
| (1836 - 1916)
| _Leonard PIERCE _____
| |
|_Harriet PIERCE _____|
(1815 - 1837) m 1834|
|_Nancy (--?--) ______
Josiah resided in California in 1876. (Source: History of Sanbornton, NH, 1881)
The oral tradition of several descendants of Josiah Burley Wheelock is that he "left the East Coast on a ship, after a bar room brawl, leaving a wife a several sons". Another descendant reports that he "grew up in the Boston area, killed a man with a shovel, stowed on a whaler and went to San Francisco", where he met Martha Denney. He was supposedly born in Coventry, VT.
It is presumed, though no proof has yet been found, that the Josiah Burley Wheelock who married Martha Denney is the same Josiah B. Wheelock that that was born 2 Jan 1836, son of Joseph Wheelock and Harriet Pierce.
The evidence for this is as follows:
1) The dates fit,
2) Josiah's father, grandfather, and greatgrandfather lived in the vicinity of Coventry and nearby Newport, VT. His uncle and namesake, Josiah Burleigh Wheelock was born in Coventry.
3) The "History of Sanbornton, NH", by Rev. M. T. Runnels, published in 1881, reports that Josiah B. Wheelock was living in California.
(Source: Private records of Melody (Wheelock) Smith, and Karen Lansing, both descendants of Josiah Burley Wheelock, Nov 2000.)
The children of Josiah Burley Wheelock and Martha Denney (Hattie, Mary, Ida, Isabel, James, Dottie, Frances, Etta, Leonard, and Clinton) are taken from the private records of Karen Lansing, a descendant, Nov 2000.
_Frank Norman WHEELOCK _+
| (1889 - 1969) m 1912
_Wesley Barry WHEELOCK _|
| (1923 - ....) m 1943 |
| |_Gertrude WILSON _______
| m 1912
|
|--Wesley Barry WHEELOCK
| (1945 - 1986)
| ________________________
| |
|_Helen NEWBERRY ________|
m 1943 |
|________________________
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_Bezaleel WOODWARD __|
| (1745 - 1804) m 1772|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Henry WOODWARD
| (1786 - 1787)
| _Eleazar WHEELOCK ___+
| | (1711 - 1779) m 1747
|_Mary WHEELOCK ______|
(1748 - 1807) m 1772|
|_Mary BRINSMEAD _____
(1714 - 1783) m 1747
A transcription of Henry Woodward's headstone in the Dartmouth College Cemetery was taken by Rick Gagne:
03755-9-112/ Mors, absque morbo/ Vorax mortalium,/ Rapuit infantem./ Henry Son of BEZA/ WOODWARD/ Esqr, & Mrs. Mary/ his Wife Born Febr./ 12th, 1786. Died/ April the 1st 1787