_____________________
|
_Caleb CHENEY _______|
| m 1758 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Hannah CHENEY
| (1778 - ....)
| _Samuel WHEELOCK ____+
| | (1714 - 1792) m 1737
|_Mary WHEELOCK ______|
(1738 - 1814) m 1758|
|_Hannah AMMIDON _____
(1717 - ....) m 1737
The Mendon VRs report the birth date as "7 Nov 177[torn]"
Ebenezer was the son of Deacon John Keyes and Sarah Prescott.
(Source: The Edmund Rice Association Website, Mar 2001, http://www.widomaker.com/~gwk/era/index.htm)
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|
_Joe Banks LATHAM _______|
| (1943 - ....) m 1964 |
| |___________________________________
|
|
|--Tracy Lyn LATHAM
| (1971 - ....)
| _Guilford Dudley WHEELOCK _________+
| | (1896 - 1960) m 1941
|_Georgia Carol WHEELOCK _|
(1942 - ....) m 1964 |
|_Crucie Alice Latissie CRITTENDEN _
(1922 - 1996) m 1941
_Benjamin WHEELOCK __+
| (1678 - 1746) m 1700
_Jonathan WHEELOCK __|
| (1713 - 1783) m 1735|
| |_Huldah THAYER ______+
| (1682 - 1739) m 1700
|
|--Eli WHEELOCK
| (1760 - 1797)
| _Joseph WIGHT _______
| | (1679 - ....)
|_Martha WIGHT _______|
(1718 - 1764) m 1735|
|_Mercy _____ ________
(.... - 1725)
Eli Wheelock was a Fifer in the Revolutionary War. He fought first, at the age of 15, in Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Regiment; and later under Colonel Cushing, and Colonel Jacob Davis. He was no doubt born in his father's house, which still stands on present day 275 Stafford Rd, the oldest house in the Northside (of Charlton, MA).
Upon his father's death in 1783, Eli Wheelock took over the tavern which the Wheelocks had operated out of a room in their house. In 1792, perhaps to complement the tavern business, Eli built a distillery 100 feet to the west of his home where he distilled gin, brewed beer, ran a malthouse and operated a corn mill. The business venture was successful enough to be referenced in Rev. Peter Whitney's "History of Worcester County", published in 1793 [1].
By that time, the road on which Eli operated his tavern and distillery was becoming more heavily traveled as a major route between Worcester and towns to the east. Taking advantage of this, Eli formed a partnership with Leonard Morey (who had married Phoebe Wheelock, a distant cousin) and began construction of a tavern, just west of his distillery. He planned for this tavern to be the finest between Worcester and Hartford. On 18 Sep 1797, according to village tradition, Eli died from injuries received during a fall from the third floor of the incomplete building. The building was later completed. In 1801, Isaiah and William Rider purchased 2/3 of the building, along with the distillery that Eli had previously operated. The Rider Tavern served travelers for many years, and in 1975 was acquired by the Charlton Historical Commission, which has been engaged in a process of continuous restoration.
Hannah Streeter, Eli's widow, received as her portion of his estate the eastern third of the tavern. After a brief move to Calais, VT, she returned to live in the tavern until 1806 [2].
(Written by Roderick B. Sullivan, June 2002)
Sources
[1] "History of Worcester County", by Rev. Peter Whitney, A.M., Worcester, MA, Isaiah Thomas, Printer, 1793.
[2] "A Bicentennial History of The Rider Tavern, 1797-1997", by William O. Hultgren, issued by the Charlton Historical Society, Inc., 255 Stafford St, Charlton, MA, 01507, 1997.
[3] "New England Ancesters of Katherine-Brattle and William-Cary Harris. And the Descendants of Thaddeus-Mason and Mary (Dix) Harris. Amos and Jerusha (Robinson) Holbrook. Eli and Hannah (Streeter) Wheelock. William and Katherine-Brattle (Gannett) Bascom." Published for Private Circulation. (No date given).
_Albert R. WHEELOCK _+
| (1900 - 1989) m 1920
_Albert Norman WHEELOCK _|
| (1924 - 2005) m 1950 |
| |_Edna ST. JOHN ______
| m 1920
|
|--Kevin Andrew WHEELOCK
| (1960 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Dorinda Paula ELMHIRST _|
(1930 - ....) m 1950 |
|_____________________
_Abijah WHEELOCK ____+
| (1808 - 1877)
_Omar WHEELOCK ______|
| (1849 - 1914) m 1874|
| |_Sophronia GOVE _____
| (1811 - 1894)
|
|--Mary Esther WHEELOCK
| (1897 - 1917)
| _____________________
| |
|_Hattie COLLIER _____|
(1854 - 1935) m 1874|
|_____________________
Mary Esther Wheelock was unmarried.
(Source: Arlene (Jeronime) Fitzgerald, granddaughter of Omar Wheelock and Hattie Collier, Mar 2000)