_____________________
|
_Laban BATES ________|
| (1749 - 1832) m 1768|
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Sarah BATES
| (1777 - ....)
| _Peter WHEELOCK _____+
| | (1724 - 1802) m 1744
|_Olive WHEELOCK _____|
(1750 - 1834) m 1768|
|_Sarah TAFT _________
(1724 - ....) m 1744
_Daniel WHEELOCK ____+
| (1792 - 1879) m 1829
_Hilen Daniel WHEELOCK _|
| (1832 - 1871) m 1858 |
| |_Betsey BELCHER _____
| (1797 - 1834) m 1829
|
|--Carrie L. WHEELOCK
| (1863 - 1884)
| _____________________
| |
|_Lucinda Marie CLAPP ___|
(1839 - 1908) m 1858 |
|_____________________
_Cyrus WHEELOCK _____+
| (1817 - 1895) m 1841
_Edwin Dickinson WHEELOCK _|
| (1847 - 1926) m 1869 |
| |_Lois OBER __________
| (1816 - 1889) m 1841
|
|--Edwin McClelland WHEELOCK
| (1874 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Eliza MCCLELLAND _________|
(1850 - 1925) m 1869 |
|_____________________
Edwin invented a tractor that was later bought by the government and converted into a military tank. This tank, known as the "skeleton tank", became the precursor of modern day tanks. Though the invention of the tank is conventionally attributed to a British Lieutenant in 1914, an article by Major Dennis Gaare has been published in the Jan/Fed 2002 issue of Armor Magazine, making the argument that Edwin M. Wheelock deserves the true credit.
Edwin Wheelock later became a travelling salesman. (Source: Diana McGuffin, a descendant of Edwin Dickinson Wheelock, 1999.)
_Jessie John Baker WHEELOCK _+
| (1848 - 1919) m 1875
_Jesse Obidiah WHEELOCK _|
| (1883 - 1972) m 1905 |
| |_Louise LANDRY ______________+
| (1859 - 1919) m 1875
|
|--Florence Evelyn WHEELOCK
| (1906 - 1992)
| _Neil MCLEAN ________________
| | (1845 - 1914) m 1866
|_Isabel MCLEAN __________|
(1884 - 1959) m 1905 |
|_Mary HENDERSON _____________
(1845 - 1911) m 1866
_Thomas WHEELOCK ____+
| (1804 - ....) m 1830
_George Washington WHEELOCK _|
| (1835 - ....) m 1861 |
| |_Abigail T. PIKE ____
| m 1830
|
|--George Burnside WHEELOCK
| (1862 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Lamira Ophelia CROSBY ______|
m 1861 |
|_____________________
_Benjamin WHEELOCK __+
| (1678 - 1746) m 1700
_David WHEELOCK _____|
| (1720 - 1789) |
| |_Huldah THAYER ______+
| (1682 - 1739) m 1700
|
|--Hendrick WHEELOCK
| (1755 - 1759)
| _____________________
| |
|_Lydia WHITE ________|
(.... - 1759) |
|_____________________
_Ralph WHEELOCK _____
| (1600 - 1683) m 1630
_Samuel WHEELOCK ____|
| (1642 - 1698) m 1678|
| |_Rebecca CLARKE _____+
| (1610 - 1680) m 1630
|
|--Mercy WHEELOCK
| (1685 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Sarah KENDRICKE ____|
(1648 - ....) m 1678|
|_____________________
Tilden, in the "History of Medfield, 1650-1886" reports that Mercy "died young".
_Theron WHEELOCK ____+
| (1796 - ....)
_Nelson Theron WHEELOCK _|
| (1857 - ....) |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Sarah WHEELOCK
| (1881 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Clara Bell NUTTING _____|
|
|_____________________