Arthur Merrill died in the Civil War, at Milliken's Bend. (Source: "Wheelock Genealogy", by Carlye Capron Wheelock and Winifred (Thomson) Gonseth, 1955)
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_Alexander PHELPS ___|
| (1723 - 1773) m 1751|
| |_____________________
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|
|--Alexander PHELPS
| (1759 - ....)
| _Eleazar WHEELOCK ___+
| | (1711 - 1779) m 1735
|_Theodora WHEELOCK __|
(1736 - 1811) m 1751|
|_Sarah DAVENPORT ____
(1702 - 1746) m 1735
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_Donald SWEENEY _____|
| (1947 - ....) |
| |__
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|
|--Jennifer SWEENEY
| (1977 - ....)
| __
| |
|_Bonnie SWEENEY _____|
(1953 - ....) |
|__
Joseph was the son of Edward Thompson and Mary ____.
_Joseph WHEELOCK ____+
| (.... - 1774)
_Abel WHEELOCK ______|
| (1739 - ....) m 1764|
| |_Abigail _____ ______
|
|
|--Abigail WHEELOCK
| (1779 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Sarah FOSTER _______|
(1736 - ....) m 1764|
|_____________________
_Benjamin WHEELOCK __+
| (1678 - 1746) m 1700
_David WHEELOCK _____|
| (1720 - 1789) |
| |_Huldah THAYER ______+
| (1682 - 1739) m 1700
|
|--Benjamin WHEELOCK
| (1745 - 1814)
| _____________________
| |
|_Lydia WHITE ________|
(.... - 1759) |
|_____________________
Born in "The County Gore" according to Vital Records. The "County Gore" was the term used for the section of Charlton that is now referred to as the Northside. At the time of Benjamin's birth, this section of land was part of Oxford, and had not yet been annexed to Charlton. It was a sort of "no man's land" without proper participation in Oxford town affairs.
This is partly what drove Benjamin's father, David, and his uncle, Jonathan, to sign a petition, 12 June 1750 to separate from Oxford and form Charlton. [1]
Benjamin's father, David, was active in town affairs, having served on the board of selectmen several times. Record of a Benjamin Wheelock (very likely this same Benjamin) is listed in Charlton town records [2] as having served on the board of selectmen in the years 1786, 1787, and 1797.
The Vital Records of Charlton, Spencer, Sturbridge, and Worcester make no mention of children born to Benjamin and Elizabeth; but the names of his children - sons Abner, David, Kiron, Salem, daughters Ruth Morey, Fanny Dunbar, Nelly Jones, Charlotte Bemis - are found in the Worcester County Probate records, case 63622.
Benjamin's son David may be the same David that married Sukey Packard, and lived in Readfield, Kennebec Co, ME. For a discussion, see the notes for David.
Sources
[1] Essay on the history of Charlton, by George A. Stockwell.
[2] Notes on the history of Charlton, found in the Charlton Public Library (1997).
[3] Worcester County Probate Records, administration of estate for Benjamin Wheelock, dated 1814, case 63622.
_George Frederick WHEELOCK _+
| (1857 - 1905) m 1881
_George Frederick (C.) WHEELOCK _|
| (1888 - 1965) m 1917 |
| |_Addie Maria ROBERTS _______+
| (1858 - 1924) m 1881
|
|--Gertrude Ann WHEELOCK
| (1921 - ....)
| ____________________________
| |
|_Sarah Annie FRANKLIN ___________|
(1894 - 1989) m 1917 |
|____________________________
Gertrude (Bamy) was first the wife of an Army Officer, Arch Hurt Seewald, during World War II. They met while they were both in school in Virginia. They married shortly thereafter. After his death in Germany, March 5, 1945, she remained in Birmingham with her parents, but spent a great deal of her time in Memphis, TN, with the Seewald family. She married the second time to Harry B. Arthur, Jr., a career Naval Officer. They had two more sons. Bamy is very artistic and multi-talented. Her favorite skill if that of flower arranging. She teaches flower arranging across the country, and is on the Altar Guild at the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C. where she arranges flowers with other guild members.
(Source: Judith Arthur, 1999)
_Gideon WHEELOCK ____+
| (1771 - 1851) m 1797
_Delorma Brooks WHEELOCK _|
| (1818 - 1896) m 1846 |
| |_Sally DAVIS ________
| (1777 - 1854) m 1797
|
|--Mary Jane WHEELOCK
| (1847 - 1847)
| _____________________
| |
|_Mary H. SWEETSER ________|
(1824 - 1852) m 1846 |
|_____________________
_Lewis Lorenzo WHEELOCK _+
| (1807 - 1849)
_Gilbert L. WHEELOCK _|
| (1849 - 1908) |
| |_Eliza A. BARNEY ________
|
|
|--Ora Loretta WHEELOCK
|
| _________________________
| |
|_Betsy Maria WEST ____|
|
|_________________________
Ora Loretta Wheelock did not marry.
_Silas WHEELOCK _____+
| (1781 - 1851) m 1804
_Albert Henry WHEELOCK _|
| (1805 - 1875) |
| |_Rena BALDWIN _______
| (.... - 1833) m 1804
|
|--William Henry Harrison WHEELOCK
| (1837 - 1908)
| _Nathan CLARK _______
| | (1768 - 1846) m 1793
|_Lucina CLARK __________|
(1816 - 1894) |
|_Abigail (--?--) ____
(1774 - 1843) m 1793
The genealogy of William Harrison Wheelock, Sr. was derived from a letter written to Virginia Rees Burdick by his grandson, Albert Wheelock; and by a typewritten note, written by one of William's grandchildren (a child of Edward Silas Wheelock). This typewritten note was found in the private records of Persis (Park) Ivett, a Wheelock genealogist; it's origins are not known. Nearly all of the data from these two sources are consistent. Whenever an inconsistency was found, the data was taken from the typewritten note, as this seemed more detailed, and thus more accurate.
The New York census of 1850 corroborates the information presented here. It identifies a William H. Wheelock, age 13, residing in the household of Albert Wheelock, of East Hamburg, N.Y.
Albert wrote that some of his ancestors were from Hamburg, Germany. According to the 1850 Census records, the Dorst family was from Germany; and many of them lived close to the Wheelocks in East Hamburg.
William Harrison had 8 children by his first wife. Albert and 3 of his boys (Albert, Edward, and William) moved from Buffalo, N.Y. to Marion, Kansas circa 1880. His wife (Caroline Dorst) followed him out with 4 daughters, but did not like it and returned to Buffalo. The letter states that William's father had 7 brothers. It also states that William Harrison's oldest son (Jacob) was killed when he was around 14 years old.
Though the source letter from Albert Wheelock, from which most of this information was derived, indicates that William H. Wheelock was from Buffalo, the N.Y. census of 1850 and 1860 place William in East Hamburg, N.Y.