John W. D. Fenner

Father: Milton M. Fenner
Mother: Mary Wheelock

Bertha Frank

Spouse: August Buckwald
Marriage: DATE UNKNOWN

• Obituary of Arvilla Wheelock, published in the Sterling Daily Gazette, 14 May 2001, Sterling, IL; article kindly supplied by Linda Aust, 2001.

1. Arvilla Buckwald, born 8 Jun 1909

Charles Loiffler

Spouse: Edna G. Wheelock
Marriage: 23 Sep 1853, Boston, Suffolk Co, MA

• Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841 - 1910, Boston Marriage Record, Vol 255, Pg 151; online database at www.NewEnglandAncestors.org, Apr 2008.

Betsey Wheelock

Birth: 12 Feb 1794, Charlton, Worcester Co, MA

• Charlton Vital Records to 1850

Death: between 7 Sep 1840 and 17 Feb 1849

• Erie County, NY, Deeds, Vol 60, Pg 440, Reuben and Betsey Westcott of Wales to Miles Wallace and Horace Harvey, deed dated 7 Sep 1840, signed by Betsey, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WX-93G3 : accessed 13 Oct 2020); also Erie County, NY, Deeds, Vol 103, Pg 421, Reuben Westcott of Wales to Philetus S. Yates of Buffalo, dated 17 Feb 1849, no dower release by Betsey, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WX-9SHY : accessed 13 Oct 2020); Erie County Clerk, Buffalo, NY.

Father: Abner Wheelock
Mother: Elizabeth Blanchard

Spouse: Reuben Westcott
Marriage: 26 Nov 1812, Windsor, Berkshire Co, MA

• Windsor Vital Records to 1850.

1. Cyrus A. Westcott, born 1819, Erie Co, NY
2. Laura Fidelia Westcott, born calculated 27 Sep 1822
3. Harriet Westcott, born calculated 29 Aug 1825
4. Betsey Westcott, born about 1827, Erie Co, NY

Notes:

Betsey and her husband moved to Wales, NY sometime before 1820, when Reuben Westcott is enumerated in the census there. The 1820 census lists two boys and one girl under ten years of age.

They were still living in Wales in 1830. The 1830 census again lists two boys, one between five and ten years, the other between ten and fifteen years. Four girls are listed, one under five, two between five and ten, and one between fifteen and twenty.

Reuben is not found in the 1840 census, but in 1850 he was living in Wales, age 60, born in Mass, married to Sarah Westcott within the last year, age 51, born in Maine, with Betsey Westcott, age 21, born in NY, Francis Knight, age 28, and Mary Knight, age 21, perhaps the latter two being children or relatives of Sarah by a previous marriage.

Betsey was known to be living on 7 Sep 1840, when she and Reuben signed a deed (Erie County deeds, vol 60, pg 440). But she probably died before 1 Oct 1850, when Reuben was enumerated in the census having recently married Sarah.

Her husband's probate records list four children (a man, and three women), but the census records suggest they had at least two male and four female children.

Emery Wheelock

Birth: calculated 1790

• "Bible record for the Gershom Wheelock family, 1758-1890", recorded by Emory Wheelock, on file in the manuscript collection, New England Historical and Genealogical Society; Emery Wheelock was 7 years old at his death 10 Mar 1797.

Death: 10 Mar 1797, Wardsboro, VT

• "Bible record for the Gershom Wheelock family, 1758-1890", recorded by Emory Wheelock, on file in the manuscript collection, New England Historical and Genealogical Society.
• Records of Terry Heismann, citing (1) "Return to Yesterday, A History of Wardsboro, VT", by C. S. Streeter, and (2) "Wardsboro, VT Historical Magazine", by John P. Warren, MD, 1886.

Burial: Duncan Cemetery, Wardsboro, VT

• Records of Terry Heismann, citing (1) "Return to Yesterday, A History of Wardsboro, VT", by C. S. Streeter, and (2) "Wardsboro, VT Historical Magazine", by John P. Warren, MD, 1886.

Father: Asa Wheelock
Mother: Lucy Maynard

Gene Ralph Wheelock

Birth: 27 Mar 1928

• 1930 Federal Census, household of Clara Wheelock, divorced, East Moline, Rock Island, IL
• Obituary of Gene Ralph Wheelock, online at Stackhouse & Moore Funeral and Cremation Services, http://www.stackhousemoore.com/notices/Gene-Wheelock, retrieved Aug 2016.

Death: 5 Mar 2016

• Obituary of Gene Ralph Wheelock, online at Stackhouse & Moore Funeral and Cremation Services, http://www.stackhousemoore.com/notices/Gene-Wheelock, retrieved Aug 2016.

Father: David Lorenzo Wheelock
Mother: Clara De Freezer

Spouse: Patricia Hull
Marriage: 22 May 1954, Sheffield, Bureau Co, IL

• Obituary of Gene Ralph Wheelock, online at Stackhouse & Moore Funeral and Cremation Services, http://www.stackhousemoore.com/notices/Gene-Wheelock, retrieved Aug 2016.

George Robert Wheelock

Birth: 20 Aug 1859, Mendon, Worcester Co, MA

• Private Records of Charles Earl Taylor, spouse of descendant of Charles Sumner Wheelock, Jan 1999.

Death: 31 Jul 1921, Fredonia, Chautauqua, NY

• Private Records of Charles Earl Taylor, spouse of descendant of Charles Sumner Wheelock, Jan 1999.

Burial: Main Street Cemetery, Fredonia, NY

• Rootsweb Chautauqua County Cemetery Listings, Feb 2000, http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychauta/CEMETERY/Fred_main.html

Father: Joseph Robbins Wheelock
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Wood

Joseph Wheelock

Birth: about 1705

Death: possibly 30 Apr 1774, Lancaster, Worcester, MA

• Henry S. Nourse, The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850 (Clinton, Massachusetts: W. J. Coulter, 1890), p. 326.

Father: Joseph Wheelock
Mother: Elizabeth _____

Spouse: Abigail _____

1. Olive Wheelock, born 10 Jan 1726, Lancaster, Worcester, MA
2. Oliver Wheelock, born 7 Dec 1727, Lancaster, Worcester, MA
3. Joseph Wheelock, born 14 Feb 1729, Leominster, Worcester, MA
4. Phinehas Wheelock, born 9 Nov 1731, Lancaster, Worcester, MA
5. John Wheelock, born 9 Sep 1733, Lancaster, Worcester, MA
6. Abner Wheelock, born 16 Nov 1735, Leominster, Worcester, MA
7. Prudence Wheelock, born 23 Nov 1737, Leominster, Worcester, MA
8. Abel Wheelock, born 29 Jun 1739, Leominster, Worcester, MA
9. Elijah Wheelock, born 26 May 1741, Leominster, Worcester, MA
10. Elisha Wheelock, born 26 Mar 1743, Leominster, Mass.
11. Abigail Wheelock, bapt. 24 Jun 1744

Notes:

"Joseph removed from Lancaster to Leominster about 1725, or the town boundaries of Leominster included his farm at that time, for Leominster was formerly part of Lancaster."¹

Joseph Wheelock was a "chainman" in several surveys of land conducted in Ashburnham, MA, prior to its incorporation. He was one of the sixty original proprietors of this town, but never settled there permanently. He was apparently granted the land as payment for the service of his uncle, Timothy Wheelock. The "History of Ashburnham" shows him in the list of original proprietors as follows: "Joseph Wheelock of Lancaster in the Right of his Uncle Timothy Wheelock who served under Captain Anderson."²

Death Date:

There are four death records for men named Joseph Wheelock in the records of the First Church of Lancaster, two of which could plausibly belong to this Joseph: "Mr. Joseph Wheelock" died 30 April 1774, and "Joseph Wheelock" died 16 March 1776.³

The Joseph Wheelock who married Abigail ____ was alive on 27 Nov 1770, when he and his wife sold land to Nathaniel Wyman. Joseph Wheelock normally signed his name, but on this deed he made his mark, suggesting that he might have been ill or feeble.⁴ For that reason, and the fact that he was older than the other eligible Joseph Wheelocks (i.e. his son and grandson) the earlier death date has been assigned to him. The later death date has been assigned to his son, the Joseph Wheelock who married Alice Page, and was known to have died before 20 Jan 1777 when his uncle John Wheelock wrote his will and called him "deceased." Further evidence is required to completely disambiguate these dates.

There is another death date for Joseph Wheelock "in ye Army" - 1778. This is probably the Joseph Wheelock in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War who resided in Lancaster, and died 10 Mar 1778.⁵ The Joseph Wheelock who married Abigail was unlikely to have served in the army in his advanced age. Consequently this date probably belongs to his grandson.

Note, however, that Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis in "Early Families of Lancaster, Massachusetts", 1941, assigns the 16 Mar 1776 death date to this Joseph, without citing his reasons.

Sources:

1. "New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial", Cutter, NY, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1914. Copy available in Aldrich Public Library, Barre, Vt.
2. "History of Ashburnham, MA from The Grant of Dorchester Canada to the Present Time, 1734-1886", by Ezra S. Stearns, published by the Town of Ashburnham, MA, 1887.
3. Nourse, The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, p. 323, 326-7.
4. Worcester County, Massachusetts, Deeds, 63:501.
5. Nourse, The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, p. 327; also Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, Vol 16, p. 1007.

Mary Esther Wheelock

Birth: 9 Aug 1838, Oswego, NY

• "The Centennial History of the Fredonia Baptist Church, Fredonia, NY, 1808-1908", published probably 1908, Buffalo, NY, author unknown.

Death: 6 Apr 1872

• "Descendants of William Scott of Hatfield, Mass. 1668-1906 and of John Scott of Springfield, Mass. 1659-1906", by Orrin Peer Allen, Palmer, Mass, Press of C. B. Fiske & Company, 1906; online at books.google.com, June 2010, pg 103.

Father: Alonzo Wheelock
Mother: Elizabeth Maria Bacon

Spouse: Julius Joel Parker
Marriage: 22 Feb 1860

• "Descendants of William Scott of Hatfield, Mass. 1668-1906 and of John Scott of Springfield, Mass. 1659-1906", by Orrin Peer Allen, Palmer, Mass, Press of C. B. Fiske & Company, 1906; online at books.google.com, June 2010, pg 103.
• Private Records of Mary Lynne Calkins, a descendant of Mary Elizabeth Wheelock and J. J. Parker, Dec 2002.

Myron Wheelock

Birth: 17 Sep 1882

• "Barber genealogy (in two sections) Section I. Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Conn. 1614-1909. Section II. Descendants of John Barber of Worcester, Mass. 1714-1909", published by John Barber White, edited by Lillian Mae Wilson, Haverhill, Mass. Press of the Nichols Print, 1909; found at www.ebooksread.com, Aug 2012.

Death: 1882

• Headstone Record, Union Cemetery, Moriah, Essex Co, NY, documented at www.FindAGrave.com, Memorial number 92439490, created by Candy Rypczyk, 23 June 2012.

Burial: Union Cemetery, Moriah, Essex Co, NY

• Headstone Record, Union Cemetery, Moriah, Essex Co, NY, documented at www.FindAGrave.com, Memorial number 92439490, created by Candy Rypczyk, 23 June 2012.

Father: James Hyman Wheelock
Mother: Cora Treadway

Sarah Wheelock

Birth: 1835

• 1850 Census, Brunswick, Medina Co, OH

Father: Ithamar Wheelock
Mother: Mary Harvey

William Harrison Wheelock

Birth: 6 Nov 1867, Hamburg, Erie County, NY

• Typewritten letter by an unidentified child of Edward Silas Wheelock, son of William Henry Harrison Wheelock, Sr. This letter was kept in the private records of Persis (Park) Ivett. It's origins are not known.

Death: 23 Oct 1901, Marion, Marion Co, KS

• Marion Record (Marion, Kansas), 25 Oct 1901, p. C3, col. 5; Newspapers.com, accessed 9 July 2023.
• Typewritten letter by an unidentified child of Edward Silas Wheelock, son of William Henry Harrison Wheelock, Sr. This letter was kept in the private records of Persis (Park) Ivett. It's origins are not known.

Burial: Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion Co, KS

• Headstone Record, Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion Co, KS; documented at www.FindAGrave.com, memorial number 28810292, created 6 Aug 2008.

Father: William Henry Harrison Wheelock
Mother: Caroline Juliana Dorst

Spouse: Betty Heald
Marriage: 5 May 1897, Gypsum, Saline Co, KS

• "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911," database with images, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29Q-9JGS : accessed 9 July 2023), Bettie Heald and W. H. Wheelock, Jr. (1897); FHL 002384270.

Notes:

Per letter from his nephew, Albert Bryan Wheelock, William moved (probably from Marion, Kansas, where his father lived and operated a ranch) to Woodard, Oklahoma, where he also operated a ranch, and later died of typhoid fever.

Research Notes for William H. Wheelock, Jr:

His gravestone states that he was born in 1870.¹ His obituary agrees, stating that he was born in Erie County, New York in 1870. But it also states that he was 31 years 11 months and 16 days of age when he died on 23 Oct 1901, which implies a birth date of 7 November 1869.² A child of his brother, Edward Silas Wheelock, in an undated letter to a distant relative, gave a birth date of 6 Nov 1867.

He was listed as 2 years old in the 1870 census, living in the household of Henry and Carrie Wheelock, Hamburg, Erie County, New York. In the 1875 New York state census, he was listed as 7 years old, living with his parents and siblings in Hamburg. In 1880 he was 12, living in Gypsum, Saline County, Kansas, with his parents, his sister Clara, age 7, and a cousin, William Poole, age 14. These ages are all consistent with the 6 Nov 1867 birth date.

He was not found in the 1900 census.

He is probably the W. H. Wheelock Jr of Gypsum, Saline County, Kansas, who was issued a license to marry Miss Bettie Heald, also of Gypsum, as reported in the 8 May 1897 edition of The Salina Sun.³ The license was issued on 30 Apr 1897. His age on the license was 29 years, which is also consistent with the 6 Nov 1876 marriage date reported by his relative.⁴ The same age is given on the certificate of marriage, dated 5 May 1897.⁵

Sources:

1. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28810292/william-harrison-wheelock: accessed 9 July 2023), gravestone photo for William Harrison Wheelock Jr. (1870–1901), Find a Grave Memorial ID 28810292, Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion Co, KS.
2. Marion Record (Marion, Kansas), 25 Oct 1901, p. C3, col. 5; Newspapers.com, accessed 9 July 2023.
3. The Salina Sun (Salina, Kansas), 8 May 1897, p. 1, col. 3; Newspapers.com, accessed 9 July 2023.
4. "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911," database with images, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29Q-9JVT : accessed 9 July 2023), Bettie Heald and W. H. Wheelock, Jr, marriage license; FHL 002384270.
5. "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911," database with images, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29Q-9JGS : accessed 9 July 2023), Bettie Heald and W. H. Wheelock, Jr. (1897); FHL 002384270.