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of Isaac and Catharine (Goes) Van Vleck, of Syracuse, N. Y. They settled at Apulia, in Fabius, and there died (she, 30 May 1853; he, 13 Oct. 1870), and were buried.
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II. Myron St. John, b. at Weybridge, Vt., 12 June 1792; a farmer; moved to Fabius, N. Y., with his parents, in 1797; married, 13 Oct. 1819, at Fabius, by Elder Freeman. Baptist, to Philena Allton, who moved to Fabius, in 1816, with he? parents, Amos and Philena (Rice) Allton, from Vernon, Vt, where she was born 29 Sept. 1802. They dwelt with his father, at Fabius, till May 1828; and then settled at Westfield, Ohio, where, from the dense forest, he soon cleared a fine farm, and also did much for the improvement of society. He died, 1 Dec. 1866, at Westfield (where the widow was still living, in July 1875), and was buried at Seville Cemetery.
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III. Clarissa St. John, b. at Weybridge, Vt, 18 Sept. 1795; married, 30 March 1817, at Fabius, N. Y., Rufus Freeman, a farmer, born in Vermont, 15 Feb. 1797, son of Elijah Freeman, of Fabius. They dwelt in Truxton, N. Y., till 1823; and then moved to Westfield, Ohio, where she died, 12 Ap. 1851, "aged 56 years, 5 months, and 19 days," according to her gravestone at Seville, Ohio. He married (2d), 18 March 1852, at Guilford Ohio, Harriet Smith, widow of ----- Munn, who survived him. He died at Westfield, 4 March 1875, and was buried at Seville. When forty years old, he followed the example of his father and three brothers, and began to preach. He was the first pastor of the Baptist Church in Seville, Ohio; a justice of the peace. when twenty-two years old, and for many years after; and president of the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Co., for fifteen years. He was an efficient and successful business man, and a devoted Christian minister. A long obituary in the Journal and Messenger sets forth his virtues at a length too great to be copied here.
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IV. Nancy St. John, b. at Fabius, N. Y., 11 July 1797, the first white girl born in that town; married, 1 Jan. 1817, at her father's house in Fabius, by Rev. Frederick Freeman, Baptist, of Pompey, N. Y., to Luther Wheelock, a farmer, born at Brookfield, Mass., 31 July 1789, son of Samuel and Susanna (Hoppin) Wheelock, of Pompey.1 They settled
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1 ANCESTRY OF LUTHER WHEELOCK.
SAMUEL WHEELOCK, m. about 1692; died = LYDIA RICE, b. at Sudbury, Mass., 4 June 1668, dau. of Henry and
at Shrewsbury, Mass., 6 Ap. 1756. | Elizabeth (Moore) Rice, and g. dau. of Edmund Rice. See Rice
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SAMUEL WHEELOCK, b. at Marl- = HULDAH RICE, b. at Marlborough, now Westborough, Mass., 5 Dec. 1701; m.
borough, Mass., in 1696. | 15 Feb. 1720. See Rice Genealogy, p. 35.
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PAUL WHEELOCK, b. at Shrewsbury, Mass., 26 June 1727; died in Sutton, Mass. = THANKFUL -----.
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SAMUEL WHEELOCK, b. at Shrewsbury, Mass., 6 May = SUSANNA HOPPIN, said to be a dau. of John Hancock's
1735. | sister.
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LUTHER WHEELOCK, = NANCY ST. JOHN, No. 1313.
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