Wheelock Family Gravesite Restoration

Patricia Fanning
May 2
2 min read

Updated: May 5

Gilbert Wheelock (1810-1888)

Harriet L. Bowen Wheelock (1827-1852)

George G. Wheelock (1850-1851)

Charles Eustis Wheelock (1852-1852)

Lucy Hurd Wheelock (1829-1901)

There are three gravestones in the Wheelock family lot in Old Parish Cemetery.

Gilbert Wheelock was born in 1810 in Attleboro. On December 9, 1847, he married Harriet L. Bowen in Boston. Harriet was born in 1827 in Wells, Maine. Gilbert Wheelock was a machinist.

On July 24, 1850, George G. Wheelock was born. He died on September 30, 1851 and was buried in Old Parish Cemetery, lot 34. His stone reads:

George G.,

only child

of Gilbert and

Harriet L. Wheelock

Died Sept. 30, 1851;

aged 1 yr. 2 mos.

Sleep on sweet babe

And take thy rest

God willed thee home

He thought it best.

On July 21, 1852, Charles Eustis Wheelock was born. (One record indicates that this child was named Gilbert C. Wheelock.) The child died on August 8, 1852, only 18 days old. On October 26, 1852, Harriet L. Bowen Wheelock passed away at the age of 26. Her stone reads:

MRS. HARRIET L.

wife of

Gilbert Wheelock

died Oct. 26, 1852

Aet. 26.

Also their only child

CHARLES EUSTIS.

died Aug. 8, 1852;

Aet. 18 dys.

Husband in thy lonely sorrow

Giving grieving thoughts their birth,

Trust in God – thy loved ones spirit

Guards thee still as when on earth.

Gravestone of Harriet & infant son Charles E. Wheelock

Why this stone says “their only child” when there had been another “only child” buried a year earlier is not known.

In 1855, Gilbert Wheelock married Lucy H. Hurd. She had been born on January 17, 1829 in New Hampshire. They had two children: Charles Gilbert Wheelock, born in 1856, and Edgar H. Wheelock, born in 1859.

Gilbert Wheelock died on March 13, 1888, in Boston. He was 77. His second wife Lucy Hurd Wheelock died on March 1, 1901. They are both interred in Old Parish as well. Their gravestone reads:

GILBERT WHEELOCK

Died Mar 13, 1888.

Aged 77 Years

8 Months.

LUCY HURD, His wife

Died Mar. 1, 1901.

Aged 72 Yrs. 1 Mo.