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The Daughters of Utah Pioneers also perpetuated Grandma Harriet’s memory, and with it some substantial distortions that we’re now in a position to correct.
Harriet Wheeler Young
Biographical sketch1
Harriet Wheeler Young was born in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on September 7, 1803. She was the first child of Oliver Wheeler and Hannah Ashby Wheeler, the former a native of New Hampshire, the latter from the state of Massachusetts. Harriet had three brothers--Charles Oliver, Henry Hammond, and Benjamin Franklin--and only one sister, Clarissa Caroline.

The ancestors of the Wheeler family were from Wales whence they emigrated to America five generations before Harriet was born, and they settled on Massachusetts Bay. The three brothers who came across the great deep to found new homes in the wild and wondrous west were Abraham, Simon, and Oliver, who was Harriet’s ancestor.3
Some corrections and elaborations, by your indulgence:
  • The three boys (our fourth great-uncles) appear in the International Genealogical Index: Charles Oliver(b. Salem 21 Jun 1805), Henry Hammond (b. Salem 10 Oct 1806), and Benjamin Franklin (b. Salem 9 Jun 1808). The IGI entries mean only, of course, that somebody submitted these birth data when presenting the three Wheeler boys for LDS Temple work. They do not imply, alas, any primary research, nor any real reliability.

  • The IGI says that Charles Oliver died aged 3 months. So, we don’t expect to find much in the way of further records. Maybe birth, death, and burial in Salem. But I looked, and couldn’t find any. Nor, for that matter, for any of his siblings. Not even for Harriet.

  • Benjamin Franklin Wheeler shows up as a young paterfamilias in the 1835 New York State interdecennial census, in the next entry after that of his father Oliver’s household. Henry Hammond and Benjamin Franklin both appear in the 1850 and 1870 censuses as grocers in Akron, Ohio.
1Chronicles of Courage, Volume Two, p. 148. Daughters of Utah Pioneers (Salt Lake City:1991).
2International Genealogical Index (R) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Copyright (c) 1980, 2000, data as of January 2000. Batch #: 7319904, Sheet #: 18, Source Call #: 0822818.

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