Advertisement

Advertisement

May Louisa Huston Wheelock

Birth
Iowa, USA
Death
6 Mar 1944 (aged 84)
Martinez, Contra Costa County, California, USA
Burial
Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Plot 21, Lot 56.
Memorial ID
View Source
Born Louisa May Huston and later known as May Louisa, she was the daughter of George M. Huston and Mary Elizabeth King.

On the 1860 Census, Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, which was taken as of June 1, 1860, Louisa May Huston made her first census appearance in the household of her father, George M. Huston.

She married Julius Augustus Kelly, son of Lewis L. Kelly and Samantha Lindley, ca 1877; the marriage ended in 1897. The couple had three children, all daughters, namely:

Anita May (Kelly) [Glassell] [Burslem] Nace (1878-1920),
Helen M. (Kelly) Cartwright (1883-1956), and
Aileene H. (Kelly Wheelock) Knudsen (1890-1958).

She married William Greene Wheelock, son of Paul Wheelock and Susan Tillinghast Allen, on April 11, 1903, in Alameda County, California; they were married until his death on December 19, 1907. The couple had no children together. May's daughter by her first marriage, Aileene Kelly, used Wheelock as her maiden name.

OAKLAND TRIBUNE; Oakland, Alameda County, California; Tuesday, March 7, 1944; Page 27:
"WHEELOCK---In Martinez, March 6, 1944, May Huston Wheelock, beloved mother of Helen Cartwright and Aileene Knudsen, grandmother of Marion Rumble of Martinez, Helen Frary of Nevada and Duncan H. and the late Donald P. Knudsen; a native of Iowa.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services at the Telegraph Avenue Chapel of the Grant D. Miller Mortuary, Inc., 2850 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, Wednesday, March 8, 1944 at 2:30 o'clock p.m."
Born Louisa May Huston and later known as May Louisa, she was the daughter of George M. Huston and Mary Elizabeth King.

On the 1860 Census, Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, which was taken as of June 1, 1860, Louisa May Huston made her first census appearance in the household of her father, George M. Huston.

She married Julius Augustus Kelly, son of Lewis L. Kelly and Samantha Lindley, ca 1877; the marriage ended in 1897. The couple had three children, all daughters, namely:

Anita May (Kelly) [Glassell] [Burslem] Nace (1878-1920),
Helen M. (Kelly) Cartwright (1883-1956), and
Aileene H. (Kelly Wheelock) Knudsen (1890-1958).

She married William Greene Wheelock, son of Paul Wheelock and Susan Tillinghast Allen, on April 11, 1903, in Alameda County, California; they were married until his death on December 19, 1907. The couple had no children together. May's daughter by her first marriage, Aileene Kelly, used Wheelock as her maiden name.

OAKLAND TRIBUNE; Oakland, Alameda County, California; Tuesday, March 7, 1944; Page 27:
"WHEELOCK---In Martinez, March 6, 1944, May Huston Wheelock, beloved mother of Helen Cartwright and Aileene Knudsen, grandmother of Marion Rumble of Martinez, Helen Frary of Nevada and Duncan H. and the late Donald P. Knudsen; a native of Iowa.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services at the Telegraph Avenue Chapel of the Grant D. Miller Mortuary, Inc., 2850 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, Wednesday, March 8, 1944 at 2:30 o'clock p.m."


Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement