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JEREMY SLOCUM (1780–1842), son of LIEUTENANT APELLES SLOCUM and DEBORAH COLEMAN
SARAH WHITCOMB (bp. 1786–1838), daughter of JONATHAN WHITCOMB and RELIEF FYFE
Jeremy Slocum, the son of Apelles and Deborah Slocum, was born on 17 October 1780 in Templeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.1 He (probably the same Jeremy) was baptized at the same time as his brother Otis on 29 October 1786 in Templeton.1 He died on 7 October 1842, age 61 years and 11 months, and is buried in the Slocum Family Cemetery in Wauconda, Lake County, Illinois.2 He married Sally Whitcomb on 20 February 1809 in Templeton.1
Sarah Whitcomb, the daughter of Jonathan, was baptized on 3 September 1786 in Templeton.1 She died on 12 September 1838 and is buried with her husband in the Slocumb Family Cemetery.2
Jeremy is probably the Jeremey Slocum who headed a household with one male age 26 to 44 and one female age 16 to 25 in 1810 in Florida, Berkshire County, Massachusett. He probably also the Jeremiah Slocum who headed a household with a male and a female age 26 to 44, and one male and five females under age ten in 1820 in Florida.3
Children of Jeremy Slocum and Sarah Whitcomb: All born in Florida, birthdates are from a letter from Erasmus Darwin Barnes to Stella Cramer Aikens.
i. Mary Whitcomb Slocum was born on 30 January 1811 in Florida, Berkshire, Massachusetts. She died on 15 August 1884 in Wauconda, Illinois. She married Asahel Richardson Barnes.
ii. Thomas F. Slocum was born on 29 May 1812 in Florida. He he died on 29 March 1875.4 He married Mary E. Oakes of Athol, Massachusetts on 17 March 1834.4 She was born on 7 June 1815 in Athol and was living in Wauconda in 1897.4 Thoas and Mary are buried in the Slocum Family Cemetery.5
iii. Harriet A. Slocum was born on 24 February 1814. The widow Harriet A. Johnson died on 5 April 1890, age 76, in Muskegon, Muskegon, Illinois.6 She is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Muskegan.7 She married Unknown Johnson.
iv. Sarah L. Slocum was born on 9 June 1815.
In 1850 Sarah was 35 and living with her brother Thomas and his family in Wauconda.8
v. Abigail C. Slocum was born on 15 September 1817. She married Unknown Barrett.
Abigail might be the Abigail Slocum of North Adams, Massachusetts who married Prelate Burrett in Pownal, Vermont on 19 August 1838.9 Prelate was Robert Prelate Burnett. He was born on 25 July 1815 and he married second Betsy Glazier.10 Abigail died in 1867; Robert Prelate died in 1896. They are buried together in the Rarick Cemetery in South Russell, Geauga County, Ohio.11
vi. Elizabeth Slocum was born on 15 July 1819. She died on 9 February 1910 and is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois.12 In his letter to his niece Stella, Erasums Darwin Barnes says that Elizabeth married Archimedes Burr Wynkoop on 31 November 1839 in Wauconda.
Archimedes was circuit clerk and recorder in McHenry county, Illinois in 1838–9.13 By the 1840s Archimedes was the editor of the Little-Fort Porcupine and Democratic Banner newspaper in Lake county.14 Archimedes was "last heard from in California."15
vii. Stillman Slocum was born on 29 January 1825. He died in 1850 in California.16
In his letter to his niece Stella, Erasmus Darwin Barnes says that Stillman, "was never heard from direct only rumors of his death."
Slocum went to California and died without leaving a widow or any children. On 30 January 1863 Thomas F. Slocum asked for administration on Stillman's estate, saying that his heirs were his brothers and sisters Mary W. Barnes, Harriet Johnson, Sarah L. Slocum, Elizabeth Wynkoop, Abbigail S. Barrett [?] and himself. Stillman's estate was valued at 1,213.28 dollars on 13 January 1864.16
References:
1. Vital Records of Templeton, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester: Franklin P. Rice 1907), 61, 73 (births and baptisms), 151 (marriage).
2. "Jeremy Slocum," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29636007). No photograph; "Sarah Whitcomb Slocum," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29636025/sarah-slocum).
3. "1810 U.S. Federal Census," database with images, Ancestry > Massachusetts > Berkshire > Windsor, image 6. "1820 U.S. Federal Census," database with images, Ancestry > Massachusetts > Berkshire > Savoy, image 3.
4. Josiah Proctor Walton, Walton Family Records, 1598-1898: With its intermarriages the Oakes and Eatons, 1644–1898, and the Proctor family, 1634–1898 (Muscatine, Iowa: n.p., 1898), 68.
5. "Thomas F. Slocum," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29636054/thomas-f_-slocum). "Mary F. Oakes Slocum," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32832270/mary-e-slocum).
6. "Michigan, Deaths and Burials Index, 1867–1995," database, Ancestry, entry for Harriet A. Johnson or Harriet A. Slocum.
7. "Harriet A. Johnson,"Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95314599/harriet-a-johnson).
8. "1850 U.S. Federal Census," database with images, Ancestry > Illinois > Lake > Wauconda, image 8.
9. "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720–1908," database with images, Ancestry > 1870 and prior > Slade–Smith, image 1920.
10. History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio (Philadelphia: Willams Brothers, 1875), 180.
11. "Abigail Burnett," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42269392).
12. "Elizabeth Slocum Wynkoop," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36526918/elizabeth-wynkoop). No photograph.
13. History of McHenry County, Illinois (Chicago: Munsell Pub. Co., 1922). 60.
14. Solon J. Buck, Travel and Description, 1765-1865 (Springfield, IL: Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1914).
15. Richard Wynkoop, Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1904), 110.
16. "Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772–1999," database with images, Ancestry, entry for Stillman Slocum.
Last revised: 22-Nov-2021