Hiram Janes Bullock is a direct descendant of Pilgrim passenger(s) John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley on the Mayflower. He appeared on the census of 1840 in the household of
Levi Bullock and
Deborah Bullock in Middlebury, Genesee County, New York,
1840 United States Federal CensusName: Levi Bullock
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Middlebury, Genesee, New York
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 [Hiram, 3]
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 [Charles,5, Newman, 6 & Samuel, 9]
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 [Joseph, 14 -- Ebenezer, 17?]
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 [Levi, 41]
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2 [???]
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2 [Rosella, 11]
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 [Deborah, 36]
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1 [Levi]
Free White Persons - Under 20: 7 [ Ebenezer, 17???, Joseph, 14, Rosella, 11, Samuel, 9, Newman, 6, Charles, 5, Hiram, 3, and Mary???, born December 1840]
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2 [Levi & Deborah]
Total Free White Persons: 9
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 9.
6 Hiram Janes Bullock moved with Levi Bullock and Deborah Bullock from Genesee County, New York, to to Lima Township, Rock County, Wisconsin, at the age of 17 with his seven brothers and sisters circa 11 May 1841. Hiram Janes Bullock appeared on the census of 1850 in the household of
Ebenezer Bullock IV and
Thankful M. Bullock in Johnstown, Rock County, Wisconsin, which shows "Eben" Bullard [sic; should be Bullock], 26, born in New York; his wife Thankful, 29, born in New York; Hiram, 13, born in New York; Jane, 3, born in Wisconsin; and Emma, 9 months, born in Wisconsin. Hiram is Ebenezer's younger brother who was apparently living with the family after the death of his stepmother, Sally Bullock, in 1850. Emma is their daughter Emma Jane Bullock [Bartlett] who was born 31 January 1850. The daughter Jane, who would have been born in about 1847, apparently died as she is not found in the 1860 Census.
Household Members in 1850 CensusName Age
Elmt Bullard [Ebenezer Bullock] 26
Thankful Bullard [Bullock] 29
Hiram Bullard [Bullock] 13
Jane Bullard [Bullock] 3
Emma Bullard [Bullock] 0
Jonas Parmenter 27.
7 Note: Check the 1860 Minnesota and Wisconsin censuses for Hiram Bullock.
Hiram Janes Bullock lived between 1860 and 1869 in Minnesota In 1869 he returned to Rock County, WI, and settled on a 150 acres farm.
Hiram Janes Bullock and
Lucinda Bullock appeared on the census of 1870 in Lima, Rock County, Wisconsin, In the 1870 census, Hiram Bullock, age 33, his wife Lucinda [Hall], age 31, and son Ernest, age 8, are shown as living in Lima Township, Rock County, Wisconsin. Hiram was a farmer with real property worth $6,300 and personal property worth $9,000. Hiram is listed as born in New York, and Lucinda in Ohio.
His wife, Lucinda, died on 26 February 1872 at age 32, leaving him a widower. Lucinda Hall Bullock's gravestone at the North Johnstown Cemetery gives her date of death as 26 February 1872 and her age at death as 32 years, 3 months and 9 days.
Rock County, Wisconsin
Biographies
"H. J. Bullock"
H. J. BULLOCK, farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. Lima Center; born in town of Attica, Wyoming Co., N.Y., July 22, 1837; son of Levi and Deborah BULLOCK; came to Wisconsin with his parents, May, 1841, locating in Lima, where Hiram BULLOCK lived till 1860, when he went to Minnesota, where he lived nine years; settled on his farm of 150 acres in 1869. Married Miss Lucinda HALL Nov. 17, 186, who died Feb. 26, 1872, leaving one son - Ernest E. Mr. BULLOCK; married Miss Louisa BARTLETT in February, 1874; they have two daughters - Laura B. and a babe. He is a Republican in politics, and the family attend the Baptist Church.
Taken from "History of Rock County Wis." (c)1879, p. 789.
Hiram Janes Bullock and
Louisa Bullock appeared on the census of 1880 in Lima, Rock County, Wisconsin.
8 His wife, Louisa, died on 28 January 1885 in Rock County, Wisconsin, at age 38, leaving him a widower.
9 His wife,
Ann, died on 30 November 1889 in Rock County, Wisconsin, at age 44, leaving him a widower.
Hiram Janes Bullock Hiram Bullock was born in Genesee County [the 1879 History of Rock County, Wisconsin, says Wyoming County, which is the county just south of Genesee County], New York, on 22 July 1837 [his death certificate (Rock County, Wisconsin, Deaths, Vol. 9, No. 1013 1/2) says 20 July 1837].
On 11 May 1841, at the age of 3 years, he came to Rock County, Wisconsin, with his parents, Levi and Deborah (Andrews/Andrus) Bullock.
In about 1860, he moved to Minnesota.
On 17 November 1861, when he was 24 years old, Hiram Janes Bullock married Lucinda Hall. Lucinda Hall was the daughter of Fanny Lewis and Maxon Hall. After Maxon's death, Fanny Lewis Hall married Levi Bullock who was Hiram Janes Bullock's father. Fanny's sister, Palmyra Lewis, was the second wife of Elisha Bartlett who was the father of Hiram Janes Bullock's second wife, Louisa Bartlett.
Ernest Bullock, the first child of Hiram and Lucinda (Hall) Bullock was born in Eyota, Olmsted County, Minnesota, on 20 May 1862, apparently some six months after their marriage.
In 1869, Hiram Janes Bullock returned to Rock County, Wisconsin. He lived on Section 32 of Lima Township, on top of the hill on the east side of the Big Pond. He built a creamery at the roadside so that farmers could drive to it, get their milk weighed and load up again with whey, when cheese was made. He also built a large frame house farther back from the road and added a store at the back on to it to accommodate his patrons.
In the 1870 census, Hiram Bullock, age 33, his wife Lucinda [Hall], age 31, and son Ernest, age 8, are shown as living in Lima Township, Rock County, Wisconsin. Hiram was a farmer with real property worth $6,300 and personal property worth $9,000. Hiram is listed as born in New York, and Lucinda in Ohio.
Lucinda Hall Bullock died on 26 February 1872. On 23 February 1874, Hiram married his second wife, Louisa Bartlett.
The 1879 History of Rock County, Wisconsin, reads, under Lima Township:
H. J. BULLOCK, farmer, Section 32; P.O. Lima Center; born in town of Attica, Wyoming County [sic; probably Genesee County], New York, July 22, 1837; son of Levi and Deborah Bullock; came to Wisconsin with his parents May, 1841, locating in Lima, where Hiram Bullock lived till 1860, when he went to Minnesota, where he lived nine years; settled on his farm of 150 acres in 1869. Married Miss Lucinda Hall, November 17, 1861, who died February 26, 1872, leaving one son -- Ernest E. [Bullock]. Mr. Bullock married Miss Louisa Bartlett [James Spellman Bartlett's older sister] in February 1874; they have two daughters, Laura B. and a babe [Nina "Mae"]. He is a Republican in politics, and the family attend the Baptist Church.
In the 1880 census, Hiram Bullock, age 42, his second wife Louisa [Bartlett], age 30, and daughters Laura, age 3, and a babe [Nina "Mae"], age 1, are shown as living in Lima Township, Rock County, Wisconsin. Hiram is a farmer. His father is listed as born in New Hampshire, but that is apparently incorrect because Levi Bullock was born in Massachusetts.
Hiram's father, Levi Bullock, age 80, and stepmother "Anna" [Fanny?], age 70, also lived with the Hiram and Louisa Bullock family in 1880.
Two servants (farm laborers), aged 16 and 22, also lived with the family in 1880.
On 23 September 1881, Hiram's daughter (by his second wife Louisa Bartlett) Laura B. Bullock died. Louisa Bartlett Bullock died on 28 January 1885.
On 27 June 1888, Hiram Bullock married Mrs. Eliza Ann Bingham [Bacon] in an impromptu ceremony in Milton, Rock County, WI. The witnesses were the bride's father, Lucius Bingham, and George Calkins (who married Myrtle Bullock). (Rock County, Wisconsin, Marriages, Vol. 10 (1886-91), page 171, No. 262)
Eliza Ann Bingham Bacon Bullock died on 30 November 1889, after only about 17 months of marriage to Hiram Janes Bullock.
The 31 July 1897 edition of the Janesville Gazette reported that H.J. Bullock and M.M. Phelps bought the Bower City Creamery from W.H. Spooner.
Note: Check the 1900 census for Rock County, Wisconsin, for Hiram Bullock.
Hiram later married his fourth wife, Mina Rebecca Hulse Douglas Bullock, who had previously been married to his late brother, Charles W. Bullock who had died on 20 October 1901.
At the time of his death on 24 March 1909 (Rock County, Wisconsin, Deaths, Vol. 9, No. 1013 1/2), Hiram Bullock lived at 778 South Main in Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin. He was survived by his fourth wife Mina Rebecca Hulse Bullock Bullock, son Ernest E. Bullock and daughter Nina "Mae" Bullock (Mrs. C. I. Ormsbee), but Mae died shortly thereafter on 4 August 1909.
The Thursday, 25 March 1909, issue of the Janesville (Rock County, Wisconsin) Daily Gazette carried the following obituary (page 10, column 2):
HIRAM J. BULLOCK HAS PASSED AWAY
PIONEER RESIDENT OF ROCK COUNTY DIED AFTER A LONG ILLNESS AT 5:30 LAST EVENING
After an illness of four months with stomach trouble, Hiram J. Bullock, a pioneer resident of Rock County, died at his home, 778 South Main Street, at half-past five o'clock last evening [24 March 1909]. The deceased was born July 24, 1837, in New York state and as a youth came to Wisconsin with his parents when they settled in the town of Lima, Rock County. After his first marriage [to Lucinda Hall], he moved to Minnesota, but after a few years returned to a farm which he had purchased in Lima. Eleven years ago [about 1898] he came to Janesville and purchased a creamery on River Street which he managed until his retirement from active business life. His widow [his fourth wife, Mina Rebecca Hulse Bullock Bullock], a son, E.E. Bullock, and a daughter, Mrs. Mae Ormsbee, all of this city, are left to mourn his loss. There are also six grandchildren, one great-grandchild, a sister residing in Janesville and a sister [These two sisters are apparently Rosetta Bullock Gould and Mary Bullock Kimball.] and brother [Samuel Bullock] living in Whitewater. The funeral will be held from the home at 11 o'clock tomorrow [26 March 1909] and the interment will be made at the North Johnstown Cemetery.
Hiram Janes Bullock is buried with his first and second wives, Lucinda Hall and Louisa Bartlett, in the North Johnstown Cemetery. His third wife, Ann Eliza Bingham Bacon, is buried with her first husband, Ebon O.L. Bacon, in the Milton Cemetery, and his fourth wife, Mina Rebecca Hulse Douglas Bullock Bullock, who survived him and was earlier married to his late brother Charles W. Bullock, is buried in the Lima Center Cemetery.
H. J. BULLOCK, farmer. Sec. 32; P. 0. Lima Center; born in town of Attica, Wyoming- Co., N. Y., July 22, 1837 ; son of Levi and Deborah Bullock ; came to Wisconsin with his parents May, 1841, locating in Lima, where Hiram Bullock lived till I860, when he went to Minnesota, where he lived nine years; settled on his farm of 150 acres in 1869. Married Miss Lucinda Hall Nov. 17, 1861, who died Feb. 26, 1872, leaving one son — Ernest E. Mr. Bullock married Miss Louisa Bartlett in February, 1874; they have two daughters — Laura B and a babe. He is a Republican in politics, and the family attend the Baptist Church.
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