Samuel M. 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.
2 Samuel M. 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. Samuel M. Bullock appeared on the census of 1850 in the household of Levi Bullock in Lima, Rock County, Wisconsin, which shows Levi Bullock, a farmer age 50 (born in Massachusetts), and his children, Rosetta, 20, Samuel, 19, Charles, 14, and Mary, 9, all born in Wisconsin. The same 1850 census shows Levi's son Hiram, 13, as living with Levi's oldest son Ebenezer and his family. Apparently Levi's second wife Sally had died just before the 1850 census was taken.
3 Samuel M. Bullock and
Mary Jane Bullock appeared on the census of 1860 in Lima, Rock County, Wisconsin, which shows Samuel Bullock, age 29 born in New York, his wife Mary J., age 25 born in New York, and their children, Orson [Wesley], age 8, and Alma, age 2, both born in Wisconsin.
Rock County, Wisconsin, Biographies
SAMUEL M. BULLOCK, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Johnstown; born in New York in 1851; came to Wisconsin in 1843, locating at Johnstown with his father, where he remained one year, when he moved to Lima, where the early part of his life was spent; at the age of 19 years, he purchased a farm of eighty acres in Madison, Dane Co., remaining two years; moved to Milton and purchased eighty acres, which he sold out after two years, and returned to Lima and purchased eighty acres, where he remained for a number of years, when he moved to Johnstown; purchasing 100 acres on Section 15, which he afterward sold and moved on Section 14, his present homestead of 120 acres. Married, in 1851, Miss Mary J. ELLIOTT, a native of Erie Co., N.Y.; have three children - Orson W., born Aug. 6, 1852, died Aug. 28, 1867; Della A., born Jan. 20, 1858; Verna I., Dec. 4, 1873. Mr. B. is making a specialty of thoroughbred short-horn cattle; he is also the owner of one of the finest bulls in the county. Clerk of School Board three years. Republican.
Taken from "History of Rock County Wis.," (c)1879, p. 809.
Samuel M. Bullock and Mary Jane Bullock appeared on the census of 1880 in Johnstown, Rock County, Wisconsin. He lived in 1896 in Madison, Lake County, South Dakota.
4 The 20 July 1911 edition of the Whitewater (Walworth County, Wisconsin) newspaper carried the following story:
MARRIED SIXTY YEARS
Today [20 July 1911] is the sixtieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Bullock of [Whitewater, WI], and in honor of the event an informal reception is to be held this afternoon and evening at their home on Janesville Street. A large number of neighbors and friends have expressed their intention of being present, and a few relatives and friends from outside the city are here to attend.
While there are some couples near here who have lived together longer, sixtieth anniversaries are comparatively rare. . . .
Samuel Bullock was born in Erie County, New York, eighty years ago [in 1831]. He came to Wisconsin when twelve years old [in 1841] and when the county was new and wild. Mary Jane Elliott was born in the same county four years later [in 1835]. She came to Illinois when a child and then to Wisconsin. This groom and bride of twenty and sixteen years, respectively, were step-brother and sister, the groom's father [Levi Bullock] having married the bride's mother [Ruth Peck Elliott]. Weddings were not so uncommon in those pioneer days, but many of the people were too poor to have a big gathering and wedding trips were scarely practical when a horse and buggy was a luxury and most of the journeys were made on foot or with oxen. Mr. and Mrs. Bullock were married on a Sunday afternoon, at the home of Elder Warren, who lived at the west end of the town of Lima and owned the only frame house in that vicinity. After the ceremony, the bride and groom drove to the home of a brother for supper.
In those early days many things we now consider the most primary necessities were luxuries, difficult of attainment. A new rag carpet for the living room was a luxury that marked an epoch in the lives of young housekeepers.
The Bullocks lived in the town of Johnstown about thirty years after their marriage [until about 1881], then moved to [Whitewater]. A few years were spent in Madison, South Dakota, the remainder of the time [in Whitewater]. Three children were born to them, Mrs. H.L. Janes [Alma (Della) Bullock] and Mrs. F.R. Bloodgood [Verna Irene Bullock] of [Whitewater] and one son. A sad tragedy in their life was the death of their only son, Wesley, who was killed by falling from a wagon when he was sixteen years old [in 1867]. Six grandchildren and two great grandchildren are living.
Mr. Bullock, in spite of his eighty years, is still robust and vigorous, though he has retired from active work. The housewife has little chance to retire, and Mrs. Bullock keeps her house in order and entertains relatives and friends with the same good cooking and open-handed hospitality for which she has been famous for these sixty years.
Mr. and Mrs. Bullock were members of the North Johnstown Freewill Baptist Church, but since coming here [to Whitewater] have been associated with the M.E. Church. There was such a general desire on the part of the church people to be at their home this evening that their pastor, Rev. C.F. Spray, arranged to hold the mid-week prayer services last evening.
It has been a long journey, longer than most of us will make. The experience of this father and mother are far different from the experiences of the generations that will follow. There has been privation and sorrow, hardship and disappointment, but the Divine Providence in which they trust has been kind and loving, and we hope and pray that their years may be still long in the land and that the blessings of the eventide of life may be theirs to enjoy.
A May 1916 edition of the Whitewater (Walworth County, Wisconsin) Register carried the following obituary for Samuel Bullock:
After an illness of seven months, Mr. Samuel M. Bullock of [Whitewater] passed away last Friday morning [5 May 1916] at 3 o'clock. He failed the last few days before the end came and had been helpless for a long time.
He was nearly eighty-five years of age, having been born June 2, 1831, in Erie County, New York. The Bullock family came to North Johnstown [in 1841] when he was a small boy, and the greater part of his life was spent in Johnstown, Lima and Whitewater. He was a farmer and afterwards operated a creamery.
He was married in July 1851 to Mary Jane Elliott. Nearly five years ago they celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage, and his passing breaks home ties that have existed for nearly sixty-five years. Mrs. Bullock and two daughters survive him, Mrs. H.L. Janes and Mrs. F.R. Bloodgood. A son, Wesley, was killed in an accident nearly fifty years ago [in 1867]. He is also survived by six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
His home was a Christian home, and for many years Mr. Bullock and his family were members of the North Johnstown Free Baptist Church. Since coming to [Whitewater], he has been a member of the Methodist church. He was always a regular attendant at church services and enjoyed the Christian fellowship of the church.
Rev. S. Lugg and Rev. C.I. Andrews conducted the funeral services at the home on Janesville Street, Monday [8 May 1916] at 10 o'clock, after which the remains were taken to the North Johnstown cemetery for burial in the family lot.
The 12 May 1916 edition of the Whitewater [Walworth County, Wisconsin] Register carried the following obituary for Samuel M. Bullock:
On last Friday morning [5 May 1916] occurred the death of Mr. Samuel M. Bullock of this city [Whitewater], after an illness of several months. He was eighty-five years of age, having been born in Erie County, New York in 1831. At an early age, he came to this part of the state [of Wisconsin] where he spent most of his life. In 1851, he married Mary Jane Elliot, who with two daughters, Mesdames H.L. Janes and F.R. Bloodgood, still survive him. The funeral services were held from the home on Janesville Street last Monday [8 May 1916], burial occurring at North Johnstown.
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Additional Information.
Samuel M. Bullock Born in New York, on 2 June 1831, Samuel Bullock came to Wisconsin in 1843 [sic; actually 1841] with his father Levi Bullock who located in Johnstown for one year. Levi Bullock then moved to Lima, where Samuel lived until he was 19. In 1851, Samuel married Miss Mary J. Elliott, a native of Erie County, New York, and they located in Johnstown. [Johnstown Album, Vol. 1, page 146, 1970, quoting History of Rock County, page 809.]
Samuel Bullock came to Johnstown Township, Rock County, Wisconsin, as a small boy, age 9, with his parents, Levi and Deborah Bullock on May 11, 1841.
He married Mary Jane Elliott on 20 July 1851. They were married almost 65 years. They first had a log cabin home in Johnstown. Then they moved to Section 32 in Lima Township, where Samuel farmed and helped his brother Hiram run a creamery for many years.
Samuel Bullock gave an acre of land to the District School No. 12, Town of Lima. It was always called the Bullock School. When the school was closed, the school site reverted to the original farm. The Four Corners was called Bullock's Corners. It is at the intersection of State Highway 59 and County Trunk KK.
According to an 11 November 1996 letter from Doris Schultz Steffen, after his son Wesley Bullock was killed by runaway horses in 1867, Samuel Bullock wanted another son, so he bugged his wife to have another child who turned out to be a little girl, Verna Bullock.
Samuel Bullock served as clerk of School District No. 4 for two years, 1871-73, and as director for three years, 1879-82. At that time, Samuel owned 120 acres in Section 14, Johnstown Township, where he made "a specialty of raising thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle and owned one of the finest bulls in the county". [Johnstown Album, Vol. 1, page 146, 1970, quoting the History of Rock County, page 809]
In the 1890s, Samuel and his brother Ebenezer Bullock operated a creamery in Madison, SD.
Samuel and Mary Jane Bullock moved into Whitewater [around 1879?] and lived there for 37 years [???]. They lived on Janesville Street [in Whitewater] and were members of the North Johnstown Free Baptist Church. Samuel Bullock died in Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin on 5 May 1916. He is buried just inside the gate at the North Johnstown Cemetery. There are many Bullocks buried there, dating back to the 1840s.
SAMUEL M. BULLOCK, farmer. Sec. 14; P. 0. Johnstown; born in New York in 1851 ; came to Wisconsin in 1843 [1841], locating at Johnstown with his father, where he remained one year, when he moved to Lima, where the early part of his life was spent; at the age of 19 years, he purchased a farm of eighty acres in Madison, Dane Co., remaining two years; moved to Milton and purchased eighty acres, which he sold out after two years, and returned to Lima and purchased eighty acres, where he remained for a number of years, when he moved to Johnstown, purchasing 100 acres on Section 15, which he afterward sold and moved on Section 14, his present homestead of 120 acres. Married, in 1851, Miss Mary J. Elliott, a native of Erie Co., N. Y. ; have three children — Orson W., born Aug. 6, 1852, died Aug. 28, 1867; Delia A., born Jan. 20, 1858 ; Verna I., Dec. 4, 1873. Mr. B. is making a specialty of thoroughbred short-horn cattle ; he is also the owner of one of the finest bulls in the county. Clerk of School Board three years. Republican.
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