Emma Gertrude Wheeler (1867-1929)

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Emma Gertrude Wheeler was born in 1867 in Ellery New York, the daughter of Henry and Mary Wheeler. For most of her youth, she lived with her grandmother after her mother had died and father remarried. She married twice, first to Eugene Pickard, and after he died, to William Daniel Harrington. She had at least 8 children, of which only 3 survived to adulthood. Emma died in Jamestown, New York in 1929.

Emma Gertrude Wheeler was born on July 8, 1867 in Ellery, Chautauqua County, New York to Henry Wheeler and Mary Jeanette Stom. She was living with her parents in Ellery in the 1870 census. Emma's mother died in 1875, when Emma was eight years old. Her father remarried to Louise Carpenter about 1877. Sometime before 1880, Emma went to live at the household of her grandmother, Sarah (Pickard) Stom. However, she is listed as "servant" in the census. Her father is in the 1880 census with second wife Louise Carpenter and son Case.

Emma married Eugene F. Pickard, son of John F. Pickard and Emaline Klock, in the 1880s and they had at least two children. Their first child, Golda, died young. Eugene died on July 7, 1890. Emma married secondly to William Daniel Harrington, son of Alexander Harrington and Roxy Ann Waite, about 1892. They had at least three children. She was baptized on April 14, 1910 at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sinclairville, New York with her husband and two of her sons. In the late 1920s, William and Emma lived at 206 McKinley Avenue in Jamestown, New York.

Emma died on January 19, 1929 in Jamestown General Hospital in Jamestown, New York. The funeral was held at the household of her son, Earl Pickard. The Reverend Lewis George of Sinclairville Baptist Church officiated. The bearers were William Sylvester, H. E. Van Etten, Claire Grant, Ralph Carpenter, Stephen Joslyn, and George Shutt. She is buried in Red Bird Cemetery, Ellery, Chautauqua County, New York with her first husband, Eugene F. Pickard.

Children

Offspring of Eugene F. Pickard (1859-1890) and Emma Gertrude Wheeler
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Golda Pickard (1884-1889)	18 March 1884 Ellery, Chautauqua County, New York, United States	9 April 1889 Chautauqua County, New York, United States
Earle H. Pickard (1885-1957)	24 December 1885 Ellery, Chautauqua County, New York, United States	22 April 1957 WCA Hospital, Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, United States	Nellie C. Crandall (1886-1978)

Offspring of William Daniel Harrington (1872-1960) and Emma Gertrude Wheeler
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Shearl A. Harrington (1893-1906)	31 January 1893 Ellery, Chautauqua County, New York, United States	12 April 1906 Chautauqua County, New York, United States
Merle Allen Harrington (1894-1978)	10 June 1894 Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, New York, United States	30 May 1978 Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, United States	Alice Marian Washburg (1895-1991)
Gerald Theodore Harrington (1901-1974)	7 February 1901 New York, United States	15 July 1974 New York, United States	Margaret Unknown (c1908-)