Daughter of VICTORY BIRDSEYE & ELECTA BEEBE

Died: at age 42, the night after her eldest child's wedding; of a seizure "a rush of blood upon the heart, and consequent venus congestion of the brain."

Married: Jun 24, 1834, CHARLES AUGUSTUS WHEATON, Syracuse, Onandaga Co., New York

Twelve children:
1. Cornelia WHEATON
1835 - 1878
2. Edward WHEATON
1837 - 1905
3. Homer Birdseye WHEATON
1838 - 1839
4. Ellen L. WHEATON
1838 - 1915
5. Emma C. WHEATON
1841 - 1882
6. Clara WHEATON
1843 - 1925
7. Florence B. WHEATON
1845 - unkn
8. Lucia Kate WHEATON
1847 - 1926
9. Henry Birdseye WHEATON
1849 - unkn
10. Mary "Minnie" Hascal WHEATON
1851 - 1914
11. Charles Augustus WHEATON, Jr.
1853 - 1916
12. Mabel F. WHEATON
1855 - aft 1897


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"Ellen Birdseye Wheaton came from a prominent Syracuse family. She was a committed abolitionist and supported the women's suffrage movement. Her liberal religious views, her support of women's right to vote and her radical opposition to slavery were unusual. She married at the age of 18 and had 12 children.The diary she kept until her death in 1858, at age 42, illuminates her own life and opens a window onto the lives of women in 19th century Syracuse. Her family was prominent - several men were politicians, lawyers and businessmen - but bad investments and an economic depression sent the Wheatons tumbling into poverty."
Source: The Post-Standard, by Sara Errington, staff writer
"The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton" (family published in 1923)
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Dec 25, 1858, New York Daily Tribune, pg 8:
WHEATON—At Syracuse, N. Y., on Friday, Dec. 17, Mrs. Ellen B., wife of Charles A. Wheaton, and oldest daughter of the late Victory Birdseye of Pompey, N. Y., aged 33 years.
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