As written by Agnes Irene Bullock, daughter...
Wingfield Minor Bullock was born in a log cabin on a farm from which his
father, Mordecai Redd Bullock, donated five acres of land for the town
square of Versailles, the first county seat of Woodford County, Illinois.
Wingfield was the third son and fourth child of Mordecai Bullock and Sarah
Hannah Saltonstall, daughter of Dr. Gurdon Flower Saltonstall and Mary
Thomson, his first wife. He was the first child born to them after they
came to Illinois.
My father was educated in a private school kept by his father and mother
in their home for their own and their neighbors children ... this school
was the first school in Olio Township.
When father was fifteen years old, he worked as water boy for the men
who were building the Illinois Central Railroad, fifteen or twenty miles
from his home at Versailles. For this service he received six dollars per
month, and out of this small sum he saved some!
After his preliminary education in his parents' school, he walked back and forth every day to attend school in Eureka, four miles away. In 1856, he attended a boarding school in Eureka called Walnut Grove Academy, which soon turned into Eureka College.
In 1862, Wingfield Bullock was elected captain of Company E, 108th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, a group collected largely from Woodford County. His cousin, Thomas Bullock, Jr., was chosen first lieutenant in the same company. The fathers of both men must have been very much grieved when their sons joined the Northern army, for both Wingfield's father, Mordecai Redd Bullock and Thomas Bullock, Jr.'s father, Thomas Bullock, Sr. were strongly Southern in their sympathies during the war.
Captain Wingfield Bullock served during most of the War. At one time he was deprived of his command for a short time for refusing to act as Colonel of a negro regiment. If he had been willing to compromise on a question involving principle, I suppose we could now call him Colonel Bullock, but there was no compromise with principle in Wingfield Bullock. He did not think the slaves should be allowed to fight or to be armed, and he refused to lead them in battle. His rank, however, was soon restored, and he served until March 27, 1865, when he was wounded in front of Spanish Fort, just above Mobile, Alabama.
In 1866, Wingfield Minor Bullock was elected sheriff of Woodford County and served two years in that office at Metamora, Illinois, the county seat having been taken away from Versailles, its first location.
In 1872 Wingfield married at Eureka, Illinois, Mary Marsalenia McCullough, daughter of William Shields McCullough and Delilah Jane McCardle. Mary was a rural school teacher in Woodford and Marshall Counties, and had attended Eureka College. She taught three years before her marriage. After marriage and a honeymoon trip to what is now the state of Oklahoma, they moved to a farm four miles east of the south side of Eureka, and engaged in stock and grain farming. The next year they built a seven room house in front of the old house, leaving the old house for a summer kitchen and smoke house. It was on this farm that all their ten children were born and spent most of their lives as children. It was while living there that Jessie, Edna, and Forrest attended Eureka High-School and Eureka College, and it was from here that my sister, Florence and I left to attend the Normal University at Normal, Illinois.
After his term as sheriff, my father never sought office, but he served
for twenty years as school director of Panther Creek School, where we
children attended two miles from our home, and he really served. The
county superintendent of schools said Panther Creek was the best rural
school in Woodford County, and better than some of the village schools.
We had well prepared teachers, educated in Eureka College, Illinois
State Normal University, Valparaiso, Indiana etc.
In 1898 my father sold his farm near Eureka, and purchased a large farm
near El Paso, which had once belonged to his grandfather, Dr. Gurdon
Flower Saltonstall. He built a ten room house on it with all the modern improvements, furnace, bath, and electric lights: Later he bought
eighty acres to the east of it, and 311 acres in White county, Indiana.
My father did not make a will. He sold his land and divided the trust
deeds among his heirs,
In 1907 he quit farming and moved to the town of El Paso, bought a twelve
room house, and settled down to enjoy a well-earned rest. He lived in
El Paso almost twenty years, and died there August 18, 1927, at the age of
almost 91 years. I shall never forget the people whom he had befriended
who came to his funeral and to tell us of the kindnesses he had done for them.
Especially I recall the remark of a very old neighbor as he looked down
on my father in his coffin. The tears streamed from his eyes, and in a voice choked with emotion he said: "They don't make them like that anymore!"
Story of Wingfield Minor Bullock (1836-1927) and Mary Marsalenia McCullough (1850-1931), written by his daughter Agnes Irene Bullock. Provided and edited for space by FaG member Patrick Murphy http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=48354920
Wingfield Minor Bullock was born in a log cabin on a farm from which his
father, Mordecai Redd Bullock, donated five acres of land for the town
square of Versailles, the first county seat of Woodford County, Illinois.
Wingfield was the third son and fourth child of Mordecai Bullock and Sarah
Hannah Saltonstall, daughter of Dr. Gurdon Flower Saltonstall and Mary
Thomson, his first wife. He was the first child born to them after they
came to Illinois.
My father was educated in a private school kept by his father and mother
in their home for their own and their neighbors children ... this school
was the first school in Olio Township.
When father was fifteen years old, he worked as water boy for the men
who were building the Illinois Central Railroad, fifteen or twenty miles
from his home at Versailles. For this service he received six dollars per
month, and out of this small sum he saved some!
After his preliminary education in his parents' school, he walked back and forth every day to attend school in Eureka, four miles away. In 1856, he attended a boarding school in Eureka called Walnut Grove Academy, which soon turned into Eureka College.
In 1862, Wingfield Bullock was elected captain of Company E, 108th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, a group collected largely from Woodford County. His cousin, Thomas Bullock, Jr., was chosen first lieutenant in the same company. The fathers of both men must have been very much grieved when their sons joined the Northern army, for both Wingfield's father, Mordecai Redd Bullock and Thomas Bullock, Jr.'s father, Thomas Bullock, Sr. were strongly Southern in their sympathies during the war.
Captain Wingfield Bullock served during most of the War. At one time he was deprived of his command for a short time for refusing to act as Colonel of a negro regiment. If he had been willing to compromise on a question involving principle, I suppose we could now call him Colonel Bullock, but there was no compromise with principle in Wingfield Bullock. He did not think the slaves should be allowed to fight or to be armed, and he refused to lead them in battle. His rank, however, was soon restored, and he served until March 27, 1865, when he was wounded in front of Spanish Fort, just above Mobile, Alabama.
In 1866, Wingfield Minor Bullock was elected sheriff of Woodford County and served two years in that office at Metamora, Illinois, the county seat having been taken away from Versailles, its first location.
In 1872 Wingfield married at Eureka, Illinois, Mary Marsalenia McCullough, daughter of William Shields McCullough and Delilah Jane McCardle. Mary was a rural school teacher in Woodford and Marshall Counties, and had attended Eureka College. She taught three years before her marriage. After marriage and a honeymoon trip to what is now the state of Oklahoma, they moved to a farm four miles east of the south side of Eureka, and engaged in stock and grain farming. The next year they built a seven room house in front of the old house, leaving the old house for a summer kitchen and smoke house. It was on this farm that all their ten children were born and spent most of their lives as children. It was while living there that Jessie, Edna, and Forrest attended Eureka High-School and Eureka College, and it was from here that my sister, Florence and I left to attend the Normal University at Normal, Illinois.
After his term as sheriff, my father never sought office, but he served
for twenty years as school director of Panther Creek School, where we
children attended two miles from our home, and he really served. The
county superintendent of schools said Panther Creek was the best rural
school in Woodford County, and better than some of the village schools.
We had well prepared teachers, educated in Eureka College, Illinois
State Normal University, Valparaiso, Indiana etc.
In 1898 my father sold his farm near Eureka, and purchased a large farm
near El Paso, which had once belonged to his grandfather, Dr. Gurdon
Flower Saltonstall. He built a ten room house on it with all the modern improvements, furnace, bath, and electric lights: Later he bought
eighty acres to the east of it, and 311 acres in White county, Indiana.
My father did not make a will. He sold his land and divided the trust
deeds among his heirs,
In 1907 he quit farming and moved to the town of El Paso, bought a twelve
room house, and settled down to enjoy a well-earned rest. He lived in
El Paso almost twenty years, and died there August 18, 1927, at the age of
almost 91 years. I shall never forget the people whom he had befriended
who came to his funeral and to tell us of the kindnesses he had done for them.
Especially I recall the remark of a very old neighbor as he looked down
on my father in his coffin. The tears streamed from his eyes, and in a voice choked with emotion he said: "They don't make them like that anymore!"
Story of Wingfield Minor Bullock (1836-1927) and Mary Marsalenia McCullough (1850-1931), written by his daughter Agnes Irene Bullock. Provided and edited for space by FaG member Patrick Murphy http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=48354920
As written by Agnes Irene Bullock, daughter...
Wingfield Minor Bullock was born in a log cabin on a farm from which his
father, Mordecai Redd Bullock, donated five acres of land for the town
square of Versailles, the first county seat of Woodford County, Illinois.
Wingfield was the third son and fourth child of Mordecai Bullock and Sarah
Hannah Saltonstall, daughter of Dr. Gurdon Flower Saltonstall and Mary
Thomson, his first wife. He was the first child born to them after they
came to Illinois.
My father was educated in a private school kept by his father and mother
in their home for their own and their neighbors children ... this school
was the first school in Olio Township.
When father was fifteen years old, he worked as water boy for the men
who were building the Illinois Central Railroad, fifteen or twenty miles
from his home at Versailles. For this service he received six dollars per
month, and out of this small sum he saved some!
After his preliminary education in his parents' school, he walked back and forth every day to attend school in Eureka, four miles away. In 1856, he attended a boarding school in Eureka called Walnut Grove Academy, which soon turned into Eureka College.
In 1862, Wingfield Bullock was elected captain of Company E, 108th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, a group collected largely from Woodford County. His cousin, Thomas Bullock, Jr., was chosen first lieutenant in the same company. The fathers of both men must have been very much grieved when their sons joined the Northern army, for both Wingfield's father, Mordecai Redd Bullock and Thomas Bullock, Jr.'s father, Thomas Bullock, Sr. were strongly Southern in their sympathies during the war.
Captain Wingfield Bullock served during most of the War. At one time he was deprived of his command for a short time for refusing to act as Colonel of a negro regiment. If he had been willing to compromise on a question involving principle, I suppose we could now call him Colonel Bullock, but there was no compromise with principle in Wingfield Bullock. He did not think the slaves should be allowed to fight or to be armed, and he refused to lead them in battle. His rank, however, was soon restored, and he served until March 27, 1865, when he was wounded in front of Spanish Fort, just above Mobile, Alabama.
In 1866, Wingfield Minor Bullock was elected sheriff of Woodford County and served two years in that office at Metamora, Illinois, the county seat having been taken away from Versailles, its first location.
In 1872 Wingfield married at Eureka, Illinois, Mary Marsalenia McCullough, daughter of William Shields McCullough and Delilah Jane McCardle. Mary was a rural school teacher in Woodford and Marshall Counties, and had attended Eureka College. She taught three years before her marriage. After marriage and a honeymoon trip to what is now the state of Oklahoma, they moved to a farm four miles east of the south side of Eureka, and engaged in stock and grain farming. The next year they built a seven room house in front of the old house, leaving the old house for a summer kitchen and smoke house. It was on this farm that all their ten children were born and spent most of their lives as children. It was while living there that Jessie, Edna, and Forrest attended Eureka High-School and Eureka College, and it was from here that my sister, Florence and I left to attend the Normal University at Normal, Illinois.
After his term as sheriff, my father never sought office, but he served
for twenty years as school director of Panther Creek School, where we
children attended two miles from our home, and he really served. The
county superintendent of schools said Panther Creek was the best rural
school in Woodford County, and better than some of the village schools.
We had well prepared teachers, educated in Eureka College, Illinois
State Normal University, Valparaiso, Indiana etc.
In 1898 my father sold his farm near Eureka, and purchased a large farm
near El Paso, which had once belonged to his grandfather, Dr. Gurdon
Flower Saltonstall. He built a ten room house on it with all the modern improvements, furnace, bath, and electric lights: Later he bought
eighty acres to the east of it, and 311 acres in White county, Indiana.
My father did not make a will. He sold his land and divided the trust
deeds among his heirs,
In 1907 he quit farming and moved to the town of El Paso, bought a twelve
room house, and settled down to enjoy a well-earned rest. He lived in
El Paso almost twenty years, and died there August 18, 1927, at the age of
almost 91 years. I shall never forget the people whom he had befriended
who came to his funeral and to tell us of the kindnesses he had done for them.
Especially I recall the remark of a very old neighbor as he looked down
on my father in his coffin. The tears streamed from his eyes, and in a voice choked with emotion he said: "They don't make them like that anymore!"
Story of Wingfield Minor Bullock (1836-1927) and Mary Marsalenia McCullough (1850-1931), written by his daughter Agnes Irene Bullock. Provided and edited for space by FaG member Patrick Murphy http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=48354920
Wingfield Minor Bullock was born in a log cabin on a farm from which his
father, Mordecai Redd Bullock, donated five acres of land for the town
square of Versailles, the first county seat of Woodford County, Illinois.
Wingfield was the third son and fourth child of Mordecai Bullock and Sarah
Hannah Saltonstall, daughter of Dr. Gurdon Flower Saltonstall and Mary
Thomson, his first wife. He was the first child born to them after they
came to Illinois.
My father was educated in a private school kept by his father and mother
in their home for their own and their neighbors children ... this school
was the first school in Olio Township.
When father was fifteen years old, he worked as water boy for the men
who were building the Illinois Central Railroad, fifteen or twenty miles
from his home at Versailles. For this service he received six dollars per
month, and out of this small sum he saved some!
After his preliminary education in his parents' school, he walked back and forth every day to attend school in Eureka, four miles away. In 1856, he attended a boarding school in Eureka called Walnut Grove Academy, which soon turned into Eureka College.
In 1862, Wingfield Bullock was elected captain of Company E, 108th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, a group collected largely from Woodford County. His cousin, Thomas Bullock, Jr., was chosen first lieutenant in the same company. The fathers of both men must have been very much grieved when their sons joined the Northern army, for both Wingfield's father, Mordecai Redd Bullock and Thomas Bullock, Jr.'s father, Thomas Bullock, Sr. were strongly Southern in their sympathies during the war.
Captain Wingfield Bullock served during most of the War. At one time he was deprived of his command for a short time for refusing to act as Colonel of a negro regiment. If he had been willing to compromise on a question involving principle, I suppose we could now call him Colonel Bullock, but there was no compromise with principle in Wingfield Bullock. He did not think the slaves should be allowed to fight or to be armed, and he refused to lead them in battle. His rank, however, was soon restored, and he served until March 27, 1865, when he was wounded in front of Spanish Fort, just above Mobile, Alabama.
In 1866, Wingfield Minor Bullock was elected sheriff of Woodford County and served two years in that office at Metamora, Illinois, the county seat having been taken away from Versailles, its first location.
In 1872 Wingfield married at Eureka, Illinois, Mary Marsalenia McCullough, daughter of William Shields McCullough and Delilah Jane McCardle. Mary was a rural school teacher in Woodford and Marshall Counties, and had attended Eureka College. She taught three years before her marriage. After marriage and a honeymoon trip to what is now the state of Oklahoma, they moved to a farm four miles east of the south side of Eureka, and engaged in stock and grain farming. The next year they built a seven room house in front of the old house, leaving the old house for a summer kitchen and smoke house. It was on this farm that all their ten children were born and spent most of their lives as children. It was while living there that Jessie, Edna, and Forrest attended Eureka High-School and Eureka College, and it was from here that my sister, Florence and I left to attend the Normal University at Normal, Illinois.
After his term as sheriff, my father never sought office, but he served
for twenty years as school director of Panther Creek School, where we
children attended two miles from our home, and he really served. The
county superintendent of schools said Panther Creek was the best rural
school in Woodford County, and better than some of the village schools.
We had well prepared teachers, educated in Eureka College, Illinois
State Normal University, Valparaiso, Indiana etc.
In 1898 my father sold his farm near Eureka, and purchased a large farm
near El Paso, which had once belonged to his grandfather, Dr. Gurdon
Flower Saltonstall. He built a ten room house on it with all the modern improvements, furnace, bath, and electric lights: Later he bought
eighty acres to the east of it, and 311 acres in White county, Indiana.
My father did not make a will. He sold his land and divided the trust
deeds among his heirs,
In 1907 he quit farming and moved to the town of El Paso, bought a twelve
room house, and settled down to enjoy a well-earned rest. He lived in
El Paso almost twenty years, and died there August 18, 1927, at the age of
almost 91 years. I shall never forget the people whom he had befriended
who came to his funeral and to tell us of the kindnesses he had done for them.
Especially I recall the remark of a very old neighbor as he looked down
on my father in his coffin. The tears streamed from his eyes, and in a voice choked with emotion he said: "They don't make them like that anymore!"
Story of Wingfield Minor Bullock (1836-1927) and Mary Marsalenia McCullough (1850-1931), written by his daughter Agnes Irene Bullock. Provided and edited for space by FaG member Patrick Murphy http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=48354920
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