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Ransom Wheeler

17 Oct 1812 – 30 Dec 1886

Birth	17 Oct 1812
Death	30 Dec 1886
Cemetery	Wheeler Cemetery Aiken , Shelby County , Texas , USA
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105817789

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Bio

Oldest son of William and Nancy Wheeler from TN. Came to The Republic of Texas in 1839. His parents and family soon followed. In the book "History of Shelby County, Texas 1988" by the Shelby County Historical Commission, there is an article written by Travis W. McCary. "Ransom Wheeler was born October 17, 1812 in Blount County, Tennessee. He married Laviny Lemons about 1833. Their first three children were born in Tennessee. They came to Texas by wagon train, pulled by oxen, and settled on a homestead patent of 640 acres. This land was located along the Attoyac River sixteen miles west of Shelbyville in the Arcadia Community. They built a log home of the type built by most pioneers. Ransom and Laviny had fifteen children. She died giving birth to the fifteenth child. Five years later, Ransom married his brother Martin's widow, Sarah Ann. Martin and Sarah Ann had two children, Henry and Henderson. Ransom and Sarah Ann had four more children, Blount, Molly, Dutch and Emma. ... All of Ransom's nineteen children who reached adulthood had large families. His brothers and sisters had large families" (892). In another article by Evie Dockens Wilson, "Great- Granddaddy lived between Aiken and Arcadia, called Walnut Grove. Ransom Wheeler, Sr. donated the land for the Walnut Grove School and Church, but I do not know if he donated the land for the Wheeler graveyard or not, nor do I know if they are buried there, but I think they are. All the children married and moved away except Lycurgus (he was called Curg) and he married Amanda Choate. ... School property is all growed up where the Walnut Grove school and church was, but the big trees are still there that were in Rance Wheeler, Sr.'s front yard" (893).

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Family

Parents

• William Wheeler 1790–1870
• Nancy Watson Wheeler 1795–1860

Spouse

• Luvenia Lemons Wheeler 1817–1860
• Sarah Ann Provence Wheeler 1835–1901

Siblings

• Modenia Nancy Wheeler Peace 1831–1905
• Ellen Wheeler Peace 1834–1902
• Preston Wheeler 1839–1870
• Martin Wheeler 1860–1860

Children

• Leonidas Wheeler 1836–1917
• Monroe Wheeler 1843–1931
• Lycurgus T. "Curg" Wheeler 1845–1932
• Martha Jane Wheeler Emmons 1847–1921
• Cicero Wheeler 1852–1927
• Ransom W. Wheeler 1853–1935
• Florence A. Wheeler Taylor 1855–1880
• Napoleon Bonaparte Wheeler 1859–1905
• Mary E. "Mamie" Wheeler Drake Konz 1866–1931
• Emma A. Wheeler Cox 1867–1910
• Blount Wheeler 1869–1933
• Parsons Dutch Wheeler 1871–1903

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