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Alfred Lewis Wheeler

30 Aug 1807 – 24 Dec 1882

Birth	30 Aug 1807
Death	24 Dec 1882
Cemetery	Miami Cemetery Miami , Saline County , Missouri , USA
Added by	Meredyth L Devin on 21 May 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110940264

Bio

Alfred Wheeler was born in Garrard Co., KY, the fourth child of Thomas Wheeler and Clary Harris. When he was only five-years old, his father, serving in the War of 1812, was killed in Dudley's Defeat, near Ft. Meigs, OH. His mother was left with six young children. In 1819, Clary, her father (Jonathan Harris), and five of her children set out for Saline Co., MO. Her oldest daughter, Susannah, had married William J. Wolkskill in 1817, and were already settled in the Miami area. Alfred Wheeler took up farming, eventually settling in the Miami bottom, growing the farm to 500 acres. In 1830, he married Ruth Perry, born in Cooper's Fort, Howard Co., MO, and they raised four sons and two daughters to maturity: Humphrey, Cyrena, Elizabeth Ann, William H., Amos, and Alfred L. Alfred, Sr., was also a storyteller and local historian. More than a few times he was cited by the Miami News as a source for area information. Alfred Wheeler died on Christmas eve, 1882, in Miami. He was the grandson of Benjamin Wheeler, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, from Virginia.

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Family

Parents

• Clary Harris McMahan 1783–1833 FaG

Spouse

• Ruth Perry Wheeler 1812–1884

Siblings

• Susannah Wheeler Wolfskill 1801–1872 FaG
• Samuel Wheeler 1803–1877 FaG
• William W Wheeler 1805–1883 FaG
• Ann Wheeler Galbraith 1809–1853 FaG

Children

• Humphrey Wheeler 1832–1855
• Cyrena Wheeler Casebolt 1834–1917
• William Harrison Wheeler 1839–1925
• Dr Amos Alexander Wheeler 1842–1917
• Alfred Lewis Wheeler 1844–1931

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