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Monroe Wheeler

22 Feb 1843 – 10 Oct 1931

Birth	22 Feb 1843
Death	10 Oct 1931
Cemetery	City of Lubbock Cemetery Lubbock , Lubbock County , Texas , USA
Added by	tisanders on 02 Apr 2011
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8317789

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Sunday, October 11, 1931 Morning Avelanche, Lubbock, Texas AGED CONFEDERATE VET DIES IN CITY Monroe Wheeler, 88, a Confederate veteran, died at 3:30 a.m. Saturday at his residence at 1610 Avenue J. after an illness of several months. Funeral services were held at the residence at 5 p.m. Saturday with Rev. J. O. Haymes, pastor of the First Methodist church, in charge. Rev. Walter P. Jennings, pastor of the First Christian church, assisted in the service. Burial was in a Lubbock cemetery under the direction of Bynum-Morgan funeral home. Pallbearers were George R Bean, J. C. Reynolds, Bert Lloyd, Paul Carlock, Herbert Carlock and J. M. Mullins. Mr. Wheeler had been a resident of Lubbock eight years, moving here with his wife from Ardmore, Okla. He had been retired from active business for many years. He served the entire four years of the Civil war with the Confederate forces. He had been a member of the methodist church since boyhood. He is survived by his widow, three daughters, Mrs. J. D. Peters of Lubbock, Mrs. J. H. Carlock of Ardmore, Okla., and Mrs. A. F. Jones of Phoenix, Ariz., and one son, O. F. Wheeler of Houston. NOTES: Monroe Wheeler was a private in Company A, 28th Texas Cavalry, CSA. On the 1900 census he is in Ardmore, Chickasaw nation, Indian Territory with wife Della (age 37), and children Bert (age 18), Cora (age 16), Odis (age 13), and Jewel (age 8).

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Family

Parents

• Ransom Wheeler 1812–1886
• Luvenia Lemons Wheeler 1817–1860

Spouse

• Idella "Della" Jennings Wheeler 1863–1956

Siblings

• Leonidas Wheeler 1836–1917
• 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

Children

• Robert Walter Wheeler 1867–1912
• Mary Etta Wheeler Wolverton 1871–1898
• Ella Jane "Ellie" Wheeler Jones 1875–1962
• Bert Monroe Wheeler 1881–1931
• Cora Florence Wheeler Carlock 1885–1967
• Otis Lee Wheeler 1888–1950
• Jewell Wheeler Peters 1892–1973

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