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William Wheeler

Male 1790 - 1870  (80 years)


 

Wheeler-Watson - William Wheeler and Nancy Watson - Brief bio



These Wheelers descend from Thomas and Elizabeth Wheeler of Bedford County, Virginia. Thomas died about July 1828 leaving a will. All of his living children except three had moved to Knox and Blount Counties, Tennessee. 

His oldest son John Wheeler was born in 1762, was married twice; first to Massey Borden, and second to Margaret Roddy. He was the father of sixteen children, He died 9 Feruary 1846 in Blount County, Tennessee. John's oldest son was William Wheeler who married Nancy Watson in Tennessee in 1811. William and Nancy's children were all born in Tennessee except their last child Preston who was born in Arkansas as they made their way to Texas in 1839. 

William and Nancy's oldest son Ransom and wife Luvenia Lemons went on to The Republic of Texas. They traveled by wagon train, pulled by oxen, and settled on a homestead patent of 640 acres. William and Nancy and the rest of the family arrived a few years after Ransom, settling on land next to Ransom. The Wheeler land was located along the Attoyac River sixteen miles west of Shelbyville in the Arcadia Community. Ransom and Laviny had fifteen children. She died giving birth to the fifteenth child. After two of Ransom's brothers drowned in 1860, Ransom married his brother Martin's widow and had four more children. 

Some of William's sons and some of Ransom's sons fought in the Civil War including Ransom's son Lycurgus. After the war, Lycurgus married Amanda Choate from another pioneering family. They had eleven children including Nat Watson Wheeler. The next two generations would also be born in Shelby County.


Wheeler Cousins (Aurora, Missouri: Means Lithographers, 1984).
History of Shelby County, Texas (Dallas, Texas: Curtis Media, 1988).
Gifford E. White, Land Certificates from Shelby and Harrison Counties, Texas 1838-1840 (Nacogdoches, Texas: Ericson Books, 1981).
Gifford E. White, The 1840 Citizens of Texas (Nacogdoches, Texas: Ericson Books, 1994).
1840-1930 United States Censuses
Carolyn Reese Ericson, First Settlers of the Republic of Texas (Signal Mountain, Tennessee: Mountain Press, 1982).

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