Mary "Polly" Wheeler

10 July 1805–1831 (Age 25)
Knox, Tennessee, United States

The Life Summary of Mary "Polly"

When Mary "Polly" Wheeler was born on 10 July 1805, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, her father, Peter Wheeler, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Coker, was 24. She married Isaac Newton Thompson Jr on 6 February 1828, in Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States. She died in 1831, in Blount, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 26.

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Family Time Line

Isaac Newton Thompson Jr
1799–1860
Mary "Polly" Wheeler
1805–1831
Marriage: 6 February 1828

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    6 February 1828Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (7)

    1808
    Age 3
    Atlantic slave trade abolished.
    1812
    Age 7
    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
    1819 · Panic! of 1819
    Age 14
    With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

    Name Meaning

    English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Rower
    Wheelwright

    Sources (3)

    • Polly Wheeler in entry for Isaac Thompson, "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950"
    • Ancestry Family Trees

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