Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Wheeler was born on 25 February 1835, in Rush, Indiana, United States, her father, Cyrus Wheeler, was 26 and her mother, Almyra Little, was 20. She married John Robert Hoover on 10 January 1856, in Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Montezuma, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. She died on 17 November 1928, in Center Township, Henry, Iowa, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in French Cemetery, Milton, Pike, Illinois, United States.
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- Mary Hoover, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary (Polly) Wheeler - birth: 25 February 1835; Rush, Indiana, United States
- Mary Wheeler, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1837
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Pike, Illinois, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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