Brief Life History of John Albert
When John Albert Wheeler was born on 30 October 1869, in Eden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Levi Lincoln Wheeler, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Jane Lavender, was 17. He married Mary Ann Matilda Atkinson on 17 September 1890, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Plymouth, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 26 June 1945, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Ririe Shelton Cemetery, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- John A. Wheeler, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1914, Stillbirth Index, 1905-1964
- Jno A Wheeler, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Find a Grave Memorials shows the earliest burial in this cemetery was in 1884. Baby Boy Davis BIRTH 1884 DEATH 1884 (aged less–than 1 year) BURIAL Ririe Shelton Cemetery Bonneville County, Idaho, USA MEMORIAL ID 84898617 Last Name: Davis First Name: Baby Boy Age: Gender: M Cemetery: Ririe-Shelton, Idaho Birth Date: 1884 Birth Place: Milo,Idaho Date Died: 1884 Death Place: Milo,Idaho Father: David Peter Davis Mother: Carolyn Anne Coles Sources: Cemetery, BYU-I Special Collections Remarks: Record indicates the the parents, David Peter Davis and Carolyn Annie Coles were originally buried in the Milo Cemetery and then moved to the Ririe-Shelton Cemetery
1889
Historical Boundaries - 1889: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States; 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States; 1911: Bonneville, Idaho, United States
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.
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BACK ROW: Joseph Henry, Fred Arnold, Oscar Lee, Milo Andrew MIDDLE: Mary Ann FRONT ROW: John Albert, Sarah Jane, Zera Leroy, Jesse Jacob Levi Lincoln Wheeler was a polygamist and had two wives, siste …
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