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John Robinson Wheeler

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John Robinson Wheeler

Birth
Hebron, Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
22 Apr 1935 (aged 68)
Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
Burial
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John Robinson Wheeler was born November 21, 1866, at Hebron, Pa., where his father, Rev. S. R. Wheeler, had his first pastorate, and died April 22, 1935, at Boulder, Colo.
At the age of eleven years he was baptized and joined the church. He was married to Lillian Rood, daughter of the late Hosea Rood, July 18, 1895. They have been members of the Boulder Seventh Day Baptist Church since 1899.
He is survived by his wife; his daughter, Mrs. David Smith, his grandson David Smith, Jr., of Dallas, Tex.; and two brothers and two sisters: Mrs. Darwin M. Andrews, Mr. Alfred Wheeler, and Mrs. Orville Rasmussen of Boulder, and Herbert N. Wheeler of Washington, D. C.
Farewell services were conducted by his pastor, Ralph H. Coon, April 24. Interment was in the Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder. R. H. C.

("The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 118, No 10, p 239, May 13, 1935).

Occupation: Photographer, baggage master
Religion: Seventh-day Baptist
Event 1: Member, Hebron, PA SDB Church
Event 2: Member Preston SDB Church, Chenango Co., NY
Event 3: Member 1891 Milton SDB Church, Rock Co., WI
Event 4: Member 1899 Boulder SDB Church, Boulder, CO


Father: Samuel Robinson WHEELER b: 09 DEC 1834 in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England
Mother: Sophia Fidelia TRUMAN b: 18 JUL 1844 in Preston Center, Chenango Co., New York

Marriage 1 Ida Lillian ROOD b: 11 OCT 1870 in Dakota, Waushara Co., Wisconsin
Married: 18 JUL 1895 in Washburn, Bayfield Co., Wisconsin 6
Children
Dorothy Kent WHEELER b: 08 SEP 1897 in Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin

Sources:
Title: The Thorngate - Rood Family 1798-1977
Author: Margaret Lowther Smitley Burdick
Publication: Self-published, Milton Wisconsin, 1977
Page: 2, 6
Title: Membership Records of Seventh Day Baptists of Central New York State 1797-1940's
Author: Ilou M. Sanford
Publication: Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD, 1996
Page: 71
Title: FamilySearch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Url: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/main_census.asp?
Title: An Analysis of Milton, Wisconsin SDB Church Members 1840-1968
Author: Prof. David Nelson Inglis, Milton College
Page: 17
Title: Green Mountain Cemetery Index; Boulder, Colorado, Url: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bgs/cemeteries/greenmnt/GMC_intro.htm
Title: Wisconsin State Historical Society Vital Records, Url: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/


(Reference: RootsWeb MyFamily.Com: They Came From Milton by Jon Saunders)
Census: 1880 Center Township, Atchison Co., Kansas
Note: age 13 3
John Robinson Wheeler was born November 21, 1866, at Hebron, Pa., where his father, Rev. S. R. Wheeler, had his first pastorate, and died April 22, 1935, at Boulder, Colo.
At the age of eleven years he was baptized and joined the church. He was married to Lillian Rood, daughter of the late Hosea Rood, July 18, 1895. They have been members of the Boulder Seventh Day Baptist Church since 1899.
He is survived by his wife; his daughter, Mrs. David Smith, his grandson David Smith, Jr., of Dallas, Tex.; and two brothers and two sisters: Mrs. Darwin M. Andrews, Mr. Alfred Wheeler, and Mrs. Orville Rasmussen of Boulder, and Herbert N. Wheeler of Washington, D. C.
Farewell services were conducted by his pastor, Ralph H. Coon, April 24. Interment was in the Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder. R. H. C.

("The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 118, No 10, p 239, May 13, 1935).

Occupation: Photographer, baggage master
Religion: Seventh-day Baptist
Event 1: Member, Hebron, PA SDB Church
Event 2: Member Preston SDB Church, Chenango Co., NY
Event 3: Member 1891 Milton SDB Church, Rock Co., WI
Event 4: Member 1899 Boulder SDB Church, Boulder, CO


Father: Samuel Robinson WHEELER b: 09 DEC 1834 in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England
Mother: Sophia Fidelia TRUMAN b: 18 JUL 1844 in Preston Center, Chenango Co., New York

Marriage 1 Ida Lillian ROOD b: 11 OCT 1870 in Dakota, Waushara Co., Wisconsin
Married: 18 JUL 1895 in Washburn, Bayfield Co., Wisconsin 6
Children
Dorothy Kent WHEELER b: 08 SEP 1897 in Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin

Sources:
Title: The Thorngate - Rood Family 1798-1977
Author: Margaret Lowther Smitley Burdick
Publication: Self-published, Milton Wisconsin, 1977
Page: 2, 6
Title: Membership Records of Seventh Day Baptists of Central New York State 1797-1940's
Author: Ilou M. Sanford
Publication: Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD, 1996
Page: 71
Title: FamilySearch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Url: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/main_census.asp?
Title: An Analysis of Milton, Wisconsin SDB Church Members 1840-1968
Author: Prof. David Nelson Inglis, Milton College
Page: 17
Title: Green Mountain Cemetery Index; Boulder, Colorado, Url: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bgs/cemeteries/greenmnt/GMC_intro.htm
Title: Wisconsin State Historical Society Vital Records, Url: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/


(Reference: RootsWeb MyFamily.Com: They Came From Milton by Jon Saunders)
Census: 1880 Center Township, Atchison Co., Kansas
Note: age 13 3


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