[or-roots] Wheeler connections

[Leslie Chapman]

It takes a lot more than some coincidences to make Wheelers fit together; I have about five separate lines of them in my family  file. Two of them go back to first settlements on the Eastern seaboard and people have been forcing them together erroneously for 300 years. But no one has ever proven a connection. I do have some Wheelers in Oregon and I suspect I may have known some of Roy's Wheelers as a kid if they were Grangers. Or maybe that is another line entirely.#yiv643779261 p {margin:0;}#yiv643779261  p {margin:0;}
One of the local folks is a buttonhole relative of mine through my Great Uncle Morrell Melvin ma a Fullerton and her ancestors were Smileys who are connected some how or other. While we were sharing notes on that connection I was whining about the Thomas Wheeler confusion in my direct ancestry and it turned out she and I are 14th cousins give or take from the Wheelers. Hers was harder to prove since it came through some burned down courthouses south of the Mason Dixon lne.
I've been hammering at one of the lines that folks helped me on several years ago for a distant cousin. I haven't heard from him for a LONG time and he was in poor health last time we communicated. I suspect that is probably a bad sign, but I may never know. I was hoping when he went to his reward his daughter would drop me a line.
Family search is so awesome, now between that and HQ I am never gonna run out of free stuff. Sometimes FS gets frustrating though, if you don't ask the question just right you get "no results" change the order of the same darn question and get a hundred hits.
Hope ya'll have a happy holiday season.
Les
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