[or-roots] Wheeler connections

[Dale Harguess]

I think Wheeler is one of those common names like Smith.  They are
everywhere and I too have several (not connected that I know of) Wheeler's
in my tree.  Mostly back in New England very early.  I don't even try to
sort them out.
Dale in rainy California

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Leslie Chapman <opera_70 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   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.
>
> 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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