Jr. Asa WHEELER

Notes:

Suffix: , Jr.
?Reference Number: 824
?Sex: M
?Birth: BET. 1830 - 1831 in Connecticut, USA 1
?Death: BEF 1870 in likely Richardson Co, Nebraska 2 3
?_FA1: 1850 Census date. appears to be in Florence Twp, Erie Co, Ohio. Occ Laborer. 4
?_FA2: 1854 Goes to Nebraska w wife Lucy, brother Oliver's fam. & father. 5
?Change Date: 1 MAR 2011



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Father: Cyrus DUNNING b: 1779 in Connecticut
Mother: Sally WHEELER b: ABT 1785 in most likely Connecticut

Marriage 1 Lucy WHEELER b: 10 APR 1831 in Ohio, likely Huron County, nr Wakeman or Clarksfield?Married: 25 SEP 1856 in Clarksfield, Huron County, Ohio 6 7
Children1.Has No Children Katie DUNNING b: BET. 1857 - 1858 in Missouri
2.Has No Children Richard DUNNING b: BET. 1859 - 1860 in Nebraska
3.Has No Children John DUNNING b: BET. 1860 - 1861 in Nebraska
4.Has No Children Nettie DUNNING b: BET. 1862 - 1863 in Nebraska

Sources: 1.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: p 70
2.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: pg 70
3.Type: Census
Title: 1870 Census, Nebraska, Richardson County, Township 1
Date: 15 DEC 2010
4.Type: Census
Title: 1850 Census
Note:
Ohio, Erie County, Florence Twp
Note:
Electronic
Date: 12 OCT 2009
Page: pg 426 B Ancestry.com image 27 of 39, This Cyrus is the only other one in Ohio in Ancestry.com's 1850 online index. Erie County is not far from Huron, where his father and step mother are, along with brother Oliver., This Oliver is in the family of Nathaniel R. Davids[see note below], farmer. Oliver is 19, laborer, born Connecticut, as is Davids. [note, pg 64 1987 ed Pioneer History of Clarksfield, - Nathaniel R
5.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: p 70, See Cyrus Sr's notes for full quote.
6.Title: Lewis, Rebecca: e-mail to Susan Hopkins 8 July 2006
Page: Gives marriage date of Lucy and Cyrus as 25 Sept 1856
7.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: pg 70, See Cyrus Dunning Sr's notes. Date range based on move by the family to Nebraska as max date, and that the couple is not married in the 1850 census.

Asa married Olive MINOR on 30 Mar 1816. Olive was born on 3 May 1797 in Vienna, Trumbull Co., OH; died on 19 Dec 1836 in Clarksfield, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Sophia HILL on 17 Oct 1837. Sophia (daughter of Isaac Hill and Elizabeth Ann Bunnell) was born on 25 Mar 1803; died in 1875. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: CLINTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obituary from the Clarksfield ____:

Lucreia Dunning

Lucretia C. Wheeler was a daughter of Asa Wheeler and Olive Minor, and was born in Clarksfield, Ohio, May 3, 1824. She was married to Oliver Dunning, March 29, 1842. They lived in Clarksfield until 1856, when they moved to Nebraska. Mr
Dunning died in 1890. Mrs Dunning lived with a daughter in Oklahoma until last May, when a grandson returned from the Philippines. She was keeping house for him at Blackwell, O.T., when she died Sept. 29, 1901.

Lucretia married Oliver Dunning on 29 Mar 1842 in Clarksfield, Ohio. Oliver was born in 1822 in Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The research from Grandma Alice Mae Thomas Wolfe and Aunt Marjorie Wolfe Hansen says that Lucy's mother was from Ohio. However, in all of the census, Lucy gives her mother's birthplace as New York.

Her brothers, William Wallace and Lemuel (Lem lived near her in Richardson Co., Neb) gave their mother's birthplace as Ohio.


Another researcher along her brother Anson's line gives their mother's birthplace as Homer,Cortland,New York,USA 1785. This would make her considerably older than her husband Asa though.



Name: Lucy WHEELER
?Reference Number: 823
?Sex: F
?Birth: 10 APR 1831 in Ohio, likely Huron County, nr Wakeman or Clarksfield 1 2 3
?Death: 16 APR 1915 in found 1880 Indianola, Red Willow, Nebraska 4
?_FA4: BET. 1850 - 1851 A Miss Lucy W. Wheeler listed as a teacher in Clarksfield Twp schools, lv w her sister's fam in census. 5 6
?_FA5: 1854 Moves west, first to Missouri, then Nebraska. See children's b.p. 7
?_FA8: JUN 1880 A widow, res. Indianola, Red Willow, Nebraska w 4 older kids. 8
?Note:

- sister Lucretia's family is in Richardson co, Nebraska, as are brother and half sister Lemuel and Bettey Wheeler, unmarried and living together.

?Change Date: 3 MAR 2011




Father: Asa WHEELER b: ABT 28 SEP 1793 in Connecticut or Trumbull Co, OH
Mother: Olive MINOR b: ABT 1785 in Homer Twp, Cortland Co, NY

Marriage 1 Cyrus DUNNING b: BET. 1830 - 1831 in Connecticut, USA?Married: 25 SEP 1856 in Clarksfield, Huron County, Ohio 9 10
Children1.Has No Children Katie DUNNING b: BET. 1857 - 1858 in Missouri
2.Has No Children Richard DUNNING b: BET. 1859 - 1860 in Nebraska
3.Has No Children John DUNNING b: BET. 1860 - 1861 in Nebraska
4.Has No Children Nettie DUNNING b: BET. 1862 - 1863 in Nebraska

Sources: 1.Type: Census
Title: 1850 Census
Note:
Ohio, Huron County, Clarksfield Township
Note:
NARA Roll # 697, Ancestry.com
Date: 21 OCT 2009
Page: pg 359, Ancestry.com image 15 of 35, See her sister, Lucretia's 1850 fact for full citation. Lucy is living with Lucretia's family.
2.Title: Lewis, Rebecca: e-mail to Susan Hopkins 8 July 2006
Page: Lucy and Cyrus are her gg grandparents. In an attachment, she indicates, Lucy Ursula Wheeler, b. 10 April 1831 [consistent with 1850 census] Clarksfield, Ohio, d. 16 April 1916, Indianola, Nebraska
3.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: p 37
4.Title: Lewis, Rebecca: e-mail to Susan Hopkins 8 July 2006
Page: See Lucy's birth citations for quote
5.Type: Census
Title: 1850 Census
Note:
Ohio, Huron County, Clarksfield
Date: 22 OCT 2009
Page: 359, Lucy is 19. See her sister's 1850 fact for full family citation.
6.Type: Book
Note:
Clarksfield Bee Articles Scrapbook
Publication: Weeks, Dr. F.E. (Bee editor & publisher
Note:
Ohio Genealogical Society
Title: Clarksfield [Huron County, Ohio] Scrapbook
Note:
Ohio Genealogical Society, Mansfield, Ohio
Text: Photocopies of articles clipped from Clarksfield Bee bi-weekly newspaper. These include historical articles and data written up by Dr. F. E. Weeks, ed., as well as letters from folks who had left the area and were sharing memories about "pioneer" days.
Date: 3 MAR 2011
Page: pg 59, Also 1853-4 - Miss L. Wheeler given; 1855-6 -Lucy Wheeler; 1856-7 Miss L. J. Wheeler
7.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: pg 70, See Cyrus Dunning Sr's notes for full quote.
8.Type: Census
Title: 1880 Census Index online at FamilySearch.com
Note:
Electronic
Date: 17 DEC 2010
Page: 335C Indianola, Red Willow, Nebraska, Lucy Dunning, head, widowed, F, W, 49, b Oh, keepiong house, father born CT, mother NY, - Katie Dunning, dau, s, f,w, 22, born MO, teaching school, father b CT, mother OH, - Richard Dunning, son, s, male, w, 20, born NE, farming, father b CT, mother OH
9.Title: Lewis, Rebecca: e-mail to Susan Hopkins 8 July 2006
Page: Gives marriage date of Lucy and Cyrus as 25 Sept 1856
10.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: pg 70, See Cyrus Dunning Sr's notes. Date range based on move by the family to Nebraska as max date, and that the couple is not married in the 1850 census.

Lucy married Cyrus DUNNING on 25 Sep 1856. Cyrus (son of and WHEELER) was born on 4 Jan 1831 in Connecticut; died on 27 Jan 1863 in Salem, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obituary clipping, newspaper unknown:

Lemuel A. Wheeler was born in Clarksville, Ohio, in August, 1834, and died at the national soldier's home at Leavenworth Kas., August 20, 1922, at the age of 88 years. He went to Missouri in 1862 and from there to Richardson county,
Nebr., in 1863. He enlisted in the Second Nebraska regiment in 1863, and for many years was a member of John Ingham Post No. 95, G.A.R., of this city.

For many years he had his home in Pawnee City, where he and an unmarried sister, Betsy B. Wheeler, lived comfortably and happily until she died in February, 1921. After his sister's death Mr Wheeler's sight failed rapidly and his friends
thought it would be better for him to go to the soldiers' home at Leavenworth. After going to the home he made business visits to Pawnee and only a short time ago was greeting his friends in the streets of our city.

Mr. Wheeler was of a friendly and jovial disposition. Always ready with an interesting reply and witty repartee, he numbered his friends by the number of his acquaintances.

Funeral services were held in Pawnee City Thursday morning, August 24, under the direction of the grand Army of the Republic, of which he was a member. Rev. C.N. Dawson, pastor of the Methodist church, preached the sermon, and he was
buried beside his sister in the Pawnee City cemetery.

Relatives present at the funeral were John Dunning, a nephew, and his wife of Indianola, Nebr.

Civil War records
Name: Lemuel A Wheeler

Age at Enlistment: 28

Enlistment Date: 2 Oct 1862

Rank at enlistment: Private

State Served: Nebraska

Survived the War?: Yes

Service Record: Enlisted in Company G, Nebraska 2nd Cavalry Regiment on 08 Dec 1862.Mustered out on 23 Dec 1863.

Birth Date: abt 1834

Sources: Report of Adjutant-General Report of the State of Nebraska

Notes:

Name: Bethia WHEELER
?Reference Number: 813
?Sex: F
?Birth: 15 NOV 1818 in Clarksfield, Huron Co 1
?Death: 1836 in likely Clarksfield
?_FA1: 1818 First white girl born in Clarksfield, OH 2
?Change Date: 31 AUG 2010




Father: Asa WHEELER b: ABT 28 SEP 1793 in Connecticut or Trumbull Co, OH
Mother: Olive MINOR b: ABT 1785 in Homer Twp, Cortland Co, NY

Sources: 1.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: p 37
2.Type: Book
Author: Weeks, Dr. F. E.
Note:
Pioneer History of Clarksfield [Ohio]
Publication: originally self published 1908. Retyped, repaginated, and indexed version by Myron Allgood of Clarksfield 1987.
Note:
Photocopy given by Myron Allgood to Susan Hopkins
Text: Myron Allgood was a close friend of Dr. Weeks. and a local and family historian in his own right. Note, the Wakeman Public Library now has the original version of this work online and searchable. Pagination will be different.
Date: 31 AUG 2010
Page: p 36

Notes:

Nettie had a child (that was aborted) by her brother John. She was very sweet, but "not all there"

When her niece, Alice Thomas, found out about John molesting Nettie, she waited one night in Nettie's bed. When John came to the bed, Alice attacked him. According to Alice, the molestation stopped after that.

Notes:

According to Uncle John Wolfe, there were 10 or 12 Thomas graves of children in the cemetery at Indianola, Nebraska. He also says, Grandmother praticed abortion. When dying she asked Mother, "Do you think I will go to heaven? " This would be confirmed by the 1900 census where Kate said that she had 11 births, three living.

Ina Mae Wolfe remembers that when she was very young and the family went to Indianola for Grandma Kate Dunning Thomas's funeral, Ina broke out in a terrible rash. Grandpa Bob Thomas took her around the yard asking finding out exactly what
plants she had touched while she was out in the yard. It turned out that she had been bitten by bedbugs instead. Because of the rash, Ina was sent over to stay with Mary, the former foster child of Bob and Kate Thomas and so missed the
funeral.



"My first view of Indianola was the 25th of April '78 (1878). It was a very nice looking clean, little place-- a store, drug store, court house, a small little school house, a hotel, and a small dwelling house or two. A buffalo cow laarriated
out east of the town some little ways was a novel one to us at least.

While the size of the town was not so ________ as we had grown up in Nebraska and had seen the small places grow along with us and sure Indianola had grown. New settlers coming in the fall and the coming of the railroad made things go fast but
we must remember the school, church and Sunday school was already well laid out and the people and children as well was glad to have those things that they were well attended by those in or living near here, I sometimes think better then than
now. The added thought is to think of so many of the glad hands extended to the new comers here who have gone to the last home. While gone they are not forgotten. Now looking at the churches and nice homes and trees you have to stop and think,
has all this been done since you first saw Indianola." Kate Dunning Thomas

Kate married Robert Hanson THOMAS on 15 Mar 1883. Robert (son of Abel THOMAS and Harriet W. BLAIR) was born on 15 Apr 1851 in Galesburg, IL; died on 13 Jul 1931 in Indianola, NE; was buried on 15 Jul 1931 in Indianola, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He came to Red Willow county in 1878, where he was a mail carrier for many years. His knowledge of the topography in this country was such that he could plot every section of ground or city lot in the Red Willow area. Camp Duke Alexis Park and
C.C.C. camp near Hayes Center, was established on historical data furnished by this pioneer carrier. He eas playing cards with a group of friends in Indianola,when he suffered a heart attack that ended his life.

His wife and his sister were both named Nettie. Ina Mae Wolfe confirms this.

Family/Spouse: Nettie T. Strickland. Nettie was born on 26 Feb 1866 in Iowa; died on 17 Mar 1961 in Kearney, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Uncle John Wolfe, he was killed in a motorcycle accident probably about 1930. His son, Bobby Third he was called, died of disease as a young boy. There were two girls in the family. One visited the Wolfe's in McCook.

Family/Spouse: Marjorie Hope Shumaker. Marjorie was born in Oct 1894 in Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Uncle John Wolfe, Lucy died in the flu in the great epidemic of 1918, never married.

Notes:

Mary was informally adopted by Robert and Kate Thomas. In the 1900 census she is listed as a 12 year old boarder, last name of Dubarks, parents from Germany. There were other Dubarks (also Duborko) in Red Willow County about that time. Mary is listed as a daughter of Robert Hanson Thomas in his obituary (Mrs E.H. Korb of Indianola).

Robert and Kate's daughter Alice was sickly and about the same age as Mary. Grandma Dunning took Alice to live with her and Mary was raised by Robert and Kate Thomas.

Mary married Earl Holt Korb about 1904 in Nebraska. Earl was born on 28 Mar 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Asa Allen WOLFE on 30 Aug 1917 in Rev. Charles Gearheart, Congregational parsonage. Asa (son of Silas Charles WOLFE and Sarah Catherine PUCKETT) was born on 11 Aug 1889 in Wellfleet, NE; died in Sep 1983 in Billings, MT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]