Edmund Lyons Wheeler

b 20 Apr 1845, , New York, , New York
d 26 May 1920, Savannah, Chatham, Georgia			Ephraim Wheeler	>
bur 28 May 1920, Savannah, , Georgia		Adam Wheeler	Miriam Martin
	Joel Wheeler	b 29 Apr 1732	Isaac Wheeler	>
	\| b 05 Jun 1771	Mercy Wheeler	Sarah Lawrence	>
Lucius Russel Wheeler		b 26 Sep 1740	Nathaniel Lyon	>
\|b 18 Mar 1805	\|	Barsillai Lyon	Mary Lyon
\|	Martha Lyon	b 07 Sep 1739
\|	b 29 Feb 1776	Mary Davenport
Edmund Lyons Wheeler		b 1742
\|Eleanor Elizabeth Smith-1 +
\|m Nov1872
\|, Brooklyn, , New York	\|
Sarah (Lurith) Roberts
	\|

Children

1	<	Maude Eleanor Elizabeth Wheeler
2	<	Edmund Lester Wheeler

Notes

Enlisted in Civil War at Battleboro, Vermont Company D, 8th Vermont Infantry. His personal description was light complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, five feet eight inches tall, cabinet-maker. Mustered out at Brattleboro, Vermont 22 June 1864.

1864-1865 in Brattleboro, Vermont 1866 in Rockford, Illinois 1867 in Iowa City, Iowa and Bloomington, Illinois 1868 in Brooklyn, New York 1880 in Elgin, Illinois 1881 in Chicago, Illinois Purchaed Lot on 2729 Racine Avenue, Chicago, Illinois on 16 July 1889 for $600. 1900 in Brooklyn, New York 1905 in Savannah, Georgia

Buried in Hill Crest Cemetery.

Letter to Edmund from son Lester in 1907.

Source: US National Archives.

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