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Birth: An alternate birth date of Feb 20, 1760 was figured from Wheeler Family Cemetery records which show a death date of 9/24/1827 and a death age of 67y 7m 4d. Buried: Find A Grave e-Memorial
Family/Spouse: Captain Captain Silas WHEELER. Captain was born on 7 Mar 1752 in Concord, Middlesex, MA; died on 25 Nov 1828 in Wheeler, Steuben, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Buried: Find A Grave e-Memorial
Ruth married Nathan ROSE before 1806. Nathan (son of Samuel ROSE and Rebecca PALMER) was born on 28 Jul 1780 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Note: Col. Grattan H. Wheeler, the son of Capt. Silas Wheeler, was an extensive farmer and lumberman He was always interested and largely identified with public affairs, also a successful politician. Besides filling with energy and public spirit various town offices, he represented his district in theAssembly from 1823 to 1827, and mainly through his efforts in the Legislature the property qualification of town officers was materially modified. He afterwards held the office of State Senator, and while discharging its duties, was elected Representative in Congress in which capacity he served from 1831 to 1835. Col. Wheeler was a useful and benevolent citizen. A tone time he owned 3000 or 4000 acres of land. He died on the farm on which his father settled, about 1851. His children by his first marriage were Sallie, Silas, and Grattan H. and by his second marriage, Fannie, Eliza, Ruth, Adelia, William, and Addison. Note: Silas Wheeler and his son, Grattan went from Rhode Island to Wheeler, where they settled in 1799. The father and son lived together and their land holdings ran upwards of 4000 acres. Grattan was a successful politician. In addition to filling town offices, he represented his district in the Assembly, in the State Senate, and as a congressman from 1831-1832. Silas Wheeler was a soldier in the Revolutionary War as well as in the War of 1812. He served with Benedict Arnold in the assault on Quebec. He was taken prisoner four times, the last by a British privateer. At that time he was jailed in Kinsale, Ireland, where he was sentenced to be hung. He escaped with the help of the Irish statesman Henry Grattan, for whom his son was named. Note: From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress A Representative from New York; born near Providence, R.I., August 25, 1783; attended public and preparatory schools; moved to New York with his parents, who settled in Steuben County about 1800; agriculturist and lumberman near Wheeler, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1822, 1824, and 1826; served in the State senate 1826-1830; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; resumed former pursuits; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840; died in Wheeler, Steuben County, N.Y., March 11, 1852; interment in a private cemetery on the Wheeler homestead. Buried: Find A Grave e-Memorial
Col. married Fanny BAKER in 1808. Fanny (daughter of Samuel BAKER) was born on 22 Feb 1788 in South Kingstown, Washington, RI; died on 21 Mar 1813 in Wheeler, Steuben, NY; was buried in Wheeler Family Cemetery, Wheeler, Steuben, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Col. married Eliza AULLS in 1814. Eliza (daughter of William AULLS, Jr. and Elizabeth DANIELS) was born on 7 Dec 1792 in Lancaster, Lancaster, PA; died on 6 Sep 1867. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Died: Michigan death records state that Sarah died from typhoid fever. Buried: Find A Grave e-Memorial
Sarah married James Madison LARUE between 1871 and 1873. James (son of Albertus LARROWE and Janette AULLS) was born on 15 Apr 1809 in Wheeler, Steuben, NY; died on 29 Nov 1874 in Pinckney, Livingston, MI; was buried in Pinckney Cemetery, Pinckney, Livingston, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Family/Spouse: James Madison LARUE. James (son of Albertus LARROWE and Janette AULLS) was born on 15 Apr 1809 in Wheeler, Steuben, NY; died on 29 Nov 1874 in Pinckney, Livingston, MI; was buried in Pinckney Cemetery, Pinckney, Livingston, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Note: James is mentioned in newspaper clippings found at the Bath County historical building. He is also mentioned in the will of his father Grattan. After the death of his mother, Fanny, James lived with his mothers parents (Samuel Baker).
Family/Spouse: Jesse BRUNDAGE. Jesse was born on 23 May 1801 in Painted Post, Steuben, NY; died on 9 Nov 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Birth: Birth date calculated from cemetery record, age at death 44y 1m 21d. Buried: Find A Grave e-Memorial
Family/Spouse: Fidelia FRISBE. Fidelia was born on 23 Dec 1820; died on 15 Apr 1883; was buried in Wheeler Family Cemetery, Wheeler, Steuben, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Grattan married Nancy Denton SAYRE on 30 Mar 1837. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
DNA: MKM Census: 1870 census at Putnam, Livingston, MI shows: Charles LaRue, 35, b. MI, farmer; Amanda, 35, b. NY; children b. MI: Emma, 12; Frank, 4. Charles and Amanda are enumerated next door to his sister Alice, with whom their father James M. is living. Buried: Find A Grave e-Memorial
Charles married Amanda CLARK about 1855. Amanda (daughter of William CLARK and Catherine VAN PIERCE) was born on 26 May 1835 in NY; died on 8 Jan 1920; was buried in Pinckney Cemetery, Pinckney, Livingston, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Alice married Stephen G. TEEPLE on 11 Apr 1865 in Livingston Co., MI. Stephen was born about 1844 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]